I thought I’d shift gears today and put up a list of photography-related songs just for fun. A couple of these are a bit of a stretch, admittedly. But really, would “Alice’s Restaurant” be the same without “twenty-seven 8X10 color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one…”? We all need something to listen to while we’re working in Photoshop, right? And on the off chance you’ve got an afternoon to waste, the songs that have links attached go to YouTube, for your viewing/listening pleasure.
3X5 (John Mayer)
Alice’s Restaurant (Arlo Guthrie)
All the Negatives Have Been Destroyed (Spoon)
Camera (REM)
My Camera Never Lies (Bucks Fizz)
The Camera Eye (Rush)
The Camera Never Lies (Michael Franks)
The Cover of Rolling Stone (Dr. Hook)
Distant Camera (Neil Young)
Editions of You (Roxy Music)
Every Picture Tells a Story (Rod Stewart)
F Stop Blues (Jack Johnson)
Family Snapshot (Peter Gabriel)
Freeze Frame (J. Geils Band)
From a Photograph (Chris Whitley)
Gentlemen Take Polaroids (Japan)
Getting the Picture (Jimmy Buffet)
Girls on Film (Duran Duran)
Hey Ya (Outkast)
I Am a Camera (Buggles)
I Turn My Camera On (Spoon)
In My Room (Yaz)
Into the Lens (Yes)
Kamera (Wilco)
Kevin Carter (Manic Street Preachers)
Kodachrome (Paul Simon)
Life Through a Lens (Robbie Williams)
Local Boy in the Photograph (Stereophonics)
Miniature Secret Camera (Peter Murphy)
Paparazzi (Lady Gaga)
Peg (Steely Dan)
Photograph (Blue Rodeo)
Photograph (Jamie Cullum)
Photograph (Def Leppard)
Photograph (Johnny Mathis)
Photograph (Natalie Merchant & Michael Stipe)
Photograph (Nickelback)
Photograph (Ringo Starr)
Photograph (Weezer)
A Photograph of You (Depeche Mode)
Photographic (Depeche Mode)
Photographs and Memories (Jim Croce)
Picture Book (The Kinks)
Picture Postcard (Steve Hackett)
Picture This (Blondie)
Pictures (Statler Brothers)
Pictures of Lily (The Who)
Pictures of You (The Cure)
Please Just Take These Photos from My Hands (Snow Patrol)
Send a Picture of Mother (Johnny Cash)
Snapshot (Kinky)
Take a Picture (Filter)
Traces (The Association)
Turning Japanese (The Vapors)
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph) (Flock of Seagulls)
If I’ve missed something, drop me a line.