Favorite song named after an American state

[AlexFili]

What's your favorite? Mine is probably Sweet Home Alabama.

[Pilot]

How many are there, really?

Now if we can count American Cities I'm nominating Gene Pitney's 24 Hours from Tulsa, and ZZ Top's cover of Viva Las Vegas.

[Jordan]

The Hannah Montana theme song. I'm kidding.

How many songs with states in their name are there?

[AlexFili]

Well I know for a fact there are tons of ones named after California/New York.

Californication by Red Hot Chilli Peppers...
That OC Theme song...
Dani California... again by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

I could go on all day ! But it is a large number.

Here is but a tiny example;
* "Alabama Rain" by Jim Croce
* "Sau Paulo Arkansas" by Prefuse 73
* "California" by Sarah Slean
* "Sweet Georgia Brown" by Django Reinhardt
* "Hawaii Five-0" by The Ventures
* "Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois" by Sufjan Stevens
* "Theme from Indiana Jones" by John Williams
* "Iowa (Traveling III)" by Dar Williams
* "Kentucky Avenue" by Tom Waits
* "Six Hours to Louisiana, Black Coffee Going Cold" by The KLF
* "Massachusetts" by The BeeGees
* "Michigan Militia" by Moxy Früvous
* "Mississippi" by Paula Cole
* "Goodbye Montana (Part I)" by George Winston
* "Nevada City, California" by Ani Difranco and Utah Phillips
* "Roswell, New Mexico" by Joel Schick
* "New York City" by T-Rex
* "The Banks of the Ohio" by Earl Scruggs, Doc Watson, and Ricky Skaggs
* "Oklahoma" by Rodgers and Hammerstein
* "Pennsylvania Six-5000" by Glenn Miller
* "The Road to Rhode Island" by Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy)
* "The Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page
* "Texas Girl at the Funeral of Her Father" by The King's Singers
* "Moonlight in Vermont" by The Freebern Family
* "Virginia" by Tori Amos
* "Jenny Washington" by Moxy Früvous
* "West Virginia" by John Linnell
* "Varsity (University of Wisconsin Alma Mater)" by The Lucido Felice Quartet

[OANST]

Ohio. Hurray for early Modest Mouse.

[Pilot]

Alex, thanks for ending the thread for us by naming all the songs with State names under the sun.

"Sweet Georgia Brown"? Good lord, save me. This is just too much drama for me.

NO! Wait! You forgot "Georgia" by Ray Charles....

/thread

[AlexFili]

Well, it wasn't my list. Also that's probably not a comprehensive list. There's at least 10-20 named after New York/California anyway...

In fact, didn't the Stereophonics release a song called Dakota?!

[moxco]

Some of your threads are weird, Alex. But this one is like totally weird.

[Mac Sirloin]

Ohio. Hurray for early Modest Mouse.

I have no hope for anything else so I'll just agree with this

[Strike Witch]

"I come from a land down under"

[OANST]

Bappo bappo bappo thunder.

[Havoc]

Sweet Home Alabama is fun for a while but gets annoying to quickly.

Californication I guess.

[Nemo]

California Love by Tupac.





Shut the hell up, I'm allowed to listen to hip hop.

[AlexFili]

I quite like that song actually. I like the lyrical stylings of Eminem. By the way, if american states aren't enough, there are tons of songs named after places/capital cities.

Think of all the ones named after London and Paris

[Mac Sirloin]

Singapore by Tom Waits

[Slog Bait]

"I come from a land down under"

This.

[Ajiellyn]

Kings of Leon - Arizona.

This is an unusual thread though, I have to agree.

[Pilot]

Okay, again with the cities.

Marc Cohn's Walking in Memphis

and

Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia

Just heard these two awesome songs on the radio back-to-back.

[Fuzzle Guy]

I'm going to blitz it and say America by Razorlight.

[Rex Tirano]

Walking in Memphis or Dakota.

Hurray for middle-of-the-road monotony.

- Rexy

[Pilot]

I'm going to blitz it and say America by Razorlight.

What about "A Horse With No Name" by America?

I was always a skeptic, I mean, the horse must have had some name. Some.... horse name like horses usually have, like "Valiant" or "Apples."

[Hobo]

This is a shit topic.

[OddjobAbe]

Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Philadelphia

Must agree here. Bruce Springsteen was always excellent.

Californication by Red Hot Chilli Peppers...
Dani California... again by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Mr. Bungle would kick RHCP's arses if they had a song about an American state (thoug they did release an album called California).

That's right. I'm trying to cause a dispute.


But I must agree with Hobo. This is a naff topic, and I would not be proud to contribute to it without bringing up Mr. Bungle.

[Mojo]

Would be Californication for me. It's the first song I did with my first band.