“Favorite Thing” by The Replacements

"Favorite Thing" comes from Let It Be, the Replacements' third album, released on Twin/Tone on October 2, 1984. By then the band had grown tired of playing nothing but loud and fast, the way they had on 1983's Hootenanny, and went looking for songs with a bit more sincerity in them, as Paul Westerberg put it.

Westerberg sings this one, Bob Stinson plays guitar, Tommy Stinson bass and Chris Mars drums, and all four share the writing credit. Westerberg produced it with Peter Jesperson and Steve Fjelstad, who also engineered. The record around it grew into one of the decade's most acclaimed: AllMusic and Rolling Stone both counted it among the best albums of the 1980s, and it sat at 156 when Rolling Stone ranked the 500 greatest albums in 2023.

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