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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: bearman🐻 on June 28, 2006, 12:39:00 pm

Title: Songs about LA and California
Post by: bearman🐻 on June 28, 2006, 12:39:00 pm
I need everyone's help...I'll start:
 
 X - Los Angeles
 Elliott Smith - L.A.
 Frank Black - Los Angeles
 
 Got any more?
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: andyrichter on June 28, 2006, 12:41:00 pm
Bad Religion-Los Angeles is Burning
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: ggw on June 28, 2006, 12:46:00 pm
Why You'd Want To Live Here - Death Cab
 
 L.A. Blues - Stooges
 
 L.A.X. - Q And Not U
 
 Los Angeles, I'm Yours - Decemberists
 
 Losing California - Sloan
 
 California One / Youth & Beauty Brigade - Decemberists
 
 California - The Hissyfits
 
 California - Rogue Wave
 
 California - Lucero
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: ggw on June 28, 2006, 12:48:00 pm
California Sun - Ramones
 
 L.A. Woman - Doors
 
 Going to California - Led Zeppelin
 
 Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
 
 Estimated Prophet - Grateful Dead
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer on June 28, 2006, 12:50:00 pm
What inspired this thread? Was there an earthquake while I was at the gym?
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: sonickteam2 on June 28, 2006, 12:51:00 pm
Phantom Planet - california
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: amnesiac on June 28, 2006, 12:53:00 pm
Kings of Leon - California Waiting
 Local H - California Songs
 
 Is Elliott Smith's "Angeles" about LA?
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: kcjones119 on June 28, 2006, 12:54:00 pm
Luna - California (All the Way)
 
 Tom Petty - California
 "California's been good to me.
 Hope it don't fall into the sea."
 
 Isn't every Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California (or at least having sex there)?
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: bearman🐻 on June 28, 2006, 12:54:00 pm
I just need ideas...keep 'em coming. Thanks!
 
 Here are a couple more:
 
 Social Distortion -- Highway 101
 Frank Black -- Calistan
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: dfmcpete on June 28, 2006, 12:55:00 pm
Low - California
 
 Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
 
 Edit: dammit, slow on the trigger finger, removed repeats.
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Vas Deferens on June 28, 2006, 12:58:00 pm
wikipedia has a list  :)
 
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_California (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_California)
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: you be betty on June 28, 2006, 01:06:00 pm
Rufus Wainwright - California
 Art Brut - Moving to L.A.
 Rilo Kiley - Glendora
 
 also, in Death Cab's "Tiny Vessels," there is a line about Silverlake + California...
 
 "California 2005 (No Whistling)" by Phantom Planet is a prettier acoustic version of the original...you'll like it better if you're sick of the other...
 
 others were mentioned...
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: vansmack on June 28, 2006, 01:10:00 pm
Not as obvious, but always made me miss home when I was in DC:
 
 A Long December - Counting Crows
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: vansmack on June 28, 2006, 01:12:00 pm
Garden Grove - Sublime
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: blinksaar on June 28, 2006, 01:13:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by kcjones119:
  Luna - California (All the Way)
 
 Tom Petty - California
 "California's been good to me.
 Hope it don't fall into the sea."
 
 Isn't every Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California (or at least having sex there)?
pretty much
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: ratioci nation on June 28, 2006, 01:13:00 pm
Tool - Aenima
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: vansmack on June 28, 2006, 01:17:00 pm
Hollywood Babylon - The Misfits
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: vansmack on June 28, 2006, 01:22:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by Alec:
 
 Isn't every Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California (or at least having sex there)?
pretty much [/QB][/QUOTE]
 
 Try not to confuse shooting heroin and having sex...
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: vansmack on June 28, 2006, 01:27:00 pm
Some LA Niggaz - Dre
 Straight outta Compton - NWA
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: vansmack on June 28, 2006, 01:34:00 pm
You can stop me at anytime....
 
 Valley Girl - Frank Zappa
 Walking in LA - Missing Persons
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: amnesiac on June 28, 2006, 01:37:00 pm
Rilo Kiley - I Love L.A.
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: slowgraffiti on June 28, 2006, 01:42:00 pm
cex- los angeles
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: boweswana on June 28, 2006, 01:43:00 pm
Every beach boys song except Kokomo.
 
 Carmelita by Warren Zevon
 Hollywood by Junkyard
 Welcome to the Jungle
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: beetsnotbeats on June 28, 2006, 01:56:00 pm
LL Cool J "Going Back to Cali"
 Translator "L.A., L.A."
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: andyrichter on June 28, 2006, 02:09:00 pm
Adolescents-California Son
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Sir HC on June 28, 2006, 02:32:00 pm
The Fall "LA"
 WAX "California"
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: definitivedoodle on June 28, 2006, 02:50:00 pm
I love L.A.-2Pac
 
 Going back to Cali(?)-Biggie
 
 L.A.-Murs
 
 Califoria Love-2Pac Dr Dre
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on June 28, 2006, 07:04:00 pm
Atmosphere - "Los Angeles"
 Matmos - "California Rhinoplasty"
 The Olivia Tremor Control - "California Demise"
 REM - "I Remember California"
 Billy Bragg & Wilco - "California Stars"
 Her Space Holiday - "Sleepy California"
 2PAC - "To Live & Die in L.A."
 Air - "Californie"
 The Magnetic Fields - "Come Back From San Francisco"
 The Magnetic Fields - "Busby Berkeley Dreams"
 Frank Zappa - "San Ber'dino"
 The 6ths - "San Diego Zoo"
 Thelonious Monk - "San Francisco Holiday"
 Fischerspooner - "L.A. Song"
 Black Flag - anything
 The Fall - "L.A."
 Liz Phair - "Dogs of L.A."
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: HoyaSaxa03 on June 28, 2006, 07:09:00 pm
The Whiny Vaginas - "I Got A Refund After the Show for Which I Had Tickets Got Moved Back an Hour and a Half When the Band Added a Second Show That Night at the Same Venue"
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Venerable Bede on June 28, 2006, 07:23:00 pm
Quote
Originally posted by bearman:
  I need everyone's help...I'll start:
 
 Frank Black - Los Angeles
 
but that song isn't about the one in south california, it's about the one in south patagonia.
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Venerable Bede on June 28, 2006, 07:31:00 pm
Randy Newman- I Love L.A.
 Beach Boys- California Girls
 Red House Painters- Strawberry Hill, Revelation Big Sur
 Disposible Hereos of Hiphoprisy- California Uber Alles (update of the Dead Kennedy's version)
 Johnny Cash- Folsom Prison Blues
 Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens- Streets of Bakersfield
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Jaguar on June 28, 2006, 10:24:00 pm
West Indian Girl - "Hollywood"
 The Mamas & The Pappas - "California Dreaming"
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Frank Gallagher on June 29, 2006, 02:41:00 am
Quote
Originally posted by kcjones119:
 
 Isn't every Red Hot Chili Peppers song about California (or at least having sex there)?
I was going to say the complete Red Hot Chili Peppers catalogue.
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: on June 29, 2006, 09:46:00 am
California Kid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL0eIVlx9i4&search=beat%20farmers), by Teh Beat Farmers
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: J'Mal on June 29, 2006, 10:25:00 am
REM -- Electrolyte
 Death Cab for Cutie -- 405
 Tom Petty -- Free Fallin'
 Eels -- Susan's House
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: vansmack on June 29, 2006, 01:27:00 pm
No true LA setlist is complete without Dramarama - Anything, Anything.  The song has little to about LA, but ask anybody from LA and they will know what you are talking about while most others won't.
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: eltee on June 29, 2006, 03:41:00 pm
Hotel California - Eagles (am I dork for not avoiding this one too?)
 California - Jeff Klein
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: bearman🐻 on June 30, 2006, 12:06:00 am
Found two more...
 
 Urge Overkill -- Ticket to LA
 The Strawberry Alarm Clock -- Girl From the City
Title: Re: Songs about LA and California
Post by: Jaguar on June 30, 2006, 01:06:00 am
Starflyer 59 - "Monterey"
 Starflyer 59 - "West Coast Friendship"
 Film School - "Monville, Ca" ...(Or is that in Canada?)