The 50 States: Hawaii

Next up on our tour is sweet sweet Hawaii. Hawaii, you thief of hearts. You are the volcanic topping on a paradise sundae, the ultimate honeymoon destination for crusteceans, coral, and the jet setting japanese. You have a language that is a completely mystery to me, and a joyous mystery at that -- a conundrum of beautiful consonants and diabolical punctuation. I bet you are warm right now, and I bet since it's the ides of March that many of my millions of readers are headed for your basaltic embrace -- to put their feet onto your warm sand and thaw their bones of the cold and misery that is a midwest winter.

Hawaii, you were scooped up in 1959 by the good ole' US of A. You give us all pineapples, and you're the only US state to grow coffee. Honolulu is geographically the largest city in the world, and hawaii overall is wider than any other state including AK and TX. You've given us such things as Hawaiian Standard Time, worlds largest wind generator, macadamia nuts, the only royale palace in the United States, and the worlds biggest telescope.

We love you, Hawaii. You have LOADS of good songs about you, here's a handful.

• hellogoodbye - Two Weeks in Hawaii
• The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band - Aloha Ka Manini
• Cringer - A Song About Hawaii
• The Strokes - Hawaii
• Jacknife Lee - Aloha Satellite Special
• Screeching Weasel - This Ain't Hawaii
• Luke Vibert and BJ Cole - Fly Hawaii
• Tom McRae - Walking to Hawaii
• Elephant Micah - Hawaii and the Derby Day
• Raymond Scott Quintette - Hypnotist in Hawaii
• Robert Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders - Hano Hano Hawaii
• Brian Wilson - In Blue Hawaii
• The Rivieras - Let's Go To Hawaii
• Jazztronik - To You Sweetheart, Aloha
• The Ventures - Hawaii 5-0
• Sammy Davis Jr. - Hawaii 5-0
• Beach Boys - Hawaii
• Bing Crosby - Blue Hawaii
  
• Demonics - Aloha Oe
• Elvis Presley - Aloha Oe
• Frank Delima - Hawaii Sleeps Tonight
• Gus Backus - Honolulu Baby
• Hanapi Trio - Sweet Hailua Lady
• Honolulu Mountain Daffodils - Aloha Sayonara
• Ray Charles - Blue Hawaii
• Red Elvises - Hawaii
• Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Sailin' to Hawaii
• The Huntingtons - Aloha, It's You
• The Royal Tahitians - I'll See You in Hawaii
• Hawaii Samurai - Pacific Darkside
• Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve and Danno
• The Kilma Hawaiians - De Roos Van Honolulu (German hawaiian music.... wtf?)
• Brenda Weiler and Kid Dakota - Honolulu, Minnesota
• The Cramps - Aloha from Hell
• Raymond Kane & Yuki Yamauchi - Lani Ha'aha'a
• The Breeders - No Aloha
• Leonard kwan - New 'opihi Moemoe #3
• Reverend Horton Heat - I Can't Surf
• Weezer - Surf Wax America
• Jan and Dean - Honolulu Lulu
• Elvis Jackson - Hawaii Club
• Sondre Lerche - Honolulu (just leaked from his new album)
• Young Canadians - Hawaii

Also kiddies, thanks for all the comments on the Georgia post. Next up is Idaho -- so if you think there is some songs about Idaho that I'll overlook (and yes... I'm aware of built to spill) then feel free to drop it in the comments below.