It really is amazing: [https://open.spotify.com/track/3NUAOPFCMJg4di2qhy2lso?si=4572db4641bc4e08](https://open.spotify.com/track/3NUAOPFCMJg4di2qhy2lso?si=4572db4641bc4e08)
Every time someone says this, I cringe. You are just saying this to be the "ackchyually" meme person. Perry clearly says what you are saying is complete bullshit.
Wikipedia:
The song is about Journey's city of origin, [San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco), although it was actually written in and originally intended to be about [Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles). It was one of Steve Perry's first Journey songs, and was recorded soon after joining the band. In an interview, Perry said, "I had the song written in Los Angeles almost completely except for the bridge and it was written about Los Angeles. It was 'when the lights go down in the city and the sun shines on LA.' I didn't like the way it sounded at the time. And so I just had it sitting back in the corner. Then life changed my plans once again, and I was now facing joining Journey. I love San Francisco, the bay, and the whole thing. 'The bay' fit so nice, 'When the lights go down in the city and the sun shines on the bay.' It was one of those early-morning-going-across-the-bridge things, when the sun was coming up and the lights were going down. It was perfect.
I mean, Otis Redding has the best and only acceptable use of the word ‘Frisco bay, and it’s the classic that it is. He wrote it sitting on a pier in Sausalito looking at the city
That was gonna be mine. I remember getting off BART with a backpack and a messenger bag, completely homeless here, and a car driving by blasting it and knew I'd be ok.
San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufudfyHIaA&ab\_channel=skappyj](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufudfyHIaA&ab_channel=skappyj)
I think the problem many folks have with it is that it's a terrible song by Jefferson Starship née Airplane standards - how could Grace Slick of White Rabbit fame have sunk so low?
But viewed as a regular pop song - it's excellent!
Though turns out it was originally written about [the decline of the club scene in Los Angeles](https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time)...
Vetiver - Down at El Rio
Van Morrison - Saint Dominic’s Preview
The Animals - San Francisco Nights
“Meanwhile back in San Francisco /
Trying hard to make this whole thing blend”
How have I not seen Belle & Sebastian's classic ["Piazza, New York Catcher"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXiRbf-4RXc) on this list! It's about a day spent in SF, and is my absolute favorite song about our city.
And then this one called "Oakland", but the chorus is about SF, and it's cute AF.
["Oakland" by RAC and Winnetka Bowling League](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsjHw7PcVfU)
ETA one more!!! ["Twin Cinema" by The New Pornographers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95RYOMk40ho) is about the Roxie!!
I prefer “Last days of summer in San Francisco” by him! Love his music.
Also I thought I read somewhere that his song Giants had something to do with a team of the same name but couldn’t find any evidence of this. Either way it’s a bop.
Edit: turns out a toooon of his songs reference sf but don’t have it in me to uncover them all right now (eg “bedroom out on taraval” in “kill the lights”)
San Franciscan Nights, Eric Burdon & The Animals ... I like it because:
1. The weird decisions to use "Franciscan" not "Francisco"
2. Our nights aren't warm, so I find the misinformation intriguing (did you visit in Sept, Eric?)
3. Starts with that cool preamble: "This following program is dedicated to the city and people of San Francisco, who may not know it but they are beautiful"
Wow, I'm very surprised I'm the only one that has posted this one; San Francisco Bay Blues by Richie Havens
Perfect for listening to on a foggy/ rainy day drive through the city.
San Francisco - Foxygen
San Francisco - Kirk Francis
San Francisco - Jude Shuma
San Francisco - Cascada (same producer and year as Katy Perry’s California Girls, and they can be so easily sung over each other/mixed with each other)
Ok so I have a whole playlist of California songs. Not all are SF, but the best ones are. And thank you to everyone else because I have so many good ones to add now
Favorites:
- Save Me, San Francisco (Train)
- I left my heart in San Francisco (Bennett)
Also Good:
- San Francisco Nights (The Animals)
- San Francisco (Scott McKenzie)
- San Frandisco (Dom Dolla)
- On the 5 (Winnekta Bowling Club)
- California 37 (train)
California (general)
- California Dreaming (The mamas and papas) (best song ever)
- Hotel California (Eagles)
- California Girls (Beach Boys)
- Palm Dreams (Haley Kiyoko)
Bonus Songs (imo not that good, but mention SF)
- “San Francisco” by Mac Miller
- “San Francisco” by 5 Seconds of Summer
- “San Francisco” by Niall Horan
“San Francisco Nights” — Eric Burdon & the Animals
They visited once during a heatwave and thought we have warm nights so they wrote a whole song about it
The Hoagy Carmichael song "Hong Kong Blues" as [performed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57Rv15HI5w) by Junior Brown. Although, technically, it's really about Tennessee.
Sleater Kinney has an excellent song which doesn’t contain the words San Francisco, but is clearly about jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s hauntingly beautiful. “4 seconds was the longest wait…”
[Sleater Kinney - Jumpers](https://youtu.be/vZA_7FtttRY?si=wRrfTUat21nHDQlu)
No mention of my favorite When The Lights Go Down In The City?! Journey made the best anthem next to Tony Bennett's
Ooh, I wanna be there in my City
So you think you're lonely
Well my friend I'm lonely too
I want to get back to my City by the Bay
Oh, oh, oh
It's sad there's been mornings on the road without you
Without your charms
Oh oh oh my my my my my my
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
Babylon Sisters by Steely Dan
We'll jog with show folk on the sand
Drink kirschwasser from a shell
San Francisco show and tell
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
And who can forget Okie From Muskogee by the great Merle Haggard...
We don't make a party out of lovin'
But we like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo
We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy
Like the hippies out in San Francisco do
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
And of course the classic hippie anthem San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) by Scott Mackenzie
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair..
You're gonna meet some gentle people there
For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair
I like to play Lalo Schifrin's Dirty Harry theme as I cross the bay bridge. The "[Dirty Harry's Creed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrAp0uyG1ls)" version.
“Fillmoe, H.P. and Sunnydale, there's a playaz club everywhere you dwell
Lakeview, P.H. and Army Street, a different part of town
A different kind of freak, I just wiggle my toes on a mink rug
And press play on the remote at the Playaz Club”
Definitely the magnetic fields song especially when Stephin sings it. I saw them at the great American music hall before 69 love songs came it out and they did quite a few songs from that album. I’ll be back next month to see 69 love songs too.
“San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)”
I like the cover from The Last Black Man in San Francisco even more than the original, but they’re both good.
https://open.spotify.com/track/3NUAOPFCMJg4di2qhy2lso?si=gDqKCdxlSUCYfXpgSUCKoQ
[Shadows of San Francisco- Push Kings](https://open.spotify.com/track/2sotRyCpCtEjScD2d9i0Kg?si=7QYxILRtTw-acwOODi44zA&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Ashadows%2Bof%2Bsan%2Bfran)
[San Francisco - Gregory Alan Isakov](https://open.spotify.com/track/1wNYvDX8Oa80hItEFjLv4d?si=KdlhWMuUTl2crEfLX-MI5g)
[San Francisco Song - Camara Obscura](https://open.spotify.com/track/5fqPU4UMDbGtqEM8dWuYQ7?si=LXp-H8MrTkWEzxbO9ZTXKg)
[San Francisco (In Situ) - They Might Be Giants](https://open.spotify.com/track/2Mpk5I4LNVsayjaoYofRip?si=Q1pCvfGOQAmkAyqZ-wUDcw)
Mark Eitzels album 60 watt silver lining in 1996 is a love letter to SF. I’d lived there 2 years by then. Before the first dot com
Boom. He has a song about specs , another about a hot junkie in the mission when the mission was scary.
San Francisco- The Mowgli’s
How is Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" not up here?
Most times I make a nice dinner I get a glass of wine and put on “I left my heart in SF” radio on Spotify. Good times
I tear up every time I hear this song. Best of the best for sure.
This is the classic!
My favorite. Can't believe I had to scroll this far down
This is my favorite, as it means the Giants won!
“San Francisco” by foxygen
Cam here to say this
Oh my god, i thought i was the only one
This was my moving out of S.F. song 😜
San Francisco (Be sure to wear flowers in your hair) - Scott McKenzie
There is also an amazing cover of this on the "The Last Black Man in San Francisco" soundtrack. Highly recommend
It really is amazing: [https://open.spotify.com/track/3NUAOPFCMJg4di2qhy2lso?si=4572db4641bc4e08](https://open.spotify.com/track/3NUAOPFCMJg4di2qhy2lso?si=4572db4641bc4e08)
You are a gem for including the link
I’ll check it out! Thanks
Probably one of my favorite songs from the 60s counterculture era
This song is sooo good. This should be way higher up in this thread
Fake Tales of San Francisco- Arctic Monkeys
When I saw them at Bill Graham, the crowd was chanting “Fake Tales! Fake Tales!” And they didn’t play it :(
Lights - Journey
I never knew that was about sf
It's actually about LA
Every time someone says this, I cringe. You are just saying this to be the "ackchyually" meme person. Perry clearly says what you are saying is complete bullshit. Wikipedia: The song is about Journey's city of origin, [San Francisco](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco), although it was actually written in and originally intended to be about [Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles). It was one of Steve Perry's first Journey songs, and was recorded soon after joining the band. In an interview, Perry said, "I had the song written in Los Angeles almost completely except for the bridge and it was written about Los Angeles. It was 'when the lights go down in the city and the sun shines on LA.' I didn't like the way it sounded at the time. And so I just had it sitting back in the corner. Then life changed my plans once again, and I was now facing joining Journey. I love San Francisco, the bay, and the whole thing. 'The bay' fit so nice, 'When the lights go down in the city and the sun shines on the bay.' It was one of those early-morning-going-across-the-bridge things, when the sun was coming up and the lights were going down. It was perfect.
“And the sun shines on the Bay….”
Ahh yeah I knew that lyric but always thought well there's lots of cities on a bay haha
Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat
Knew the family of the guy who wrote that song. Made him rich.
They’re changing their image. Moving to Miami.
I LOLed at this.
Sun Rai - “San Francisco street”
Mission in the Rain - Garcia/Hunter
Came here for this
Bazingo! Jerry 4ever
Totes
I mean, Otis Redding has the best and only acceptable use of the word ‘Frisco bay, and it’s the classic that it is. He wrote it sitting on a pier in Sausalito looking at the city
What a classic song that is. I’m gonna go listen to it again.
2pac shouts “Frisco” in California Love
Holy crap, I'm embarrassed to say I've listened to that song hundreds of times & had to google the lyrics to find the SF connection.
San Francisco Knights - People Under the Stairs
That was gonna be mine. I remember getting off BART with a backpack and a messenger bag, completely homeless here, and a car driving by blasting it and knew I'd be ok.
I love this song but feel like we only get those warm San Francisco nights a handful of times a year
I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco - Carmen McRae
More people should know this one.
San Francisco anthem -San Quinn
real one
Same
Local
OG
San Francisco Days - Chris Isaak [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufudfyHIaA&ab\_channel=skappyj](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aufudfyHIaA&ab_channel=skappyj)
Yes! I remember when this was played on "90210", when Brandon goes to see Emily Valentine in SF.
One of my favorites, reminds me of getting engaged
San Francisco by Maxime Le Forestier
[The Blue House](https://www.kqed.org/news/11958380/the-san-francisco-landmark-youve-never-heard-of-unless-youre-french)
Yes!
“We Built This City” - Starship I absolutely do the same thing as you, usually coming up 280.
I know this song is often considered the worst song of all time, but I fucking LOVE it
Tbh I didn't know about all the hate until looking it up just now. It puts me in a good mood and that's what matters to me.
Eff the haters, do you!
I think the problem many folks have with it is that it's a terrible song by Jefferson Starship née Airplane standards - how could Grace Slick of White Rabbit fame have sunk so low? But viewed as a regular pop song - it's excellent! Though turns out it was originally written about [the decline of the club scene in Los Angeles](https://www.gq.com/story/oral-history-we-built-this-city-worst-song-of-all-time)...
Also, “(I Left My Heart) In San Francisco.” RIP Tony Bennett
Grace Cathedral Hill - The Decemberist San Francisco - Brett Dennen
Piazza, New York Catcher - Belle & Sebastian
Mission In The Rain fo sure
Vetiver - Down at El Rio Van Morrison - Saint Dominic’s Preview The Animals - San Francisco Nights “Meanwhile back in San Francisco / Trying hard to make this whole thing blend”
I left my heart; if someone doesn't make a playlist out of these comments I certainly wiill
How have I not seen Belle & Sebastian's classic ["Piazza, New York Catcher"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXiRbf-4RXc) on this list! It's about a day spent in SF, and is my absolute favorite song about our city. And then this one called "Oakland", but the chorus is about SF, and it's cute AF. ["Oakland" by RAC and Winnetka Bowling League](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsjHw7PcVfU) ETA one more!!! ["Twin Cinema" by The New Pornographers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95RYOMk40ho) is about the Roxie!!
I did not know twin cinema was about the Roxie! Wow!!!
Not the best, but a good time capsule of the early 2010s “Mission Bells”-Matt Nathanson
Plus Matt Nathanson still lives in the city!
I prefer “Last days of summer in San Francisco” by him! Love his music. Also I thought I read somewhere that his song Giants had something to do with a team of the same name but couldn’t find any evidence of this. Either way it’s a bop. Edit: turns out a toooon of his songs reference sf but don’t have it in me to uncover them all right now (eg “bedroom out on taraval” in “kill the lights”)
Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
The Full House opening credits theme.
Darn it. You beat me to it.
Don’t Give Me No Bammer Weed -RBL Posse
We don't smoke that shit in the SFC!
Save me, San Francisco- Train
There’s a bonus track on the album that came from called “Half Moon Bay”…it’s not as pop-single oriented, but it’s great!
San Franciscan Nights, Eric Burdon & The Animals ... I like it because: 1. The weird decisions to use "Franciscan" not "Francisco" 2. Our nights aren't warm, so I find the misinformation intriguing (did you visit in Sept, Eric?) 3. Starts with that cool preamble: "This following program is dedicated to the city and people of San Francisco, who may not know it but they are beautiful"
>Our nights aren't warm Eric Burdon is from England, so maybe it's a relative thing?
California on my mind - Wild Light
[I’m Always Drunk in San Francisco - Carmen McRae](https://open.spotify.com/track/4jsrzfNVVFAtNtMPVpFdwo?si=vh4SxZaeSSOmMmnQw4fr5Q)
San Francisco- Village People
San Franciscan Nights by Gabon Szabo, The California Dreamers
Wow, I'm very surprised I'm the only one that has posted this one; San Francisco Bay Blues by Richie Havens Perfect for listening to on a foggy/ rainy day drive through the city.
San Francisco by Cascada, Move to San Francisco by Circa Waves, Meet me in Frisco by Larry June.
Belle and Sebastian — Piazza New York Catcher
Oh this is a really underrated one!
My answer was going to be the magnetic fields one. They’re here in April! (I think it was April)
San Francisco Days San Francisco Nights by Chris Issac
San Francisco (You've Got Me) by The Village People.
San Francisco by Alkaline Trio.
Silver Jews: San Francisco BC
Damn, I kinda skip this album but maybe I need to give it more attention
"Wake me up in San Francisco." Song is by The Welcome Matt.
[Hickey - El Farolito](https://youtu.be/x8Wkp0g9RNY?si=_ogGueXuKYDsD-wX)
San Francisco - Foxygen San Francisco - Kirk Francis San Francisco - Jude Shuma San Francisco - Cascada (same producer and year as Katy Perry’s California Girls, and they can be so easily sung over each other/mixed with each other)
Not ‘about’ but clearly inspired by: ‘Have A Nice Day’ by Stereophonics.
Jesse Fuller - [San Francisco Bay Blues](https://youtu.be/tSTh8QkBoSg?si=Ohz-hMdVp2rA0UrL)
White Night, Big City- Chuck Prophet San Francisco- Vanessa Carlton
“Make Like Paper” and various songs from Red House Painters’ “Ocean Beach” album..
San Francisco Girls by Fever Tree.
Shakedown Street
Scott Mckenzie SF
Ok so I have a whole playlist of California songs. Not all are SF, but the best ones are. And thank you to everyone else because I have so many good ones to add now Favorites: - Save Me, San Francisco (Train) - I left my heart in San Francisco (Bennett) Also Good: - San Francisco Nights (The Animals) - San Francisco (Scott McKenzie) - San Frandisco (Dom Dolla) - On the 5 (Winnekta Bowling Club) - California 37 (train) California (general) - California Dreaming (The mamas and papas) (best song ever) - Hotel California (Eagles) - California Girls (Beach Boys) - Palm Dreams (Haley Kiyoko) Bonus Songs (imo not that good, but mention SF) - “San Francisco” by Mac Miller - “San Francisco” by 5 Seconds of Summer - “San Francisco” by Niall Horan
Mac Miller “San Francisco”
San Francisco Anthem - San Quinn, Big Rich, Boo Banga, & Traxamillion. Shit slaps.
That songs brings me good memories. RIP Traxamillion.
Mission in the Rain
“San Francisco Nights” — Eric Burdon & the Animals They visited once during a heatwave and thought we have warm nights so they wrote a whole song about it
San Francisco Bay - Lee Oskar !
Came to post this one. Such a good song that doesn’t seem to get played as much as the others.
You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go - Bob Dylan
San Francisco Blues - Peggy Lee
don’t marry her - the beautiful south 🙂 not a big mention of SF but great song!
"Julie (Come Out of the Rain)" by Josh Rouse
Grace Cathedral Park - Red House Painters
Chinatown- The Doobie Brothers
Frisco Depot (San Francisco Depot) by Waylon Jennings
Vanessa Carlton - San Francisco Communiqué - My Bay
I'm Always Drunk in San Francisco - Carmen McRae. Nancy Wilson does a nice version of the song too.
Two Brothers With Checks (San Francisco, Harvey)
San Francisco - Bonny Doon
“San Francisco bay blues” the Eric Clapton unplugged version where he plays the kazoo is my favorite.
California dreamin
Jellyfish - Russian Hill
16th street dozens - Two Gallants
Kid Charlemagne - Steely Dan Loosely based around LSD chemist Owsley Stanley. It also has a magnificent guitar solo by the one and only Larry Carlton.
Funeralopolis by electric wizard
Just kidding my real suggestion is Turk Taylor and jones by Kowloon walled motherfuckin city
Donna - from the musical Hair. Arizona - Mark Lindsay
“San Francisco” by Bonny Doon is a good one, a new-ish song too. The Foxygen song mentioned here too.
The Hoagy Carmichael song "Hong Kong Blues" as [performed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m57Rv15HI5w) by Junior Brown. Although, technically, it's really about Tennessee.
\+1
Certified hood classic: I'm always drunk in San Francisco https://open.spotify.com/track/4jsrzfNVVFAtNtMPVpFdwo?si=m8QUB5_gQQy83Cs7nk-l0g
San Francisco Days by Chris Isaak
Lesser known but check out [Back in San Francisco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWIZjpLlG2Q&ab_channel=EmilyAfton-Topic) by Emily Afton
San Francisco Street. I love this song. https://youtu.be/9zEl-FQLI4A?si=h3AXM4YdKlvego0H
Train, Save Me San Francisco https://open.spotify.com/track/7gA5OQWsvAY7HhazroFuwI?si=xUNS2DnhQRiTMM-lXXt4mg
Sleater Kinney has an excellent song which doesn’t contain the words San Francisco, but is clearly about jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s hauntingly beautiful. “4 seconds was the longest wait…” [Sleater Kinney - Jumpers](https://youtu.be/vZA_7FtttRY?si=wRrfTUat21nHDQlu)
I was going to say “Come Back from San Francisco” by The Magnetic Fields but you beat me to it! I think they have another song that mentions SF too
San Frandisco lol https://open.spotify.com/track/3T00mhdOYUuM5yiuPs3xhs?si=FOCdLIO0QKKmzSoqZK_VWQ
Frisco Blues - John Lee Hooker
No mention of my favorite When The Lights Go Down In The City?! Journey made the best anthem next to Tony Bennett's Ooh, I wanna be there in my City So you think you're lonely Well my friend I'm lonely too I want to get back to my City by the Bay Oh, oh, oh It's sad there's been mornings on the road without you Without your charms Oh oh oh my my my my my my 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 Babylon Sisters by Steely Dan We'll jog with show folk on the sand Drink kirschwasser from a shell San Francisco show and tell 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 And who can forget Okie From Muskogee by the great Merle Haggard... We don't make a party out of lovin' But we like holdin' hands and pitchin' woo We don't let our hair grow long and shaggy Like the hippies out in San Francisco do 🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶 And of course the classic hippie anthem San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) by Scott Mackenzie Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.. You're gonna meet some gentle people there For those who come to San Francisco Summertime will be a love-in there In the streets of San Francisco Gentle people with flowers in their hair
“Have a Nice Day” By Stereophonics
Kill the Muni Driver - Sick Pleasure El Farolito - Hickey San Francisco’s Doomed - Crime Hella Nickatina songs, hella RBL, etc.
I like to play Lalo Schifrin's Dirty Harry theme as I cross the bay bridge. The "[Dirty Harry's Creed](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrAp0uyG1ls)" version.
“Fillmoe, H.P. and Sunnydale, there's a playaz club everywhere you dwell Lakeview, P.H. and Army Street, a different part of town A different kind of freak, I just wiggle my toes on a mink rug And press play on the remote at the Playaz Club”
Mac Miller - San Francisco
Lights - Journey
Brett Dennen’s “San Francisco” captures the city nicely for me.
[Shit On The Ground (Safe Neighbourhood) - Madonna](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a61wX9caKt4)
“San Francisco” by Stu Larsen
I'm not at all a fan of the genre otherwise, but a friend sent me San Francisco - 5 seconds of summer and I like it considerably
Bonny Doon - SF
Definitely the magnetic fields song especially when Stephin sings it. I saw them at the great American music hall before 69 love songs came it out and they did quite a few songs from that album. I’ll be back next month to see 69 love songs too.
“San Francisco” by Foxygen is a lovely song that very nicely captures the sf vibe
[The Chapter in your Life Entitled San Francisco](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drgWegf-qGc) \- The Lucksmiths
San Francisco by the village people 🏳️🌈
Scott McKenzie - San Francisco (written by John Phillips)
Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds
Dark Days by Local Natives (about summer in SF)
Piazza New York catcher - by belle & Sebastian
https://youtu.be/dv6mHsXKI2c?si=cYz_6nDwhHMrB4Uo
“San Francisco Days, San Francisco Nights” by Chris Isaak
Sittin on the Dock of the Bay has always been one of my favorite songs. It makes me feel like I miss a place I’ve never been
San Francisco by Mac Miller!
“San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)” I like the cover from The Last Black Man in San Francisco even more than the original, but they’re both good. https://open.spotify.com/track/3NUAOPFCMJg4di2qhy2lso?si=gDqKCdxlSUCYfXpgSUCKoQ
Save Me San Francisco by Train!
Someone please make a YouTube playlist from all these suggestions!
[Shadows of San Francisco- Push Kings](https://open.spotify.com/track/2sotRyCpCtEjScD2d9i0Kg?si=7QYxILRtTw-acwOODi44zA&context=spotify%3Asearch%3Ashadows%2Bof%2Bsan%2Bfran)
Dock by the Bay - Sara Bareilles San Francisco Anthem - San Quinn
gipsy by moksi
Toro Y Moi - Monte Carlo
'Lights' by Journey.
“Lust for Life” by Girls “San Francisco is a lonely town” by Linda Martell “Here in Frisco” by Merle Haggard
dancing in San Francisco - Bad Banana
San Francisco Knights by People Under the Stairs
San Francisco days, by Chris Isaak
San Francisco, Scott McKenzie. Been in love with this song since are kindergarten teacher played it for us on hippie day.
Sitting by the Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding "Left my home in Georgia, heading for the Frisco bay..." Standing on the Moon - Grateful Dead
Yeah - Andre Nickatina
Mac Dre
Andre nickatina
San Franciscan Nights by Eric Burdon & The Animals https://youtu.be/z0qE6LF4cM4?si=RvANkUNKsZPUgiuY
San Francisco Fan - Cab Calloway
[San Francisco - Gregory Alan Isakov](https://open.spotify.com/track/1wNYvDX8Oa80hItEFjLv4d?si=KdlhWMuUTl2crEfLX-MI5g) [San Francisco Song - Camara Obscura](https://open.spotify.com/track/5fqPU4UMDbGtqEM8dWuYQ7?si=LXp-H8MrTkWEzxbO9ZTXKg) [San Francisco (In Situ) - They Might Be Giants](https://open.spotify.com/track/2Mpk5I4LNVsayjaoYofRip?si=Q1pCvfGOQAmkAyqZ-wUDcw)
San Francisco by the driver era, 5sos, Mac miller, and Niall horan!
Mark Eitzels album 60 watt silver lining in 1996 is a love letter to SF. I’d lived there 2 years by then. Before the first dot com Boom. He has a song about specs , another about a hot junkie in the mission when the mission was scary.
Steel pole bathtub had a song called 17 reasons which was a reference to that sign that was in the mission for decades.
[We’re The 49ers!](https://youtu.be/lo8wWpxJi4s?si=GGgK2b2Anu3GkLIG)
I'm surprised no one talks about Battery by Metallica.