Showing posts with label Strawberry Switchblade. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Strawberry Switchblade. 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, 29 September 2019

Saturday Snapshots #103 - The Answers


It won't mean much to most of you, but Friday's news that Disney & Sony have reached a new deal over the rights to Spider-Man was one of the few pieces of good news I've had lately. Thought I'd celebrate it with the image above.

Now here are yesterday's answers...


10. I've an intuition you'll always be together.


The Feeling - Never Be Lonely

9. Did you enjoy watching Chernobyl burn?


Yes, that is Batley Bob, along with his mates from Chic and Duran Duran...

Crazy 80s video features a woman shaving her armpits. Lovely.

Power Station - Some Like It Hot

8. Runaway loses 50 as you arrive.


Del Shannon sang Runaway.

50 was L in Roman Numerals.

Subtract one from the other...

You may know this song by other people, but Jackie wrote it.

Jackie DeShannon - When You Walk In The Room

7. 12:01, Jameson's cabbage.


J. Jonah Jameson is the arch-nemesis of the bloke in the costume at the top of the page. Considering I came up with this clue a couple of weeks ago, I call that synchronicity.

Kale is a type of cabbage,

J.J. Cale - After Midnight

6. A lot's happened between Friday and today. Like killer fruit!


When this clue was posted, a lot had happened since yesterday,

A killer fruit might be a strawberry with a switchblade.

Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday

Another song that Karine Polwart has done a fine version of on her new album.

5. Smashed pumpkins with mixer.


A pumpkin is a gourd. If it were smashed, it might have drunk too much gin and juice.

The Gourds - Gin & Juice

4. Not as eponymous as he used to be, but nothing stays the same.


Not as Young as he used to be... but everything must change.

Paul Young - Everything Must Change

3. Found in clover, forever. In need of an umbrella.


Love can be found in the middle of clover, forever is unlimited.

The one they love (The Walrus of Love) not pictured. But then he, literally, phones his performance in on this one.

Love Unlimited - Walkin' In The Rain With The One I Love

2. This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds: blame the crazy Jam Kennels.


"This tape will self-destruct in 5 seconds" comes from Mission: Impossible.

"Jam Kennels" is an anagram.

Jens Lekman - To Know Your Mission

1. Greens, before the Beatles, get mean.


Sprouts are greens.

Before the Beatles would be Pre-Fabs.

Mean is just cruel.

"If I'm troubled by every folding of your skirt
Am I guilty of every male-inflicted hurt?
But I don't know how
To describe the modern rose
If I can't refer 
To her shape against her clothes...
With the fever of purple prose."

Written 35 years ago, yet more timely a lyric you won't hear this year.



This quiz does whatever a Snapshot can, once again, next Saturday.

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