lunchboxing.com :: taking your lunch money since 1983

by paws o'henry

Recently VH1 released a list of the 100 best songs of the last 25 years. But what about the regional hits that got major play on local radio even if they never made it big nationally? Lunchboxing's Paws O'Henry compiled this list to help readers across the nation celebrate the local flavor of their dreary sad-sack hometowns.

1. "Your Love is Cold as One of Our 139 words for Ice" -- Atqasuk, Alaska

2. "Staunchly Conservative Midwestern Nights" -- Terre Haute, Ind.

3. "Livin' in St. Louis (Sucks)" -- St. Louis, Mo.

4. "Goin' to a Book Burnin'" -- Florida, Alabama, pretty much all the red states

5. "This Land is My Land, And I Hate Hispanics" -- Orange, Calif.

6. "Altoona is a Perfectly Comfortable Place to Raise a Quite Boring Family, Thank You Very Much" -- Altoona, Pa.

7. "Whalin'" -- San Pedro, Calif.

8. "Keep on Whalin'" -- San Pedro, Calif.

9. "Str8 Whalin' '98, Big Whalin' Style" -- San Pedro, Calif.

10. "Whalin' '99: Whalin'" -- San Pedro, Calif.

11. "Hot in Herre But It's a Dry Hot in Herre" -- Scottsdale, Ariz.

12. "Goin' to a Flag Burnin'" -- California, Massachusetts, pretty much all the blue states

13. "Come On Feel the Racism" -- Texas

14. "Yorba Linda on Yo Tonsils" -- Yorba Linda, Calif.

15. "My Entire Town's Sense of Self-Worth Depends On the Steelers' Season" -- Pittsburgh, Pa.

16. "So Who Feels Like a Picnic At the Evergreen State Park Picnic Fairgrounds?" -- Evergreen State Park Picnic Fairgrounds, Oregon.

17. "Whalin' N Whoridin'" -- San Pedro, Calif.

18. "Still Denyin' the B-52s Are From Here" -- Athens, Ga.

19. "(Don't) Fight the Power" -- Washington, D.C.

20. "We Didn't Start the Fire, Sheriff" -- Omaha, Neb.

21. "Stop That Train (I'm Being Stabbed)" -- Brooklyn, N.Y.

22. "Yes Sir, That's My Baby (Being Stabbed)" -- Queens, N.Y.

23. "Cryin' (Like a Baby Being Stabbed 'Cause I'm Not Allowed to Smoke in Bars)" -- Manhattan, N.Y.

24. "It Smells Like Shit in Herre (And I'm Being Stabbed)" -- Staten Island, N.Y.

25. "Jenny from the Block (Be Gettin' Brutally Stabbed -- Boriqua in the House!!!)" -- Bronx, N.Y.


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