# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 11: A Song From Your Favorite Band. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544 "2016-05-11T13:45:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/1 "2016-05-11T13:45:18Z")
Favorite band: Third Eye Blind A good song from them: [This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Femqf_Mel4U) Yes, this is still going on, I just was more busy than usual in the last week…so here’s two to keep you busy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/2 "2016-05-11T14:04:58Z")
[Paradise from Within Temptation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy6MpsDPKts) Also features one of my favorite singers from another band, Nightwish. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/3 "2016-05-11T14:26:04Z")
There’s too many bands that I would consider my favourite - none of them really stand out more than the others, but a band I’ve always liked, The Jesus Lizard, put out this little corker: there were a lot more crazier, effed-up choices I could have made, so I figured I go with something a bit more lol “accessible” for this messageboard. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/4 "2016-05-11T14:40:15Z")
[Pigs (Three Different Ones)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqblSqx_VI). I may have had this album looping in my car for the last week. As a result, I may not be able to listen to it again for a year or so. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/5 "2016-05-11T15:16:13Z")
[Jungle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H75ivqdjgCg), by Electric Light Orchestra It wasn’t a single, and isn’t well-known, but it’s a lot of fun, and it’s a good example of their sound. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/6 "2016-05-11T16:13:14Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > [Pigs (Three Different Ones)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqblSqx_VI). > > I may have had this album looping in my car for the last week. As a result, I may not be able to listen to it again for a year or so. I somehow missed this gem and only discovered it recently. [Les Claypool](http://www.amazon.com/Live-Frogs-Claypools-Frog-Brigade/dp/B00005MJVS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462983032&sr=8-1&keywords=frog+brigade) did a live set of the whole Animals album. Great to hear such a fun tribute. ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/7 "2016-05-11T16:29:55Z")
**[“You’d Better Believe It” by Hawkwind](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_dE5_HYJCE)** I honestly never thought I would go with a more recent track of the Hawks over their more classic output\* for my favorite, but this is decadently awesome sci-fi tinged hard rock with a most delicious ‘space jazz/fushion-ish’ creamy center. - - Although this track is actually a polishing up (and much, MUCH deserved and long awaited one at that) of one of their early (70’s) tunes. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/8 "2016-05-11T16:30:34Z")
[Making the Nature Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMqmOTueXvg) - Sonic Youth While listening to that record a friend turned to me and asked with only the love and kindness that a good friend can communicate: “Scabpicker, what the _fuck_ are we listening to?” “Umm, my favorite record by my favorite band.” (shrug) We’re still good friends. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/9 "2016-05-11T16:43:13Z")
Soooo easy. From my lovely Alice and boys, here’s _Billion Dollar Babies_! [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/sMkT-0i6e9I/maxresdefault.jpg "Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (from Alice Cooper: Trashes The World)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMkT-0i6e9I) ---
**Author:** ![koeeoaddi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/koeeoaddi/32/408_2.png) [@koeeoaddi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/koeeoaddi)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/10 "2016-05-11T16:50:52Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > [Making the Nature Scene](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMqmOTueXvg) - Sonic Youth > > While listening to that record a friend turned to me and asked with only the love and kindness that a good friend can communicate: “Scabpicker, what the _fuck_ are we listening to?” > > “Umm, my favorite record by my favorite band.” (shrug) > > We’re still good friends. Heh. I know that. [Koeeoaddi There](https://youtu.be/KCcmgUpkabM), The Incredible String Band 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/11 "2016-05-11T16:52:27Z")
My favorite “band” is the Cleveland Orchestra, and its greatest conductor was George Szell, who led the orchestra from 1946 till his death in 1970. Here is a rare film of Szell, in a rehearsal of the first movement of [Beethoven’s Fifth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlyUti7BbCY). ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/12 "2016-05-11T17:03:28Z")
[The Church, A Fire Burns.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih1rfRxZ1Bo) Typical of them at their peak-melodic, intricate, powerful. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/13 "2016-05-11T17:41:45Z")
_Hearing Jimmy Loud_ - **Drive-By Truckers** ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/14 "2016-05-11T17:52:31Z")
So I’ve been trying not to repeat bands in this for no particular reason—but since Nick Cave’s always been the fixed point within the changing constellations of my musical tastes, I’ll cheat a little bit and nominate [The Birthday Party - Mutiny in Heaven](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWLQg3SubyQ). Nothing’s ever really resonated with me the way these guys’ music does, although I’d probably most of the time choose his later outfit, the Bad Seeds, when it comes to naming my favorite band. ---
**Author:** ![journeyman\_southpaw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5e9695/32.png) [@journeyman\_southpaw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/journeyman_southpaw)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/15 "2016-05-11T17:53:35Z")
Pound for pound, my top band is probably still Led Zeppelin, although I already posted a song of theirs on Day 1. I’ll go with [Trampled Under Foot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehz1cYMu8rc) because Physical Graffiti is possibly my all-time top album, and I almost posted this one for “Day 9: a song you can dance to” because it’s amazing to me how it manages to be heavy and yet danceable. ---
**Author:** ![Helena330](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/helena330/32/531_2.png) [@Helena330](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helena330)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/16 "2016-05-11T19:21:00Z")
You guys gotta give Toto another chance. They are phenomenally talented and they’re nice guys. They’ve been accused of being “corporate” which I’ve never understood because they’re a bunch of guys who knew each other through high school and family ties. [Afraid of Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXlJNzS0Kx4) ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/17 "2016-05-11T20:52:48Z")
I don’t have a favorite band, way too may to choose from. Also, depends on my mood that day. Since somebody else already took Alice and Zeppelin, although my choices would have been _Black Juju_[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTMH9V9OLdg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTMH9V9OLdg) and _Kashmir_[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwotNLyz10](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDwotNLyz10) So many choices… Enigma - _The Child in Us_[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGsOTXCfY9o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGsOTXCfY9o) ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/18 "2016-05-12T01:28:57Z")
Not a band as such, but Jack Bruce’s early solo albums ( with the able help of Chris Spedding and John Marshall ) are a treasure. Here’s one: [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCInKQMUFs8) ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/19 "2016-05-12T02:26:11Z")
[David Bowie - Bombers](http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyC0rXYSqd0&index=2&list=PLxHTTvc2fCJ-atRBwKoEwrJUPnu0UFVNW) Not favorite band, but favorite singer with an early, more obscure favorite. Favorite band? Hard to pick, but here’s one of mine with a song off one of their best albums. [Roxy Music - Amazona](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19eXfDR6XIk) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/20 "2016-05-12T02:31:34Z")
Pentatonix - [Run To You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp7PS_UN8Lo) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544.md?page=2)