Snapshots #434: Well Done! Songs

Did you get them all right?

Well done! Congratulations! You ROCK!

15. Clio knew she was all wrong.

"Clio knew" was an anagram.

Nick Lowe - Awesome!

14. Enormously boring.

What a giant drag.

Giant Drag - Smashing!

13. What General Zod said to Jesus.

Kneel (before Zod), Christian!

Neil Christian - That's Nice!

12. Native American Confederacy mucking around in the studio.

Jay Kay apparently got his stage name by mix Jam (sessions) with the name of the Native American Iroquois people.

There are two good reasons why this is the first time he's appeared in this quiz. One is that it's very difficult to come up with a clue...

Jamiroquai - Alright!

11. Forecasters.

The Weather Prophets - Well Done, Sonny!

10. Joint. Room. Grease.

Elbow join, elbow room, elbow grease.

Elbow - Magnificent! (She Says)

9. Residents at Nick's gaff.

The Troggs - Hip Hip Hooray!

8. Pet Shop Boy who lives in a Van.

Neil Tennant & Van Morrison... but not.

Tennent and Morrison - Good For You!

7. Shout! If you want to become a cannibal.

Lulu wants to eat some flesh...

Flesh For Lulu - Way To Go!

6. JR rival, gone for a Burton.

In Dallas, JR's rival was Cliff Barnes. Mix him up with Richard Burton and you get...

Cliff Richard - Congratulations!

5. Glennis sighted - but it might be someone else.

"Glennis sighted" was an anagram.

Lightning Seeds - Marvellous!

4. Rose Bowlers.

The Rose Bowl stadium is in Pasadena... maybe Brian could have helped you with that one.

The Pasadenas - Tribute (Right On!)

3. I've been listening to your voice on the radio...

Lyrics from Pilot of the Airwaves...

Pilot - Magic!

2. Sounds like Jaki is in charge of the rowing team.

Jaki Graham becomes a Coxswain.

Graham Coxon - Spectacular!

1. AKA Erhart Flinn.

Anagram!

Aretha Franklin - Respect!

Bravo, everyone. 

More next week.

Snapshots #367: A Top Twenty Songs Named After Horror Movies

Darkness falls across the land

The midnight hour is close at hand

Creatures crawl in search of blood

To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood

And whosoever shall be found

Without the soul for getting down

Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell

And rot inside a corpse’s shell

The foulest stench is in the air

The funk of forty thousand years

And grizzly ghouls from every tomb

Are closing in to seal your doom

And though you fight to stay alive

Your body starts to shiver

For no mere mortal can resist

The evil of the SNAPSHOTS!

AH HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA

Thank you, Vincent. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

It's Halloween this week, and when I started looking for songs that share their names with horror movies, I hit a bumper bundle. But did you guess them all?

20. Bad jingles get me in such a tizzy. 

"Bad jingles" was an anagram...

J. Geils Band - Fright Night

19. Lost inside Outwood Golf Course.

In case you're wondering, Outwood is just down the road from where I work in Leeds. Fortunately, I've never spotted u-two while driving through there...

U2 - The Fly

18. Ttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss iiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss ttttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeee ccccccccccccccllllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeee.

Slow Readers Club - Lost Boys

17. The Haiti dollar hides a silly secret. 

The Haiti dollar, Silly Billy.

Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face

16. Boopadoop.

Named after Chic Young's Blondie comic strip: her surname was Boopadoop.

Blondie - Island Of Lost Souls

15. Noughties boy band, aphrodisiac, Ian Astbury.

Noughties boy band = Blue.

Aphrodisiac = Oyster.

Ian Astbury = The Cult.

Blue Öyster Cult - Nosferatu

14. Frippette?

She's married to Robert Fripp...

Toyah - Alien

13. They're ghosting you.

The Phantom Band - The Howling

12. Can you hear them?

The Sonics - Psycho

11. ...is a V. smarmy DJ mix.

..."is a V. smarmy DJ" was an anagram...

Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candyman

10. A wing and a guitar.

A Fender is what we Brits would call the wing on a car... and it's also a type of guitar.

Sam Fender - Poltergeist(s)

9. Just desserts.

The Sweet - Hellraiser

8. Read one section of your home. 

Chapterhouse - Don't Look Now

7. This guy, and another four droplets.

A tough one this, and probably not one you could guess from the clue alone... but once you worked out the theme... maybe?

Anyway, the photo above is Bernie Nee, the singer on the track below. The rest of the Blobs were session musicians, so no photo exists of the "band" itself...

The Five Blobs - The Blob

6. Bitten by a green bird that wishes it could fly.

Orville might have wished he could fly, but he could at least peck.

Orville Peck - Dead Of Night

5. Used to make soup for Alice and the Queen.

Then the Queen said to Alice, "Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?"

"No," said Alice. "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is."

"It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from", said the Queen.

(From Alice In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.)

The Mock Turtles - Wicker Man

4. A carpenter and a great hangman. 

The Great Hangman is a cliff. Richard was a Carpenter.

Cliff Richard - Carrie

3. Chest, pea, dough.

Chestnut, peanut, doughnut...

Nut - Scream

2. What do Jennifer Anniston, Julie Andrews and Jane Austen cook their eggs in?

In the J.A.pan, of course!

Japan - Halloween

1. Lad-ra-doodle.

It's not often you see Damon Gough without his hat on...

Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining

Not Number One because it's my favourite song... but it is my favourite horror film.

Such a bounty of horror-film-related songs did I find, that there will be more to share later in the week... and a much less scary Snapshots will be back next Saturday.