Snapshots #456 - Songs About Seas & Oceans

This is Frank Ocean. His Uncle Billy appears below.

Here are some songs about Oceans and Seas...

15. Takes the lead in the Bossa Nova.

The Boss, obviously.

Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City

14. Some are trumpeters, others are mute... all are crazy.

The Wild Swans - Sea of Tranquility

Yeah, I know that one's on the moon. It's still a sea. Of a sort.

13. Ain't no stopping Eno now.

McFadden & Whitehead sang Ain't No Stopping Us Now. Brian was an Eno.

Brian McFadden - Irish Son

12. Seabird that is utterly wet.

Shearwater - Red Sea, Black Sea

11. Pretty bottom.

The Beautiful South - The Mediterranean (Morcheeba Mix)

10. Home for Top Dogs.

Where the Alpha Males hang out.

Alphaville - Big In Japan

9. Unique korma ingredient. 

Just in curry.

Justin Currie - The Dead Sea

8. I Wonder if Lowe and Heyward know her?

Stevie Wonder and two Nicks.

Stevie Nicks - Wide Sargasso Sea

7. Any game involving #5 would be this.

Coldplay - Yellow

6. There's a great distance between Henley and McLean.

Don Fardon - Indian Reservation 

Or even...

Don Fardon - Hudson Bay

5. All Right Now, it's Easy.

Free and EZ.

Freeez - Southern Freeez

4. Can you pick these guys up on your way home from work?

Dry Cleaning - Anna Calls From The Arctic

3. Where the drum machines make their home.

808 State - Pacific State

2. Show off your Aussie cookware.

Brag about your billycan.

Billy Bragg - North Sea Bubble

1. Cybil alone has the answer.

"Cybil alone" was an anagram.

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)

That had to be Number One today, didn't it?

Swim back for more next Saturday.

Snapshots #279: A Top Ten Skating Songs

This week's clues led to ten songs about skating - on rollerskates, ice skates, maybe even a skateboard. Here are the answers...

10. Not entirely tone deaf.

The Deftones - Rocket Skates

9. Slow cherry.

Anagram!

Sheryl Crow - Roller Skate

8. Inside the house, little minx sees all.

...little mINX Sees all.

INXS - Roller Skating

7. French vineyard for fools.

Vineyard in French is La Vigne. April is the month for Fools, Avril in French.

Avril Lavigne - Sk8ter Boi

No marks for spelling.

6. Loverboy gets sad.

Billy Ocean sang Loverboy... then got blue.

The Ocean Blue - Ice Skating At Night

5. The worst way to travel between seas.

On the dire straits...

Dire Straits - Skateaway

4. Napoleon Solo rolls up his trouser leg.

Napoleon Solo was played by Robert Vaughn. I don't think he was a Mason.

Vaughan Mason & Crew - Roller Skate

Or even...

Vaughan Mason & Crew - Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll

3. Andrew hated elks.

Anagram!

Kathleen Edwards - Hockey Skates

2. This Mr. Trotter was more than just a plonker.

Del was a bit of an a-soul.

De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Named Saturdays 

1. A great bond links Steve & Frankie.

Roger was a great Bond. Frankie and Steve are both Millers.

1. Roger Miller - You Can't Roller Skate in a Buffalo Herd

Get your skates on - there'll be more Snapshots next Saturday.

Snapshots #199: A Top Ten Coloured Light Songs

You hardly needed to be Gandalf to solve yesterday's quiz...

10. ...little star.

Twinkle, twinkle!

Twinkle - Golden Lights

9. A scandal, or distorted representation... mostly.

A travesty! Mostly...

Travis - Blue Flashing Light

8. We all need a little of it...

Tender loving care?

TLC - Red Light Special

7. He went To Motor Vehicle Engineering Kollege.

ToM. V.E.K.

You come up with a clue for this guy!

Tom Vek - Nothing But Green Lights

6. Hey, hey, they're freezing!

Hey hey, they're the arctic monkees!

Arctic Monkeys - Red Light Indicates Doors Are Secured

5. Where Long Johnny Cash might have recorded.

Long John Silver at Sun Studios?

Silver Sun - Yellow Light

4. Relatively pretty.

The Handsome Family - The Silver Light

3. Bobby was blue when he heard Paul was going.

Bobby Vinton sang Blue Velvet. 

Paul Weller was going underground.

The Velvet Underground - White Light, White Heat

2. Club Pacific.

Billy club + Pacific Ocean.

Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger

1. Inert sex during hymns.

Anagram!

Next week... Snapshots #200! Don't miss it.

Saturday Snapshots #100 - The Answers

If you've got the Hair Like Brian May Blues this Sunday morning, don't feel Under Pressure. Here are the answers to the 100th edition of Saturday Snapshots to Keep Yourself Alive.

As I write this, nobody had spotted the Extra Special Bonus Mystery which connected 10 of the songs on this list... but I guess you'd have to be pretty sad to do that. (No offence to Alyson who came close to working it out.) Different photos, different clues and different songs, but the odd-numbered artists in this list all appeared in Saturday Snapshots #1, way back in September 2017.

I think Alyson just pipped Rigid Digit to the crown this week. I was intending to work out a league table of winners from the past 100 editions, but as you probably have realised by now, my time is rather restricted at the moment. Thanks for playing along as always, everybody. Remember: this quiz is Driven By You.


20. Lennie's pal in dire circumstance. I guess Tony must have shown him the way.

George & Lennie, as anybody who's done an English exam at school in the last 50 years will know, were the unlucky duo from Of Mice & Men.

Dire Straits, natch.

Tony Christie wondered Is This The Way To Amarillo?

George Strait - Amarillo By Morning

Justin Townes Earl (son of Steve) claims this is the last truly great country song ever written.

19. Oxymoronic invitation to stop the fight.

A band called War asking why we can't all just get along? Surely that's an oxymoron?

War - Can't We Be Friends?

18. V, son of Scotland, rejects the preserves.

V = 5.

Mc = son of Scotland.

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

17. From here to there, with Brass Eye drug.

From here to there is a distance.

Cake was a Made Up Drug.

Cake - The Distance

16. Hooked on romance, old cinema tune.

Love is a better drug than cake.

Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug

15. Battles Evil Dead with Carl Douglas.

Ash - Kung Fu

14. Silky soft V on a quiet evening.

Laziness compelled me to re-use the V clue.

The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night

13. Ashes in the toilet have you skidding on pebbles.

Loo-cinder? No?

I did like Walter's idea that parts of this clue might relate to a Drunken Angel.

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

12. Stay in bed with a bunch of flowers.

The Posies - Dream All Day

11. Nesting spirit. Atlas or Goliath, possibly.

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul

10. Warhol goes Wilde, with a slight sway.

Andy Warhol, Kim Wilde. Not Andy Oscar.

Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently

9. Colleagues visit a disco that only plays Dolly and Johnny.

The Associates - Club Country

Check SS #1 for Party Fears Two.

8. Threat stops traffic across the sea.

Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger

7. DJs are... cemented.

DJs are on the radio. (Except club DJs.)

The Concretes - On The Radio

6. Moroccan bartender visits Homer's town, looking for Madonna's dear ladyfriend.

Rick was the bartender from Casablanca.

Homer lives in Springfield.

Madonna was friends with Dear Jessie.

Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl

5. Touché + mutant ninjas = a harmonious match.

Touché would win that fight.

The Turtles - Happy Together

4. Skirmish between pro-US biopics and laces. Murderous commandments!

"pro-US biopics" is one anagram.

"and laces" is another.

Put a skirmish (Vs.) between them and thou shalt...

Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Thous Shalt Always Kill

Thou shalt still not question Stephen Fry.

3. Ain't nothing like it. Your help required to pass.

The Real Thing - Can't Get By Without You

God, that takes me back to the Fifth Form. (80s reissue.)

2. Wren, spinning, no relation to one, an ordinary man.

Jenny Wren, Spinning Jenny, no relation to Huey (below).

Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys

1. Donald's nephews deliver papers to trendy L7.

Well, two of Donald's nephews. Dewey must have been sick that day.

Still one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded...


Well, that's it, folks. 100 seems a pretty good number to bow out on, don't you think? Time to call it a day on Saturday Snapshots, maybe? Give you all a lie in next Saturday morning?





(Maybe not.)