"Pictures" is the fourth

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Sneaky Sound System Sneaky Sound System is an Australian dance music group formed in late 2001 by Angus McDonald on guitar, MC Double D (Daimon Downey) on vocoder and vocals, Damien Hesse (DJ) and Nick Broadhurst on saxophone. They were joined in 2004 by Connie M ...

, taken from their self-titled debut album ''

'' (2006). The Angus McDonald and Daimon Downey directed music video was nominated for Best Video at the

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.ARIA Award previous winners. It was released on 21 July 2008 in the UK as the first single, taken from their self-titled second UK compilation album ''

'' (2009). It debuted at 95 then rose the next week to 76.

Information

"Pictures" was written by

Connie Mitchell Connie Thembi Mitchell (born ), also known as Miss Connie, is a South African-born Australian singer-songwriter. In 1995 she was a founding member of Primary. Briefly, in 2004, she was vocalist for Machine Gun Fellatio under the pseudonym Feyo ...

and Angus McDonald and came second in the

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category of the 200
International Songwriting Competition

''Herald Sun'', 8 April 2007. Website accessed 17 April 2007

Cover versions

"Pictures" was famously covered by the late

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radio fame. His performance on his community TV show garnered critical acclaim from the likes of

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and

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, although Tony 'Andrew Bolt' Martin described Marsland's

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nomination as going "to waste". Despite such stinging criticism, Marsland's cover became one of the biggest hits that summer in Australia. "Pictures" was also covered by

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, whose version was number one on the ARIA Club Chart for 18 weeks.

Track listing

Personnel

* Black Angus – all instruments, producer * Nick Broadhurst – midi sax * Miss Connie – vocals * Peter Dolso – all instruments, producer, mix, engineer * Sam LA More – remix, additional production, engineer * Groove Terminator – remix, additional production

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Release history

References

External links

Australian CD single on Waterfront Records
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