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its for a writing about photography class, my teacher used paul simon's "bookends" for an example. I need something better.

― DMC, Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:13 (twenty years ago)

def leppard - photograph

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

The Vapors - Turning Japanese

― Ha ha ha, you're so dud! (wetmink2), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

the cure - pictures of you

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

Steely Dan - Peg

― mucho, Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

"Photo Jenny" by Belle & Sebastian

― is bean cobian jojo (Bent Over at the Arclight), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:25 (twenty years ago)

the kinks - picture book

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

Spoon: "I Turn My Camera On"

― salexander (salexander), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

Jim Croce - "Photographs and Memories"

― Walter Raab, Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

The Who - Pictures Of Lily
Ringo Starr - Photograph
J. Geils - Centerfold

Your teacher didn't mention Paul Simon's Kodachrome, eh?

― jim wentworth (wench), Sunday, 25 September 2005 02:47 (twenty years ago)

Photograph - Flock of Seagulls

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

kinks "picture book"

― ZionTrain (ZionTrain), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

also kinks "people take pictures of each other"

and probably not appropriate for said assignment, but Mission of Burma's "This is Not a Photograph" deserves a mention.

there's got to be more, foggy, just up from nap.

― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:15 (twenty years ago)

and uh, duh, paul simon's "kodachrome"

― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

and Depeche Mode: Photographic

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:16 (twenty years ago)

And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:18 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nuloop.com/real/Kool_kat/koolt14.jpg

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

Picture This -- Blondie

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)

Your teacher didn't mention Paul Simon's Kodachrome, eh?

oops I missed that upthread, it not being in the popular 'list' format.

― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005Y1XZ.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Declan Zimmerman (Declan Zimmerman), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

J. Geils - Freeze Frame
Nickelback - Photograph

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:27 (twenty years ago)

Wilco-Kamera

― WillS, Sunday, 25 September 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Verve Pipe - Photograph
R.E.M. feat. Natalie Merchant - Photograph
R.E.M. - Camera
Siouxsee & The Banshees - Red Light (this one has samples of camera shutters used as percussion)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 September 2005 04:05 (twenty years ago)

Can't believe no one's said the CLASSIC one yet - "Traces" by the Classics IV. Okay, so most of it's not about photographs, but it's got a classic opening line that's right up the alley...

Faded photographs,
covered now with lines and creases
Tickets torn in half
Memories in bits and pieces
Traces of love, long ago
That didn't work out right...

I would say as far as overall songs go, Kodachrome wins.

Then there's that somewhat endless song by...Filter? Third Eye Blind? "Could you take my picture / Cause Iiiiiiiii won't remember?"

― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 25 September 2005 04:52 (twenty years ago)

Japan- gentlemen take polaroid

― Arnault (arc73hk), Sunday, 25 September 2005 05:47 (twenty years ago)

Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot

― brianiac (briania), Sunday, 25 September 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

SAINT ETIENNE: The Bad Photographer
CHUCHO: Una F-Foto Tuya

― antonio navarro, Sunday, 25 September 2005 06:40 (twenty years ago)

the aluminum group - photograph

― andrew_g, Sunday, 25 September 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

are there any about a particular photograph, or painting for that matter

― terry lennox. (gareth), Sunday, 25 September 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Just remembered - "Vincent (Starry Starry Night)" by Don McLean re the Van Gogh painting

― salexander (salexander), Sunday, 25 September 2005 09:20 (twenty years ago)

girls on film - duran duran

In Penny Lane there is a barber showing photographs
Of every head he’s had the pleasure to know.

― Bob Six (bobbysix), Sunday, 25 September 2005 09:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.electromancer.com/showTrack.php?id=1083759992

― Epictetus, Sunday, 25 September 2005 09:58 (twenty years ago)

bucks fizz " the camera never lies"

― retroman, Sunday, 25 September 2005 09:59 (twenty years ago)

The Lotus Eaters "The First Picture of You"
Stereophonics "Local Boy in the Photograph"

― ailsa (ailsa), Sunday, 25 September 2005 10:04 (twenty years ago)

More: www.lacoctelera.com/pepsounds/posts/search?what=photograph&submit=busca

― antonio, Sunday, 25 September 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)

Suzanne Vega - "Headshots"

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Sunday, 25 September 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

Kitchens of Distinction - Polaroids

Evergreen - Couple of Curled-Up Pictures

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Sunday, 25 September 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Weezer - Photograph

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Sunday, 25 September 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

The Lucksmiths - Camera Shy

― Mädchen (Madchen), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Mary-Chapin Carpenter - Come On, Come On (lovely song)
Bright Eyes - Old Soul Song (For A New World Order)
Ryan Adams - Burning Photographs

― Vornado, Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

"Snapshot" Slave
"This Is Not A Photograph" Mission of Burma
"Wishing (If I Had A Photograph)" A Flock of Seagulls
"Picture Book" The Kinks
"Family Portrait" Pink

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Sunday, 25 September 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

'pictures' mojave 3

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

'picture box' pram
'pictures' galaxie 500
'pictures of a lost friend' watoo watoo
'pictures of you' baskervilles

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 25 September 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

Fotografìa - Jumbo

― elgolfo (elgolfo), Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang"
("I FOUND A PICTURE OF YOU/ HIJACKED MY WORLD THAT NIGHT")

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

Soft Cell "Memorabilia"

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Elton John - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

― joe momma, Sunday, 25 September 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Take Me Somewhere Nice by Mogwai

Ghosts in the photograph
Never lied to me
"I'd be all of that"
"I'd be all of that"
A false memory
Would be everything
My denial
My Elimenant

What was that for?

What would you do if you saw spaceships over Glasgow?
Would you fear them?
Every aircraft
Every camera
Is a wish that i never granted

What was that for?

Try to be bad

― Rock Action, Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Tape 10 (on Ware, aus Deutschland) consists of "10 musicians' encounters with 10 pictures that in turns conceives a new equation: Music plus image equals atmosphere equals atmospheric. The CD contains a booklet with all the pictures that have been models for the music." (quote from Discogs.com)

― Picture Pages, Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

Picture Of My Life by Jamiroquai
Take the Picture Off by RJD2
Picture This by The Beastie Boys
This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds) by Peter Gabriel
Pictureloved by Isolée
Days To Come (in Photographs) by The Circulatory System

― Ancillary Addams, Sunday, 25 September 2005 19:33 (twenty years ago)

Holger Czukay - "The Photo Song"

― goodoldneon (goodoldneon), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:30 (twenty years ago)

the cure - pictures of you

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Monday, 26 September 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

THE PASTELS: Photogram

― antonio, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Songs about songs about photographs:

Sloan - The Lines you Ammend

And I won't forget you
If someone else comes along
You'll always come to mind
Whenever I hear that song

The one about photographs
Sung by Ringo Starr
Especially in the chorus part
You always said, "Now don't you start"

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

Death Cab for Cutie - Photobooth

― jalfjals, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

Oval (not the German one) - "Photograph"

― Tony Bleach, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

kinks "people take pictures of each other"

thread should have been locked after this.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)

Throbbing Gristle, Persuasion

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 29 September 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

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