Snapshots #320: A Top Ten Café Songs

What do you mean, this is a Catherine, not a Café?

Am I bovvered?

Here are ten songs to sing in your local caff...

10. Pardon, Sir?

Deaf School - Capaldi's Café

9. Two snooker greats will grow up to be a bit of a perv.

Ray Reardon and Steve Davis get Kinky.

(Aren't you impressed with my sporting knowledge?)

Ray Davies - Working Man's Café

8. The McNamara brothers were also...

Danny and Richard McNamara are two members of the rock band Embrace. This lot, from the early 80s, were also In Embrace,

In Embrace - Shouting In Cafés

7. Vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear.

Definition Of Sound - Moira Jane's Café

6. At best, they're golden.

The Eagles - The Sad Café

Not to be confused with these guys...

Sad Café - Everyday Hurts

5. Lads often found on a cake.

The Cherry Boys - Kardomah Café

4. Killer Michael's Mum?

Michael Fassbender is in The Killer, which I reviewed here (if you can call that a review). This isn't his mum, but it could be...

Susan Fassbender ‎– Twilight Café

#21 in 1981, folks.

3. Day & Wright, Thicke & Dick.

Robin Day, Robin Wright, Robin Thicke and Dick Grayson, aka Batman's original partner.

The Robins - Smokey Joe's Café

2. A Christmas tune fit for royalty.

A carol fit for a king.

Carole King - Hard Rock Café

1. Roy.

If you can get past the fact that the lead singer looks like a young David Cameron in the video (and you probably can't), this is is a great tune.

Keane - Sovereign Light Café

Snapshots #223: A Top Ten Knocking Songs

I chose the late John Mahoney to usher in this week's answers for two reasons. Firstly, Martin Crane's dog Eddie features in one of the clues below. Secondly, I figured he's bring a little respectability to this post... otherwise it's in danger of being mistaken for a knocking shop.

10. Webster Earplug.

Anagram!

Paul Westerberg - Knockin' On Mine

9. What to do with empty acorn producers.

Fill it. Fill the oaks.

Phil Ochs - Knock On The Door

8. One Wanted hitmaker, plus Brian, Al or Jackie. 

The Dooleys were Wanted. Yes, they were.

Jackie & Brian Wilson.

Dooley Wilson - Knock On Wood

(Play it again, Sam!*) 

(*Yes, I know Bogie doesn't actually say that line in the film.)

7. Where none of the students listen. 

Deaf School - Knock Knock Knocking

6. #1 + Chief ARP Warden.

We'll get to this week's #1 in a minute, but it was Chief ARP Warden Hodges in Dad's Army.

Eddie Hodges - I'm Gonna Knock On Your Door

(I only know that because it was in a Tarantino soundtrack. Honest.)

5. SUV demanded by Welsh rocker.

"SUV demanded" is an anagram...

Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking

Great intro.

4. 68 + A Good Year...

68 Guns + A Good Year For The Roses.

Guns 'n' Roses - Knocking On Heaven's Door

(Because Dylan would have been too obvious. And I like how Axl string out the notes.) 

3. Sounds like he's online.

It's a rhyme. 

Online...

John Prine - Knocking On Your Screendoor

2. Follows darkness.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Dawn - Knock Three Times

I'm pretty sure that video was filmed at Greenhead Park in Huddersfield. They must have had a dome on the cafe in the 70s.

1. Martin's dog and Muppet bassist.

Martin Crane (see the top of this page) had a dog called Eddie.

Floyd was the bass player in the Muppet band.

Snapshots will come knocking again next Saturday. Please answer your door.