Music A-H
Music I-P
Music Q-Z
What music says
Venice to you
Francisco and His
Cosmic Beam
Francisco Lupica interview
Alan Catlin's
Harry Partch poems
Songs Inspired by
or Named for Venice
The Last Night at the Gas House A long ballad about the final night when the cops raided the place and hauled everyone away. Heard by someone at the Unicorn around 1961. Lots of great verses, both funny and poignant. One correspondent heard it on FM radio in Los Angeles around 1965. Written and performed by Stevenson Phillips, an occasional actor and otherwise storyteller. He released an album Songs and Stories of Stevenson Phillips in 1964 and it is believed this song is included.
Moon Over Venice by David Scott written in 1973 has been called “the definitive song about Venice”, especially as sung by Silvia Kohan
Venice Beach EP by The Egg
Venice Queen is a Red Hot Chili Peppers song that has been called beautiful, moody, suite-like - but is it our Venice?
Rooming House On Venice Beach song by Jonathan Richman, from the album I, Jonathan
George Winston wrote Venice Dreamer and the liner notes say it’s in memory of David Fleck - but who was he? Winston's name is associated with some local musicians such as Joe Fahey, so maybe the music is connected to the American Venice.
Venice by the Sea is a song on the Venice Underground DVD movie - written and performed by some combination of Peter DiStefano, David Baerwald, Eric Avery, others
Venice by the Sea Venice Beat Club
Jazz trumpeter Rick Braun does a number called Missing in Venice
Lyrics by the Hurriganes, a Finnish rock and roll band,
include
Crazy days in Venice west
Laughing like a chimpanzee
Soapy dopes on muscle beach
Stinks like a barrel of cheese
Venice Beach, written by Pete White, is on his Caravan of Dreams album.
In 2003 Perry Farrell talked about the song To Match the Sun - how he and his wife, sad about his imminent departure, went to the Venice seashore. "Let's watch the sun go down and set our hearts to it. And tomorrow, even though I'll be somewhere else, we'll watch the sunset and know that we're in tune and feeling each other.
Eric Marienthal and Jeff Lorger co-wrote One Day In Venice, described as "sensuous, cool retro-funk," and bluesy Hangin' On The Boardwalk
Arco Iris, a band from Argentina that played frequently at the Comeback Inn, wrote Alive in Venice
She's taking trips on
me
I'm taking trips on her
Left the sunset back in Venice
I was on the freeway
Say you love me or I'll kill us!
.................................."Freeway" by Porno for Pyros
Venice Pier Strut is a 30 second piece on an album called Pacific Blue by Franke Christopher, who used to be in Tangerine Dream.
Bring The Mood from the Jane's Addiction album Strays is described by one critic as a "hippy song straight from the burnouts at Venice Beach"
Nights in Venice is a song by the Saints, but we don’t know which Venice this might be.
We are The Lovesick Lunatics!
Venice Beach, California is where we stay.
Emotional, melodic rock and roll is what we play!
No rules... just a flow...
Venice Mating Call Tim Buckley song; may or may not be the same as the unreleased "Venice" he wrote with Larry Beckett
Red Crayola has music named after where it was first
performed:
Venice Pavilion Concert, Afternoon
Venice Motel,
Evening: Piece One
Venice Motel, Evening:
Piece Two
Boogie on the Beach and Venice USA are written and performed by The Red Elvises.
Venice Beach is a track on the album NO/1 by Sofus Forsberg, music of the ambient electronic kind.
Venice Pier Strut is on the album Pacific Blue by former Tangerine Dream member Franke Christopher
I Wanna Call in Sick Today
"Nothing is
more fun than ditching work, going on a remorseless comic-book shopping
spree and making love under a lifeguard tower off the Venice Boardwalk
- and subversive anti-capitalist Melanie Bruck makes it all sound so inviting"
(Falling James)
Venice Beach by Stevan Pasero on album Guitar Heartsongs
Smut Merchant of Venice (Beehive & the Barracudas) is in You've Got Your Orders (Volume 1). How it came about: "The idea was a simple one: contact the musicians in my record collection and ask them if they’d write a song if I gave them a song title." Jason Ziemniak, Chrome Peeler Records
Venice Beach Bob Neuwirth on the 1988 album Back To The Front
Venice Beach - recorded by Fragile State on their album Just Got Home
Suicide in Venice - on the album A Tribute to Suicidal Tendencies by Various Artists
Venice Beach Memories - is on Debbie Yeagers's CD Mood Swing
Albums, CDs, compilations
The Quiet Storm Of Venice Beach (2003) is a jazz/soul album recorded by “various artists“. Tracks include “L.A. Ghetto Serenade“ and “Venice Beach”
Bedouin's Paradise This album by composer/keyboardist/vocalist Jeanne Newhall was inspired by Gordon Wagner's poem "Venice" depicting the local scene in the 1920's. Includes "Race Thru the Clouds", named after one of the roller coasters of the early amusement park days.
Welcome to Venice - compilation LP 1985 on Suicidal Records. Suicidal Tendencies , Beowulf , Los Cycos, No Mercy and Excel
Return to Venice - album by Suicidal Tendencies
Venice Underground is a DVD featuring Peter DeStefano, David Baerwald, Erick Avery and DJ's from the streets of Venice, blending techno rhythms and textures with real guitars, bass and drums
Heaven 90291 is a 2004 album from Sugarbitch