Snapshots #291 - A Top 25 King Songs

In lieu of pledging allegiance to our new King, which I'm not about to do because I'M NOT A 17TH CENTURY KNIGHT, here are 25 songs in his "honour"...

25. Slip severely and jumble.

"Slip severely" is an anagram.

Elvis Presley - King Creole

24. Trendy appliance.

Fad Gadget - King of the Flies

23. Stare at the text closely.

Stare at the teXT Closely.

XTC - King For A Day

22. Musk without Nitrogen.

Take the N from Elon...

ELO - Rock n Roll Is King

Now that's a king I will pledge allegiance too!

21. This is what happens when you go out in the cold without a proper top on, ladies.

The Nipple Erectors - King of the Bop

Shane MacGowan's first band!

20. They say it all started in Wuhan...

China Crisis - King In A Catholic Style

19. They were probably mild-mannered.

Remember Penry, the mild-mannered janitor...?

The Janitors - Good To Be The King

18. A peach from the same town as John's angel.

John Prine sang of an Angel From Montgomery. Peach Melba.

Melba Montgomery - King of Kings

17. Derek Dick's having a wobble.

Derek Dick is Fish. Jelly wobbles.

Jellyfish - The King Is Half Undressed

16. Their leader crashed his bike.

Look out, look out, look out!

The Pack - King of Kings

15. What will you find inside Bob's adequate box?

Bob'S ADEquate box.

Sade - Your Love Is King

14. Eureka! Reno is where you'll find the solution.

EureKA REN O

Karen O - King

13. Hi-didly-ho, Glenn & Roger!

"Hi-didly-ho," is what Ned Flanders might say to Glenn & Roger Miller.

Ned Miller - From A Jack To A King

12. Brendan, all a muddle.

"Brendan" is an anagram.

Dan Bern - King of the World

11. Candy, Denver, Legend.

The Three Johns - King Car

10. Maybe she's caught a chill.

She looks a bit shivery to me.

Shivaree - Cannibal King

9. Michael Holliday had something similar.

Michael Holliday sang about the Story Of My Life.

My Life Story - The King Of Kissingdom

8. A big hit out of Radio Nowhere.

RaDIO Nowhere

Dion - King of the New York Streets

7. Tips for colouring.

Felt Tips are good for colouring.

Felt - Dismantled King is Off the Throne

6.  Anagram? Shh!

Graham Nash - I Used To Be A King

5. Sounds like Jack's aircrafts.

Jack White has quite a few planes by now, I'd imagine...

White Plains - When You Are A King

4. Thinly plot a mix up.

"Thinly plot" is an anagram.

Phil Lynott - King's Call

3. Where the Green Giant's son lives.

The Green Giant's son was called Sprout. He was like the Scrappy Doo of sweetcorn adverts.

I understand he lived in a prefab.

Prefab Sprout - The King of Rock n Roll

2. Something that gets passed down in the family.

Genes are hereditary.

Gene - We Could Be Kings

1. He tolls to conquer.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for William the Conqueror...

William Bell - A Tribute To A King

Just ten Snapshots for you next Saturday morning. I do like to get out of the house occasionally.

Snapshots #264: A Top Ten Ghost Songs

This week, we were haunted by ten songs about ghosts. Did you see them too, or were they all just in my imagination?

10. 6852 islands.

There are 6,852 islands in the archipelago of Japan.

Japan - Ghosts

9. Alas, it's grubby.

A Las Vegas... gets dirty.

Dirty Vegas - Ghosts

8. Que sera, John Wayne.

Que sera sera was Doris Day's mantra. John Wayne was The Duke.

Doris Duke - Ghost Of Myself

7. Woman joins video game movie.

The video game movie was Tron.

Ladytron - Ghosts

6. Cauliflower, fried egg, lion's mane, pink meanie.

They're all types of jellyfish.

Jellyfish - The Ghost At Number One

5. Hallucinogenic coats.

The Psychedelic Furs - The Ghost In You

4. King in need of horse meets twins in need of doctor.

Richard III would give his kingdom for a horse. The Thompson Twins wanted a Doctor.

Richard Thompson - The Ghost Of You Walks

3. Peggy throws in the towel.

Peggy Suicide. Throws in the towel being a euphemism for taking your own life.

Suicide - Ghost Rider

2. Teary Ronald.

Anagram!

R Dean Taylor - There's A Ghost In My House

1. Volunteer police.

Special constables, or simply Specials.

Can't go on no more?

Don't worry, Snapshots will be back next Saturday.

Saturday Snapshots #3 - The Answers

Let there be answers!
 
(I'm not going to ask you for the artist & song of the photo above. You'll all obviously have that one in your collections.)

Congrats to everyone who took part and identified a correct tune. I think we can all agree that this week's winners are Brian and his better half.


10. A Munster, wearing a white hat, on the canal...

Eddie Munster.

The canal / white hat = Panama.

Well done, Brian.

Van Halen - Panama

9. There's no doubt husband #7 left Steve a $6 million answerphone message.

A tough one, but it's all there in the clues.

No Doubt = Gwen Stefani.

Her husband (at the moment) is Blake Shelton. (Blake's 7?)

$6 million dollar Steve? Austin. The Bionic Man, of course.

The answerphone message? Listen to the damn song! It's a real tearjerker...

Blake Shelton - Austin

Score #1 for Mrs. Brian.

8. The queen gives a haircut so good, it'll make you weak.

Gave Chris no problems at all.

The Queen = Regina.

Who had a haircut that made him weak?

Regina Spektor - Samson

7. A big, depressed train from the U.S.

Big = grand.

If you're depressed, you're in a funk.

Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band

Score two for Mrs. Brian.

6. A moron in comfy shoes wishes his girlfriend was psychic.

Gordon is a moron, according to Jilted John.

Comfy shoes = Lightfoot.

Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind

Score three for Mrs. Brian.

5. All sad tales start with a big baby crying.

A big baby crying = The Mighty Wah!

A sad tale?

The Mighty Wah! - The Story of the Blues

A combined effort from Brian & Charity Chic.

4. Elvis in his underwear does what Gordon Sumner only pretended he could.

Probably the easiest one this week, if you knew the song. Brian snapped this one up straight away.

Do I need to explain that Jellyfish sting?

Jellyfish - The King Is Half Undressed

3. How far would Tom & Bob run to see this band, mate?

Apologies to Brian, I should have gone with an international clue about Burt Reynolds... I'll try to remember that in future. Charity Chic helped out here too.

Tommy Cannon & Bobby Ball.

Cannonball Run.

Mate = breed.

The Breeders - Cannonball

2. It's agony for a female Flintstone, listening to Andrew's Wax.

A female Flinstone might be called Freda.

Agony = Payne.

Andrew Gold's band (with Graham Gouldman) in the 80s was called Wax.

Freda Payne - Band of Gold

A last minute save from C: I thought I was going to win one!

I have to admit, I had to idea Freda Payne looked like that... or that she was such a martyr to her bad back.

1. Celebrating the fastest second place medal: he grows up to devour a plateful of Chrissie's finest.

If you won the fastest second place medal, you might get Quick-Silver... or Mercury.

Chrissie's finest = The Great Pretender, originally by The Platters (a plateful).

Well done to Alyson, even though she tried to talk herself out of it.

 

Freddie even did cover versions better than anybody else...



More next week. Probably.

After all, it is the 10th on Tuesday...