Top 10 Songs about D.C.

What do you do when you're on 23 hour train rides with an old friend from home? You make lists of songs about that place. So below, I give you Max West and Thomas Frampton's ten songs about, tangentially referencing, or in some other way related to Washington, DC.

10. "Lindbergh," by Woody Guthrie
Guthrie's song about the America First Committee, a cause championed by Charles Lindbergh, which sought to keep the United States out of WWII: "So I'm a gonna tell you people, if Hitler's gonna be beat / The common working people has got to take the seat / In Washington, in Washington / And I'm a gonna tell you workers, before you cash your checks / They say 'America First' but they mean 'America Next' / In Washington, in Washington."

9. "Washington, DC," by The Magnetic Fields
The song isn't really that good... It's just got the lyric: "W-A-S-H-I-N-G-T-O-N-baby-D-C."

8. "Guerrilla Radio," by Rage Against the Machine
"Contact I hijacked the frequencies / Blockin' the Beltway, move on DC"

7. "Mt. Pleasant Isn't," by The Evens

6. "Banned in DC," by Bad Brains



5. "This is DC," by DJ Eurok
"This is DC, you might think that you own it / A piece of South Africa on the Potomac..." Give it a listen: http://www.myspace.com/djeurok.

4. "Washington Bullets," by The Clash

3. "The District Sleeps Alone Tonight," The Postal Service
Probably a better ranking than it deserves, but I'm a sucker for that kinda stuff.

2. "Chocolate City," by Parliament

1. Specifically this version of "Hail to the Redskins"



Honorable Mentions: Every other Go-Go song ever; "District Night Prayer," by Q and not U; "Salvation," by Citizen Cope; "Christ for President," by Billy Bragg & Wilco; and we're pretty sure some stuff by Public Enemy.