25 Songs: Day 10 Favorite

Day 10 – A song by my favorite band.

Well, ain’t that ’bout a bitch. Out of 30K possible songs in my library, how on earth can I possibly pick a favorite band? And worse, pick just one song by my favorite band…

I cannot possibly pick favorites. Instead, we’re going to go with what last.fm says. They say my favorite band, or at least the one I’ve listened to the most since 2007 when I joined last.fm, is Clutch, which isn’t all that surprising since I have a lot of Clutch in my library.

I can’t pick a favorite Clutch song either. I’ve been a fan since their first album. This song is from their second album, the eponymous one. It seems suitable today since we need a little more “everything gonna be alright” right about now.

Everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right

I went deep down into that river now, I rose up
I felt that sun beat down upon this sinner’s face

I went deep in that water now, I rose up
I felt that sun beat down upon my face

Everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right,
Everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right, yeah, here we go

So I smash the palace like the son of Samson
Hollerin’ louder than all of Bedlam
Take me to higher ground
And bury my body six feet down

And I walked forty miles out into that desert now
Wailed and moaned till a Lion, he called my name

And he said that Old Ship of Zion is taking way, way out
Out into outer space

And he said everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right, yes
Here we come, here we come, here we come

I climbed the highest of the heights
Atop that mountain I watched the day turn into night

Oh I tell you, I was a wretched sight
But I stood long and hard until the light

Rubbing needles in my eyes, eating dirt
I stood up and everything was all right

Everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right,
Everything gonna be all right
Everything gonna be all right, here we go

So I smash the palace like the son of Samson
Hollerin’ louder than all of Bedlam
Take me to higher ground
And bury my body six feet down

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Doobster418 on May 10, 2014 at 11:02 am

Hmm. Never heard of this band. Never heard this song. And if I had heard of this band or heard this song, it would definitely not be among my favorites. Sorry.

But, as Sly and the Family Stone (one of my favorite groups) sang in one of my favorite songs, “different strokes for different folks.”

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  goldfish on May 10, 2014 at 11:04 am
  
  That’s alright. Nobody’s ever heard of this band. They have a small, highly dedicated following.
  
  And I love me some Sly & The Family Stone.
  
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swo8 on May 10, 2014 at 11:26 am

Well what so wrong with swo8 Blues Jazz? They’re my favourite. Right now my favourite song of there’s is “O Rio Amazonas” from the album Manaus Where Two Rivers Meet.
Leslie

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Twindaddy on May 11, 2014 at 6:01 am

Yeah, we DO need some “everything’s gonna be alright” right now. Stupid life….

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  goldfish on May 11, 2014 at 3:24 pm
  
  Indeed.
  
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Blathering on May 11, 2014 at 6:32 pm

Clutch is my brother’s favourite band! They’ve been to Melbourne a few times – I’m pretty sure he went to see them again, only a few months ago! That’s interesting because, like you, he has an amazingly wide range of musical taste & knowledge, he could just as likely be found listening to Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Cash, Joanie Mitchell, Neil Young, Stereolab, as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, or a pile of heavy/death/other metal bands I wouldn’t even know the names of! Interesting that for at least 2 people with such wide-ranging musical tastes, Clutch comes up on the top of the list!

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  goldfish on May 12, 2014 at 8:59 am
  
  Wow! It is very intriguing that two people with diverse musical taste, on two continents no less, would pick Clutch as a favorite.
  
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    Blathering on May 13, 2014 at 2:04 am
    
    It really is! Until reading your blog I considered my brother to have the widest range of musical taste and knowledge possible, certainly outside of someone who actually works in the music industry, but now I consider you to be the other person in the world with musical taste & knowledge as wide-ranging as his. So it really is pretty interesting that you both nominate the same, lesser-known band, Clutch, as a favourite! Clutch should really be very chuffed.
    
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      goldfish on May 13, 2014 at 8:47 am
      
      Cheers! 🙂
      
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