Snapshots Spillover: More Sitcom Songs

As promised, here are a few more songs that share their names with sitcoms. Let's start with that extra clue I gave you all on Saturday morning...

Cliff Richard & The Shadows - The Young Ones

...which naturally leads us to this...

Beyond that? How about these?

The Rah Band - Porridge

Pet Shop Boys - Absolutely Fabulous

Splodgenessabounds - Two Pints Of Lager & A Packet Of Crisps

Martyn Joseph - Please Sir

The Mekons - Rosanne

Lucky Jim - The Honeymooners

You may have some other suggestions. If so, please share them with the group.

But to close, a different Harry from the one we started with...

Snapshots #322: A Top Ten Demon Songs

Hopefully you weren't possessed by the puzzle of yesterday's Snapshots. If you were, allow me to exorcise those demons...

10. Posh London hotel in Mick's Sugar.

Mick sang about Brown Sugar. The posh hotel is the Savoy.

Savoy Brown - Denim Demon

9. Dan dares to fight them.

Dan Dare fought the Mekon.

The Mekons - Calling All Demons

Or...

The Mekons - Demon Horns

8. Tearful Trout.

An Emotional Fish - That Demon Jive

7. Gets her gun, then puts it in a small enclosure affording privacy for one person at a time.

Annie gets her gun and takes it to a booth.

Annie Booth - Demons

6. The Black Hole, Jackie Brown, Breaking Bad.

Three films / TV shows that featured performances by the American actor Robert Forster. This is his namesake from the Go Betweens...

Robert Forster - Demon Days

5. American parade in black & white, with fluctuating weight bloke (not pictured).

The Macy's Parade goes Gray, with a slim fatboy.

Fatboy Slim featuring Macy Gray - Demons

4. Magnificent mammals.

Super Furry Animals - Demons

3. Poe's first musical group got smuggled aboard.

The band belonging to Edgar Allen Poe gets brought on board.

Edgar Broughton Band - Out, Demons, Out

A Top 40 hit (just!) in 1970.

2. Milk, butter, marzipan.

All can be made from Almonds.

Marc Almond - Demon Lover

1. Our Sat quiz: always here to turn you around.

"Our Sat quiz" was an anagram for...

Suzi Quatro - Daytona Demon

Be a demon and join me again next Saturday...

Neverending Top Ten #6.4: Modern Songs

What are you doing at the party, Sam?

Karaoke.

Yeah? What are you going to sing?

Some of my favourite songs that are modern and you won't know.

Huh. You want modern songs? I'll give you modern songs, son. Look, I made you a CD!

The Jam - The Modern World

The News - Modern Toys

Boomtown Rats - She's So Modern

The Strokes - The Modern Age

Crashland - Modern Animal

Meat Loaf - Modern Girl

Idlewild - A Modern Way Of Letting Go

Neil Diamond -A Modern Day Version Of Love

Ben Kyle & Romantica - How to Live in a Modern World

Art Brut - Modern Art

Terry, Blair & Anouchka - Ultra Modern Nursery Rhyme

Sleeper - The Modern Age

The Crooks - Modern Boys

Be Bop Deluxe - Modern Music

Jesse Malin - In The Modern World

Sondre Lerche - Modern Nature

Generation X - Modern Boys

Daryl Hall & John Oates - Method of Modern Love

Charm School – Excerpts from the Modern Song

The Humdrum Express - The Curse Of The Modern Musician

Belle and Sebastian - This Is Just A Modern Rock Song

David Bowie - Modern Love

Beck - Modern Guilt

The Mekons - Ancient & Modern

Lou Reed - Modern Dance

Jefferson Starship - Modern Times

The Courteeners - Modern Love

Billy Joel - Modern Woman

Bloc Party - This Modern Love

Actually, wait, seriously... here's a song that was only released last week. You don't get more modern than that, do you?

Bleachers are from New Jersey. They're the brainchild of guitarist and producer Jack Antanoff, who used to be in Fun. They have featured here before, but this is their latest single, and it's pretty damned good for a modern pop song... even though it does harken back to the 70s and 80s, like most of their stuff.

Hot 100 #32

Apologies. I got two thirds of the way through this countdown before life got in the way. But I don't like leaving things unfinished, so the Hot 100 is back... maybe not every week, but whenever I get the time. Your suggestions, as always, are very welcome.

Wretch 32, pictured above, is a popular grime star, apparently. We used to have grime round these parts, then we got a new window cleaner.

Way back in July, George wondered whether the unsavoury lyrics in this oldie might make it unpalatable...

Robert Johnson - 32:20 Blues 

Far be it from me to let unsavoury lyrics spoil the day. And Lynchie seemed similarly undeterred, suggesting the Cowboys Junkies version...

The Cowboy Junkies - 32:20 Blues

And here's the Charlatans with the same song... but not The Charlatans you and I know, the Manc band fronted by Tim Burgess, no, this is the original Charlatans...

The Charlatans - 32:20 Blues

Speaking of 32 calibre weapons, Douglas came close to taking the title this week by suggesting one of my all-time favourites...

Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown

He got a custom Continental

He got an Eldorado too

He got a thirty two gun in his pocket for fun

He got a razor in his shoe

C went a different lyrical route, with this one from a band I only knew in passing. Some great guitar to be hear here though.

The Au Pairs - Armagh

You can ignore the 32

There are 32 women in Armagh jail

political prisoners here at home

the British state's got nothing to lose

It's a subject better left alone

The Swede was up next, with one that had made my shortlist

The House of Love - 32nd Floor

Alyson, meanwhile, dug up this rarity, ten streets away from fame...

Ronnie Lane - 32nd Street

While Martin was bang up to date with a tune from the latest Joe Jackson album, which I've not heard... but I might have to investigate further.

Joe Jackson - 32 Kisses

For a laugh, Martin also suggested this oldie-but-mouldie...

Mr. Mister - 32

And that was it for your suggestions. But what did my record collection throw up? Let's see if we can go even lower than Mr. Mister to start with, and climb up from there, shall we?

Genesis - The Chamber of 32 Doors

I do like Peter Gabriel, but... you have to draw the line somewhere.

What else?

Craic Haus - 32 Girls

No idea where that came from, but it's better than The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway.

The Mekons - 32 Weeks

That made me smile.

Ani DiFranco - 32 Flavors

I like that. From a CD I bought in a charity shop. Back when I could still find decent CDs in charity shops.

Van Morrison - Thirty Two

Not really a song, more a warm-up.

Finally, an obscure b-side...

REM - 32 Chord Song

But this week's winner was chosen by Rigid Digit, who found another old favourite of mine...



Coming soon: 31. I promise.