Snapshots #343: A Top Ten Songs With French Titles

French actress Catherine Deneuve welcomes you to ten songs with French titles. She will provide the translations, since I gave up French in the Third Year...

10. Lucky x 4.

She should be so lucky. Lucky, lucky, lucky.

Kylie Minogue - Je Ne Sais Pas Pourquoi 

"I do not know why" Kylie was always so lucky.

9. Puppy Love for Shakespearean wife.

Donny Osmond sang Puppy Love. Shakespeare's wife was Anne Hathaway.

Donny Hathaway - Je Vous Aime

"I love you," Donny.

8. Big end.

That would be one Mega Death.

Megadeth - A Tout Le Monde

"To everybody", from Megadeth.

7. One quarter committed. 

A quarter is 25%. If you're committed, you are sectioned.

Section 25 - Je Veux Ton Amour

"I want your love", but not your money, honey.

6. I'd like a picture of the Empire State Building on my T-shirt, please.

Can you do me a Manhattan transfer?

Manhattan Transfer - Chanson d'Amour

"Love Song..." a ratty tatty tat.

5. Mr. Rigby. 

Amy Rigby is his better half.

Wreckless Eric - Reconnez Chérie

Did you "Recognise, honey...?" 

4. Psychics look for the answer within.

Psychics...

Chic - Le Freak

Not much to translate there... "the freak".

3. Gav - accept Elmo, then we can undo this puzzle.

"Gav - accept Elmo" was an anagram...

Campag Velocet - Bon Chic Bon Genre

Google translate tells me that the translation of that whole phrase is "preppy"... or "good style, good gender", one word at a time.

2. Look at me, I'm on half a Hawaiian beach. 

Look at me, I'm Sandra Dee, from Waikiki...

Kiki Dee - Amoureuse

Were you "in love" with Kiki?

1. Good looking bloke with hazel peepers.

He's a brown-eyed, handsome man... with very recognisable feet.

"That's life"... it goes to show, you never can tell.

Chuck Berry - C'est La Vie

Les instantanés seront de retour Samedi prochain...

Snapshots #194: A Top Ten Triple Word Score Songs

Yesterday's link was pretty straightforward once you got it. Song titles that repeat the same word three times.

Answers, answers, answers...

10. The Hoover + Kelly.

The Hoover DAM + NED Kelly.

The Damned - Neat Neat Neat

9. Shabby heroin charity.

Shabby chic.

Heroin chic.

Charity Chic!

Chic - Dance Dance Dance

8. Two shots of coffee.

Two cups of Joe will have you firing like a gun.

Jo Jo Gunne - Run Run Run

7. Cadbury's make it, with an A in the middle.

Cadbury's Caramel, without the middle A...

Carmel - More More More

6. Kiss singer's sibling?

The Kiss singer is Gene Simmonds. His sibling might be his sister. Put then together and you get Gene+Sis...

Genesis - Tonight Tonight Tonight

5. Every man is guilty of all the good Liza Minelli films he didn't watch,

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do," is a quote from French philosopher Voltaire.

The Liza Minelli film is Cabaret.

Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag 

4. Yoda is Dr.

Anagram!

Doris Day - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

3. Dodges under the special edition.

Ducks under the deluxe...

Ducks Deluxe - Please, Please, Please

2. Mr Loverman's biggest part.

Shabba was Mr. Loverman. The biggest part of Shabba is Abba.

Abba - Money Money Money

Or even

Abba - Gimme Gimme Gimme

1. Shorter byroads.

Byroads shortened becomes Byrds.

More more more next Saturday.

Saturday Snapshots #107 - The Answers

Nobody puts Baby in the corner on a Sunday morning. Baby wants her answers! And here they are...

Did you have a Ghost of a chance of getting them all right?

Regardless, every track's a belter this week...



10. A wee vacuum riddle torments and teases.

Jimmy Riddle?

Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise

9. Still a child at heart, secretly famous.

Forever young...

Neil Young - Unknown Legend

Still sends shivers down my spine, this track. Written about his former wife, Pegi, who sadly died earlier this year.

8. Melon twisting dancer gets an A for running over southern states.

Bez was the Melon Twisting dancer. Add an A and you get Baez.

Joan Baez - The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

7. Save the earth in 2009? If not then, how about...

If not in 2009, how about...?

Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World

6. I refuse to accept a brother of York can go beyond sanity.

Thom Yorke's brother was in this band.

(Bonus clue - Hal Hartley made a film called The Unbelievable Truth, David Mitchell hosts a Radio 4 quiz show with the same name.)

Unbelievable Truth - Higher Than Reason

5. Town that died, but not long ago, meets French weirdo.

The Night Chicago Died. Take away ago.

A French weirdo would be Le Freak.

Chic - Le Freak

4. No charge for pierced organ ring.

(That's my favourite clue ever.)

No charge is free. Electricity also comes with a charge. Hammond make organs. A pierced organ is a Prince Albert. A ring is sometimes called a (wedding) band.

I thank you.

Albert Hammond - The Free Electric Band

3. Rubbing out, occasionally.

Erasure - Sometimes

2. Melted Pac Man puts gas in your tank.

If the arcade was on fire, Pac Man might melt.

Arcade Fire - Keep The Car Running

1. Michael Caine and James Brown hit the Martini, relentlessly.

Michael Caine was Carter. James Brown was a Sex Machine. Relentlessly is unstoppable.

Ride a Point Break back here again next Saturday morning for more of the same...

My Top Ten x3 Songs

Not a lot of time today: the boss is driving me to an early grave. And as the boss is a Maths teacher, let's multiply that by three...

Ten song titles to the power of three...


10. The Pierces - Kill! Kill! Kill!

Some days, this seems like a very enticing prospect...

9. Heartless Bastards - Low Low Low

Don't let them get you down.

8. Skunk Anansie - Sad Sad Sad

What did I just say?

7. Genesis - Tonight Tonight Tonight

As if we weren't feeling bad enough!

6. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs - No No No

Double marks!

5. Chic - Dance Dance Dance

Yowsah! Yowsah! Yowsah!

Dancing obviously isn't going to cheer me up today.

However, if Chic doesn't get your toes twitching, you may prefer to dance to this... The Casualeers - Dance Dance Dance

4. Johnny Cash - Cry! Cry! Cry!

Yeah, it's getting that way, Johnny.

3. Abba - Money Money Money

And that, of course, is why we keep putting up with it.

2. Julian Cope - Try Try Try

No choice, Julian.

1. Housemartins - Joy Joy Joy

I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows...

...but maybe one day I'll find one that makes me feel like this instead.



And as today is the first day of the month, I'll close with a good luck wish for all of us...

Rabbit

Rabbit

Rabbit

Any threesomes in your collection?

Hot 100 #54

Studio 54 was obviously going to get a mention in the Hot 100 this week, with Alyson, Jim and Rigid Digit all suggesting Chic - Le Freak...

Just come on down to 54, find a spot up on the floor, ahhhh

Alyson even wrote a whole post about this disco classic, which I'm guessing directed new player Alex G to get involved with another Studio 54- related suggestion...

Another song about Studio 54 is "Dario, Can You Get Me Into Studio 54?" by Dana and Gene. Whoever they may be! But the writer/producer behind it was the future Kid Creole, August Darnell, who later did a Kid Creole & The Coconuts version too, just titled 'Dario'. 

Bizarrely, even The Clash had a Studio 54 reference in Ivan Meets GI Joe, as identified by Rigid Digit...

Anything we should know about your change?
So you're on the floor at 54

Out of the disco, Martin offered a few choice treats, including...

Harry Nilsson, Take 54 - maybe not his finest moment, but includes the line "I sang my balls off for you, baby" which never fails to raise a smile.

You won't ever go wrong with Nilsson in my book, Martin! 

And not really my bag but Aphex Twin had this, 54 Cymru Beats,

recorded in Wales, perhaps?

Not really my bag either, but I'm sure it's nice if you're into that sort of thing.

Charity Chic was up next with this...

Wayne Hancock - Highway 54

So basically, his girlfriend runs off with his best friend but on their way out of town their car is hit by a freight train and they're both killed. Sign me up for more of that, Wayne.

Meanwhile, the Swede had a 54 band for us... bending the rules, but that never stopped us, did it?

'Listen to Louie' by Richie & The PS 54 Schoolyard

Bugaloo.

Then Alyson threw in this...

Sea Level had an instrumental called Sneakers (54).

While Lynchie (still MIA on a Saturday morning) offered up this...

The Ethiopians - Engine 54

However, it's another reggae anthem which takes top spot this week... as suggested by most of you (Alyson offered up an Aswad cover while Jim suggested a 90s dance version which had the same title, but as it was by a band called Partners Rime Syndicate, I was just too scared to investigate further).

The best song ever written about being nicked for smoking da weed? You decide...

Next week... number 53. Surely there's only one serious contender for that? Your suggestions gratefully received nevertheless...