I’m heading west to Los Angeles next week, so I’m updating my “California Adventure” playlist. Following is my current list of songs about L.A. and/or California. Some popular songs are omitted because I’m just not a fan of the artist (Sorry, RHCP fans!) or I’ve heard them one too many times (i.e., “California Girls”). My playlist starts with “Intro,” which is a bit of dialogue from the Gregg Araki film Nowhere. It’s spoken by actor James Duval and is sourced from the soundtrack. The second track is “Back to Cali,” by LL Cool J, but after that, it’s pretty much a jumble that fills ten hours. The playlist can also be found on Apple Music.

• “Pacific Ocean Blue” – A
• “Hollywood Sunset” – Barry Adamson
• “Escape From Los Angeles” – AFI
• “Angel In L.A.” – Kelli Ali
• “Maybe California” – Tori Amos
• “Pacific Palisades” – Ash
• “Tinseltown” – Ash

• “Hollywood Bowl” – Band of Skulls
• “California” – beabadoobee
• “California Saga (On My Way To Sunny Californ-I-A)” – The Beach Boys
• “Ms. California” – Beach Bunny
• “Blue Jay Way” – The Beatles
• “California Nights” – Best Coast

• “The Only Place” – Best Coast
• “Los Angeles” – The Bird and The Bee
• “Los Angeles” – Frank Black
• “California” – Perry Blake
• “I Won’t Go Hollywood” – Bleu
• “California” – Blink-182
• “Los Angeles” – Blink-182
• “Hello L.A. Bye Bye Birmingham” – Blue Cheer
• “California Stars” – Billy Bragg & Wilco

• “Drinking In L.A.” Bran Van 3000
• “Tangerine” – Buffalo Tom
• “Cowboys From Hollywood” – Camper Van Beethoven
• “In California” – Neko Case
• “All the Gold In California” – Nick Cave & Warren Ellis
• “Thoughts” – Charli XCX
• “California Man” – Cheap Trick
• “California” – CHVRCHES
• “Beverly Hills” – Circle Jerks
• “California” – CMAT
• “Still In Hollywood” – Concrete Blonde
• “California” – Copeland (But it’s also about Florida)
• “Malibu” – Miley Cyrus
• “Party In the USA” – Miley Cyrus
• “Hooray for Hollywood” – Doris Day
• “California” – Lana Del Rey
• “Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd.” – Lana Del Rey
• “Freak” – Lana Del Rey
• “West Coast” – Lana Del Rey
• “California” – Dressy Bessy
• “Oh My California” – Drinking Boys and Girls Choir
• “Hotel California” – Eagles
• “San Berdoo Sunburn” – Eagles of Death Metal
• “Wannabe In LA” – Eagles of Death Metal

• “Californiamiut (Going to California)” – Elisapie

• “Like a California King” – Everclear
• “Santa Monica” – Everclear
• “Mulholland Dr.” – Failure
• “Funtimes In Babylon” – Father John Misty
• “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings” – Father John Misty

• “Leaving LA” – Father John Misty
• “L.A. Song” – Fischerspooner
• “California Sex Lawyer” – Fountains of Wayne
• “Hollywood Nites” – Kim Fowley
• “California Crossing” – Fu Manchu
• “When Evening Falls On Tinseltown” – Future Bible Heroes

• “Soarin’”- Jerry Goldsmith
• “Sunset Blvd” – Selena Gomez & benny blanco
• “California (The Way I Say I Love You)” – Good Charlotte
• “California Nights” – Lesley Gore
• “Hollywood” – Gorillaz feat. Snoop Dogg & Jamie Principle
• “California” – Grimes
• “It Never Rains In Southern California” – Albert Hammond
• “Please Please Please (Young Hollywood)” – Head Automatica
• “Miss California” – The Heavy
• “Liquid California” – Heretix
• “LAX” – Kristin Hersh
• “Hollywood In Winter” – Hex
• “Malibu” – Hole
• “Pacific Coast Highway” – Hole
• “California Took My Bobby Away” – Holy Wave
• “L.A. Woman” – Billy Idol
• “Winter In L.A.” – Japanese Breakfast
• “California Via Tennessee” – Shooter Jennings & Hierophant
• “Hollywood” – Junkyard
• “Whirling Eye” – The Kills
• “Celluloid Heroes” – The Kinks
• “California” – Lenny Kravitz
• “California” – L.A. Guns
• “California” – Ladytron
• “Creepin’ Coastline of Lights” – Mark Lanegan

• “Death’s Head Tattoo” – Mark Lanegan
• “California and Me” – Laufey
• “Castle In Hollywood” – Laufey
• “Hollywood Is Just a Dream When You’re Seventeen” – Amanda Lear
• “Going to California” – Led Zeppelin
• “It’s Sunny Outside” – Letters to Cleo
• “Hollywood Lawn” – Jenny Lewis
• “New In Town” – Little Boots
• “Going Back to Cali” – LL Cool J
• “California Songs” – Local H (This is my last musical track of the playlist!)

• “Los Angelenos” – The Lost Vegas
• “California” – Loudermilk
• “Sunset Strip” – Courtney Love
• “California” – Low
• “California (All the Way) – Luna
• “Californian Dreamin'” – The Mamas and the Papas
• “Hollywood Babylon” – The Misfits
• “Walking In L.A.” – Missing Persons
• “West Hollywood” – MØ
• “Sweet L.A.” – Morcheeba
• “Hotel California” – Nerf Herder
• “I Love L.A.” – Randy Newman
• “Growin’ Up In California” -Night Ranger
• “Hollywood Baby” – 100 Gecs
• “California Blue” – Roy Orbison
• “West Coast Serenade” – Palmdale
• “Outta Time” – Orville Peck
• “California” – Phantom Planet
• “Hollywood Perfume” – The Pretenders
• “Burn Hollywood Burn” – Public Enemy feat. Ice Cube & Big Daddy Kane
• “Electrolite” – R.E.M.
• “I Remember California” – R.E.M.
• “Down Rodeo” – Rage Against the Machine
• “California Sun” – Ramones
• “Ode to L.A.” – The Raveonettes feat. Ronnie Spector
• “Pink Pony Club” – Chappell Roan
• “Leaving Los Feliz” – Mark Ronson
• “California Paradise” – The Runaways
• “Hollywood” – The Runaways
• “I Love LA” – Skee-Lo
• “Losing California” – Sloan
• “L.A.” Elliott Smith
• “California (Hustle & Flow)” – Social Distortion
• “Highway 101” – Social Distortion
• “Riot On Sunset Strip” – The Standells
• “I Love LA” – Starcrawler

• “California, I Love That Name” – Stars
• “This Hollywood Life” – Suede
• “Back to California” – Sugarcult
• “Los Angeles” – Sugarcult
• “California Nights” – Sweet
• “Come to California” – Matthew Sweet
• “Hollywood (Down On Your Luck)” – Thin Lizzy
• “I Left My Wallet In El Segundo” – A Tribe Called Quest
• “California Love” – 2Pac feat. Dr. Dre
• “Malibu” – Sharon Van Etten
• “Promising Actress” – John Vanderslice
• “So at Last” – Butch Walker

• “To Live and Die In L.A.” – Wang Chung
• “California Fade” – Anna Waronker
• “California” – The Wedding Present
• “Beverly Hills” – Weezer
• “California Kids” – Weezer

• “L.A. Girlz” – Weezer
• “La Brea Tar Pits” – Weezer
• “Living In L.A.” – Weezer
• “Delicious Things” – Wolf Alice

• “Los Angeles” – X
• “The Destruction of Laurel Canyon” – Youth Group
• “Valley Girl” – Frank Zappa
• “(Go to) California” – Rob Zombie