A top notch - and very tricky - edition of Snapshots this weekend. Many thanks to C from Sun Dried Sparrows for her hard work. C, of course, is an artist (as is Ron Wood and today's header image, multi-disciplinary artist Yayoi Kusama). Perhaps that was the best clue to this week's link...
Sunday, 16 November 2025
Snapshots #422: Songs About Arts & Crafts Supplies
Sunday, 22 September 2024
Snapshots #362: A Top Ten Songs Named After Different Styles Of Poetry
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? No? Fair enough.
Shall I give you the answers to yesterday's Snapshots instead? Here are ten types of poetry, immortalised in song...
10. What the last ugly duckling in the alphabet became.
Billy Corgan's other band is...
9. Stop listening to that George Michael album!
Faith!? No more!
8. Telling Goldman Sachs to "get stuffed" (but not quite so polite).
FU, GS!
The Fugs - The National Haiku Contest
7. Not to be confused with a monkey.
Or even a Monkee. To avoid confusion, he changed his name from David Jones...
6. Girls magazine: Ight, Ine, En...
Jackie was the magazine. The next number in that sequence would be Leven.
Jackie Leven - Elegy For Johnny Cash
5. Embarrassed monarch.
4. Found down the back of a Boise Armchair.
"Boise Armchair" was an anagram for Jon Bon Jovi's (former?) best mate...
Richie Sambora - Ballad Of Youth
3. Good for your urinary tract.
Cranberries - Ode To My Family
2. Spock joins the Chicken Company. (Not Joni!)
Leonard Cohen - Villanelle For Our Time
1. Found aboard a river vessel.
A river vessel.
The Verve - Sonnet
Thursday, 14 June 2018
My Top Ten Dinosaur Songs (Volume One)
As there's a new Jurassic
This is part one though... next week, I'll do tens songs about specific dinosaurs (or at least ones that mention specific dinosaurs). I have a fair few pterodactyls, brontosauruses and (obviously) T-Rex, but your suggestions are welcome.
In the meantime, special mention must obviously go to... Dinosaur Jr, The Last Dinosaurs, Brontosaurus Chorus, Jurassic Five and... Marc Bolan.
10. We Are Scientists - Dinosaurs
They are scientists, so obviously they understand natural selection.
9. King Crimson - Dinosaur
Because if I didn't include this, somebody would be complaining.
8. The Stills - Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs as a metaphor for the end of a relationship, presumably.
7. Hank Williams Jr. - Dinosaur
He is a dinosaur - and proud of it!
6. Low - Dinosaur Act
God bless the Mormons. At least they're not Creationists.
See also Matthew Sweet - Dinosaur Act - not the same song.
5. Emmy The Great - Dinosaur Sex
Speaking of evolutionary theory...
And maybe we will lead to nothing
And dinosaur sex led to nothing
But we will lead as far as we can lead
4. King Missile - Dinosaurs
About the dinosaurs
I don't know about the dinosaurs
I wanna know about the dinosaurs
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs
Make up your mind, guys.
Beyond that indecision, this is proper mental. Hence: very good.
3. Weird Al Yankovic - Jurassic Park
Want another reason to love Jimmy Webb? He had final approval on this glorious MacArthur Park parody... and he thought it was hilarious.
2. Johnny Cash - Dinosaur Song
The wonder of Johnny Cash - he could even make kids' songs sound cool.
One was bigger than your school bus
One was called a Triceratops
Three horns to stop anything that hops
See also Dinosaur Pet by Neil Sedaka, sung to the tune of Calendar Girl. Obviously.
1. Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur
Well, it had to be really, didn't it?
Any more dinosaurs in your collection? (And no, I don't count Bob Dylan.) Specific dinosaurs would be welcome for next week.

























