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Monday, 1 September 2025

Snapshots Spillover: More Reasons To Call The Doctor!

The doctor will see you now!

If you ever think that some of the tracks I choose for Saturday Snapshots are a little on the obscure side... you should see the ones I leave out!

Here are a few more reasons to call your GP, starting with the original version of a song made into a hit by Robert Palmer...


Angie & the Citations - Headache

Girls - Vomit

Splodgenessabounds - Nausea Vomiting Diahorea

The Trashcan Sinatras - Hay Fever

Los Capesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte

We Were Promised Jetpacks - Sore Thumb

Galaxie 500 - Temperature's Rising

Reverend & The Makers - Warts N All

Guided By Voices - An Earful Of Wax

Killing Joke - I Am The Virus

Jeff Rosenstock - Nausea

(That one was from Ben.)

The Flaming Lips - Guy Who Got a Headache and Accidentally Saves the World


Take two paracetamol and call me in the morning.

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Just the humble witterings of a middle-aged music fan from the north of England. I don't claim these lists to be definitive, I haven't heard every record ever produced (though I have heard a good number of them), I don't believe my opinion to be any more valid than yours.

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