TS: "Photograph" vs. "Centerfold" vs. "Girls on Film"?

Lyrically and image-wise, it's much more creepy and weird than the other choices you list. I mean, come on, Centrefold, how dumb is that? What's worse, the fact that this guy has lost his image of his teenage crush as a perfect girl, or the fact that he ADMITS to reading and wanking over bad porn mags to the entire world. Sad, pathetic git.

"OOOH...Look what you've done to this rocknroll clow-ow-own."

Brilliant.

Like I said I don't remember "Girls On Film" but I think "Photograph", like much of the Lep oeuvre, is a little weird and creepy in its own way. Am I getting something wrong or is he actually singing about how he once, owing to his rock star status, had a one-night stand with a supermodel and now all he can do is whack off to photos of her in magazine ads?

good grief. photograph, obviously.

otm, except girls on flim, obviously

by which i mean it's close. photograph towers, but girls' little "two minutes later" hook is just ridic catchy.

bah.

Learned how to play Photograph today. Amazing how much Armageddon It recycles.

Trace otm 11 years ago. "I'll Wait" belongs on this list. it's also better than the other three.

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They were playing “photograph” with a lot of bass at the bar last night and what gives this song it’s edge is the muted E5 in the verses. Mutt Lange strikes again

ITS

She's posing for consumer products now and then
For every camera she gives the best she can
I saw her on the cover of a magazine
Now, she's a big success, I want to meet her again

Are you for real
It's so hard to tell
From just a magazine
Yeah, you just smile and the picture sells
Look what that does to me

I see your face every time I dream
On every page, every magazine
So wild and free,
So far from me
You're all I want, my fantasy

Chick at the bar who was singing out loud to this whipped her hair around and it hit me in the face. Classic or duddddd

Classic - you get her number.
Dud- you get a stye in your eye.

I’ll Wait vs Photograph ?

Photograph is secretly brilliant...it's about how guys couldn't get over the Marilyn mystique and the "mystery" of her life and death - "you're all wrapped up in a mystery". Guys for whom no other woman will measure up to someone who isn't quite real due to so much media hype and myth. One of my all-time faves.

Oh, look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown.

"Turning Japanese" is another pin-up song of the (more or less) era.

Too Late For Love

Nothing gives me more pleasure than introducing my kids to “photograph”

oh nevermind it’s a “theme” thread

Except maybe introducing them to “Armageddon it “

Photograph, Too Late For Love, Armageddon It = all testament to the greatness of Steve Clark (all these riffs are his)

(also one for the ‘bands who were never the same once a member dies/leaves’ thread)