Showing posts with label King Crimson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label King Crimson. Show all posts

Sunday, 16 November 2025

Snapshots #422: Songs About Arts & Crafts Supplies

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... 



15. Viv Daisyland is confused.
 

Viv Daisyland is an anagram of David Sylvian.


14. Destination Saturday?


If you were to go to David Bowie’s Drive In Saturday, you would be At The Drive In.


13. Not ewe twos!
 

Not ewe = ram, not twos = ones, put them together and you get the Ramones.


Extra kudos to C for finding a picture of the Ramones where they don't immediately look like the Ramones. From past experience, I know that's a tough one!

12.  A rabbit follows an Ant.
 

Harvey the rabbit (from the film) comes after Ant (McPartlin) who was P J in P J & Duncan / Byker Grove.


Ditto Polly Jean, actually.

11. Little and fluffy.
 

The Orb sang about little fluffy clouds


10. A distant Pet Shop Boy.
 

Chris Lowe is a Pet Shop Boy, if he’s distant he’s far, put them together for Chris FARlowe.


9. Picasso’s identical friends.
 

Jean Cocteau was a friend of Picasso and twins can be identical.


8. Orion and Gogmagog, perhaps.
 

Orion is from Greek mythology and Gogmagog is from English folklore - they might be giants!


7. Gilded French software program.
 

Gold fr app….


6. Manacled in the Queen of Hearts’ garden.
 

Alice in Wonderland in chains…


5.  Pot it or be in it.
 

You can pot the pink, or be in the pink.


4.  A power station for Walter.
 

‘Kraftwerk’ means power station in Walter’s native tongue!


Well, you learn something new every day!

3. Sandi and the disgraced Duke add email.
 

Sandi THOM and the disgraced Duke of YORK add E….


2. Reorganise!  Win a kinder cow!
 

Reorganise ‘win a kinder cow’ to spell Dionne Warwick (anagram).


1. Ruddy regal frippery!


Robert Fripp was in King (regal) Crimson (ruddy)

King Crimson: Frame by Frame


More Snapshots next Saturday - but nothing quite as inspired, I'm afraid to say.

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...

Zwan - Lyric

9. Stop listening to that George Michael album!

Faith!? No more!

Faith No More - Epic

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...

David Bowie - Eight Line Poem

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. 

King Crimson - Epitaph

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


If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, then join me again next Saturday for more Snapshots.


Thursday, 14 June 2018

My Top Ten Dinosaur Songs (Volume One)



As there's a new Jurassic Park World movie out this week, it seems an appropriate time to dust off a Top Ten that's been sitting in the cupboard for a while now.

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.

I'm a dinosaur, somebody's digging my bones

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 dinosaur sex led to nothing
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

I wanna know
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.

Someone let T-Rex out of his pen...

2. Johnny Cash - Dinosaur Song

The wonder of Johnny Cash - he could even make kids' songs sound cool.

One was called Diplodocus
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?

Boom boom, acka-lacka-lacka boom!



Any more dinosaurs in your collection? (And no, I don't count Bob Dylan.) Specific dinosaurs would be welcome for next week.


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