Snapshots #297: A Top Ten Hunting Songs

The hunt is over! Hopefully you tracked down all your quarries... now it's time to release them back into the wild.

Ten songs about hunting...

10. Just... purple eyes.

Just William. Irises are purple flowers... or part of your eye.

Iris Williams - He Was Beautiful (Cavatina - Theme From The Deer Hunter)

9. Where should I put the charge, guv'nor?

The guv'nor in The Sweeney was Regan. What should he put the fee on?

Fionn Regan - Hunter's Map

8. A Gibb and a Giggs.

Barry Gibb & Ryan Giggs =

Barry Ryan - The Hunt

7. A campaign to promote Irish families.

An ad for the clans.

Clannad - The Hunter

6. You'll get no sleep in your neighbourhood tonight, with this racket going on.

Bloc Party - Hunting For Witches

5. 5. Not much hope of a Spector becoming Superman's girlfriend.

Ronnie Spector + Lois Lane... it's a slim chance.

Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance - The Poacher

4. Short saint's conquest.

The Saint was Christopher, shortened to Chris in the Norman Conquest.

Chris Norman - Hunters of the Night

3. Lego fodder.

Anagram!

Dr Feelgood - Hunting, Shooting, Fishing

2. Always found in a handy pocket size.

Always found in a handy pocket size.

A-ha - Hunting High & Low

1. Spider-Man fangirls encounter a much older comic hero.

The Spider-Man fangirls might describe themselves as Marvelettes...

Marvelettes - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

The older comic book hero would be...

...who also had a stab at this Smokey Robinson-composed tune...

Blondie - The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game

Hunt down more Snapshots next Saturday.

Soundtracks: Licorice Pizza

I finally got to see the movie Licorice Pizza (or Liquorice Pizza if you're from this side of the pond) by Paul Thomas Anderson of Boogie Nights & Punch Drunk Love fame. It didn't disappoint. The casting of Alana Haim (of Haim fame) and Cooper Hoofman (son of the late, great Phillip Seymour) was refreshing. Neither of them is conventionally Hollywood, but they have real chemistry, and their on/off relationship feels very real. There are great cameos from Sean Penn, Tom Waits, and best of all, Bradley Cooper, playing Barbra Streisand's (Strei-zand's) real life 70s beau, psychotic movie producer Jon Peters. 

For those of you a little too old to feel nostalgic for the 80s, here's a movie that glorifies the 70s - albeit 70s LA, which is about as far from 70s UK as you can get. Still, the sun is always shining, just as it did in our youth. And the music... well, it may not be Slade and Wizzard, but the soundtrack is still full of lost 70s gems (and quite a few from the 50s and 60s too). Of course, there's the ubiquitous Bowie track (Life On Mars, which apparently was stuck on repeat in every jukebox in the world from 1973 onwards), but also tracks from The James Gang, Blood Sweat & Tears,  Mason Williams, Taj Mahal and others. Not the obvious tracks either (apart from maybe a well-placed Gordon Lightfoot tune). Best of all though is this bobby dazzler, which turns out to be Suzi Quatro's only US Top 40 hit (shurely shome mishtake), teamed with Smokie's Chris Norman. In the UK, it only made #41...

Oh, and in case you're wondering, Licorice Pizza was the name of an LA record shop... for exactly the reason you'd think.