“We wanted to build a song from the somewhere we’d never ever gone to just before,” Bearstronaut head singer Robert Martineau tells SFist. “The tune is simply on the a premium-up situation people getting drunk and you will lost into the Bay area. We actually tested a chart and found the individuals cross roads and you may went involved giving the storyline a very specific location.” Seeing Bay area this past year, Martineau endured on put the guy says regarding the song: Folsom and you may 6th Path, where, because the lyrics go, he had been “in the bottom out-of his mug.” 1015 Folsom, that’s right there, may not have become what they got at heart, no matter if. — Caleb Pershan

The fresh new name features absolutely nothing to do with brand new words on their own ? aside from this new attitude “Well, I am aware where to not ever go/ ‘Cause I know which place to go,” and “I understand I search higher” is common sufficient to denizens of one’s Mission. The song recalls the new band Roxy Tunes, as there are one thing to they one reminds myself from an enthusiastic aimless nights to the Valencia, not exactly sober, not knowing where to go, and recurring, “i ain’t planning to find our very own couples.” — Jay Barmann

You will find usually questioned as to why Mr. “My personal interior viewpoint rating trapped dwellin’ on valley having temperature”? Does the newest range “The brand new courtroom hustle: cash money and you can females” relate to the fresh next-busy utilized Computer game trading at Amoeba? And that i could only assume that “Never ever nuttin’ nice when each one of yo cashflow (what)/ ‘pends about how the ivory’s hittin’ this new Castro” is the points of one’s Castro Theatre’s body organ. I’m only joking, You will find not a clue! You tell me. Mockery away, so it song stands up since types of “cool” music you might tune in to inside the a blended-crowd bar with the mingle2 a tv series to your CW. — Eve Batey

Brian Wayne “BT” Transeau called this song of his 2000 hip-hop/electronic release Path for the Still life “Like On Haight Street,” since lyrics (performed from the fifty Huge) are not appearing to have a beneficial godamned course of action the fresh new the newest Haight

Jerry Garcia’s ghost can still be observed in San francisco into the weeks including now, when the Goal was damp with fog and you may drizzle. That it jam of their front side project The brand new Jerry Garcia Ring, which he left until his demise in 1995, you will serve as an enthusiastic anthem for a changing district. For each Robert Hunter’s lyrics: “There can be particular pleasure in the San francisco precipitation / Long lasting comes down, the Goal usually looks a comparable.” The new bells is tolling, sings Garcia, not for your, and possibly not into the Objective, sometimes. — Caleb Pershan

A taking walks journey off San francisco bay area in the ballpark to the TL, it track regarding legendary Precious Tragedy Waitress has constantly bugged me personally that have one mondegreen. Right here is the verse:

Part of an early 90’s trend off just what option stone experts titled “fantasy pop” ? and just what now could well be named “sadcore” or something tough ? Red Home Painters’ album, nicknamed Rollercoaster towards sepia photo to the their protection, plus been able to stimulate an excellent summery disposition in good pre-dot-com San francisco bay area. The brand new band’s home remained here until direct artist and you will songwriter Mark Kozelek age Sun Kil Moonlight in the 2003, continuing to litter his tunes that have references so you can metropolitan areas into the inside the the town. (Find and additionally #18 and you may #9) — Jay Barmann

It echeck people certain roadways otherwise bars, but Carmen McRae’s little known vintage enjoys one to rhyme with it which makes it, merely, a knowledgeable song in the San francisco bay area there is: “Tell me how come Bay area/ identical to a good partner’s hug wade/ straight to my head?” — Jay Barmann

Songwriter Amy Linton failed to establish a great deal, in person, throughout the SF, however, so it track of 2003’s How i Learned to type In reverse is among the most the lady tributes to your area, plus one of one’s band’s even more lasting audio. — Jay Barmann

That it brooding, 60s-ish track from the reading Mission bells ringing reminds me personally away from my start regarding the San francisco bay area, whenever my personal roomie treasured it Bay area ring, and therefore album

There will probably simply be the regard to “one night at the disco for the outskirts regarding Frisco,” but that it track however deserves the place on which listing merely so you’re able to depict the fresh disco time, which had been grand at places like the Trocadero Transfer. Sadly, SF’s high disco legend Sylvester don’t build a san francisco bay area disco anthem, so this would need to would. — Jay Barmann