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FrodosPet

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111. Detroit Songs
Sun Sep 18, 2016, 09:54 PM
Sep 2016

I cheated and looked them up at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_Detroit

"Back to Detroit" - Wayne Kramer
"Blowing Up Detroit" - John Palumbo
"Born in Detroit," The Rockets
"Broke in Detroit (Again)" - The Dirtbombs
"The D in Detroit" - The Anniversary
"Detroit (Born + Raised)" - André DeJuan, from his upcoming third studio album, I'm Not Me
"Detroit (That's My Home Town)" - Kim Weston
"Detroit" - (from the Disney film, The Happiest Millionaire, introduced by John Davidson)
"Detroit" - Various artists including David Reo. Eddie "Guitar" Burns, Esham (featuring TNT), Fireworks, Laurent Garnier, Green Concorde, Ian Hunter, Injecting Strangers, Mogue Doyle, Morgan Geist, Pato Margetic, Primal Scream, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Royce Da 5'9&quot featuring Travis Barker), Va-Voom
"Detroit 4 Life" - A.W.O.L.
"Detroit 101" - City Squad
"Detroit 101" - Esham
"Detroit 442" - Blondie
"Detroit '67" - Sam Roberts Band
"Detroit Blues" - Diana Krall; Vince Benedetti
"Detroit Blues" - Tampa Red
"Detroit Breakdown" - The Bellrays
"Detroit Breakdown" - The J. Geils Band
"Detroit Breakdown" - The Gories
"Detroit City" - Alice Cooper
"Detroit City" - LetricKramer
"Detroit City (I Wanna Go Home)" - Bobby Bare (composed by Danny Dill)
"Detroit City" - Sonny B
"Detroit City" - Texas
"Detroit City Blues" - Fats Domino
"Detroit, Detroit" - Bugz
"Detroit, Detroit" - Erik Koskinen
"Detroit Diesel" - Alvin Lee
"Detroit Girl" - Raphael Saadiq
"Detroit Girls" - Starz
"Detroit Has a Skyline" - HiFi Handgrenades
"Detroit Has a Skyline" - Superchunk
"Detroit Iron" - The Darts
"Detroit Jump" - Big Maceo Merriweather
"Detroit Lady" - Motor City Josh
"Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)" - Sufjan Stevens from Michigan (album) 2003
"Detroit Michigan" - Ronnie Love
"Detroit, Michigan"- Kid Rock from Rebel Soul 2012
"Detroit, Michigan" - The Peps
"Detroit Moan"- Victoria Spivey
"The Detroit River Dirty Blues" - Michael Katon
"Detroit Rock City" - KISS 1976
"Detroit Rock City Homage" - Forced Anger
"Detroit Special" - Big Bill Broonzy
"Detroit Sound" - Soul Designer
"Detroit Stand Up" - Ray O'Shea (featuring Big Herk, BO$$, Phohessuain, Esham, Malik (Eddie Kain), Al Nuke & Proof)
"Detroit State of Mind - Elzhi
"Detroit Style" - A1 People
"Detroit Summer" - Obie Trice
"Detroit Sunrise"- Dwele
"Detroit Swing 66" - Gomez
"Detroit Swing City" - Alien Fashion Show
"Detroit Thang" - Kid Rock
"Detroit Tickets" - Apoptygma Berzerk
"Detroit Tin" - The Kursaal Flyers
"Detroit Vs. Everybody" - Eminem and others from Shady XV 2014
"Detroit was Built on Secrets"- Search the City
"Detroit Waves" - Matt Nathanson
"Detroit Women" - Stacia Petrie
"Detroit Winter - Platinum Pied Pipers (featuring MC Invincible)
"Detroit Zoo" - Disco D
"Detroiter, Part 2" - Bantam Rooster
"Doctor Detroit" - Devo
"Detroit Slums" -Back In Spades
"Hello, Detroit" - Daniel Boaventura, Sammy Davis, Jr., Sonny Turner
"Here At Home (In Detroit City)" - Stony Creek
"I Am Detroit" - Electric Six
"I Care About Detroit" - Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
"I Love Detroit" - Amboy Rambler [2]
"In Detroit" ( Featuring TNT ) - Esham
"It's Still East Detroit to Me" - Kid Rock
"Landing In Detroit" - The Detroit Grand Pubahs
"Leaving Detroit" - Roses Are Red, Eliza Neals
"Man From Detroit" - Hard Place
"Moths And Lizards In Detroit" - Andy Roberts
"Move To Detroit" - Eddie "Flashin" Fowlkes
"New Detroit" - Neon Blonde
"Nobody in Detroit" - Howling Diablos
"New Nathans Detroit"- Braid (band)
"Ode To Detroit" - Wally Pleasant
"Panic In Detroit" - David Bowie
"Passport to Detroit" - Joe Strummer
"Put Your Hands Up 4 Detroit" - Fedde Le Grand
"Queen of Detroit" - +/- (band)
"Son Of Detroit" - Kid Rock
"Shuttin' Detroit Down" - John Rich
"Sleepin Tonight In Detroit"- The Disregarded
"Spaghetti a Detroit" - Fred Bongusto
"Taking It To Detroit" - The Good Rats
"That's Detroit To Me" - King Gordy
"The D In Detroit" - Anniversary
"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Gil Scott-Heron
"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Natas
"We Almost Lost Detroit" - Marquise Porter
"Welcome 2 Detroit" - Trick Trick ( Featuring Eminem )
"Welcome 2 The Party" - Kid Rock
"Welcome Back To Detroit - Mariner
"Welcome To Detroit" - Jay-Dee
"Welcome To Detroit" - Eminem
"Welcome To Detroit City" - Obie Trice
"Worse Than Detroit" - Robert Plant
"Who's Afraid of Detroit" - Claude VonStroke


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