Your Favorite Music

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Your Favorite Music
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Studio album by
ReleasedMay 31, 1999
Genre indie/alt-country
Label Sire Records/spinART
Clem Snide chronology
You Were a Diamond
(1998)
Your Favorite Music
(1999)
The Ghost of Fashion
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [1]
Austin Chronicle Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 2.1/10 [5]
The Village Voice B+ [6]

Your Favorite Music is the second album by indie rock band Clem Snide. The album was originally released as their major-label debut by Sire Records, but the label dropped them prior to the release. Clem Snide eventually signed with spinART Records, who released the album with a bonus track, "The Water Song." The song "I Love the Unknown" was released as a single in Europe.

Track listing

  1. "The Dairy Queen"
  2. "Exercise"
  3. "Your Favorite Music"
  4. "African Friend"
  5. "Bread"
  6. "I Love the Unknown"
  7. "1989"
  8. "Loneliness Finds Her Own Way"
  9. "Sweet Mother Russia"
  10. "Messiah Complex Blues"
  11. "Donna"

Releases of this album by spinART include the following bonus track:

12. "The Water Song"

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