What was the first song you ever loved?

Irish Guitarist · 04-10-2011 12:25pm #1

The first song I really loved was Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. It came out when I was two or three years old. One of my sisters had the tape and I would sit in the kitchen listening to it over and over for ages.

karaokeman · 04-10-2011 6:06pm

Good question, there were so many tunes from my childhood its difficult to remember which of those now classics was the first.

Get the pitch forks ready but I'm guessing mine was the Pokemon theme song.

Faing · 04-10-2011 6:14pm

Many from my early years but I suppose American Pie would be the one for me.

deman · 04-10-2011 6:16pm

Two Little Boys by Rolf Harris.

padraig_f · 04-10-2011 7:26pm

karaokeman wrote: »

Good question, there were so many tunes from my childhood its difficult to remember which of those now classics was the first.

Yeah me too. It would've been stuff I heard on Top of the Pops in the mid 80s. Things like Madonna and a definite early favourite was the Pet Shop Boys' 'Always on my Mind', which to this day I prefer to the Elvis one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDe60CbIagg

jill_valentine · 04-10-2011 7:29pm

Pretty sure it was -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eXw47qb4U0

- And, I have to say, I still kind of dig it.

Slow Show · 04-10-2011 7:33pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiwDHHcHPh0

I know, I know...

losthorizon · 04-10-2011 8:56pm

Slow Show wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiwDHHcHPh0

I know, I know...

I feel very very old

losthorizon · 04-10-2011 9:05pm

First song I can remember liking (Funny Video and they were mad for smoking dope)

and the first single I bought was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFU9HYyMVxQ

on vinyl. No CDs back then.

JerryHandbag · 04-10-2011 9:18pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kses3SfG-lU

Wanted to sing this at my school concert aged 10

im invisible · 04-10-2011 9:20pm

jill_valentine wrote: »

Pretty sure it was -

Shakespeare's Sister

as soon as i saw the thread, this song popped into my head, still love it:)

Tweedo · 04-10-2011 9:23pm

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Sorry to make anyone feel old:o

pearljamfan · 04-10-2011 9:40pm

ha, good thread, i have a few pop in my mind... china in your hand by t'pau i remember singing over and over in my bedroom when i was about 9, loved that song, but then another one i remember being stuck listening to over and over was ill be there for you by bon jovi, probably because of some stupid teenage crush ive no idea why really. lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

http://youtu.be/mh8MIp2FOhc

jensennhook · 06-10-2011 4:32am

God gave me you by Bryan White

Thundercats Ho · 06-10-2011 9:07am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFtLONl4cNc

OakeyDokey · 08-10-2011 2:48am

Mine was Guns 'n' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine... My sister used to play it while I was going to sleep.

Arianna_26 · 08-10-2011 2:50am

Boyzone - Love me for a reason

neil_18_ · 08-10-2011 2:25pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VLC4340bPE

My brother used to always play it on the guitar when i was younger

Kold · 08-10-2011 4:43pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t67M6fNd1KU

God I was brought up so middle class.

Scubadevils · 08-10-2011 5:10pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

The first song I really loved was Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. It came out when I was two or three years old. One of my sisters had the tape and I would sit in the kitchen listening to it over and over for ages.

Bright Eyes for me too I would think, definitely one of my earliest memories in terms of being very young and loving music. Also around the same time I remember my mother playing a lot of Abba and Planxty, so both of those also form early special memories.

Oh and Watership Down would probably still reduce me to tears even at 35 years old

WinstonOno · 08-10-2011 5:18pm

this is the first song i remember lovin singin when i was a kid, and i still do!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr-gE36SYvQ

aoshea83 · 08-10-2011 7:28pm

And this is still a big favourite of mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vi__gd84XI

rednik · 08-10-2011 7:34pm

"Anybody want a little more Irish in them"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLkyEAA7ers

hatetherain! · 08-10-2011 7:40pm

Wonderful Tonight - Eric Clapton

Auvers · 09-10-2011 9:43am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4

hahaha what a video, can their jeans get any tighter

washiskin · 09-10-2011 10:03am

Definitely this, even though I was only 2 and still love Roxy to this day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEalg62F8Zg

bigwormbundoran · 09-10-2011 4:00pm

I used to be obsessed, as many others were, with Queens greatest hits 1 from about 6 years of age on, still my favourite band by a country mile to this day, and of all the songs on it, this got serious play altogether, and so I would class it as the first song I loved I suppose:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE

dark crystal · 11-10-2011 11:56pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RntxCmqQqSA

Awww...

I remember begging my mum for a pet rat for months after hearing it

kerry4sam · 12-10-2011 12:03am

some memories in this thread, thanks to all

The First Song I Loved:- Mine would have to be Never Forget by Take That.

I remember listening to it en route to a relative's Graduation in Templemore way back when it was newly released and it just struck me and still does tbh!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvJIOYMNNhQ

Mars Bar · 12-10-2011 12:05am

Arianna_26 wrote: »

Boyzone - Love me for a reason

No Matter What was my first I think!

I was 7.

meoklmrk91 · 12-10-2011 12:09am

Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin

Simon Adebisi · 12-10-2011 12:14am

Stand - R.E.M.

dermiek · 12-10-2011 12:30am

Lyin' Eyes by The Eagles.
1975.

Dante · 12-10-2011 12:31am

Sum 41 - In Too Deep

Ahh the memories...

Latchy · 12-10-2011 11:52am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89HXci7rxdc

^ This ...blew me away when I first heard it as a kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrKKbaClME

^ followed by this other classic which is an edited stereo version of the original production and single release ... you wont find a better version on you tube .

marty1985 · 12-10-2011 3:19pm

Irish Guitarist wrote: »

The first song I really loved was Bright Eyes by Art Garfunkel. It came out when I was two or three years old. One of my sisters had the tape and I would sit in the kitchen listening to it over and over for ages.

OP I just listened to that on the radio today, a song I'd heard a million times without ever listening to it properly. A good song.

First song I ever really loved was Beat It, by Michael Jackson, fond memories of the clanging bars of the intro.

The House Of Wolves · 12-10-2011 9:06pm

Year 3000 by Busted.

I've just made you all feel very old, haven't I?

Scuid Mhór · 12-10-2011 10:02pm

help by the beatles

Saganist · 13-10-2011 8:10pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMxyK9azXR4

And

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAZgLcK5LzI

Jess16 · 13-10-2011 11:20pm

This, embarrassingly enough

(I was very young!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9Q0jPyrja0

padma · 13-10-2011 11:26pm

fraggle rock

Shy_Dave! · 13-10-2011 11:54pm

This version of 'Darkness on the edge of town'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCpzgcH0QBE

mapaco · 14-10-2011 12:11am

great thread!
fell madly in love with the song an the lad-think i was about feckin 3 haha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLxTEV5vpyg

GSI · 14-10-2011 8:59pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APJwMLvZYZU
Jimmy Nail, crocodile shoes. My dad used to play it from a cassette in our old car. I'd sit in the back listening away. I was probably only 2/3 years old, great song.

cant embed

J_E · 15-10-2011 12:53am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBMriOspUvA

Just brilliant, isn't it?

freakybeaky108 · 16-10-2011 7:37pm

According to my folks my first sentence was "I'm in the mood baby"! How many 1 year olds listen to John Lee Hooker???:p

irishh_bob · 16-10-2011 7:49pm

Faing wrote: »

Many from my early years but I suppose American Pie would be the one for me.

how do you feel about this song today ?

irishh_bob · 16-10-2011 7:52pm

Tweedo wrote: »

Cornershop - Brimful of Asha
Sorry to make anyone feel old:o

that was only 1998

1st song i remember liking was never gona give you up by rick astley , 1987 was my coming of age in terms of noticing music , sport etc , i was ten , used to follow the charts fanatically back then , i could list you half a dozen number ones from that year , couldnt name one from 2011

Technocentral · 08-12-2011 11:37pm

This was the first one that blew my mind, haven't seen this performance of it before which has live vocals, has the lads pretending to be robots of course, as was their want back in the day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCKybI5BjEY

Conor Bourke · 09-12-2011 10:41am

Remember rockin' out to this in the kitchen with my Ma, couldn't have been more than three!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GdeU0ww4zY

rcaz · 09-12-2011 1:14pm

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen. I must have been like 10 or 11, my Dad put that album on while we were driving from North Dublin to somewhere on the South side, I remember looking at the liner notes somewhere around the toll bridge just past the Liffey going all, "****en electric guitars and leather jackets and ****en tunes! How can guys be so cool??" :P

What was the first song you ever loved?

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