Saturday Snapshots #121 - The Answers

Before you start Goblin up your Sunday dinner, there's the small matter of the answers to Saturday Snapshots to contend with. Here's a Lighthouse to shine on the... erm... darkness of your... erm... 

Sorry, just not feeling the puns today. Great picture of Mr. WD though.

10. Good man crowned globetrotter of Madrid.

Benny Goodman.

Harlem Globetrotters.

Madrid is the capital of Spain.

Ben E. King - Spanish Harlem

9. Monkey Liz and bloke in need of a respray ponder unanswerable questions.

The monkey was a Gibbon. Liz is Beth.

A rusting man would need a respray.

Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Mysteries

8. Hibernator rope must have played them all!

"Hibernator rope" was an anagram for an artist most people can't even remember.

"From Soho down to Brighton... he must have played them all" comes from Pinball Wizard.

Brian Protheroe - Pinball

Notably as the only song I can think of to mention "pale ale".

7. Extremist voices sob at the disco.

Ultra-vox.

Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes

6. Reddy to be infatuated? British pop will stand the test of time.

Helen Reddy, in love.

Helen Love - Long Live The UK Music Scene

The lyrics will really remind you of 1996. And they're still funny.

Hey, Alan McGee, 

Don't get in a sweat

There's no need to drop Oasis yet!

Chris Evans and Shed Seven will save the the UK music scene!

Sadly, the UK - and its music scene - have been greatly diminished this weekend.

5. A beer, shy Lissy? And it's your round?

Good week for anagrams...

Shirley Bassey - Big Spender

4. A good fella, Ray, with a director Todd and a weeping prophet... go cruising down by the water's edge.

Steady on, ladies. Form an orderly queue.

Ray Liotta was a Goodfella.

Todd Haynes is a director.

Jeremiah was the weeping prophet.

Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah - Lakeshore Drive

This song is not about LSD. Honest. No, really.

Running south on Lake Shore Drive heading into town

Just slippin' on by on LSD, Friday night trouble bound

It isn't!

3. From a 40s kitchen via a successful city to their inevitable capture.

UB40 had a rat in their kitchen.

A successful city is a boomtown.

The Boomtown Rats - Rat Trap

Pus and grime ooze from its scab crusted sores.

2. Daughters of fate stand on their own.

Destiny's Child - Independent Woman

1. Trivial despair over lack of parachute.

Petty heartbreak.




Willem Saturday Snapshots be back next week?

Dafoe!

(Er, you know, like deffo, only... I'll get me coat.)

My Top Ten Stephen King Songs

My favourite writer has inspired, and been inspired by, all kinds of interesting songs... here's a few that share a title with the greatest hits of Stephen King's back catalogue.

By the way, I already did a Top 10 Misery Songs back on the old blog. Search that one out for Kathy Bates and her sledgehammer. 


10. James - The Shining

Stephen King stole the title of The Shining from Lennon's Instant Karma ("We all shine on...") James stole the title from King, as did Badly Drawn Boy. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

9. Murder By Death - Holy Lord, Shawshank Redemption Is Such A Good Movie

No idea why they decided to call this track what they did, since its only lyrics are...

You're all the way over there but we can dance to your music from here.

...but nevertheless, points for the title.

8. The Ramones - Pet Sematary

The first King novel I read, back when I was only 14, and the one that got me hooked. This track was written for the less-than-great movie adaptation by a past-their-prime Ramones. Still. You take what you can get.

7. Bob Dylan - From A Buick 6

Despite his love of music, this is one of the few King novels to steal its title wholesale from a rock 'n' roll song. But if you're gonna steal, you might as well steal from Saint Bob. Everyone else does.

6. Cliff Richard - Carrie

The first, but I'm sorry to say, probably not the last time Sir Cliff will find his way onto this blog. I have a shameless soft spot for his mid-70s output... though I'm sure he'd be horrified at the suggestion that his song might have any connection to King's pig-blood drenched heroine.

5. Faithless - Insomnia

I can't get no sleep

Serves you right for reading SK just before bed, Maxi. 

4. House Of Love - Christine

I'm sure the Christine in question had very little in common with King's killer car... but this is a cracker nevertheless.

3. The Prodigy - Firestarter

Backstage at the V96 Festival, a mate of mine pulled Keith from The Prodigy round on a child's ride-on tractor.

Firestarter isn't one of King's best novels, but the movie adaptation was better than some. Good cast, at least, including Drew Barrymore, David Keith, Martin Sheen, George C. Scott and Heather Locklear (who was contractually obliged to appear because it was 1984).

2. Ben E. King - Stand By Me

The movie of the same name was adapted from King's novella 'The Body', so he didn't steal the title of Ben E. King's classic soul heartwrencher himself. But it was a perfect fit.

1. The Alarm - The Stand

Directly inspired by King's magnum opus.

Oh I have been out searching 
With the black book in my hand 
And I've looked between the lines that lie on the pages that I tread 
I met the walking dude, religious, in his worn down cowboy boots 
And he walked liked no man on earth 
I swear he had no name 
I swear he had no name 

Got a favourite song with the same title as a Stephen King book? Celine Dion's Tommyknockers, perhaps? Share it with the class...