I'm putting The Glorious 10th on hold for a while as it's become a bit of a chore. I'm enjoying Saturday Snapshots a lot more and that's kind of made The Glorious 10th superfluous. Apologies if you enjoyed it, but the second something on your blog becomes like work, you're better off retiring it or you'll just end up resenting the whole blog. I may bring it back next year in a slightly different way (that takes less adding up). We'll see.
Anyway, here's the answers to last month's Gimme... Top Ten. You can add up your own points if you want... that was starting to give me palpitations.
10. Iggy & The Stooges - Gimme Danger
The Swede bagged this one. Classic Iggy.
9. Violent Femmes - Gimme The Car
Martin was first out of the traps this month... and he was the only one to suggest this.
8. Abba - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)
Most of you knew this would be a definite contender. Martin got it first by default.
7. The Subs - Gimme Your Heart
Really surprised that nobody got this, a lost power-punk gem from Stiff Records. Not to be confused with The UK Subs. This was their only single, but it was a belter.
6. Laptop - Gimme The Night
Less surprising that this one wasn't guessed, but I was very into Jesse Hartman's music 15-20 years ago, and I had hoped one of you guys might have remembered him too.
5. Queen - Gimme The Prize
Another one I'm hardly flabbergasted nobody got since the handful of you who'll admit to Queen fans promptly draw the line once the band enter the 80s. A Kind of Magic was my first Queen album though and I loved it to death - still do. This is one of many tracks from that album taken from the soundtrack of Highlander. Brian May's fireplace guitar is burning up here and how anyone can resist Freddie singing about being "the god of Kingdom Come", I'll never know.
4. Brenton Wood - Gimme Little Sign
Back to the ones you did get - well done to Lynchie & C for remembering this lost soul gem.
3. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
Onto the obvious ones, then. I love ZZ Top, and most of you seemed to agree that this should be in there - Walter even guessed its #3 position on my chart!
The video is a masterpiece of 80s cheese.
2. The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin'
Steve Winwood was still in nappies when he recorded this one. Both Jez and Walter thought it should have been Number One. They may well be right,
1. The Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter
Lynchie called this one. End of the world desperation writ large. The Stones were rarely so powerful or scary.
Extra point to Jez for namechecking Merry Clayton.
Don't worry, Saturday Snapshots will continue... tomorrow!
