Snapshots #339: A Top Ten Board Game Songs

We do like a good board game at Top Ten Towers. I know, rock n roll, right?

Here are ten rock n roll board games...

10. Who will be at Lester's party, inside the crowd?

Who will be at Lester's party?

The Beatles - Ticket To Ride

Ticket To Ride is my favourite boardgame. Somewhat ironically, it has been replaced by a game called Wingspan as the favourite of everybody else in the house. "It's only the game Ticket To Ride could have been," they tell me.

Oh, and in case you were wondering, The Beatles are on stage in that picture, playing to a crowd of 18 people, in December 1961.

9. Dancing with German Measles.

Rubella Ballet - Twister

I had C down to get that one. I did however question whether Twister was a boardgame. The web of lies tells me it is, so that's OK.

8. Orbiting Atlanta.

The Georgia Satellites - Battleship Chains

7. Jett joins Juliet Bravo.

Imagine Joan Jett was a a policewoman...

Joan As Policewoman - Game Of Life

6. Grape or Dick?

Moby - Go

5. I'll give them 2:1 odds...

A Certain Ratio - Guess Who

4. Rhett smoked a bong, and it really messed him up.

"Rhett smoked a bong" was an anagram...

Booker T & The MGs - Chinese Checkers

I couldn't find any songs about Draughts.

3. Listen to the music playing in her head. 

That's almost a line from Lady Madonna...

Madonna - Sorry

2. Humpless camels on drugs.

Llamas are camelids without humps.

The High Llamas - Three Point Scrabble

1. Attendant and Richard's lad.

A paige and Dick's son.

Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well

From the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, Chess...

A few more I didn't have room for in the games cupboard...

Parquet Courts - College Chess Circuit

Seafood - Boggle

Captain Sensible - There's More Snakes Than Ladders

Ride - Mouse Trap

Ariana Grande & Victoria Monét - Monopoly

We'll play again next Saturday morning...

Saturday Snapshots #27 - The Answers

Well, I tried to make them easier this week... but they're a lot easier when you can see inside my brain and know the answers.



10. Follow the laurel path along the top of the mountains and no one will see you.

Lynchie got the Stan Laurel connection, Alyson puzzled out the rest.

Stan Ridgway - Camouflage 

That was an awfully big marine!

9. Nonsense friends proselytize.

Friends = chums, proselytize = tubthump. The rest is nonsense as far as I can tell. You come up with a better clue!

Chumbawamba - Tubthumping

I get knocked down, but I get up again...

8. Oy! Good guys join the queue in church.

Choirboys in a queue would be Quireboys. Oy is a less polite way of saying Hey You!

Rigid Digit tells me this isn't their finest moment... but it was their biggest hit.

The Quireboys - Hey You!

7. Collins plays a cop in Jerusalem.

No need to call the cops on Chris!

Joan As Policewoman - Holy City

6. Unremarkable Barry deals with a broken cup.

Lynchie was the early bird this week, getting first choice of the juiciest worms. Barry White was anything but average.

Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

5. Genius is so close to insanity - take a seat and ponder that.

As I type, nobody's got this yet... which makes rather sad.

Furniture - (You Must Be Out Of Your) Brilliant Mind

4. Pink like Heinz. No doorbell.

Pink Floyd. Heinz sang "Just Like Eddie".

Another one for Lynchie.

Eddie Floyd - Knock On Wood

3.  "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship," or "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." Werewolves: run for your lives!

Charity Chic got the band straight away, then we trawled our way through Bob Seger's entire back catalogue before Chris got the song.

The two lines quoted came from the final scenes of Casablanca and Back To The Future, in case you were wondering.

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - The Famous Final Scene

2. Sounds like Jeanette's mother. We're over: do I have to spell it out to you?

Rhymes with Mammy Jeanette? Not my best effort, I know. Fortunately, Lynchie saved me from embarrassment.

Tammy Wynette - D.I.V.O.R.C.E.

1. Second degree burns. Wouldn't wanna be ya!

Second place gets the Silver medal. The Sun burns.




Early Bird Lynchie takes the title this week.

As long as you keep playing, I'll keep digging them out.

More next Saturday...