Saturday Snapshot #94 - The Answers

I don't believe in Snapshots... I just believe in me.

Here's this week's answers. Thanks for playing. Well done to Lynchie for getting up first (and magnanimously leaving some for everybody else), and to Rigid Digit for hoovering up most of the others.


10. Bob the mailman has run out of numbers.

Congrats to Alyson for doing her homework.

Robert Post - Got None

9. Office worker with doll joins bandits at the station.

An office worker could be a clerk.

Guys & Dolls.

Guy Clark - Desperadoes Waiting For A Train

8. Predicting the fall of the opposite sex.

The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men

7. Old Blue Eyes meets Disney & White, following the end of everything.

Frank meets Walter Disney & Walter White... after all.

The Frank & Walters - After All

6. Johnny Marr's favourite chocolate bar gets a lift to lust.

Johnny likes an Aero to go with his Smiths.

Points to Ramone for going where others dare not tread!

Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator

Video of the week, if only for the first 20 seconds. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

5. Faustian lover becomes a Pickett, protesting sub-hairline sunburn.

Faust's lover was Gretchen.

Wilson Pickett.

Below your hairline (at the back, anyway) is your neck.

Gretchen Wilson - Redneck Woman

4. Kestrel genus swayed by wolf gang.

A kestrel is a falcon; scientific name: falco.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Falco - Rock Me, Amadeus

That never gets old.

3. He had 4: Joan, Margaret, Joan & Anne... but they're all a long, long time ago.

Joan, Margaret, Joan & Anne were the names of Shakespeare's sisters.

Shakespear's Sister - You're History

2. Overhead wires spark a half dozen warnings.

Jack White not pictured, as he only appears on this track.

Electric Six - Danger! High Voltage

1. Castaway cop looks for divine intervention over weeping sleepers.

Robinson Crusoe was a Castaway.

Smokey is a cop.

Divine intervention is a miracle.

Sleepers are what railway tracks are laid on.



Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans. But Snapshots plans to be back next Saturday, unless life gets in the way.

My Top Ten Burt Reynolds Songs

Time-pressured this week due to the new college year chaos, but I did want to pay tribute to another hero of my childhood who passed last week. Here's ten tunes for Burt...

10. Sammy Kershaw - Cadillac Style

Well, I ain't Burt Reynolds and I ain't Tom Selleck;
I got bills up the pike and my car's an old relic

9. Heatwave - Boogie Nights

Burt's great "comeback" role of the 90s.

8. Gretchen Wilson - Trucker Man

He's got nineteen on the CB
Well they call him the Bandit
Cause he only breaks for the Smokies

7. Ray Stevens - The Cannonball Run

6. Warren Zevon - Sacrificial Lambs

Smokey and the Bandit
And Saddam Hussein
Were staying up late
And acting insane

5. Jerry Reed - Eastbound & Down

4. Don Williams - If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do)

Oh, and if you see Burt Reynolds would you shake his hand for me
And tell ol' Burt I've seen all his movies
Well, I hope you make for big time, I hope your dreams come true
But if Hollywood don't need you, honey, I still do

3. Lee Majors - The Unknown Stuntman

Any excuse to play this!

I might fall from a tall Building, so Burt Reynolds don't get hurt
I might leap a mighty Canyon, so he can kiss and flirt
While that smooth talker's kissing my girl - I'm just kissing dirt
Yes, I'm the lonely stuntman, that made a lover out of Burt

2. Duelling Banjos

Squeal like a pig, boy!

1. Bruce Springsteen - Cadillac Ranch

James Dean in that mercury '49
Junior Johnson runnin' through the woods of Carolina
Even Burt Reynolds in that black Trans Am
All gonna meet down at the Cadillac ranch

I wonder if they threw old Burt's body in the back and drove him to the junkyard in his Cadillac?



RIP, Burt.

My Top Ten Party Songs

To celebrate our new arrival, we're having a party at Top Ten Towers... and you're invited. My son Sam is 4 weeks old today and 1 calendar month on Wednesday. This is his party.

There are, of course, thousands of "party" songs. To narrow that down, the first rule is that the song has to have "party" in the title. There are, however, lots of songs that mention parties in the title but are actually anything but party songs (Party Fears Two, It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To). Those will get their own Top Ten one day. Basically, to get in here... you've gotta make me want to hit the dancefloor. (And that takes some doing.)

So... let's party!


10. The Blackout - Start The Party

Welsh rockers The Blackout swap Merthyr Tydfil for Ibiza in the title track from their latest album. Loses points for the cry of "Wuzzzaaaaaappp?" right at the end of the video. Does anybody really still say "Wuzzzaaaaaappp?" in 2013? Or am I just out of touch?

9. Gretchen Wilson - Here For The Party

Nobody parties like a redneck queen...

Well, I'm an eight ball shooting, double fisted drinking son of a gun
I wear my jeans a little tight
Just to watch the little boys come undone
I'm here for the beer and the ball busting band
Gonna get a little crazy just because I can
I'm here for the party

8. Queen - Party / Kashoggi's Ship

The opening tracks to Queen's late 80s album The Miracle segue together for a party full of excess... just like Freddie's life.

No one stops my party!

7. Southside Johnny & The Asbury Dukes - We're Having A Party

Written and originally recorded by Sam Cooke, but Johnny's version is more likely to fill the dance floor.

6. Pulp - Party Hard

The darkest song on this list, dealing with the death of the Britpop party (as the whole This Is Hardcore album portrayed in exquisite detail), yet it still rocks. Plus - Jarvis plays dominoes with a squadron of cheerleaders. The man is a god.

I was having a whale of a time until your uncle...
Your uncle Psychosis arrived.
Why do we have to half kill ourselves just to prove we're alive?
I'm here whenever you need me
and whenever you need me
I won't be here.
And have you ever stopped to ask yourself?
If you didn't come to party, then why did you come here?

5. Pink - Get The Party Started

As we've already established, I'm a huge Pink fan. This is the kind of dancey pop racket that, were it recorded by anyone else, I might not give much time to. But I do like Pink... and this tune does exactly what it says on the tin.

4. The Divine Comedy - I've Been To A Marvellous Party

Neil Hannon covers the Noel Coward classic. It begins as a crackly old gramophone recording before going all techno-Prodigy in the middle. That really shouldn't work. But, by jove, it does.

On Wednesday night, I went to a marvellous party
With Nunu and Nada and Nell
It was in the fresh air and we went as we were and we stayed as we were which was hell
Poor Grace started singing at midnight and she didn't stop singing til four
We knew the excitement was bound to begin when Laura got blind on Dubonet and Gin
And scratched her veneer with a Cartier pin - I couldn't have liked it more!

3. Elvis Presley - Let's Have A Party

Back in high school, I played Little John in our Sixth Form Robin Hood pantomime. At the beginning of the second half, the Merry Men had a party... and I performed this song with as much Elvis swagger as I could manage. (It was mimed, sadly, but I gave it my all.) Hearing it always reminds me of my moment in the spotlight. 

2. The Beastie Boys - (You've Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party)

Thank god for those brackets - I couldn't have left this one out.

Top video - "I hope no bad people show up!"

1. Andrew W.K. - Party Hard

I don't know what to make of Andrew W.K. You can read all kinds of wild conspiracy theories about him over on iffypedia and I don't think any of his other records have stayed on my radar for more than five minutes. But if you're going to go down in history as a crazy one-hit wonder... you can do much worse than this belter.





Which one makes you want to party like it's 1999?