Take a Picture, It'll Last Longer! – the PHOTOGRAPH song poll

Although I haven't listened to all of these, and will try to in the interest of fairness, there is also little doubt in my mind that Def Leppard is OTM.

May toss a sympathy vote to Ringo, a great song despite the production (George should've handled it).

I count Ringo's as one of the half-dozen greatest solo Beatles singles; don't know the last five, can't remember R.E.M.'s.

The Ringo song rules, esp. the Camper Van cover of it.

I've applied the phrase "swoon-worthy" to a few select records: Junior Walker's "What Does It Take (To Win Your Love)" is one, Ringo's "Photograph" is another.

Write in for 'Flash Bang Wallop What a Picture' by Tommy Steele.

Apologies to Ringo, but no way I vote against a peak Mutt Lange cut.

And to be fair, that might be the peakest Mutt Lange cut outside of "Urgent" or something. But I love the Ringo.

Came here to post my thoughts but josh in chicago beat me to it

Objectively the Leppard is a singular thing, like an ornate and tacky crystal ornament in some 80s penthouse inhabited by people who’d gotten rich doing reprehensible things. But the sentimental vote goes to Ringo dammit

Weezer

ringo, with a shoutout to the speedies' "let me take your foto."

this is so obviously Leppard but y'know

Talking of Sheffield rock groups, write-in vote for "Kirlian Photograph" by Cabaret Voltaire.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Def Fuckin' Leppard

Voted Ringo. Also another side-vote for the CVB cover.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

justice

I mean, of course.

Photograph - Nickelback (2005) 2

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Nickelback tied for third

Gross

If we're rehabilitating Limp Bizkit, why not Nickelback? It's a good tune.

I ain't rehabbing either!

xp paging brad

so the local sports talk station's "Power Trip Morning Show" has a recurring guest, this dude from the band Motion City Sountrack, a sort a b-level pop punk/emo type major label band, seems like they do ok, the are from mpls....anyway, they do that thing where they run ads for their shows with funny highlights from a recent show, etc....

anyway, i only heard the soundbite in the ad, but i take it that one of the dudes in the band (or maybe some other guy they know) is a songwriter as well for bigger rock bands....

and scene:

He's supposed to meet Chad Kroger of Nickelback at a restaurant. The meeting is about how this guy might sell some songs to Nickelback for an upcoming album. So they are talking and he gives Kroger the demo CD, etc, and Kroger is like, "Well, are you going to sing them?".....the guy says, "Well, I'd prefer if you just listen to the stuff, we're in a crowded restaurant not really comfortable doing that".....Kroger interrupts and is like "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE IN YOUR SONGS IF YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE BALLS TO SING THEM RIGHT NOW??"

then, Kroger stands up, kicks over his chair and belts out LOOOOOOK AT THIS PHOOOOTOGRAAAPH/EVERYTIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAAAAUGH like LOUD AS FUCK and the whole restaurant is obviously looking at him and Kroger just struts out of the restaurant and leaves the dude sitting at the table.

― Elrond Hubbard (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, August 2, 2012 2:16 PM bookmarkflaglink

Write in vote for “pictures of you”

Love that story if true, Neandearthal.

Dear Neanderthal

wait what the f you get the Power Trip? like Hawkey, Cove and Meat sauce?

oh shit that was my post

Haha yes it was

lol apologies

at least you know about Meatsauce now

tbf if you're the singer in Nickelback you must be totally shameless, belting out songs in restaurants could be how he gets into character.

My Nickelback story (that I've told before) is when I saw them at their early peak, in an arena, and I was trying to stay objective so was thinking, well, it could be worse, at least this is competent cheese. And then they brought the show to a halt and two people with t-shirt cannons emerged for several minutes of t-shirt cannonry. And I thought ... you were doing ok, it was fine! Why did you do that!?

At the end Chad said that Chicago audiences were the best audiences in the world and really knew how to rock and the band was nowhere near ready to stop and they were going to rock all night, so late that they were ordering pizza for the entire arena. And then they played one more song and left.