Saturday Snapshots #367

I got a bit carried away again this week. Sorry about that. 

Can you solve the TWENTY Scooby Doo camera clues below... and tell me how their songs are connected?

20. Bad jingles get me in such a tizzy. 

19. Lost inside Outwood Golf Course.

18. Ttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss iiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss ttttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeee ccccccccccccccllllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeee.

17. The Haiti dollar hides a silly secret. 

16. Boopadoop.

15. Noughties boy band, aphrodisiac, Ian Astbury.

14. Frippette?

13. They're ghosting you.

12. Can you hear them?

11. ...is a V. smarmy DJ mix.

10. A wing and a guitar.

9. Just desserts.

8. Read one section of your home. 

7. This guy, and another four droplets.

6. Bitten by a green bird that wishes it could fly.

5. Used to make soup for Alice and the Queen.

4. A carpenter and a great hangman. 

3. Chest, pea, dough.

2. What do Jennifer Anniston, Julie Andrews and Jane Austen cook their eggs in?

1. Lad-ra-doodle.

Answers tomorrow. And I'd have got away with it too, if it wasn't for you meddling kids...

Listening Post #11: Trouble Waiting To Happen

Today feels like a Warren Zevon kind of day.

Still, it's the end of an 8 week term, so at least I don't have to get up quite as early as normal next week.

I woke up this morning, and I fell out of bed

Trouble waiting to happen

Should've quit while I was ahead

Trouble waiting to happen

I turned on the news to the Third World War

Opened up the paper to World War Four

Just when I thought it was safe to be bored

Trouble waiting to happen

This one was co-written by the late JD Souther, who passed a few weeks back.

Mid-Life Crisis Songs #118: I'm An Adult Now

I'm an adult now. I have to remind myself of this fact every day. It never gets any easier.

The Pursuit of Happiness came from Toronto in 1985, full of power pop goodness. This was their biggest moment...

Sometimes my head hurts and sometimes my stomach hurts

And I guess it won't be long

'Fore I'm sitting in a room with a bunch

Of people whose necks and backs are aching

Whose sight and hearing's fading

Who just can't seem to get it up

Speaking of hearing, I can't take too much loud music

I mean I like to play it, but I sure don't like the racket

Noise, but I can't hear anything

Just guitars screaming, screaming, screaming

Some guy screaming in a leather jacket

Woah!

Mid-Life Crisis Songs #117: PJANG

Some days, only Lloyd singing Nick even gets close to making a difference...

It ain't that in their hearts they're bad

They can comfort you, some even try

They nurse you when you're ill of health

They bury you when you go and die

It ain't that in their hearts they're bad

They'd stick by you if they could

But that's just bullshit baby

People just ain't no good

Namesakes #108: Roxette

Welcome to Namesakes.

This week, we have a Set of Rocks to choose from. Or, to put it another way... a few Rock Sets. Here's the song they might all have been named after... although they probably weren't at all.

Dr. Feelgood - Roxette

And here is today's dirty half-dozen...

ROXETTE #1

British mod-revivalists from 1980 (though they also sound a bit folky to me). Teetotal now too, it seems.

Roxette - Giving Up The Beer

ROCK SET #2

As always, spellings are variable on this feature, if the pronunciation is close enough. Here's some Swedish punks from 1980...

Rock Set - Hundattack

ROXETTE #3

French punks, also from the 80s. Their lead singer has caught a few facial ticks from John Lydon. Here they are in 1986...

Roxette - Un Jour

ROXETTE #4

I wasn't sure whether to include this one, as it crosses over with the next Roxette. Back in 1984, Swedish songwriter Per Gessle was in a band called Gyllene Tider. However, when they released their music in the USA, they went by the name Roxette. Arguably the more famous half of his later Roxette, Marie Fredriksson, wasn't present. Hence...

Roxette - Run Run Run

ROXETTE #5

The Set of Rocks most people will be familiar with. The aforementioned Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson originally gathered themselves together in 1986, going on to enjoy a string of pop-rock hits throughout the 90s. Here's their first big one, from 1989...

Roxette - The Look

Sadly, I couldn't find the Glaswegian Roxette from 1982 who released the single Blind Man's Blues / Too Much Alcohol. Neither could I track down the Finnish punk Roxette from 1985. But I did manage to find one more, more modern, Roxette...

ROXETTE (& THE JETS) #6

Traditional French rock 'n' rollers from 2015, located on the camp of bands...

Roxette & The Jets - Lucille

Six Roxettes to choose from, but which ones are Dressed For Success... and which are Fading Like A Flower?