Snapshots #258: A Top Ten Circle Songs

Ever feel like you spend your life going round and round in circles? 

10. Nobleman and landowner.

That would be you, Squire.

Squire - My Mind Goes Round In Circles

9. Ponderous substance.

The Wonder Stuff - Circlesquare

8. Onomatopoeia punch for Charles. 

Give a Thack! to Ray (Charles).

Jake Thackray - The Castleford Ladies Magic Circle

7. Pound, Furman and Miller are worse. 

Ezra Pound, Ezra Furman and Ezra Miller can't hold a candle to these guys...

Better Than Ezra - Circle Of Friends

6. While others fell behind, Mr. Bragg kept going.

Billy pressed on.

Billy Preston - Will It Go Round In Circles

That's a cracker.

5. Woody is a plonker.

Woody Allen meets Rodney Trotter (you plonker!)

Rodney Allen - Circle Line

So is that.

4. Jim Bob and Fruitbat not pictured.

Jim Bob and Fruitbat were in Carter USM. But not in...

The Carter Family - Can The Circle Be Unbroken 

3. As you can tell by their clothing, this lot are keen sewers. 

Keen sewers was an anagram.

The New Seekers - Circles

2. Blue painted set.

Ocean Colour Scene - The Circle

1. Dottie Danger.

Before she joined the Go-Gos, she was drummer in the punk band The Germs, under the pseudonym "Dottie Danger".

Circle back here next Saturday for more...

Saturday Snapshots #141: The Answers

Was there one overall winner of yesterday's Saturday Snapshots, or is it the case that a few of you Drew?

It's getting harder and harder to pun myself into these answers...

10. Have I Got Newsman gets his coat... but could do with a car.

Paul Merton in a Parka. (Apologies to non-British viewers who won't have got that reference.)

The Merton Parkas - You Need Wheels

9. Corderoy for smaller sibling.

Corderoy (sic) is an anagram.

Ry Cooder - Little Sister

8. You've gotta see her use a Scottish door opener to get a good look at the afterlife.

Maria, you've got to see her, sang Blondie.

A Scottish door opener would be a Mc-Key.

Maria McKee - Show Me Heaven

For years I thought she sang "And make me breakfast" rather than "And leave me breathless".

Like Ron Swanson, I'd always rather have a good breakfast.

7. Multiple RIPs for Croce & King.

Jim Croce & Carole King...

The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

6. Lancashire goat audibly exhales over Ora prior to resurrection.

A Lancashire goat would be Billy from Preston.

Sigh, Rita.

Billy Preston & Syreeta - With You I'm Born Again

Forgotten how good that was.

5. Hairdresser of the century stays for the duration of Saturday Snapshots.

Former member of Haircut 100, Nick Heyward. Have I mentioned how I've met him? Have I? And what a nice man he was? Really?

Nick Heyward - Over The Weekend

Should've been a Number One. How could it fail with that video?

Oh, I would also have accepted...

Nick Heyward - On Sunday

4. Citizen Bronte splashes raw graffiti all over.

Citizen Kane meets Emily Bronte with the French "raw art" movement that finds beauty in graffiti.

Art Brut - Emily Kane 

3. This isn't the end, doofus... it's the bottom squeeze man!

The Squeeze man would be Chris Difford.

The bottom would be your rear.

Chris Rea - Fool (If You Think It's Over)

2. Frog joy, then... where it all kicks off.

"Frog joy, then" was an anagram.

It all kicks off in the centre of a playing field.

John Fogerty - Centrefield

1. Informal invitation to paradise.

Paradise is nirvana.

The informal invitation?



(Barry)more Saturday Snapshots next week...