Snapshots Spillover: More Horse Songs

There were lots of horsey songs I couldn't fit into this weekend's Snapshots, from the obvious stallions...

Rolling Stones - Wild Horses

Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses

To the old reliable carthorses...

Racing Cars - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Jacky - White Horses

KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Swimming Horses

And some that were rarer than unicorn droppings...

The Irish Rovers - The Unicorn Song

The Newcomers - Pin The Tail On The Donkey

Dee Clark - Ride A Wild Horse

Disco Tex & The Sex-O-Lettes - Ride A Wild Horse

Any Trouble - Rocking Horse

That Petrol Emotion - Dance Your Ass Off

The Black Crowes - Appaloosa

Len Marten - Champion Red Rum

The Raglan Four - Shergar Song

Wild Flag - Racehorse

Here's one I've been listening to a lot lately, from a masked man on horseback...

Snapshots #293: A Top Ten Boyband Songs (sort of)

This I Promise You: I'll Never Stop Snapshots as long as you keep playing along. And if you're struggling for the answers, It's Gonna Be Me who reveals them, along with the Music Of My Heart.

Yeah, I had to look up the song titles of good old Justin Trousersnake's band too... I guess I'm just not NSYNC with a lot of these boy bands...

10. He Felt different in new material...

That's Lawrence. He was in Felt. Then he changed to...

Denim - The Osmonds

And if you're going to get picky and tell me that Marie wasn't a boy, well, I did my research, and Marie wasn't really in The Osmonds. She had a solo career and duetted with Donny, but "the group had its best-known configurations as a quartet (billed as the Osmond Brothers) and a quintet (as the Osmonds)." 

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses

To be fair, it feels like cheating, including Crazy Horses.  

9. A Stewart is a Scott.

Patrick Stewart + F. Scott Fitzgerald gives us...

Patrik Fitzgerald - The Backstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys - Everybody (Backstreet's Back)

8. The People's Fiend.

Public Enemy - 911 Is A Joke

911 - Bodyshakin' 

Obviously Chuck and Flavor were not fans.

7. Crowd of kilts.

This was a band put together by Nick Lowe and Rat Scabies as a way of helping Nick get out of his record contract. 

The Tartan Horde - Bay City Rollers, We Love You

Bay City Rollers - Bye Bye Baby

6. This sounds like Rachel's.

Rachel's sounds like Ray Charles, to these aging ears...

Ray Charles - Busted

Busted - Year 3000

My favourite of the boy bands featured today.

5. Living next door to a howler.

Living Next Door To Alice, who's a real Wolf...

Wolf Alice - Bros

Bros - When Will I Be Famous?

4. How you might greet Bruce, John and Jeff.

Hey, Waynes!

The Haywains - New Kids On The Block

New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)

3. Enoch, Jill, Tim: Amalgamated.

Amalgamate the letters from Enoch, Jill, Tim and you can spell out...

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Blue - If You Come Back

2. Mind them.

Mind the gap!

The Gap Band - Big Fun

Big Fun - Blame It On The Boogie

1. In demand. Sort of.

One anagram of demand is... Damned!

The Damned - Take That

Take That - Shine

Bye Bye Bye... till next Saturday.

Snapshots #262: A Top Ten Horse Songs

This is Richard Harris: A Man Called Horse. Yesterday, we had Robert Redford: The Horse Whisperer.

Why the long face?

Here are ten songs featuring horses...

10. Danny spent 127 Hours on a Lazy Turntable.

A Lazy Susan combined with Danny Boyle, who directed 127 Hours.

Susan Boyle - Wild Horses

Of course, we'd all have preferred the Stones version... or even The Sundays... but how else was I going to shoe-horn Susan Boyle into this quiz?

9. "Open", says my old neighbour Dave Smith, initially. 

"Open", Says My Old Neighbour Dave Smith.

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses

8. Excitedly came between The Seekers.

The - Thrill - Seekers?

The Thrills - One Horse Town

7. Eros, Phobos or Deimos, perhaps.

They were all the children of Aphrodite,

Aphrodite's Child - The Four Horsemen

6. Who works in de office?

De Clerk, of course!

Dee Clarke - Ride A Wild Horse

5. Managed by McLaren?

Not Malcolm...

The Racing Cars - They Shoot Horse, Don't They?

4. Replaces the black & white TV.

Colourbox - Looks Like We're Shy One Horse

3. Heavy weight stops the car for abbreviated Price.

Katie Price's car stalls because it weighs a tonne. (Make up your own punchline.)

KT Tunstall - Black Horse & Cherry Tree

2. The Beautiful North.

North America, The Beautiful...

America - A Horse With No Name

1. Hyena munched bonnet.

Anagram!

Echo & The Bunnymen - Bring On The Dancing Horses

You, and the horse you rode in on, are welcome back for more Snapshots next Saturday...

Snapshots #188: A Top Ten Apple Songs

Yesterday's Snapshots certainly gave you something to chew on. But the answers don't fall far from the tree...

10. Part of a barber's pole.

Just the White Stripes...

The White Stripes - Apple Blossom

9. Australians cut Monday short.

Aussies (Oz/Os) only have Mond.

The Osmonds - One Bad Apple

8. So fast, they lose a C.

Quick, without the C...

The Quik - Bert's Apple Crumble

7. Dapper zero.

Anagram!

Perez Prado - Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White

6. Beg or borrow baby talk.

Cadge a goo goo.

Kajagoogoo - The Big Apple

5. Horatio, of the Black Pig.

Captain Horatio Pugwash sailed on the Black Pig.

Pugwash - Apples

4. Moore & Ogilvy look like they've seen a ghost.

Roger Moore & Ian Ogilvy both played The Saint. If they saw a ghost, they might be pale.

The Pale Saints - Throwing Back The Apple 

3. Who sings like Marilyn's man?

The Who singer was Roger Daltrey.

Marilyn Monroe was married to Arthur Miller.

Roger Miller - Little Green Apples

2. Nowadays people just ask for money instead. Or give you a list.

You don't get to just buy whatever you like as a Wedding Present these days.

No apple in the title... but too much apple pie in the chorus!

The Wedding Present - Kennedy

1. Sounds like three and an eagle.

#3 was Roger Miller. The Eagle was Glen Frey...

Enjoy your week. Snapshots will be back next Saturday, exams permitted.

Saturday Snapshots #99: The Answers

Turns out there are quite a lot of pictures on the internet featuring Debbie Harry holding a camera. Others have featured here before, but I can't believe it's taken me 99 weeks to find this one.

I think it was a draw this week between Alyson and Lynchie. I'm sure Lynchie will tell me if that's not the case. Thank you for playing, as always.


10. Dustbin wagon brings the fire extinguisher - with an arrogant chat-up line.

There used to be a kid at our school who was particularly scruffy, so everybody called him "Dennis" because that's what it said in the front of the dustbin wagons.

Water, man, that's what puts out fires.

Dennis Waterman - I Could Be So Good For You

I never tire of watching this video. Especially the bit when he uses his charms on the policewoman. Ah, different times.

Oh, by the way. He may have sung the theme tune, but he didn't write it.

9. Wild stallions on Ms. Sod.

Too easy.

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses

8. Anarchist hippy dream of Greasy Yorke.

Sandy was the heroine of Grease.

Thom is a son of Yorke.

Sandi Thom - I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers In My Hair)

"I was born too late into a world that doesn't care..."

This song might not sound very cool to you, but the lyrics are more relevant than ever.

7. Neckline that goes well with socks. What new parents say to nursery.

V-neck, bobby socks.

Bobby Vee - Take Good Care Of My Baby

The vocal performance here is astonishing.

6. Beautiful chick.

Babybird - You're Gorgeous

5. Take a sad song and make it better - past time for tara.

The lyrics are from Hey Jude, written about this chap, apparently.

Julian Lennon - Too Late For Goodbyes

4. Cheers barman in our own country.

Woody was the barman in Cheers, obviously.

Woody Guthrie - This Land Is Your Land

3. Like 4; like Sinatra too (almost).

#4. Woody Guthrie, was a folksinger.

Sinatra was, of course, Frank.

That was a tough one. Congrats to Back From The Beach. I couldn't even find it on youtube, so I had to upload it myself.

Phranc - Folksinger

2. Downhill nun meets Fred Astaire.

Sister Sledge - He's The Greatest Dancer

1. Pop Sr. appalled by fly-tipping in the woods.

Still sends shivers down my spine, this song.



Next week: Saturday Snapshots #100. In case you couldn't work that out for yourself.