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List of songs about California
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California
Los Angeles and vicinity
- "99 Miles From L.A." by Johnny Mathis
- "A Long December" by Counting Crows
- "Ænema" by Tool
- "All I Wanna Do" by Sheryl Crow
- "Amateur Lovers" by Switchfoot
- "April 29, 1992" by Sublime
- "Awakening" by Switchfoot
- "Beverly Hills" by The Circle Jerks
- "Beverly Hills" by Weezer
- "Blue Jay Way" by The Beatles, refers to a street in the Hollywood Hills
- "Born And Raised In Compton" by DJ Quik
- "Born in East L.A." by Cheech Marin, a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A."
- "Big Machine" by The Goo Goo Dolls
- "Burn Hollywood Burn" by Public Enemy
- "Car Phone" by Sheeler & Sheeler
- "Carmelita" by Warren Zevon
- "Christmas in Hollywood" by Hollywood Undead
- "City of Angels" by the Distillers
- "City of Angels" by 10,000 Maniacs
- "City of Angels" by Pangea Project
- "City of Angels" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "City of Devils" by Yellowcard
- "City of the Angels" by Journey
- "The City With Two Faces" by Goldfinger
- "Come a Long Way" by Michelle Shocked
- "Coming into Los Angeles" by Arlo Guthrie
- "Compton Compton" by The Game
- "Compton Swangin" by BG Knocc Out & Dresta
- "Compton's In The House" by N.W.A
- "Contact/L.A.U.S.D" by Jurassic Five
- "Disneyland" by Five for Fighting
- "Down Rodeo" by Rage Against the Machine, referring to Rodeo Drive in Beverley Hills
- "Downtown Los Angeles" by Gary Jules
- "Drinking in L.A." by Bran Van 3000
- "Drugs not Working" by Ryan Adams
- "Earthquake Song" by Little Girls
- "East L.A." by War
- "Eastside LB" by The Twinz feat. Warren G
- "Echo Park" by Ryan Cabrera
- "El Lay" by Nofx
- "Everyone Is Someone in L.A." by Felix da Housecat
- "Fallen Angel" by Poison, referring to kids moving away from home in the 1980s to make it big in L.A.
- "Free Fallin'" by Tom Petty (Reseda)
- "Fuck Compton" by Tim Dog
- "Gangsta Love" by Warren G feat. RBX, Nate Dogg & Kurupt
- "Going to Malibu" by The Mountain Goats
- "Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd" by Ryan Adams
- "Grey in L.A." by Loudon Wainwright III
- "Gone Hollywood" by Supertramp
- "Hating Hollywood" by Theory of a Deadman
- "Hell Looks A Lot Like L.A." by Less than Jake
- "Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham" by Blue Cheer
- "Hey, California" by Paul Melancon
- "Hollywood" by The Cranberries
- "Hollywood" by Los Lonely Boys
- "Hollywood" by Collective Soul
- "Hollywood" by Kendall Payne
- "Hollywood" by Madonna
- "Hollywood" by Nickelback
- "Hollywood" by P.O.D.
- "Hollywood" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Hollywood" by Saliva
- "Hollywood" by West Indian Girl
- "Hollywood Babylon" by The Misfits
- "Hollywood Black" by Dio
- "Hollywood Cemetery" by Cracker
- "Hollywood Girl" by Drake Bell
- "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger
- "Hollywood Squares" by William "Bootsy" Collins
- "Hollywood Swingin" by Kool and the Gang
- "Hooray, It's L.A." by Blindside
- "Hot Box City" by Klaatu
- "Hot Fudge (Moving to L.A.)" by Robbie Williams
- "How To Survive In South Central" by Ice Cube
- "I ain't from Compton" by O.F.T.B.
- "I can't see Why You'd Want to Live Here" by Death Cab for Cutie
- "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman
- "I Loved the Way She Said 'L.A.'" by Spitalfield
- "I'm From L.A." by Go Betty Go
- "I'm So L.A." by MYNX
- "Inglewood Swangin" by Mack 10
- "Into the Great Wide Open" by Tom Petty (Hollywood)
- "Karma's Payment" by Modest Mouse
- "L.A." by Elliott Smith
- "L.A." by MURS
- "L.A. Blue" by Joey McIntyre
- "L.A. County" by Lyle Lovett
- "L.A. City" by Amad Jamal
- "L.A. Freeway" by Jerry Jeff Walker
- "L.A. Girl" by The Adolescents
- "L.A. Is My Lady" by Frank Sinatra
- "L.A. Is The Place" by N.W.A.
- "L.A., L.A. (remix)" by Capone-N-Noreaga Featuring Tragedy Khadafi, Prodigy (Mobb Deep)
- "L.A. Song" by John Mayer
- "L.A. Song" by Beth Hart
- "L.A. Woman" by The Doors
- "L.A.P.D." by The Offspring
- "La Cienega Just Smiled" by Ryan Adams
- "Late Night, Early Town" by Lloyd Cole
- "LAX" by Big D and the Kids Table
- "LAX to O'Hare" by The Academy Is...
- "LBC and ING by Mack 10 feat. Snoop Dogg
- "Los Angeles" by Frank Black (although Frank sings "not the one in South California", so it's actually not a song about California)
- "Los Angeles" by Jim's Big Ego
- "Los Angeles" by X
- "Los Angeles" by Sugarcult
- "Los Angeles" by The 69 Eyes
- "Los Angeles" by Brad Mehldau
- "Los Angeles" by Ozma
- "Los Angeles Blues" by Lightning Hopkins
- "Los Angeles Daze" by People Under the Stairs
- "The L.A. Song" by People Under the Stairs
- "Los Angeles I'm Yours" by The Decemberists
- "Los Angeles is Burning" by Bad Religion
- "Los Angeles November 2019" by Vangelis(Bladerunner)
- "Los Angeles Times" by Xzibit
- "Los Angelinos" by Billy Joel
- "Lost Angelino" by Tony Lucca
- "Lost in Hollywood" by System of a Down
- "Lullaby" by Shawn Mullins
- "Marina Del Rey" by George Strait
- "Moving to L.A." by Art Brut
- "Next to Highway Number 10" by John George Campbell
- "No Se Vende La Calle" by Doc Gyneco
- "Ode to L.A." by The Raveonettes
- "Old L.A. Tonight" by Ozzy Osbourne
- "Old School Hollywood"- System of a Down
- "Ole Mulholland" by Frank Black (about the Los Angeles' Aqueduct)
- "One in a Million" by Guns N' Roses
- "Open Up" by Leftfield
- "Orange County Girl" Gwen Stefani
- "Out in L.A." by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Out of LA" by Jude
- "Paradise City" by Guns N' Roses, covered by Pat Boone
- "Pasadena" by Al Jolson
- "Playing Favorites" by The Starting Line
- "Please Please Please (Young Hollywood) by Head Automatica
- "Pico-Union" by Psycho Realm
- "Pico and Sepulveda" by Freddy Martin (as Felix Figueroa and his Orchestra)
- "Picture Postcards from L.A." by Joshua Kadison
- "Purple Stain" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Recognize" by Warren G feat. The Twinz & Snoop Dogg
- "Revolution Blues" by Neil Young
- "Ride Wit Me" by The Relativez feat. Butch Cassidy
- "Sausalito Summernight" by Diesel
- "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" by Billy Joel
- "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" by Eminem
- "Screenwriter's Blues" by Soul Coughing
- "Sin City" by The Flying Burrito Brothers
- "So L.A." by The Motels
- "Straight Outta Compton" by NWA
- "Strait of Gibraltar" by Val Holler
- "Streets of LBC" by Warren G
- "Summertime in the LBC" by The Dove Shack
- "Sweet Dreams My LA Ex" by Rachel Stevens
- "The Great Los Angeles Flood" by Woody Guthrie
- "The Promised Land" by Chuck Berry
- "The River" by Good Charlotte featuring M. Shadows and Synyster Gates of Avenged Sevenfold
- "The Vicodin Song" by Terra Naomi
- "The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles" by Phil Ochs
- "This is L.A." by Delinquent Habits
- "To Live and Die in L.A." by 2pac
- "To Live and Die in L.A." by Wang Chung
- "21 jumpstreet" by Snoop Dogg feat. Tray Dee
- "Two Lost Angels" by Franky Perez
- "Under the Bridge" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers
- "Under the Bridge" by the All-Saints
- "West L.A. Fadeaway" by The Grateful Dead
- "Walking in L.A." by Missing Persons
- "Watts Riot" by KAM
- "Weekend in L.A." by The Toasters
- "Welcome Me" by Indigo Girls
- "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns N' Roses
- "Why You'd Want to Live Here" by Death Cab for Cutie
- "Wild Side" by Mötley Crüe
- "We from the LBC" by Bad azz feat. Snoop Dogg
San Francisco
Other towns, streets, etc.
- "16th Street" (San Diego) by Invictus
- "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" by The Four Preps
- "405" by Death Cab for Cutie
- "707" by Mac Dre
- "Alone in Santa Cruz" by the Ataris
- "The Ballad of San Francisco" by Caedmon's Call
- "Berkeley is My Baby and I Wanna Kill It" by Blatz
- "Big Sur" by The Thrills
- "Billy the Mountain" by Frank Zappa
- "Bodega Bay" by Glen Uber
- "Booyaka 619" from WWE, current theme song of wrestler Rey Mysterio (619 refers to San Diego's area code
- "Caldecott Tunnel" by Something Corporate (the tunnel under the Berkeley Hills)
- "Caltrans" by Doo Doo Wah (a song about California Department of Transportation road crews)
- "Campbell, California" by Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards
- "Catalina" by The Descendents
- "Celluloid Heroes" by The Kinks
- "Christie Rd." by Green Day (Berkeley)
- "Dead In Hollywood" by Murderdolls
- "Deckchairs and Cigarettes" by The Thrills
- "Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)" by Woody Guthrie
- "Do You Know The Way to San Jose" written by Burt Bacharach, performed by Dionne Warwick, Neil Diamond, Frankie Goes to Hollywood
- "(Don't You Go To) Goleta" by Camper Van Beethoven
- "Down In Oakland" by Transplants
- "Down Rodeo" by Rage Against the Machine
- "Drove Up From Pedro" by Mike Watt. An ode to Watt's hometown, San Pedro.
- "Eastside LB" by The Twinz feat. Warren G
- "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield
- "Freeport Boulevard" by Jackie Greene
- "Friend of the Devil" by The Grateful Dead
- "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash
- "Gilman Street" by Mr. T Experience (Berkeley)
- "Garden Grove" by Sublime
- "Glendora" by Rilo Kiley
- "Gone Country" by Alan Jackson (References to L.A. and "The Valley")
- "Going to Malibu" by The Mountain Goats
- "(I'm Spending) Hanukkah in Santa Monica" by Tom Lehrer
- "Half Moon Bay" by Ronnie Day
- "Holly (would you turn me on)" by All Time Low
- "Highway 101" by Social Distortion
- "History Lesson, Pt. 2" by The Minutemen (San Pedro/Hollywood)
- "Hot Rod Lincoln" by C. Ryan, W.S. Stevenson (references to San Pedro and the Grapevine)
- "Hyphy" by The Federation
- "I Don't Like Mondays" by The Boomtown Rats
- "I'm a Raider" by The Luniz
- "I'm Coming Home" by Robert Earl Keen (References to San Jose, the Monterey Bay, and Santa Cruz)
- "Inglewood Swangin" by Mack 10
- "Into the Airwaves" by Jack's Mannequin
- "I Wish I Looked A Little Better" by Sparks (band)
- "Journey to the End of the East Bay" by Rancid
- "Kern River" by Merle Haggard
- "Kern River" by Dave Alvin
- "La Jolla" by Grey Boy
- "LBC and the ING" by Mack 10 feat. Snoop Dogg
- "Leaving Las Vegas" by Sheryl Crow
- "Left my Wallet in El Segundo" By A Tribe Called Quest
- "Let's Go!" by Olympic Hopefuls (now known as The Hopefuls; lyric is "Like the Hollywood vampires / We sleep until the sun sets")
- "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" by Jan and Dean, covered by The Beach Boys
- "Lodi by Creedence Clearwater Revival
- "Lost in Hollywood" by System of a Down
- "Malibu" by Hole
- "Malibu Love" by Luna
- "Marina Del Rey" by Kenny Chesney
- "Matterhorn" by Joy Electric
- "Mendo" by loose change
- "Mendocino" by The Sir Douglas Quintet
- "Mendocino County Line" by Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack
- "Monterey" by Eric Burdon & The Animals
- "Moon over Marin" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Ms. Santa Cruz County" by Cracker
- "New Oakland" by Mistah F.A.B.
- "Newport Living" by Cute Is What We Aim For
- "Oakland Stroke" by Tower of Power
- "O Valencia!" by The Decemberists
- "Old School Hollywood" by System of a Down
- "Orange County Girl" by Gwen Stefani
- "Orange County Suite" by The Doors
- "Orange County Lumber Truck" by Frank Zappa
- "Palmdale" by Afroman
- "Palo Alto" by Radiohead
- "Buzzbomb From Pasadena" by The Dead Kennedys
- "Pacific Coast Highway" by Sonic Youth
- "Pacific Coast Highway" by Courtney Love
- "Pacific Coast Highway" by Burt Bacharach
- "Pacific Coast Party" by Smash Mouth
- "Perfect Blue Buildings" by Counting Crows (Berkeley)
- "P-Town" by Kingspade
- "Revelation Big Sur" by Red House Painters
- "The Rocket Ships of La Jolla" by Jesus Jones
- "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne (U.S. Route 101)
- "Sacramento" by Cuf
- "Sad But True" by Transplants (Berkeley)
- "Samba de Sausalito" by Santana
- "San Andreas Fault" by Natalie Merchant
- "San Ber'dino" by Frank Zappa
- "San Bernardino" by The Satanic Surfers
- "San Diego" by Feeder
- "San Diego is Burning" Agent 51
- "San Diego Serenade" Tom Waits
- "San Diego Zoo" by The 6ths (Barbara Manning Vocals)
- "San Fernando Valley" Bing Crosby
- "San Simeon" Goldfinger
- "Sweet Home San Diego" Sprung Monkey
- "Santa Carla Twilight" By Tiger Army
- "Santa Cruz" by Fatboy Slim
- "Santa Cruz (You're Not That Far)" by The Thrills
- "Santa Monica" by Everclear
- "Santa Monica" by Savage Garden
- "Santa Monica" by Theory of a Deadman
- "Santa Rosa" by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
- "Sausalito Summernight" by Diesel
- "Show'n Love" by Killa Sharks
- "Snow in San Anselmo" by Van Morrison
- "Still in Hollywood" by Concrete Blonde
- "Streets of LBC" by Warren G
- "Summer '79" by the Ataris
- "Summertime" (about Mendocino County) by Crimpshrine
- "Summertime in the LBC" by The Dove Shack
- "Sunset Strip" by Courtney Love
- "Streets of Bakersfield" by Buck Owens
- "Streets of Bakersfield" by Dwight Yoakam with Buck Owens
- "Stuart and the Ave." by Green Day
- "Studebaker" by Warren Zevon (Monterey, Fresno, Hwy 99)
- "Talk to Me of Mendocino" by Linda Ronstadt (also covered by Lee Ann Womack)
- "Ten Miles to Bliss" by Val Holler
- "Tight Wad Hill" by Green Day
- "Trouble Child" by Joni Mitchell
- "Ukiah" by The Doobie Brothers
- "Ventura Highway" by America
- "Vallejo" by Mac Dre
- "Venice USA by Van Morrison
- "We from the LBC" by Bad Azz feat. Snoop Dogg
- "Whittier Blvd." by Thee Midniters
- "Yay Area" by E-40
- "Welcome 2 Da Bay" by Yukmouth
- "Welcome to Paradise" by Green Day
- "Who Would've Thought" by Rancid (Echo Park)
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