Comparing the very best songs about California and Ohio.
The Blue Jackets? Where the hell are they from again?
Oh right, Ohio. I don't know anything about Ohio, so I suppose I had better do some research. I'll combine two of my favorite things: Wikipedia and the majesty of song.
Wikipedia's list of songs about Ohio
| Title | Artist/composer | Album | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beautiful Ohio | Ballard MacDonald | 1918 | Made the official state song of Ohio in 1969. | |
| Bloodbuzz Ohio | The National | High Violet | 1999 | |
| Boy in Ohio | Phil Ochs | Greatest Hits | 1970 | |
| Burn On | Randy Newman | Sail Away | 1980 | |
| Carmen Ohio | Fred Cornell | 1903 | The oldest school song still in use by The Ohio State University. | |
| Carry Me Ohio | Sun Kil Moon | Ghosts of the Great Highway | 2003 | The song's narrative is partly based on frontman Mark Kozelek's boyhood in Ohio.[1] |
| Cleveland Rocks | Ian Hunter | You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic | 1979 | A cover version was used as the theme song for The Drew Carey Show in the 1990s.[2] |
| Cuyahoga | R.E.M. | Life's Rich Pageant | 1986 | About the once-heavily polluted Cuyahoga River; the lyrics reference when it caught fire in 1969, which became a watershed incident in the environmental movement.[3] |
| Dayton Ohio, 1903 | Randy Newman | Sail Away | 1980 | |
| Four Days | Counting Crows | This Desert Life | 1999 | A song about four days away from a girl in Ohio who Adam Duritz met.[4] |
| The Girl from Ohio | Outlaws | Lady in Waiting | 1976 | |
| Lisbon, OH | Bon Iver | Bon Iver, Bon Iver | 2011 | |
| Look At Miss Ohio | Gillian Welch | Soul Journey | 2003 | |
| Look Out Cleveland | The Band | The Band | 1970 | |
| My City Was Gone | The Pretenders | single | 1982 | The song is an autobiographical lament about the singer returning to her childhood home in Ohio and discovering that rampant development and pollution had destroyed the "pretty countryside" of her youth; the lyrics make specific references to places in and around Akron, Ohio, the hometown of lead singer and writer Chrissie Hynde. |
| Ohio | Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | single | 1970 | Written by Neil Young in reaction to the 1970 Kent State Shootings, after he saw the photos of the incident in Life Magazine.[5] |
| Ohio | Isabelle Adjani | Pull Marine | 1983 | Song in French by actress Isabelle Adjani, written by Serge Gainsbourg. |
| Ohio | Damien Jurado | Rehearsals for Departure | 1999 | |
| Ohio | The Black Keys | Ohio | 2011 | |
| Ohio | Over the Rhine | Ohio | 2003 | |
| Ohio | Leonard Bernstein, et al. | 1953 | From the Broadway musical Wonderful Town, about two sisters who move to New York City from Columbus, Ohio; in the song, they lament leaving. | |
| Ohio (Come Back to Texas) | Bowling for Soup | A Hangover You Don't Deserve | 2005 | |
| Youngstown | Bruce Springsteen | The Ghost of Tom Joad | 1995 | The song tells the tale of the rise and fall of Youngstown, Ohio, over several generations, from the discovery of iron ore nearby in 1803 through the decline of the steel industry in the area in the 1970s.[6] |
Okay so...I haven't heard most of those songs, and like half of the plot descriptions are pretty bleak. This is not a good advertisement for your state, Ohio:
Although I will admit that this song is pretty good:
So maybe Ohio isn't ALL bad.
Now let's see what California has to offer:
List of songs about California
| Title | Artist(s) |
|---|---|
| 80's Ladies | K.T. Oslin |
| Ænema | Tool |
| Ain't No California | Mel Tillis |
| All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Stinks | The World/Inferno Friendship Society |
| All the Gold in California | Larry Gatlin & the Gatlin Brothers |
| America | Waylon Jennings |
| Antennas | Rancid |
| Atomic | Tiger Army |
| Away from California | Radio Racer |
| Back to California | Carole King |
| Back to California | Sugarcult |
| Back to California | The Wallflowers |
| Back to Cali | Notorious B.I.G. |
| Back from Cali | Slash with Myles Kennedy |
| Back Home | Yellowcard |
| (A) Beautiful Place | Good Charlotte |
| Big In LA | Joelle |
| Brad Logan | Rancid |
| Breakfast in America | Supertramp |
| Burning Hot in Cali | Latyrx |
| Cali, Cali, Cali | Alyssa Bernal |
| Cali Iz Active | Tha Dogg Pound |
| Cali Livin' | Homeless Nation |
| Cali Sunshine | The Game (featuring Bilal) |
| Calfiron-I-Ay | Deanna Durbin |
| California | The Adicts |
| California | Akia |
| California | American Pearl |
| California | Atherton |
| California | Unified Theory |
| California | Chuck Berry |
| California | Blatz |
| California | Metro Station |
| California | Debby Boone |
| California | John Callahan |
| California | Belinda Carlisle |
| California | The Casanovas |
| California | Kenny Chesney |
| California | Copeland |
| California | Datarock |
| California | Dealership |
| California | Delta Spirit |
| California | Dr. Dog |
| California | Dressy Bessy |
| California[1] | Bob Dylan |
| California | Kate Earl |
| California | EMA |
| California | Independent |
| California | Mylène Farmer |
| California | Jay Farrar |
| California | Flash and the Pan |
| California | The Flight Station |
| California | Georgia Prophets |
| California | Gomez |
| California | Hawk Nelson |
| California | Happy End |
| California | Hit'n'Hide |
| California | Darren Hayes |
| California | Hollywood Undead |
| California | The Kimberly Trip |
| California | The Kooks |
| California | Lenny Kravitz |
| California | Low |
| California | John Mayall |
| California | Joey McIntyre |
| California | Joey Ryan |
| California | Manfred Mann's Earth Band (lyrics by Sue Vickers) |
| California | Never Shout Never |
| California | Joni Mitchell |
| California | The Moffatts |
| California | Gianna Nannini |
| California | Angel Olsen |
| California | A. B. O'Neill |
| California | Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers |
| California | Tom Ugly |
| California | Phantom Planet[2] |
| California | Quasi |
| California | Josh Ritter |
| California | The Rentals (often mislabeled as Weezer) |
| California | Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise |
| California | Robert Charlebois |
| California | Stan Rogers |
| California | Rogue Wave |
| California | Vic Ruggiero |
| California | Semisonic |
| California | Shawn Mullins |
| California | Shorelines End |
| California | The Simpletones |
| California | Sarah Slean |
| California | Sly Boogy |
| California | Something for Kate |
| California | Stroke 9 |
| California | Tea Leaf Green |
| California | Toploader |
| California | Umberto Tozzi |
| California | Unified Theory |
| California | Unsensored |
| California | Urban Fate |
| California | Gina Villalobos |
| California | Rufus Wainwright |
| California | Wave |
| California | Wax |
| California | The Wedding Present |
| California | Wilson Phillips |
| California | Winds of Plague |
| California | Wiz Khalifa |
| California (All the Way) | Luna |
| California 1 | Con Funk Shun |
| California Babylon | The Transplants |
| California Bloodlines | John Stewart |
| California Blue | The Orange Peels |
| California Blue | Roy Orbison |
| California Blues (Blue Yodel No. 4) | Jimmie Rodgers |
| California Blur | Swirl 360 |
| California Bound | Frank Black |
| California Bound | Carolina Liar |
| California Boy | Lil B |
| California Brain | RapScallions |
| California Burritos | Chuck Ragan |
| California Calling | The Beach Boys |
| California Christmas | Marcella Detroit |
| California Couldn't Pay Our Education | Roy Zimmerman |
| California Crossing | Fu Manchu |
| California Day | Starland Vocal Band |
| California Dreamin' | The Mamas & the Papas[3] |
| California Dreamer | Wolf Parade |
| California Dreams | Theme song of California Dreams |
| California Earthquake | John Hartford, Mama Cass Elliot |
| "California English | Vampire Weekend |
| California Flight"" " | J Jerry (a.k.a. California Flight) |
| California Girl | Daniel Daglow, David Merriweather, Tony Banks (1985 California Beauty Pageant) |
| California Girl | Chilliwack |
| California Girl | Lucky 7 |
| California Girls | The Beach Boys[4] |
| California Girls | Gretchen Wilson |
| California Girls | Magnetic Fields |
| California Gold | dada |
| California Gold | Defari |
| California Grace | Long Beach Shortbus|- |
| California Gurls | Katy Perry |
| California Here I Come | Sophie B. Hawkins |
| California Here I Come | Al Jolson |
| California Here I Come | Shocking Blue |
| California Here I Go | Jonathan Balas |
| California Isn't Big Enough (Hey There Girl) | Meat Loaf |
| California Jam | Klaatu |
| California Justice | Five for Fighting |
| California Kicks | Fight Fair |
| California King Bed | Rihanna |
| California Letter | Chris Thomas King |
| California Lights' | Rocket From the Crypt |
| California Livin' | Mac Dre |
| California Love | 2Pac (featuring Dr. Dre) |
| California Man | Cheap Trick |
| California Man | The Move |
| California My Way | The Treetops |
| California Nights | Lesley Gore |
| California Nights | Sweet |
| California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade | The Decemberists |
| California Paradise | The Runaways |
| California Part I | Mason Jennings |
| California Part II | Mason Jennings |
| California Promises | Jimmy Buffett |
| California Rain | Silver Tide |
| California Rain | The Rescues |
| California Revisited (Everyone I Meet Is from California) | America |
| California Rose | Roy Rogers & the Sons of the Pioneers |
| California Saga: Big Sur | The Beach Boys |
| California Saga: The Beaks of Eagles | The Beach Boys |
| California Saga: California (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a) | The Beach Boys |
| California Sky | Unwritten Law |
| California Snow | Tom Russell |
| California Son | The Adolescents |
| California Song | The Mountain Goats |
| California Song | Brooke White |
| California Songs | Local H[5] |
| California Soul | The 5th Dimension |
| California Soul | The Gimmicks |
| California Soul | Edwin Starr |
| California Soul | Marlena Shaw |
| California Star | The Echo Division |
| California Stars | Billy Bragg & Wilco (lyrics by Woody Guthrie) |
| California Sucks | Screeching Weasel |
| California Sun | The Rivieras[6] |
| California Sun | Gin Blossoms |
| California Sun | Jem |
| California Sun | The Outfield |
| California Sun | The Ramones |
| California Sun | The Fire Men http://thefiremen.bandcamp.com/track/california-sun-ep-version |
| California Sunset | Neil Young |
| California Sunshine | Christa Black |
| California 37 | Train |
| California Über Alice | NOFX |
| California Über Alles | Dead Kennedys |
| California Vacation | The Game |
| California Waiting | Kings of Leon |
| California Way | Tim Bluhm |
| California Zephyr | Jay Farrar & Ben Gibbard |
| California's Bleeding | Amen |
| California's Lonely | Smile Empty Soul |
| California's Burning | Augustana |
| Californicatin | The J. Geils Band |
| Californication | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Californie | Air |
| Calistan | Frank Black |
| Cancer California | Bullets and Octane |
| Cemetery | Strung Out |
| Check My Brain | Alice in Chains |
| Christmas in California | America |
| Christmas Time in California | The Cheetah Girls |
| Clouds Over California | Devildriver |
| Come Back to Cali | The Holdup |
| Come to California | Matthew Sweet |
| Cowboy | Kid Rock |
| Crossing the Plains[7] | n/a |
| Curbside Prophet | Jason Mraz |
| Dani California | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Day After Day (It's Slippin' Away) | Shango (rock group) |
| Dirty Rotten Bastards | Green Day |
| Desperadoes Under the Eaves | Warren Zevon |
| Disciples of California | The Skygreen Leopards |
| Do Re Mi | Woody Guthrie |
| Dog Breath | Frank Zappa |
| Drivin' To California | Redlight King |
| Earthquakes and Sharks | Brandtson |
| Entertainment | Rise Against |
| Estimated Prophet | Grateful Dead |
| Exquisitely Bored | Pete Townshend |
| Eyeless | Slipknot |
| Feels Alright | Mark Lennon |
| For Crying Out Loud | Meat Loaf |
| Forest Fire | Dead Kennedys |
| Fort Bragg | Andrew Heringer |
| Follow You Home | Nickelback |
| A Friend in California | Merle Haggard |
| From California | The New Amsterdams |
| Fuck California | The Presidents of the United States of America |
| Fuck You, I'm From California | Goldenwest |
| Fort Bragg | Andrew Heringer |
| Future Perfect Tense | Sweet Billy Pilgrim |
| Gene Autry | Beulah |
| Get Back | The Beatles |
| Ghosts of California | Nafa |
| Goddam California | Will Hoge |
| Going Back to Cali | LL Cool J |
| Going Back to Cali | The Notorious B.I.G. |
| Going Back to Cali | Sevendust |
| Goin' to California | Gin Blossoms |
| Going to California | John David & Clear Spirit |
| Going to California | Led Zeppelin |
| Gold | John Stewart |
| Golden State | John Doe |
| Golden State | City and Colour |
| Gone to California | Pink |
| Goodbye California | Jolie Holland |
| Goodnight, California | Kathleen Edwards |
| Go to California | Motorpsycho |
| Go to California | Rob Zombie |
| Grey Bar Hotel | Gil Dabney |
| Have a Nice Day | Stereophonics |
| Hang Ten | Edwin |
| Headless | Dog Fashion Disco |
| Heaven 90210 | Urge Overkill |
| Heels Over Head | Boys Like Girls |
| Heads Carolina, Tails California | Jo Dee Messina |
| Here in California | Dave Alvin |
| Here in California | Natalie D-Napoleon |
| Here in California | Kate Wolf |
| Highway Five | American Music Club |
| Highway 101 | Social Distortion |
| Hills of California | John Trollmann |
| Hippie from Olema | The Youngbloods |
| Holiday from Real | Jack's Mannequin |
| Holiday in the Sun | Hot Hot Heat |
| Holly Wants to Go to California | Funkadelic |
| Holly (Would You Turn Me On?) | All Time Low[8] |
| Home | JamisonParker |
| Homebody | Zox |
| Hotel California | Eagles |
| House in California | Keb Mo |
| Hurry Up California | Calvin Lechner & Simon Nagel (Sunset Main) |
| I Hate California | Jonathan Coulton |
| I Love You, California (state song of California)[9] | Francis Bernard Silverwood |
| In California | Daz Dillinger |
| In California | Joanna Newsom |
| In California | Lisa Marr Experiment[10] |
| In California | Stat Quo |
| In Your Atmosphere | John Mayer |
| I Remember California | R.E.M. |
| I'm Asking Her to Stay | Sherwood |
| I'm Going Home | The Kingston Trio |
| I'm Headin' For California | Glenn Miller |
| Irvine | Kelly Clarkson |
| It Never Rains in Southern California | Albert Hammond |
| It Never Rains (In Southern California) | Tony! Toni! Tone! |
| Just Like California | Old 97s |
| Kal-E-Fornia | David Lanz |
| Kali4nia | Skandoe and Playboss |
| Kaliforn-Eye-a | P.O.D. |
| Kalifornia | Above the Law |
| Kalifornia | Brand New Immortals |
| Kalifornia | Fatboy Slim |
| Kailfornia | Kaizers Orchestra |
| Kalifornia | Kashmir |
| Kalifornia Dreamin' | Nappy Roots |
| Kalifornija | Vytautas Kernagis |
| King of California | Dave Alvin |
| Land Of Competition | Bad Religion |
| Let It Roll | All Time Low |
| Leaving California | Afroman |
| Leaving California | Boys Like Girls |
| Leaving California | P. J. Harvey and John Parish |
| Leaving California | Shawn Smith |
| Leaving Jesusland | NOFX |
| The Lights and Buzz ('Christmas in California') | Jack's Mannequin |
| Lights | Journey |
| Like a California King | Everclear |
| Lodi | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Long December | Counting Crows |
| Look at California | Maze featuring Frankie Beverly |
| Losing California | Sloan |
| Love-In California | The Power of 3 |
| Madera | Hey Ocean! |
| Maybe California | Tori Amos |
| Meet Me in California | Plain White T's |
| Meet Me by the River's Edge | The Gaslight Anthem |
| Midnight California | Dave Gleason's Wasted Days |
| Miss California | Jack's Mannequin |
| Miss California | Melissa Etheridge |
| Miss California | Plato 0 Plomo |
| Miss California | Dante Thomas |
| More Bounce in California | Soul Kid#1 |
| Music is the Victim | Scissor Sisters |
| New York to California | Mat Kearney |
| Not California | Hem |
| Nothing Left to Lose | Mat Kearney |
| Oh California | Claudia Russell |
| Oh California[7] | n/a |
| The One | Old 97's |
| One Big Holiday | My Morning Jacket |
| Only in California | Mack 10 |
| The Only Place | Best Coast |
| Option Twelve | Meet Grover |
| Outshined | Soundgarden |
| Out Here in Cali | Big B |
| Out in California | Dave Alvin |
| Out in California | Tom Russell |
| Overdrive | Katy Rose |
| Pacific Theme | Broken Social Scene |
| Playing Favorites | The Starting Line |
| Promised Land | Chuck Berry |
| Parallel Universe | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Postcards | Amber Pacific |
| Pumping Irony | Roy Zimmerman |
| Queen of California | John Mayer |
| Race Cars and Goth Rock | Butch Walker |
| Raining in California | Human Nature |
| Reality Check | OPM |
| The Day That Saved Us | Automatic Loveletter |
| The Redtail Hawk | Kate Wolf |
| Ride to California | Paper Tongues |
| Road Trippin' | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Rock Coast Blues | Country Joe and the Fish |
| Rock Star Land | Yellowcard |
| Route 66 | John Mayer |
| Save the Drama | Light FM |
| San Andreas Fault | Natalie Merchant |
| Scavenger Type | NOFX |
| Shadow of California | Blue Öyster Cult |
| She'd Be California | Rascal Flatts |
| She's So California[11] | Gary Allan |
| Shores of California | The Dresden Dolls |
| Sink with Kalifornija | Youth Brigade |
| Sleepy California | Her Space Holiday |
| Snow in California | The Stills |
| So at Last | Butch Walker |
| A Song About California | Hey Ocean |
| Song for Kelly Huckaby | Death Cab for Cutie |
| South California Purples | Chicago |
| Southern California | Andrew Heringer |
| Southern California Wants To Be Western New York | Dar Williams |
| Southern California | Tammy Wynette & George Jones |
| Speed Home California | Sugar Ray |
| Stay The Night | James Blunt |
| Sunny in California | Aberdeen |
| Summer of California '79 | Number Girl |
| Sunday best | Augustana |
| Sunrise Sunset | New Years Day |
| Take A Look Inside | Over It |
| Take California | Propellerheads |
| Tape From California | Phil Ochs |
| The Golden State | Flight 409 |
| The Recipe | Kendrick Lamar |
| To California | Mighty Mighty Bosstones |
| Two States | Pavement |
| Unfair | Pavement |
| The Vast Spoils of America | Saves the Day |
| Vinnie's Hooch | Johnny Socko |
| Walking Shoes | Halsted |
| We Don't Need Another Song About California | My Chemical Romance |
| Westbound Sign | Green Day |
| West Coast | Coconut Records |
| West Coast Friendship | Owl City |
| Westside Till I die | TQ |
| When You Get to California | Hoodoo Gurus |
| Where's California | Teena Marie |
| Winding Road | Bonnie Somerville |
| Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread | Bob Dylan |
| Los Angeles and Vicinity | |
| See also: List of songs about Los Angeles | |
| Title | Artist(s) |
| 21 Jumpstreet | Snoop Dogg feat. Tray Deee |
| 99 Miles From L.A. | Albert Hammond |
| 99 Miles from L.A. | Roman Alcocer |
| Ænema | Tool |
| Alameda | Elliott Smith (could also be about Alameda Street in Portland, Oregon) |
| A Long December | Counting Crows |
| All I Wanna Do | Sheryl Crow |
| Amateur Lovers | Switchfoot |
| American Bad Ass | Kid Rock (reference to Compton) |
| Angeles | Elliott Smith |
| April 29, 1992 (Miami) | Sublime |
| Awakening | Switchfoot |
| Babylon Sisters | Steely Dan |
| The Ballad of Jed Clampett | Jerry Scoggins, Flatt and Scruggs |
| Been to Hell | Hollywood Undead |
| Beverly Hills | The Circle Jerks |
| Beverly Hills | Weezer |
| Beverly Hills Hotel | Whitestarr |
| Big City | Wall of Voodoo |
| Big Machine | The Goo Goo Dolls |
| Bloody Mary Morning | Willie Nelson (reference to L.A.) |
| Blue Jay Way | The Beatles (refers to a street in the Hollywood Hills) |
| Born and Raised in Compton | DJ Quik |
| Born in East L.A. | Cheech Marin, a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." |
| Boulevard | Jackson Browne (references Hollywood Boulevard) |
| Boyz n da Hood | Eazy-E |
| Bunker Hill | Michael Penn (references the Bunker Hill section of Downtown Los Angeles as well as Vermont Avenue, a major north-south thoroughfare in the city) |
| Bunker Hill | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Burn Hollywood Burn | Public Enemy |
| Buzzbomb From Pasadena | The Dead Kennedys |
| California Girls | The Magnetic Fields |
| California's Burning | Augustana |
| Car Phone | Sheeler & Sheeler |
| Carmelita | Warren Zevon |
| Carson Girls | Angry Samoans |
| Celluloid Heroes | The Kinks (about the stars on Hollywood Boulevard) |
| Christmas in Hollywood | Hollywood Undead |
| Ciao, Babe | Lexington & 3rd |
| Ciao L.A. | Chokebore |
| City of Angels | The Distillers |
| City of Angels | 10,000 Maniacs |
| City of Angels | Pangea Project |
| City of Angels | Red Elvises |
| City of Devils | Yellowcard |
| City of the Angels | Journey |
| City of Satan | Turbonegro |
| The City with Two Faces | Goldfinger |
| Come a Long Way | Michelle Shocked |
| Come to L.A. | Chilly |
| Coming into Los Angeles | Arlo Guthrie |
| Compton Compton | The Game |
| Compton Swangin | BG Knocc Out & Dresta |
| Compton's In The House | N.W.A |
| Contact/L.A.U.S.D | Jurassic Five |
| Country Boy (You've Got Your Feet in LA) | Glen Campbell |
| Cowboy | Kid Rock (references to Hollywood and Vine) |
| Cruiser | Red House Painters |
| Dead in Hollywood | Murderdolls |
| Dead Loss Angeles | The Stranglers |
| Dear Axl | Lexington & 3rd |
| Desperados Under the Eaves | Warren Zevon |
| Disneyland | The Eyes |
| Disneyland | Five for Fighting |
| Dizz Knee Land | Dada |
| Don't Mean Nothing | Richard Marx |
| Down in LA | People Under the Stairs |
| Down Rodeo | Rage Against the Machine, referring to Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills |
| Down Whittier Blvd | Thee Midniters |
| DTLA (Downtown Los Angeles) | Gary Jules |
| Drinkin' and Dreamin' | Waylon Jennings, reference to L.A. |
| Drinking in L.A. | Bran Van 3000 |
| Drove Up from Pedro | Mike Watt. An ode to Watt's hometown, San Pedro |
| Drugs not Working | Ryan Adams |
| Earthquake Song | Little Girls |
| East L.A. | War |
| East L.A. Breeze | Brazzaville |
| Eastside LB | The Twinz feat. Warren G |
| Echo Park | Ryan Cabrera |
| 8-Ball | Lexington & 3rd |
| 80 Blocks from Silverlake | People Under the Stairs |
| Electrolite | R.E.M. |
| El Lay | NOFX |
| Estimated Prophet | Grateful Dead |
| Everyone Is Someone in L.A. | Felix da Housecat |
| Fallen Angel | Poison (referring to kids moving away from home in the 1980s to make it big in L.A.) |
| Free Fallin' | Tom Petty |
| Fuck Compton | Tim Dog |
| Gangsta Love | Warren G feat. RBX, Nate Dogg & Kurupt |
| Garden Grove | Sublime |
| Girl from Malibu | Red Elvises |
| Glendora | Rilo Kiley |
| Going Out West | Gomez (cover of "Goin' Out West" by Tom Waits) |
| Going to Malibu | The Mountain Goats |
| Goin' Out West | Tom Waits |
| Goodbye Hollywood | Richard Marx |
| Goodbye L.A. | Green River Ordinance (band) |
| Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd | Ryan Adams |
| Goodnight L.A. | Counting Crows |
| Gone Hollywood | Supertramp |
| Grapevine | Tom Russell |
| The Great Los Angeles Flood | Woody Guthrie |
| Grey in L.A. | Loudon Wainwright III |
| Griffith Park | Mellow the Band |
| The Haircut Song | Ray Stevens (reference to L.A.) |
| Half Moon Bay | Train |
| Hating Hollywood | Theory of a Deadman |
| Heartattack and Vine | Tom Waits |
| Heaven Help the Fool | Bob Weir |
| Hell Looks A Lot Like L.A. | Less than Jake |
| Hello, Brooklyn | All Time Low |
| Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham | Blue Cheer |
| Here I Am in Hollywood | Red Elvises |
| Here in L.A. | Roy Joseph |
| Hey, California | Paul Melancon |
| History Lesson, Pt. 2 | The Minutemen |
| Holiday from Real | Jack's Mannequin |
| Hollywood | 999 (band) |
| Hollywood | Bizzy Bone |
| Hollywood | Collective Soul |
| Hollywood | The Cranberries |
| Hollywood | Dorian's Gray |
| Hollywood | Jay-Z featuring Beyoncé |
| Hollywood | The Jonas Brothers |
| Hollywood | Kendall Payne |
| Hollywood | Los Lonely Boys |
| Hollywood | Madonna |
| Hollywood | Nickelback |
| Hollywood | P.O.D. |
| Hollywood | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Hollywood | Rufus featuring Chaka Khan |
| Hollywood | Saliva |
| Hollywood | Some Velvet Morning |
| Hollywood | Throw Rag |
| Hollywood | The Runaways |
| Hollywood | The Veronicas |
| Hollywood | West Indian Girl |
| Hollywood | World Party |
| Hollywood Babylon | The Misfits |
| Hollywood Bitch | Stone Temple Pilots |
| Hollywood Black | Dio |
| Hollywood Cemetery | Cracker |
| Hollywood Girl | Drake Bell |
| Hollywood Hills | Sunrise Avenue |
| Hollywood Honeys | Hank Williams Jr |
| Hollywood Kids | The Thrills |
| Hollywood Nights | Bob Seger |
| Hollywood Sign | The Explosion |
| Hollywood Squares | William "Bootsy" Collins |
| Hollywood Swinging | Kool & the Gang |
| Hollywood (Down On Your Luck) | Thin Lizzy |
| Hollywood (Is Burning Down) | Calibretto 13 |
| Hollywood Tease | L.A. Guns |
| Hollywood the Second Time | Wall of Voodoo |
| Hollywood Whore | Papa Roach |
| Hollywood's Not America | Ferras |
| Hooray for Hollywood | Johnnie Davis and Frances Langford, accompanied by Benny Goodman and his orchestra. |
| Hooray, It's L.A. | Blindside |
| Hot Box City | Klaatu |
| Hot Fudge (Moving to L.A.) | Robbie Williams |
| Hot Rod Lincoln | C. Ryan, W.S. Stevenson (San Pedro and the Grapevine) |
| Hotel Roosevelt | Augustana |
| How To Survive in South Central | Ice Cube |
| I Ain't from Compton | O.F.T.B. |
| Why You'd Want to Live Here | Death Cab for Cutie |
| I Am Hollywood | He Is Legend |
| I Can't Stand L.A | Bowling For Soup |
| I Left my Wallet in El Segundo | A Tribe Called Quest |
| I Love Cali | Roscoe |
| I Love L.A. | Randy Newman |
| I Love L.A. | Rilo Kiley |
| I Loved the Way She Said 'L.A.' | Spitalfield |
| I'm from L.A. | Go Betty Go |
| I Remember L.A. | Celine Dion |
| If Hollywood Don't Need You (Honey I Still Do) | Don Williams |
| I'm So L.A. | MYNX |
| (I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica | Tom Lehrer |
| Inglewood Swangin | Mack 10 |
| In L.A. | Delinquent Habits |
| Into the Airwaves | Jack's Mannequin |
| Into the Great Wide Open | Tom Petty (Hollywood) |
| Irvine | Kelly Clarkson |
| It's a Beautiful Day | The Beach Boys |
| It's Christmas Once Again in Santa Barbara | Barry De Vorzon |
| Johny Hit and Run Paulene | X |
| Join Me in L.A. | Warren Zevon |
| Kalifornia | Mos Def |
| Kalifornian Ruosteiset Kukkulat (California's Rusty Hills) | Ultra Bra |
| Karma's Payment | Modest Mouse |
| The Kelly Affair | Be Your Own Pet (references to LA and the Valley) |
| The Kids | Hollywood Undead |
| Killafornia | Cypress Hill |
| A Kind of Christmas Card | Morten Harket |
| L.A. | Elliott Smith |
| L.A. | Jackie DeShannon |
| L.A. | Murs |
| L.A. | Naked Brothers Band |
| L.A. Baby (Where Dreams Are Made Of) | Jonas Brothers |
| L.A. Blue | Joey McIntyre |
| La Brea | Lexington & 3rd |
| L.A. County | Lyle Lovett |
| L.A. City | Amad Jamal |
| L.A. Freeway | Guy Clark (covered by Jerry Jeff Walker) |
| L.A. Feeding Fire | Negative |
| L.A. Girl | The Adolescents |
| L.A. International Airport | Susan Raye |
| L.A. Is Burnin' | Lexington & 3rd |
| L.A. Is My Lady | Frank Sinatra |
| L.A. Is The Place | N.W.A. |
| L.A., L.A. (remix) | Capone-N-Noreaga Featuring Tragedy Khadafi, Prodigy (Mobb Deep) |
| La La Land | The Go-Go's |
| L.A. Made Me | Alexz Johnson |
| L.A. Song | Beth Hart |
| L.A. Song | John Mayer |
| The L.A. Song | People Under the Stairs |
| L.A. Sunshine | War |
| L.A. Woman | The Doors |
| L.A.P.D. | L.A. Guns |
| L.A.P.D. | The Offspring |
| La Cienega Just Smiled | Ryan Adams |
| Late Night, Early Town | Lloyd Cole |
| Laurel Canyon | Jackie DeShannon |
| LAX | Big D and the Kids Table |
| LAX to O'Hare | The Academy Is... |
| LBC and the ING | Mack 10 feat. Snoop Dogg |
| Le Chateau | Nous Non Plus |
| Let's Go! | The Olympic Hopefuls (now known as The Hopefuls; "Like the Hollywood vampires / We sleep until the sun sets") |
| Letter to L.A. | Joe Ely |
| Life in L.A. | Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti |
| The Little Old Lady from Pasadena | Jan and Dean, covered by The Beach Boys |
| Little Suzy Suicide | Lexington & 3rd |
| Long Beach | Bethany Curve |
| Long Way to Hollywood | Hank Williams Jr. |
| Los Angeles | The Audition |
| Los Angeles | Brad Mehldau |
| Los Angeles | Counting Crows |
| Los Angeles | The Firebird Band |
| Los Angeles | Frank Black (although Frank Black sings "not the one in South California", this song deliberately continues to be featured here, because its title would appear to place it among songs about California) |
| Los Angeles | Jim's Big Ego |
| Los Angeles | Morten Harket |
| Los Angeles | Ozma |
| Los Angeles | Porcelain and the Tramps |
| Los Angeles | The Rosewood Thieves |
| Los Angeles | The 69 Eyes |
| Los Angeles | Sugarcult |
| Los Angeles | X |
| Los Angeles Blues | Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Los Angeles Daze | People Under the Stairs |
| Los Angeles I'm Yours | The Decemberists |
| Los Angeles Is Burning | Bad Religion |
| Los Angeles November 2019 | Vangelis (Blade Runner) |
| Los Angeles Times | Xzibit |
| Los Angelinos | Billy Joel |
| Lost Angeles | Wired All Wrong |
| Lost Angelino | Tony Lucca |
| Lost in Hollywood | System of a Down |
| Love in L.A. | Ernie Halter |
| Love is the Movement | Switchfoot |
| Low Rider | War |
| Lullaby | Shawn Mullins |
| Madame Hollywood | Felix da Housecat featuring Miss Kittin |
| Malibu | Hole |
| Malibu Gas Station | Sonic Youth |
| Malibu Love Nest | Luna |
| Malibu Pier | Rake and the Surftones |
| Malibu Run | The Fender IV |
| Marina Del Rey | Kenny Chesney |
| Marina Del Rey | George Strait |
| Mid-City Fiesta | People Under the Stairs |
| Midnight Train to Georgia | Gladys Knight |
| Moonlight Drive | The Doors |
| Morrison Hotel | Lexington & 3rd |
| Moving to L.A. | Art Brut |
| My California | Beth Hart |
| Newport Living | Cute Is What We Aim For |
| Next to Highway Number 10 | John George Campbell |
| No. 5 | Hollywood Undead |
| No Se Vende La Calle | Doc Gyneco |
| No Other Place | Hollywood Undead |
| N CALIFORNIA" | YOUNG FARLEY |
| Number 13 Baby | Pixies |
| O.C. Confidential' | The Adolescents |
| O.C. Life' | Rikk Agnew |
| O.C. Supertones (That's just life in Orange County California) | The O.C. Supertones |
| Ode to L.A. | The Raveonettes |
| Old L.A. Tonight | Ozzy Osbourne |
| Old School Hollywood | System of a Down |
| Ole Mulholland | Frank Black (about the Los Angeles Aqueduct) |
| On The Edge | Terry Woods |
| One in a Million | Guns N' Roses |
| 101 Ventura Freeway Blues | Speedtwinn |
| Open Up | Leftfield |
| Orange County | STEFY |
| Orange County Girl | Gwen Stefani |
| Orange County Suite | The Doors |
| Orange County Lumber Truck | Frank Zappa |
| Out in L.A. | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Out of L.A. | Jude |
| Out on the Weekend | Neil Young |
| Pachuco Blues | Lexington & 3rd |
| Pacific Coast Highway | Burt Bacharach |
| Paradise City | Guns N' Roses, covered by Pat Boone |
| Party Girl | Lexington & 3rd |
| Pasadena | Al Jolson |
| Playing Favorites | The Starting Line |
| Please Please Please (Young Hollywood) | Head Automatica |
| Pico-Union District | Psycho Realm |
| Pico and Sepulveda | Freddy Martin (as Felix Figueroa and his Orchestra) |
| Picture Postcards from L.A. | Joshua Kadison |
| The Promised Land | Chuck Berry |
| Purple Stain | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Recognize | Warren G feat. The Twinz & Snoop Dogg |
| Redondo Beach | Patti Smith, later covered by Morrissey |
| Revolution Blues | Neil Young |
| Ride Wit Me | The Relativez feat. Butch Cassidy |
| The River | Good Charlotte featuring M. Shadows and Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold |
| Rooming House on Venice Beach | Jonathan Richman |
| Saints of Los Angeles | Mötley Crüe |
| San Fernando Valley | Bing Crosby |
| Santa Ana Wind | Tom Russell |
| Santa Monica | Everclear |
| Santa Monica | Savage Garden |
| Santa Monica | Theory of a Deadman |
| Santa Monica Dream | Angus & Julia Stone |
| Save Me, San Francisco | Train |
| Say Goodbye to Hollywood | Billy Joel |
| Say Goodbye to Hollywood | Eminem |
| Screenwriter's Blues | Soul Coughing |
| Sea of Drugs | Lexington & 3rd |
| Sin City | The Flying Burrito Brothers |
| Skies Of L.A. | Celine Dion |
| Sleazy Wednesday | Jack's Mannequin |
| Slow Down | The Academy Is... |
| So.Cal | Delinquent Habits |
| So L.A. | The Motels |
| Some Girls | The Rolling Stones (references Zuma Beach) |
| Some L.A. Niggaz | Dr. Dre |
| Some Other Time | X |
| Spectacular Views | Rilo Kiley |
| Starfish | Lexington & 3rd |
| Stephanie's for L.A. | The Mother Hips |
| Still in Hollywood | Concrete Blonde |
| Stories from Hollywood | Jon Peter Lewis |
| Straight Outta Compton | N.W.A |
| Strait of Gibraltar | Val Holler |
| Stranded in L.A. | L.A. Guns |
| Strange Season | Michael Penn (references Angels Flight railway in Downtown Los Angeles) |
| Streets of LBC | Warren G |
| Sunset People | Donna Summer |
| Sunset Strip | Courtney Love |
| Summer's Coming | Sean Watkins |
| Summertime in the LBC | The Dove Shack |
| Surf Ain't No City (It's the Whole South Bay) | Brakkers |
| Surfin' U.S.A. | The Beach Boys (various surf spots in California) |
| Surf Route 101 | Jan and Dean |
| Sweet Dreams My LA Ex | Rachel Stevens |
| Temecula Sunrise | New Years Day |
| The Last Resort | Eagles |
| The L.A. Of My Dreams | Sony Holland |
| The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles | Phil Ochs |
| They Will Kill Us All (Without Mercy) | The Bronx |
| This Old Town | Tom Petty |
| This Town | The Go-Go's |
| Time Spent in Los Angeles | Dawes |
| Three Little Pigs | Green Jellÿ |
| To Die in L.A. | West Indian Girl |
| To Live & Die in L.A. | 2Pac |
| To Live and Die in L.A. | Wang Chung |
| Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon) | The Mamas & the Papas |
| Two Lost Angels | Franky Perez |
| Under the Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Under the Bridge | The All Saints |
| Valley Girl | Frank Zappa |
| Valley of the Dollz | Lexington & 3rd |
| Van Nuys (Es Very Nice) | Los Abandoned |
| Venice, USA | Red Elvises |
| Venice USA | Van Morrison |
| Ventura | Lexington & 3rd (references Ventura Boulevard) |
| Ventura Blvd | Tom Hagan |
| The Vicodin Song | Terra Naomi |
| Wailin' in West Covina | The Spectrums |
| Walking in L.A. | Missing Persons |
| Walking in Los Angeles | Kate Micucci |
| Wannabe in L.A. | Eagles of Death Metal |
| War Within a Breath | Rage Against the Machine |
| Watts Riot | KAM |
| The Way The Story Goes | Tim Foust |
| "We Built This City | Starship |
| We from the LBC"" " | Bad Azz feat. Snoop Dogg |
| We Lost Our Way | Chris Isaak |
| We Run L.A. | Ya Boy |
| Weekend in L.A. | The Toasters |
| Welcome Me | Indigo Girls |
| "Welcome to the Boomtown | David & David |
| Welcome to Hollywood"" " | Mitchel Musso |
| Welcome to the Jungle | Guns N' Roses |
| West L.A. Fadeaway | Grateful Dead |
| Whittier Blvd. | Thee Midniters |
| Who Would've Thought | Rancid (Echo Park) |
| Who's Down | Kingspade ("P-town" – Placentia) |
| Why You'd Want to Live Here | Death Cab for Cutie |
| Wild Side | Mötley Crüe |
| William Faulkner in Hollywood | Tom Russell Band |
| Winter | The Rolling Stones (reference to Stone Canyon) |
| Wrong Way to Hollywood | Wall of Voodoo |
| Yo Home To Bel-Air | DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince |
| You're The Reason God Made Oklahoma | David Frizzell and Shelly West (reference to L.A. County) |
| White Guilt | The Bronx |
| San Francisco and the Bay Area | |
| Title | Artist(s) |
| 99 Miles to San Francisco | April Matson |
| 408 Funktion | Killa Sharks |
| 707 | Mac Dre |
| All Dressed Up for San Francisco | The Philosopher Kings |
| All the Lost Souls Welcome You to San Francisco | American Music Club |
| Autumn | Joanna Newsom |
| Back in San Francisco | The Orange Peels |
| The Ballad of San Francisco | Caedmon's Call |
| The Ballad of Wilhelm Fink | Green Day |
| The Bay | Lyrics Born |
| The Bay | Zion I |
| Berkeley is My Baby and I Wanna Kill It | Blatz |
| The Best in Me | Sherwood |
| Bixby Canyon Bridge | Death Cab for Cutie |
| The Blind Leaving the Blind | Punch Brothers |
| Bodega Bay | Glen Uber |
| Caldecott Tunnel | Something Corporate |
| Calling San Francisco | Tommy Castro |
| Campbell California | Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards |
| Carlotta Valdez | Harvey Danger |
| The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco | The Lucksmiths |
| Christie Road | Green Day |
| Christmas in San Francisco | Vic Damone |
| City Hall | Vienna Teng |
| Cold Wind | Arcade Fire |
| Come Back from San Francisco | The Magnetic Fields |
| Come Monday | Jimmy Buffett |
| Condition Oakland | Jawbreaker |
| Convoy | C.W. McCall ("about a mile outta Shaky Town") |
| Danville Girl | Woody Guthrie |
| Deep Kick | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) | Woody Guthrie |
| Desvelado | Bobby Pulido |
| Don't Gimme No Bammer Weed | RBL Posse |
| Don't Marry Her | The Beautiful South |
| Down and Out in San Francisco | Martha Berner |
| Down in Oakland | Transplants |
| Down on Mission Street | Lloyd Cole |
| Down in Frisco | Jon English |
| Do You Know The Way to San Jose | Burt Bacharach, performed by Dionne Warwick, Neil Diamond, Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
| Drunk in San Francisco | San Quinn & Tuf Luv |
| Earthquake Weather | All Bets Off |
| Fake Tales of San Francisco | Arctic Monkeys |
| Fasting in San Francisco | Lupon |
| Frisco Blues | John Lee Hooker |
| Frisco Niggaz | Messy Marv, San Quinn, Jt the Bigga Figga, Black C. |
| Frisco Town | Memphis Minnie |
| Gilman Street (Berkeley) | The Mr. T Experience |
| Girl in the Blue Velvet Band | Peter Rowan |
| Golden Gate | Al Jolson |
| Golden Gate Bridge | Rose Melberg |
| Goodnight, San Francisco | The Bittersweets |
| The Golden Gate | John Vanderslice |
| Got the Gate on the Golden Gate | Mel Tormé |
| Grace Cathedral Hill | The Decemberists |
| Grace Cathedral Park | Red House Painters |
| The Grand Duchess of San Francisco | American Music Club |
| Groveland Welcomes You | Carmen Taira |
| The Haircut Song | Ray Stevens |
| Haight Street | Anberlin |
| Half Moon Bay | Ronnie Day |
| Half Moon Bay | Tom Grant |
| Half Moon Bay | Train |
| Hazy SF | Six Organs of Admittance |
| Hello, San Francisco | Buddy Guy |
| Honeymoon in San Francisco | Of Montreal |
| Hyphy | The Federation |
| I Left My Heart in San Francisco | Tony Bennett |
| I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco | Carmen McRae |
| If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead) | Counting Crows |
| In America | the Charlie Daniels Band (reference to the San Francisco Bay) |
| In San Francisco | The Welcome Matt |
| In San Francisco (Wake Me Up) | The Welcome Matt |
| In San Francisco Watching SLC Punk | Ghost Runner on Third |
| In the Sixties | Sarine Voltage |
| Into Action | Tim Armstrong featuring Skye Sweetnam |
| Josie | John Stewart |
| Journey to the End of the East Bay | Rancid |
| Judy Is a Punk | The Ramones ("both went down to Frisco, joined the SLA") |
| Julia (Come Out of the Rain) | Josh Rouse |
| Jumpers | Sleater-Kinney |
| Keep Hoping, St. Francis | Kristene Mueller |
| K-L-M Line | The Fairways |
| King of Disco | Akcent |
| Left of the Dial | The Replacements |
| Let's Go Back to San Francisco (Parts 1 and 2) | The First Class (although recorded by Tony Burrows with this group, this two-part song appeared on a compilation album for The Flower Pot Men (Burrows' former group) later on) |
| Let's Go to San Francisco (Parts 1 and 2) | The Flower Pot Men |
| Life in San Francisco | Girls |
| Lights | Journey |
| Lights Out in San Francisco | Craig Chaquico |
| Linden Arden Stole the Highlights | Van Morrison |
| A Little Bit of Everything | Dawes |
| Love on Haight Street | BT |
| Make Like Paper | Red House Painters |
| Matkalla San Franciscoon | Edu Kettunen |
| Mean Old Frisco | Arthur Crudup, covered by Eric Clapton, Jackie DeShannon |
| Mercury News | Lucy Wainwright Roche |
| Million | Paul Kantner & Grace Slick |
| Mission Bells | The Aislers Set |
| Mission in the Rain | Jerry Garcia Band |
| The Mission is Bitchin | The Units |
| Mission Street | Vienna Teng |
| Misty Mountain Hop | Led Zeppelin |
| Moon over Marin | The Dead Kennedys |
| My Brother Lived in San Francisco | Joan Ryan |
| My Side of the City | Beulah |
| New Oakland | Mistah F.A.B. |
| New Year's Kiss | Casiotone for the Painfully Alone |
| New Zealand Pines | John Vanderslice |
| Oakland | Too Short |
| Oakland Stroke | Tower of Power |
| Oaktown | The K.G.B. |
| Oh! There's a Disco in San Francisco | This Romantic Tragedy |
| Okie From Muskogee | Merle Haggard (reference to San Francisco) |
| On a San Francisco High | Sony Holland |
| Pacific Dust | The Mother Hips |
| Pacific Heights | Pep Love |
| Palo Alto | Radiohead |
| Perfect Blue Buildings (Berkeley) | Counting Crows |
| Piazza, New York Catcher | Belle and Sebastian |
| Planet Fillmore | San Quinn |
| Rendez-Vous: Potrero Hill | Architecture in Helsinki |
| Ride Captain Ride | Blues Image |
| Rob Fraser's Welcome to San Francisco | Eric Rigler & Alasdair Fraser |
| Sad But True | Transplants (Berkeley) |
| Saint Dominic's Preview | Van Morrison |
| Samba de Sausalito | Santana |
| San Fran | Kids of 88 |
| San Franciscan Nights | Eric Burdon & The Animals |
| San Francisco, | Walter Jurmann and Bronislaw Kaper, performed by Jeanette MacDonald, covered by Judy Garland |
| San Francisco | Alkaline Trio |
| San Francisco | Brett Dennen |
| San Francisco | Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks |
| San Francisco | Cascada |
| San Francisco | Citylife |
| San Francisco | Damian Anderson |
| San Francisco | David Perskie |
| San Francisco | Die Flippers |
| San Francisco | The Dingees |
| San Francisco | Ember FX |
| San Francisco | Foxygen |
| San Francisco | Frédéric François |
| San Francisco | Gene Defcon |
| San Francisco | Hello Saferide |
| San Francisco | Jesse Rhodes aka Stegosaurus |
| San Francisco | Jill Sobule |
| San Francisco | The KOLIN |
| San Francisco | Kristin Hersh |
| San Francisco | Lucero (band) |
| San Francisco | Maxime Le Forestier |
| San Francisco | Midicronica |
| San Francisco | Mike Burns |
| San Francisco | The Mowgli's |
| San Francisco | MU330 |
| San Francisco | Richard March |
| San Francisco | Rufus Wainwright |
| San Francisco | Sarah RabDAU |
| San Francisco | Sherman Baker |
| San Francisco | Son of Dave |
| San Francisco | Spouse |
| San Francisco | Steve Tannen |
| San Francisco | Ten Mile Tide |
| San Francisco | Vanessa Carlton |
| A San Francisco | Vission Latina |
| San Francisco (In Situ) | They Might Be Giants |
| San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) | Scott McKenzie |
| San Francisco (The Rhythm) | Eskmo |
| San Francisco (You've Got Me) | Village People |
| San Francisco, 1906 | Capybara |
| San Francisco Anthem | San Quinn feat Big Rich and Boo Banga (Produced by Traxamillion) |
| San Francisco Bay | Lee Oskar |
| San Francisco Bay Blues | Jesse Fuller |
| San Francisco B.C. | Silver Jews |
| San Francisco Bound | The Pimps of Joytime |
| San Francisco Days | Chris Isaak |
| San Francisco Fan | Joe Jackson |
| San Francisco Fat | NOFX |
| San Francisco FM Blues | Doug Sahm |
| San Francisco Holiday | Thelonious Monk |
| San Francisco Hussle | Silver Convention |
| San Francisco Knights | People Under the Stairs |
| San Francisco on the Water | Arik Einstein |
| San Francisco Payphone | Catch 22 |
| San Francisco Saturdays | John Callahan |
| San Francisco Shuffle | Meade |
| San Francisco Song | Camera Obscura |
| San Francisco, Take Me Back | Band of Annuals |
| San Francisco Via Chicago Blues | The Elected |
| San-Ho-Zay | Albert King |
| Santa Rosa | Nitty Gritty Dirt Band |
| Sausalito | George Duke |
| Sausalito | Conor Oberst |
| Sausalito Summernight | Diesel |
| Save Me, San Francisco | Train |
| Sequel | Harry Chapin |
| The SFC | RBL Posse, The Get Low Playay, and San Quinn |
| Shark Infested | The Killa Sharks |
| Shoot Out in Chinatown | The Band |
| Show'n Love | The Killa Sharks |
| (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay | Otis Redding |
| Snow in San Anselmo | Van Morrison |
| So Long, San Francisco | Glenn Yarbrough |
| Soul Shadows | Bill Withers |
| The Sound of San Francisco | Global Deejays |
| Standing on the Moon | Grateful Dead |
| Still in Saigon | Charlie Daniels Band ("Got on a plane in 'Frisco and got off in Vietnam") |
| Strawberry Wine | Ryan Adams |
| Stuart and the Avenue | Green Day |
| A Summer in San Francisco | Hendrik Meurkens |
| Sunday Night in San Francisco | Mel Tormé |
| Sunny California | Saskia Eurlings |
| Swansea | Joanna Newsom |
| Take it Easy San Francisco | Emily Wells |
| Tania | Camper Van Beethoven |
| Taxi | Harry Chapin |
| Tenderloin | Rancid |
| Theme from The Streets of San Francisco | Patrick Williams |
| Tiny Montgomery | Bob Dylan |
| To: San Francisco | The Spill Canvas |
| Vallejo | Mac Dre |
| The Vowels, Pt. 2 | Why? |
| Wake Me Up in San Francisco | Jackie Payne Steve Edmonson Band |
| We Built This City | Starship |
| Welcome 2 Da Bay | Yukmouth |
| Welcome to Paradise | Green Day |
| When I Come Around | Green Day |
| Who Needs the Peace Corps? | Frank Zappa |
| Yay Area | E-40 |
| Yerba Buena Bounce | The Hot Club of San Francisco |
| You Always Said You Hated San Francisco | Jonah Matranga |
| Young San Francisco | Boy in Static |
| Other Locations, Cities, and Streets | |
| Title | Artist(s) |
| 16th Street (San Diego) | Invictus |
| 26 Miles (Santa Catalina) | The Four Preps |
| 96 Miles to Bakersfield | George Lindsey |
| Albatross + Ivy | Limbeck |
| Alone in Santa Cruz | the Ataris |
| Back to the 101 (or simply "101" in the U.S.) | Albert Hammond, Jr. |
| Back to Salinas | Mary McCaslin |
| Bakersfield | Social Distortion |
| Bakersfield | Tom Russell |
| Big Sur | Adam Franklin |
| Big Sur | King of Woolworths |
| Big Sur | Magic Castles |
| Big Sur | Mason Jennings |
| Big Sur | The Thrills |
| Billy the Mountain | Frank Zappa |
| Bixby Canyon Bridge | Death Cab for Cutie |
| The Blondes of Santa Barbara | Saint Milkweed |
| Booyaka 619 (current theme song of wrestler Rey Mysterio) | WWE |
| Brand New Orange | Limbeck |
| Bubble Toes | Jack Johnson |
| Call of the West | Wall of Voodoo |
| Caltrans | Doo Doo Wah (a song about California Department of Transportation road crews) |
| Cambria | Jason Bennett |
| Catalina | The Descendents |
| Celluloid Heroes | The Kinks |
| City of Deygo | Mike Nasty |
| Cloudy | Simon & Garfunkel (references Berkeley and Carmel) |
| Coronado II | Polaris |
| Cucamonga | Frank Zappa |
| Deckchairs and Cigarettes | The Thrills |
| Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos) | Woody Guthrie |
| (Don't You Go To) Goleta | Camper Van Beethoven |
| Don't Mess With the Mayor (Carmel) | The Medflys |
| Don't Wait on Me | The Statler Brothers (references San Diego) |
| Dream Life of Rand McNally | Jason Mraz |
| El Camino Real | Alfred Reed |
| El Caminos in the West | Grandaddy |
| Far Away Eyes | The Rolling Stones (references Bakersfield and L.A.) |
| For What It's Worth | Buffalo Springfield |
| Freeport Boulevard (Sacramento) | Jackie Greene |
| Friend of the Devil | Grateful Dead |
| Folsom Prison Blues | Johnny Cash |
| Get 'Em Outa Here (Sweet Home San Diego) | Sprung Monkey |
| Going Back to Big Sur | Johnny Rivers |
| Gone Country | Alan Jackson (references L.A. and "The Valley") |
| Go to Montecito | The High Llamas |
| Grapevine Fires | Death Cab for Cutie |
| Heading for Hesperia | F.X. MacDonald |
| Heart of Gold | Neil Young (references Hollywood and Redwood City) |
| Holly (would you turn me on) | All Time Low |
| Highway 101 | Social Distortion |
| I Don't Like Mondays | The Boomtown Rats |
| I Got the Blues in Santa Cruz | Horace Silver |
| I'm a Raider | Luniz |
| I'm Coming Home | Robert Earl Keen (references San Jose, Monterey Bay, and Santa Cruz) |
| I Wish I Looked a Little Better | Sparks |
| I Woke Up in a Car | Something Corporate (references San Diego) |
| Johnny Come Lately | Steve Earle (references San Diego) |
| June on the West Coast | Bright Eyes |
| Kern River | Merle Haggard |
| Kern River | Dave Alvin |
| La Jolla | Grey Boy |
| The Lady from Twentynine Palms | The Andrews Sisters |
| Leaving Las Vegas | Sheryl Crow |
| Lodi | Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Lonesome Santa Barbara Blues | Mark Roberts |
| "Make-Up and Faded Blue Jeans | Merle Haggard |
| Manzanar"" " | Tom Russell |
| Matterhorn | Joy Electric |
| Meet Me In The Middle | Allstar Weekend (references Pacific Coast Highway and San Diego) |
| Mendo | Loose Change |
| Mendocino | The Sir Douglas Quintet |
| Mendocino Desperados | Bob Gibson |
| Mendocino County Line | Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack |
| Miles from Monterey | West Indian Girl |
| Modesto Is Not That Sweet | The Hold Steady |
| Montecito White Trash Barbecue | Claude Hopper |
| Monterey | Eric Burdon & The Animals |
| Monterey | Rhythma |
| Morning Misty Eyes | Tommy Flanders |
| Ms. Santa Cruz County | Cracker |
| Never Been to Spain | Hoyt Axton (references Needles) |
| Next to Highway Number 10 | John George Campbell |
| O Valencia! | The Decemberists |
| Ocean Avenue | Yellowcard |
| October in Oxnard | Rake and the Surftones |
| Old Cayucos | Craig Melia |
| On Interstate 15 | Wall of Voodoo |
| Pacific Coast Highway | Burt Bacharach |
| Pacific Coast Highway | Courtney Love |
| Pacific Coast Highway | The Mamas & the Papas |
| Pacific Coast Highway | Sonic Youth |
| Pacific Coast Party | Smash Mouth |
| Paddle Out (song about surfing in Santa Cruz) | Sublime |
| Palmdale | Afroman |
| Pebble Beach | Vince Guaraldi |
| Pescadero Days | Gary Gates |
| Postcard from Lompoc | Kreg Viesselman |
| Pretty Girl from San Diego | The Avett Brothers |
| Quiet Beach Town | Franklin For Short (references Ventura) |
| Ramona Moraga | Babyland |
| Red Hill Mining Town | U2 (Joshua Tree) |
| Revelation Big Sur | Red House Painters |
| Riverside | The Beat Farmers |
| Rosalita (Come Out Tonight) | Bruce Springsteen |
| The Rocket Ships of La Jolla | Jesus Jones |
| The Rose of the San Joaquin | Tom Russell |
| Route 66 | Nat "King" Cole |
| Route 101 | Herb Alpert |
| Running on Empty | Jackson Browne |
| Sacramento | Cuf |
| St. Modesto | Chris Walla |
| Salinas | Jackie DeShannon |
| San Andreas Fault | Natalie Merchant |
| San Ber'dino | Frank Zappa |
| San Berdoo Sunburn | Eagles of Death Metal |
| San Berdu | The Vandals |
| San Bernardino | The Mountain Goats |
| San Bernardino | Satanic Surfers |
| San Diego | Burning Brides |
| San Diego | Feeder |
| San Diego | L.A. Symphony |
| San Diego | Parmalee |
| San Diego | Roy Zimmerman |
| San Diego | Shawn Lee's Ping Pong Orchestra |
| San Diego | Starlight Mints |
| San Diego | The Eternal Afflict |
| San Diego is Burning | Agent 51 |
| San Diego Serenade | Tom Waits |
| San Diego Song | The Coronas |
| San Diego Zoo | The 6ths (Barbara Manning Vocals) |
| San Luis Obispo | Ted Wulfers |
| San Luis Obispo | Coyote (Marcy Brenner & Lou Castro) |
| San Simeon | Bryan Ferry |
| San Simeon | Goldfinger |
| Santa Barbara | Matthew Hart |
| Santa Barbara | Meg & Dia |
| Santa Barbara | Mellow the Band |
| Santa Barbara | Ronnie Milsap |
| Santa Barbara | The Superficials |
| Santa Barbara | World Party |
| Santa Carla Twilight | Tiger Army |
| Santa Cruz | Brian Sharpe |
| Santa Cruz | Fatboy Slim |
| Santa Cruz | JJ Cale |
| Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far) | The Thrills |
| Siren on the 101 | Over It |
| Someone else's parking lot in Santa Cruz | The Mountain Goats |
| South Coast | Tom Russell |
| South Coast | Dave Stamey |
| Summer '79 | The Ataris |
| Summertime (Mendocino County) | Crimpshrine |
| Streets of Bakersfield | Buck Owens |
| Streets of Bakersfield | Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens |
| Studebaker | Warren Zevon (Monterey, Fresno, Hwy 99) |
| Surfin' U.S.S.R | Ray Stevens (references to Malibu) |
| Sutter's Mill | Dan Fogelberg |
| Talk to Me of Mendocino | Kate and Anna McGarrigle |
| Talk to Me of Mendocino | Linda Ronstadt (also covered by Lee Ann Womack) |
| Ten Miles to Bliss | Val Holler |
| Tight Wad Hill | Green Day |
| Trouble Child | Joni Mitchell |
| Ukiah | The Doobie Brothers |
| Vienna | Billy Joel |
| Ventura | Lucinda Williams |
| Ventura | Whiskey Chimp |
| Ventura County Line | Fur Dixon and Steve Werner |
| Ventura Highway | America |
| Ventura, Ventura Space People | Shinobu |
| Village of the Sun | Frank Zappa (Palmdale) |
| We Weren't Crazy | Josh Gracin |
| Where the Streets Have No Name | U2 (Joshua Tree) |
| White Boy from Sacramento | Timothy B. Schmit |
Huh.
Man, I wonder why there are SO MANY MORE songs about California than there are about Ohio? I mean there are more songs just CALLED "California" than have ever been written about Ohio in the history of the world!
It's a mystery. I really can't imagine what could account for this difference.
Ah, well. I guess we'll never know.
(The box score thing isn't working right now so just imagine that thing is here okay?)
Prediction:Sharks win, and several more songs are written about the glory of California.
Video Gamery: My 24th-favorite video game is the Silent Hill series, which probably takes place in Ohio.
