Favorite songs for all 50 states (1 Viewer)

[FUBAR]

Some states have great songs, others not so much.

What's the best song for each state? Bonus points if the title has the state in the title, but it's not required - so long as the song is obviously about a specific state.

Just to get started:

Lynyrd Skynrd — Sweet Home Alabama

Bruce Springsteen — Mary Queen of Arkansas

The Beach Boys — California Girls

John Denver - Rocky Mountain High

Gladys Knight and the Pips — Midnight Train to Georgia

Elvis Presley — Blue Hawaii

B-52s — Private Idaho

Kansas - Dust in the Wind

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Especially in Michigan

Bruce Springsteen — Nebraska

Elvis — Viva Las Vegas

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

James Taylor — Carolina in My Mind

Modest Mouse — Ohio

Arrested Development - Tennessee

John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Meet Virginia -- Train

 

[FUBAR]

Meet Virginia -- Train

 

[rockaction]

Impossibles - Connecticut

eta* and Sufjan Stevens's "Chicago" makes me lose it. Off of Illinoise.

 

[ffldrew]

Colorado - Flying Burrito Brothers

https://youtu.be/9FzpyGPGe70

 

[eoMMan]

The Gutterboys - I Nailed A Girl Named Jersey

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Africa -- Toto

 

[BeaverCleaver]

California Dreamin- The Mama and The Papas

 

[BeaverCleaver]

Hotel California- The Eagles

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Oregona be my Girl -- Jet

 

[Ilov80s]

Dust in the Wind is about Kansas or by Kansas?

 

[FUBAR]

Dust in the Wind is about Kansas or by Kansas?

Yes

There are undoubtedly songs more about Kansas but it came to mind first

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Juneau My Name (look up the number) -- Beatles

 

[Ilov80s]

Dust in the Wind is about Kansas or by Kansas?

YesThere are undoubtedly songs more about Kansas but it came to mind first

I don't think it's about Kansas at all. It's about human mortality. If it is about Kansas, it's a pretty major dig on the State.

 

[Ilov80s]

Juneau My Name (look up the number) -- Beatles

Arkansas Her Standing There - Beatles

 

[Long Ball Larry]

Modest Mouse — Ohio

Oh come on.

 

[rockaction]

That's actually the first song that came to my head, but it could be a generational/temperamental/punk rock thing.

I get what you're saying, though.

eta* Four dead in O-hi-o

 

[Long Ball Larry]

I was actually going to post this exact topic. I had started thinking about it while on a road trip last month.

Had a lot of similar ones, though these are different:

New York State of Mind - Billy Joel

Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels

In addition:

Mississippi Queen - Mountain

Pennsylvania - Bloodhound Gang (not really that good, but not many songs with PA in the title. If we are being liberal, I would go with Allentown.by Billy Joel.)

 

[Apple Jack]

Colorado - Flying Burrito Brothers

https://youtu.be/9FzpyGPGe70

 

[bentley]

Ray Wylie Hubbard - Screw You, We're From Texas

 

[Courtjester]

Colorado needs to be Rocky Mountain High by John Denver.

County Road was a good suggestion but a lot of other states are mentioned in that song as well.

 

[Apple Jack]

Modest Mouse — Ohio

Oh come on.

I'm a Neil fan and my first thought was still

 

[worrierking]

"Louisiana 1927" by Randy Newman

 

[Mister CIA]

What's the ruling on cities?

Does I'm not Dead, I'm in Pittsburgh count as a Pennsylvania song?

 

[Mister CIA]

*Alabama - Sweet Home Alabama

*Alaska - North to Alaska

*California - California Girls

Delaware - Delaware Slide

Florida - Orange Blossom Special

*Georgia - Georgia on my Mind

Hawaii - Honaloochie Boogie

Kansas - The Devil Came From Kansas

*Kentucky - Coal Miner's Daughter ... Sorry Bill Monroe, I flipped a coin and you lost

Minnesota - Girl from the North Country

**Mississippi - Crossroads

Missouri - Missouri

Montana - Montana

*New York - Rhapsody in Blue ... Sorry Lou Reed and Mooney Suzuki

*Oklahoma - Okie from Muskogee

*Texas - San Antonio Rose ... Still the King. Honorable Mention

* denotes quintessential

** generally speaking Eric Clapton is an overrated sacred cow, but he had his quintessential moments. Hope to change my mind on this pick.

 

[Ilov80s]

Moonlight in Vermont. You guys prefer the Rosemary Clooney recording or the Stan Getz tenor sax version interpretation?

 

[Fennis]

is Albania a state?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F_tT-q8EF0

 

[rockaction]

I just shot myself thirty seconds into the Sinatra/Fitzgerald version and five seconds into the Getz version. What does Clooney get me?

 

[Jayded]

Texas - Waylon Jennings - Luckenbach, Texas

 

[Ilov80s]

I just shot myself thirty seconds into the Sinatra/Fitzgerald version and five seconds into the Getz version. What does Clooney get me?

lol

 

[Eephus]

This is the first song on our new album...

Iowant You To Want Me - Cheap Trick

 

[rockaction]

Alabama - Bama Lama Bama Loo

California - California Girls

Delaware - Delaware Slide

Georgia - Georgia on my Mind

Hawaii - Honaloochie Boogie

Kansas - The Devil Came From Kansas

Mississippi - 7 Months, 39 Days

Montana - Montana

New York - New York Girls

Oklahoma - Nowhere Road

Texas - Texas Bop

New York songs about New York Girls.

Morningwood - New York Girls

 

[The Future Champs]

Anchorage - Michelle shocked.

Bloodbuzz Ohio - the national

 

[strykerpks]

Wisconsin Death Trip - Static X

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

This is the first song on our new album...

Iowant You To Want Me - Cheap Trick

Jfc

 

[Flying V]

Pennsylvania 6-5000

 

[Snoopy]

R Dean Taylor - Indiana Wants Me

Johnny Horton - North to Alaska

 

[Mister CIA]

This is the first song on our new album...

Iowant You To Want Me - Cheap Trick

Look forward to your Indiana pick.

 

[Flying V]

Kentucky Woman by Deep Purple

 

[Sabertooth]

All Summer Long - Kid Rock -

It was summertime in Northern Michigan....

 

[FUBAR]

All Summer Long - Kid Rock -

It was summertime in Northern Michigan....

Thought about it, but RHCP >>> kid. (And I actually like kid's music)

 

[FUBAR]

This is the first song on our new album...

Iowant You To Want Me - Cheap Trick

Look forward to your Indiana pick.

Indiana Da-Vida by Iron Butterfly?

 

[rockaction]

All Summer Long - Kid Rock -

It was summertime in Northern Michigan....

Thought about it, but RHCP >>> kid. (And I actually like kid's music)

When the snark was full-on in this thread, I started pointing out that RHCP might have had a song or two about California.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

Hawaii Could Just Kill A Man - Cypress Hill.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Please do not try to tag any of the RHCP musical turds on California.

And if I lived in Michigan I would move to Ohio before I'd let kid rock represent me in any fashion.

 

[Tom Skerritt]

Texas Flood - SRV

 

[General Tso]

The only thing I can think of for CT is the Doors:

"blood in the streets of the town of New Haven..."

 

[Tom Skerritt]

By the time I get to Arizona - PE

Hannah Montana - Migos

New Mexico's No Breeze - Iron & Wine

Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man - Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn

 

[rockaction]

The only thing I can think of for CT is the Doors:

"blood in the streets of the town of New Haven..."

You seriously hate my posts now, don't you?

#4

It's a good pop-punk/emo song.

 

[Mister CIA]

Florida