What was the first song you liked?
 

Disregarding nursery rhymes and anything before age 6...

What's your first memory of a song that really caught your ear?

For me it was "Henry the Eighth" by Herman's Hermits. Catchy, and I could sing along to the simple lyrics. I think I was 6 or 7.

Also...

What was the first music you bought with your own money? Single, Album, etc..

First song - "Stay" by Lisa Loeb. My babysitter liked it, and I liked her. And it is a good song.

First purchased music - cassette of Hootie and the Blowfish, Cracked Rear View.

My brother played a Puff the Magic Dragon song on an old 78.

Great. Thanks mother****er. That shits going to be in my head for a month.

My sister loved that song. It drove me crazy.

Kenny loggins danger zone

I was not even in school yet. I knew nothing at all.

This

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Queen - we will rock you

The Partridge Family-Come on Get Happy.

Years later I was at a small intimate gig with Tommy Stimpson from the Replacements and he did a cover of that song and the place went wild.

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The first song I remember thinking "this is my favorite song!" was 'Don't Look Back' by Boston.

Was probably 6-8 years old.

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First album I bought? Hell I don't know - some BMG record ripoff thing where I got 8 CDs. I'm pretty sure Gin Blossoms was one of them. I played the hell out of the Blues Traveler CD as well. I think I had Fatboy Slim in there, the Zoot Suit Riot guy (Brian Selzter orchestra?), maybe GooGoo dolls? Some of that mid 90s era stuff all starts to run together.

I was 3-4 and my older "sister" loved this song and played it non stop.

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Oooof. Good question. Probably Metallica's Enter Sandman.

Discovering my dad's Motley Crue "Dr. Feelgood" cassette was my first time really picking a favorite artist though. By age 9-10 i had probably collected all of their cassettes.

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The more i think about it though, the more i think this may have been my 1st song i liked.

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