Snapshots #448: Songs About Rooms

Let's stroll around the house and find a different band in each room...

15. Sounds like Jonathan, running down the road with one member of a D.C. band.

The roadrunning Jonathan sounds like Richman, the band was Fontaines D.C.

Richmond Fontaine - Hallway

14. Told by a lavender clock.

The Lilac Time - The Nursery Walls

13. Calm A Partridge by taking nothing from his surname. 

Calm A Partridge... Alan Partridge is played by Steve Coogan. Take an O from Coogan and...

Alma Cogan - Last Night On The Back Porch

12. Lottery, grid, curriculum.

The National - Guest Room

11. Regularly used by Robson, Jerome and Sam.

Robson & Jerome played firemen in London's Burning. Add them to Fireman Sam, and they all need..

The Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Living Room

10. Never stop looking for... Huey.

Never stop looking for Linda, sand Hue and Cry. Not Huey Lewis.

Linda Lewis - Funky Kitchen

9. Made Stacy jump.

Stacy Lattisaw jumped to the beat.

The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom

8. Found messed up in a crapulent YMCA.

"Crapulent YMCA" was an anagram.

Paul McCartney - Front Parlour

7. Daley Thompson.

Athlete - In The Library

6. Thank God that's all over!

The Grateful Dead - Attics Of My Life

5. She's A Star in her playhouse.

James sang She's A Star in their Wendy House.

Wendy James - Basement Kiss

4. Steve Rogers no longer wants to be associated with America.

Steve Rogers is Captain... Sensible.

Captain Sensible - The 4 Marys Go Go Dance All Night at the Groovy Cellar

3. Mini Minnie.

That's a modest-sized mouse.

Modest Mouse - Lounge

2. Frank's wife has the best possible taste.

Hmm, Betty, the doggy did a whoopsie on Kenny.

Betty Everett - Bedroom Eyes

1. You great puddings!

The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz

Hopefully you'll have room for more of these next week...

The Top Ten Records I Bought Because I Fancied The Singer #3: The Vamp

I wanna die with you Wendy on the street tonight
In an everlasting kiss...

You know that girl your mother always warned you about? Well, my mother never warned me about her. I think the reason is that my mum recognised I was hopeless around girls, so why bother wasting her breath? The bad girls weren't going to be interested in me. Neither were the nice girls.Not even the hopeless girls...

The thing is, I wasn't really interested in the bad girls either. Certainly not at school. I found them rather obvious and annoying. So why I ended up fancying Wendy James, I really couldn't tell you. Yet whenever she appeared on Top of the Pops... well, invariably I ended up buying the single.

Just for the music, you understand. Transvision Vamp had some rattling good tunes and were a very underrated band and... and...

OK, mostly it was Wendy.

Which is unusual, because she wasn't my type at all.

I even bought her Elvis Costello-written solo album a couple of years later and thought it an excellent, mature piece of art. No, really I did.

3. Transvision Vamp - Landslide Of Love

My favourite Transvision Vamp single was this one. The guitars in the chorus always reminded me of the theme tune to Red Dwarf.



I had no idea until writing this feature that Wendy James was still releasing records, or that her latest, released just last year featured 50 year old Wendy... erm... sans clothes on the front cover. Disgraceful behaviour from someone of her age of course and I will not be endorsing that sort of filth here. Perhaps when I was a teenager, but I long since gave up any interest in the trappings of smut, thank you very much...

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