All over St. Louis.... songs that list cities

Lots of Hold Steady songs.

Living in America

Night Train

Just Like Compton by DJ Quik

I got it figured out

I've Been Everywhere

they say the heart of rock and roll is still beating

for the longest time (ahem) i thought it was 'the' beating

M--Pop Muzik
U2--Stay (Faraway So Close)

Jonathan Richman - You're Crazy for Taking the Bus

The Kinks, "Rock & Roll Cities"

If you ever plan to motor west,
Travel my way, take, the highway that's the best.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.

Well it winds from Chicago to LA
Over two thousand miles all the way.
Get your kicks on Route sixty-six.

Now you go through St. Louie, Joplin, Missouri
And Oklahoma City looks oh so pretty.
You'll see Amarillo, Gallup, New Mexico
Flagstaff Arizona, don't forget Winona,
Kingsman, Barstow, San Bernadino ...

I went from Phoenix, Arizona
All the way to Tacoma
Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A.
Northern California where the girls are warm
So I could be with my sweet baby, yeah

Well of course, Route 66 - was listening to Sandie Shaw's great version mere days ago, and still forgot it in my initial list.

They're dancing in Chicago
Down in New Orleans
Up in New York City

All we need is music, sweet music
There'll be music everywhere
There'll be swinging, swaying, and records playing
And dancing in the streets ...

Philadelphia, PA
Baltimore and DC now
Yeah, don't forget the Motor City ...

Back in ancient times, this must have been pretty much a sure-fire way to break a song in different radio markets.

Bolton, Barnsley, Nelson, Colne, Burnley, Bradford, Buxton, Crewe, Warrington, Widnes, Wigan, Leeds, Northwich, Nantwich, Knutsford, Hull, Sale, Salford, Southport, Leigh, Derby, Kearsley, Keighley, Maghull, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Oldham, Lancs, Grimsby, Glossop,
Hebden Bridge, Brighouse, Bootle, Featherstone, Speke, Runcorn, Rotherham, Rochdale, Barrow, Morecambe, Macclesfield, Lytham St. Annes, Clitheroe, Cleethorpes, The M62, Pendlebury, Prestwich, Preston, York, Skipton, Scunthorpe, Scarborough-on-Sea, Chester, Chorley, Cheedle Hulme, Ormskirk, Accrington Stanley, and Leigh, Ossett, Otley, Ikley Moor, Sheffield, Manchester, Castleford, Skem, Doncaster, Dewsbury, Hali-fax, Bingley, Bramall, Are all in the North.
It's Grim Up North.

Panic by the Smiths.

It's Grim Up North annoyed me, as a Cumbria, as it seemed to suggest the North stopped near Morcombe Bay.

Haha, I always thought Steve Miller sang Philadelphia and later, LA - seemed to make perfect sense to me.

Can I add 'Taumarunui on the Main Trunk Line' by Peter Cape, 1957? Not quite a city, but it does mention Wellington.

...
There's this sheila in Refreshments and she's pouring cups'a tea,
And me heart jumps like a rabbit when she pours a cup for me.
She's got hair'f flamin' yeller, and lips'f flamin' red,
And I'll love that flamin' shiela till I'm up and gone and dead,
from Taumarunui...

Now you can get a job in Wellington or get a job up North,
But you can't in Taumarunui though you try for all you're worth.
If I want to see this shiela I've got to take a train,
Get ten minutes for refresments then they cart me off again,
from Taumarunui...

ST LOUIS by Blur, obv

well, no. I guess it only lists the one city. a quick and poorly thought out reaction to the thread title, I suppose.

I like Concord
And 180-G!
I like Pleasant Hill
No other possibility!
Very stupid! Very stupid! Very stupid! Very stupid!
Very stupid! Very stupid! Very stupid! Very stupid!

I like Orinda
And 409!
I like Martinez
And all the green slime!
I like Lafayette
When the weather is fine!
And I like Contra Costa County,
Almost all of the time!

Bohannon, Disco Stomp
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy, Baby

Johnny Cash, Big River

Strangely the JAMMs namecheck Lytham St Annes but not Blackpool. And there are also several suburbs of Liverpool but not Liverpool itself, so obviously it was protected by the leyline.

"christmas in dixie," alabama

By now in New York City, there's snow on the ground
And out in California, the sunshine's falling down
And, maybe down in Memphis, Graceland's all in lights
And in Atlanta, Georgia, there's peace on earth tonight

Chirstmas in Dixie, it's snowin' in the pines
Merry Christmas from Dixie, to everyone tonight

It's windy in Chicago. The kids are out of school
There's magic in Motown. The city's on the move
IN JACKSON MISSISSIPPI*, to Charlotte, Caroline
And all across the nation, it's the peaceful Christmas time

Chorus

And from Fort Payne, Alabama
God bless y'all...We love ya...Happy New Year...Good night
Merry Christmas...Merry Christmas tonight

*being from jackson, we shouted this line loudly when it came to it

Bohannon Spread the Groove
Talking Heads Life During Wartime
(their Cities only mentions London and Memphis)

The B-52s - "Keep This Party Going," in which Fred yelps out a list of cities in which said party is to be kept going.

Beastie Boys, Dedication

(the most lol-worthy cities song?)

their Cities only mentions London and Memphis

no, it mentions Birmingham and El Paso too

From St. Kilda to King's Cross, is fourteen hours on a bus

Station to station, Dusseldorf city, meet Iggy Pop and David Bowie

Country Grammar

Lots of dance-craze records where the singer is telling you how this particular step is sweeping the nation, e.g. the fadeout on Jackie Ross's delicious "Jerk and Twine": "They doin' it in Chicago / and in Detroit too / broke out in L.A. / in New York it's the thing to do / catchin' on in Philly..."

i read this as "songs that list critics"..

The Dalesman's Litany

It's hard when folks can't find the work where they've been bred and born
When I was young I always thought I'd bide 'midst roots and corn
But I've been forced to work in town so here's my litany
From Hull and Halifax and Hell, good Lord deliver me

When I was courting Mary Jane, the old squire he says to me
I've got no rooms for wedded folk, choose whether to go or to stay
I could not give up the girl I loved, so to town I was forced to flee
From Hull and Halifax and Hell, good Lord deliver me

I've worked in Leeds and Huddersfied and I've earned some honest brass
In Bradford, Keighley, Rotherham I've kept my bairns and lass
I've travelled all three Ridings round and once I went to sea
From forges, mills and coaling boats, good Lord deliver me

I've walked at night through Sheffield lanes, 'twas just as being in hell
Where furnaces thrust out tongues of fire and roared like the wind on the fell
I've sammed up coals in Barnsley pits with muck up to my knee
From Barnsley, Sheffield, Rotherham, good Lord deliver me

I've seen fog creep across Leeds bridge as thick as the Bastille soup
I've lived where folks were stowed away like rabbits in a coop
I've seen snow float down Bradford Beck as black as ebony
From Hunslet, Holbeck, Wibsey Stack, good Lord deliver me

But now that all our children have gone, to the country we've come back
There's forty mile of heathery moor 'twixt us and the coalpits' stack
And as I sit by the fire at night, I laugh and shout with glee
From Hull and Halifax and Hell the good Lord delivered me