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).
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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.
“Another One Bites the Dust”
— Queen
Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. My sister had the cassette and I was so envious. I might've stolen it once or twice.
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).
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was really catchy to ~10 year old me.
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!
I really dug It's All Been Done but the Barenaked Ladies. Still do.
Stadium Arcadium -RHCP
First one I remember from when I was younger
This is a weird one. It's a song called Please pass the biscuits. I couldn't even hum the melody for it, it's been so long since I heard it.
Before I was old enough to go to school, (early 80s) my brother would play our parents records, and my dad had a 45 of this biscuit song. The song is the story of this kid who really loves biscuits. His family makes biscuits every Sunday and he's looking forward to it, but nobody hears him when he asks for the biscuits, and he doesn't get any.
I thought it was a pretty funny song, so I played it often.
Mhmm, The Four Lads, that's why I specify. I'd wager the Johns' version is still the most popular though.
American Pie by Don McLean
I would listen to it on repeat for what seems like an entire era of my life. Could sing the whole thing at some point!
Old Time Rock and Roll by Bob Seger
Used to have a little toy guitar and would strum it while wearing oversized sunglasses with my favorite cousin while the song was blaring. Adults loved it
Probably the original Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.
It's My Life by Bon Jovi
The Twist - Chubby Checker.
First tape I ever bought for myself. Still love oldies to this day.
The Beach Boys - Kokomo
when i was like 5 i had a little record from ray stevens, 'the streak'
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In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
"Faster than the Speed of Life" - Steppenwolf
I was 5. Absolutely adored this weird stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE
Beth - Kiss.
FWIW, I'm 23 and I believe this was 2004.
Gangsters Paradise - Coolio
I was given a bunch of CDs with random songs on them, and that was on there. It was the song I played on repeat the most.
I may or may not have ruined a Barney cassette by playing it way too much
La bamba, I had no idea what he was saying but it sounded good.
My current favorite is Naeveran by Marius Ziska and I have no idea what he is saying but it sounds good.
The Boy Is Mine by Brandy and Monica
Living on a Prayer. Lol don't judge I was 13 and full of hormones for JBJ.
Idk which was first, but it was either blue ba dee or walkin on the sun. Both were absolute bangers to me as a kid.
Aliens Exist by Blink 182. I don't even know why because I didn't speak english or understand it at the time, I just remember my pure love for it. It's still one of my favourite songs and enema of the state of my favourite albums of all time.
Mine was Wake me up before you go go by Wham!
Pink's whole Missundaztood album
These Days by Powderfinger.
"The Freshman" The Verve Pipe
Burl Ives - The Whale
Murder on the dancefloor
@theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world synchronicity II by the police or Panama by Van Halen, those are the first memories I have of songs I liked
Jump In The Line - Harry Belafonte. I think it was because of beetlejuice!
Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive"
Last Dance with Mary Jane
One more time to kill the pain
Band on the Run. Wings
"You're so great" - blur
Thanks for reminding me of a simpler time. Before I learned how this turd of a planet rotates.
Our lady peace - Superman's dead, or collective soul - where the river flows, or weird als Amish paradise, or finally, whigfield - Saturday night. I'm not sure. I'm old now.
sheryl crow - you were meant for me
Just In Disguise played on my Close And Play record player
Rush - YYZ
Blue Comb 78 by Five Iron Frenzy.
Gonna Make You Sweat - C & C Music Factory
My mom had the cd from when she was an aerobics instructor in LA in the mid 80s. 90s child me loved dancing to that song.
I can only barely remember it having a saxophone part and even back when I would have said it was my favorite song, I didn't know it's name or artists. My mom used to leave a radio on when she put me to bed as a kid and there was a kinda slow jazz love song that would come on sometimes and I loved it. But that's all I remember.
For all I know, it was Careless Whisper. I'm sure it was something from the 80's considering this was in the last half of the 80's.
Some Within Temptation song since my mom used to listen to them a lot. I still like metal/rock music but I'm more drawn to Vocaloid now. (which doesn't have songs of one specific genre so my playlist can get pretty messy sometimes)
