Saturday Snapshots #160 - The Answers

 

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Luckily, he took a break this weekend to play Saturday Snapshots.

Here are this week's answers...

10. Ignominious 14th. Righteous Scrooge.

Ignominy is public shame. N is the 14th letter. Shame + N =

The Shamen - Ebeneezer Good

What a silly, silly, silly song. At the time, I hated it, just as I hated all rave culture. Now... weirdly nostalgic of the year I turned twenty.

Alyson has been hobnobbing with the stars again...

The Shamen were originally from Aberdeen and Colin Angus in the picture was a friend of IC2 whose Awesome Mixtape I wrote about last weekend.

9. Mick's Zen octet plays California.

Mick's Zen octet was an anagram. Pretty lazy this week, lots of anagrams.

Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers In Your Hair)

Lynchie says to check out the b-side...

Scott McKenzie - What's the Difference (Chapter II)

8. A Harts non-event, 4 prime.

A Harts non-event is an anagram.

Add up the first 4 Prime Numbers... 2 + 3 + 5 + 7 = 17.

Sharon Van Etten - Seventeen

7. Caviar in a spin. 

Caviar is fish eggs / roe.

Tommy Roe - Dizzy

6. Stop trying to find fault, like Tom The Duck.

Tom Jones + Howard The Duck...

Howard Jones - No One Is To Blame

C said that Howard Jones looks better now... I actually think he sounds better now. I was never that fussed at the time, but now I find these decent enough pop songs.

5. Coo-lumbo, Sherlock Homing and Agent Coop-er remove a lady's rear.   

I'm not the world's biggest fan of the Pigeon Detectives, but sometimes the clue is too good to avoid...

The Pigeon Detectives - Take Her Back

4. Asda clothes take the mick, with a coral... um... hang on, hang on... I'll finish this clue in a minute...

George at Asda takes the Michael. With a reef... er...

George Michael & Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)

3. Kate & Fred love them. Hahahaha!

Kate Pierson & Fred Schneider are in the B-52s. Who sang about a Love Shack. 

Shack - Comedy

2. Beautiful baptism bowl, full of potassium. 

Beautiful baptism bowl would be a bella font... 

Bananas are full of potassium.

Harry Beladonte - Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)

Whenever I hear that, I can't help but think of the Stan Freberg version...

Stan Freberg - Banana Boat (Day-O)

1. Bother not, between the roads.

Bother not was an anagram

Between the roads is the central reservation.

As shown in this lovely video...

If you think this is As Good As It Gets... wait till next Saturday!

My Top Ten San Francisco Songs

It's a while since I took a stop on my American music tour... so let's take a drive across the Golden Gate Bridge...


10. Train - Save Me, San Francisco

The bloke from Train looks like a Hollywood version of David Gedge. Doesn't sound quite as good...but there are far worse ways to spend 4 minutes of your life.

9. The Flower Pot Men - Let's Go To San Francisco

This is spookier than I remember it. I'm getting acid flashbacks from the video, and I never did acid in my life. 

8. Scott McKenzie - San Francisco

If you're going, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

7. Rufus Wainwright - San Francisco

Rufus does Judy Garland. Classic.

6. The Lucksmiths - The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco

Probably my favourite song by The Lucksmiths. If you've never heard them before and you're wondering what they sound like, the fact that they also have a song called There Is A Boy That Never Goes Out might give you a clue to their influences...

5. Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco

There appear to be numerous comedy routines which lead exhaustively to the punchline, "I left me harp in Sam Clam's Disco". I advise you to ignore them all.

4. American Music Club - All The Lost Souls Welcome You To San Francisco

Being that they hail from the city by the bay, it's no wonder that Mark Eitzel and co. have written a few songs about it (they even named an album after it).

A city built by fire trucks!
Dirty old bastards drunk on love
And mean old queens who never forgive
The compromises they made to live

3. Magnetic Fields - Come Back from San Francisco

One of Stephin Merritt's most beautiful love songs, as performed by Shirley Simms on the majestic 69 Love Songs...

Come back from San Francisco and kiss me; I've quit smoking.
I miss doing the wild thing with you.
Will you stay? I don't think so, but all I do is worry, 
Pack bags, call cabs, and hurry home to me.

2. Arctic Monkeys - Fake Tales Of San Francisco

You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham...

...is probably the lyric that made me fall in love with the Arctic Monkeys way back when. 

Sad to hear that in the video edit, they replaced the line, ""The band were fucking wank
And I'm not having a nice time." with the far less interesting, "The band weren't very good..."

1. Chris Isaak - San Francisco Days

Probably my favourite Chris Isaak record, there's a real aching melancholy to his voice.





Special mention to Weightless Again by the Handsome Family...

This is why people OD on pills and jump from the Golden Gate Bridge. 
Anything to feel weightless again.

But which San Francisco song makes you feel weightless again?