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):
- Cheap Trick – “California Man”
- The Runaways – “California Paradise”
- Concrete Blonde – “Still In Hollywood”
- The Motels – “So L.A.”
- Norman Greenbaum – “California Earthquake”
- OP8 – “The Devil Loves L.A.”
- Drywall – “Back Towards Diamond Bar”
- Roy Rogers & Dale Evans – “Out California Way”
- Merle Haggard – “California Cottonfields”
- Dwight Yoakam – “Streets Of Bakersfield”
- The Jazz Butcher – “Bakersfield”
- Ronny & The Daytonas – “California Bound”
- Eddie Floyd – “California Girl”
- Sweet – “California Nights”
- Susan Raye – “L.A. International Airport”
- Saint Etienne – “Downey, CA”
- The Mountain Goats – “Home Again Garden Grove”
- Aberdeen – “Sunny In California”
- Warren Zevon – “Desperados Under The Eaves”
- Neil Young – “California Sunset”
- 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.
no luna? Was that on the MOJO list?
I did have the Luna track on there but I axed it for space reasons. Same with Slade’s “L.A. Blues”, but that would easily go on a “glam rock songs about California” comp (there’s probably enough songs for one too)