Snapshots #448: Songs About Rooms

Let's stroll around the house and find a different band in each room...

15. Sounds like Jonathan, running down the road with one member of a D.C. band.

The roadrunning Jonathan sounds like Richman, the band was Fontaines D.C.

Richmond Fontaine - Hallway

14. Told by a lavender clock.

The Lilac Time - The Nursery Walls

13. Calm A Partridge by taking nothing from his surname. 

Calm A Partridge... Alan Partridge is played by Steve Coogan. Take an O from Coogan and...

Alma Cogan - Last Night On The Back Porch

12. Lottery, grid, curriculum.

The National - Guest Room

11. Regularly used by Robson, Jerome and Sam.

Robson & Jerome played firemen in London's Burning. Add them to Fireman Sam, and they all need..

The Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Living Room

10. Never stop looking for... Huey.

Never stop looking for Linda, sand Hue and Cry. Not Huey Lewis.

Linda Lewis - Funky Kitchen

9. Made Stacy jump.

Stacy Lattisaw jumped to the beat.

The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

8. Found messed up in a crapulent YMCA.

"Crapulent YMCA" was an anagram.

Paul McCartney - Front Parlour

7. Daley Thompson.

Athlete - In The Library

6. Thank God that's all over!

The Grateful Dead - Attics Of My Life

5. She's A Star in her playhouse.

James sang She's A Star in their Wendy House.

Wendy James - Basement Kiss

4. Steve Rogers no longer wants to be associated with America.

Steve Rogers is Captain... Sensible.

Captain Sensible - The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night at the Groovy Cellar

3. Mini Minnie.

That's a modest-sized mouse.

Modest Mouse - Lounge

2. Frank's wife has the best possible taste.

Hmm, Betty, the doggy did a whoopsie on Kenny.

Betty Everett - Bedroom Eyes

1. You great puddings!

The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Hopefully you'll have room for more of these next week...

Saturday Snapshots #82 - The Answers

Put your Umbrella away and stop staring at your Diamonds (maybe put some clothes on too) because it's time for the answers to this week's Saturday Snapshots.

Some fierce competition yesterday morning between Rigid Digit and George... I think RD just clinched it, but it was pretty close. Good support from the rest of you, although I don't think anyone cracked my fiendish cryptic crossword clue for the Eddie Reader song. Thanks for playing, as always, guys...



10. Coward? Affirmative.

You yellow, boy?

Nobody calls me YELLO!

Oh yeah.

Yello - Oh Yeah

Gummy bear?

9. Conserve sheep: not a Golden Girl.

Betty White was a Golden Girl, so this song isn't about her.

Ram Jam - Black Betty

8. Martin, not a woman, warns against rat-arsed coitus.

Sweet Loretta Martin thought she was a woman, but she was another man. (Get back!)

Loretta Lynn - Don't Come Home A-Drinkin' (With Lovin' On Your Mind)

7. Nee Nah's ambition was to sell 100,000 albums.

100,000 albums would make a Gold Record (in the UK, anyway).

Nee Nah is the noise made by Fire Engines. Not the Simple Minds, George.

The Fire Engines - Big Gold Dream

6. So scared of this crazy planet, you want to cry.

Tears For Fears - Mad World

5. Prince George is very happy with the bloke from BT.

Prince George is Will's Son.

Very happy would be merry.

Meri Wilson - Telephone Man

Yeah, on listening to it again, I realise that was probably a mistake.

4. Sleep with Los Angeles; Jacobi calls for a pizza.

Lay... L.A.

Derek Jacobi orders a Domino's.

Derek & The Dominos - Layla

I think that's Eric on the right.

3. Where Paul gets his honey, at the crossing.

Macca has bees.

At the pelican crossing.

The Maccabees - Pelican

2. Van Halen, with subtitles, stumbles into a Scottish burgh called just Lochr.

Eddie is a reader.

Lochr is a town without pity... add pity and it becomes Pitlochry.

Ha!

Eddi Reader - A Town Without Pity

1. Dido resting on the harbour wall.

It took me ages to remember what Dido had to to with Otis, since it seemed obvious that "resting on the harbour wall" referred to (Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay. Then I remembered: "Dido resting" was an anagram.



Take A Bow if you got them all right... more next week.

(Who knew both Madonna & Rhianna had songs called Take A Bow? Made my job much easier this weekend.)