Snapshots #442: Head & Face Songs

This is the actor Max Frewer, better known for playing the supposedly computer-generated TV presenter, Max Headroom. What a wonderful world it was when computer generated characters were actually played by real human beings... rather than the other way round. Sigh. Old man needs a lie down.

Here are some songs about different parts of the head and face...

15. Gale force: snorrrrre.

Storm-zzzzzzz.

Stormzy - Crown

14. Living in a powder keg and...

...giving off Sparks, sang Bonnie Tyler.

Sparks - Moustache

13. He's a delight... are you too?

A Sunny Delight... unlike that bloke out of U2.

Sonny Bono - Rub Your Nose

12. I can almost remember their funny faces.

Opening lyric to Jet by Wings.

Jet - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

11. They won't make you happy.

The Upsetters - Dollar In The Teeth

10. Steinbeck... Shakespeare, Blake, Wordsworth. 

One John and three Williams.

John Williams - Theme From Jaws

9. H2O XYs.

Water plus the male chromosome...

The Waterboys - And A Bang On The Ear

8. ...Wilson and Diana...

Jackie Wilson & Diana Ross.

Jackie Ross - Keep Your Chin Up

7. George, Elaine, Dave, Linda... Marty.

Back To The Future fans won't have had a problem identifying the McFly family.

McFly - Five Colours In Her Hair

6. Mountain in Brazil... or Wales.

Sugarloaf - Tongue In Cheek

5. Lourdes, Estere and Stella.

Madonna has 6 children, 4 of whom are girls. Missing from the list above is Mercy. So they are...

The Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love

4. It's messed up to call him a scaled shit.

With apologies to Sacha for the uncouth anagram...

Sacha Distel - Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

3. Barry Norman said it best.

I used to love Barry Norman's film reviews, even though I rarely agreed with them. And why not?

And Why Not? - The Face

2. Pretty... Norma... Sensational band.

Pretty Polly... Norma Jean... Sensational Alex Harvey...

PJ Harvey - Written On The Forehead

1. Town where it's August all year long.

Summer-ville, of course!

Jimmy Somerville - Read My Lips (Enough Is Enough)

Face up to more Snapshots next Saturday - and meet them head on!

My Top Ten Shark Songs

I see there's a new Jason Statham movie coming out today called The Meg featuring a giant prehistoric shark. I'm not a great fan of Jason 'The Plank' Statham, but I do like a good shark movie. And ten good shark songs...

Special mention to that terrifying predator that preyed on innocent bloggers a few years back... Feargal Sharkey.


10. Blue Oyster Cult - Shooting Shark

I will be the first to admit that this is not a classic. The video, however, is a wonder to behold. Sharks. Goats. Witch doctors. Guns. Ghosts. Unicorns. Snakes. Dragons. A giant dove. A shooting star... or is it a shooting shark? Plus that moustache. Utterly, utterly bonkers.

9. Split Enz - Shark Attack

A Finn singing about sharks. (Tim Finn, later of Crowded House, of course.)

8. The Courteeners - Sharks Are Circling

Someone call Jason Statham - there's a megalodon in this very song!

7. Throwing Muses - Shark

I love the lyrics to this, in which Kristin Hersh picks up an absolute loser of a bloke on the docks and tries to convince herself he's not that bad really.

This afternoon
Your bite's not so bad
Your bark's not too scary
I could kiss you
For remembering my address

6. Best Boy Grip - Sharks

A recent discovery, this Irish indie band promise great things, even if sharks do keep stealing all his friends.

5. Jimmy Buffett - Fins

Because you can never have enough Jimmy Buffett. (Well, you probably can. But I can't.) Bearing in mind that most of Jimmy's songs involve lazing about on a boat, it shouldn't surprise us that he occasionally gets scared of sharks. Turns out the sharks in this song are of the two legged variety though...

She came down from Cincinnati,
It took her three days on the train.
Lookin' for some peace and quiet,
Hoped to see the sun again.

But now she lives down by the ocean
She's takin' care to look for sharks.
They hang out in the local bars,
And they feed right after dark.

Can't you feel 'em circlin', honey?
Can't you feel 'em swimmin' around?
You got fins to the left, fins to the right,
And you're the only bait in town.

4. Slaves - Hey!

Like a horror film in two and a half minutes - this starts out with sharks preying on bleeding hearts, but the twist soon shows us a much greater threat: "Hey! Watch out for those kids! They'll tear you apart!"

3. Silver Sun - Sharks

A great guitar ballad that just builds and builds and builds. Why weren't Silver Sun bigger than a megalodon?

2. Louis Armstrong - Mack The Knife

Oh, the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear
And it shows them pearly white...

Genius.

1. John Williams - Jaws Theme

If you can create an iconic, tension-filled theme tune based around what's basically two notes... well, you deserve to be the biggest fish in the sea.



Any sharks lurking in your record collection?