List of songs about California

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• "All of California and Everyone Who Lives There Stinks" by The World/Inferno Friendship Society
• "All the Gold in California" by The Gatlin Brothers
• "Antennas" by Rancid
• "Atomic" by Tiger Army
• "Back to California" by Carole King
• "Back to California" by Sugarcult
• "Back to California" bye The Wallflowers
• "Back Home" by Yellowcard
• "Big Sur" by Mason Jennings
• "Big Sur" by The Thrills
• "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day
• "Buring Hot In Cali" by Latyrx
• "California" by Belinda Carlisle
• "California" by Blatz
• "California" by Bob Dylan early version of -"Outlaw Blues
• "California" by Casanovas
• "California" by Copeland
• "California" by Darren Hayes
• "California" by Dressy Bessy
• "California" by Flash and the Pan
• "California" by Gianna Nannini
• "California" by Gina Villlalobos
• "California" by Gomez
• "California" by Hawk Nelson
• "California (All the Way)" by Luna
• "California" by Joey McIntyre
• "California" by Joni Mitchell
• "California" by Kenny Chesney
• "California" by Lenny Kravitz
• "California" by Low
• "California" by Manfred Mann's Earth Band (lyrics by Sue Vickers)
• "California" by The Moffatts
• "California" by Mylene Farmer
• "California" by Quasi
• "California" by Phantom Planet (the theme song of The OC)
• "California" by Robert Bradley's Blackwater Surprise
• "California" by The Rentals
• "California" by Rogue Wave
• "California" by Rufus Wainwright
• "California" by Sarah Slean
• "California" by Sly Boogy
• "California" by Stroke 9
• "California" by Semisonic
• "California" by Tea Leaf Green
• "California" by Unified Theory
• "California" by Unsensored
• "California" by Wave
• "California" by Wax (band)
• "California" by Wilson Phillips
• "California" by Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
• "California Babylon" by the Transplants
• "California Blue" by Roy Orbison
• "California Blues" (Blue Yodel No. 4) by Jimmie Rodgers (country singer)
• "California Blur" by Swirl 360
• "California Bound" by Frank Black (Black Letter Days album)
• "California Crossing" by Fu Manchu
• "California Day" by Starland Vocal Band
• "California Dreamin'" by The Mamas and the Papas
• "California Dreamin'" by Queen Latifah (cover of The Mamas and the Papas)
• "California Dreaming" by Hi-Standard (cover of The Mamas and the Papas)
• "California Dreaming" by dada (band) (cover of The Mamas and the Papas)
• "California Girls" by The Beach Boys
• "California Girls" by Gretchen Wilson
• "California Girls" by David Lee Roth
• "California Gold" by dada (band)
• "California Grace" Long Beach Shortbus
• "California Here I Come" by Al Jolson, B. DeSylva, and Joe Meyer
• "California Jam" by Klaatu
• "California Justice" by Five for Fighting
• "California King" by Everclear
• "California Livin'" by Mac Dre
• "California Love" by 2Pac featuring Dr. Dre
• "California Man" by The Move
• "California Man" by Cheap Trick
• "California Nights" by Sweet
• "California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade" by The Decemberists
• "California Paradise" by The Runaways
• "California Part I" by Mason Jennings
• "California Part II" by Mason Jennings
• "California Promises" by Jimmy Buffett
• "California's Burning" by Augustana
• "California Sky" by Unwritten Law
• "California Songs" by Local H (according to Local H frontman Scott Lucas, a "theme song for the Midwest, very anti-California)
• "California Soul" by Edwin Starr
• "California Stars" by Wilco(lyrics by Woodie Guthrie)
• "California Sun" by Jem
• "California Sun" By The Ramones
• "California Sun" by Rancid
• "California Sun" by The Rivieras
• "California Sunset" by Neil Young
• "California Uber Alles" by the Dead Kennedys
• "California Waiting" by the Kings of Leon
• "California Way" by Tim Bluhm
• "Californication" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Californie" by Air (band)
• "Calistan" by Frank Black
• "Cemetery" by Strung Out
• "Christmas in California" by The Cheetah Girls
• "Come Monday" by Jimmy Buffett
• "Come to California" by Matthew Sweet
• "Country Boy (You've Got Your Feet in LA)" by Glen Campbell
• "Dani California" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Do You Know The Way To San Jose" by Dionne Warwick
• "Earthquakes and Sharks" by Brandtson
• "Estimated Prophet" Grateful Dead
• "Eyeless" by Slipknot
• "Freefalling" by Tom Petty
• "From California" by The New Amsterdams
• "Gene Autry" by Beulah
• "Get Back" by The Beatles (Jojo left his home for some California grass)
• "Going Back To Cali" by LL Cool J
• "Going Back To Cali" by Sevendust
• "Going Back To Cali" by The Notorious B.I.G.
• "Go to California" by Motorpsycho
• "Going To California" by John David & Clear Spirit
• "Going to California" by Led Zeppelin
• "Gone to California" by P!nk
• "Goodbye California" by Jolie Holland
• "Heads Carolina, Tails California" by Jo Dee Messina
• "Holiday From Real" by Jack's Mannequin
• "Home" by JamisonParker
• "Homebody" by Zox
• "Hotel California" by the Eagles
• "I luv Cali in the Summertime" by Roscoe
• "In California" by Daz Dillinger
• "In California" by Neko Case
• "I Remember California" by R.E.M.
• "I'm Going Home" by The Kingston Trio
• "It Never Rains in Southern California" by Albert Hammond
• "It Never Rains in Southern California" by Tony! Toni! Tone!
• "Just Like California" by Old 97s
• "Kalifornia" by Brand New Immortals
• "Kalifornia" by Fatboy Slim
• "L.A. Song" by Beth Hart
• "Leaving Jesusland" by NOFX
• "Long December" by Counting Crows
• "Losing California" by Sloan
• "Marina Del Rey" by Kenny Chesney
• "Miss California" by Dante Thomas
• "More Bounce In California" by Soul Kid #1
• "Not California" by Hem (band)
• "O.C. Supertones (That's just life in Orange County California)" by the O.C. Supertones
• "Promised Land" by Chuck Berry
• "Raining In California" by Human Nature
• "Reality Check" by OPM
• "Rock Star Land" by Yellowcard
• "Route 66" by Nat "King" Cole\
• "San Diego" by Starlight Mints
• "Santa Cruz" by The Thrills
• "Shores of California" by The Dresden Dolls
• "Sleepy California" by Her Space Holiday
• "Song for Kelly Huckaby" by Death Cab For Cutie
• "Southern California Wants To Be Western New York" by Dar Williams
• "Stories from Hollywood" by Jon Peter Lewis
• "Sunny in California" by Aberdeen
• "Take California" by Propellerheads
• "Tiny Vessels" by Death Cab for Cutie
• "Two States" by Pavement
• "Unfair" by Pavement
• "Westside till I die" by TQ
• "Winding Road" by Bonnie Somerville
• "Rock Coast Blues" Country Joe & the Fish

[edit] 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
• "April 29, 1992" by Sublime
• "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
• "Carmelita" by Warren Zevon
• "City of Angels" by the Distillers
• "City of Angels" by 10,000 Maniacs
• "City of Devils" by Yellowcard
• "The City With Two Faces" by Goldfinger
• "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
• "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 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)
• "Gangsta Love" by Warren G feat. RBX, Nate Dogg & Kurupt
• "Going to Malibu" by The Mountain Goats
• "Gone Hollywood" by Supertramp
• "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 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 Black" by Dio
• "Hollywood Cemetery" by Cracker
• "Hollywood Nights" by Bob Seger
• "Hollywood Squares" by William "Bootsy Collins"
• "Hollywood Swingin" by Kool and the Gang
• "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 Love L.A." by Randy Newman
• "I Loved the Way She Said 'L.A.'" by Spitalfield
• "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. Is My Woman" by Frank Sinatra
• "L.A. Is The Place" by N.W.A.
• "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
• "LAX" by Big D and the Kids Table
• "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 Brad Mehldau
• "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
• "Marina Del Rey" by Kenny Chesney
• "Moving to L.A." by Art Brut
• "No Se Vende La Calle" by Doc Gyneco
• "Ode to L.A." by The Raveonettes
• "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
• "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
• "Pico-Union" by Psycho Realm
• "Picture Postcards from L.A." by Joshua Kadison
• "Purple Stain" by Red Hot Chili Peppers
• "Recognize" by Warren G feat. 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
• "Streets of LBC" by Warren G
• "Summertime in the LBC" by The Dove Shack
• "The Promised Land" by Chuck Berry
• "The River" by Good Charlotte
• "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 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

[edit] San Francisco

• "The Chapter in Your Life Entitled San Francisco" by The Lucksmiths
• "Come Back From San Francisco" by The Magnetic Fields
• "Don't Gimme No Bammer Weed" by RBL Posse
• "Down On Mission Street" by Lloyd Cole
• "Fake Tales of San Francisco" by Arctic Monkeys
• "Frisco Blues" by John Lee Hooker
• "Golden Gate" by Al Jolson
• "Golden Gate Bridge" by Rose Melberg
• "The Golden Gate" by John Vanderslice
• "Grace Cathedral Hill" by The Decemberists
• "Grace Cathedral Park" by Red House Painters
• "Hazy SF" by Six Organs of Admittance
• "Hello, San Francisco" by Buddy Guy
• "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" performed by Tony Bennett
• "If I Could Give All My Love (Richard Manuel Is Dead)" by Counting Crows
• "Josie" by John Stewart
• "Jumpers" by Sleater-Kinney
• "Lights" by Journey
• "Mean Old Frisco" byArthur Crudup, covered by Eric Clapton
• "Mission Bells" by The Aisler's Set
• "Pacific Heights" by Pep Love
• "Piazza, New York Catcher" by Belle and Sebastian
• "San Franciscan Nights" by Eric Burdon & The Animals
• "San Francisco" from San Francisco, by Walter Jurmann and Bronislaw Kaper, performed by Jeannette MacDonald and later covered by Judy Garland
• "San Francisco" by Alkaline Trio
• "San Francisco" by Kristin Hersh
• "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" performed by Scott McKenzie
• "San Francisco" by Vanessa Carlton
• "San Francisco (You've Got Me)" by The Village People
• "San Francisco Bay" by Lee Oskar
• "San Francisco Bay Blues" by Jesse Fuller
• "San Francisco Days" by Chris Isaak
• "San Francisco Fat" by NOFX
• "San Francisco Knights" by People Under the Stairs
• "San Francisco Payphone" by Catch 22
• "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding
• "Strawberry Wine" by Ryan Adams
• "Tania" by Camper Van Beethoven
• "Tenderloin" by Rancid
• "The Bay" by Zion I
• "Waliking Along the Mission in the Rain" by Jerry Garcia Band

[edit] Other towns, streets, etc.

• "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" by The Four Preps
• "619" from WWE, theme song of wrestlerRey Mysterio (619 refers to San Diego's area code
• "707" by Mac Dre
• "Alone in Santa Cruz" by the Ataris
• "Berkeley is My Baby and I Wanna Kill It" by Blatz
• "Big Sur" by The Thrills
• "Booyaka 619" from WWE, current theme song of wrestlerRey Mysterio (619 refers to San Diego's area code
• "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 The Murder Dolls
• "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
• "Eastside LB" by Twinz feat. Warren G
• "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield
• "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
• "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
• "Highway 101" by Social Distortion
• "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
• "Inglewood Swangin" by Mack 10
• "Into the Airwaves" by Jack's Mannequin
• "Journey to the End of the East Bay" by Rancid
• "Kern River" by Merle Haggard
• "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 The Beach Boys
• "The Little Old Lady From Pasadena" by Jan and Dean
• "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
• "Mendo" by loose change
• "Mendocino" by The Sir Douglas Quintet
• "Mendocino County Line" by Willie Nelson and Lee Ann Womack
• "Monterey" by The Animals
• "Moon over Marin" by The Dead Kennedys
• "Ms. Santa Cruz County" by Cracker
• "New Oakland" by Mistah F.A.B.
• "Ocean Avenue" by Yellowcard
• "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
• "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)
• "Revelation Big Sur" by Red House Painters
• "Running on Empty" by Jackson Browne (U.S. Route 101)
• "Sacramento" by Cuf
• "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 Zoo" by The 6ths (Barbara Manning Vocals)
• "San Fernando Valley" Bing Crosby
• "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
• "Sausalito Summernight" by Diesel
• "Show'n Love" by Killa Sharks
• "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)
• "Tight Wad Hill" by Green Day
• "Trouble Child" by Joni Mitchell
• "Ukiah" by The Doobie Brothers
• "Ventura Highway" by America
• "Vallejo" by Mac Dre
• "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