Snapshots #353: A Top Ten Rock Band Name Songs

This is Steve Perry, charismatic frontman of the band Journey. Don't stop believin', Steve!

Here are ten songs named after famous rock bands...

10. Natty fella caught perspiring after dark. 

Nathaniel is natty, but  he does sweat at night.

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - Survivor

9. Keepers of the Hamster Wheels. 

Pet Shop Boys - Heart

8. Found in weird, uncanny places with lowbrow necrophiliacs. 

Found in weird uncanny places with lowbrow necrophiliacs. 

Duncan Browne - Journey

7. Joining together to share the cost of your hopes and aspirations.

The Dream Syndicate - Boston

6. Pleasant and agreeable enough.

The Nice - America

5. Master of Ceremonies Alan Montgomery requires a personal servant. 

MC Al Mont gets a Butler.

McAlmont & Butler - Yes

4. Gretchen & Brenda.

Gretchen Peters & Brenda Lee...

Peters & Lee - Rainbow

3. Winners of the Nobel Prize for Music.

Alfred Nobel invented dynamite.

Big Audio Dynamite - Rush

2. Fielding's lad paints pictures with sound.

Henry Fielding wrote Tom Jones.

Art of Noise featuring Tom Jones - Kiss

1. Wallie's medicine is a tough mixture to swallow.

"Wallie's medicine" was an anagram...

Deniece Williams - Free

Journey back here next Saturday for more...

Hot 100 Countdown #80

French indie dream-pop band Tahiti 80 give us our image this week... but which 80 song will be the winner?


Lots of you thought I might have to go down the 1980 or eighties route, but I managed to get away with avoiding the year (or the decade!) again this week. Still, good suggestions from...


Alyson: The Belle Stars - 80s Romance


Rigid Digit: Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Lies (Through The 80s) / Tori Amos - Glory Of The 80s


Jim Dubai: The Strokes - 80s Comedown Machine / Calvin Harris - Acceptable in the 80s (liked that more than I expected from a Calvin Harris track!) / The Vox - Bored Of The 80s (couldn't find that one, I'm afraid) / Milky Wimpshake - Blow out at 80 MPH (could only find a dodgy live version but how could you not like a band called Milky Wimpshake?)


The Swede: Dream Syndicate - 80 West (great guitar sound on that one) / Otway & Barrett - DK 50/80 (Mental! But I like mental.)


C: Killing Joke - Eighties (the first one so far this week that I actually own... hence a contender, if I'd been forced to use a year / decade song).


Lynchie: K.T. Oslin - 80s Ladies (always got time for a bit of country... I'm surprised nobody suggested George Strait - 80 Proof Bottle of Beer Stopper).


However, I'm going to ignore all of those, I'm afraid... because I have to go classic this week.


The song Around The World was written for the 1956 movie Around The World In 80 Days and recorded by lots of the usual suspects, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole. The track was also recorded by Diana Ross & The Supremes (under the film's full title of Around The World In 80 Days) in 1965 for an album that wasn't actually released until 2004.Anyway, here it is... I can't ever resist the Supremes...




So... 79 next week - what can you offer me?