Snapshots #252: A Top Twelve Signs Of The Zodiac Songs

The Zodiac is all about reading the stars in the sky... so here's David Starsky...

Look, I couldn't find a picture of Mystic Meg with a camera, all right?

Well done if you predicted the ten artists below... 

12. Roman Empire, Berlin Wall, House of Usher.

The Fall of...

The Fall - Two Librans

11. Inside the house, Charles still gets a tan, somehow.

Inside the house, Charles still gets a tan, somehow.

The Charlatans - Taurus Moaner

10. Heroic Bum. 

Supertramp - Aries

9. Perception minus commodities.

Sense less things.

Senseless Things - Leo

8. Muddled, in a moron's RV.

"In a moron's RV", muddled up, gives you...

Van Morrison - Virgo Clowns

7. Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen and Barry Allen feel all pent up.

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen is the current world chess champion.

Barry Allen is The Flash. (Look it up.)

If you feel all pent up, you're angry. Pent also means five, as in pentagram.

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5 - Scorpio

With Metal Mickey on guest vocals.

6. Bloody emus!

Anagram!

Moody Blues - Gemini Dream

5. Rubber Duck.

See Convoy.

Kris Kristofferson - Jesus Was A Capricorn

4. Instigator of Temptation.

One of the founding members of the Temptations.

Eddie Kendricks - Son of Sagittarius

3. Gregorian Horse.

Anagram!

George Harrison - Pisces Fish

2. Colin Firth hates them.

Regular readers will get the reference.

Eels - Cancer For The Cure

1. Height, width, depth, time...

Height, width, depth, time... are the first four dimensions. As I'm not a physicist, I'm not going to try to explain the 5th.

The Fifth Dimension - Age of Aquarius

The stars tell me there will be more of this nonsense next week. 

Saturday Snapshots #168 - The Answers

  

Supreme answers to follow...

10. Burn the mad planet: legendary king or loveable loser?

Arthur was a legendary king, Charlie Brown a loveable loser.

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Fire

9. Redneck kiddies in a neverending convoy.

"Redneck kiddies" is an anagram.

Eddie Kendricks - Keep On Truckin' (Part 1)

8. Sounds like Tom's hairdresser girl, in very basic attire.

Tom's hairdresser would be Delilah (look what she did to Samson!)

Plain White T's - Hey There, Delilah

7. Shades of talcum, nearly.

"Talcum, nearly" is an anagram.

Shades are sunglasses.

Tracey Ullman - Sunglasses

6. Making suits for the California Highway Patrol leaves him flawlessly misanthropic. 

Someone who made suits for the California Highway Patrol would be a CHiP tailor.

Chip Taylor - Fuck All The Perfect People

5. Depressed ecstasy on silky switchboard.

Depressed Ecstacy? Sad E!

Sade - Smooth Operator

4. Ah, grinned KGB, on US quiz show.

"Ah, grinned KGB" is another anagram.

The Greg Kihn Band - Jeopardy

3. Shaft at the beginning of next Friday leads to nefarious pastime. 

Shaft was Isaac Hayes. The beginning of next Friday is Christmas Day.

Chris Isaak - Wicked Game

2. Millennial hipster does V origami in the cellar. (That clue will probably only work for regular readers of this blog.)

Regular readers will know of my millennial hipster friend Ben (of whom, more next year).

Origami involves folding paper. V is 5.

This was slightly more difficult than it should have been as Ben is the one on the right, not in the middle.

Ben Folds Five - Underground

1. Chic, young, call waiting.

Chic Young was the creator of the comic strip Blondie.

Not the most dignified picture, but you try finding a photo of Debbie Harry that doesn't immediately look like Debbie Harry.

Next week may well be the last Saturday Snapshots... in its current format, anyway.