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.
That whole album was and is definitely worth the listen. It may begin and end with Blue, but there is quite a range of emotions and messages. When I was young, Blue was my favorite, but as I grew up, different songs started to resonate with me.
Track 02 = anti-consumerism Track 04 = anti-selfish realism Track 07 = love triangle heartbreak Track 10 = optimism, encouragement, and hope
Europop by Eiffel 65
01 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) 02 - Too Much of Heaven 03 - Dub in Life 04 - Living in a Bubble 05 - Move Your Body 06 - My Console 07 - Your Clown 08 - Another Race 09 - The Edge 10 - Now is Forever 11 - Silicon World 12 - Europop 13 - Hyperlink 14 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) [Extended]
Lyrics from Track 10 - Now is Forever
we should think about, what we got right now, cause the good things are made up of time. smile to your problems, leave the past behind. never forget this. find the truth in your soul, keeping you alive. going on from minute to minute. don’t shade the future, with all that’s behind. live for today. […] don’t shade your future, with what you don’t have. keep your mind on what’s here today. now and forever, build the future now. keep this mind. though you will take your time, to get what you need, but you’ll do it step after step. yet to come is all that’s gone, learn to live this moment. live for today. […] the past is all that’s gone (the past is all that’s gone) the future is yet to come. (and the future’s yet to come) this moment is all our own. (you know it is) we should live this way, just building up our day, now is forever. the past is all that’s gone, (the past is all that’s gone) the future is yet to come. (the future is yet to come) this moment is all our own. we should live this way, just building up our day, now is forever.
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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.
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.
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.
Rainbow Connection - Jim Henson and Fam.
Beautiful song!
MC Hammer - Can’t Touch This
yes! i played my beother casetape till it unraveled! 😀
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 :(
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.
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!”
I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys
Tell me why
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.
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.
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.
