Saturday Snapshots #180 - A Top Ten Sand Songs

If you're stuck in the House again this Sunday morning, here's yesterday's Snapshot answers. Don't be Laurie if you didn't get them all...

A TOP TEN SAND SONGS

10. Imaginary compilation album gets weighty.

As anyone who follows The Vinyl Villain will know, an Imaginary Compilation Album is an ICA. A heavy one would be a Metal-ICA.

Metallica - Enter Sandman

Still not a patch on this version...

9. USA, avenge NZ!

It was, of course, an anagram.

Suzanne Vega - Song of Sand

8. Fair lady leaves the Queen in the company of two killers. 

My Fair Lady was Eliza Doolittle.

The Queen is Elizabeth,

If Eliza left the Queen, all that would be left is Beth.

The two killers were Dennis Nilsen & Mark David Chapman.

Beth Nielsen Chapman - Sand & Water

7. Where to get a good kebab.

From the doner van, of course!

Donovan - Sand And Foam 

6. Done to spells, lines, eyes and shadows.

You cast spells, cast lines, cast your eyes and cast shadows.

Cast - Sandstorm

5. It's easier to get down on one knee when you're not so old.

It's easier to kneel when you're young.

Neil Young - Cowgirl In The Sand

4. Kick to restart - amazing!

A free kick, taken to restart a football game, could be a corner. An amazing one would be...

The Brilliant Corners - Delilah Sands

3. Sliced ballerina.

An anagram for the wonderful...

Belinda Carlisle - Circle In The Sand

2. Eponymously big.

Giant Sand - Sand

Or you could have had...

Giant Sand - Every Grain of Sand

1. Central arrears.

Core debts.

More Snapshots for you (and Hugh) next week...

Saturday Snapshots #109 - The Answers

Nananana nananana nananana nananana... Answers!

10. Jimmy Nail loses a dollar to Elvis's bear on the lawn. And it all goes dark.

Jimmy Nail was Spender. Removed a $ and you get Pender... on the lawn makes Pender-grass.

Elvis sang Teddy Bear.

Teddy Pendergrass - Turn Off The Lights

Rub me down with some hot oils, babe...

9. A minor, candy coloured clown.

"A minor" is a chord.

The suffix "ette" means "relatively small size"... which would also related to a minor.

Roy Orbison sang about a candy coloured clown they call the Sandman who tiptoes to his room each night.

The Chordettes - Mr. Sandman

8. Elf with midlife gender change? That's preposterous!

Elf changes from L(ady) to M(an)? Unbelievable!

EMF - Unbelievable

7. Lost? Trust the window screen.

A window screen would be a blind.

Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home

6. Octogenarians die laughing.

Killing Joke - Eighties

5. The week starts early in central Venice.

Rialto is in central Venice.

Rialto - Monday Morning, 5.19

4. Occasionally breaking the Hammer rule, Benny's kung fu rating.

Benny Hill.

Dan is the ranking system used in martial arts.

MC Hammer said U Can't Touch This.

Dan Hill - Sometimes When We Touch

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

3. No, it's Britain. For the time being, anyway. I'd avoid web & eat nymphet.

I'd avoid web & eat nymphet are anagrams.

David Bowie & The Pat Metheny Group - This Is Not America

(I loved Chris's idea that "I'd avoid web" suggested this wasn't from Spiders-era Bowie. I wish I could claim to have been smart enough to come up with that myself.)

2. Dick & Spencer - 2 blokes in a Lambo.

Dick & Spencer Tracy are 2 blokes - a chap and a man.

A Lambo goes very fast.

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car

1. Les quits top pop band after catching his reflection in the Gents.

If Les quit The Beatles, all you'd have left is The Beat.



More Snapshots next week - same Snap-time, same Snap-channel.