# 30 Day Song Challenge, number 27: a song that you wish you could play

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**Created:** [August 5, 2016, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872 "2016-08-05T20:19:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/21 "2016-08-07T23:01:31Z")

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> [@WordMan](#):
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> …by the way **Face** , the Rebel Rebel riff _is_ fun to play. It circles back on itself so nicely, and has such a good combo of chords and lick fills that you can find yourself cycling through it endlessly - in a good way.
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> Sharona is fun to play in a band but not something I groove on alone. I faked the solo - Averre was a great player and I couldn’t be arsed to work through the note for note.
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> From a guitar player’s standpoint Rebel Rebel is more fun to play.

OK, you convinced me. I guess I’ll move “Rebel Rebel” up my list of priorities. Still gonna vote “My Sharona” for the purpose of this thread though.

I’m gonna revoke my “Whammer Jammer” harmonica wish, because I’m a fuzzy-brained nincompoop, and I totally spaced on this one:

[“Lost Fox Train” by Wade Schuman of Hazmat Modine.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STxVuuwYBRI)

“Whammer Jammer” is the song that makes people want to pick up the harmonica. “Lost Fox Train” is a song that makes 'em put it down and dejectedly walk away.

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**Post date:** [August 7, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/30-day-song-challenge-number-27-a-song-that-you-wish-you-could-play/761872/22 "2016-08-07T23:43:46Z")

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> [@panache45](#):
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> You misspelled “unlistenable.”

Sure, The Shaggs are an acquired taste, but I’ll bet ya five pesos if you listen to them again, maybe go to a spot later on the album this time, like the fine, searching, (like, literally searching) ballad “My Pal Foot Foot”, you might discover new layers of nuanced…something or other that kinda tip-toe up behind you and you find yourself goin, “hmm, well ok, I never noticed _that_ leitmotif before…intringuing!”

_The Philosophy of the World_ gets me almost misty-eyed with wonder.

I’m nearly getting vertigo just thinking about it - I have to hold on to something, catch my breath…

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