# Current Favorite Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 5, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960 "2003-02-05T15:45:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Shana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3bc359/32.png) [@Shana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shana)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/61 "2003-02-08T07:41:29Z")
“Always” by Bent ---
**Author:** ![gex\_gex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gex\_gex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gex_gex)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/62 "2003-02-08T14:23:41Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by BigNik_ > “Souleater” by The Clouds. > > This has been going around in my brain for a fortnight now, and motivated me to look for a best-of CD. > > Any idea how tough it is to track down an obscure best-of CD by a band who fringed mainstream success for six months, eleven years ago? (Yes, I have now found somewhere I can get it, thanks, but it wasn’t easy). Amazingly I downloaded this song very recently after reading Craig Mathieson’s book _The Sell In_ about the Australian indie scene in the 90’s. They featured very prominently in the early chapters of the book, and I was motivated to download the song. It’s pretty good. I’m pretty sure they were on RooArt, a label who has just released a compilation of their artists. It would have a few Clouds songs on it at least, so if you can’t find anything else, have a look for that. My song for the moment? I’d say either The Vines’ _Miss Jackson_, Bluebottle Kiss’ _Gangsterland_, Augie March’s _Heartbeat and Sails_ or Jimmy Eat World’s _No Sensitivity_. ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/63 "2003-02-08T18:37:20Z")
_No One Knows_ / **Queens of the Stone Age** currently. http://www.qotsa.com/index\_main.html ---
**Author:** ![japatlgt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@japatlgt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/japatlgt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/64 "2003-02-08T18:39:13Z")
Sorry. [-this way-](http://www.qotsa.com/index_main.html) ---
**Author:** ![kefka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/59ef9b/32.png) [@kefka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kefka)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/65 "2003-02-08T18:58:20Z")
i’m gonna have to go with a cover of dire straits’ “sultans of swing” by agents of good roots… they use the lyrics from sultans of swing, and whenever they’re not singing, they’re playing the melody from “pharoah’s dance” off of bitches brew by miles davis… except for the guitar solo, which they rock and double with a saxaphone… it’s pretty bitchin’… y’all should check it out… and yeah, coldplay is amazing… i’m still listening to ‘parachutes’ like three years and change after i bought it, and rush of blood is just as amazing… ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/66 "2003-02-08T20:07:50Z")
Right now it’s a tie between “All For God and a Gun For All” by a little band called Thought Riot and “Guns & Diamonds” by The Transplants. It’s just a strange coincidence about the guns… ---
**Author:** ![dogchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dogchow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogchow)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/67 "2003-02-08T21:26:17Z")
Pearl Jam-Bushleager Pavement-Gold Sounds Big Star-Ballad of El Goodo guess I better stop… And Presidents of the United States of America did the Buggles cover a looong time ago. ---
**Author:** ![dogchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dogchow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogchow)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/68 "2003-02-08T21:28:26Z")
Walkmens’ Wake Up is another good song. Lately I’ve had this stuck in my head: “We’re, uh, working on the cast play. ‘Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!’ It’s-it’s a musical.” I’ve seen Monsters, Inc too many times. ---
**Author:** ![dogchow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e495f1/32.png) [@dogchow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogchow)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2003, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/69 "2003-02-08T21:31:08Z")
I meant company play. Whoops. ---
**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:** [February 8, 2003, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/70 "2003-02-08T21:34:29Z")
Koeeoaddi There by The Incredible String Band I couldn’t get it out of my head so I chose for my user name. At least now I know how to spell it. ---
**Author:** ![BigNik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@BigNik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigNik)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2003, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/71 "2003-02-09T10:42:21Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gex gex \* > **Amazingly I downloaded this song very recently after reading Craig Mathieson’s book _The Sell In_ about the Australian indie scene in the 90’s. They featured very prominently in the early chapters of the book, and I was motivated to download the song. It’s pretty good.** They had some great stuff - I had a few of their singles on compilations, but was after some of the others. If you liked Souleater, try Hieronymus, 4 pm, or Anthem. They also did a great cover version of Wichita Lineman. ---
**Author:** ![ladydisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@ladydisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladydisco)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/72 "2003-02-10T00:01:49Z")
[“Volvo Driving Soccer Mom”](http://www.mattsmusicpage.com/everclear/lvolvodrivingsoccermom.htm) by Everclear. The lyrics are ridiculous. Just the way I like them. ---
**Author:** ![Wordy\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@Wordy\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wordy_One)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960/73 "2003-02-10T00:08:09Z")
Another vote for Coldplay– I’m currently hitting repeat on “A Rush of Blood to the Head,” but I’m not completely over “Clocks”–it’s the ringtone on my phone. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/current-favorite-song/152960.md?page=3)