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Monday, 8 June 2026

Snapshots Spillover: More Hospital Songs

When I'm putting Snapshot together, I try to get a mix of bands that haven't featured often before, which means that some of the usual suspects and old favourites end up on the operating room floor...

Manic Street Preachers - Roses In The Hospital

Goldfrapp - A&E

Art Brut - Maternity Ward

Art Brut - Hospital!

Frightened Rabbit - State Hospital

Morrissey - The Operation

The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist

And then there are those less obvious contenders who I'm forced to leave out for no other reason than I doubt anybody would ever identify them.

Fuzztones - Ward 81

The Amatones - Plastic Surgeon

The Veils - Night Thoughts Of A Tired Surgeon

Engineers - Emergency Room

Jad Fair & Yo La Tengo - X-Ray Reveals Doctor Left Wristwatch Inside Patient

But there were loads of leftovers this week. I guess everybody just loves singing about hospitals...

UFO - Doctor Doctor

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - X-Ray Style

St. Vincent - Surgeon

Wire - Surgeon's Girl

Cold War Kids - Hospital Beds

Robyn Hitchcock - Surgery

Trashcan Sinatras - The Therapist

Silver Sun - Patients

Neil Ray - The Medic

That's the b-side of a song called Big Fanny. I don't know why I'm telling you that.

Jimmy Hughes - The Loving Physician

John Manning - Free Clinic Song

But we'll close today with an old favourite. I'm a big fan of the Robert Palmer version, but here's the original by the wonderful Moon Martin...

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.

Sunday, 26 January 2025

Snapshots #380: A Top Twelve Songs About American Automobiles

Here are this week's answers, with a Lincoln at the top of the page.

I really wanted to include this... but it would have been just too obvious.

Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen - Hot Rod Lincoln

Here's the ones that were a little less obvious...

12. Lennon's Candyman.

Sammy (Davis Jr.)? He belongs to John.

Sammy Johns - Chevy Van

11. Crocodile, crocodile... I'm a big fan!

Lyle Lyle Crocodile! Love it!

Lyle Lovett - Pontiac

10. Take a journey across Grandaddy's lake.

Grandaddy had a Crystal Lake. Take a trip!

Crystal Trip - Stingray

9. Pull to slow your descent.

The Rip Chords - Hey Little Cobra

8. Follows Ray Parker into the All Terrain Armoured Transport. Sirius, Polaris, Antares.

Ray Parker is followed by Jr. The All Terrain Armoured Transport was also known as a Walker, as Star Wars fans will know. Sirius, Polaris and Antares are all stars.

JR Walker & The All Stars - (I’m a) Road Runner

7. Groundhog: wood... seer.