Showing posts with label Sonics. Show all posts
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Sunday, 27 October 2024

Snapshots #367: A Top Twenty Songs Named After Horror Movies


Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y’all’s neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the Hounds of Hell
And rot inside a corpse’s shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the SNAPSHOTS!
AH HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA

Thank you, Vincent. This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

It's Halloween this week, and when I started looking for songs that share their names with horror movies, I hit a bumper bundle. But did you guess them all?


20. Bad jingles get me in such a tizzy. 


"Bad jingles" was an anagram...



19. Lost inside Outwood Golf Course.


In case you're wondering, Outwood is just down the road from where I work in Leeds. Fortunately, I've never spotted u-two while driving through there...



18. Ttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiiiiissssssssssss iiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssss ttttttttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeee ccccccccccccccllllllllllllluuuuuuuuuuuuueeeeeeeeeee.




17. The Haiti dollar hides a silly secret. 


The Haiti dollar, Silly Billy.



16. Boopadoop.

Named after Chic Young's Blondie comic strip: her surname was Boopadoop.

Blondie - Island Of Lost Souls

15. Noughties boy band, aphrodisiac, Ian Astbury.

Noughties boy band = Blue.

Aphrodisiac = Oyster.

Ian Astbury = The Cult.

Blue Öyster Cult - Nosferatu

14. Frippette?

She's married to Robert Fripp...

Toyah - Alien

13. They're ghosting you.

The Phantom Band - The Howling

12. Can you hear them?

The Sonics - Psycho

11. ...is a V. smarmy DJ mix.

..."is a V. smarmy DJ" was an anagram...

Sammy Davis Jr. - The Candyman

10. A wing and a guitar.

A Fender is what we Brits would call the wing on a car... and it's also a type of guitar.

Sam Fender - Poltergeist(s)

9. Just desserts.

The Sweet - Hellraiser

8. Read one section of your home. 

Chapterhouse - Don't Look Now

7. This guy, and another four droplets.

A tough one this, and probably not one you could guess from the clue alone... but once you worked out the theme... maybe?

Anyway, the photo above is Bernie Nee, the singer on the track below. The rest of the Blobs were session musicians, so no photo exists of the "band" itself...

The Five Blobs - The Blob

6. Bitten by a green bird that wishes it could fly.

Orville might have wished he could fly, but he could at least peck.

Orville Peck - Dead Of Night

5. Used to make soup for Alice and the Queen.

Then the Queen said to Alice, "Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?"

"No," said Alice. "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is."

"It's the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from", said the Queen.

(From Alice In Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll.)

The Mock Turtles - Wicker Man

4. A carpenter and a great hangman. 

The Great Hangman is a cliff. Richard was a Carpenter.

Cliff Richard - Carrie

3. Chest, pea, dough.

Chestnut, peanut, doughnut...

Nut - Scream

2. What do Jennifer Anniston, Julie Andrews and Jane Austen cook their eggs in?

In the J.A.pan, of course!

Japan - Halloween

1. Lad-ra-doodle.


It's not often you see Damon Gough without his hat on...

Badly Drawn Boy - The Shining

Not Number One because it's my favourite song... but it is my favourite horror film.


Such a bounty of horror-film-related songs did I find, that there will be more to share later in the week... and a much less scary Snapshots will be back next Saturday. 


Sunday, 12 January 2020

Saturday Snapshots #118 - The Answers


Groovy answers, baby... yeah!



10. In an Osmond's eye, how you call a princess.


Donnie's iris?

Princess Leia.

Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah!

9. Both my boots are excellent - I will not change my mind!


He is adamant.

Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes

8. Finally! Estimated arrival time for 7 seated bell ringers.


ETA of James (who had an album called Seven, and songs called Sit Down & Ring The Bells).

Etta James - At Last

7. Noisy hedgehogs get a ticket to tenderness.



The Sonics - Have Love Will Travel

6. Oh, show me the way to a trio of whiskey bars... I've cancelled my holiday to Vasco da Gama.


"Oh, show me the way to the next whiskey bar" is the opening line of Alabama Song.

Trio is 3.

Vasco da Gama is in Goa.

Alabama 3 - Ain't Goin' To Goa

5. Murdered? Escape repeatedly.


Slayed.

Slade - Run Runaway

4. Angriest Chad mixed up with romantic idiot.


"Angriest Chad" is an anagram.

The Cardigans - Lovefool

3. Succulent, in the sky with... adoration questionnaires.


Succulent = juicy.

Lucy was in the sky with diamonds.

Juicy Lucy - Who Do You Love?

2. Chained ghost selects donut filling.


Jacob Marley's chains.

How do you like your donuts, Bob?

With jam in.

The old ones are the best.

Bob Marley - Jammin'

1. No man pauses before a storm. Who's gonna clean up later?


Tom Waits for no man.

Pauses = waits.

Storm = gale.

Tell me... how long have you been combing your hair with a wrench?



More Shagadelic Snapshots next Saturday.


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