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Sunday, 13 April 2025

Snapshots #391: Bad, Wicked & Evil Songs...


For some reason, these words kept coming into my head this week: Evil, Bad, Wicked, Sinful, Wrong, Corrupt, Fiendish, Dark, Despicable, Terrible, Horrible, Awful, No, Good, Repulsive. I've no idea why. But I figured I'd find some appropriate tunes to go along with them...


15. Jagged rocks.

Reef: "a ridge of jagged rock, coral, or sand just above or below the surface of the sea."

Reef - Repulsive

14. CMKT4.

Charles Michael Kittridge Thompson IV, aka...

Frank Black - Horrible Day

13. When a pidgin grows up, it'll make a lovely bunch...

Languages that starts as pidgin develop into creole. Add a lovely bunch of coconuts...

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - I'm Corrupt

12. They're so out of control, they could break both your arms.

Wild Swans - Dark Times

11. A dedicated trumpet player meets the builder of Brookside close.

Roy Castle knew a thing or two about playing his trumpet with dedication. The creator of Brookside was Phil Redmond.

Roy Redmond - Ain't That Terrible

10. Often encountered during a cholera epidemic.

Often encountered during a cHOLEra epidemic.

Hole - Awful

9. Call the orthodhauntist.

Spooky Tooth - Evil Woman

Yes, I know that the Orange Dictator isn't a woman. But I wanted to get Spooky Tooth in here somehow!

8. I let Weepy scramble my brain.

"I let Weepy" was an anagram...

Pete Wylie - Sinful

7. Your closest advisers. 

Inner Circle - Bad Boys

6. You could have chosen conkers, chestnuts or pine cones... what made you choose acorns? 

Why oak?

Wye Oak - Despicable Animal

5. Turner's furniture shop.

They took their name from the slogan on the store above, in Hull.

Everything But The Girl - Wrong

4. Money talks... on this safari.

Money talks, but it don't sing and dance and it don't walk, according to Neil in Forever In Blue Jeans. Add a bit of a Swinging Safari...

Swinging Blue Jeans - You're No Good

3. Curse Flanders!

Damn Ned!

The Damned - Grimly Fiendish

2. Never meant to make your daughter cry...

That's a lyric from Ms. Jackson by Outkast.

Janet Jackson - Nasty

1. Martin, you Yellow git! You're fired!


I sack Chris (Martin)... or to put it another way... Chris: I sack!

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game


Some less evil Snapshots next weekend...

Sunday, 6 May 2018

Saturday Snapshots #31 - The Answers



Cheer up, sleepy Jean - it's time for this week's answers.

I think we can all agree that Rigid Digit takes the prize this week, claiming 4 and a half points early on. Charity Chic got 2 and half. C got 2. Lynchie took the last point. Alyson and Chris snoozed and losed.

Let's stop monkeeing about and get on with the solutions...


10. Wife-swapping Bowie song exercises with a hula hoop.


The Swinging Blue Jeans - Hippy Hippy Shake

9. Get Michael Caine's mini - it's about to topple over! The police have lost their magic.


Michael Caine was Carter (Get Carter). If his car was about to topple over, it would be a Car-lean. The Police sung Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic. Lose the magic and...

Carlene Carter - Every Little Thing

8. Woody Allen's train track leads us to Reservoir Dogs.


This one you should have got just from the picture.

Woody Allen had a film called Sleeper which is also part of a train track. Reservoir Dogs featured Nice Guy Eddie.

Sleeper - Nice Guy Eddie

7. Jogging naked in a Lancashire town.


Johnny Preston - Running Bear

6. Chill and smile. This Scottish copper has a hairy inside.


Bobby Mc-Fur-In. Get it?

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry, Be Happy

5. Stereophonic or astronomer? Breathe easy.


Kelly Jones is in the Stereophonics. If he was an astronomer...

Air - Kelly Watch The Stars

4. The scarlet woman of Troy finds a Stones' girl child.


Helen Reddy - Angie Baby

One of the spookiest records ever made.

3. Nicky gets manic as Big John escapes the shaft.


Nicky Wire from the Manics. Big John was a miner who got trapped underground saving lives.

Wire - Outdoor Miner

2. Mariah's lost me. My love is a tramp's bottom.


Mariah without me (I) is just Marah.

Marah - My Heart Is The Bums On The Streets

1. Stone or Osbourne? What comes first? It's a gift.


Sharon + A (the first letter). If you've got a gift, you've got the knack.



Have yourself a Pleasant Valley Sunday... I'll see you next week.

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