Showing posts with label Jim Diamond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim Diamond. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 May 2026

Snapshots #446 - Equine Songs


A horse is a horse, of course, of course, and no one can talk to a horse, of course... unless that horse is a singer-songwriter horse...



Here are some more horsey songs...


15. A Jug with a Stone on it.

A Toby Jug with added Keef.

Willie Nelson also appears on this tune, but you all know what he looks like.

Toby Keith & Willie Nelson - Beer For My Horses

14. Electric can opener?

Bowie: the Wilderness Years.

Tin Machine - Goodbye, Mr. Ed

13. Emergency response team. 

First Aid Kit - Palomino

12. Bloke on the Steps takes a number of high jumps on his skateboard.

The bloke from Steps was H. Skateboard jumps are known as Ollies. Put them together and what have you got...?

The Hollies - On A Carousel

Originally I had America, Horse With No Name, in this spot. But you guys are far too smart for that.

11. Came through extremely difficult circumstances - without a Mark on him.

He was in Dire Straits. But he's not Mark.

David Knopfler - Rocking Horse Love

10. ICE out! No border patrol needed here.

Calexico is a border town where the SS do a lot of work.

Calexico - Trigger

9. Harold! That's a nice nose, did you...?

Harold Wilson? Did you pick it yourself?

Wilson Pickett - Mustang Sally

8. Armless Adrian can still get in an altercation.

"Armless Adrian" was an anagram.

Marissa Nadler - Stallions

7. Get up, everybody, and sing!

Lyrics from We Are Family.

Family - No Mule's Fool

6. Gave up on his PhD.

He was in PhD... then he let them down and went solo. They should have known better.

Jim Diamond - Hi Ho Silver

5. Arctic Alex, on the back of a bike.

Ike Turner - Black Beauty

You may see that billed as Ike & Tina Turner, but I can't find much evidence of Tina on there... unless she's playing the cowbell. 

4. I'd be lucky to afford a deck chair. 

Beach House - Zebra

3. Clearly they're not a Sisterhood.

The Allman Brothers - Pegasus

2. When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

That is the open line of John Wyndham's Day of the Triffids.

The Triffids - Red Pony

1. Who's going to pay Cinderella's bail after this mix-up?


"Cinderella's bail" was an anagram.

Belinda Carlisle - Runaway Horses

Those are your runners and riders - congratulations if you made it past the post.

More next week.


Sunday, 21 March 2021

Snapshots #181 - A Top Ten Silver Songs


Yesterday's link was Silver Songs... so here's Phil!


And here are the answers...


10. Total Landscaping.




9. The only way.


...is Essex, apparently.


8. Rock hard.


Diamonds are very hard rocks.


7. Risk getting muddled up twice when the offers are on.


Muddle up risk and you get Kris, twice, with the Offers On.


6. Lil' Yorkie.


Anagram for...


5. Con charm.


Another anagram...


4. I was born pretty much slap bang in the middle...


According to the interweb, to be part of Generation X, you must have been born between 1965 and 1980. 1972 is pretty much slap bang in the middle of that.


3. Where Band Aid came from.


From the First Aid Kit, of course!


That is gorgeous.

2. Once upon a time, a home for rabbits.


Once upon a time, he was Hutch. (Not Warren.)


1. Donnie's Frank. (Frank, Frank.)


This is Frank, from the movie Donnie Darko. (Is there an echo in here?)




More next week.


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