Tinseltown Extravaganza: Your Favorite Los Angeles Songs?

X - Los Angeles

 

L.A. County - Lyle Lovett

"And the lights of L.A. County... look like diamonds in the sky."

 

TRANSLATOR "L.A., L.A."

 

The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
X - Los Angeles

 

Frank Zappa - Tinseltown Rebellion

 

“Babylon Sisters”
Steely Dan

 

I’m Sorry,

“South Central Rain” ... actually titled
“So. Central Rain” is NOT a song about Los Angeles.
It never was, and never should be misinterpreted as that.

 

A Long December

 

Nuthin' But a G Thang

 

Que Onda Guero

 

“Blue Jay Way”
The Beatles

“There's a fog upon L.A.
And my friends have lost their way
We'll be over soon they said
Now they've lost themselves instead”

 

Sin City-Flying Burrito Bros
Goodnight Hollywood BLVD-Ryan Adams

 

“Los Angeles Los Angeles” - The Zanies

 

Lonesome LA Cowboy by New Riders of the Purple Sage

 

Great song!

 

"Welcome to the Boomtown", by David & David


If you check the Youtube comment posts, you'll read a lot of posts by people looking back on this mordant, foreboding song with wistful nostalgia, like it's "Surfin' USA" or something.

Which fits, somehow. That they miss the point so completely, they way so many listeners do with the song "Comfortably Numb." Thinking "yeaahh...that's what it's all about."

 

The ultimate Surf tune:

 

Future republican House of Representatives member Sonny Bono gettin' down with the kids on Sunset Strip, by making a soundcollage of the 1966 street riots. The recording was even released as a single:

 

Neil Young “L.A.”:

 

Topanga Canyon - Spirit

 

I'll post the same post just to Zevonize this thread