Snapshots #421: Songs About Frauds, Hoaxes, Cons & Liars

Don't believe a word any of them say...

15. What happens when you dunk. 

You get a...

Limp Bizkit - Counterfeit

14. Princess found in dish of bacteria.

Princess Grace in a petri dish...

Grace Petrie - Nobody Knows That I'm A Fraud

13. Ten delays, but not in a row. 

"Ten delays" was an anagram.

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

12. Royal drummer caught speeding.

The drummer in Queen is Roger Taylor.

Taylor Swift - Hoax

11. Back then: monotonous noises. Nowadays: spies in the sky.

The Drones - Lookalikes

10. What’s the price of a greeting?

What's the cost...'ello?

Elvis Costello – The Imposter

9. A mixtape of memories.

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - 21st Century Rip Off

8. Hit snooze!

The Alarm - The Deceiver

7. I deny the accusation that I was ever part of this group.

Rol-in-Band? Never!

Rollins Band - Liar

6. A Great King, and Ryan.

Alexander The Great meets Ryan O'Neal.

Alexander O’Neal – Fake

5. Found in a chocolate ganache, and salsa ravioli.  

Chocolate ganache, and salsa ravioli.  

Tegan & Sara – The Con

4. Found in Essex, and in an arsenal.

Sex Pistols -  The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle

3. Used to transport Bones to the Enterprise.

Get the Van for Dr. McCoy.

Van McCoy & The Soul City Symphony - The Hustle

2. Achy Breaky Dino.

Achy Breaky Heart was Billy Ray Cyrus. Dean Martin was Dino.

Billie Ray Martin – Imitation Of Life 

1. Mr. Ferry, I deduce. But I’m probably mixed up.

"Mr. Ferry, I deduce" was an angram.

Freddie Mercury - The Great Pretender

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Snapshots #263: A Top Ten Why? Songs

Sufferin' succotash! It's time for some answers.

Why?

Why not?

10. Cleo’s partner does it in a more contemporary way.

Cleopatra's partner was Anthony... newly!

Anthony Newley - Why?

9. Soggy shortbread.

Limp Bizkit - Why?

8. Humble, hand-wringing clerk.

See David Copperfield.

Uriah Heep - Why?

7. Join Astaire in disarray.

"Join Astaire" is an anagram.

Joe Satriani - Why?

6. The sun’ll come out for a good man and a working bull.

"The sun'll come out tomorrow" is what Annie believes. Len Goodman + Ox.

Annie Lennox - Why?

5. Able to fly now that all appendages are complete again.

Stitched Back Foot Airman, obviously.

No, really, it is.

Stitched Back Foot Airman - Why?

4. Phantom of the Opera gets frisky.

Michael Crawford played The Phantom of the Opera.

Randy Crawford - Why?

3. Ganymede, perhaps?

The Big Moon - Why?

2. Cyril moans just like a slimy acorn.

Two anagrams for the price of one!

Carly Simon – Why?

1. The bridge in Sweden that hosts winter sports and rhythm.

"The bridge" in Swedish is Bron + Ski + Beats.

Bronski Beat – Why?

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Not That One Friday #5: My Way

And now, the end is near, and so I face the final curtain...

My Way is such a famous song, it's hard to believe that the Beatles were on the verge of breaking up when Frank first recorded it. It feels like it must have been around well before 1969. But the French song, "Comme d'habitude", it was based on was only written two years earlier. The lyrics to that are very different from the ones Paul Anka wrote for Frank though... after old blue eyes told Paul he was quitting the music business because he was sick of it. Talk about a comeback...

Frank apparently came to hate My Way though, and Leonard Cohen only liked Sid Vicious's version. Call me a traditionalist, but I still think Frank's take is unbeatable... although I do have a fondness for Shane MacGowan's version. Not to mention Elvis and Willie. Each one can bring a tear to my eye, if the wind's blowing in the right direction. However, they all follow the same Frank's template... unlike Maxine Weldon, who really took it her own way in 1975...

There are a few songs called My Way in my collection that have nothing to do with the infamous karaoke staple. They were all written long after, and all suffer in comparison...

Kiss - My Way

White Light Motorcade - My Way

Limp Bizkit - My Way

Except this.

Eddie Cochran had been dead almost a decade when Frank first faced his own final curtain. So Eddie had nothing to live up to when he recorded this little beauty in the late 50s...

For the record, Dr Feelgood do a pretty good cover of that My Way too.

Conversations With Ben #23: Rollin'

Rol: I need to write a blog post for tomorrow but am completely blank. Any ideas?

Ben: I was thinking the other day about when is it enough with the softness of toilet roll? There was an ad for some that said it was the latest in softness technology. But at what point does it stop making a difference? Scented toilet paper gives you ass cancer so they stopped doing that. As long as it's not the single ply tracing paper in offices and schools, does it really need to be improved?

It's not a lifestyle choice, it's a functional tool.

Like they've been saying that it's the latest and best toilet roll for a good 50 years or so. When do we complete toilet roll?

Then just stick Rollin by Limp Bizkit at the end.

I don't think you take my blog very seriously.

(Very seriously?

Ugh

Awful grammar.)

Not necessarily for a blog post but it's a genuine thought I had the other day.

I'd rather play something by Lou Rawls.

Or attach John Rawls' A Theory of Justice as a PDF?

Michael Sandell does a good intro lecture on Rawls' ideas, there should be a YouTube video of that. Stick that on the end.

Bring it back highbrow...

You just want to kill my stats dead. I'd rather stick this...

How about a blogpost on the January feeling...?

But how it feels different and it's too weird not hating your life now your job has changed.

Too long to write. I've gone with your toilet roll musings because it's late and I want to go read my book.

You could say my idea wiped the floor with yours.