Saturday Snapshots #144 - The Answers

It's time for this week's answers... how'd you like them apples?


10. Scarper! They're coming for your chips!

That haircut was too easy.

Seagulls steal your chips.

A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran

9. Infinite lost boy.

Corey Haim was a Lost Boy.

Haim - Forever

8. Healthy pussycat mixed up with inn machinery.

"Inn machinery" is an anagram.

A healthy pussycat would be a panther in the pink.

Henry Mancini - Pink Panther Theme

7. On the 7th day, it stayed dark. Are you looking at me?

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

6. Fancy Gallagher's better half? Watch out, he's as big a weirdo as I am.

Gallagher & Lyle, obviously. Love it!

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo...

Look around

And you will see

This world is full of creeps like me

You look surprised

You shouldn't be

This world is full of creeps like me

Lyle Lovett - Creeps Like Me 

5. The shell corp is watching you; it will get its pound of flesh.

Big Brother is watching.

A shell corp is another name for a holding company.

Big Brother & The Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart 

4. Found on Mount Sinai with Spearmint Shirley & Manic Wire.

Shirley Lee is the lead singer of Spearmint. If you don't know that, you should.

Nicky Wire is a Manic Street Preacher.

The Ten Commandments were found lying around on Mount Sinai. There may have been a burning bush involved, I don't know, it's been a long time since Sunday School.

Nickie Lee - The Ten Commandments Of Man

They wouldn't play that on the radio these days.

3. Orphan boxer wren.

Little Orphan Annie + Lennox Lewis and a little bird...

Annie Lennox - Little Bird

2. Happy sinners dine with Shaggy.

Huey looks so young...

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks

1. A Special & a Captain meet in a deserted diner.

Terry Hall & Captain Oates.

Not one of their most well-know tunes, but one of my favourites...




Thanks for playing. I'll be hunting your good will again next Saturday...

My Top Ten Dinosaur Songs (Volume 2)

ROAAAAAR!


And we're back - with songs featuring specific (rather than generic) dinosaurs. Thanks for your suggestions... even with them, this week's Top Ten proved a lot trickier than expected. Probably because dinosaurs don't obviously rhyme with anything else - except other dinosaurs. Unless you're Prince. Anyway, these may not be the best ten tunes I've ever featured, but they do all feature specific dinosaurs. No Triceratops or diplodocuses though, sadly.


Special mention to Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs - with thanks to Alyson (and Lynchie for the history lesson).

10. Kasabian - Velociraptor

I'll grudgingly put this at #10, because I never really got Kasabian... or velociraptors. I was convinced when Jurassic Park first came out that they were just a figment of Michael Crichton had made up. Seriously, had you ever heard of a velociraptor before then?

9. Enter Shikari - Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannicide

Shouty-shouty-shouty... but still more interesting than Kasabian.

8. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Caterpillar

Yes, I know a caterpillar isn't a dinosaur. But there are pterodactyls in this song too! With added Janis Joplin.

7. The Soft Boys - The Pigworker

Surprised The Swede didn't suggest this one... I bet he's kicking himself now!

So the Pterodactyl wore a hood of leather
And he opened everybody, even Heather
With her foaming roses and broken hair
She was all used up

No idea. But it doesn't sound very nice, does it?

6. The Gourds - Fossil Contender

Bit of a cheat this one, but I like The Gourds... and all dinosaurs pretty much ended up as fossils, right?

5. T-Rex - Summer Deep

T-Rex singing about pterodactyls! There's more generic dinosaur action from Mr. Bolan in Truck On Tyke.

4. Ash - T Rex

I'm presuming this is their tribute to Marc Bolan... but it could be about an actual T-Rex. Always hard to tell when it comes to Ash songs - they could be about anything. Nice noise though.

3. Super Furry Animals - Hit & Run / Psyclone!


The Swede offered Hit & Run, with lots of dinosauric lyrics to choose from, including a bit about  "Pterodactyls flying round my attic"... but surely I can trump that with Psyclone…?

Pterodactyl, Brontosaurus
Tyrannosaurus Rex gather around
The sound of thunder now awaits us
A meteorite is coming on down

Hit & Run is probably the better song though.

2. Prince - Dinner With Delores

Only Prince could rhyme Delores with Brontosaurus and make it work...

1. The Move - Brontosaurus

Most popular suggestion from you guys... well, Lynchie and Rigid Digit both voted for it. Seems like the obvious winner this week...

Frank N. Furter Tim Curry does an interesting version of this too.