Showing posts with label Darts. Show all posts
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Sunday, 9 June 2019

Saturday Snapshots #87 - The Answers


If you got All Shook Up by yesterday's quiz, don't go Crying In The Chapel this Sunday morning. Here's a little Peace In The Valley instead... the answers!

Rain led to a low turn-out yesterday morning, but Lynchie nabbed the early, easy ones. Maybe this quiz is getting too difficult. Maybe it's run its course. Not far from 100... perhaps I'll retire it with the century.

In the meantime... a quick trot through the answers this week with A Little Less Conversation than usual as I'm too tired to write loads.


10. Played by Dexys' error... so good they named him twice.


When Dexys appeared on Top of the Pops singing Jackie Wilson Said, they had a huge picture of Jocky Wilson behind them. Various stories about how this happened - a mistake on the part of the production team or (more likely) Kevin Rowland's wicked sense of humour.


Anyway, Jocky Wilson was a darts player.

New York, New York was so good they named it twice, according to Gerard Kenny.

Darts - The Boy From New York City

9. Steve Rogers & Johnny Storm.


One I discovered via The Vinyl Villain... though you have to know your comics characters to get the clues. (They changed their name to Eugenius after this release to avoid getting sued by Marvel.)

Steve Rogers is Captain America.

Johnny Storm is the Human Torch. His catch phrase is "Flame On!"

Captain America - Flame On!

8. Mother Walrus meets ex-Kennedy for wet fun.


John Lennon was the Walrus. His mum was Julia.

Jaqueline Kennedy became Jackie O after she was widowed.

Julia Jaclyn - Pool Party

7. Tin Tin's useless investigators give away their identity.


C correctly identified that the gent in the centre of this pic wasn't actually Joe Leeway from The Thompson Twins, but Eddie Grant. My bad, with apologies to all concerned.

The Thompson Twins were named after bumbling detectives in the Tin Tin comics.

The Thompson Twins - We Are Detective

(I planned this post weeks ago... a weird coincidence then that this song featured here in a different post just a couple of days ago.)

6. Chimp spreads fertiliser on Russian park while getting down to Whitesnake.


Gorky Park.

A zygote is the cell formed by the fertilisation of two gametes. Obviously.

A mynci sounds like a monkey.

Whitesnake were dismissed in the 80s as poodle rockers because of hair like this...


Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - Poodle Rockin'

5. Scottish saint / mouse enjoys the sunshine.


Mungo was a Scottish saint, apparently.

Jerry was a mouse.

Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime

4. Part of 5, partner of one of 9... coming from the north west.


Jerry was part of #5.

One of Johnny (#9) Storm's partners in the Fantastic Four was Reed Richards.

Jerry Reed - Eastbound & Down

3. Hell rises... it's not me.


"Hell rises" was an anagram.

The Shirelles - Baby, It's You

2. Sound like they're Riders on the Storm... on the best mixtape you ever made.


As I've written about previously, Dawes are a pretty good band... with a very silly name, considering that they sound exactly the far more famous group from the 60s led by Jim Morrison.

Dawes - All Your Favourite Bands

1. No charge... OK at this time?


Easy, right?



Don't Cry, Daddy - Saturday Snapshots will be back next week.

Wednesday, 3 January 2018

My Top Ten Kitty Songs



I was jolted awake  at 5.55 on Christmas morning, not by Sam's excitement over Santa having visited, but by Louise saying, "there's someone downstairs playing Christmas music". With my heart pounding, I got out of bed and crept to the top of the stairs from where I could hear the sad refrain of Judy Garland wishing us a merry Christmas.

With visions of (at best) a burglar with a sick sense of humour or (at worst) a blood-drenched psychopath in a Santa costume, I ventured downstairs to discover...

The kitchen radio on at full blast.

Burglar?

Psychopath?

Poltergeist?

Or hyperactive kitten standing on top of the on button?


As I've already done My Top Ten Kitten Songs, here are ten kitties...


10. Sparks - Here Kitty

Ron & Russell's kitten gets stuck up a juniper tree. Bloody thing.

9. Bee Gees - Kitty Can

From 1969, when the Bee Gees were more like The Monkees. You'll have to watch it to see what I mean.

8. Bobby Darin - Pretty Miss Kitty

The airbrushed side of rock 'n' roll. Still fun.

7. The Pogues - Kitty

The Pogues did Trad. Arr. folk tunes better than most.

6. Presidents of the USA - Kitty

The Presidents are well and truly hacked off with their kitten...
Kitty up and scratch me through my jeans
Fuck you, kitty you're gonna spend the night
Fuck you, kitty you're gonna spend the night
Fuck you, kitty you're gonna spend the night
OUTSIDE!
5. Cat Stevens - Kitty

Cat plans on partying with his Kitty.

4. Racey - Kitty

Yes, Racey.

That'll put the kitten among the pigeons.

You may know this better as the Toni Basil version, Hey Mickey! You may also choose to deny knowledge of either. But I know when you're lying...

3. Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses

Cred instantly restored (in some quarters, at least) with a lovely bit of pedal steel and one of John Peel's favourite country singers.

2. Darts - The Boy From New York City

Racey and Darts in the same top ten? I can still irk those musos when I want to.

Sing it after me:
Ooh ahh ooh ahh, cool, cool kitty...
1. Bruce Springsteen - Kitty's Back

Those of you who know about such things will hardly be surprised to find this early Bruce number holding off all challengers at Number One. I song I loved so much, I named the novel I wrote for my English degree (my excuse for a dissertation!) after it. My tutor was scathing... but I scraped at 2:1.

This live version from '78 is amazing...


Any kitties in your collection?

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