Showing posts with label Ray Charles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ray Charles. Show all posts

Sunday, 22 June 2025

Snapshots #401: Go Away Songs!


Here are a bunch of songs telling you all to go away. Charming!


15. Dirty movies that leave you in a bit of a huff.

The Moody Blues - Go Now

14. Ragtag pirates.

Mötley Crüe - Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away) 

13. Glasvegas social worker can't tell the truth.

Glasvegas sang about a social worker called Geraldine.

The Geraldine Fibbers - Get Thee Gone

12. Larry Flynt's legacy.

Hustler - Get Out Of Me 'Ouse

They don't write 'em like that any more.

11. They were extremely unpleasant.

The Gruesomes - Buzz Off

10. Jones was a minor.

Tom (Jones) / minor = petty.

Tom Petty - Don't Come Around Here No More

9. Flip a coin, en français.

And you would be a Franc turner.

Frank Turner - Do One

8. Wild cattle in Homer's patch.

Buffalo Springfield - Leave

7. Men's loo on TV.

The Telegents - Get Out

6. Unhealthy take-away pizza.

Fats Domino - You Can Pack Your Suitcase 

5. Call The Doctor - Mr. T really smelled!

(Doctor) Who! B.A. Stank.

Hoobastank - Disappear

4. Did Celia smack John? Surely some mix-up!

Celia smack John was an anagram. Nothing else.

Michael Jackson - Beat It 

Or...

Michael Jackson - Leave Me Alone

3. He's gonna light up the sky... with cold fire. 

"Gonna light up the sky like a (blue) flame... FAME!"

Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames - Get Away

2. A flick knife with the 23rd letter. 

The 23rd letter wasn't W... it was a reference to Strawberry Letter 23.

Strawberry Switchblade - Go Away

1. It's a shame about Chuck.

It's a shame about... Ray.

Ray Charles - Hit The Road, Jack


If you need any more, here's a load...


But despite all that, I don't want any of you to go away. Because Snapshots will be back next Saturday...

Sunday, 14 July 2024

Saturday Snapshots #352: A Top Ten Posterior Songs


I almost ran this picture yesterday, but I figured it would be too much of a giveaway... so I featured the colossal arse that is Tom Hanks instead.

Here are ten songs we sit down on - or synonyms for posterior, if you prefer. 

10. Frankie's pall was rather dull and unfashionable. 

A dull and unfashionable person is a dowd. Frankie was pals with Johnny.

Johnny Dowd - Opus III: Caboose

9. Larry aches after playing Twister.

Untwist "Larry aches" and you get...

Ray Charles - Shake A Tailfeather

8. If I could be for only an hour, tiny.

"If I could be for only an hour," is a line from Jackie.

Little Jackie - 28 Butts

7. Inside Reece and Steve's peach.

Reece Shearsmith & Steve Pemberton made Inside Number 9. 

The Nectarine No. 9 - This Arsehole's Been Burned Too Many Times Before

6. In this world, we've got to find the time for things that come in bottles and lamps. See?

"In this world, we've got to find the time," is a line from The Life Of Riley.

Genies come in bottles and lamps. C?

Jeannie C. Riley - The Back Side Of Dallas

5. Policeman stuck in School of Grease.

Rydell High was the school in Grease.

Bobby Rydell - Honey Buns

4. Scary Christopher in Forest of Dean.


Christopher Lee was pretty scary. Hazell Dean was an 80s pop star, in a wood.

Lee Hazlewood - Poet, Fool Or Bum

3. Golden King, Silver Queen, Blue Prince.

Golden King, Silver Queen and Blue Prince are all types of holly.

The Hollies - I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top

Good song, though I have a special fondness for the Kevin Rowland version.

2. Californian kestrels, ahoy!

I See Hawks In LA - Stop Driving Like An Asshole

1. The Colonel stops frying and lets daylight do its work.

KFC without the F, using sunshine instead...

KC & The Sunshine Band - Shake Your Booty


You 

Get off your arses next Saturday morning for more of the same...

Sunday, 21 May 2023

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



Bye Bye Bye... till next Saturday.

Sunday, 12 March 2023

Snapshots #283: A Top Ten Card Game Songs


As far as I know, Bruce Lee had nothing to do with card games. So he's just a wild card this morning. All the songs below, on the other hand, do share a title (or part of one) with a type of card game. So let's deal out some answers, eh?

10. Sheep prefer the baa while the seals go clubbing.

Animal Nightlife - Mr Solitaire 

9. The first joke, alphabetically, is on her. 

Gag A is all about...

Lady Gaga - Poker Face

8. The Las get stuck in the front of the church. 

The first two letters of Church are CH. Put Las in between them and you get...

The Clash - Cheat

Cheat is a card game. It's not just what you do when you're playing card games. 

7. Sullivan takes the prize for the most famous guest.

Ed Sullivan had Elvis on his show. Elvis was a star. So Ed Win(s) Star.

Edwin Starr - War

War is also the name of a card game. It's not just what you do when you're losing.

6. Municipality of confusing magnitude.

That would be a little big town.

Little Big Town - Pontoon

5. From Navarone to Picardy.

The Guns of Navarone to the Roses of Picardy.

Guns n Roses - Patience

Take it from someone who once went to see GnR live. Patience is something the Glastonbury viewers will need next year while they wait for Axl to turn up on stage.

4. Louts.

The Troggs - Blackjack & Poker

3. The sun shines on the king.

Ray Charles - Blackjack

2. What Squeeze have for breakfast.

Orange Juice - Bridge

1. Inlaws, milady?

Anagram!

Andy Williams - Solitaire


Not to Brag, but there will be more Snapshots next Saturday.

Friday, 15 September 2017

My Top Ten Tribute To Molly Part 1: Cat Songs



We lost an important member of our family yesterday. Molly the cat... silky ears, twitching whiskers, inquisitive meow (not to mention a full-on demanding MOWRRRR at meal times).

I loved how you thought you were a human, not a silly cat. How you'd talk back. How you'd show workmen round the house and offer your opinion. How you'd never quite settle down, and if you did, that's when the claws would come out, milking us for warmth. How sometimes you'd sit with your tongue peeping out. How loud you could purr.

There are so many Molly stories I could tell. You were such an incredible character. The time you reached out through a barely open bedroom window and pulled in a bird. (That jingling collar we had to buy you must have sounded like the Jaws theme to the local avian gangs.) The way you just had to find a carpeted area to puke furballs onto: a nice, easy to clean kitchen floor was never good enough. The way you made me feel welcome in Louise's house the first time I visited. You were one of the friendliest cats I ever met. It was amusing watching neighbours and schoolkids stop outside the house to give you a stroke on their way home.

Many more stories, but I'm filling up at the typewriter so... another time, Mols.

I'll especially miss going out last thing at night to find you (usually scavenging round the back door of the nearby hotel, where you'd managed to sweet-talk the kitchen staff into feeding you scraps), then carrying you home on my shoulder, purring, claws catching in my jumper.


10.  Sonic Youth - Purr
I love you baby yeah, you're superfine
A-claw me down, too
A purring, whirring, fuzzy like today
Switching sunlight
I chase you kitten, catch you every time
Funny how it flies
9. Marc & The Mambas - Boss Cat

Molly was certainly the boss round here...
Mee-ow, oh wow!
Mee-ow, oh wow!
Mee-ow, oh wow!
Mee-ow, oh wow!
8. Paul Heaton - Life Of A Cat

Oh, for the life of a cat!

7. Squeeze - Cool For Cats

Not really about cats at all, but Molly was definitely too cool for school.

6. Ray Charles & Hank Williams Jr. - Two Old Cats Like Us
We've been down a whole lot of alleys
Shook a whole lot of cans
There ain't too much about prowlin' or howlin'
That we don't understand

Had a few doors slammed on our tails
We've been kicked and cussed
But everything's cool for two old cats like us
5. Colin Clary - Meow Meow

Excuse the early Christmas song, but this one always makes me think of Molly. This song's for life, not just for Christmas.

4. Billy Joel - Cat

Very early, very jazzy Billy. But so many of the lyrics are spot on...
She walks with a grace of a lion
Her eyes are the color of a shade gleam
She takes her pleasure in the nighttime
Absolutely unconcerned about anything


She’s a cat and she's as free as the wind
You never know what kind of trouble she’s in
She’s a cat
Rest assured that she doesn’t need you
3. Elvis Costello - Pads, Paws & Claws

Maybe Elvis's song isn't about an actual cat, but Molly was certainly a feline tormenter and she definitely did the pads, paws and claws routine.

2. Prefab Sprout - Farmyard Cat

But you can be the feline elite and still go scrounging scraps down a dead end street, Paddy.

I'll be back to talk in more detail about this song some other time.

1. The Cure - Love Cats
So wonderfully
Wonderfully
Wonderfully
Wonderfully
Pretty...



My Top Ten Molly Songs will follow very soon, obviously...


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