Snapshots #470: Songs About Shops / High Street Retailers

Here are some songs about certain shops... some of them are still with us. Others have gone to that great high street in the sky...

15. What a carpet did next.

Clint Boon was an Inspiral Carpet. Then he formed...

The Clint Boon Experience - Comet Theme #1

14. I'm going to sue Deep Purple.

I'm going to sue Deep Purple.

Suede - Asda Town

13. What Tony Blackburn shouts at Turner and PJ.

"Sensational!" Alex Turner and PJ Harvey.

Sensational Alex Harvey Band - Next

12. Fred means not what you think.

"Fred means" was an anagram.

Sam Fender - Howdon Aldi Death Queue

He doesn't write them like that anymore, now that he's a proper pop star. (Shame.)

11. If you sent off for them, they were always a big disappointment when they arrived.

Did you ever send away for some X-Ray Spex? Bet they were a disappointment.

X-Ray Spex - Warrior In Woolworths

10. When Katrina walks onto the subway.

Katrina was Walking On Sunshine, in the underground.

The Sunshine Underground - Borders

9. How do you solve a problem like Macca's Miserable Holiday Home?

Is the Mull looking a bit dour, Maria?

Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis

8. Like Rachel, Matthew and Dita Von Teese.

Matthew Sweet and Rachel Sweet. Dita's real name is Heather Renée Sweet.

The Sweet - Blockbuster

7. Assorted sweets for pretty girls.

Dolly Mixture - New Look Baby

6. When will young people learn where to find the answers for this quiz?

Will Young - Your Game

5. Grew up in the wilds.

Well, they came from Dundee!

The Wilderness Children - Plastic Bag From Tesco's

4. Dire Namesakes fan.

George likes Namesakes (or whatever he calls it). Add Dire Straits.

George Strait - All My Ex’s Live in Texas

3. Sugar man.

Bob Mould - Argos

2. Very, something, extra, nothing.

Very special, something special, extra special, nothing special.

The Specials - Man At C&A

1. Blue-eyed girl.

Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walking

Snap up another bargain next Saturday morning.

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 #54 - The Answers

This Is Love that makes you come back to play Saturday Snapshots, I know it is. Whether you're Man-Size or a 50 Ft Queenie, you know This Mess We're In can only be solved by working out the answers... and you never let me down. Early bird prize goes to No-Lie-Ins Lynchie, with Alyson & Walter both sharing a respectable two and a quarter in joint second place. Although if I was being really mean, I might knock a smidgen of Alyson's mark off for not getting the full title of our Number One (including parenthesis). Charity Chic and Rigid Digit mopped up the rest this week.

Thanks for playing, as always.



10. Untie 6-E = foundations x 2.

Untie untie 6 and take away the e and eventually you might end up with...

Unit 4 + 2 - Concrete & Clay

Video of the week!

9. Tough stereos are invincible.

A tough stereo would be a hard-fi.

Someone invincible is hard to beat.

Hard-Fi - Hard To Beat

8. Get beaten up riding up to the top of the mountain.

You ride to the top of a mountain on a chairlift.

Getting beaten up leaves you with bruises.

Chairlift - Bruises

Yes, Lynchie, there is a band called Chairlift.

7. Sad stoat greets early Wham! song.

Sad stoat = blue mink.

The Wham! song is Freedom.

An early greeting would be Good Morning.

Blue Mink - Good Morning Freedom

6. How do I feel about an open, honest pickett?

Open & honest is frank.

Pickett is Wilson.

Frank Wilson - Do I Love You? 

5. No chance of parole in a French prison when Chamberlain left Take That.

If you've no chance of parole, it's life. What's that in French?

Robbie left Take That.

Chamberlain was Neville.

Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie

4. Noel and Liam stay up late thinking deeply about miserable faces.

Mull over dour faces.

Maria Muldaur - Midnight At The Oasis

3. Hunky monks go jogging alone.

All-man brothers. Geddit?

The song was a little harder.

The Allman Brothers - No One To Run With

2. Adolescent admirers meet a philosopher with a heart of gold.

Teenage Fanclub, obviously.

Neil Jung, obviously.

Teenage Fanclub - Neil Jung

1. Definite & indefinite TV girls try to remember a tragic heroine.

The definite article is The.

The indefinite article is A.

The Gilmore Girls was an American TV show.

Juliet was the tragic heroine.

(Try to remember = Keep That In Mind.)



Saturday Snapshots will return next week. You can't get Rid Of Me that easily.