# Let's do the 30 Day Song Challenge. For everyone who does every day with me, I'll Paypal a dollar. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2016, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997 "2016-04-02T23:34:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [April 3, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/21 "2016-04-03T18:47:09Z")
I love these threads because I like finding new music and hate these threads because I spend so much time on them! šŸ˜ƒ My tastes are all over the place with not a lot of depth, but I do always come back to classic rock. This is an old song by REO Speedwagon that has gotten me through some bad, bad crap. Excuse the extreme close-ups. [Roll With The Changes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgLPriZUSA) (That guitarist and guitar, OMG. The good old days before Cronin started writing for 12-year-old girls and forced Richrath out of the group ā˜¹ ) ---
**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:** [April 3, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/22 "2016-04-03T18:47:41Z")
How can I pick a favorite? So much good music out there, however this has been my current ear worm and I have no idea why. Itā€™s not my current mood. I think I was in 5th or 6th grade when it came out and a classmate suggested I listen to it. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79NiN7ISW7E](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79NiN7ISW7E) Be prepared if I continue to participate - I have some weird ass taste in music. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/23 "2016-04-03T18:54:07Z")
A 30-day obligation will be tough to fulfill but Iā€™ll do my part as much as possible. To start, the swingy syncopation of ragtime has made me giddy at times, so hereā€™s an orchestral version of [Maple Leaf Rag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTX-0t9GLkY) by Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks that was used in Boardwalk Empire. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/24 "2016-04-03T18:58:21Z")
My favorite song of all time is [Led Zeppelin - Achilles Last Stand.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t4KLOm7pO0) It was not a song that stood out for me all that much in the Zep discography until I did some traveling and came to understand the whole ā€œtravel as a journey of self-discoveryā€ thing. Jimmy Pageā€™s lonely-sounding guitar solo is probably my favorite of his, and this song also has my favorite drumming performance of all time - Bonzo does various fills at unpredictable times to keep things interesting over all 10 minutes while never overplaying. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2016, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/25 "2016-04-03T19:37:51Z")
Dang, hard to pick a favorite from hundreds of ā€˜absolute favoritesā€™ so perhaps itā€™s best to pick ones that should be heard (and appreciated) by a wider audience. Iā€™m already learning - never heard a Nick Cave song till minutes ago. ā€˜Tupeloā€™ - just wow! So hereā€™s one among equals for your predilection - [- YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gchJNflLoI) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/26 "2016-04-03T20:04:53Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > My favorite song changes by the hour sometimes, but if I had to pin one down, I consistently come back to Elvis Costello and I thereā€™s something about [Brilliant Mistake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2IBoQOomTU) that always grabs me. I like the clever lyrics, the way the choruses are slightly different from the sentiment to the drum fills leading into them. > > I wish I could write songs like Elvis. Elvis is my favorite songwriter, so Iā€™ll be dipping into that well too. Brilliant Mistake = great choice. **Day 2:** Iā€™m going to offer up a lesser-known Bob Dylan song that has so many nooks & crannies that I never tire of it: [Thunder on the Mountain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RPkJeziNyI) (you are better off closing your eyes and just listening. I hate when the video posted is just random concert footage that has nothing to do with the accompanying song). Alsoā€¦I thought there would be a new thread started each day for the challenge? mmm ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/27 "2016-04-03T20:27:51Z")
OK, I will submit a few, I will not get through it all though. This is one to make you think about your own future - donā€™t forget, youā€™ll get old too and youā€™ll appreciate a kind word when that day comes, so do it for someone today. I'll put something up a bit more lively later on. ---
**Author:** ![dada2fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@dada2fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dada2fish)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/28 "2016-04-03T20:52:09Z")
Havenā€™t figured out how to set up a link on an I-padā€¦sorry, but if I have to pick one song as my all time favorite, for many reasons, itā€™s Bowieā€™s All The Young Dudes beautifully performed by Mott the Hoople. ---
**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:** [April 3, 2016, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/29 "2016-04-03T21:34:39Z")
> [@dada2fish](#): > > Havenā€™t figured out how to set up a link on an I-padā€¦sorry, but if I have to pick one song as my all time favorite, for many reasons, itā€™s Bowieā€™s All The Young Dudes beautifully performed by Mott the Hoople. [Here.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKvNtAVZyOc) ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/30 "2016-04-04T09:08:30Z")
4 April, 7:08pm my time. [Learn To Fly](https://youtu.be/JozAmXo2bDE) (Foo Fighters cover) performed by 1,000 musicians. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/31 "2016-04-04T11:53:25Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > I have long considered this song to be the ultimate Rock N Roll tune. Not bad, but Iā€™d pick Gary Moore doing [Still Got The Blues For You.](http://youtu.be/4O_YMLDvvnw) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/32 "2016-04-04T13:11:54Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Hereā€™s my idea. > Being bored a few minutes agoā€“and listening to a favorite song of mineā€“I thought about how it might be interesting to do the 30 Day Song Challenge. > Only itā€™s not half as interesting doing it alone. I thought ā€œYou know, it might be cool to try out on the SDMB, and see the stories behind postersā€™ choices dailyā€ Not only that, but to also get exposed to new music and genres and songs I wouldnā€™t normally listen to or even know about. So I figured not only would I do this on here, but Iā€™d even add an incentive. For every poster who gets all the way to June 2nd with me, **having done/posted/participated in every day of the challenge** , I will Paypal a dollar.\* I knowā€¦whoa nellie, right? Just donā€™t go off and spend it all in one place, you hear? > > The requirement here, though, is you must do every day, you canā€™t miss any and you must also share/post the answer to any question I put forth about the daily song weā€™re posting about. Also, note the asterisk aboveā€¦ this meansā€¦ > \*100 person limit. Iā€™m willing to Paypal a dollar up to one hundred people (all of that being 100 dollars total), but if over a hundred participate, every day, in the very first threadā€¦then I will have to declare the Paypal offer null and void. Iā€™m sure youā€™ll all live, though. : p > **If less than 100 people take part in this, I will split up 100 dollars among however many posters did wind up doing every day** (_since I am/was willing to spend 100 dollars on it any way_). > > * * * > > This is the first day, Iā€™ll post one every two daysā€¦so, really, it will take 60 days to doā€“but thatā€™s just so I donā€™t have twenty or thirty topics all on the first page all at once. Hopefully two days is enough for them to drop off the page. But for all I know, these might not garner much interest or just get, like, one or two others doing it. If thatā€™s the case, though, then Iā€™m sure the other two or three will be happy since it will mean 35 dollars for each of them. > Anywayā€¦Day 1: Your favorite song. > I realize you might have a lot of favorites, but just choose one out of themā€¦although posting at least one other is fine if itā€™s a close one between two and/or you want to share a song that used to be number one, but was knocked out by another song. > > [This](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3t9SfrfDZM) has been my favorite song ever since I first heard it 20 years ago. Before that, [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk1MpWFtteU) was my favorite song for 23 years or so (and now itā€™s my second favorite song). I also like [This version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMfE2Se4r9w) of Born to Run. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/33 "2016-04-04T15:07:46Z")
It was Christmas 1967 and I was 9 years old. Best Christmas ever. I received two life-changing gifts that year - the Tolkien trilogy and a copy of ā€œRubber Soulā€ (Beatles). During Christmas vacay, I enjoyed both simultaneously, nearly non-stop. So to me, Rubber Soul will always be the soundtrack for Middle Earth. And it was this song that wrapped the whole experience up for me. Still love it, and although I listen to it with a wider perspective these days, it speaks to me just as it did then. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suuU3mliNo8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suuU3mliNo8) ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/34 "2016-04-04T18:37:56Z")
Possibly the heaviest heavy rock song of all time, play very loud Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/35 "2016-04-04T18:45:38Z")
My favorite new song of 2015 was Florence + the Machineā€™s ā€œ[Ship to Wreck](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9v8jLBrvug)ā€. Enjoy. ---
**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:** [April 4, 2016, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/36 "2016-04-04T18:47:50Z")
_Ace_ **The Big Sleep** ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/37 "2016-04-04T18:58:40Z")
[Son of a Bitch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAYhQsQhSY) ---
**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:** [April 4, 2016, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/38 "2016-04-04T23:03:01Z")
> [@Eliahna](#): > > Iā€™ll give it a go. My favorite song came out in 1994. > [Interstate Love Song](https://g.co/kgs/fp1FO) by Stone Temple Pilots. > > Made on 3 April, 4:01pm Iā€™ve edited in the date and time, like you asked. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/39 "2016-04-04T23:04:11Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Iā€™ve edited in the date and time, like you asked. Whenā€™s the next thread? ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2016, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997/40 "2016-04-04T23:26:01Z")
> [@Idle\_Thoughts](#): > > Iā€™ve edited in the date and time, like you asked. Thanks! And since itā€™s tomorrow here, Iā€™m offering up #3: Elephant by Tame Impala. [Linky](https://youtu.be/LnKUD_OztRE). 5 April, 9:25am [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-do-the-30-day-song-challenge-for-everyone-who-does-every-day-with-me-ill-paypal-a-dollar/750997.md?page=3)