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).

Rainbow Connection - Jim Henson and Fam.

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.

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

MC Hammer - Can’t Touch This

Puff the Magic Dragon.

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

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.

I Want It That Way by Backstreet Boys

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

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.

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.

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.

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.