Comments on: What Is The Rock Song For Your State?

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:56:59 +0000

I cant find any of these songs.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:50:13 +0000

South Dakota = Andre Williams’s “Only Black Man in South Dakota”

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:15:17 +0000

BTW, Florida’s=LOLz.

By: Lucas Jensen

Lucas Jensen — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:08:38 +0000

@Michaelangelo Matos: Yeah, that's a weird, Neil Hamburger-esque dig on the band.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 06:05:47 +0000

Me too, Defenestrated.

Too bad we're called the US of A instead of "Big Country."

By: DocStrange

DocStrange — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:44:16 +0000

@MickFNS: I think these are jokes. But if there was a state song for Rhode Island it wouldn't be by any of the cool bands that came from the state (Belly, Throwing Muses, Lightning Bolt, Les Savy Fav), or the one band that formed at RISD and then took over the world (The Talking Heads), but "On the Dark Side" by Jon Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band (a band and song that the rest of the world forgot almost immediately after the whole Eddie & The Cruisers cult dispersed, but both remain wildly popular among baby boomers in Rhode Island)

Also, Washington and Ohio actually have official State Rock Songs: Washington's is "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen and Ohio's is "Hang On Sloopy" by the McCoys. And there's probably legislation to make "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" by the Dropkick Murphys' Massachusetts' official state rock song.

By: kevink.

kevink. — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:24:48 +0000

echoing someone above, i have absolutely no problem with the songs of the two states in which i reside being “teenage dirtbag” and some made-up hold steady song.

By: Al Shipley

Al Shipley — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:40:42 +0000

lol @ “God and Beer and Sex or Something”

By: Defenestrated

Defenestrated — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:03:13 +0000

KANSAS: Kansas, "Kansas"

Of all the great things in that list, this is what made me giggle.

By: Dana's Got A Gun

Dana's Got A Gun — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:56:43 +0000

Our state song is a corny TV show’s theme? I’m writing my representative.

By: Dana's Got A Gun

Dana's Got A Gun — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:56:43 +0000

Our state song is a corny TV show’s theme? I’m writing my representative.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:31:32 +0000

@MConnor: But surely there's enough in his songbook for the other 47?

By: doctaj

doctaj — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:21:10 +0000

wait. i’m almost 100% sure that Ohio’s rock song is “Hang on Sloopy”.

…you can credit too many years in marching band for that gem of wisdom…

By: MConnor

MConnor — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:01:32 +0000

@slowburn: too bad he's dead.

By: moulty

moulty — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:51:57 +0000

Wire’s “Map Ref. 41°N 93°W” would be a good choice for Iowa.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:46:50 +0000

Maybe we should just turn all the other states over to Wesley Willis.

By: SAShepherd

SAShepherd — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:39:37 +0000

The Arizona song is closer to the truth than you'd think. But I'd still rather have the WV state song.

And half of They Might Be Giants actually recorded a song called "Idaho."

Truth, fiction, etc.

By: tenners

tenners — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:27:51 +0000

No… not Andy Griffith. :(

By: Eugene Langley

Eugene Langley — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:04:23 +0000

Awesome. Would have expected any Stamos reference to refer to Kokomo, IN, however.

By: righteousmaelstrom

righteousmaelstrom — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:56:37 +0000

Washington’s is actually “Louie Louie”