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.
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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).
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.
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.
I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys
If my mother's anecdotes about crib dancing are to be believed, Istanbul(Not Constantinople) by TMBG
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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 dust
Cause 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 that
My bridge club tried to warn me
But that tape you got made me so onery
Oh 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 rapping
This house is neat, sweet
So shoes off and then wipe your feet
I’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 have it on good authority it was Dancing in the dark by Springsteen
Move it on Over - George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Grew up on his music because my dad controlled the car radio, as a little 4-5 year old I even had a whole dance to it not knowing what the song was actually about, hahaha
Probably not my first favorite song ever but certainly the first I remember, Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
The Hook by Blues Traveler is the earliest one I can remember.
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.
Either hamster dance or Hey baby by DJ Otzi, maybe one of the S Club 7 songs.
Hamster dance slaps
Don't Speak by No Doubt.
It was the first time I actively listened to a sad song, and while I was only 4 or so, and couldn't really understand what the lyrics were about, I remember the emotion feeling so powerful. The radio station that played it went off air when I was 5, and I cried about it a lot. To this day I gravitate toward sad songs; there's just something about minor chords that I can't get enough of.
Walking on the Sun by Smash Mouth. I had a radio recording on a cassette tape until my uncle bought me the CD of the album Fush Yu Mang. I was only allowed to listen to that track off of it because my mom deemed the rest of it to not be appropriate. (As an adult, the other tracks were indeed totally inappropriate for a preteen)
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was really catchy to ~10 year old me.
Looking for Freedom by David Hasselhoff
I mean, it's sung by Knight Rider, what's not to like? I was listening to that record all the time. But Looking for Freedom is the only song I remember. I probably never listened to anything else on there.
Yes, I'm German. How did you know?
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. My sister had the cassette and I was so envious. I might've stolen it once or twice.
Achey Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus
I was 6. I listen to punk and emo now.
“Another One Bites the Dust”
— Queen
Talking post-Sesame Street/Mister Rogers/Electric Co. tunes
Circa 1983 on my first plane ride alone, aged about 10, from CA to GA, headphones plugged into the armrest with the ashtray inside: 'The Tide Is High' by Blondie was the first 'grown-up' song I recall that grabbed me.
Probably some childrens TV show theme song.
It was almost certainly "Cuddles the Calico Kitten" by Doris Hall. I listened to that tape every night as I fell asleep, until I was old enough to read myself to sleep. I would return to it whenever I was sick in bed, and still sing it at least once a month (often enough that my wife now also knows all the words).
Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" which frankly is still a banger.
I liked rock sort of "meh" when I was a kid, being born in 1964 a lot of it was old hippie stuff that never clicked with me like Zeppelin.
Then one day I was playing D&D at a friend's house and he played Mongoloid by DEVO. Holy shit I lost my mind. There was music out there that actually spoke to me!
Beth - Kiss.
FWIW, I'm 23 and I believe this was 2004.