Songs About Your City

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Chances are, your city has a song written about it. Maybe it's a good one, maybe it's a really really bad one. Maybe it's one that actually captures something you love about your city. Let's celebrate the songs about your city and see how many cities we can collect!!

"San Francisco" Scott McKenzie

“If you’re going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair . . . "

This song blows. Is it ever going to go away? I think this might be the worst song written about my beautiful city ever.

Which this youtube user conveniently coupled with the raddest music video ever. Enjoy!

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"Lights"

“When the lights, go down, in the city. And the sun shines on . . . LA” !?!

WTF? I know. I have unwittingly uncovered a horrible fact in putting this guide together.

I mean, this is the only Journey song I can still listen to, because I THOUGHT IT WAS ABOUT SAN FRANCISCO!!

’Tis true: wikipedia says), the song was originally intended for Los Angeles.

**ck you, Steve Perry!

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: by hi_liner 06/11/2009

If this is true I am going to punch every member of Journey so hard in the face that they re-write this song for SF. But I’m pretty sure the lyric is "And the sun shines on the bay.”

: by karey_ann 09/18/2009

The lyrics are “sun shines on the Bay” but what did they used to be?? “Sun shines on LA”!! Let me know how that Journey-face-punching goes!

: by mckallx2 08/14/2011

he thought that he could get his foot in the music door by writing jingles. he wrote the tune to the song and the words were ‘’when the sun shines on la’’ he was going to sell it as a local news jingle

"Aenema" Tool

LA, you might win for the most hateful song category.

I think Maynard Keenen captures something subtle in this song. Something like, “I hate this area so much that I would blow it up if I didn’t think a massive earthquake was going to demolish it anyway.”

Um, don’t take it personally?

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Toledo, Ohio

‘Not sure why Excelninja used a state for John Denver, doesn’t mention a song, and says that he doesn’t mention cities in his song….but this one is called “Saturday Night In Toledo Ohio” from the album An Evening with John Denver.

added by TacoStomps 06/12/2009

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"America" by Simon & Garfunkel

Okay, there may be songs about Pittsburgh, but I don’t know them. However! One of my favorite “bands”, Simon & Garfunkel, sings a little ditty called America, actually one of my fave songs and the word Pittsburgh is in it! Granted it’s referring to getting a Greyhound in Pittsburgh (ick bus station), but still.

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karey_ann

Rockridge

This wine-swilling, tango-touting, twittering fashionista is also a literary nerd, KQED-obsessed, yoga class-hopping, iPhone poking, Oakland-lover. So take that, SF.