Snapshots #397: !!!Songs!!!

Goodness gracious me!

Great balls of fire!

Good golly, Miss Molly!

Here are 15 more song titles you might cry out in shock, frustration or outrage!

15. Known for squabbling with part of a Chinese omelette. 

The fight with the foo (yung).

Foo Fighters - Good Grief!

14. Teenage dads.

Young Fathers - Holy Moly!

13. Prince's New Generation: C'est Chic!

It was the New POWER Generation backing Prince. Le Freak, C'est Chic!

Freakpower - No Way!

12. Stone them.

Stone the crows!

The Crows - Gee!

11. Secret lover with bad spelling.

A secret lover is a paramour,

Paramore - Whoa!

10. A spiky mate.

Buddy Holly - Oh Boy!

9. Sounds like this would throw an old President.

Chuck Ragan - For Goodness Sake!

8. Do you remember me taking you on the Walk of Fame?

"Do you remember me?" is from Frankie, by Sister Sledge. The Walk of Fame is in Hollywood.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - For Heaven's Sake!

7. Get yourself a sex jab, taxmen!

"Sex jab, taxmen" was an anagram.

Basement Jaxx - Oh My Gosh!

6. A tame foal, out of order.

A pretty simple anagram.

Meat Loaf - For Crying Out Loud!

5. Reign of Terror.

The Communards were a big part of The Reign of Terror (French Revolution stuff).

The Communards - Heavens Above!

4. Show a Patsy the exit.

Lee Harvey Oswald claimed to be a Patsy. Lee: Door: see?

Lee Dorsey - Holy Cow!

3. Often seen in an Arab bar.

Arab bar

Abba - Mamma Mia!

2. If you're feeling confused, take a fresh sickie.

"A fresh sickie" was an anagram...

Kaiser Chiefs - Oh My God!

1. Mountain sides.

The Faces - Ooh La La!

Snapshots #306: A Top Ten Romeo Songs (Without Juliet)

This is Romeo Beckham.

I know. I also despair.

Here are ten far more interesting Romeos... all yet to find (or having already lost) their Juliet.

10. Going underground with Johnson & White.

Jack Johnson & Jack White are in the basement.

Basement Jaxx - Romeo

9. Eric's pal goes Greene.

Eric's pal was Ernie. Graham was Greene.

Ernie Graham - Romeo & The Lonely Girl

8. Not Billy Joel's kind of girl.

She preferred downtown.

Petula Clark - Romeo

7. Help you see in the rain. 

The Wipers - Romeo

That's great.

6. IT Jobs, dedicated to Mr. Reynolds.

Steve Jobs was in IT. The dedication was "for Burt".

Steve Forbert - Romeo's Tune

5. I was Mott.

Anagram!

Tom Waits - Romeo Is Bleeding

4. Crime boss.

Mr. Big - Romeo

3. Russian ballet dancers.

The Bolshoi - Romeo In Clover

2. Do Not Disturb.

Sleeper - Romeo Me

1. TV Channel... and the Chipmunks.

Dave was the channel. Alvin goes with the Chipmunks.

Dave Alvin - Romeo's Escape

But soft - what lie through yonder window breaks? It is next Saturday, and the Snapshots will be back...

Saturday Snapshots #40 - The Answers

No!


Sleep!


Till Saturday Snapshots have all been answered.

Low attendance yesterday - I guess SS can't compete with the football. I think Charity Chic just nabbed the win. Half a point ahead of Lynchie. And Alyson... I think... scraped past the line first last week.

Thanks for playing...


10. God, the German trees in France are all conifers.

Tree in German is baum. Conifers are evergreen. The Normans came from France.

God is the spirit in the sky.

Norman Greenbaum - Spirit In The Sky

9. Emergency! There's knaves in the cellar!

Knaves are Jacks.

Basement Jaxx - Red Alert!

8. Is my belle surprised? I'll ask her.

Michelle is my belle, according to the Beatles. Does that shock you?

"My wife's going to the biggest city in America's northern most state."

"Anchorage?"

"I'll ask her..."

(Alaska.)

Badum-tish.

Michelle Shocked - Anchorage

7. These guys certainly don't own a Blue Nile album. And their disco is full of cotton wool.

Hats is an album by The Blue Nile.

If you wrap something in cotton wool, you are keeping it safe.

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

6. Bah! Clomp is not a man.

Bah clomp is an anagram of Lambchop.

Lambchop - Is A Woman

5. Morrissey's window cleaner dines with bright kings.

Morrissey's window cleaner was Roy('s) Keen.

Keane - Sovereign Light Café

(Look, this is a good song. It's not his fault he looks like a young David Cameron.)

4. Saint swaps chainmail and dumps January's aviator.

Saint Joan is trading her armour.

January was a hit for Pilot.

Joan Armatrading - Drop The Pilot

3. B.A. hires The Cars for dim bulbs.

B.A. was Mr. T. If he hired a band he would be a booker. MGs were cars. The Cars were a band. Dim bulbs would be...

Booker T & The MGs - Green Onions

2. Little David Bowie's noisy band RSVP.

David Bowie was DB, with a little d. Decibels measure noise.

RSVP is Répondez s'il vous plait.

The dBs - Write Back

(One for Brian!)

1. Playgirl fantasies on Martha's beach run from the barber.

If Playboys liked bunny girls, presumably Playgirls would like Bunnymen.

Martha's beach was Echo.

Spare us the cutter!



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