Showing posts with label Miles Davis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miles Davis. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 September 2019

Saturday Snapshots #101 - The Answers


You must remember this: a kiss is still a kiss. A sigh is still a sigh.

And Saturday Snapshots is still the thing that gets you all up early on a weekend. Or you could arrive late like Lynchie did yesterday and still hoover up some points. I may stop awarding Winner status at this point, because it's largely irrelevant and involves me doing extraneous maths. Thanks for playing, as always.


10. Hold p! This cle is easy if yo think abot it.


Wait! The letter U was missing from this clue.

John Waite - Missing You
9. Dracula, Nosferatu, and now.


Dracula & Nosferatu are vampires. Now is the weekend. The oversized comma that looks as though it shouldn't be there? It's an Oxford comma.

Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma

8. Season of blues is a long way away.


Summertime Blues, miles away.

Miles Davis - Summertime

7. Black or blue or elder? Size is not important.


Black, blue and elder are all berries.

Dave Berry - Little Things

6. Mosquito, like 8, Armageddon.


Skeeter is, apparently, short for mosquito.

8 was Miles Davis.

Why does the sun go on shining?

Skeeter Davis - The End Of The World

5. Wayne's water feature loses colour, ta.


The Fountains of Wayne go a little pale.

The Pale Fountains - Thank You

4. Target: Ecstasy, fella. What the Christmas tree angel says.


Aim - E, man.

Aimee Mann - Put Me On Top

3. "Don't touch me!" says Bonnie Buster.


Bonnie Prince & Prince Buster.

Prince - Gett Off!

2. Winning horoscope for released faculty head and uncredited.


The Dean is a Freed-man. The uncredited lady was Denise Mara, a friend of Alyson.

Listen, hon, I know you're dumb...

Dean Friedman & Denise Marsa - Lucky Stars

1. Bank Porter finds diamonds on his back.


Lloyds is a bank. Cole was a Porter.

Diamondbacks are rattlesnakes.

She looks like Eve-Marie Saint in On The Waterfront...



We'll play it again next week. Here's looking at you, kids!

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Hot 100 Countdown #81




Some very good suggestions this week, introducing me to all manner of songs I hadn't heard before...

Alyson suggested Joanna Newsom - '81.

Nice harp there, as always from Joanna.

C & The Swede came up with Miles Davis - 81.

I wish I could be hip enough to pretend to have loads of Miles Davis in my record collection. I'm not, but I do like a nice bit of trumpet.

The Swede also offered Gato Barbieri & Dollar Brand - '81st Street'.

The Swede is doing his best to get me into proper jazz... and to be fair, he's got more chance of that than getting me into Simple Minds, though it was inevitable that New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) would crop up again this week.

Meanwhile, Rigid Digit - who's just about given up on trying to get me into Jim Kerr and his buddies - tried Marillion - White Feather, which contains the following lyric...

When I hit the streets back in '81
Found a heart in the gutter and a poet's crown
I felt barbed wire kisses and icicle tears
Where have I been for all these years?

Not in my collection either, but still more palatable than SM.

Much more my cup of tea (but sadly not yet in my collection) was Lynchie's suggestion: Candy & The Kisses - The 81. That would be a winner if I owned it.

Chris also came up with a suggestion I liked... but don't own... Roger Whittaker - New World In The Morning. Another lyrical 81... but that doesn't rule it out... as you'll see shortly.

I met a man who had a dream he'd had since he was twenty,
I met that man when he was 81

If all those weren't in my collection... what was? I was struggling a bit this week. The only titular 81 I could find was this...

The Fuzztones - Ward 81

It's not bad. Actually, it's MAD. But it didn't really feel like a winner. So I went lyrics diving myself... and this is what I came up with. One of my favourite from MCC... great Tom Petty nod in the chorus.

All the way down 81
I've got some friends in Nashville
Atlanta it's been way too long
By morning I'll make Asheville



...all of which takes us to the last of the 80s: number 80. Any suggestions?

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