Blue - Eiffel 65. I was ~6 when I discovered it. My poor mother had to listen to that on repeat. I ended up growing up with severe depression. I guess I really am blue.
Don’t feel too bad. I’m certain that at least 100 million mothers had to hear that song on repeat, from across the world. It was HUGE amongst the kids at my school in the US.
My first ever favorite song was DuckTales - Theme Song.
If TV show songs are off the list… then it would be, it would have to be The California Raisins - Lean On Me (Cover).
I had the California Raisins stop motion movie and watched it on repeat. Loved their versions of Heard it Through the Grapevine and Signed Sealed Delivered
According to my parents, it was I Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison. I was a toddler and apparently loved that song.
But the first one I distinctly remember was the B-52’s Love Shack.
For me, it was The One I Love by R.E.M. from when I was about four or five.
Besides being a banger of a song, I think part of the appeal to my younger self was how easy the lyrics were to understand and memorize, which I still have memorized. They were my first favorite band too.
Puff the Magic Dragon.
The ending of that song is so damn sad, man.
To this day I cannot hear that song without tearing up.
Hah hah hah, me too
I’d forgotten it existed until I read what you posted :(
MC Hammer - Can’t Touch This
It kinda depends on how I think of what a favorite song is.
The earliest possible song was “we will rock you”, but that was before I can remember. It was what my mom used as a bedtime song. No bullshit, she’d put the 45 on, and just keep replaying it by resetting the needle until I dropped off. No matter how fussy I was, that worked.
And I’ve always loved that song. As I got older, she’d also play are are the champions after, but again, that was before I can remember. But it was a song I’d beg her to play frequently, and I do have memories of that from before kindergarten.
But is that really a favorite? It isn’t a song I heard and chose, it doesn’t really count as my favorite any more than a lullaby would.
The first song I can remember latching onto because I just really loved it was Mountain Music, by Alabama. That album was the second one that was officially mine. I bought a Joan Jett album with my own money as my first album, and my dad got me the Mountain Music album the same day as a reward for something or other (he and I have different memories of what that was lol).
So, it would probably be Mountain Music, though it is really hard to pick through memory and be certain it as the first. Damn near fifty years old, so the first five or six years get hazy, and I had a head injury when I was about 12 that kinda fucked things up.
It might have been the Joan Jett song “I hate myself for loving you”, or maybe something off of the album I bought, “glorious results of a misspent youth”. Could have been one of her previous songs, with I love rock n roll or “do ya wanna touch” being the likely contenders there.
But I remember how much I loved the specific song Mountain Music clearly, so that’s what I have come to think of as my first favorite.
If you use other standards, it might be later songs, but it is what it is lol.
This is letting my inner basic bitch out, but Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls. Still have a soft spot for that song to this day, right alongside Semisonic’s Closing Time.
Are the Goo Goo Dolls considered basic? They certainly got mainstream hype in their heyday, but I don’t think that makes them basic. Iris was one of my first favorite songs as well (I was about 9 years old when I heard the song playing at a Hudson Belk thay my mom and I were shopping at).
I’ve seen them 3 times live in concert and they’re great.
I more meant the song in particular, but I recall it being pretty much everywhere, for a time. It’s a damn good song, but I feel like there’s a decent slice of us that, even if it wasn’t the first favorite for everyone, it was an early influence due to sheer frequency.
Both songs were, and still are, fantastic.
First popular song? Probably Call Me, by blondie. It was played at every skate rink in 1982.
Before that, my memory doesn’t hold. There was one about a castle and a stunt man who got burned in a three way script. And a ghost was there.
Call Me is mine too!
I was really young when it came out so I don’t have specific memories of listening to it but a few years later I heard it and it triggered something in my subconscious. “Oh yeah, I think this song is my favorite!”
Ah, classic Gordon Lightfoot! I haven’t thought about that song in maybe decades.
Feel Good Inc.
When it came out, I was a young teen who had never heard anything quite like it before. Alt-rock meets hip-hop? I don’t feel like I’m alone in that
A very worthy first fave
If my mother’s anecdotes about crib dancing are to be believed, Istanbul(Not Constantinople) by TMBG
Well that’s just a solid banger. It’s also a cover.
Rainbow Connection - Jim Henson and Fam.
Beautiful song!
I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys
Tell me why
AFI - The boy who destroyed the world.
Tony hawk pro skater: 3 had an amazing soundtrack. Still love call and answer vocals today. And punk rock. And AFI.
Oh man. Back when AFI was punk. Love that song!
The Tony Hawk series was a great way to discover new music back before music streaming was a thing.
Yep, the Goldfinger song from the original game helped get me into ska. Too bad we were already at the tail end as a society.
Epic by Faith No More. I was a little kid, all right?
I’d listen to that song on repeat as a kid just for the piano section at the end.
MTV had that song on repeat every hour. I got so sick of it.
That didn’t stop me from going to see them. It was my first real concert, aged 12. My big brother took me.
Nothing wrong with that, it’s a great song.
