Songs with PAINTING

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"Painter Man" - The Creation
"The Painter" - Jackson Browne/Steve Noonan
"Rene and Georgette Magritte with Their Dog After the War" - Paul Simon
"The Man Who Paints the Pictures" - Fever Tree
"Pablo Picasso" and "Vincent Van Gogh" - Jonathan Richman

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 October 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)

"Outfit"- Drive-By Truckers

― Jason Dent (jason dont), Friday, 14 October 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

the painted word

― corey c (shock of daylight), Friday, 14 October 2005 03:22 (twenty years ago)

"Match Stalk Men and Match Stalk Cats & Dogs"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 14 October 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

"Picasso's Last Words" - Paul McCartney and Wings
"Vincent" - Don McLean

Joseph, I'm surprised you left that second one for me to post. It must be on your top ten most hated list.

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 14 October 2005 03:40 (twenty years ago)

"When I Paint My Masterpiece" - Bob Dylan

― k/l (Ken L), Friday, 14 October 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

Meet James Ensor - They Might Be Giants

― mason r. butler, Friday, 14 October 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

wot no Paint It Black

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:08 (twenty years ago)

"Watching Paint Dry" by Graham Connah

― blunt (blunt), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

Smiths - "Paint a Vulgar Picture"

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

"Pablo Picasso" by Jonathon Richman
"Max Ernst" Mission of Burma
"Rothko Sideways" Vandermark 5
"Music for Jackson Pollack" Morton Feldman

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

Lotsa rap songs about Grafitti, too, "End to End Burners" "Out For Fame" etc.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)

david bowie, "andy warhol"
unrest, "isabel"
lou reed/john cale, "the trouble with classicists" (and pretty much everything else on songs for drella)
warren zevon, "splendid isolation" ("...i want to be like georgia o'keefe...")

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)

lemonheads - paint

― vacuum cleaner (electricsound), Friday, 14 October 2005 04:36 (twenty years ago)

The Fall "Paintwork"

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Friday, 14 October 2005 05:25 (twenty years ago)

Rick Astley's new cover version of "Vincent," be very afraid.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 14 October 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

"Outfit"- Drive-By Truckers

Winner!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 14 October 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

Kula Shaker, "Grateful When You're Dead."

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 October 2005 06:08 (twenty years ago)

Art and Language with the Red Krayola - "Jackson Pollack"

― nickn (nickn), Friday, 14 October 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

the painted word

Television Personalities also name-dropped painters like nobody's business:
"David Hockney's Diaries" / "Lichtenstein Painting" / "Salvador Dali's Garden Party" / "I Remember Bridget Riley" / "An Exhibition by Joan Miro"

And there's also "Painting By Numbers", "He Used to Paint In Colours" and "The Man Who Paints The Rainbows"... probably more...

― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Friday, 14 October 2005 06:31 (twenty years ago)

Well she's kinda like an artist who uses paints no more...

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 14 October 2005 06:47 (twenty years ago)

"Right Said Fred" - Bernard Cribbens

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

Kevin Coyne, I Need Somebody

"Maybe do some painting, some drawing
An antelope across my wall"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:03 (twenty years ago)

Not a piece of music as such, but I should give an honourable mention to Gary Crowley interviewing anybody, because he invariably asks them to paint a picture ("So Paul, can you, y'know, sort of like paint a picture of I mean kind of sort of like what it was like like coming out of sort of like Scotch of St James in London's busy Kingly Street at two in the morning with y'know kind of sort of like PJ Proby and Bob Dylan?").

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:09 (twenty years ago)

Where is G.Crowley thesedays?

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

Anacrusis - "Paint a picture" (hilarious thrash metal vocalist going "I'll paint a picture on my OAAAAAAAAAWWWWUUUUUUUHN")
Slapp Happy - Michelangelo ("He delineates saints on a sepia ground,
His temper like his paints is albumen bound. Work & toil, well he ain't no dilettante, He conceives in oil and vatican chianti.")

― Øystein (Øystein), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Bah! I wish I'd thought of that Slapp Happy song first!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

So instead:

Peter Blegvad/John Greaves, Seven Scenes From The Painting "Exhuming The First American Mastodon" by C.W. Peale

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

G Crowley is currently on BBC Radio London where he still spins "12-inch boss waxings from the Modfather."

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

But haven't we all been here before

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 14 October 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

"If" -- Bread
("if a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you")

― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:52 (twenty years ago)

what was that song that went... jessie, paint a picture,,, about how its gonna be

― minna (minna), Friday, 14 October 2005 09:56 (twenty years ago)

Living in the love of the common people - Paul Young. A lot of the intro to this is panting.

Mmmmm... panting

― HBM, Friday, 14 October 2005 11:16 (twenty years ago)

"Run Paint Run" - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band

― Nöödle Vägue (noodle vague), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:33 (twenty years ago)

xpost wrong thread, you want the PANTING thread.

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

"When I Was A Painter" - The Breeders

― Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Friday, 14 October 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

"lazy line painter jane" belle & sebastian

― sibsi (sibsi), Friday, 14 October 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Sensations Fix: "Music is painting in the air"

(Not a song though.)

― Progyouth, Friday, 14 October 2005 13:08 (twenty years ago)

Prince - The Beautiful Ones

"Paint a perfect picture
Bring 2 life a vision in one’s mind
The beautiful ones
Always smash the picture
Always everytime"

― monkeybutler, Friday, 14 October 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

"Artists Only" Talking Heads
"Indiscipline" King Crimson
"It could have been a Brilliant Career" Belle & Sebastian

― Sparkle Motion's Rising Force, Friday, 14 October 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

fIREHOSE: "She Paints Pictures"

― dasein (dasein), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

"Painting Box" - The Incredible String Band
"Art Snob Solutions" - of Montreal

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)

"Primitive Painters" Felt
"Fun for the Whole Family" Monochrome Set

― William Selman (William Selman), Friday, 14 October 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

Must I Paint You A Picture? - Billy Bragg
Every Picture I Paint - Teenage Fanclub
Tiny Paintings - Architecture In Helsinki
Old Master Painter - Brian Wilson
Painter Man - Television Personalities
Unfinished Paintings - The Aislers Set
Paint Work - The Fall

― Wub-Fur Internet Radio, Friday, 14 October 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

Shocked to see no mention yet of...

Elton John - "This Song Has No Title"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 14 October 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

"Modern Art" -- Art Brut
For what it's worth, modern art DOES make me want to rock out.

― belle haleine, Friday, 14 October 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young - "The Painter"

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Friday, 14 October 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Spoon, "Revenge!" - the line, "blank canvas staring at me everyday"

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Friday, 14 October 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

so it's more of song without painting?

― Jason Dent (jason dont), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Hefner - "Painting and Kissing"
the first time that she came to my house
she bought chardonnay
now I buy chardonnay, almost every day.
And as her kissing got worse
her paintings improved
but what does that prove?
it proves nothing!

― caspar (caspar), Friday, 14 October 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

"Random Rules" - Silver Jews

I asked the painter why the roads are colored black.
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
and no highway will bring them back."

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:02 (twenty years ago)

post paint boy- s. malkmus

― Jason Dent (jason dont), Friday, 14 October 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

Silvio Rodríguez: "Oleo de mujer con sombrero"
Antonio Machín: "Angelitos Negros"

― antonio, Saturday, 15 October 2005 15:52 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

revive

― Keywords: revenge, knife, granddaughter, demonic-possession, rock-star, eel (Aus, Monday, 29 May 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mylène Farmer - "Je te rends ton amour"

He chose Gauguin, her only master is Egon Schiele, their love had to end (in a nutshell).

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Junior Brown- "Still Life With Rose"
w/ the play on words
Still life with Rose is better
Than any life with you

― Sons Of The Redd Desert (Ken L), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

Paint My Teeth/You Painted Your Teeth - Jandek
Painting the Town Blue - X
I'm Painting the Town Red - Billie Holiday
Painting A Picture - Alice Cooper
Spraypaint - Black Flag
Japanese Watercolor - The Residents

― dad a, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

"When I Was A Painter" - The Breeders
-- Matt Carlson (mattsoncarlhew), Friday, October 14, 2005 11:55 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

easily one of my fav Breeders songs evah

― Surmounter, Thursday, 2 August 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

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