# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **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/754544/21 "2016-05-12T02:31:58Z")
**Jeff Beck Group, Let me Love You** : [Jeff Beck Group - Let Me Love You - YouTube](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U85Eeh1_hcc) The pivotal song, really, in my life. I was a 70’s guitar twit, trying to meet girls and sound like Ted Nugent. A substitute teacher and I spoke about music, and he turned me on to the album Truth. This is track #2 but jumped into my brain. Beck plays nothing difficult - I had been playing maybe a year and could approximate what he was doing. But…wow. His guitar sounds like the lead vocal - simple, articulate, easy to follow. And **Rod Stewart** , in his first recording, follows Beck and uses his vocals to complement Beck’s playing. It changed out I listen to music and think about what a guitar can do. I have written about this track on the SDMB before, but, really, how do you write about Aretha adding all her little Aretha flourishes to Respect? You hear it, you get it, but it was just all these perfect little things that add up to brilliance. Jeff Beck is the Aretha Franklin of guitar playing. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/22 "2016-05-12T02:45:40Z")
I suppose The Beatles are my favourite band: how do you choose a favourite song from them? It’s impossible. The Who is probably my second favourite band and it’s impossible to choose a favourite there either. I like The Beatles from every stage in their short career, but the exuberance of their early stuff is fantastic. I present Things We Said Today [Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DcV1UI1B6M), when they couldn’t even hear themselves sing. And the [studio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPnTy0Ef2G0) version. I’m not sure what the challenge is all about? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/23 "2016-05-12T02:58:06Z")
I hadn’t noticed this chain of threads before, but hey, I’ll play. King Crimson, _Elektrik_. From a stupendous concert in Japan in 2003. I never get tired of this record. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/24 "2016-05-12T03:04:04Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I suppose The Beatles are my favourite band: how do you choose a favourite song from them? It’s impossible. > > I present Things We Said Today [Live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DcV1UI1B6M), when they couldn’t even hear themselves sing. > > And the [studio](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPnTy0Ef2G0) version. Too funny. I was seriously contemplating posting this song - the Beatles are my favorite band, and this song is thoughtful, offbeat choice that is a fucking brilliant song. But ended up posting the Jeff Beck song because he is my favorite guitarist. So - thanks! ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/25 "2016-05-12T03:06:38Z")
> [@](#): > > King Crimson, Elektrik. I suppose a link would help: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0epUpZ0NrWU) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/26 "2016-05-12T03:27:07Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > Too funny. I was seriously contemplating posting this song - the Beatles are my favorite band, and this song is thoughtful, offbeat choice that is a fucking brilliant song. But ended up posting the Jeff Beck song because he is my favorite guitarist. > > So - thanks! The Jeff Beck song is great. Take no offence, but to me it sounds like a lot of other stuff happening in the era. The Beatles were always on the bleeding edge. Always. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/27 "2016-05-12T03:54:12Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > The Jeff Beck song is great. Take no offence, but to me it sounds like a lot of other stuff happening in the era. The Beatles were always on the bleeding edge. Always. None taken. I wish I could better explain how this song, and his playing, is so very different from other stuff in the era, but words fail me. Clapton, Page, Santana, even Hendrix, don’t sound like vocals when they play the way Beck does. Peter Green had his thing, but wasn’t nearly as aggressive. Try playng it, and his simple notes sound so, so difficult. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/28 "2016-05-12T04:03:20Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > None taken. I wish I could better explain how this song, and his playing, is so very different from other stuff in the era, but words fail me. Clapton, Page, Santana, even Hendrix, don’t sound like vocals when they play the way Beck does. Peter Green had his thing, but wasn’t nearly as aggressive. Try playng it, and his simple notes sound so, so difficult. If I tried playing it, it would definitely sound like vocals. If the moaning of a dying cow counts as vocals… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/29 "2016-05-12T04:22:17Z")
> [@WordMan](#): > > None taken. I wish I could better explain how this song, and his playing, is so very different from other stuff in the era, but words fail me. Clapton, Page, Santana, even Hendrix, don’t sound like vocals when they play the way Beck does. Peter Green had his thing, but wasn’t nearly as aggressive. Try playng it, and his simple notes sound so, so difficult. Ah. And that’s the difference between a musician (you) and a dummy (me) who just likes music. No, seriously, I get it. I know what I like but can’t describe it in any meaningful fashion. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/30 "2016-05-12T10:08:14Z")
_Borrowed Heaven_, The Corrs. [Not the official video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klXDpFsqYeA), not sure there was one. ---
**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 12, 2016, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/31 "2016-05-12T12:54:27Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > I suppose The Beatles are my favourite band: how do you choose a favourite song from them? It’s impossible. > > I’m not sure what the challenge is all about? I think the threads are labeled “Challenge” for precisely that reason. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/32 "2016-05-12T13:37:10Z")
Bonzo Dog Band – [The Intro and the Outro](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DUEAG5eO6c) ---
**Author:** ![Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Emtar\_KronJonDerSohn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emtar_KronJonDerSohn)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2016, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/33 "2016-05-12T15:35:05Z")
I have a few favorite bands with no clear winner, but I’ll go with [New Realization](https://youtu.be/Q2LiXac13zU) by Sublime. It’s different than the rest of their catalog and easy to play on my guitar. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/34 "2016-05-13T02:04:10Z")
The whole boy band thing in the 90’s? ~cringe~ But this song is catchy and ok fine!!..I kinda like it. The octave change right after the bridge may give me a goosebump or two. [Backstreet Boys - I Want it That Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg) ---
**Author:** ![somepumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@somepumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/somepumpkin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/35 "2016-05-13T03:42:04Z")
_Favorite_ is tough, as other have mentioned. Robbie Fulks is probably my favorite songwriter, so I’ll show him some love. [“Cigarette State”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrxR38S5k0U). It’s about my home… sorta. > [@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. Thanks for the mention. Now it’ll be looping in **my** car this week 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2016, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/36 "2016-05-13T14:48:24Z")
> [@dada2fish](#): > > The whole boy band thing in the 90’s? ~cringe~ > > But this song is catchy and ok fine!!..I kinda like it. The octave change right after the bridge may give me a goosebump or two. > > [Backstreet Boys - I Want it That Way](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fndeDfaWCg) Oops moderators, please delete. I put this in the wrong song challenge thread. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/37 "2016-05-14T05:36:25Z")
I can’t really pick a FAVORITE band any more. In the past, I might say Floyd, Zep, The Doors, etc. . .but not any more. There’s a lot of bands that I love, and while there are a few I like more than most, I can’t pick one. So, here’s a song I love from a band I haven’t mentioned yet in this challenge. They churned out quite a few hits in the late 70’s. [“It’s a Long Way There”, by the Little River Band](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIxNmHfpwSU) I am something of a sucker for a song with two minutes or more of guitar solo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2016, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/38 "2016-05-14T17:14:58Z")
Little Feat has been my favorite band since the first time I heard them on the radio, and although favorites of the moment have come and gone, I’ve remained faithful to the Feat. I’ll go with the first song of theirs I ever heard. “Easy to Slip” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2016, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/39 "2016-05-15T07:33:29Z")
It’s hard to name a favorite band, so I’ll go with [All Fly Away - Jefferson Starship](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMS2-Zbv2yQ) ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-11-a-song-from-your-favorite-band/754544/40 "2016-05-16T21:12:54Z")
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