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. 😁
Probably not my first favorite song ever but certainly the first I remember, Sir Duke by Stevie Wonder
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.
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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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!
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.
Mine was Wake me up before you go go by Wham!
Probably the original Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.
Beth - Kiss.
FWIW, I’m 23 and I believe this was 2004.
Living on a Prayer. Lol don’t judge I was 13 and full of hormones for JBJ.
@[email protected] synchronicity II by the police or Panama by Van Halen, those are the first memories I have of songs I liked
Blue Comb 78 by Five Iron Frenzy.
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 dustCause 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 thatMy bridge club tried to warn me
But that tape you got made me so oneryOh 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 rappingThis house is neat, sweet
So shoes off and then wipe your feetI’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!
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.
Both songs were, and still are, fantastic.
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.
