Day 11 - A song from your favorite band
Ugh. This is going to be a tough day. I rarely separate music by bands and albums, so it's hard for me to pick a "favorite" band. And there will be a weird synergy with today's picks and tomorrow's that I will go into more tomorrow (suffice to say, one of my favorite bands is also a band I loathe for non-musical reasons...but I will discuss that more tomorrow).
Now, there are only a few bands I have multiple songs from in my musical collection. Genesis, Hall and Oates, Rise Against, 3 Doors Down, Buckcherry, Cake...but I don't know that I like the /bands/ so much as individual songs of theirs. So it's really hard to pick a winning band. Often my favorite songs are from bands whom I dislike much of their discography (Tears for Fears, for instance, only has a couple songs I like and only one that I really like), and the bands that I have a lot of their music don't necessarily make my favorite songs (just songs I like from time to time...Buckcherry is an example of this). But anyways, I suppose I should just suck it up and pick one, huh? To save myself a bit of trouble, I won't pick a specific song to win, but a band.
Winners: Between these two winners, it was really hard for me to pick ONE that I liked more than the other, so I decided to exercise my rights as the writer of this blog to bend the rules a bit and give them both winner status--besides, it's a nice mix of old and new.
Matchbox 20 - I don't know what it is about these guys. It seems like everything they come out with tweaks my music senses just right and I adore it. If You're Gone, Push, How Far We've Come...all great songs. And I have pretty much claimed Real World and Unwell as my personal theme songs, so it's hard to justify not giving them the top spot.
Journey - What's better than Don't Stop Belivin'? A lot of their other songs are really top notch too. I feel like they've aged pretty well too (Don't Stop Belivin' is still one of the most easily-recognizable songs of all time). I've only really heard five of their songs that I like, but those five songs (Don't Stop Belivin', Faithfully, Open Arms, Separate Ways (Worlds Apart), and, to a lesser extent, Wheel in the Sky) are so noteworthy that I feel like Journey should get some noteriety today. I'd be willing to bet that there are other songs by them that I know and like...I just can't think of them off the top of my head.
Runner Up: Hall and Oates - They're old school and I like that. It's the quintessential 80's band, which already puts them pretty high on my list. I honestly don't know why I put them above Genesis, which would be a close fourth in my list, but I figure I have to make the call eventually. I've already wasted enough time on this day. None of their songs drive me especially crazy with adoration (except maybe Out of Touch...I do love me that song), but they're regularly good enough that they earned the runner up spot.
Honorable Mentions:
Genesis - I think the only thing keeping Genesis from being Runner Up or even the winner is that it's hard to really call them a favorite /band/ when it's more Phil Collins' discography that I enjoy. I'm not even really sure where my Genesis collection ends and my Phil Collins collection begins...they've got good stuff, though. That's All and In the Air Tonight are classics.
Nickelback - I just like Nickelback. Got a problem with that?
Chicago - I like a lot of their slower stuff, If You Leave Me Now, Inspiration, Hard to Say I'm Sorry, Hard Habit to Break, What Kind of Man Would I Be...wait. That's a long list. Maybe I need to reevaluate Chicago as a "favorite" band...
Boston - Really only has two songs I like, More Than a Feeling and Peace of Mind but they've got a good sound in general.
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