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!

Snapshots #422: Songs About Arts & Crafts Supplies

A top notch - and very tricky - edition of Snapshots this weekend. Many thanks to C from Sun Dried Sparrows for her hard work. C, of course, is an artist (as is Ron Wood and today's header image, multi-disciplinary artist Yayoi Kusama). Perhaps that was the best clue to this week's link... 

15. Viv Daisyland is confused.

 

Viv Daisyland is an anagram of David Sylvian.

David Sylvian: The Ink In The Well

14. Destination Saturday?

If you were to go to David Bowie’s Drive In Saturday, you would be At The Drive In.

At The Drive In: One Armed Scissor

13. Not ewe twos!

 

Not ewe = ram, not twos = ones, put them together and you get the Ramones.

The Ramones: Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue

Extra kudos to C for finding a picture of the Ramones where they don't immediately look like the Ramones. From past experience, I know that's a tough one!

12.  A rabbit follows an Ant.

 

Harvey the rabbit (from the film) comes after Ant (McPartlin) who was P J in P J & Duncan / Byker Grove.

P J Harvey: White Chalk

Ditto Polly Jean, actually.

11. Little and fluffy.

 

The Orb sang about little fluffy clouds

Clouds: Watercolour Days

10. A distant Pet Shop Boy.

 

Chris Lowe is a Pet Shop Boy, if he’s distant he’s far, put them together for Chris FARlowe.

Chris Farlowe: Yesterday’s Paper

9. Picasso’s identical friends.

 

Jean Cocteau was a friend of Picasso and twins can be identical.

Cocteau Twins: Wax and Wane

8. Orion and Gogmagog, perhaps.

 

Orion is from Greek mythology and Gogmagog is from English folklore - they might be giants!

They Might Be Giants: Pencil Rain 

7. Gilded French software program.

 

Gold fr app….

Goldfrapp: Clay

6. Manacled in the Queen of Hearts’ garden.

 

Alice in Wonderland in chains…

Alice In Chains: Scalpel

5.  Pot it or be in it.

 

You can pot the pink, or be in the pink.

Pink: Glitter In The Air

4.  A power station for Walter.

 

‘Kraftwerk’ means power station in Walter’s native tongue!

Kraftwerk: The Model

Well, you learn something new every day!

3. Sandi and the disgraced Duke add email.

 

Sandi THOM and the disgraced Duke of YORK add E….

Thom Yorke: The Eraser

2. Reorganise!  Win a kinder cow!

 

Reorganise ‘win a kinder cow’ to spell Dionne Warwick (anagram).

Dionne Warwick: Paper Mache

1. Ruddy regal frippery!

Robert Fripp was in King (regal) Crimson (ruddy)

King Crimson: Frame by Frame

More Snapshots next Saturday - but nothing quite as inspired, I'm afraid to say.

Snapshots #265: A Top Ten Fireworks Songs

I remember when we used to spend the day after Bonfire Night running around finding all the half-burnt fireworks from the night before and trying to set them off again. My childhood was a health and safety nightmare.

I'd much rather spend this morning playing you ten songs named after fireworks...

10. Get some more tissue for Marie McDonald.

Lulu was born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie. Tissue is another name for flesh.

Flesh For Lulu – Roman Candle

9. House bird for a couple who are Long & Little, and from the Hills. 

Little John and Long John goes to Beverly Hills to meet some Housemartens.

John & Beverly Martyn – Traffic Light Lady

8. Proby bangs the wall.

PJ Proby is a Harvey Wallbanger.

PJ Harvey – Fountain

7. A bit like gnus.

Gnus are like Wildebeest, or Wild Beasts...

Wild Beasts - Catherine Wheel

6. At the heart of all curmudgeons. 

Found in the centre of "all curMUDgeons" is some MUD.

Mud - Rocket

5. Cruise, like 7.

Tom Cruise and a Buffalo, which is a bit like a Gnu or Wildebeest.

Buffalo Tom - Sparklers

4. Named after their “dreary hometown”. 

Portishead – All Mine

The firework in question is a Mine. Go look it up.

3. Never known to gather a handmaid.

Elizabeth Moss stars in The Handmaid's Tale. A Rolling Stone never gathers her.

The Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash

2. Cuddle!

Embrace - Fireworks

1. The Corrs, Janet Jackson, Del Shannon 

All the above sang about Runaways.

There will be ten more bangers for you to identify next weekend.

(I use the word "bangers" to refer to fireworks and, against my better nature, a reference to that extremely unpleasant term that young people use to refer to a good tune. I feel quite ill for doing it, but a joke's a joke.)

Snapshots #232: A Top Ten Fifty Songs

Now that I am 50, I no longer need to pretend to be down wiv da kidz. Still, it makes me feel slightly better to know that Curtis 'Fiddy Cent' Jackson is only three years behind me. Snoop Dogg turn 50 last year. And Eminem will be 50 in October! 

Despite being 50, I only have ten answers for you today...

10. No, your bum doesn't look big in those jeans. And I love what you've done with your hair.

They're all White Lies.

White Lies - Fifty On Our Foreheads

9. Les Enfants Terribles.

Written by Jean Cocteau.

The Cocteau Twins - Fifty-Fifty Clown

8. Holy onomatopoeia, Batman!

Biff Bang Pow! - Fifty Years Of Fun

7. Duchess meets two former presidents.

Kate is the Duchess, Bushes were the presidents.

Kate Bush - Fifty Words For Snow

6. Undergrounds.

The Tubes - Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman

5. Scouts and capitalists.

Venture Scouts or Venture Capitalists?

The Ventures - Hawaii Five-0

4. Main enema.

Unfortunate anagram.

Aimee Mann - Fifty Years After The Fair

3. Get the rope, Harry, and untangle it.

"Rope, Harry," was another angram.

Roy Harper - These Fifty Years

2. Catboy, Owlette and Gekko wear masks; Alex is Sensational without one.

Catboy, Owlette and Gekko are the PJ Masks. You've got to keep up on your kids cartoons.

The Sensational Alex... Harvey, of course.

PJ Harvey - 50 ft Queenie

1. When Owen Met Carly.

Owen Paul meet Carly Simon...

The problem is all inside your head

She said to me

Remember when we did the Hot 100 Countdown together? Seems like so long ago. Not quite fifty years, mind.

Anyway, more Snapshots next week. Unless I've taken early retirement.