Showing posts with label J Geils Band. Show all posts
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Monday, 28 July 2025

Snapshots Spillover: More Songs For Your Arsenal

Here are some more weapons I couldn't fit into this weekend's Snapshots, starting with a man who's often connected with Guns... Mr. Rose.

Guns n Roses - Shotgun Blues

Personally, I always found clubs to be deadly places...

Rob Dougan - Clubbed To Death

I'd be better  off with an axe, like Jack...

Feet - Axe Man

Britney Spears popped up on Saturday, but here's a cool soul nugget with an actual spear in it... 

S.O.U.L. - Burning Spear

There are many different versions of the track below (starting with Lowell Blanchard), but this is my favourite...

The Blind Boys of Alabama - (Jesus Hits Like The) Atom Bomb

And here's some guys who didn't spend all their time looking at centrefolds...

J. Geils Band - Flamethrower

Parthenon Huxley was a member of ELO II, but he should be remember for more than just that...

Parthenon Huxley - Bazooka Joe

Almost done. Here's a couple of catapults...

Counting Crows - Catapult

REM - Catapult

But we'll close today with one of my favourite songs about a gun... from a man of religion.



Sunday, 27 October 2024

Snapshots #367: A Top Twenty Songs Named After Horror Movies


Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the SNAPSHOTS!
AH HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA

Thank you, Vincent. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

It's Halloween this week, and when I started looking for songs that share their names with horror movies, I hit a bumper bundle. But did you guess them all?


20. Bad jingles get me in such a tizzy. 


"Bad jingles" was an anagram...



19. Lost inside Outwood Golf Course.


In case you're wondering, Outwood is just down the road from where I work in Leeds. Fortunately, I've never spotted u-two while driving through there...



18. Ttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss iiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss ttttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeee ccccccccccccccllllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeee.




17. The Haiti dollar hides a silly secret. 


The Haiti dollar, Silly Billy.



16. Boopadoop.

Named after Chic Young's Blondie comic strip: her surname was Boopadoop.

Blondie - Island Of Lost Souls

15. Noughties boy band, aphrodisiac, Ian Astbury.

Noughties boy band = Blue.

Aphrodisiac = Oyster.

Ian Astbury = The Cult.

Blue Öyster Cult - Nosferatu

14. Frippette?

She's married to Robert Fripp...

Toyah - Alien

13. They're ghosting you.

The Phantom Band - The Howling

12. Can you hear them?

The Sonics - Psycho

11. ...is a V. smarmy DJ mix.

..."is a V. smarmy DJ" was an anagram...

Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candyman

10. A wing and a guitar.

A Fender is what we Brits would call the wing on a car... and it's also a type of guitar.

Sam Fender - Poltergeist(s)

9. Just desserts.

The Sweet - Hellraiser

8. Read one section of your home. 

Chapterhouse - Don't Look Now

7. This guy, and another four droplets.

A tough one this, and probably not one you could guess from the clue alone... but once you worked out the theme... maybe?

Anyway, the photo above is Bernie Nee, the singer on the track below. The rest of the Blobs were session musicians, so no photo exists of the "band" itself...

The Five Blobs - The Blob

6. Bitten by a green bird that wishes it could fly.

Orville might have wished he could fly, but he could at least peck.

Orville Peck - Dead Of Night

5. Used to make soup for Alice and the Queen.

Then the Queen said to Alice, "Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?"

"No," said Alice. "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is."

"It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from", said the Queen.

(From Alice In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.)

The Mock Turtles - Wicker Man

4. A carpenter and a great hangman. 

The Great Hangman is a cliff. Richard was a Carpenter.

Cliff Richard - Carrie

3. Chest, pea, dough.

Chestnut, peanut, doughnut...

Nut - Scream

2. What do Jennifer Anniston, Julie Andrews and Jane Austen cook their eggs in?

In the J.A.pan, of course!

Japan - Halloween

1. Lad-ra-doodle.


It's not often you see Damon Gough without his hat on...

Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining

Not Number One because it's my favourite song... but it is my favourite horror film.


Such a bounty of horror-film-related songs did I find, that there will be more to share later in the week... and a much less scary Snapshots will be back next Saturday. 


Sunday, 29 April 2018

Saturday Snapshots #30 - The Answers



"We're going out tonight - out and about tonight..."

Yes, I actually went out on a Saturday night... whatever makes her happy, as Brett sang. So all I expected to provide you with this Sunday morning were the pre-prepared answers, no scores. Then you only went and hoovered up all the points in a three horse race that took under an hour - a record! Congrats to Rigid Digit, Martin and Lynchie... who just pipped the other two to the trophy by one point. Thanks also to Chris for mopping up the stray half point a bit later.

Commiserations to Brian, who stayed out late with the hope of sweeping in to get an early victory. Hope you had a nice night out before that, Brian!

Answers then...


10. In the days before mobile phones, these neanderthals ruled the airwaves.


Pretty self-explanatory, this one... if you remember it.

Primitive Radio Gods - Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand

(There's a metaphor for life!)

9. Where Iraqi animals go when they want to get away from astronauts.


Remember this guy? Kinda wish you didn't?

Babylon Zoo - Spaceman

8. Morrissey winds up in Orange County, screaming from a walnut tree at hobos.


My favourite clue of the week... I'm sure you can piece it together now.

O.C. Smith - Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp

7. Late in Thailand, Bill's face gets lost in translation.


Bill Murray was in Lost In Translation. His face is on his head.

Murray Head - One Night In Bankok

I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine...

6. Affleck puts this on his drive... he adores being in the line of fire.


(Once seen: never unseen.)

Ben Affleck puts Ben-A-Tar on his drive.

Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

5. Sly John gets a staple through his navel.


Sly John would be full of guile.

J. Geils Band - Centrefold

4. Scared of trouble? Leg it with a stooge.


You would leg it on your pins... with Iggy.

PINS featuring Iggy Pop - Aggrophobe

3. A lock of white hair fills your passport.


I really thought CC would get this one - but he wasn't even close!

Hank Snow - I've Been Everywhere

2. Smoking weed leads to high esteem.


A reefer? Too easy.

Aretha Franklin - Respect

1. Are you aware that's going to burn your mouth?


Do you realise this is the Flaming Lips?

I'd like this played at my funeral, please. Video too. On a huge screen. Provide hymn sheets so everyone can sing along.



More next week...


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