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Sunday, 12 July 2026

Snapshots #456 - Songs About Seas & Oceans

This is Frank Ocean. His Uncle Billy appears below.

Here are some songs about Oceans and Seas...


15. Takes the lead in the Bossa Nova.

The Boss, obviously.

Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City

14. Some are trumpeters, others are mute... all are crazy.

The Wild Swans - Sea of Tranquility

Yeah, I know that one's on the moon. It's still a sea. Of a sort.

13. Ain't no stopping Eno now.

McFadden & Whitehead sang Ain't No Stopping Us Now. Brian was an Eno.

Brian McFadden - Irish Son

12. Seabird that is utterly wet.

Shearwater - Red Sea, Black Sea

11. Pretty bottom.

The Beautiful South - The Mediterranean (Morcheeba Mix)

10. Home for Top Dogs.

Where the Alpha Males hang out.

Alphaville - Big In Japan

9. Unique korma ingredient. 

Just in curry.

Justin Currie - The Dead Sea

8. I Wonder if Lowe and Heyward know her?

Stevie Wonder and two Nicks.

Stevie Nicks - Wide Sargasso Sea

7. Any game involving #5 would be this.

Coldplay - Yellow

6. There's a great distance between Henley and McLean.

Don Fardon - Indian Reservation 

Or even...

Don Fardon - Hudson Bay

5. All Right Now, it's Easy.

Free and EZ.

Freeez - Southern Freeez

4. Can you pick these guys up on your way home from work?

Dry Cleaning - Anna Calls From The Arctic

3. Where the drum machines make their home.

808 State - Pacific State

2. Show off your Aussie cookware.

Brag about your billycan.

Billy Bragg - North Sea Bubble

1. Cybil alone has the answer.


"Cybil alone" was an anagram.

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run)

That had to be Number One today, didn't it?


Swim back for more next Saturday.


Sunday, 5 March 2023

Snapshots #282: A Top Ten Southern Songs


I feel like a New Man this morning.

Now we've got that joke out of the way, here are ten songs for southerners...


10. His son's on the lash again. 

This is Albert Hammond. His son is Albert Hammond Jr. He's in The Strokes.

Albert Hammond - It Never Rains In Southern California

9. Cold as ice.

Freeez - Southern Freeez

8. Performed by a bargain basement magician.

Cheap Trick - Southern Girls

7. Rude, tricky verbs.

Anagram!

Drive-By Truckers - The Southern Thing

6. Mia's devilish offspring.

Mia Farrow starred in Rosemary's Baby.

Rosemary's Children - Southern Fields

5. There's a messed up guy online.

"Guy online" is a messed up anagram of...

Neil Young - Southern Man

4. Formerly an influential film director.

He used to be an Auteur. Now he's just...

Luke Haines - English Southern Man

3. Use it to buy the office supplies.

Time to raid the Petty Cash.

Tom Petty - Southern Accents

Johnny Cash - Southern Accents

2. Bebop chops.


Classic!

1. Ringing tents in the narrow valley.


Ringing tents would have camp-bells. A narrow valley is a glen.

Glen Campbell - Southern Nights


More Snapshots - direct from the north of England - next Saturday.

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