Top songs about California

Californication (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Best lyric: "The sun may rise in the East, at least it sets in a finer location". Fuck you, Boston, you suck.
What this song is really about: People in California have more sex
What liking this song says about you: You moved to California to get more sex, but you picked SF not LA and so are stuck with tech geeks, gay guys and zero single girls

Los Angeles Waltz (Razorlight)
Best lyric: OK, not a lyric, but the fact that this track actually is in classical waltz time, so you could actually imagine an old-time couple dipping around a ballroom to it - until you get to the line 'It's been such a fucked-up year'
What this song is really about: Nobody is ever actually from LA
What liking this song says about you: When you are tired of LA you are tired of life. If you like this song you are either a) suicidal or b) about to move to SF

Fake Tales of San Francisco (Arctic Monkeys)
Best lyric: "You're not from New York City, you're from Rotherham"
What this song is really about: Guys will say anything to get into a girls panties. Nothing new there.
What liking this song says about you: You know where Rotherham is. You have never been to California.

California Girls (The Beach Boys)
Best lyric: "The mid-west farmers daughters really make you feel alright" Talk about damning with faint praise...
What this song is really about: California girls put out
What liking this song says about you: You would like to think you have enough experience with women to be able to have an opinion on these stereotypes. You are nostalgic for a California that never existed, and even if it did, only did so about thirty years before you were born...

California Love (2Pac feat. Dr Dre)
Best lyric: "Let's show these fools how we do it on tha West side, Cause you and I know it's tha best side" Fuck you Boston, you suck (did I say that already).
What this song is really about: California knows how to party
What liking this song says about you: You are not a Gangsta. You are not a baller. You are not a Playa. You wince when it gets to the line 'Now it's 95" because it reminds you of how old you are. You love California better than your own mother.

Hotel California (The Eagles)
Best lyric: "She got a lot of pretty, pretty boys, that she calls friends". So, the hotel's run by a fag hag, makes sense.
What this song is really about: You can get some really, really good drugs in California.
What liking this song says about you: You are a) suicidal, but not quite far enough along to listen to Elliott Smith or b) you are a teenager experimenting with smoking banana skins and dried oregano and believing yourself to be a major force in some kind of drug counterculture. Give it a few years, and you may well move to category a).

LA is my Lady (Frank Sinatra)
Best lyric: "And love's kept me cool in July and warm in December". Cool in July? Clearly he means San Francisco...
What this song is really about: You can get some really, really good drugs in California. (Ref: I get no kick from Champagne - you know what that song is, about, right?)
What liking this song says about you: You are my grandfather, you don't get the drug references and you still call Sinatra 'Ol' Blue Eyes'. Get away from my blog.

Under The Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Best lyric: "she kisses me windy" WTF???
What this song is really about: Death or drugs. Not sex.
What liking this song says about you: You are learning to play guitar.