Snapshots #382: Songs About Units of Time

Who better than a Time Lord to help us hear this week's answers? 

Starting with the smallest...

12. They'll give you a hot kiss.

The Flaming Lips - One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning

11. Singing in the dark.

"Nightingale" is derived from "night" and the Old English galan, "to sing".

The Nightingales - Seconds

10. She-devils.

Vixen - Not A Minute Too Soon

9. Do they have enthusiasm or...? It's confusing.

"Enthusiasm or" was an anagram...

The picture is actually Paul & Norman in their first band, the Stomping Pond Frogs.

Housemartins - Happy Hour

8. Lily white wife.

She was married to producer Steve Lillywhite.

Kirsty MacColl - Days

7. Causing unknown chaos in neighbourhood gardens.

Hedgehoppers Anonymous - It's Good News Week

6. A saying to live your life by... Oxygen... stopping the car.

Maxim... O... Park.

Maxïmo Park - A Fortnight's Time

5. Blooming show-offs!

The Posies - Flavour Of The Month

4. Say a prayer... stand down... Scarlett.

Mary's Prayer... Stand Down, Margaret... Scarlett O'Hara.

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Year In Song

3. Famous for their oven gloves.

They've got Joy Division Oven Gloves!

Joy Division - Decades

2. Argumentative young men.

Fall Out Boy - Centuries

1. Bowie bills Irma over a mix-up.

"Bowie bills Irma" was an anagram for a cheeky chappy who was just as recognisable in junior school...

Robbie Williams - Millennium

You won't have to wait centuries for more Snapshots... it'll be bac next Saturday.

Saturday Snapshots #100 - The Answers

If you've got the Hair Like Brian May Blues this Sunday morning, don't feel Under Pressure. Here are the answers to the 100th edition of Saturday Snapshots to Keep Yourself Alive.

As I write this, nobody had spotted the Extra Special Bonus Mystery which connected 10 of the songs on this list... but I guess you'd have to be pretty sad to do that. (No offence to Alyson who came close to working it out.) Different photos, different clues and different songs, but the odd-numbered artists in this list all appeared in Saturday Snapshots #1, way back in September 2017.

I think Alyson just pipped Rigid Digit to the crown this week. I was intending to work out a league table of winners from the past 100 editions, but as you probably have realised by now, my time is rather restricted at the moment. Thanks for playing along as always, everybody. Remember: this quiz is Driven By You.


20. Lennie's pal in dire circumstance. I guess Tony must have shown him the way.

George & Lennie, as anybody who's done an English exam at school in the last 50 years will know, were the unlucky duo from Of Mice & Men.

Dire Straits, natch.

Tony Christie wondered Is This The Way To Amarillo?

George Strait - Amarillo By Morning

Justin Townes Earl (son of Steve) claims this is the last truly great country song ever written.

19. Oxymoronic invitation to stop the fight.

A band called War asking why we can't all just get along? Surely that's an oxymoron?

War - Can't We Be Friends?

18. V, son of Scotland, rejects the preserves.

V = 5.

Mc = son of Scotland.

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

17. From here to there, with Brass Eye drug.

From here to there is a distance.

Cake was a Made Up Drug.

Cake - The Distance

16. Hooked on romance, old cinema tune.

Love is a better drug than cake.

Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug

15. Battles Evil Dead with Carl Douglas.

Ash - Kung Fu

14. Silky soft V on a quiet evening.

Laziness compelled me to re-use the V clue.

The Five Satins - In The Still Of The Night

13. Ashes in the toilet have you skidding on pebbles.

Loo-cinder? No?

I did like Walter's idea that parts of this clue might relate to a Drunken Angel.

Lucinda Williams - Car Wheels On A Gravel Road

12. Stay in bed with a bunch of flowers.

The Posies - Dream All Day

11. Nesting spirit. Atlas or Goliath, possibly.

They Might Be Giants - Birdhouse In Your Soul

10. Warhol goes Wilde, with a slight sway.

Andy Warhol, Kim Wilde. Not Andy Oscar.

Andy Kim - Rock Me Gently

9. Colleagues visit a disco that only plays Dolly and Johnny.

The Associates - Club Country

Check SS #1 for Party Fears Two.

8. Threat stops traffic across the sea.

Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger

7. DJs are... cemented.

DJs are on the radio. (Except club DJs.)

The Concretes - On The Radio

6. Moroccan bartender visits Homer's town, looking for Madonna's dear ladyfriend.

Rick was the bartender from Casablanca.

Homer lives in Springfield.

Madonna was friends with Dear Jessie.

Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl

5. Touché + mutant ninjas = a harmonious match.

Touché would win that fight.

The Turtles - Happy Together

4. Skirmish between pro-US biopics and laces. Murderous commandments!

"pro-US biopics" is one anagram.

"and laces" is another.

Put a skirmish (Vs.) between them and thou shalt...

Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip - Thous Shalt Always Kill

Thou shalt still not question Stephen Fry.

3. Ain't nothing like it. Your help required to pass.

The Real Thing - Can't Get By Without You

God, that takes me back to the Fifth Form. (80s reissue.)

2. Wren, spinning, no relation to one, an ordinary man.

Jenny Wren, Spinning Jenny, no relation to Huey (below).

Jenny Lewis - Just One Of The Guys

1. Donald's nephews deliver papers to trendy L7.

Well, two of Donald's nephews. Dewey must have been sick that day.

Still one of the greatest pop songs ever recorded...


Well, that's it, folks. 100 seems a pretty good number to bow out on, don't you think? Time to call it a day on Saturday Snapshots, maybe? Give you all a lie in next Saturday morning?





(Maybe not.)