California Playlist or, Mood Sublime

For about a week or so I’ve been expanding on and updating my “California Playlist”, music that accompanies me on my flight(s) to California. Some of the songs are quite obvious, others not as straightforward, but each song on this playlist represents the feel of SoCal to me:

Title – Artist:

Hollywood Hills – The Academy Is…

My Hair Looks Fierce – Amanda Lepore

Catalyst – Anna Nalick

One More Minute – Authority Zero

Los Angeles Is Burning – Bad Religion

Name Of The Game – The Crystal Method

Stay (Wasting Time) – Dave Matthews Band

California Uber Alles – Dead Kennedys

Clouds Over California – DevilDriver

LA Woman – The Doors

Open Road Song – Eve 6

Sunset Strip Bitch – Eve 6

Jet Plane – Eve 6

Like A California King – Everclear

Bowl for Two – The Expendables

Party At Ground Zero – Fishbone

Handlebars – Flobots

Mexican Wine – Fountains of Wayne

60 Revolutions – Gogol Bordello

Gypsy Part of Town – Gogol Bordello

Country Basket – Green Day vs. Nelly

Going to California – Led Zeppelin

Hands Down Gandhi – The Legion of Doom

On and On – Mickey Avalon

Aqualung – Mocheeba

Fear and Love – Morcheeba

I’m So L.A. – MYNX

No Taylor, No Scar – Norwegian Recycling

Straight Outta Compton – NWA

Stop and Stare – One Republic

California – Phantom Planet

Californication – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Danny California – Red Hot Chili Peppers

Sayonara Senorita – Reel Big Fish

I Can’t Surf – Reverend Horton Heat

Goin’ Back to Cali – Sevendust

Snoops Upside Your Head – Snoop Dogg/Dre

Reptilia – The Strokes

Garden Grove – Sublime

April 29, 1992 – Sublime

Caress Me Down – Sublime

Doin’ Time – Sublime

Floating Vibes – Surfer Blood

Punkrocker – Teddybears

Cystal Baller – Third Eye Blind

Can’t Get Away – Third Eye Blind

I Come From The Water – The Toadies

Into The Great Wide Open – Tom Petty

Free Falling – Tom Petty

Ænema – Tool

California Love – Tupac

Wolf Like Me – TV On The Radio

Shutterbug – Veruca Salt

Wild Wild West – Will Smith

Maps – Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Roundabout – Yes

Amber – 311

Beautiful Disaster – 311

The list is ever evolving and I’m always open to suggestions (right up until the day of my flight), so feel free to recommend more music. Currently the playlist only covers four hours worth of the journey; I’ll need at least another four to make it last the entirety of the airport adventures.