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Best Song about Los Angeles? A.K.A. shitty old man music pole
YellowSnow
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In the spirit of the game this Saturday in the Arroyo Seco.
Best Song about Los Angeles? A.K.A. shitty old man music pole 27 votes
L.A. Woman - The Doors
18%
5 votes
To Live an Die in L.A. - 2 Pac
0%
Los Angeles - X
0%
L.A. Freeway - Guy Clark or Jerry Jeff Walker version
0%
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns and Roses
11%
3 votes
I Love L.A. - Randy Newman
11%
3 votes
Straigh Outta Compton - N.W.A.
25%
7 votes
Under the Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
11%
3 votes
I Left My Wallet in El Segundo - A Tribe Called Quest
0%
Write-in Option
22%
6 votes
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Neither is Colorado Street bridge in the OP, but it still warmed my heart to see my neighborhood on a HH post.
In the LBC
In 2008, Felder described the writing of the lyrics:
Don Henley and Glenn wrote most of the words. All of us kind of drove into L.A. at night. Nobody was from California, and if you drive into L.A. at night... you can just see this glow on the horizon of lights, and the images that start running through your head of Hollywood and all the dreams that you have, and so it was kind of about that... what we started writing the song about.
Henley decided on the theme of Hotel California, noting how The Beverly Hills Hotel had become a literal and symbolic focal point of their lives at that time. Henley said of their personal and professional experience in LA: "We were getting an extensive education, in life, in love, in business. Beverly Hills was still a mythical place to us. In that sense it became something of a symbol, and the 'Hotel' the locus of all that LA had come to mean for us. In a sentence, I'd sum it up as the end of the innocence, round one."