My brain

[kiya]

The radio played "Sweet Home Alabama" on my way to the shrink and now I've got a process running trying to figure out whether I can compile a list of Songs Of The Fifty States, which is rather complicated because what rules are required to make it work? I mean, "California Dreamin'" is easy, but does "Gone to Carolina in my Mind" count for both? And is "Walking in Memphis" good enough, or ... well, I suppose "Memphis, Tennessee" actually does fill in that gap, which means I'm left wondering if "Rock and Roll Band" (which mentions Boston in the first line) will do for Massachusetts, or something similar with "House of the Rising Sun" though "City of New Orleans" is at least closer and....

... so that's what my brain was doing up until the same station played "When I Come Around" at which point I got stuck on DOOKIE IS NOT CLASSIC ROCK and augh, what the hell, radio.

Comments

[brooksmoses]

It's an interesting question whether "City of New Orleans" is closer, I think. It's really about the train named after the city, rather than the city itself.

In any case, there's certainly John Denver's "Country Roads" for West Virginia, and Eddie from Ohio's "Old Dominion" for Virginia (and now I'm trying to remember where the strange place I heard that recently was)....