Snapshots #449: Gangster Songs

If you woke up this morning with a horse's head in the bed next to you... here's why.

15. Where Bond gets his suits.

James Taylor - Machine Gun Kelly

14. Yellowhammer, Yellowhammer, Yellowhammer.

Alabama is the Yellowhammer State, X3.

Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning

Theme tune to The Sopranos.

13. Burn receipts to prevent nasty entanglements.

"Burn receipts" was an anagram.

Prince Buster - Al Capone

12. They'll blast you to bits.

The Smithereens - Gotti

11. Audio Nerds take him in.

Audio Nerds take him in.

Dion - King Of The New York Streets

10. Not a Robin, a Kitten, a Fox or a Scimitar.

All models of Reliant motors. Including the Reliant Rialto...

Rialto - Untouchable

9. Alias "beyond the ordinary".

The Special AKA - Gangsters

8. Used for finding your way around a dark tent, prior to the year zero.

BC Camplight - I Want To Be In The Mafia

7. Hoover, Nail, Justice... it overwhelms them to be on the inside.

Three Jimmys and overwHELMS.

Jimmy Helms - Gonna Make You An Offer You Can't Refuse

6. Bloody liquid gives you twinges.

Plasma + Tics.

The Plasmatics - Concrete Shoes

5. Visualize Toothless and Puff.

Imagine Dragons - Top Of The World

Top of the world, ma!

4. How the mix-up happened.

Mix-up 'How the' to get...

The Who - The Punk And The Godfather 

3. He was summer burned and winter blown.

Lyrics from Jimmy Webb's song about...

PF Sloan - Sins Of The Family

2. Have you lost a coat, Tina?

"A coat, Tina" was an anagram.

Catatonia - I Am The Mob

1. Tablecloths at parties.

Paper Lace - The Night Chicago Died

I'll be making you another offer you can't refuse next Saturday morning...

Saturday Snapshots #163: The Answers

Here's a Bombshell! It's the answers to this week's quiz.

Unless you had your Eyes Wide Shut yesterday morning, I imagine you cracked these clues pretty easily. Hopefully it didn't take Hours...

10. Tiny fragments of The Troggs, Foreigner & Edwyn.

Tiny fragments are smithereens.

The Troggs, Foreigner & Edwyn Collins all sang about A Girl Like You.

The Smithereens - A Girl Like You

9. Bill & Ben follow Scott.

Too easy.

Scott McKenzie sang about San Francisco.

The Flowerpot Men - Let's Go To San Francisco

8. Inferior sand is aware.

"Inferior sand" was an anagram.

Dionne Farris - I Know

7. Traveller Number One has brain fried by horoscope. 

Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - Prime Mover

6. Mr. Reportable visits his GP twice.

"Mr. Reportable" was also an anagram. Although these days, he probably would be reported for those videos.

Robert Palmer - Doctor Doctor (Bad Case Of Loving You)

Lynchie pointed us in the direction of the Frankie Miller version, which is damned fine... as is the original, by Moon Martin... but I have an undeniable soft spot for Batley Bob. Local lad and all that.

5. French sea gets gender switched around, ends up looking exhausted. Dad couldn't help, but...

La Mer is the French Sea. Change its gender and it becomes Le Mer. Switch that around and you get Merle... looking a bit haggard.

Merle Haggard - Mama Tried

4. Not Robbie's nephew... or a definition of American arithmetic... just a wasted opportunity as time runs out.

She's not de niece of (Robbie) Williams.

He's not (because Americans insist on dropping the s from Maths) Math is...

Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams - Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

3. Always remember small sounds.

Small sounds would be noise-ettes.

The Noisettes - Never Forget You

2. Twelve bars and still grumpy? Get out of here!

Twelve bar blues get moody.

The Moody Blues - Go Now!

1. Subterranean prison gives injection.

A nick in a cave?

Injections often go into your arm. See - easy when you know the answer!

You may not be a Nick Cave fan... but if any song could change your mind...

I don't believe in an interventionist god, but I do know that Saturday Snapshots will be back next week.

It'll be To Die For!