Snapshots #383: A Top 15 Crimes Against Music

You have been brought before me today charged with some of the most heinous crimes known to man. 

How do you plead...?

15. Seen in various lit stadiums. 

VariouS LIT Stadiums...

The Slits - Shoplifting

14. None of your.

None of your business!

The Business - Drinking & Driving

13. Favoured by horses...

The Sugarcubes - Theft

12. Mate's wake.

Funeral For A Friend - I Am The Arsonist

11. Looks like it's where the sweet train stops.

It's almost like the Candy Station!

Candi Staton - Blackmail

10. Miss Diane, you f***ing ****!

That may be my favourite clue ever. But I'm easily pleased.

Benny Profane - Rob A Bank

9. Located in the Grenadines? Hah! 

Grenadine sHah! 

Nadine Shah - Stealing Cars

8. What is love? In a modern museum.

Howard Jones sang What Is Love? In the Tate Modern.

Howard Tate - She's A Burglar

7. Holds up a group of geese.

A prop for a gander.

Propaganda - Abuse

6. The Rock, Just Like...

The Rock is Dwayne Johnson. 

Just Like... Eddy!

Duane Eddy - Stalkin'

5. Almost like Britney on a bonfire.

Imagine a burning Spear(s)...

Burning Spear - Slavery Days

4. Just like heaven.

Nirvana - Rape Me

3. There's nearly a thousand of them! 

999 - Homicide

2. Just part of the audience.

In fact, she used to be lead singer in theaudience...

Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Murder On The Dancefloor

1. The exported leopards find themselves in a bit of a tangle.

The Teardrop Explodes - Treason

I sentence you all to more Snapshots next Saturday...

Snapshots #364: A Top Ten New York Landmark Songs

Start spreading the news, I'm leaving today...

10. Cracking quads.

Lynsey de Paul had thighs of thunder!

Thunderthighs - Central Park Arrest

9. Norma irons V into all her shirts. 

"Norma irons V" was an anagram... of course!

Van Morrison - Coney Island

8. Wuthering Heights meets The Walking Dead.

Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights. This is actress Emily Kinney who appeared in The Walking Dead... and she's a pretty good singer-songwriter too.

Emily Kinney - Times Square

7. A Ewing in the shower.

When Bobby Ewing came back from the dead, he was naked as the day he was born.

Bobby Bare - Brooklyn Bridge

6. Two & three. One & four not pictured.

One-two-three-four! This is Johnny and Dee Dee. Joey and Tommy were elsewhere on the bus.

The Ramones - Rockaway Beach

5. They put Sting 'n' Git together... surely not?

Sting a git? No way!

Anagram!

The Ting Tings - Guggenheim

The Guggenheim was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

4. He wouldn't say it if he didn't mean it.

Lyrics from Lost Weekend.

Lloyd Cole - Radio City Music Hall

3. It's very strange in Donna's attic.

"Donna's attic" was an anagram.

Candi Staton - Nights On Broadway

2. Text Cher and ask for her insight.

Text Cher...

XTC - Statue Of Liberty

1. Found confused in the icky aisle. 

Lots of anagrams this week. Sometimes that's all I can come up with. I'll try harder next time.

Alicia Keys - Empire State Of Mind

And I'm gonna make a brand-new start of it next Saturday, with more Snapshots...

Saturday Snapshots #106 - The Answers

I have a secret to tell
From my electrical well
It's a simple message and I'm leaving out the whistles and bells
So the room must listen to me
Filibuster vigilantly
Here are the answers to this week's Q-U-I-Z...


10. How far to Ipanema? It's I, not you.

Astrud Gilberto sang about The Girl from Ipanema, Replace the U in Astrud with an I.

How far? Some distance.

Astrid - Distance

9. Hello sunrise... is it because you're chillee, perhaps?

Shivaree - Goodnight Moon

8. Escape from Irish town, via Amitri.

Runaway from Shannon, with Del (Amitri).

Del Shannon - Runaway

7. Vole? Evol? Leo V? Arrrghh! (Somebody call for a pick-up.)

Are you hailing a van?

Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love?

6. I won't be at the station, my sweet. The baby tickers have escaped!

Take the I from Station. my sweet?

Candi Staton - Young Hearts Run Free

5. Motionless distillery can get it on with anybody.

Motionless is still. So is a distillery

Stephen Stills - Love The One You're With

4. Debut snog for hard boy.

Kid Rock - First Kiss

3. Children of a Piper, a Borg and a Beatle.

Peter Piper. Bjorn Borg. John Lennon.

Children are young folk.

Peter, Bjorn & John - Young Folks

2. Gyroscopic mortality in question.

Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

1. Adam's Dandies - Adam's Dandy.

Adam Ant was a Dandy Highwayman.

Nelson. Cash. Kristofferson. Jennings.

Jimmy Webb Is God.



Satisfy the Birdhouse In Your Soul with more Saturday Snapshots next week.