Snapshots #337 - A Top Ten Resurrection Songs

For Easter Sunday, here's ten songs about coming back from the dead... along with a chap who's been resurrected many, many times over the years...

10. They grew up in the Concrete Jungle.

What else rose in a concrete jungle, but stone flowers?

The Stone Roses - I Am the Resurrection

9. Hooch & Walters.

Turner & Hooch, Frank & Walters...

Frank Turner - The Resurrectionists

8. Tight police department.

The Vice Squad - Resurrection

7. Steen, Donna, Forever, Edgar.

Springsteen, Donna Summer, Forever Autumn, Edgar Winter.

The Four Seasons - American Crucifixion Resurrection

6. TV channel that only shows Desperate shows about woodwind instruments.

Desperate Dan and Reed instruments are all you'll find on this network.

The Dan Reed Network - Resurrect

5. Heavy remains, horticulturist without the MDMA, Greg from the BBC.

A ton of ash, a gardener who's missing an E and Greg Dyke...

Ashton Gardner & Dyke - The Resurrection Shuffle

4. Heaven's Gate.

Heaven's Gate was a particularly nasty cult.

The Cult - Resurrection Joe

3. Bewildered Klan manager. 

"Klan manager" was an anagram...

Mark Lanegan - Resurrection Song

2. Oscar could have been a member.

Oscar was born to be Wilde... just like these guys.

Steppenwolf - Resurrection

1. Snooty email confusion.

"Snooty email" was an anagram...

Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection

Snapshots is reborn next Saturday morning...

Saturday Snapshots #148: The Answers

You should have used the Force to crack yesterday's clues. It makes them so much easier...

10. Pray for the lass, twice.

God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl

9. We'll probably be eating breakfast on our own.

Breakfast at Tiffany's?

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now

8. Head down discharge highways.

Another word for discharge is emit. 

Emitt Rhodes - With My Face On The Floor

R.I.P.

7. Recovered so well, they named them twice.

New York was so good they named it twice.

New York City - I'm Doin' Fine Now

6. Born again in Harlem with underlined horticulturist & the Silver Skates.

Resurrected where they do the shuffle.

Ashton Under Lyne.

Gardener.

"Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates: A Story of Life in Holland" is the story of the little Dutch boy who puts his finger in a dike.

Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - The Resurrection Shuffle

5. McFly meet the only man at Number Ten: objects.

Marty McFly.

The only man in God Bless The Girl (#10) is Stuart Murdoch (also of Belle & Sebastian).

Marty Stuart - Little Things

4. Shaken by rough winds, causing a crash landing.

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, 

And summer's lease hath all too short a date.

The Darling Buds - Hit The Ground

3. Nightshade fire around pier, column and abutment.

Peppers come from the Nightshade family. If they're on fire, they're red hot.

Piers, columns and abutments are found under bridges.

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge

2. Get off Peter's sledge!

Peter had a Sledge... Hammer.

Yo! Sound the bell! School's in, suckers!

MC Hammer - U Can't Touch This

1. I am Torso, Cereal Celia.

"I am Torso" is an anagram. Cereal Celia would be a cornflake girl.

If you failed at these, don't worry - there will be A New Hope next Saturday...