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Top 5 songs about your city...

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Unfortunately fans from second-rate cities (like Orlando and Miami) won't be able to participate... too bad for them. Here's the Top 5 songs about Chicago:


5) The Night Chicago Died - Paper Lace
4) Lake Shore Drive - Aliotta Haynes Jeremiah
3) Chicago (That Toddlin' Town) - Frank Sinatra
2) My Kinda Town - Frank Sinatra
1) Sweet Home Chicago - Blues Brothers

Honorable Mention
Bad, Bad Leroy Brown - Jim Croce
Jesus Just Left Chicago - ZZ Top
Chicago (We Can Change The World) - Graham Nash


(PS: Chicago is so great Ol' Blues Eyes himself sang two -2- songs about this legendary city...!!)
"Today's NBA is soft, the Defense is weak, and the rules 'really' favor the Offense."

"Lebron doesn’t guard for a full game and our game plan was to get him to play defense and he left me open all game."
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About where I live

1 30 Seconds to Mars - 'City of Angels'
2 Aimee Mann - 'Freeway'
3 Arlo Guthrie - 'Coming Into Los Angeles'
4 Beastie Boys - 'Do It'
5 Benny Goodman - 'Hurray for Hollywood'
6 Buffalo Springfield - 'For What It's Worth'
7 Donna Summer - 'Sunset People'
8 Eagles - 'Hotel California'
9 Everclear - 'Santa Monica'
10 Felix Figueroa and His Orchestra - 'Pico and Sepulveda'
11 Frank Zappa - 'Valley Girl'
12 Ice Cube - 'It Was a Good Day'
13 Jan and Dean - 'Dead Man's Curve'
14 Jimmy Webb - 'MacArthur Park'
15 Katy Perry - 'California Gurls'
16 Kendrick Lamar - 'The Recipe'
17 Memoir - 'Los Angeles'
18 Missing Persons - 'Walking in L.A.'
19 NOFX - 'Whoops, I OD'd'
20 Randy Newman - 'I Love L.A.'
21 Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Californication'
22 Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Under the Bridge'
23 The Beatles - 'Blue Jay Way'
24 The Byrds - 'The Airport Song'
25 The Decemberists - 'Los Angeles, I'm Yours'
26 The Doors - 'L.A. Woman'
27 The Mamas & the Papas - 'California Dreamin' '
28 Thee Midniters - 'Whittier Boulevard'
29 Tom Petty - 'Free Fallin' '
30 X - 'Los Angeles'
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OP, you live in Chicago?
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Hometown
5. The Byrds - Boston

This love song tells the story of a man dreaming of going to Boston to see the girl he loves who lives there.
4. Augustana - Boston

3. Vampire Weekend - Boston (Ladies Of Cambridge)

2. The Standells - Dirty Water
"Well I love that dirty water / Oh, Boston, you're my home (oh, you're the Number One place)"
Many Bostonians say that this classic 1966 song has become the unofficial rock anthem for the city of Boston.

1. Dropkick Murphys - For Boston
"For Boston, for Boston / Thy glory is our own / For Boston, for Boston / 'Tis here that truth is known"
This is a triumphant cover of Boston College's traditional fight song. This Dropkick Murphys version can often be heard at Boston College football games.
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OP would be better of stating the greatest bands from the city. Like the City of Chicago name sake band. Chicago. Isn't REO and Styx from the same area?
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op doesn't live in chicago, so I wonder why he is pretending to.

Hmmm...
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Chicago = Best in the World

Great list OP.
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