Saturday Snapshots #103 - The Answers

It won't mean much to most of you, but Friday's news that Disney & Sony have reached a new deal over the rights to Spider-Man was one of the few pieces of good news I've had lately. Thought I'd celebrate it with the image above.

Now here are yesterday's answers...


10. I've an intuition you'll always be together.

The Feeling - Never Be Lonely

9. Did you enjoy watching Chernobyl burn?

Yes, that is Batley Bob, along with his mates from Chic and Duran Duran...

Crazy 80s video features a woman shaving her armpits. Lovely.

Power Station - Some Like It Hot

8. Runaway loses 50 as you arrive.

Del Shannon sang Runaway.

50 was L in Roman Numerals.

Subtract one from the other...

You may know this song by other people, but Jackie wrote it.

Jackie DeShannon - When You Walk In The Room

7. 12:01, Jameson's cabbage.

J. Jonah Jameson is the arch-nemesis of the bloke in the costume at the top of the page. Considering I came up with this clue a couple of weeks ago, I call that synchronicity.

Kale is a type of cabbage,

J.J. Cale - After Midnight

6. A lot's happened between Friday and today. Like killer fruit!

When this clue was posted, a lot had happened since yesterday,

A killer fruit might be a strawberry with a switchblade.

Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday

Another song that Karine Polwart has done a fine version of on her new album.

5. Smashed pumpkins with mixer.

A pumpkin is a gourd. If it were smashed, it might have drunk too much gin and juice.

The Gourds - Gin & Juice

4. Not as eponymous as he used to be, but nothing stays the same.

Not as Young as he used to be... but everything must change.

Paul Young - Everything Must Change

3. Found in clover, forever. In need of an umbrella.

Love can be found in the middle of clover, forever is unlimited.

The one they love (The Walrus of Love) not pictured. But then he, literally, phones his performance in on this one.

Love Unlimited - Walkin' In The Rain With The One I Love

2. This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds: blame the crazy Jam Kennels.

"This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds" comes from Mission: Impossible.

"Jam Kennels" is an anagram.

Jens Lekman - To Know Your Mission

1. Greens, before the Beatles, get mean.

Sprouts are greens.

Before the Beatles would be Pre-Fabs.

Mean is just cruel.

"If I'm troubled by every folding of your skirt

Am I guilty of every male-inflicted hurt?

But I don't know how

To describe the modern rose

If I can't refer 

To her shape against her clothes...

With the fever of purple prose."

Written 35 years ago, yet more timely a lyric you won't hear this year.



This quiz does whatever a Snapshot can, once again, next Saturday.

My Top Ten Dinosaur Songs (Volume 2)

ROAAAAAR!


And we're back - with songs featuring specific (rather than generic) dinosaurs. Thanks for your suggestions... even with them, this week's Top Ten proved a lot trickier than expected. Probably because dinosaurs don't obviously rhyme with anything else - except other dinosaurs. Unless you're Prince. Anyway, these may not be the best ten tunes I've ever featured, but they do all feature specific dinosaurs. No Triceratops or diplodocuses though, sadly.


Special mention to Terry Dactyl & The Dinosaurs - with thanks to Alyson (and Lynchie for the history lesson).

10. Kasabian - Velociraptor

I'll grudgingly put this at #10, because I never really got Kasabian... or velociraptors. I was convinced when Jurassic Park first came out that they were just a figment of Michael Crichton had made up. Seriously, had you ever heard of a velociraptor before then?

9. Enter Shikari - Hello Tyrannosaurus, Meet Tyrannicide

Shouty-shouty-shouty... but still more interesting than Kasabian.

8. Big Brother & The Holding Company - Caterpillar

Yes, I know a caterpillar isn't a dinosaur. But there are pterodactyls in this song too! With added Janis Joplin.

7. The Soft Boys - The Pigworker

Surprised The Swede didn't suggest this one... I bet he's kicking himself now!

So the Pterodactyl wore a hood of leather
And he opened everybody, even Heather
With her foaming roses and broken hair
She was all used up

No idea. But it doesn't sound very nice, does it?

6. The Gourds - Fossil Contender

Bit of a cheat this one, but I like The Gourds... and all dinosaurs pretty much ended up as fossils, right?

5. T-Rex - Summer Deep

T-Rex singing about pterodactyls! There's more generic dinosaur action from Mr. Bolan in Truck On Tyke.

4. Ash - T Rex

I'm presuming this is their tribute to Marc Bolan... but it could be about an actual T-Rex. Always hard to tell when it comes to Ash songs - they could be about anything. Nice noise though.

3. Super Furry Animals - Hit & Run / Psyclone!


The Swede offered Hit & Run, with lots of dinosauric lyrics to choose from, including a bit about  "Pterodactyls flying round my attic"... but surely I can trump that with Psyclone…?

Pterodactyl, Brontosaurus
Tyrannosaurus Rex gather around
The sound of thunder now awaits us
A meteorite is coming on down

Hit & Run is probably the better song though.

2. Prince - Dinner With Delores

Only Prince could rhyme Delores with Brontosaurus and make it work...

1. The Move - Brontosaurus

Most popular suggestion from you guys... well, Lynchie and Rigid Digit both voted for it. Seems like the obvious winner this week...

Frank N. Furter Tim Curry does an interesting version of this too.