Snapshots #358: A Top Ten Songs For Your Wedding Day

Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to bring together ten songs you'll need for your wedding day playlist...

 

10. Surprised by Sixx. 

Nikki Sixx is the lead singer of Mötley Crüe. A surprise is usually quite sudden.

Nikki Sudden – Wedding Hotel

9. Michael Caine was a bit of a stud.

Michael Caine was Jack Carter.

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine - Always The Bridesmaid, Never The Bride

8. In this universe, I have the right to remain silent.

The right to remain silent is the Fifth Amendment... in this dimension, at least.

Fifth Dimension – Wedding Bells Blues

7. Telephone, post, despatch.

They are all red boxes.

Red Box – Speeches

6. The Light, Four, Mr. Fox.

The Light Fantastic, Fantastic Four and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

The Fantastics - Something Old, Something New

5. Were Jack's stripes mean or median?

Were The White Stripes an average band?

Average White Band – Cut The Cake

4. Like a Smith: beautiful, and young at heart.

Patti Smith, la belle and the Bluebells...

Patti Labelle & The Blue Belles – Down The Aisle

3. They performed on the Hill, for the Baker, and at the Coronation.

A band for Hill Street, Baker Street and Coronation Street...

Streetband - Toast

2. Mixture used to heal demons.  

"Heal demons" was an anagram...

The Lemonheads - Confetti

1. Release your suffering. 

Free da pain!

Freda Payne - Band of Gold

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10. Follow the laurel path along the top of the mountains and no one will see you.

Lynchie got the Stan Laurel connection, Alyson puzzled out the rest.

Stan Ridgway - Camouflage 

That was an awfully big marine!

9. Nonsense friends proselytize.

Friends = chums, proselytize = tubthump. The rest is nonsense as far as I can tell. You come up with a better clue!

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

I get knocked down, but I get up again...

8. Oy! Good guys join the queue in church.

Choirboys in a queue would be Quireboys. Oy is a less polite way of saying Hey You!

Rigid Digit tells me this isn't their finest moment... but it was their biggest hit.

The Quireboys - Hey You!

7. Collins plays a cop in Jerusalem.

No need to call the cops on Chris!

Joan As Policewoman - Holy City

6. Unremarkable Barry deals with a broken cup.

Lynchie was the early bird this week, getting first choice of the juiciest worms. Barry White was anything but average.

Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

5. Genius is so close to insanity - take a seat and ponder that.

As I type, nobody's got this yet... which makes rather sad.

Furniture - (You Must Be Out Of Your) Brilliant Mind

4. Pink like Heinz. No doorbell.

Pink Floyd. Heinz sang "Just Like Eddie".

Another one for Lynchie.

Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood

3.  "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship," or "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." Werewolves: run for your lives!

Charity Chic got the band straight away, then we trawled our way through Bob Seger's entire back catalogue before Chris got the song.

The two lines quoted came from the final scenes of Casablanca and Back To The Future, in case you were wondering.

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - The Famous Final Scene

2. Sounds like Jeanette's mother. We're over: do I have to spell it out to you?

Rhymes with Mammy Jeanette? Not my best effort, I know. Fortunately, Lynchie saved me from embarrassment.

Tammy Wynette - D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

1. Second degree burns. Wouldn't wanna be ya!

Second place gets the Silver medal. The Sun burns.




Early Bird Lynchie takes the title this week.

As long as you keep playing, I'll keep digging them out.

More next Saturday...