Snapshots #459: Songs About Writing (or Groups of Words)

Time to write down your answers for this week's quiz...

 

15. Real twats will have nothing to do with him.

"Real twats" was an unfortunate anagram.

Al Stewart - Time Passages

14. Subordinate T-Rex. 

Dinosaur Jr - The Post

The thing that most of us spend a lot of time writing.

13. Finger, hob, Jimmy.

The Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women

12. Love - Latest Flame - Eamonn. 

Courtney Love, Marie's the Name, Eamonn Andrews.

Courtney Marie Andrews - On My Page

11. What if Johnny and Andrew formed a band?

Johnny Marr and Andrew Marr might have called their band The...

MARRS - Pump Up The Volume 

10. There'll be times when my crimes will seem almost unforgivable...

That's the opening line to Strangelove by Depeche Mode.

Strangelove - Extract From A Journal: Nov 17th 1997

9. Oh my god - they killed the doubter!

Oh my god - they killed Kenny! Probably for being a Doubting Thomas.

Kenny Thomas - Piece By Piece

8. Elvis finds rhymes in a blizzard.

King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard - The Book

Kenny Thomas to King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard. That's what this blog is all about.

7. He's neither tool nor dogfight. 

"Tool nor dogfight" was an anagram.

Gordon Lightfoot - Canadian Railroad Trilogy

6. Where Flanders puts Homer's work waste.

Ned's Atomic Dustbin - Sentence

5. Still... Peanuts.

Still D.R.E. And Snoopy.

Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg - The Next Episode

4. Derek (sic) and his Finetime Fools.

"Derek (sic)" was an anagram. Cast sang Finetime.

Rick Dees & His Cast Of Idiots - Disco Duck (Part One)

3. These Charm-ing Men.

Lucky Charms for The Smiths.

The Lucksmiths - The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco

Rick Dees to The Lucksmiths. That's what this blog is all about.

2. Hey hey, puff, wheeze, we're the... gasp, pant...

Hey hey, we're the out of breath Monkees. Must be all that blowing.

Blow Monkeys - Digging Your Scene

1. Lovely... Calvin (30).

Lovely Rita and Calvin Coolidge, the 30th POTUS.

Rita Coolidge - Words

I'll write more soon.

Saturday Snapshots #85 - The Answers

Thank you for Stayin' Alive long enough to come back and check out the answers to yesterday's Saturday Snapshots. Here's hoping You Win Again, without any Tragedy.

Lynchie just took the prize this week, with Rigid Digit failing to nail a draw by not working out the Happy Mondays song. If in doubt, go for the obvious one! Chris and Charity Chic shared out the rest of the points, although CC needed a little prompting.

Enough of my Jive Talkin'...


10. Lost kangaroo perplexes one-handed table tennis rulers.

Sultans of Ping FC - Where's Me Jumper?

"Dancing at the disco, bumper to bumper... wait a minute: where's me jumper!?"

One of Sam's favourites at the moment.

9. Thorny roller gets the full valet.

Rose Royce - Car Wash

8. Triceratots share the hurt.

"Triceratots". Geddit?

Dinosaur Jr. - Feel The Pain

7. Vulcan legend handles the crockery.

You can look up where T'Pau got their name from if you don't already know.

T'Pau - China In Your Hand

Wishing to dodge the shame of spotting this one, Rigid Digit revealed he'd seen them on an old TOTP repeat the night before. Alyson, ashamed to have not spotted them, replied, "I thought to myself, the only band I can think of with a long curly-haired female singer is T’Pau but it’s not a picture of Carol Decker. I was wrong!"

It did take me a while to find a photo of T'Pau where Carol Decker was not immediately recognisable. Then again, not everybody had quite the same teenage interest in that lady that I did.

6. Chimney struck by Murdoch / Hawke co-pilots.

Finally! One I get to explain!

Howling Mad Murdoch was the pilot in The A-Team.

Stringfellow Hawke flew Airwolf.

(Child of the 80s ahoy!)

Put them together and you get...

Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning

Apparently that was "a b**tard of a clue!", according to Lynchie. I just didn't want to go down the obvious "wild dog" route.

5. Amazon? Nestle? McDonalds? Never satisfied.

Bad Company - Can't Get Enough

4. Queasy, dizzy, teary... how much does the honeymaker charge to get across the river?

C wondered, "Is no. 4 the lovely Bee Bridgetoll with 'Pre-menstrual'? Sorry... but it should be, I'm sure it'd be great."

It would be great, though if that were an actual song, I'd have been more likely to go with a clue about stabbing your other half with a bread-knife because they'd slightly burnt the toast. Not that I'm talking from personal experience or anything.

With an extra clue about this lady also working in a Community Centre, Charity Chic was able to solve this one.

What's the bee's fee? To take you across the bridge?

Phoebe Bridgers - Motion Sickness

3. Flatulation coalition.

The Association - Windy

2. Join the escalator and think about what the Boomtown Rats never had.

The Boomtown Rats never had a happy Monday, obviously.

You're twisting my melon, man!

The Happy Mondays - Step On

Call the cops!

1. Explain to your mum how you boil jelly.

Boil jelly was an anagram.

How has it taken me 85 weeks to get to this gent? Doesn't he look a smart young man? I wish I could have found a photo of him in the boxing ring.



I've Gotta Get A Message To You... Saturday Snapshots will return next week.

2018 Contenders: Tom Petty Karaoke

A week or so ago, Swiss Adam posted that J Mascis, lead singer of Dinosaur Jr, is about to release a new solo record. Curiously, the day before I read that, I'd heard the new song from Amy Rigby, Tom Petty Karaoke. Amy wrote the song after seeing the video below, which recently went viral, featuring Mascis singing Tom Petty's Don't Do Me Like That in a Massachusetts karaoke bar...



It's hardly the performance of his career, but that's not the point. As Amy Rigby points of in her song, there's a freedom here, a release, a complete lack of inhibition or rock star hutzpah that is gloriously refreshing. I reckon we could all use a little bit of Tom Petty karaoke every now and then...

I’m kind of empty tonight

Nothing feels right

Nothing feels right

I’m going out on my own

Can’t stay home

No I can’t stay home

When I ‘m holding the microphone

It’s like I’m holding on

To something that’s gone

When I sing I Won’t Back Down

I don’t feel down

Yeah I’m alright

And when I do Don’t Do Me Like That

Hey I’m back

Walking into the light

And when I’m bringing She Went Down Swingin

I ain’t just singing

I’m coming on

American Girl, take me outta this world

Tom Petty Karaoke isn't on the excellent new Amy Rigby album, The Old Guys (which I already wrote about here), but it is available for download from her bandcamp page... so why wouldn't you?

And I can hardly post all this without playing the song and paying respect to the great man who inspired it all, so here it is...