What are your favourite songs featuring hotels?

Question

Home is where the heart is, but a hotel is where the heart goes when it needs a break. Or needs to escape. Or to find refuge after a breakup. Or to hide away in loneliness. Or to have a fling. Or to cut loose and have some fun. Hotels are a metaphor for life.

Q: Hotels are a popular motif in music...What are some of your favourite songs featuring a hotel? (Motels are also welcome).

Thoughts about what the hotel reference represents are welcome as well, but not obligatory.

Three of mine to kick things off:

"Desperados Under the Eaves" - Warren Zevon ..."I was sitting in the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel; I was staring in my empty coffee cup; I was thinking that the gypsy wasn't lyin'; All the salty margaritas in Los Angeles; I'm gonna drink 'em up"...

"A Million Miles Away" - Rory Gallagher ..."The hotel bar is full of people; The piano man is really laying it down; The old bartender is as high as a steeple; So why tonight should I wear a frown?"...

"Grand Hotel" - Procol Harum

Answer 1

Favorite Answer

Never stayed in The Hotel California, but I can relate to the following tunes, which I hope bring back some memories for others, too.

Life's Been Good to Me (So Far), Joe Walsh... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXWvKDSwvls

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Dixie Chicken, Little Feat... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RvR3j535qc

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Raised on Robbery, Joni Mitchell... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RH7m3ssPlo

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We're An American Band, Grand Funk Railroad... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc_JcGuH5Z8

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...and a 'mention for Holiday Hotel, Loggins & Messina... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PO5PRoWvJdY

Source(s): 200 Motels, Frank Zappa, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Motels

Answer 2

Chelsea Morning - Joni Mitchell.

Answer 3

Hotel California , one of my all time favourites.

Heartbreak hotel is the only other one that springs to mind immediately.

Answer 4

IDK about featuring more than what was seen through the hotel window. Couldn't just let this one slide. A beauty by Eva Cassidy - Nightbird.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-X1g-aEeNc

Answer 5

Hotel California always comes to mind, of course. And Heartbreak Hotel too. Another one is "It's A Long Way to the Top If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll" by AC/DC; doesn't have the word "Hotel" in the title, but it has the lyric "Hotel, motel, make you wanna cry".

Answer 6

"Old Rose Motel"- Great White

Answer 7

"Holiday Inn"--Elton John

"Eye of Fatima"--Camper van Beethoven..."And this here's a government experiment and we're driving like hell, To give some cowboys some acid and to stay in motels"

Answer 8

Hotel Yorba- The White Stripes

Answer 9

All the great hotel songs are already listed, but here's one by Houndmouth, Sedona,  videographed in and around a deserted Motel , which tells a story of its own ;)

Check it, see what you think: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8wifV5RYr8

Answer 10

a jail cell.. Is what that dirty vannila bean **** is trying to say.. And suggest...

Answer 11

Hotel California