Snapshots Spillover: Even More Drunk Songs

As a quick follow-up to this weekend's bender, here's a hair of the dog that bit you...

Leigh Marble - Inebriate Waltz

Henry Vestine - Drunk

Banjo & Sullivan - I'm at Home Gettin' Hammered (While She's out Gettin' Nailed)

The Killers - Get Trashed

Billy Love - Juiced

Durry - Worse For Wear

Barbara Thompson's Paraphernalia - Squiffy

Eric Burdon and War - Spill the Wine

Mark Lanegan Band - Bombed

Love Me Nots - Let's Get Wrecked

Frank Soda - Drunk And Disorderly

The Fall - Totally Wired

And, of course...

I'd just like to reiterate that I haven't had a drink in over twenty-five years, oshiffer, so this is all just vicarious boozing on my part...

Pleash drink responshibly. (Hic!)

Snapshots #394: Musical Organs... but not the kind you play

Here's a famous organ player - Booker T. Yesterday, Ray Manzarek introduced our quiz. But neither of them played the kinds of organs you'll hear below...

15. Charles, could be another #4.

Charles Mansun would be in good company with the names listed in Clue 4.

Mansun - She Makes My Nose Bleed

Or even...

Mansun - Ski Jump Nose

And yes, your nose is an organ. Trust me, I'm a doctor.

14. McNulty, Bunk, Omar, Stringer Bell.

All characters from The Wire...

Wire - Kidney Bingos

13. Educating an Italian peacock.

Educating Rita. Pavone is Italian for peacock.

Rita Pavone - Heart

12. Home to Silvio Dante.

Silvio Dante was a character in The Sopranos, played by E Street Band member Stevie Van Zandt.

Townes Van Zandt - Lungs

11. Helps lyrics become untangled.

"Helps lyrics" was an anagram...

Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain

10. Supreme Ruler.

Diana Ross - Muscles

The AI says, "Yes, individual muscles are considered organs because they are structures composed of different tissues working together to perform a specific function, like movement."

9. Satanism. 

Bad Religion - Struck A Nerve

8. Retriever in both ears.

Stereo Labrador?

Stereolab - Spinal Column

7. Lee, Holloway and Russell enjoy making tables.

Three famous Brendas indulge in a bit of tabulation.

Brenda & the Tabulations - Right On The Tip Of My Tongue

6. Buffy.

Buffy was a Vampire... Slayer.

Slayer - Hardening Of The Arteries

That's got to be one for George's next mixtape.

5. She's a neat one... but pretty messed up.

"She's a neat one" was a rather obvious anagram

Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only

4. Jack, Peter, Jeffrey, John Wayne.

Jack The Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe, Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy...

The Killers - Bones

3. Tin soldiers and Nixon coming... presumably for a game.

"Tin soldiers and Nixon coming" is the opening line of Ohio.

Ohio Players - Skin Tight

2. Invoice for the Mills... and Cupid's friends.

Bill Hayley Mills! Cupid was friends with Comet.

Bill Haley & His Comets - Rock The Joint

1. Subs.

The Replacements - Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out

In case you were wondering, here were the two I had left over...

Tom Waits - Bad Liver & A Broken Heart

Weird Al Yankovic - Pancreas

I'll organ-ise more Snapshots next Saturday...

Seasonal Snapshots III - The Answers

IT'S ANSWERS!!!

Thanks for keeping this nonsense going all this year. It's been a useful distraction from the real world for me...


25. Used by Native American cultures in sacred ceremonies: Scottish trolley for people with weak leg joints.

Mc - cart - knee.

Not bloody Step Into Christmas, you will surely be glad to know.

Paul McCartney - Pipes Of Peace

24. Two articles on better breathing for fish. Not Buddy's ...the day.

The & a are two articles. I am reusing a few old clues this week, with no apologies.

Fish might breathe better if they had more gills.

Buddy Holly sand That'll Be The Day.

Thea Gilmore - That'll Be Christmas

23. T-mas left after dire traffic jam.

If Chris leaves Christmas, you're left with tmas.

Dire... erm... well, not Straits. (Yes, I know that's not how you spell "diarrhoea").

Chris Rea - Driving Home For Christmas

22. What Santa needs... a double homicide.

Double homicide: Slay & The Killers.

Santa needs a great big sleigh.

The Killers - A Great Big Sleigh

21. OHHHHHHH! Wrapping.

The Big O.

Roy Orbison - Pretty Paper

20. Predictions of misery from your flat screen TV & stereo.

LCD Sound System - Christmas Will Break Your Heart

19. Remain in that postcode for at least 24 more hours.

East 17 - Stay Another Day

This is a good song. But they look extremely silly, both in the picture above and in the video.

18. Move over... Jesus was one too.

Move over, darling.

Jesus was a carpenter.

The Carpenters - Merry Christmas, Darling

17. Common sense list for America or Jack?

Captain America... or Captain Jack? (Billy Joel, not Johnny Depp.)

That sounds sensible.

Captain Sensible - One Christmas Catalogue

16. Gargled harem hopes to last to the end of the month.

"Gargled harem" was an anagram.

Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December

15. A short, painful New Year for Shaky... and what came before that wasn't the best either.

Suffering, shortened, becomes Suf. January, shortened, becomes Jan.

Shaking Stevens.

Sufjan Stevens - That Was The Worst Christmas Ever

14. Get... Clemons! No chimney, obviously.

Get Carter!

Clarence Clemons.

If there was no chimney, Santa would have to use the back door.

Clarence Carter - Back Door Santa

13. Da do ones kill Andy Bell.

Da do ron ron... slays Ride.

The Ronettes - Sleigh Ride

12. The story of snow in Chelmsford or Saffron Walden.

They're in Essex.

David Essex - A Winter's Tale

11. Kids hanging around a barber's shop on the zebra crossing.

Outside an American barber's shop, there used to be a candy cane pole.

Zebra crossings have white stripes. I've probably used that before. but it worked again here.

The White Stripes - Candy Cane Children

10. The opposite of a Silent Night... with added bloodshed.

The opposite of a Silent Night...? A loud one!

Loudon Wainwright III - I'll Be Killing You This Christmas

9. My average sucks... and I always get miserable around now.

"My average sucks" is an anagram.

Kacey Musgraves - Christmas Makes Me Cry

8. Dinosaur punch goes straight to your head.

A bop to the head?

T-Rexmas!

T-Rex - Christmas Bop

7. Small Buddy Hollies jingle.

Buddy sang Rave On...

The Raveonettes - Christmas Song

6. Don't forget snarly rhinos!

Longtime readers will remember that I've used the "snarly rhinos" anagram before.

Harry Nilsson - Remember (Christmas)

5. "Two weeks off work." That's amazing!

A wonder is amazing.

"Two weeks off work." That's what Christmas means to me!

Stevie Wonder - What Christmas Means To Me

4. American sums found in delivery ward.

American sums are Maths.

So... Math is (in the room) when a child is born.

Johnny Mathis - When A Child Is Born

3. I'm not even going to write a clue for this one. Everything you need is in the picture.

Eels - Christmas Is Going To The Dogs

2. Home of Kemp, King and Scorsese... on the road, darling.

Martin Kemp, Martin Luther King and Martin Scorcese would live in a house...martins.

Caravans are homes that go on the road, love.

The Housemartins - Caravan of Love

1.  My way to wish you all yuletide greetings.

At last, the end is near...



Have yourselves a merry little Christmas!

Saturday Snapshots #59 - The Answers

It's so funny how we don't talk anymore... until you want the answers to Saturday Snapshots. But you all did very well again this week, so... Congratulations!

I think Alyson took this one, though Chris & Walter both did sterling work on some of the tougher ones while Charity Chic kept the flag flying for his home country, Rigid Digit corrected Alyson (and himself) and C was happy with #3, which really should have been 7. Lynchie must have had a lie in this week...


10. Fishy lady needs litmus paper.

Emma Pollock - Acid Test

9. What Ernie writes on his best friend's Christmas present may help Juliet breathe more easily.

Ernie writes 'For Bert' on his Christmas presents.

Tunes help you breathe more easily.

Juliet would happily share a Tune with Romeo.

Steve Forbert - Romeo's Tune

8. Scout's reclusive neighbour needs an alarm clock.

In To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout's reclusive neighbour was Boo Radley.

The Boo Radleys - Wake Up, Boo!

7. After Gill lazed, she complained about the weather.

"After Gill lazed" is an anagram.

Took a while to get to this one: I think we went through every weather-related Ella song in the process...

Ella Fitzgerald - Stormy Weather

6. "There's no place like home." That'll get in your eyes.

"There's no place like home," is what Dorothy said in The Wizard of Oz when she was trying to get back home to Kansas.

Hilarious video alert!

Kansas - Dust In The Wind

5. I'm going to dance like Elvis to my stolen Bobby Goldsboro record.

Elvis got in trouble for swaying his hips too much when he was dancing.

Bobby Goldsboro sang Honey.

Hipsway - The Honey Thief

4. They're gonna shoot Van Morrison.

Van Morrison sang about the Bright Side of the Road.

The Killers - Mr. Brightside (or it could have been Kansas: 30 years later)

3. Santa brings crap presents for squares.

L7 - Shitlist (work that one out for yourselves)

2. Ice cream for a Tiny Dick?

I make no apologies.

Little Richard - Tutti Frutti

1. Paying the cheque makes me feel old and dried up. Plus, it's raining.

The bill leaves me feeling withered.

(Yes, CC, I resisted the "duck in a microwave" gag. Too obvious.)

By the way, Bill Withers was a genius. (Still is, I guess, but he knew to quit while he was ahead, which makes him smarter than most.)


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