Snapshots #242: A Top Ten Midnight Songs

Ain't It Funny how long you can spend staring at these images before working out who they are? Sometimes it takes All I Have to Control Myself and... yeah, I'm just looking up J-Lo song titles now, I don't actually know any of them. Apart from Jenny From The Block, and I can't work out how to pun that in here.

(If only I could have found a photo of Gary Cole, the Midnight Caller, holding a camera...)

Let's just get on with the answers, shall we?

10. Harrods, clogged.

Anagram!

Clodagh Rodgers - Goodnight Midnight

9. Non-blasphemous expression of frustration or disbelief.

Judas Priest!

(Well, maybe that it a little bit blasphemous, if you think about it.)

Judas Priest - Living After Midnight

8. A radium mural.

Anagram!

Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis

7. 5th & 8th Doctors merge.

The 5th Doctor Who was Peter Davidson. The 8th was (very briefly) Paul McGann.

Paul Davidson - Midnight Rider

6. Criminal brother.

He's a felonious monk.

Thelonious Monk - 'Round Midnight

5. Potent brew, made of Juniper Juice Concentrate, initially.

The initials are JJC. So the brew would be JJC Ale.

JJ Cale - After Midnight

4. Good spread in St. James's Park.

Jam is a very good spread.

The Jam - Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

3. Nurse Emmanuel becomes a Sir, with fruity insides.

In Open All Hours, contemporary reference fans, the object of Ronnie Barker's affections was N-N-Nurse G-G-Gladys Emmanuel. If she was a Sir, that would make her a Knight. Inside a fruit are pips.

Gladys Knight & The Pips - Midnight Train To Georgia 

2. Huge fart.

The Airborne Toxic Event - Sometime Around Midnight

1. Striking Beach Boy.

Brian Wilson on the picket line.

Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour

Get Right back here and Play again next Saturday. (That's another two J-Lo hits I've never heard.)

 

Saturday Snapshots #74 - The Answers

Well, did you Get Lucky with yesterday's clues? Of course you did. And if you didn't, no need stare at the Blurred Lines on the photos below anymore... because her come this week's answers.

Very busy morning yesterday and my head is too full of man-flu to work out the winner, but I suspect Alyson may have nabbed it.


10. Sean Connery's famous last words to the whole school.

Sean Connery said he'd never make another Bond film, then he made one called Never Say Never Again.

If you're speaking to the whole school, you may be in an assembly.

The Assembly - Never Never

9. Indisputably, you're dating a mutant.

No Doubt - Ex-Girlfriend

I should possibly steer clear of comic-related clues... or at least steer clear of expecting you all to have a detailed knowledge of Gwen Stefani hits.

8. Put your arms out to create a great barrier.

Great Barrier Reef, obviously.

Reef - Place Your Hands

Still sounds great.

7. Euphemistic vicar betrayal is illegal.

"Judas Priest!" is a euphemism for "Jesus Christ!"

Jesus was betrayed by Judas.

A priest is like a vicar.

Breaking the law is illegal.

Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

Video of the week!

(Charity Chic identified them despite claiming to have none in his collection. And yet I could have sworn I saw him coming out of the RSPCA shop in Arbroath with a copy of British Steel stuffed in a brown paper bag.)

6. Paid thief, less repentant than Frank.

Paid thief is an anagram.

Frank sang, "Regrets - I've had a few..." but this lady has none.

Edith Piaf - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

5. Henpecked deity with custard.

Godley & Creme would be under the thumb if they were henpecked.

Godley & Creme - Under Your Thumb

4. Clyde was an orangutan, not...

This is Clyde...

He's an orangutan, not a gorilla.

Who's that with him?

The Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

3. Equitable harbour: that's just the way things are done when you're getting together with Cliff.

An equitable harbour would be a fair port.

The way things are done is a convention.

If you were getting together with cliff, you might meet on the ledge.

Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge

Playing a festival near George this summer, co-headlining with Judas Priest.

2. A skinny thousand for the mad monk.

Oh, those Russians!

Boney M - Rasputin

1. I'll take mine padded... although the sheets may be dirty.

A padded cell with be a soft one.

Yes, the sheets may be dirty in a bed-sitter... but dirty sheets are often tainted by love. (Sorry.)




Guess what... Saturday Snapshots will be back next week for our 75th anniversary edition! Happy now?