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
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.
Both songs were, and still are, fantastic.
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
MC Hammer - Can’t Touch This
yes! i played my beother casetape till it unraveled! 😀
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.
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 :(
Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree.
I’m not an Aussie, but in elementary school choir we learned this song, and it’s been an earwig my whole life.
When Men At Work came on the radio many years later, that flute riff blew my mind.
If my mother’s anecdotes about crib dancing are to be believed, Istanbul(Not Constantinople) by TMBG
Good Vibrations or Here Comes the Sun, my parents would let me use their walkmans (walkmen?) when I would play Commander Keen and Jill of the Jungle. It was a blast
I have it on good authority it was Dancing in the dark by Springsteen
That’s where Carlton’s got his ‘It’s not unusual’ dance from. Bruce Springsteen in Dancing in the dark.
Baby got back by sir mixalot.
Made all the more favorite by the fact that I listened to it in the living room, on cassette tape, and my grandmother marched over, took it out, and chastised me for listening to such filth.
Then broke hte tape with her big wooden spoon that she had on the wall.
I like big spoons and I cannot lie
Other grandmothers can’t deny
That when the kid comes in with a tape full of sin
It gets *crushed*, want to grind up dustCause you heard that the MC cussed
On the wall that the spoon is sharin’
With the room where the speakers was blarin’Oh darling, can’t let you hear that
Can’t even let you near thatMy bridge club tried to warn me
But that tape you got made me so oneryOh little munchkin
Do you wanna play connect four once again?Well lookie, here lookie
Does my dearie want another cookie?I’ve seen you napping
To hell with that rappingThis house is neat, sweet
So shoes off and then wipe your feetI’m tired of MTV
Saying hip hop is for Gs
Take the average Gran-Gran and ask her that
Do the little ones need that rap?
So Hilda (hello!), Matilda (hello!) Have grandsons found that smut? (Heavens no!)
Tell them to sit down, put milk in a cup
I think Grandma’s still got those buttercups
“Mixtape” got whacked! (Heavy spoon and a plastic shell case)
“Mixtape” got whacked! (Heavy spoon and a plastic shell case)
…
Unfortunately Im out of time and have to go meet a friend.
I’d like to save this and finish it later but I’m too sleep deprived to remember.
At some point I need to work in the line:
Cause you know that Gran-Gran mix a lot
And got that spoon swing down
“Mixtape” got whacked!
Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics. My mom had the radio on in the car always, and I remember this song being played all the time when it came out. Heavily influenced my musical tastes.
I don’t much care for mainstream music but that song is excellent.
Either hamster dance or Hey baby by DJ Otzi, maybe one of the S Club 7 songs.
Did you also watch the s club 7 tv show? Nobody believes me when I tell them about it
No we didn’t get it in Australia which is odd for a BBC show not to hit Australia
I think I’ve always been drawn to good human vocals.
I remember using crappy earbuds and shedding a tear to Earth Song by Michael Jackson when I was a teenager. It’s not my favourite song now, and I don’t think I’ve ever cried to song after that, but music with good vocals can still definitely give me goose bumps. Anytime I listen to Jacob Collier’s Moon River, or any video of his that has him conducting the entire concert audience to sing harmonically always give me the chills.
