To Live And Die In LA: Top 10 Songs About Los Angeles (Part Two)

Everything’s bigger in L.A. Or is that Texas? Either way, there’s more than 10 great songs about L.A., so herein we offer a second dose of Top 10 with tunes about the City of Angels.

10. The Kinks – “Celluloid Heroes”: “There are stars in every city, in every house and on every street. And if you walk down Hollywood Boulevard, their names are written in concrete.”

9. Wang Chung – “To Live and Die in L.A.”: “And I can’t get away, to live and die in L.A.”

8. Dionne Warwick – “Do You Know the Way to San Jose?”: “L.A. is a great big freeway, put a hundred down and buy a car…”

7. Buffalo Springfield – “For What It’s Worth”: “What a field-day for the heat,
A thousand people in the street…”

6. The Runaways – “Hollywood Dream”: “Good mornin’ sunshine feels like Hollywood…”

5. Kool And The Gang – “Hollywood Swinging”: “So here I am in this Hollywood city…”

4. The Doors – “L.A. Woman”: “Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows…”

3. The Eagles – “Life in the Fast Lane”: “She held him up, and he held her for ransom, in the heart of the cold cold city…”

2. The Mothers of Invention – “Trouble Every Day”: “Wednesday I watched the riot, seen the cops out on the street

1. America – “Ventura Highway”: “Ventura Highway in the sunshine…”

More of Michael’s Top 10 picks can be found here …