Much Anticipated Return of The Amazing Pudding

Okay, I'm back.

And I come to direct from CALIFORNIA !!! That's right. I've moved.

"to see my own name on a screen five feet wide and luminous" - mike doughty.

I promise to start up with the movie reviews again ... in all honest, I saw pretty much nothing thoughout january and february, one of the main reasons being that hollywood usually releases crap after the oscar onslaught... so there wasn't a whole lot worth seeing. But I did see two good movies this weekend, so I'll hit those tuesday and thursday.

In the meantime, in getting ready for and enjoying my my move to the Bear State, I prepared the following list. It is by no means exhaustive, but since I had to pull together information from several sites all over the internet, I thought I'd post it here, in one place.

SONGS ABOUT CALIFORNIA, SONGS ABOUT LA

Classic division (pre 1986):

Going to California - Led Zeppelin
I Am I Said - Neil Diamond
Get Back - THe Beatles
California Dreaming - THe Mamas and the Papas
Hannukah In Santa Monica - Tom Lehr
Hotel California - THe Eagles
Gone Hollywood - Supertramp
To Live and Die in LA - Wang CHung
Walking in LA - Missing Persons
I Love LA - Randy Newman
California Man - THe Move
East LA - War
Born in East La - Cheech Marin
Hollywood Nights - Bob Seeger
LA Woman - the Doors
California Nights - The Sweet
Another Nice Day in LA - Eddie Money
Back to California - Carole King
California - Joni Mitchell
Little Old Lady From Pasadena - Jan and Dean
California GIrls - the Beach Boys (and pretty much every soon they ever wrote)
Los Angeles - X


Modern Division:

California - Dressy Bessy
Beverly Hills - Weezer
California Love - TuPac and Dr. Dre
Paradise City - Guns N Roses
One in a Million - Guns N ROses
Fuck California - THe Presidents of the United States of America
LA County - Lyle Lovett
LA Freeway - Jerry Jeff Walker
Staight Outta Compton - NWA
Electrolite - REM
City of Angels - 10,000 Maniacs
Hell Looks a Lot Like LA - Less than Jake
Los Angeles is Burning - Bad Religion
Burn Hollywood Burn - Public Enemy
California - Low
Malibu - Hole
LA - Elliot Smith
Goodnight Hollywood Boulevard - Ryan Adams
Unfair - Pavement
Going Back to Cali - L.L. Cool J
All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow
Los Angeles - Frank Black
Los Angeles I'm Yours - THe Decemebrists
Long December - Counting Crows
Naked and Famous - The Presidents of the United States of America
Hollywood - Madonna
HOllywood Cemetery - Cracker
Stanley Kubric - King Missile
California Stars - Billly Bragg and Wilco
I Remember California - REM
Hollywood Freaks - Beck
California - Tom Petty
Free Fallin - Tom Petty
Lullaby - Shawn Mullins
Come to California - Matthew Sweet
Screenwriter's Blues - Soul COughing
California - Phantom Planet (i.e. the fucking them from the OC)
California - Semisonic
Californication - Red Hot Chilli Peppers
Santa Monica - Everclear
No Peace, Los Angeles - Mike DOughty
Why You'd Want to Live Here - Death Cab for Cutie
California King - Everclear


Feel free to sugest additions... my only rules were that the song has to be about La/California, being there, living there, being from there, wanting to live there, not wanting to live there, etc. and not just a name check (note: almost all westcoast rappers mention they're from compton or watts etc, but NWA's song Straight Outta Compton is specifically about being from compton). Also, no covers of songs already on the list.

Also, there are a bunch of songs about San Francisco as well, but I didn't move there, so they are not part of the list.