Showing posts with label The Blessing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Blessing. Show all posts

Sunday, 23 March 2025

Snapshots #388: Songs About Roads, Streets, Avenues etc.


This is Mike Skinner. Mike's looking rather sad because he's lost his camera. Still, he seemed like the ideal person to introduce today's answers... twelve songs about Streets... whatever we might call them.

Oh, and in case you were wondering why Clint Eastwood appeared here yesterday... well, he was The Man With No Name. And I'm sure you all remember what Bono told us? 


12. Three merry old souls.

A rock n roll standard, originally recorded by... 

The King Cole Trio - Route 66

11. Clint was always talking to them.

Clint talked to the Trees.

Trees - Road

10. Furious & Cannon look for their other halves.

Fast & Furious + Cannon & Ball...

Fastball - The Way

9. Don't look at that streaker! He's not Abel.

Ray Stevens advised "Don't look, Ethel!" Abel's brother was Cain.

Ethel Cain - Thoroughfare

8. May the Lord make his face to shine upon you, and be gracious to you.

That's a blessing, that is.

The Blessing - Highway 5

7. Pottery, embroidery, macrame.

Three examples of craftwork.

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

(All 23 minutes of it, just for George.)

6. Confused prats retested.

"Prats retested" was an anagram.

Peter Sarstedt - Boulevard 

5. He say yes!

"He say yes!"

The Man from Delmonte - Drive Drive Drive

4. Fancy playing badminton, Osborn? Mixed doubles?

"Badminton, Osborn" was a mixed up anagram of...

Tom Robinson Band - 2-4-6-8 Motorway

3. Mariah Carey loves to break the rules... but she causes twice the commotion!

MC is a rebel, but gets in double the trouble.

Rebel MC & Double Trouble - Street Tuff

2. Hercules, Colorado, Stag.

Three types of beetle.

The Beatles - Penny Lane

Other roads were available, including long and winding ones... but the Beatles were here for the lane today.

1. Dawn rises over the Yellow River.

Tony Orlando was in Dawn. Christie sang Yellow River.

Tony Christie - Avenues and Alleyways


The road leads back to Snapshots next Saturday...

Sunday, 11 November 2018

Saturday Snapshots #58 - The Answers


I've got 99 problems, but solving Saturday Snapshots ain't one of them. U Don't Know all the answers? It's a hard knock life, but here they are...

(A very evenly spread game, with Rigid Digit stealing a win by half a point as of 9pm last night... although #10 and 5 were still to play for at that point.)


10. √2025. Quiet, you tatty old piece of cloth.


45 x 45 = 2025.

Shh, rag!

Shrag - Forty Five 45s

9. Shaky sunlight causes a blur.


Sunlight comes in rays.

Shaky was Shaking Stevens.

Ray Stevens - The Streak

8. Dylan on the slates in America, trying a trick with his yoyo.


Slates go on the roof in the US.

Dylan Thomas (not Bob).

Walking the dog is something you can do with your yoyo.

Rufus Thomas - Walking The Dog

7. The Spectrum sends a card at this difficult time.


A spectrum is a field of colour.

At this difficult time, you might send a card that says Thinking of You.

The Colourfield - Thinking Of You

6. How to remember Joy Division singer's birthday is at the start of the year... bang on 5pm.


Jan is Ian!

5pm is at 17.00.

Janis Ian - At Seventeen

5. After a sneeze, this often comes in disguise down this exact road to heaven or hell.


After a sneeze, you might get a blessing ("Bless you!").

A blessing often comes in disguise.

This was question 5.

Highway to heave / hell.

The Blessing - Highway 5

4. Home on the side of the road.


At the side of the road you will usually find the pavement.

Home on the range.

Pavement - Range Life

3. AKA Cutler LP: not Billy's kind of girl.


AKA Cutler LP is an anagram.

Billy's girl was uptown.

Petula Clark - Downtown

2. Tough love in the underground prison.


An underground prison would be a low nick.

Nick Lowe - Cruel To Be Kind

1. Tim Booth joins Green On Red, thinks about visiting Elvis.


Tim Booth is in James.

If you were seeing Green on Red, you might be colourblind.



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