Snapshots #391: Bad, Wicked & Evil Songs...

For some reason, these words kept coming into my head this week: Evil, Bad, Wicked, Sinful, Wrong, Corrupt, Fiendish, Dark, Despicable, Terrible, Horrible, Awful, No, Good, Repulsive. I've no idea why. But I figured I'd find some appropriate tunes to go along with them...

15. Jagged rocks.

Reef: "a ridge of jagged rock, coral, or sand just above or below the surface of the sea."

Reef - Repulsive

14. CMKT4.

Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, aka...

Frank Black - Horrible Day

13. When a pidgin grows up, it'll make a lovely bunch...

Languages that starts as pidgin develop into creole. Add a lovely bunch of coconuts...

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - I'm Corrupt

12. They're so out of control, they could break both your arms.

Wild Swans - Dark Times

11. A dedicated trumpet player meets the builder of Brookside close.

Roy Castle knew a thing or two about playing his trumpet with dedication. The creator of Brookside was Phil Redmond.

Roy Redmond - Ain't That Terrible

10. Often encountered during a cholera epidemic.

Often encountered during a cHOLEra epidemic.

Hole - Awful

9. Call the orthodhauntist.

Spooky Tooth - Evil Woman

Yes, I know that the Orange Dictator isn't a woman. But I wanted to get Spooky Tooth in here somehow!

8. I let Weepy scramble my brain.

"I let Weepy" was an anagram...

Pete Wylie - Sinful

7. Your closest advisers. 

Inner Circle - Bad Boys

6. You could have chosen conkers, chestnuts or pine cones... what made you choose acorns? 

Why oak?

Wye Oak - Despicable Animal

5. Turner's furniture shop.

They took their name from the slogan on the store above, in Hull.

Everything But The Girl - Wrong

4. Money talks... on this safari.

Money talks, but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk, according to Neil in Forever In Blue Jeans. Add a bit of a Swinging Safari...

Swinging Blue Jeans - You're No Good

3. Curse Flanders!

Damn Ned!

The Damned - Grimly Fiendish

2. Never meant to make your daughter cry...

That's a lyric from Ms. Jackson by Outkast.

Janet Jackson - Nasty

1. Martin, you Yellow git! You're fired!

I sack Chris (Martin)... or to put it another way... Chris: I sack!

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

Some less evil Snapshots next weekend...

Saturday Snapshots #74 - The Answers

Well, did you Get Lucky with yesterday's clues? Of course you did. And if you didn't, no need stare at the Blurred Lines on the photos below anymore... because her come this week's answers.

Very busy morning yesterday and my head is too full of man-flu to work out the winner, but I suspect Alyson may have nabbed it.


10. Sean Connery's famous last words to the whole school.

Sean Connery said he'd never make another Bond film, then he made one called Never Say Never Again.

If you're speaking to the whole school, you may be in an assembly.

The Assembly - Never Never

9. Indisputably, you're dating a mutant.

No Doubt - Ex-Girlfriend

I should possibly steer clear of comic-related clues... or at least steer clear of expecting you all to have a detailed knowledge of Gwen Stefani hits.

8. Put your arms out to create a great barrier.

Great Barrier Reef, obviously.

Reef - Place Your Hands

Still sounds great.

7. Euphemistic vicar betrayal is illegal.

"Judas Priest!" is a euphemism for "Jesus Christ!"

Jesus was betrayed by Judas.

A priest is like a vicar.

Breaking the law is illegal.

Judas Priest - Breaking The Law

Video of the week!

(Charity Chic identified them despite claiming to have none in his collection. And yet I could have sworn I saw him coming out of the RSPCA shop in Arbroath with a copy of British Steel stuffed in a brown paper bag.)

6. Paid thief, less repentant than Frank.

Paid thief is an anagram.

Frank sang, "Regrets - I've had a few..." but this lady has none.

Edith Piaf - Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien

5. Henpecked deity with custard.

Godley & Creme would be under the thumb if they were henpecked.

Godley & Creme - Under Your Thumb

4. Clyde was an orangutan, not...

This is Clyde...

He's an orangutan, not a gorilla.

Who's that with him?

The Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

3. Equitable harbour: that's just the way things are done when you're getting together with Cliff.

An equitable harbour would be a fair port.

The way things are done is a convention.

If you were getting together with cliff, you might meet on the ledge.

Fairport Convention - Meet On The Ledge

Playing a festival near George this summer, co-headlining with Judas Priest.

2. A skinny thousand for the mad monk.

Oh, those Russians!

Boney M - Rasputin

1. I'll take mine padded... although the sheets may be dirty.

A padded cell with be a soft one.

Yes, the sheets may be dirty in a bed-sitter... but dirty sheets are often tainted by love. (Sorry.)




Guess what... Saturday Snapshots will be back next week for our 75th anniversary edition! Happy now?

My Top Ten Naked Songs

Well, after we stripped together... it's only natural that we explore our birthday suits.


10. Reef - Naked

Tonight we're going to party like it's 1995.

9. Super Furry Animals - Crazy Naked Girls

Quite mental, even by Super Furry standards.

8. Roy Harper - Naked Flame

I'm sorry that you thought of us as painful and superfluous
But please don't think I'm that thick skinned to want my seed in any old wind
I can't believe we'll just exist as figments of each others past
Where is it at to get to this, when lawyers lurk where lovers kiss?

Wow. Where do I begin?

7. John Mellencamp - Dance Naked

Not advisable unless you want everyone laughing at your jiggling bits.

6. Radiohead - Nude

Don't get any big ideas
They're not gonna' happen!

Aw, come on, Thom - join in with everybody else.

You go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking!

Fair enough. That's me told, then.

5. Jackson Browne - The Naked Ride Home

Just take off your clothes and I'll drive you home...

...yeah, how's that line working for you, Jackson?

4. Crosby & Nash - Naked In The Rain

There is, sadly, a far more well known record that shares this title. Unfortunately, it's the worst kind of abysmal 90s dance horrorshow. So you'll have to make do with Dave and Graham instead.

3. Richard Hawley - Naked in Pitsmoor

Pitsmoor isn't one of the more glamorous areas of Sheffield. Chances are Mr. Hawley is naked there because someone nicked his clobber.

2. Ida Maria - I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked

See, if you're gonna steal part of your tune from elsewhere, you can do so much worse than The Tra-la-la Song by the Banana Splits.

This is a very sexy song even despite all that.

1. Lloyd Cole - Undressed

All hail the mighty LC, with one of his greatest opening lines...

You look so good when you're depressed...

After that, and the bit where his girlfriend never locks the bathroom door... how could I not make this Number One?




OK, you can put your clothes back on now.

No, really.