Snapshots #351: A Top Ten Hat Songs

Hats off to you if you identified all this week's artists... and worked out which hats they were wearing...

10. Corporal Hum is an enigma.

Corporal Hum is an anagram.

Procol Harum - Homburg

9. Discovered inside Electric Ladyland. 

Electric Ladyland. 

Bob Dylan - Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat

8. Take the skinheads for a nice mulligatawny.

Take the skinheads bowling... for soup!

Bowling For Soup - Trucker Hat

7. Merciless villain becomes an American citizen. 

Ming was Merciless, until he went to the US.

Charles Mingus - Goodbye, Pork Pie Hat

6. Pick up, before you get to Pace.

A pick up is a van. Hale 'n' Pace.

Van Halen - Panama

5. Sounds like you split up with a South African runner.

If Zola (Budd) became your ex, you would be...

Zolar X - I Pulled My Helmet Off

4. Don't get tangled up in a sticky romance.

"Sticky romance" was an anagram...

Arctic Monkeys - Balaclava

3. Kamadeva and Rati.

Kamadeva and Rati were the Hindu deities in charge of romance. 

Hindu Love Gods - Raspberry Beret

(That's Warren Zevon & REM... minus Michael... if you're wondering.)

2. Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon found the answer within.

Rexton Rawlston Fernando Gordon is the artist also known as ShABBA Ranks.

Abba - Put On Your White Sombrero

1. Even my vision is impaired... I'm losing my hair.

And those are lyrics from Just Like Fred Astaire by James.

The top hat had to be a Top Hat...

Fred Astaire - Top Hat, White Tie & Tails

A few more hats to try on before we go...

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Stetson Kennedy

James Moody - Trilby

Oysterband - The Sailor's Bonnet

And, of course,...

Steely Dan - The Fez

Throw your hats in the ring again next Saturday morning...

Snapshots #183: A Top Ten Easter Songs

Perhaps the link was too obvious yesterday... call it an early Easter presents, as I can't give you all chocolate.

Here are the answers...

10. Blimey, Cher - it's roomy!

"Cher - it's roomy" is an anagram.

Christy Moore - Easter Snow

9. A friend of the office manager.

The office manager, David Brent, was played by Ricky Gervais.

Ross Geller was a Friend.

Ricky Ross - Cold Easter

8. Chic fella, all alone.

The Chic fella would be Nile Rogers. If he was all alone, he might well be blue.

The Blue Nile - Easter Parade

7. Not so fishy anymore.

That's Marillion, after Fish had swum off to fresh waters.

Marillion - Easter

6. Police found with drugs on calendar.

The Julian Calendar.

Cop + E.

Julian Cope - Easter Everywhere

5. Founding father of flight.

Thomas Jefferson was a founding father.

I suppose White Rabbit would have been Easter-ish (it's certainly a better song), but the one I had in mind was...

Jefferson Airplane - Easter?

4. Psycho king.

Anthony Perkins was Norman Bates in Psycho.

Elvis was the king.

Elvis Perkins - Good Friday

3. Connections.

The Associates - Tell Me Easter's On Friday

2. One step wreath.

One step is a stair.

A wreath is a garland.

Fred Astaire & Judy Garland - Easter Parade

1. Baker's man becomes metalworker.

Patty cake, patti cake, baker's man.

A metalworker is a smith.

When all the Easter Eggs are eaten, Saturday Snapshots will still be here... next week.