Snapshots #463: Songs About Female Animals

All right, hen?

Doe, a deer, a female deer... etc. etc.

15. Taxi for Ms. Leandros!

Vicki Leandros was the most famous Vicky I could think of. Could you do better?

Vikki Carr - With Pen In Hand

A pen is a female swan. She could still break your arm.

14. How you get to being in love.

You fall in love... as Mark E. did with Brix.

The Fall - Vixen

13. Diminished Ashcroft.

Little Richard - Good Golly Miss Molly

A female mule is called a Molly.

12. A rakish lass gets confused.

"A rakish" was an anagram.

Shakira - She Wolf

11. Mingled with bartender snot.

"Bartender snot" was a very unfortunate anagram.

Brett Anderson - The Empress

An empress is a female chimpanzee.

10. Decidedly average.

Middle of the Road - Queen Bee

9. Madonna, Tiger, Pink Pixie, African Queen.

Lilys - A Nanny In Manhattan

8. I'm Rhino Syrup!

Lots of anagrams today. Lazy.

Roisin Murphy - Sow Into You

7. Wyreless.

Raydio - Jack and Jill

Jill is a female ferret.

6. When Burgess met Mel.

Burgess Meredith meets Mel Brooks.

Meredith Brooks - Bitch

5. Agraite mausoleum.

The Taj Mahal is a mausoleum in Agra.

Taj Mahal - Little Red Hen Blues

4. Between All and One, what Romans call home.

All Bar One, and Italia.

Bar Italia - Lioness

3. Bobby, sounds like custard and Mellow.

Bobby Byrd, Bird's Custard, Mellow Birds.

The Byrds - Chestnut Mare

2. LSD Eeyore got really messed up.

"LSD Eeyore" was another anagram.

Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow

1. Eccles girl meets Trini.

Jennifer Eccles meets Trini Lopez.

A Jenny is a female donkey... or a wren.

Jennifer Lopez - Jenny From The Block

Back on the block next Saturday morning...

Snapshots #328: A Top Ten Songs About Different Types Of Fish

Something very fishy was going on yesterday morning. 

What did you catch?

10. In the end, he's pretty selfish.

He's pretty selFISH.

Fish - Goldfish & Clowns

Don't say I don't give you extra clues. We had Richard Herring yesterday too!

9. She'll do little to strip the raincoat from Cold War paranoia.

Eliza Dolittle...

Joseph McCarthy was in charge of Cold War paranoia. Take away his mac and he's just Carthy.

Eliza Carthy - Herring Song

8. The best possible, according to Kenny.

Kenny Everett always did things in the best possible taste.

Taste - Catfish

7. Named after their "black" German guitarist.

Brinsley Schwarz - Do The Cod

6. From Iceland, where they mix an oilier Martini.

"Oilier Martini" was an anagram for this Icelandic singer...

Emiliana Torrini - Tuna Fish

5. Sure to be run over.

Middle Of The Road - Soley Soley

OK, so the fish is a sole. But I still couldn't resist this one.

4. Get Marilyn to pay for it.

Bill Monroe!

Bill Monroe - Pike County Breakdown

3. Sounds like she's saying no to a tree, a bomb or a Red record label.

Neneh Cherry (featuring Michael Stipe) - Trout

2. Could be one of the Simpsons.

Not Homer's clan, a different Simpson...

Orange Juice - Salmon Fishing In New York

1. They often get broken.

Sadly, hearts gets broken all the time.

Heart - Barracuda

A tough haul this week... though I did have a few more caught in the net...

Half Man Half Biscuit - Grafting Haddock In The George

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombone

Baby Lemonade - Secret Goldfish

The Heart Throbs - Tuna

Radiohead - Packt Like Sardines In a Crushd Tin Box

Mansun - Drastic Sturgeon

Something far less fishy next Saturday.

  

Neverending Top Ten #3.1: MOR Monday

The DJ on the radio is talking about 1972.

"1972," says Sam, taking a break from his Blaze & The Monster Machines comic. "That's a long time ago."

"Daddy was born in 1972," I remind him.

"I was born in 2013," he reminds me. "You must have seen a lot more olden day things than me, daddy."

True enough, son. Here's an olden day thing you keep asking me to play again though, from the year before daddy was born...

3.1: Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

Written and originally recorded by Lancashire born Larry Stott (who had a hit with it in Europe and Australia), this was also released by Mac & Katie Kissoon (who took it into the US Top 40) and this Scottish folk-pop band led by Sally Carr... who took it to the top in the UK and sold over 10 million copies in the process. It's an irresistible pop song with a nursery rhyme call-and-response hook... and I loved it when I was 4 years old too.

Still do.

"If you don't like this, you don't like music..."

Saturday Snapshots #25 - The Answers

Here we go with this week's answers...

I think we can safely say that The Swede is this week's winner!


10. Lost your afterlife? Ask Syd's heartbreakers.

Syd Barrett recorded a song called Gigolo Aunt, which Urban Dictionary defines as "A Girl who is usually very cute and pretty that seduces men makes them madly fall in love with her using her specific ways".

The Gigolo Aunts - Where I Find My Heaven 

The Swede #1.

9. Irish operas make for rubbish poetry.

Gilbert & Sullivan becomes...

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Nothing Rhymed

One of the saddest song ever written.

The Swede #2.

8. What you need when you're ill in Niagara.

TLC - Waterfalls

Lynchie!

7. Toothpaste flavoured Irn Bru.

Spearmint - Scottish Pop

Martin and a holidaying Charity Chic.

6. Chicks sing on the white lines.

Where's your mama gone?

Middle Of The Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

Forgotten how good this was. I just ordered a copy of their Best Of.

Alyson got this - of course!

5. Skinny Spaniards play it safe.

Delgado means skinny in Spanish.

The Delgados - No Danger

Another one for Martin.

4. Buddies waiting for the Number 73.

The Hollies - Bus Stop

The Swede #3.

3. Fashionable jigsaws.

The Stylistics - Let's Put It All Together

George & Lynchie - nice try from Rigid Digit.

2. Bicycle thieves get chased by a neighbour.

BMX Bandits - Kylie's Got A Crush On Us

The Swede #4.

1. Russian dolls in the topiary.

Chris got the Early Bird glory this week...

Be still, my pre-teen heart... never did so many young men dream of being a double bass...





Thanks for playing. More next week.