Mid-Life Crisis Songs #113: Daddy's Speeding

"I am not a blogger - I am a free man!"

I must apologise for being largely absent from the blogosphere over the summer, beyond Snapshots and Namesakes. I've been busy, and even now that I'm back in the normal routine, I'm not sure I have the energy. Bit of an existential blogging crisis. We have them from time to time, don't we? 

Last week, we were in Wales, where I received my first speeding ticket in 34 years of driving. This was for going 26 mph in a 20 zone that appeared out of nowhere (the road went from 60mph to 20mph on a country lane with no buildings or pedestrians, just fields on either side of the road). It seems that the Welsh police are out to raise as much money as possible from unsuspecting incomers... but I'm not sure what this will do to the tourism economy. I doubt I'll be speeding to get back there any time soon. 

Did have a nice visit to Portmeirion though...  

Normal service may or may not be resumed, but in the meantime, here's a few songs about speed...

Suede - Daddy's Speeding

Alabama 3 - Speed of the Sound of Loneliness

Bran Van 3000 - Speed

V2 - Speed Freak

Autograph - Built For Speed

Jason Isbell - Speed Trap Town

Snapshots #289: A Top Ten Loud Songs

Yesterday's post started with James Hetfield from Metallica. Today, because I couldn't find any pictures of Lemmy or the dudes from Megadeth taking a photo, here's Ozzy.

And here are ten LOUD songs... sort of. 

10. Joel makes a good impression... but he's not a footballer.

Billy Joel combines with the impressionist Rory Bremner to give the name of a Scottish footballer. And the former Rockpile member (also Scottish) responsible for this 1981 classic...

Billy Bremner - Loud Music In Cars

9. Collected names.

Didn't you ever collect autographs?

Autograph - Loud And Clear

8. Dave & Roger bought a small-holding...

...and they became The Beat Farmers.

The Beat Farmers - Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (and Loud, Loud Music)

7. Find the answer in the internet: go to yahoo.

Find the answer in the internet: go TO YAHoo.

Toyah - Be Proud Be Loud (Be Heard)

6. Spider-Man spins like crazy.

Webb Wilder - Loud Music

5. Holey guitarist relocates to the North West.

The guitarist in Hole is Melissa Auf der Maur. Manchester is in the North West.

Melissa Manchester - Don't Cry Out Loud

I would have gone with the Elkie Brooks version, except Elkie featured here a couple of weeks back... and she never sang the song with The Muppets.

4. Unlike every other one that features on these pages, these guys were the definite article.

Lots of bands appear here, but these guys are THE Band.

The Band - Thinkin' Out Loud

3. Get Mrs A New Job sorted out.

"Mrs A New Job" is an anagram.

James Brown - Say It Loud - I'm Black And I'm Proud (Pts.1 & 2)

2. Shifting the string section after midnight is always a problem.

Hard work, moving the orchestra around in the dark.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Talking Loud And Clear

1. Come see me at six, say hello after dinner. It's all inside.

Come see ME AT six, say helLO AFter dinner. 

Meat Loaf - For Crying Out Loud

More next Saturday, though probably a little quieter...

Saturday Snapshots #122: The Answers

Yesterday was Saturday Snapshots.

Today - here's the answers.

Tomorrow... we'll do something different.



10. Look into my eyes, not around the eyes... can you see Michael, Neil and Buzz?

Michael, Neil and Buzz were three spacemen.

Look into my eyes, not around the eyes... well, that's just like Kenny Craig.

Spacemen 3 - Hypnotized

9. Like a fox, did exactly what she said she would, with feeling.

Samantha Fox... sang... with emotion. (The Brothers Gibb did the rest.)

Samantha Sang - Emotion

8. Collected names. Shorten trousers before wireless.

Autograph - Turn Up The Radio

(No shame.)

7. Arab sky confused by Korean digit.

"Arab sky" is a nice simple anagram.

Seoul is the capital of South Korea.

A digit is a finger.

The Bar-Kays - Soul Finger

6. Sidewalk sovereign has rumbling tum.

Echobelly - King of the Kerb

5. Scottish comic, I presume, sends text to former New York mayor.

Here's a Scottish comic...

Dr. Livingston, I presume?

The former New York mayor would be Rudy Giuliani.

Dandy Livingstone - Rudy, A Message To You

4. William was the ship's captain, not this trembling goat.

Goat = Kid.

Tremblin = Shakin'.

Pirate Captain Kidd was called William, not Johnny.

Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin' All Over

3. Excitable pontificators find their goddess with child zero.

Excitable pontificators would be Manic Street Preachers, obviously.

Goddess links to Lord.

Child Zero = Baby Nothing.

Manic Street Preachers & Traci Lords - Little Baby Nothing

Pure 6th form poetry, as Rigid Digit pointed out - manages to be trendily Woke 25 years before Woke became a thing, and verges on "mansplaining" to use another loathsome contemporary expression... but what a tune!

Meanwhile, this post namechecks both Samantha Fox and Traci Lords, so what a degenerate I must be.

2. London football team not on Eastern Standard Time, released at last.

West Ham - EST = Wham!

Wham! - Freedom

1. Saint who could be English or Welsh puts an end to the affair.

Saint George.

Jones is the most common Welsh surname.



Sophia next Saturday!