good songs about san francisco, because i left my heart there or some bullshit like that

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so i'm doing a radio show tomorrow night many many miles from home and am considering a san-francisco-themed show - songs from bay area bands mixed in with songs that are about the city or the general area, or just mention it in some way (i love walking around in texas listening to headphones and hearing some offhand reference to familiar street names in a song, it sends shivers down my spine.) anyway i have my favorites of course but i know y'all (ugh) could offer up some brilliant ones that i hadn't thought of or (gasp) have never heard.

it's college radio so nothing too popular (actually nothing by anyone who's ever had a gold record. fuck that rule though it's crap) and nothing obscene (though it's late night so a few cuss words are okay).

i'm too scared to look & see if that hyphy song went gold. i'ma play it anyway, fuck college radio.

― becca ganj, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Eric Burdon & the Animals "San Francisco Night"

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Aisler's Set's "Mission Bells" springs to mind, but they bore me so instead you should play all my band's records!

and the Cubby Creatures' cover of "If You're Going to San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear the Product in Your Hair)"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Sorry, "San Franciscan Nights".

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:31 (twenty years ago)

you could play the Eric Burdon version, and then play the Gabor Szabo cover and then finally play the People Under The Stairs track that samples the Szabo song.

ALL IN A ROW! IT'LL BE LIKE WHOA!

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:43 (twenty years ago)

Rodger Collins - "Foxy Girls In Oakland"
Too $hort - "Oakland"
Transplants-"Down In Oakland"
Tower Of Power-"Back To Oakland"
Too $hort-"Oakland Style"
Luniz-"Oakland Raiders"
Andy from ILE-"My Band Is From Oakland"
Gygax!-"Over time, I have come to appreciate Oakland and enjoy its culture and history"

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

Kristin Hersh-"San Francisco"
Chris Isaak-"San Francisco Nights"

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:50 (twenty years ago)

grace cathedral park. what happened to mark kozelek anyways?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Belle & Sebastian, "Piazza New York Catcher"

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

Anything by Mark Eitzel or American Music Club, especially "Atico 18."

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

The Mothers, "Who Needs the Peace Corps?"

― Keith C (kcraw916), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

Absolutely nothing wrong about Scott McKenzie's "San Fransisco" either.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Journey - "Lights"
Huey Lewis & The News - "The Heart Of Rock & Roll Is Still Beating"
The Grateful Dead - "Sugar Magnolia"
ETI & The Waller Street Boys - "Cosmic Cons"
The Village People - "YMCA"
Otis Redding - "Sittin On The Dock Of The Bay"
Moby Grape - "Naked If I Want To"

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

magnetic fields, come back from < >

― crly, Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

Maxime Le Forestier - "San Francisco"

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:16 (twenty years ago)

Gygax!-"Over time, I have come to appreciate Oakland and enjoy its culture and history"

MAYHAHEE!! MAYHAHA!

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

I lived in Oakland before I lived in SF, all long before Adam started developed his American fetish.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Oakland is way better than San Francisco, it's true.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Alkaline Trio - "San Francisco"

― Bent Over at the Arclight (Bent Over at the Arclight), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:26 (twenty years ago)

The Lucksmiths, "The Chapter of Your Life Entitled..."

― Marc H., Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

before Adam started developed his American fetish.

What gives you the impression that I like American things?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

Wait, are Guns N Roses American?

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Are Ruff Sqwad English??

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

"Tania" by Camper van Beethoven

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

Dead Kennedys "Moon over Marin"
Crime "San Francisco's Doomed"
Sly & the Family Stone "Luv'n'Haight"
Starship "We Built This City"

(kind of a stretch - Lurkers "Go Ahead Punk, Make My Day")

― dave q (listerine), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:21 (twenty years ago)

i'm sure you can't show these pix on your radio show, but they're rad

http://www.jneomarvin.com/scrapbook/

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:23 (twenty years ago)

"Sittin on The Dock of the Bay" wins.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

The Mab!

xpost

― Michael White (Hereward), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:26 (twenty years ago)

SCOTT FREAKIN' MACKENZIE

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 8 March 2005 23:28 (twenty years ago)

Oh, this is easy: MX-80 Sound's "White Night", about the White Night riots back in '79.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:03 (twenty years ago)

what about that subterranean moderne comp where they all cover "i left my heart in san francisco" (don't they?)

chrome residents mx-80 tuxedomoon

― gor gor the frost giant, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:46 (twenty years ago)

Swell's "In the Door, Up the Stairs" evokes San Francisco for me in a major way.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 00:59 (twenty years ago)

Richie Havens,"San Francisco Bay Blues," on one of his live albums (think it was written by Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, but Richie's version is the only one I've heard. "Walkin' with my baby, down by the San Francisco Bay": happy memories, but searchin', too, as the fog rolls in)

― don, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Paul Kantner + Jefferson Starship, "Mau Mau (Amerikon)"

Fever Tree, "San Francisco Girls (Return of the Native)"

Sister Sledge, "He's the Greatest Dancer"

Lesley Gore, "California Nights"

Tower of Power, "So Very Hard to Go"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

David Crosby "Tamalpais High (at about 3)"
Metallica "Battery"

― dave q (listerine), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)

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