Showing posts with label Surfaris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Surfaris. Show all posts

Sunday, 15 November 2026

Snapshots #474: DESTROY! Songs


You may wonder why I featured the gentleman above atop the page yesterday. Perhaps because he seems hell bent on destroying civilisation, democracy and all human decency?

I couldn't possibly confirm or deny.

Here are some songs instructing us to destroy things.


15. Stamp it: HIT! Or something like that.

"Stamp it: HIT!" was an anagram.

Patti Smith - Break It Up

14. Trucker paint job indecision.

Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Cut Down

13. The ability to cough up furballs and be terrified of cucumbers.

That's cat power, that is.

Cat Power - Ruin

12. Lard replaced by 8's Namesake and Scouse Stan.

Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman - Tear It All Down

11. Sideshow bloke isn't completely odd.

Sideshow Bob isn't completely weird.

Bob Weir - Bombs Away

10. Hammond, Camus and Einstein were misplaced and suspicious.  

Three Alberts get lost and paranoid.

Alberto Y Lost Trios Paranoias - Kill

9. Savages.

The Primitives - Crash

8. Cougars and Pumas run wild in Essex.


Two Fords and David Essex.


7. Geoff and Darlene shack up together.


Geoff Love & Darlene Love, in a Love Shack.


6. Turn the wedding attendant, Ms. Juniper.


Turn the (wedding) page, Jennifer...


5. Oscar was a lazy sod.


4. Hendrix strums, denying the order of things.


"Hendrix strums, denying" was an anagram.


3. She spends some of her time in Carsphairn, and the rest in civilization.


She spends some of her time in CarsPHAIRn, and the rest in civiLIZation.


2. Hardworking insect get fried in a fish restaurant.


Remove the ant from "fish restaurant" and then rearrange...


1. Small settlement where The Midwich Cuckoos lived... on film.


The first adaptation of John Wyndham's novel The Midwich Cuckoos was in a film called Village of the Damned...

The Damned - Smash It Up


More of less destructive Snapshots, minus the Orange Authoritarian, next Saturday morning...

Sunday, 1 December 2019

Saturday Snapshots #113 - The Answers


Whoopi! It's this week's answers...


10. Almost like a lone cuckoo, above its nest, on a rack, surrounded by water, screaming.


OK, McMurphy was the character Jack Nicholson played in One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest... so this guy almost sounds like him.

An island is surrounded by water. If it were on a rack, it would be a long island. The screams would be the sound it made as I stretched it to make this clue work.

Honestly, the effort I go into some weeks.

James McMurtry - Long Island Sound

9. Bunch of evil bastards and feckless idiots, carrying a torch.


This, on the other hand, should require no further explanation.

Parliament - Flashlight

8. A small amount of fuel for Henry's car: pucker up, zombie Bruce.


A litre in the Ford?

"Kiss me, Dead Lee!"

Lita Ford - Kiss Me, Deadly

When I watch that, I am forever 16.

7. See wild animals in the waves and obliterate them.


Safari in the surf?

Surfaris - Wipe Out!

6. You should take one on de canal... drums after dark.


What else are you going to take on de canal but de barge!?

DeBarge - Rhythm of the Night

There's something wonderfully innocent about that.

5. A make believe clock for short bosses.


Short bosses would be MGMT.

MGMT - Time To Pretend

4. Ask a Loser if he wants a cuppa... you'll be surprised by how many sugars he wants.


"Brew, Beck?"

"You take five!?"

Dave Brubeck - Take Five

Nice.

3. "They're all out to get me!"

     Rubbish!


Garbage - I Think I'm Paranoid

2. Vowel-free gym teacher in the Yellowhammer state.


Their gym teacher was Leonard Skinner. He didn't like long hair or loud music.

No, really. This is the guy who gave them their name...


"Turn it up!"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama

1. Artist not with Brand T gives up seat.


Rembrandt without Brand T = Rem.

Stand the drummer at the front then it's harder to identify the band. (Except... those eyebrows...)

Simple existentialism in a 3 minute pop song...


If you want a Ghost of a chance of getting the answers before anyone else next week - get in on the act early, sister!


Saturday, 10 June 2017

My Top Ten Batman Themes


Atomic batteries to power!

Turbines to speed!

Keaton. Kilmer. Clooney. Bale. Affleck.

There have been good Batmen and there have been terrible Batmen, but there was only one Adam West.

The gentleman's Batman.

There really is only only one to say goodbye to him...


10. The Surfaris - Batman

9. The Kinks - Batman

8. The Ventures - Batman

7. Iggy Pop - Batman

6. Sun Ra - Batman

5. Link Wray - Batman

4. The Flaming Lips - Batman

3. The Who - Batman

2. The Jam - Batman

1. Neal Hefti - Batman





Holy Bat-Shark Repellent, Batman!

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