Snapshots #355: A Top Twelve Songs About Poets

Above, you'll see the poet Philip Larkin, larking about with his camera.

Below, you'll find 12 songs that mention poets in the title...

12. Used to deliver the Lizard King.

Jim Morrison in a van.

Van Morrison – Rave On, John Donne

11. Part of the hospital reserved for Morrissey, Madonna and Moby.

That'll be the M Ward.

M. Ward - Blake's View

10. Humble, yet Mighty.

Modest Mouse - Bukowski

9. Ladies of the expanding bullet.

Dum Dum Girls - Rimbaud's Eyes

8. Rabbit home found ablaze, Von Trapp connected.

Rabbits live in a warren, near  ablaze Von Trapp

Warren Zevon - Lord Byron's Luggage

7. Local gathering place for people who want superior unconsciousness.

Better Oblivion Community Centre - Dylan Thomas

6. Murder on the feet.

Slaughter & The Dogs - Edgar Allan Poe

5. Old theatre meets Byrds' Mare.

Old Vic + Chestnut Mare...

Vic Chesnutt - Stevie Smith 

4. Boastful, but still a good place to buy your testament. 

Buy your wills from Wilco!

Billy Bragg & Wilco - Walt Whitman's Niece

3. What Zod said to a guy who Should Have Known Better.

"Kneel, Jim Diamond!"

Neil Diamond - Longfellow Serenade

2. There were no bees in the summer of '69.

It's not Bryan Adams, is it?

Ryan Adams - Sylvia Plath

1. ...and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

"Goodnight, sweet Prince..."

Prince - Ballad of Dorothy Parker

More Odes to Obscurity next Saturday...

Snapshots #280: A Top Ten UFO Songs

As a wave of UFO sightings sweeps the world, surely we must ask ourselves whether shooting them out of the sky is really the smartest option? 

The objects in the sky may be unidentified, but I'm sure you had no problem identifying this lot...

10. Inside next issue: dead pigeons!

Inside next isSUE: DEad pigeons!

Suede - UFO

9. Persson of interest found near Dortmund.

The Persson of interest would be Nina Persson. Hagen is a German city near Dortmund.

Nina Hagen - Flying Saucers

8. Killers from Barking.

Slaughter & The Dogs - UFO

7. Joel + Arthur + Lard.

Billy Joel + Arthur Lee + Mark 'Lard' Riley...

Billy Lee Riley - Flyin' Saucers Rock 'n' Roll

6. John, Harry & Charisma.

John Carpenter, Harry Carpenter and Charisma Carpenter...

The Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft

"We are your friends..."

5. You can't argue with this lot.

The Undisputed Truth - UFOs

The Undisputed Truth is out there!

4. The Sound & The Fury, relatively.

William Faulkner wrote The Sound & The Fury. 

Isaac Newton had a theory of relativity.

Newton Faulkner - UFO

3. Gloating goat found in cut price store.

The gloating goat would be Billy Bragg, here pictured in Wilko... sorry, Wilco.

Billy Bragg & Wilco - My Flying Saucer

2. Valet, can be green or golden.

A valet can park your car. Grahams can be Golden or Greene.

Graham Parker - Waiting For The UFOs

1. Stolen Bounty.

A Bounty is a chocolate bar. If it's stolen, then it becomes hot property.

Is this song about Errol Brown's very own close encounter? No doubt about it...

Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It

More unidentified photographic objects for you next Saturday...