|   State Songs | JDaniel
Aug 16, 2002 7:01 AM | | I was drivin around last night with a Lyle Lovett cd in, and it occurred to me that two songs from that cd had state names in the title - (1) North Dakota & (2) That's Right (You're Not From Texas).
I got to thinking about a "state" comp. What other songs have state titles in them? If nothing else, makes for good Friday discussion.
Others that come to mind:
California (several - Calif. Dreaming, Calif. Girls etc.)
Sweet Home Alabama (Skynrd)
Devil Went Down to Georgia (CDB)
Carolina on My Mind (JT)
NY Minute (Don Henley)
What are some others?
JDaniel (bored on a Friday) |
| re: State Songs | Rae
Aug 16, 2002 7:12 AM | | "Jordan, Minnesota" - Big Black
"Ohio" - Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
"Tennessee" - Arrested Development (or the Silver Jews too)
"New Jersey Shore" - The Promise Ring
"Pennsylvania 6-5000" - Glenn Miller (or anyone)
~Rae |
| a few.. | Masonjar
Aug 16, 2002 7:19 AM | | Neil Young - 'Ohio' ("Four dead in Ohio...")
Pretenders - 'My City Was Gone' ("I went back to Ohio, and my city was gone...")
John Denver - '(Colorado) Rocky Mountain High'
Pixies - 'U-Mass'
-jar
thinking of some more.. |
| That's <b>Carolina</b> <i>In</i> <b>My Mind</b>. Yikes! Too Anal ;-P | Slosh
Aug 16, 2002 7:38 AM | | New York State Of Mind - Billy Joel
Hotel California - Eagles
Mississippi Queen - Mountain
Arizona - Scorpions
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Why are only classic-rock song coming to mind? |
| Yea, mi tipyng leeves muche tu bee des1rd (NT) | JDaniel
Aug 16, 2002 7:56 AM | | |
| Here's a bunch..... | tugmcmartin
Aug 16, 2002 8:03 AM | | Yeah... i've got too much time on my hands today, but here goes...
Meet Virginia - Train
Georgia on my Mind - Willie Nelson
Dakota - Catfish Jenkins
Texas Skies - Freddy Jones Band
California - Freddy Jones Band, Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
Montana Gal - Front Range
Texas Undergroud - Gibb Droll Band
Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo - Grateful Dead
Alabama Rain - Jim Croce
Guess He'd Rather Be In Colorado - John Denver
Carolina - Nathan Sheppard Band
Stone Coal West Virginia - New Grange
Colorado - Railroad Earth, Shannon McNally, and Stephen Stills all have one titled this...
Fightin' Texas Aggie - Robert Earl Keen
Tennessee - Shawn Colvin
The Only Living Boy in NY - Simon and Garfunkel
Mississippi - Train
Idaho - Train
Hey... i could do a comp with this stuff....
Tug |
| re: State Songs | WStan
Aug 16, 2002 8:17 AM | | New York Fever (The Toasters) |
| re: State Songs | Over50
Aug 16, 2002 8:28 AM | | New York New York Frank Sinatra
Kansas City Here I Come Wilbur Harris
My Homes In Alabama By Alabama
Please Come To Boston Kenny Loggins |
| Ummm, three of those are about cities, not states... | Swish
Aug 16, 2002 2:04 PM | | and the taunting continues! NY, NY is about the city, he ain't saying the name of the state twice. Kansas CITY is self-explanatory, and Boston was still a city last time I checked. You old guys just don't follow instructions very well now do you? :-)))
Your buddy,
Swish
Did BTO do any state songs? I can only think of "American Woman", and I think America is a country. :-p |
| Foot firmly lodged in mouth. | Slosh
Aug 16, 2002 2:19 PM | | <i>American Woman</i> is The Guess Who (or Krokus or Lenny Kravitz).
Yours truly,
~the music geek patrol |
| Ouch! That was really stupid of me! | Swish
Aug 17, 2002 7:03 AM | | Of course I know it was the Guess Who, but aren't they synonymous with BTO? :-)
Yours truly,
Swish, victim of CRS disease (Can't Remember S#*t) |
| Point taken. :-) (nt) | Slosh
Aug 17, 2002 7:12 AM | | |
| <i>State Songs</i> | stupidestboy
Aug 16, 2002 11:15 AM | | so i clicked, expecting to read about <i>state songs</i>( http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=Ay9h9keftaq7v ), the side project of john linnell (of they might be giants). if you're looking for a certain state to round out your comp, this would be a great place to start. i own it, but like so many of the albums i own, i haven't been able to listen to it enough to really say whether i could recommend it or not. i'll go with the easiest answer: recommended if you are a big TMBG fan and own all their major releases.
there's also a TMBG song called "new york city."
here's the tracklist for a mix my friend made titled "random songs about minne(sota)apolis"
vic volare - i'm gonna miss minneapolis
cleveland bound death sentence - minneapolis public transit song #2
abc - minneapolis
lemon interrupt - minneapolis
guckenheimer sour kraut band - gruss aus minneapolis
tom daily - minneapolis
that dog - minneapolis
the legendary jim ruiz group - minneapolis
bill janovitz - minneapolis
mason jennings - southern minnesota
neil landstrumm - minneapolis bass treatment
kind of like spitting - we got as far as minnesota
andre nickatina - bakin' soda in minnesota
dandy warhols - minnesota
gear daddies - minnesota polka
snooze - minnesota mantalo
ace troubleshooter - chilly minnesota
weird al yankovic - the biggest ball of twine in minnesota
dictators - the minnesota strip
wendy & lisa - minneapolis #1
pinetop seven - a friend to the minnesota strangler
converge - minnesota
tom waits - christmas card from a hooker in minneapolis
the tom waits song is so good. |
| couple more.... | mawako
Aug 16, 2002 1:54 PM | | Kentucky Woman....Deep Purple
Blue Hawaii
Yellow Rose of Texas
Massacheutts...Bee Gees
Tallahasse Lassie ?? (Florida)..Freddie Cannon
Oklahoma (Musical)
and how about
Born in the USA and America the Beautiful
for all the rest
Cheers |
| John Gorka's "I'm From New Jersey"... | Swish
Aug 16, 2002 2:06 PM | | "It's like Ohio,
only more so".
Nice tune actually. |
| "Louisiana" By Randy Newman off Good Ol Boys | DLD
Aug 16, 2002 8:51 PM | | plus Louisiana Man by Dave Edmunds or Doug Kershaw. Might wanna add Baja Oklahoma, lyrics, by Dan Jenkins (song by Willie Nelson). |
| "Hawaii" by the Beach Boys (nt) | Stone
Aug 17, 2002 6:58 AM | | |
| the Dambuilders have enough to fill a comp | cc
Aug 17, 2002 12:12 PM | | An indie band in Boston around the mid-90s, they made it kind of a thing to write "state" songs. Though maybe not all of them made it to their recordings.
A terribly arrogant bunch of indie rockers, by the way. Eric Masunaga later became something of a producer. |
| ha! | Rae
Aug 17, 2002 12:28 PM | | I have a bunch of Dambuilders records, for some reason... <i>Against the Stars</i>, <i>¡Encendedor!</i>, <i>Ruby Red</i>... by far the best thing that I have of theirs is the "Break Up With Your Boyfriend" promo single, where the b-side is a guy talking about their marketability ("The Dambuilders are one of the most exciting groups in alternative music today!," etc.). Very funny stuff. That song <i>was</i> catchy as fu<a>ck, tho. It seems like they had a knack for writing one great single and a dozen forgettable songs per album. "Shrine," "Teenage Loser Anthem,"...
~Rae
NP: Dosh - "My Favorite Color's Red" |
| re: State Songs | Riley88
Aug 18, 2002 11:34 AM | | One for my home state. The Emperor of Wyoming - Neil Young off of his self titled release.
Riley88 |
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