Songs about pictures/photos - help me!
Flomotion
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I need to come up with possible songs to go with an ad campaign around a photo/image product - I'm really struggling here. The reference needs to be in the song somewhere but I just want something cool or, er, snappy.. I'm currently fighting off Snap! 'We've Got the Power, Blondie "Picture This' and Aztec Bloody Camera. Help me, Soulstrut - anything and everything considered!
Thanks,
Flomotion
Thanks,
Flomotion
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This is your job though! You cheeky muhfuh
Chet Baker - Retrato em Branco e Preto (Portrait in white and black)
(Antonio Carlos Jobim-Chico Buarque)
Peace
That's been used in a major campaign pretty recently.
Can't really think of anything that isn't at least a little bit corny.
Next!
None of this is helping, is it?
:NO:
Steely Dan - Peg
"I got your picture..."
Telly Savalas - If
BOOM!
Guardians of the GalaxyAM Gold mix wave bro!"I keep your picture
Upon the wall.."
Amanda Lear "I Am A Photograph" (NSFW)
Angel in the centrefold - R?
Also that ABC track from Lexicon of Love:
Blueprint that' says that boy meets girl
Blueprint: girl meets boy
The blueprint that says that the boy meets the girl
PICTURE in a magazine
So there is that
Simon and Garfunkel, Old Friends, Long ago must be, I have a photograph... Not cool or snappy.
Are You Happy Now? ÔÇô Richard Shindell, from the album Courier (album), 2002
Camera ÔÇô R.E.M.
Camera ÔÇô The Editors
Camera-Shy ÔÇô The Lucksmiths
Centerfold ÔÇô J. Geils Band, 1981
The Camera Eye ÔÇô Rush
Click, click, click, click ÔÇô Bishop Allen
Distant Camera ÔÇô Neil Young
Electric Eye ÔÇô Judas Priest
Every Picture Tells a Story ÔÇô Rod Stewart, 1971
F-stop Blues ÔÇô Jack Johnson, from the album Brushfire Fairytales, 2001
Flashbulb Eyes ÔÇô Arcade Fire, 2013
Freeze Frame ÔÇô J. Geils Band, 1981
Gentlemen Take Polaroids ÔÇô Japan, 1980
Girls on Film ÔÇô Duran Duran, 1981
Hey Ya! ÔÇô Outkast (Shake it like a Polaroid picture)
I'll Wait ÔÇô Van Halen, 1984
I Turn My Camera On ÔÇô Spoon
Inaudible Melodies ÔÇô Jack Johnson, from the album Brushfire Fairytales, 2001
Into the Lens ÔÇô Yes, 1980
Itchin' on a Photograph ÔÇô Grouplove, 2011
Kamera ÔÇô Wilco, from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002
Kevin Carter ÔÇô Manic Street Preachers
Kodachrome ÔÇô Paul Simon
Life thru a Lens ÔÇô Robbie Williams, 1997
My Camera Never Lies ÔÇô Bucks Fizz
Panama - Sailor
Paparazzi ÔÇô Lady Gaga
Peg ÔÇô Steely Dan
People Take Pictures of Each Other ÔÇô The Kinks from the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968
Perfect Photo ÔÇô Dala
Photo Jenny ÔÇô Belle and Sebastian, from the album Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, 2005
Photobooth ÔÇô Death Cab For Cutie
Photobooth ÔÇô Friendly Fires
Photograph ÔÇô Def Leppard, 1983
Photograph ÔÇô Diane Birch
Photograph ÔÇô Jamie Cullum
Photograph ÔÇô Nickelback
Photograph ÔÇô Ringo Starr
Photograph ÔÇô Weezer
Photograph ÔÇô The Verve Pipe
Photographic ÔÇô Depeche Mode
Picture Book ÔÇô The Kinks from the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968
A Picture of Me (Without You) ÔÇô Lorrie Morgan
Picture This ÔÇô Blondie, 1978
Pictures of Home ÔÇô Deep Purple
Pictures of Lily ÔÇô The Who
Pictures of You ÔÇô The Cure
Picture of You ÔÇô Boyzone
Send a Picture of Mother ÔÇô Johnny Cash
Sure Shot ÔÇô Beastie Boys from the album Ill Communication, 1994
Take a Picture ÔÇô Filter
Telephoto Lens ÔÇô The Bongos
The Picture ÔÇô Loudon Wainwright III
This is not a Photograph ÔÇô Mission of Burma
Turning Japanese ÔÇô The Vapors
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) ÔÇô A Flock of Seagulls
Photographs ÔÇô Rihanna
Good call about Turning Japanese (Brit-R slang for.. y'know.. Chastising the chimp.)
And mamma mamma mamma-san
Of you and mamma mamma mamma-san
Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid
It ain't coca-cola it's rice
Really interesting listening across that lot. A couple of definite contenders there and a couple which I'm not sure I like that much but could work very well... Duran, the Speedies, Depeche and J Geils Band are leading the field at the moment... Would love to shoehorn Turning Japanese into an ad one day but as it's pretty much a hymn to wanking with a fat streak of cartoon racism thrown in it's proved a tough one to get away. Not that I haven't tried, you understand.
Thanks everyone for the suggestions and feel free to add on. Skel, I knew you'd get tha Lizzy in there somewhere. Jimster, thanks for that big old list, I'll get listening. Utters, this time the music's actually for our own ad - just changed jobs so while I'm still a cheeky mufuh, this time I'm the client so a bit keener than usual not to go with shit music!
Every Picture Tells a Story ÔÇô Rod Stewart, 1971
Peace, stein...
Cameras ready, prepare to flash :pic: