Saturday Snapshot #94 - The Answers

I don't believe in Snapshots... I just believe in me.

Here's this week's answers. Thanks for playing. Well done to Lynchie for getting up first (and magnanimously leaving some for everybody else), and to Rigid Digit for hoovering up most of the others.


10. Bob the mailman has run out of numbers.

Congrats to Alyson for doing her homework.

Robert Post - Got None

9. Office worker with doll joins bandits at the station.

An office worker could be a clerk.

Guys & Dolls.

Guy Clark - Desperadoes Waiting For A Train

8. Predicting the fall of the opposite sex.

The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men

7. Old Blue Eyes meets Disney & White, following the end of everything.

Frank meets Walter Disney & Walter White... after all.

The Frank & Walters - After All

6. Johnny Marr's favourite chocolate bar gets a lift to lust.

Johnny likes an Aero to go with his Smiths.

Points to Ramone for going where others dare not tread!

Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator

Video of the week, if only for the first 20 seconds. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

5. Faustian lover becomes a Pickett, protesting sub-hairline sunburn.

Faust's lover was Gretchen.

Wilson Pickett.

Below your hairline (at the back, anyway) is your neck.

Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman

4. Kestrel genus swayed by wolf gang.

A kestrel is a falcon; scientific name: falco.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Falco - Rock Me, Amadeus

That never gets old.

3. He had 4: Joan, Margaret, Joan & Anne... but they're all a long, long time ago.

Joan, Margaret, Joan & Anne were the names of Shakespeare's sisters.

Shakespear's Sister - You're History

2. Overhead wires spark a half dozen warnings.

Jack White not pictured, as he only appears on this track.

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage

1. Castaway cop looks for divine intervention over weeping sleepers.

Robinson Crusoe was a Castaway.

Smokey is a cop.

Divine intervention is a miracle.

Sleepers are what railway tracks are laid on.



Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. But Snapshots plans to be back next Saturday, unless life gets in the way.

My Top Ten Newborn Songs

Sam and his mum are finally home from the hospital so my time is pretty full...but here's another list I prepared earlier. Ten songs celebrating the arrival of a new life... sort of.



10. Lloyd Cole - Brand New Baby Blues

Obscure b-side, not available to listen to anywhere on the internet, but still a damned good song. 

9. Robert Post - Newborn

Tomorrow, Robert will hop a train and come back newborn. I dread to think what the fare will be for that. I hope he booked well in advance for a sizable discount.

8. Morrissey - At Last, I Am Born

The song Moz wrote the day after finally getting a shag. 

I once thought that I had numerous reasons to cry
And I did, but I don’t anymore
Because I am born, born, born

7. Everclear - I Will Buy You A New Life

And you think you have a problem with door-to-door salesmen and Jehova's Witnesses? Just be glad you've not got Art Alexakis singing through your keyhole.

6. Depeche Mode - New Life

I have no idea what this is all about, but I'm pretty sure it's nothing to do with having a baby. Still... vintage Mode.

5. Cat Stevens - Here Comes My Baby

I challenge you to listen to the intro of this song and not feel just that little bit better.

4. Bright Eyes - The First Day of My Life

The idea of a song written from the perspective of a newborn baby sounds like cheese on a stick. Thankfully, it's Bright Eyes... not Sting.

Remember the time you drove all night
Just to meet me in the morning
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
You felt as if you'd just woke up
And you said "this is the first day of my life
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you
But now I don't care I could go anywhere with you
And I'd probably be happy"

3. Black Box Recorder - New Baby Boom

A first love song for our brand new son... courtesy of Sarah Nixey, Luke Haines and John Moore. (His two dads?)

2. Suzanne Vega - Birth-Day (Love Made Real)

I've already posted and will post a lot more songs dealing with what it feels like to become a father. This is one of the best I know about what a mother goes through...

Shakin' all over like an old sick dog
There's a needle here, needle there, tremble in the fog
It's a tight squeeze, vice grip, ice and fire
Hot little treasure and the wave goes higher

1. Elbow - Newborn 

I'll be the corpse in your bathtub...

...isn't, perhaps, the most romantic opening to a love song... but that's Guy Garvey's gift: to find beauty in the bleakest of places.




Which one would you want to enter the world to?