Snapshots #440 - Songs About Cars

This is the actress Zoe Saldana from Star Trek and Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy movies. She's here because of the Renault Zoe. Yesterday, Pablo represented the Citroën. Just be glad I couldn't find any songs (or people) called Duster. 

15. Gender equality, favoured by Leatherface.

Leatherface was a dab hand with a chainsaw.

ManWomanChainsaw - Ode To Clio

The Renault Clio.

14. Police, NHS, schools... TV & radio.

Public Service Broadcasting - Spitfire

The Triumph Spitfire

13. Inside Jacob East, i.e. floating devices.

Inside Jacob East, i.e. floating devices. (Buoys.)

Beastie Boys - The Maestro

Austin Maestro. With a VW badge hanging off it.

12. Are you ready? Are you ready?

Open lyrics to Caravan of Love.

Caravan - Golf Girl

VW Golf.

11. Spanish footballer and Argentinian tennis player.

Rodrigo Y Gabriela - Orion

Ford Orion.

10. Innocenti transport.

Innocenti made Lambrettas.

The Lambrettas - Cortina Mk2

Ford Cortina, Mark 2.

9. Jesse, I could've told you, it's a day later in Scotland.

Jesse James; I could've told you, Vincent; Mc..Morrow.

James Vincent McMorrow - Cavalier

Vauxhall Cavalier.

8. Arrives with the cheapo guests.

Cheapo guests.

The Pogues - Fiesta

Ford Fiesta.

7. A pretender, but not so great.

"A pretender" was an anagram... for someone who's making his first, and hopefully last, appearance on this blog...

Peter Andre - Defender

Land Rover Defender.

6. Her mother takes her phone calls.

Sylvia's Mother, of course.

Sylvia - Y Viva Espana

Vauxhall Viva.

5. Sounds like Sinatra's Memory-maker.

Frank / Elaine (Paige)?

Frankie Laine - Granada

Ford Granada - the car my dad use to drive.

4. Irving.

Berlin - The Metro

Mini Metro.

3. Grey-haired Welsh bloke makes a racket with compressed carbon.

Lloyd means "grey haired" in Welsh. Compressed carbon is coal. 

Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - 2CV

Citroën 2CV (although the way Lloyd pronounces it, it sounds like "dirt shovel" to me).

2. A newt's key will unlock the answer.

"A newt's key" was an anagram.

Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone

Ford Sierra - the car my dad drove when he got rid of his Granada.

It's worth pointing out that Kanye complains he couldn't even afford a Ford Escort in that song. Which gives me an excuse to squeeze this in...

Half Man Half Biscuit - Slipping the Escort

1. Obscure band.

Blur - Beetlebum

Drive yourself back here next Saturday for more of the same old cobblers...

Saturday Snapshots #104 - The Answers

Come with me if you want to live!

Or at least if you want the answers to yesterday's Saturday Snapshots...

Hasta la vista, baby!


10. Fiery gal comes of age.

A fiery gal might be a Burn-ette.

Johnny Burnette - You're Sixteen

9. Norman painter gets paranoid.

Norman Rockwell was the painter.

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

8. A magnum crown... pity.

A magnum of champagne for a king?

Evelyn 'Champagne' King - Shame

7. Scooters make me itch.

Lambretta makes scooters.

Poison Ivy leaves you in need of an ocean of calamine lotion...

The Lambrettas - Poison Ivy 

6. A mini roll gets chewed up by an air freshener.

"A mini roll" was an anagram.

Marillion - Lavender

5. "They told me to do it!" I explained to the junior Feds.

"They told me to do it!" Who? The voices in your head?

Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI

4. Directions to the French court maze, please?

Hampton Court Maze? FR is France, so that must make it the Frampton court maze? No? Non?

Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way

I don't mind a bit of Peter Frampton, but this sold far more copies than it should have done.

3. Party pooper DJ wouldn't play 50s hits... and his eyeliner stank.

"Eyeliner stank" was another anagram. (Just count yourself lucky I didn't have to do a third for Peter Frampton: Pope TNT Farmer was very close.)

Sleater Kinney - You're No Rock 'n' Roll Fun 

2. Eager nobility wants to hear a song.

A keen earl?

Robert Earl Keen - Let The Music Play

1. Allied forces found on a zebra crossing.

There probably were more than seven nations in the allied forces, but I claim artistic license.

That's it from me for this week, but guess what? Next week? 

I'll be back.