Snapshots #431: Songs About The Person In Charge

Here’s the man in charge… erm…

The man with the answers… erm…

Still, preferable to his inevitable replacement. Is that really the best we can say about him?

Here are some songs about the person at the top…

15. Born in 1986?

UB40 - King

14. Don’t worry, they’re harmanless.

Dave Harman, aka Dave Dee, had left at this point.

Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch – Mr. President

13. Princess Grace only wants to help you… NOT ME!

Princess Grace Kelly only wants to help you, Roland.

Kelly Rowland - Commander

12. See you, Underground Lou.

See you, Jimmy… and Lou Reed.

Jimmy Reed - Big Boss Man

11. The Ashes.

After The Fire - Der Kommissar

10. Her omelettes are really well scrambled.

“Her omelettes” was an anagram.

The Tremeloes - (Call Me) Number One

9. A pretty regular bunch.

Regular as clockwork.

The Clockworks - Can I Speak To A Manager?

8. Billion year old carbon.

“We are stardust…”

Joni Mitchell – Edith & The Kingpin

7. Scholarly hippy.

Professor Longhair - Big Chief

6. X2.

Double - The Captain Of Her Heart

5. Torturous firework.

Catherine Wheel - Here Comes the Fat Controller

4. 3.14, at the beginning of the afternoon.

3.14, as any Maths teacher will tell you, is π represented as three digits. The beginning of the afternoon is af. So Pi+af=

Edith Piaf - Milord

3. Older now, and with fewer brothers in rhythm. 

There’s only two of them left to pass the dutchie these days…

Musical Youth - Generals

2. Good for halting rashes, if properly blended.

“Halting rashes” was an anagram of…

The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack

I love that video. The Leader of the Pack looks like a middle-aged bus-driver.

1. What Not To Wear.

Depeche Mode, as I’m sure you all know, means Fashion News or Fashion Despatch. Hence…

Depeche Mode – Master & Servant

I’ll be back in charge of this twaddle next Saturday morning.

Snapshots Spillover - More Nonsense

More song titles without real words in them, starting with the ones I rejected this weekend for being too obvious...

The Crystals - Da Doo Ron Ron

Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy

The Police - De Do Do Do De Da Da Da

Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans - Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah

Crash Test Dummies - Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm

Trio - Da Da Da

The Beatles - Ob La Di Ob La Da

Small Faces - Sha La La La Lee

Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Zabadak

Silver - Wham Bam Shang-A-Lang

The 5.6.7.8s - Woo Hoo

Little Richard - Bama Lama Bama Loo

The Rivingtons - Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow

The Rubettes - Foe-Dee-O-Dee 

Dickey Doo & The Don'ts - Nee Nee Na Na Na Na Nu Nu                  

Ten Years After - Skoobly Oobly Doobob          

Ernie K-Doe - Te Ta Te Ta Ta                                         

LaVern Baker - Tra La La

Nina Hagen - Wau Wau

And, of course, the ultimate... which always reminds me of Leland Palmer in Twin Peaks...

I fully expect Ernie or George will fill the comments box with info about some of the above not being nonsense at all... but that's just more fun.

Saturday Snapshots #28 - The Answers

"Is this the right end of the camera? Keef? KEEF! Where's 'e bleeding gone?"

Yesterdays answers will give you satisfaction...


10. 2023: too big for the ark.

Alyson was straight in with this one...

Noah & The Whale - Five Years Time

(Careful: if you click on it, you'll be whistling it all day.)


9. Sad clams laughing in the face of death.

One for Lynchie...

Blue Öyster Cult - (Don't Fear) The Reaper


8. The first noblemen get sharp.

Adam was the first man. Bryan apparently means "noble", as I'm sure our own Brian will agree.

C got Bryan from the picture alone, which is excellent detective work. Chris supplied the song.

Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife


7. A rare forecast calls for a flimsy dress.

Another point for Alyson (minus half for the rogue apostrophe).

The Chiffons - One Fine Day

Great intro on that.


6. Self-destructive patients correct, condense and control.

One where you had to guess the band to identify the song... but I did give you three different clues for the band! (If anyone got this after 9pm last night, apologies.)

The Editors - Smokers Outside The Hospital Door

(Bit disappointed that the video doesn't feature a load of people wheeling their drip tubes outside for a crafty fag.)


5. He won't stop talking about late precipitation.

C & Lynchie teamed up for this one... with a little help from Chas & Dave.

Eddie Rabbit - I Love A Rainy Night


4. A hymn to tell her I love her.

Tell Laura I Love Her + Gloria (in Excelsis Deo) = another point for Alyson.

Laura Branigan - Gloria


3. Good for lighting a fire under your date - when you just want to get out into the country!

Tinder is, I understand, what da young peeps are using to hook up these days. (And the older peeps who are still at it... dating, I mean, since once you're past 40 that other stuff is but a distant memory.)

If you were sick of the city, you'd want to get out to the country.

Tindersticks - City Sickness

Half a point for Rigid Digit. Another half for Chris.


2. Snow White rejected these dwarfs for being hangers on.

Not the most original observation, but this band always did sound like the Dwarfs Snow White didn't want.

Alyson just beat Charity Chic to the band. RD supplied the correct song.

Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - Hold Tight 


1. Grow your own thunderstorm - Stan Lee will love it!

Taken from a misheard Prince lyric, Ian Broudie called his band The Lightning Seeds. Stan Lee was the storytelling genius behind Marvel Comics.

Another point for this week's winner (even with points deducted for punctuation), Alyson.

What an amazing pop song this is...




Thanks for playing.

You keep knocking 'em down, I'll keep setting them up...