Thirty Odes to Los Angeles

       In putting together this Los Angeles themed compilation, I decided to exclude songs that were really songs about California or were primarily focused on Hollywood related themes.  Instead, I tried to only use songs that were about Los Angeles or a particular landmark or street in Los Angeles.  It's nowhere as noirish as I though it would turn out to be, but maybe it's partly about the fact that a lot of of folks who are singing about Los Angeles aren't from there.  Anyway, hope both Angelenos and non-Angelenos enjoy it.  (I also re-upped the compilation "L.A. is the Place For Me" which features mid and late 1960s acts that recorded in Los Angeles.)

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  Disc 1

A Night in LA	Ry Cooder
East L.A.	War
Ode to L.A.	The Raveonettes
Drinking in L.A.	Bran Van 3000
Los Angeles	HAIM
This Town	The Go-Go's
Los Angeles	X
Hello L.A., Bye Bye Birmingham	Bobby Whitlock
Coming into Los Angeles	Arlo Guthrie
Old L.A.	New Multitudes
Electrolite	R.E.M.
Whittier Blvd.	Thee Midniters
Funky L.A.	Paul Hemphrey & His Cool Aid Chemists
The Recipe	Kendrick Lamar
Leaving LA	Father John Misty
Disc 2
Let Me Back In	Rilo Kiley
Come A Long Way	Michelle Shocked
Went Looking for Warren Zevon's Los Angeles	Lucero
L.A. Blues	Tom T. Hall
Los Angeles	Margot & The Nuclear So & So's
Screenwriter's Blues	Soul Coughing
Back In L.A.	B.B. King
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo	A Tribe Called Quest
Blues for Los Angeles	Bill Frisell
Angeles	Elliott Smith
Los Angeles	Phosphorescent
Los Angeles Mood (Chromium Descensions)	Tom Waits
Los Angeles Blues	Johnny Moore's Three Blazers
Angeles Crest	Chelsea Williams
Los Angeles	Joe Williams