Snapshots #226: A Top Ten Lazy Songs

Yes, I'm using the same picture I did yesterday. Because I'm too lazy to change it, and because sometimes, there's a man, well, he's the man for his time and place. He fits right in there. And that's the Dude, in Los Angeles. And even if he's a lazy man - and the Dude was most certainly that. Quite possibly the laziest in Los Angeles County, which would place him high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide. But sometimes there's a man, sometimes, there's a man. Aw. I lost my train of thought here. But... aw, hell. Here's this week's answers...

10. Cat sits on white wine.

Cats sit on mats. As readers of the Oi, Frog! books will know.

Italian white wine is bianco.

Matt Bianco - Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed

9. Naval gazing ladies.

Naval as in marines.

Marine Girls - Lazy Ways

Young Tracey Thorn on the left.

8. Clark Kent isn't sharp or flat.

If he's not a sharp or flat, he must be a natural. A Super-natural.

The Supernaturals - Lazy Lover

7. Floating aristocrat. 

She's bobbing, she's gentry, she's...

Bobbie Gentry - Lazy Willie

(Rare photo of her as an older lady, after many years avoiding the camera lens.)

6. A cheerful start to the week in Colorado.

It's a Happy Monday in Denver.

The Happy Mondays & Karl Denver - Lazyitis

5. Peter Gabriel album terrified of taking the Michael.

So fears George (Michael).

Sophia George - Lazy Body

4. Sue decides to hide a band.

SUEDEcides.

Suede - Lazy

3. Race me, Amadeus.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, racing on his Go-Kart.

Go-Kart Mozart - Selfish & Lazy & Greedy

(Featuring Lawrence from Felt, of course.)

2. Watches have them; in comparison, clocks don't.

Watches have small faces compared to clocks.

The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday

Hello, Mrs. Jones - how's your Bert's lumbago?

1. Bryan dived onto the second fastest train.

"Bryan dived" is an anagram.

The second fastest train would be the...

X-Press 2, featuring David Byrne

Yaaaawn. You still here?

Saturday Snapshots #41 - The Answers

Not that I'm a big Oasis fan, but I couldn't give Liam a header without then giving one to his big brother. You know how they squabble.

Don't Look Back In Anger if you didn't get any of these right. Just Roll With It... it was basically a three horse race yesterday, with Lynchie clinching it by a nose (1/2 a point for #3). Well done to C for getting #10 though.


10. Me. Or my brother. Dumping prison coffee.

I am the Son Of My Father. So is my brother.

Prison coffee is made from chicory. A dump is a tip.

Chicory Tip - Son Of My Father

9. Come on, sleepy! Have a flat white.

Matt paint is rather flat. Bianco is white.

Matt Bianco - Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed 

8. Don't let your small part get you down.

A small part is a cameo. (Larry Blackmon never had to worry about that.)

If you're not down, you're up.

Cameo - Word Up!

7. Elsie Jerkin CEO ♥ Charles V.

Anagram time, folks! Elsie Jerkin CEO is Rickie Lee Jones.

Charles V would be Chuck E because E is the 5th letter of the alphabet.

Rickie Lee Jones - Chuck E.'s In Love

6. Fraudulent freaks.

Frauds = charlatans.

Freaks = weirdoes.

(Took me ages to find a photo in which Tim Burgess's hair wasn't a giveaway.)

The Charlatans - Weirdo

5. Devout tripping.

Work this one out yourself.

Journey - Don't Stop Believing

4. Encourage humanity to score in sneakers.

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

3. Catch the medal for the best Yorkshire harp at the station.

A rosette is a kind of medal.

The Yorkshire harp would be T'harp.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe - This Train

2. Lids A or B or C. Could also be scarlet.

Lids are what go on top of boxes.

A, B and C are letters. So was The Scarlet Letter.

The Box Tops - The Letter

1. A male composer and a painter get into high gear - and that's just the beginning!

Bach was a composer. A man is male. Turner was a painter. High gear is overdrive.

Let's ROCK!




Don't Go Away. Saturday Snapshots will be back next week. Try to keep off the Cigarettes and Alcohol until then...

My Top Ten Sloth Songs (Seven Deadly Sins #4)

Yawn. I really can't be bothered introducing the fourth deadly sin...


10. Oasis - The Importance Of Being Idle

Yes, I chose an Oasis song. It's not completely unheard of. I reckon this is one of their best, perhaps because it owes far more to The Kinks than The Beatles. Plus I like Rhys Ifans in the video... but more on that later.

9. The Charlatans - Can't Get Out Of Bed

See also Can't Get Up by Supergrass, I Should Get Up by Teddy Thompson and, of course, Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed by Matt Bianco. Give it time, I'll do a whole Top Ten of them.

8. Moxy Früvous - The Lazy Boy

Ah, Moxy. Whatever happened?

I have a life of pleasure
I am submerged in armchair leisure
I put my feet on the ottoman....empire!

7. Belle & Sebastian - Lazy Line Painter Jane

Another infamous lazybones, Stuart Murdoch did write most of his most famous songs in his bedroom. See also Sleep The Clock Around and We Are The Sleepyheads

6. Suede - Lazy 

Here they come, gone 7am
Getting satellite and Sky, getting cable,
Bills and Bens and their mums and their friends
Who just really, really want to be loved,
Uncle Teds and their legendary vests
Helping out around the disabled,
From the flats and the maisonettes
They're reminding us there's things to be done.

Nothing lazy about those lyrics.

See also the gorgeous One Lazy Morning by Brett Anderson, solo (i.e. the rest of the band stayed in bed).

5. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon

As in "Lazing on a..."

Poor old Ray, the taxman's taken everything he's got.

See also Dead End Street... then go listen to that Oasis song again. (Lazy Noel even nicked the video from Ray & Dave.)

4. The Supernaturals - Lazy Lover

What a bunch of lazy bleeders the Supernaturals were - not only lazy lovers who can't be bothered getting into bed... but when they eventually do, they moan I Wasn't Built To Get Up. They can't even stay awake in their videos.

See also this little ditty from The Auteurs, who have apparently been married to The Supernaturals for 20 years.

3. The Small Faces - Lazy Sunday

Probably should have been Number One... but I just couldn't be bothered.

Gor blimey, hello, Mrs. Jones - how's your Burt's lumbago?

2. Morrissey - Lifeguard Sleeping, Girl Drowning

When it came time to select songs about sloth, Morrissey was obviously going to feature. Take your pick from The Lazy Sunbathers or All The Lazy Dykes... but this one's my favourite: quintessential Mozzer... 

Please don't worry
There'll be no fuss
She was... nobody's nothing
 
When he awoke
The sea was calm
And another day passes like a dream

1. The Lemonheads - The Outdoor Type

While the rest of the artists on this Top Ten are bone idle Brits (with the exception of comatose Canadians Moxy Früvous), the laziest man in rock has to be American "Slacker King" Evan Dando. This could well be my favourite Lemonheads song, in which Evan confesses his lethargic credentials...

I can't go away with you on a rock climbing weekend
What if something's on TV and it's never shown again?
It's just as well I'm not invited, I'm afraid of heights
I lied about being the outdoor type

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