Quartz City

One last playlist before I pack up all the mp3s for the trip east. Awhile back one of the music magazines (Mojo perhaps?) ran a top 40 list of Los Angeles/California-themed songs. Most of the usual suspects were included (X, NWA, The Eagles, The Doors, etc.) but there were some omissions that stood out. Therefore a CD70!

The track listing (and this time in order):

1. Cheap Trick - “California Man”
2. The Runaways - “California Paradise”
3. Concrete Blonde - “Still In Hollywood”
4. The Motels - “So L.A.”
5. Norman Greenbaum - “California Earthquake”
6. OP8 - “The Devil Loves L.A.”
7. Drywall - “Back Towards Diamond Bar”
8. Roy Rogers & Dale Evans - “Out California Way”
9. Merle Haggard - “California Cottonfields”
10. Dwight Yoakam - “Streets Of Bakersfield”
11. The Jazz Butcher - “Bakersfield”
12. Ronny & The Daytonas - “California Bound”
13. Eddie Floyd - “California Girl”
14. Sweet - “California Nights”
15. Susan Raye - “L.A. International Airport”
16. Saint Etienne - “Downey, CA”
17. The Mountain Goats - “Home Again Garden Grove”
18. Aberdeen - “Sunny In California”
19. Warren Zevon - “Desperados Under The Eaves”
20. Neil Young - “California Sunset”
21. Tom Waits - “Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come”

Come to think of it, the Zevon track might have been in the original list but what the hey, it’s a great song.