Do you remember what your first ever favorite song was? What was it?

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

I hope the spoiler tags work properly for everyone. Otherwise, sorry for the long comment.

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

Age 3: https://youtu.be/ZySztfI3ukw

Age 5: https://youtu.be/EPhWR4d3FJQ

https://youtu.be/AAZQaYKZMTI

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.

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.

Rainbow Connection - Jim Henson and Fam.

Beautiful song!

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.

To this day I cannot hear that song without tearing up.

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
- https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED331/6256e2131f4cd.jpeg

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Probably not my first favorite song ever but certainly the first I remember, Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder

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)

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.

The Hook by Blues Traveler is the earliest one I can remember.

Either hamster dance or Hey baby by DJ Otzi, maybe one of the S Club 7 songs.

Hamster dance slaps
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

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.

My favorite key is C natural minor, even with even tempered ~~tubing,~~ tuning songs in this key sound like they are revealing mysteries and I love it.
Mmm mmm mmm mmm is in this key. It's great.
That was the second CD I bought when I got a CD player for christmas.

Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles

Achey Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus

I was 6. I listen to punk and emo now.

True story: there's this song called No Rompas Más that every mexican will square dance to, and I too in fact grew up square dancing to.
When I got older I moved to Canada, never liked country music, and just went on about my life without it. Then we went back for a wedding and I brought my very Saskatchewan partner with me, and this fucking song comes on at the wedding so obviously we all get up and do our square dance moves imbedded in our blood, and after the song finishes, this fucking guy, this fucking guy is like "you know this is achy breaky heart right" and man, I am still furious my family tricked me like that for so long. That song slaps tho, I'll still admit it.

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.

I got really lucky. The first adult song that ever grabbed to me was Kansas's Carry On My wayward son.
I had never heard it before and on a family road trip to Florida I got to buy a cassette and I saw the art and I thought it looked good so I bought it and popped it into my little cassette player and I'm just writing down the road bored as hell my brother and sister picking on me.
All of a sudden "Carry on my wayward son" came on and my little preteen mind was completely blown.

“Another One Bites the Dust”

— Queen

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?

The German domain of your instance definitely was a hint
My first thought went to Germany when I read your song.

Eleanor rigby when I was about 8. I then started liking last kiss(the Pearl Jam cover, though I do like the original as well) the next year, then under pressure from about 13-15, since then it’s been 500 miles by Peter, Paul, and Mary.

I am very consistent in my enjoyment of sad songs

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).

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.

Beth - Kiss.

FWIW, I'm 23 and I believe this was 2004.

I was 5. Absolutely adored this weird stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE

I don't think I've heard this song before. But I'd be willing to bet that this became your favorite soon after you learned as a kid that you could make that unusual fan voice.
- I never asked a fan as a kid. Thanks for triggering that childhood trauma. /s

It's My Life by Bon Jovi

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!

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'

Wow, I don't see many Ray Stevens references. My brothers and I really enjoyed "the streak" growing up.
- I always preferred the Mississippi squirrel revival.
  That's such a good song for anyone that grew up in the south in the church traditions.

I really dug It's All Been Done but the Barenaked Ladies. Still do.

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

Stadium Arcadium -RHCP

First one I remember from when I was younger

Probably the original Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.

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!

"Faster than the Speed of Life" - Steppenwolf

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.

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

American Idiot by Green Day.

Loved that song as a little kid.

Living on a Prayer. Lol don't judge I was 13 and full of hormones for JBJ.

Love Missile F1-11, by Sigue Sigue Sputnik.

Holy 1980's cyberpunk Batman!
- Maybe more like techno-glam-kitsch-pop-rock, but great fun nevertheless. 😁

The Boy Is Mine by Brandy and Monica

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.

Pink's whole Missundaztood album

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.

Mine was Wake me up before you go go by Wham!

I may or may not have ruined a Barney cassette by playing it way too much

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.

Take On Me by A-Ha, when I was four I use to beg my mom to give my change for the jukebox every time we went to the local cafe, then proceed to dance about to it, week after week.

My mom used to run the local café. From time to time customers gave me a coin for the Juke Box. I couldn't read yet but B5 was Roy Orbison - You got it. Loved it.
- Great song!

@theywilleatthestars@lemmy.world synchronicity II by the police or Panama by Van Halen, those are the first memories I have of songs I liked

"You're so great" - blur

Thanks for reminding me of a simpler time. Before I learned how this turd of a planet rotates.

Jump In The Line - Harry Belafonte. I think it was because of beetlejuice!

Murder on the dancefloor

sheryl crow - you were meant for me

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.

Band on the Run. Wings

I'm not l proud. It's Would I lie to you - Charles and Eddie

Don't judge me. I was a child. A year later House music ruled my life.

As someone who was inspired to ask this question after sitting in a coffee shop that was playing the Radio Disney songs of my youth there is no judgement here

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)

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.

Just In Disguise played on my Close And Play record player

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.

Blue Comb 78 by Five Iron Frenzy.

Rush - YYZ

"The Freshman" The Verve Pipe

Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or Alive"

Burl Ives - The Whale