- Paul Good
Songs About Photos
Like a photograph, music can evoke strong emotions and memories. It is only natural then that there should be songs about photos. The majority of this list draws inspiration either from a romantic relationship or posing for a camera; nostalgia vs. vanity and glamour. Interestingly enough, some of the more dated songs bring back nostalgia about the types of photos or cameras that were used in the past. For example, the sound of a shutter, or click and flash is described or even heard on the track. Our camera phones take great quality shots in this modern day and age, but they are relatively silent when the sound is turned off. What about sending a photo to a distant love? Should we restore some of these romantic gestures just as we also take to restoring old photographs?

Are You Happy Now? – Richard Shindell, from the album Courier, 2002
Camera – The Editors
Camera Phone – The Game
Cameras – Matt and Kim
Centerfold – J. Geils Band, 1981
The Camera Eye – Rush
The Cameraeye – Billy Corgan, from the album The Future Embrace, 2005
Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen (You Forgot The Color Film) – Nina Hagen
Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart, 1971
F-stop Blues – Jack Johnson, from the album Brushfire Fairytales, 2001
Flashbulb Eyes – Arcade Fire, 2013
Fountain of Sorrow - Jackson Browne, 1974
Freeze Frame – J. Geils Band, 1981
Gentlemen Take Polaroids – Japan, 1980
Girls on Film – Duran Duran, 1981
Ich Clack Dich - Le Le, 2008 (NL)
Intentions -- Justin Bieber ft Quavo
Itching' on a Photograph - Grouplove, 2011
Inaudible Melodies – Jack Johnson, from the album Brushfire Fairytales, 2001
Into the Lens – Yes, 1980
Kamera – Wilco, from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002
Kodachrome – Paul Simon
Kodak Moments - Askil Holm, from the album Harmony Hotel, 2007
Life thru a Lens – Robbie Williams, 1997
No Bird Sing - Plastic Lines feat. Alicia Wiley
An Old Photograph - Alex White & Robert Henry
A Painting of a Picture of a Photograph - The Jim Pullman Band
Peg – Steely Dan
People Take Pictures of Each Other – The Kinks from the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968
Perfect Photo – Dala
Photo – Ryan Cabrera
Photo Jenny – Belle and Sebastian, from the album Push Barman to Open Old Wounds, 2005
Photograph – Def Leppard, 1983
Photograph – Nickelback
Photograph – Ed Sheeran
Photograph – Weezer
Photographs – Rihanna
Picture – Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow
Picture Book – The Kinks from the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968
Picture This – Blondie, 1978
Picture This - Kero Kero Bonito, 2015
Pictures of an Only Child -- ... And You Will Know Us by The Trail of the Dead
Pictures of You – WAX
Sure Shot – Beastie Boys from the album Ill Communication, 1994
Take a Picture – Filter
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) – A Flock of Seagulls
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