# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 19: a song from your favorite album **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 29, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683 "2016-06-29T05:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/1 "2016-06-29T05:49:29Z")
My favorite album right now is Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti. I have a real thing for double albums by very prominent bands in the vinyl era (White Album, Exile On Main Street, The Wall, etc.) and Zeppelin projected such a \*stature \*that a double album can’t help but feel like their definitive work to me. Even though half of the album is outtakes they’re still better than a lot of first-run stuff on other bands’ records. Plus this one is a real delight to hold in your hands, with the die-cut album art and the different pictures in the little windows depending on how you arrange the inner sleeves. I’ll post [Houses of the Holy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpergk5iuY) because a) Ten Years Gone is only available on YouTube in lousy audio quality, and b) at 1:24 something that sounds like a cowbell kicks in, and a Zep tune with cowbell is A-OK by me. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/2 "2016-06-29T17:15:52Z")
Hmm, I used a song from my favorite album when I answered the “favorite band” challenge. I’m going to bend the rules and give one from my favorite album right now, as in the one I’m most likely to plop on the turntable in the last few weeks. Alabama Shakes - [The Greatest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY_hjtW1K-4) ---
**Author:** ![TheInimitableMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@TheInimitableMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheInimitableMaven)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/3 "2016-06-29T17:32:49Z")
**[“Matte Kudasai” by King Crimson](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MargcvlZTI)** From _Discipline_, my favorite Crim album AND lineup. ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/4 "2016-06-29T17:53:35Z")
**Yes** - \*The Clap \*from _The Yes Album_ ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/5 "2016-06-29T22:11:29Z")
It occurs to me I don’t really have a favorite album. I have a lot of albums I play quite a lot but my current favorite rotates. One of the albums frequently in the rotation is Lindsey Buckingham’s Out of the Cradle. [Don’t Look Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VkrOx1R1YY) ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/6 "2016-06-29T22:31:58Z")
> [@Helena330](#): > > It occurs to me I don’t really have a favorite album. I have a lot of albums I play quite a lot but my current favorite rotates. One of the albums frequently in the rotation is Lindsey Buckingham’s Out of the Cradle. > > [Don’t Look Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VkrOx1R1YY) Ooh, I love Lindsey’s work with the Mac. Love love LOVE his guitar work. Not so much his solo stuff though. I’ll go with, “[New Frontier" from Donald Fagan’s, "The Nightfly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8zrKnkd6ss).” ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/7 "2016-06-29T22:40:20Z")
To me there can never be such a thing as “my favorite album.” It’s so broad and malleable and volatile a concept. And just any song from it? which one? My focus today is on the Replacements cause I just finished the full length bio of them and I’m thinking they were possibly the best we ever had, in the US anyway. The album is “Tim.” from 1985. I counted the flat-out anthems on it and there are 5! Try Left of the Dial, seemingly about a love affair with another touring musician. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J004aQUKbO4) ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/8 "2016-06-29T22:52:36Z")
Like many of you, I have too many albums I love to have a favorite. Off the top of my head, I love: Alice in Chains - Dirt Billy Joel - River of Dreams Within Temptation - Silent Force Nightwish - Imaginaerum Nirvana - Nevermind KMFDM - Nihil And so many I’ve failed to list. I’ll pick one from Dirt because it was my favorite in 10th grade or so, right when my taste in music improved and evolved. [Angry Chair - Also one of the great, underrated videos of all time. It captures a darkness and mysteriousness that AiC had at the time. I miss Layne Staley a lot.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iAAa4jgM_4) ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/9 "2016-06-29T23:48:55Z")
My favorite rekkid is always and forever Exile on Main Street. Here’s Torn and Frayed. Such a poignant sound. Never fails to give me goosebumps. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJtfANIjmQM) ---
**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:** [June 29, 2016, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/10 "2016-06-29T23:51:09Z")
I’m going to go with Led Zeppelin too, but my favorite album is Led Zeppelin III. My favorite song is not on that album though. So Led Zeppelin, Led Zeppelin III, “That’s the Way”, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phd48YT18vY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phd48YT18vY) or Pink Floyd, Meddle, “Echoes”, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhbQGyUK7aI&list=RDGhbQGyUK7aI#t=293](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhbQGyUK7aI&list=RDGhbQGyUK7aI#t=293) ---
**Author:** ![skunkmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@skunkmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skunkmama)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/11 "2016-06-30T00:01:27Z")
“lucky” of off britney spears’ 2000 album _Oops…I Did it Again_. so trill ---
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[This](http://www.ncmchorus.org/product/ncmc-sugar-plum-fairies/) is one of the CDs I designed for the gay men’s chorus I’m in., and [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__9QoeoXzzo) is a promotional video featuring one of its songs (not my favorite). And yes, in addition to singing, I can be seen in some of the dance numbers. [These](http://www.ncmchorus.org/shop/cds/) are all the CDs I designed for the chorus. Each was truly a labor of love. ---
**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:** [June 30, 2016, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/13 "2016-06-30T05:02:28Z")
The Minutemen’s “Little Man With a Gun In His Hand”, from their “Double Nickels on the Dime” double album. There’s an earlier version on the “Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat” EP, but I prefer this one: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/20-wQo6GvhI/maxresdefault.jpg "Minutemen - Little Man With A Gun In His Hand") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20-wQo6GvhI) ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/14 "2016-06-30T06:00:35Z")
Going back to a classic - _Tapestry_ by Carole King. My favorite song was (is) always _Way Over Yonder_ - which is the one that usually gets the lowest ratings from fans. ---
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" Marigal/On The Silent Wings Of Freedom", by YES. Off of the “Going For The One” album. Missing Chris Squire these days… Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk ---
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> [@journeyman\_southpaw](#): > > My favorite album right now is Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti. I have a real thing for double albums by very prominent bands in the vinyl era (White Album, Exile On Main Street, The Wall, etc.) and Zeppelin projected such a \*stature \*that a double album can’t help but feel like their definitive work to me. Even though half of the album is outtakes they’re still better than a lot of first-run stuff on other bands’ records. Plus this one is a real delight to hold in your hands, with the die-cut album art and the different pictures in the little windows depending on how you arrange the inner sleeves. > > I’ll post [Houses of the Holy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpergk5iuY) because a) Ten Years Gone is only available on YouTube in lousy audio quality, and b) at 1:24 something that sounds like a cowbell kicks in, and a Zep tune with cowbell is A-OK by me. I’m awfully fond of “The Rover” and “When the Levee Breaks” from this jam. ---
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[Witches Hat](https://youtu.be/bH-pt4fBeS4), from _Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter_, by The Incredible String Band. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/18 "2016-07-01T01:24:59Z")
“Billion Dollar Babies” is both my favoritest song and album, but it’s not my favorite in general _from_ that album. That honor goes to “Sick Things.” [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyjC4BOKqzY) As a huge fan, no explanation necessary. ---
**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:** [July 1, 2016, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/19 "2016-07-01T01:46:43Z")
Well, the first thing that comes to mind right now is “Prelude/Nothing to Hide” from Spirit’s _The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683/20 "2016-07-01T14:14:45Z")
This is my favorite song from the Dada album Puzzle: [Surround Me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYtZh-zPWk) I loved this album so much that I bought four more Dada albums, and I just about never listen to any of the other albums. But this one particular album hit the spot. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-19-a-song-from-your-favorite-album/758683.md?page=2)