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?

• Aperture – Sleeping at Last

• Are You Happy Now? – Richard Shindell, from the album Courier, 2002

• Birth of Serpents – The Mountain Goats

• Camera - Crosby Stills and Nash

• Camera – R.E.M.

• Camera – The Editors

• Camera Phone – The Game

• Cameras – Matt and Kim

• Camera-Shy – The Lucksmiths

• Camera Song - High Dive Heart

• Centerfold – J. Geils Band, 1981

• The Camera Eye – Rush

• The Cameraeye – Billy Corgan, from the album The Future Embrace, 2005

• Click Click Click - New Kids on the Block, 2008

• Click, click, click, click – Bishop Allen

• Developments - Hands Like Houses

• Distant Camera – Neil Young

• Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen (You Forgot The Color Film) – Nina Hagen

• Electric Eye – Judas Priest

• Every Picture Tells a Story – Rod Stewart, 1971

• Fades Like a Photograph - Filter

• The First Picture of You - Lotus Eaters

• 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

• Hey Ya! – Outkast (Shake it like a Polaroid picture)

• Heaven - Warrant

• I am a Camera - The Buggles

• Ich Clack Dich - Le Le, 2008 (NL)

• I'll Just Kiss Your Picture Goodnight - Tex Ritter

• I Just Kissed Your Picture Goodnight - Dennis Day

• I'll Wait – Van Halen, 1984

• Intentions -- Justin Bieber ft Quavo

• Itching' on a Photograph - Grouplove, 2011

• I Turn My Camera On – Spoon

• I Turned your Picture to the Wall - Norah Jones

• Inaudible Melodies – Jack Johnson, from the album Brushfire Fairytales, 2001

• Into the Lens – Yes, 1980

• Kamera – Wilco, from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, 2002

• Kevin Carter – Manic Street Preachers

• Kodachrome – Paul Simon

• Kodak Moments - Askil Holm, from the album Harmony Hotel, 2007

• Le Fotographie - Ennio Morricone

• Let Me Take your Photo- The Speedies

• Life thru a Lens – Robbie Williams, 1997

• Local boy in the photograph - Stereophonics

• Love Song to a Girl in an Old Photo - Artie Traum

• Magazine Lady - John Koerner

• Mr. X - Ultravox

• My Camera Never Lies – Bucks Fizz

• My Favorite Picture of You - Guy Clark

• My Life in Pictures - Glenn Page

• 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

• Panama – Sailor

• Paparazzi – Lady Gaga

• 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

• Photobooth – Death Cab for Cutie

• Photobooth – Friendly Fires

• Photograph – Def Leppard, 1983

• Photograph – Diane Birch

• Photograph – Jamie Cullum

• Photograph – Nickelback

• Photograph – Ed Sheeran

• Photograph – Ringo Starr

• Photograph – Weezer

• Photograph - J. Cole

• Photograph – The Verve Pipe

• Photographs - Eddie Vedder

• Photographs – Rihanna

• Photographs - Zebrahead

• Photographs and Memories - Jim Croce

• Photographs (You are Taking now) - Damon Albarn

• Photographic – Depeche Mode

• Photographic Evidence - 764-Hero

• Picture – Kid Rock & Sheryl Crow

• The Picture - Loudon Wainwright

• Picture Book – The Kinks from the album The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society, 1968

• Pictures in an Exhibition - Death Cab For Cutie

• Picture in a Frame - Rod Stewart

• Picture in a Frame - Tom Waits

• Picture in a Frame - Willie Nelson

• A Picture of Bonnie - Flatt & Scruggs

• A Picture of Me Without You - George Jones

• A Picture of Me (Without You) – Lorrie Morgan

• Picture Perfect – Every Avenue

• Picture Perfect -- Angela Via

• Picture Perfect -- Jhene Aiko

• Picture Perfect -- Chris Brown

• Picture Perfect -- Chamillionare

• Picture This - Beastie Boys

• Picture This – Blondie, 1978

• Picture This - Kero Kero Bonito, 2015

• Picture to Burn – Taylor Swift

• Pictures -- Lady Antebellum

• Pictures -- Mojave 3

• Pictures of an Only Child -- ... And You Will Know Us by The Trail of the Dead

• Pictures of Home – Deep Purple

• Pictures of Lily – The Who

• Pictures of Matchstick Men - Status Quo (and Cracker)

• Pictures of Me - Elliot Smith

• Pictures of You – The Last Goodnight

• Pictures of You – The Cure

• Picture of You – Boyzone

• Pictures of You – WAX

• Poloroid - Jonas Blue

• Scene Through the Eye of a Lens - Jimmy Miller

• Selfie – The Chainsmokers

• Selfie#theinternetisforever - Brad Paisley

• Selfies - Nina Nesbitt

• Send a Picture of Mother – Johnny Cash

• Send Me Your Picture - Bobby Mitchell

• Seventeen - Ladytron

• Shutterbug - Big Boi

• Souvenir de Chine — Jean-Michel Jarre

• Sure Shot – Beastie Boys from the album Ill Communication, 1994

• Swap Meet - Nirvana

• Take a Picture – Filter

• Take Another Picture – Quarterflash

• Taro - Alt-J

• Telephoto Lens – The Bongos

• The Girl in the Picture - Kate Ceberano and Wendy Matthews

• This Is not a Photograph – Mission of Burma

• Traces -- Classics IV

• Turning Japanese – The Vapors

• Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) – A Flock of Seagulls

• Wouldn't It be a Lovely Photograph - Ray Lamontagne

• You Are The Camera - Juliana Hatfield

• You Take my Photograph, I Break Your Face - Billy Connolly

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