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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.

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.

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.

Rainbow Connection - Jim Henson and Fam.

MC Hammer - Can’t Touch This

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.

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

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

https://youtu.be/AAZQaYKZMTI

Puff the Magic Dragon.

The ending of that song is so damn sad, man.

I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys

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.

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.

If my mother's anecdotes about crib dancing are to be believed, Istanbul(Not Constantinople) by TMBG

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

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.

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

Epic by Faith No More. I was a little kid, all right?

I have it on good authority it was Dancing in the dark by Springsteen

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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)

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

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.

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap was really catchy to ~10 year old me.

Strawberry Fields Forever by The Beatles

Probably some childrens TV show theme song.

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden. My sister had the cassette and I was so envious. I might've stolen it once or twice.

“Another One Bites the Dust”

— Queen

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

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?

Achey Breaky Heart - Billy Ray Cyrus

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

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).

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.

Ricky Martin's "Livin' La Vida Loca" which frankly is still a banger.

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