There’s a really, really old song, like about 100 years old, about the Bowery and why the singer’ll never go there again.
More L.A.
I don’t know who sang this or what the title was, but there was a song from about 12 years ago where the female singer says,
All I want to do is to just have fun
I gotta feeling, I’m not the only one
All I want to do is to just have fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard.
London
“Oxford St., W1” by The Television Personalities
“Bar Italia” by Pulp (It’s around the corner, in Soho, where other broken people go)
“The Boy With the Arab Strap” by Belle and Sebastian mentions Old Compton St San Francisco
“Piazza, New York Catcher” by Belle and Sebastian mentions the Tenderloin
Not a city, but Minnesota
“Buck Hill” by The Replacements Texas
“Possum Kingdom” by The Toadies
I’ll think of more once I look at my music collection.
Athens, Georgia:
The B-52’s “Deadbeat Club” says, “Let’s go crash that party down in Normaltown tonight”
The B-52’s “Love Shack” says, “Headin’ down the Atlanta Highway, lookin’ for a love getaway”
San Francisco and Berkeley, California:
Soul Coughing’s “White Girls” starts with, “White Girl, Market at Van Ness.” and that verse ends with “Inclines and wires, Telegraph Avenue.”
California:
“Going to California,” Led Zeppelin
“California Dreamin’,” The Mamas and the Papas
“California Sun,” Rancid
“Under the Bridge,” Red Hot Chili Peppers
Nevada:
“Viva Las Vegas,” Elvis
“Friend of the Devil,” The Grateful Dead (mentions Reno)