Saturday Snapshots #98: The Answers

...my friend, are blowing in the wind...


10. When Caesar died, in a car.

Well done to C for cracking this obscurity.

Check your history books.

Great tune, but Charlie always warned me to stay away from men like these.

The Ides of March - Vehicle

9. Geordie says he can get down, but keeps his head up high.

Geordies get "doon", so Doon I can.

Val Doonican - Walk Tall

Yes, I know Faron Young did it too, but I grew up with Val's version... probably thanks to Uncle Tel.

Val Doonican is nothing to be embarrassed about, Alyson!

8. Our blogs are this. Our blogs are this. Our blogs are this. (+96)

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Instant Repeater '99

Nobody remembered this lot. Imagine if Oasis had been any good. A Beatles rip-off done right!

7. Bluebirds of prey hang around till it stops raining.

Jays are blue birds. Hawks are birds of prey.

Jayhawks - Waiting For The Sun

(Not Save It For A Rainy Day, that would be the opposite!)

6. Found in Rome, with Ivy. Put a sock in it, lady.

Well done and a warm welcome to new player Back From The Beach. Hope to see you round these parts again soon.

The Holly & The Ivy?

Long before Wendy James...

Holly & The Italians - Tell That Girl To Shut Up

5. A boy and his Great Pyrenees won't put down these bestsellers.

"Belle et Sébastien is a novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Great Pyrenees, who live in a village in the French Alps close to the Italian border."

Belle & Sebastian - Wrapped Up In Books

4. Plastic pop lady leaves you surprised! (And often vacant.)

Remember Yazz & The Plastic Population? Oooh, that's a surprise.

Situations are often vacant.

Yazoo - Situation

3. Spanish wolf falls for canine surprise, along with all of us.

Lobo is the Spanish word for wolf.

Boo! That's a surprise.

Lobo - Me & You & A Dog Named Boo

Lobo is nothing to be embarrassed about, Lynchie! Check out some of his early albums. Class stuff.

2. Ewing boy goes by foot with sporting heroes. Meep meep!

J.R. Ewing is a walker, with his All Stars.

The Roadrunner went Meep Meep.

J.R. Walker & The All Stars - (I'm A) Roadrunner

1. Molly acts Rick... but neither of them can work out the answer.

"Molly acts Rick" is an anagram.



Don't get Tangled Up In Blue... Saturday Snapshots will be back next week for our 99th edition!

My Top Ten Diary Songs

I never kept a diary. The closest I ever came was writing a blog. Sadly, I can find only one record about blogging. Scribbling down your life in a diary though... there's plenty to go at.



10. Bread - Diary

David Gates. Hugely unappreciated 70s songwriter. We should have more of him round these parts.

9. Pink - Dear Diary

Yes, Pink again, two Top Tens running. Have we not got over my Pink addiction yet? Really.

8.  The Ataris - In This Diary

Being grown up isn't half as fun as growing up:
These are the best days of our lives.

Discuss.

7. Eels - Jeannie's Diary

I don't have a chance at writing the book
I just wanna be a page
In Jeannie's diary
One single page
In Jeannie's diary

New Eels album coming in February - yay!

6. The Kinks - My Diary

Sorry, Ray Davies's diary is too full to squeeze you in today.

5. The Real Tuesday Weld - The Day Before You Came

Written by Abba, a hit for Blancmange, but it's the Real Tuesday Weld version I can't get enough of. No actual diary in this song - but if the writer had kept one, his memory of the day in question might be a little better.

4. Yazoo - Nobody's Diary

Only in the 80s could a pop band have looked like Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke. One more reason I'm glad I grew up in this wonderful decade.

3. The Beautiful South - My Book

One of my favourite Beautiful South singles, yet one of their least successful. Heaton's on top lyrical form here... what a pity Soul II Soul felt the need to sue him for it for his "Back to bed, back to reality" refrain.

This is my life and this is how it reads
A documentary that nobody believes
Albert Steptoe in 'Gone with the Breeze'
Mother played by Peter Beardsley, father by John Cleese

2. The Bluetones - Solomon Bites The Worm

The Bluetones adapt the diary of one Solomon Grundy, esquire, for one of their greatest songs. It's a cracker. As Kevin Bacon says, doing his best Frank Carson impression on that advert. Now there's something I never thought I'd see...

1. ELO - The Diary of Horace Wimp

I found the story of Horace Wimp heartbreaking as a younger man. I could certainly empathize with his hopeless quest to find a significant other...

Wednesday. Horace met the girl. She was small and she was very pretty. 
He thought he was in love, he was afraid - uh oh. 
Thursday. Asked her for a date, the cafe down the street, tomorrow evening. 
His head was reeling, when she said yes, OK.

Those were the best entries in my diary. Which one do you keep padlocked under your pillow so your mum won't read it?