Fifty States (plus the District of Columbia)

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Are there any US states that have not lent their name to...ugh, im ragingly inarticulate today...you know what...so by process of elimination...

Neil Young - Ohio

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

UK Subs - New York State Police

Johnny Cash - When It's Springtime In Alaska It's Forty Below

Beach Boys - California Girls

Manic Street Preachers - Tennessee

Pine Valley Cosmonauts feat ??? - The Great State Of Texas

PS excludes any official state songs should they exist (do I know what I'm talking about? No.)

― Ben Dot, Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Slipknot - Iowa
Bee Gees - Masachusetts
Way Out West - Montana

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

United States of...

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Lynyrd Skynyrd 'Sweet Home Alabama (bowling ball to the head remix)'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Woody Guthrie - Oregon Trail

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:23 (twenty-two years ago)

B 52's - Private Idaho

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Glen Campbell - Arkansas

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan Fogelberg - Illinois

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:28 (twenty-two years ago)

The Dambuilders - Louisiana

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Magnetic Fields - Washington D.C.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I all alone here?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Gladys Knight & The Pips 'Midnight Train To Georgia'

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Josephine Wiggs Experience - Arizona

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I Want To Go Back To Michigan (Down On The Farm)
Music and Lyrics by Irving Berlin

I was born in Michigan
And I wish and wish again
That I was back in the town where I was born

There's a farm in Michigan
And I'd like to fish again
in the river that flows beside the field of waving corn.

A lonesome soul am I...here's the reason why
I want to go back, I want to go back, I want to go back to the farm.
Far away from harm, with a milk pail on my arm.
I miss the rooster, the one that use to wake me up at 4 AM.

I think your great big cities very pretty...
Nevertheless I want to be there,
I want to see there a certain someone full of charm.
That's why I wish again that I was in Michigan, down on the farm.

I want to go back, I want to go back,
I want to go back to that old farm.
Far away from harm, with a milk pail on my arm.
I miss the rooster, the rooster that use to wake me up at 4 AM.
I think your great big cities very pretty...

Nevertheless I want to be there,
I want to see there a certain someone full of charm.
Thats why I wish again, that I was in Michigan, down on the farm!

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Rapid City, South Dakota by Kinky Friedman

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 9 July 2003 21:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Mississippi, David Banner

― JesseFox (JesseFox), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Didn't John Linnel from TMBG do a CD with a song for each of the 50 states? Or was that just an acid dream?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Nevada - Pere Ubu
Stars Fell on Alabama - Billie Holiday
Back Home in Indiana - that Jim Nabors sings at the start of the Indy 500. (I don't know if it is/n't an offical state song)
Montana - Frank Zappa

― dave225 (Dave225), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Presley-Kentucky Rain
Deathcab for Cutie- California

― emilymv, Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Didn't John Linnel from TMBG do a CD with a song for each of the 50 states? Or was that just an acid dream?"

I don't know about that, but I believe the Dambuilders' song referenced above was part of their never-finished 50 Songs for 50 States project. I think they got up to 14 or 15 before they called it quits.

― Rokovoko (Rokovoko), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:57 (twenty-two years ago)

there's actually an even older thread than the one stevem links to, started by anthony in order to win a bet, on this very subject.

but it's a fun game trying to get all 51, so i won't spoil things by linking to it (yet)

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 10 July 2003 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Ha! John Linnel's State Songs!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ohio - the isley brothers
( its on Giles Petersons "INCredible" mix cd, fact fans!)

― rich, Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

quasi - california

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Waiting on Delaware... Thorogood does not count.

― TMFTML (TMFTML), Friday, 11 July 2003 01:17 (twenty-two years ago)

drop nineteens have an album called delaware

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Well uh...John Denver's Country Roads doesn't have West Virginia in the title, but it should. If for no other reason, because the drunken rednecks down the street can only manage to incoherently "sing" that part of the chorus at all hours of the fookin' night.

...yay West Virginia.

― Allison (Allison), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i love the john linnell south carolina song, its the only tmbg non-ana ng song ive ever liked

― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Albums with U.S. State Names in the Titles

― christoff (christoff), Friday, 11 July 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

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