First (song) Love
My very first favorite song was Beth by Kiss. And then I had Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, and Paul Stanley for imaginary friends. Never Gene Simmons, ew. I was maybe 3? I don’t know, but I loved that song and I remember loving and singing* that song over and over. Only I said “Beff.” I’m sure I was pants-shittingly adorable. My brother would’ve been 10ish at the time and he had what turned out to be a life-long habit of playing all kinds of awful music very loudly out of his very dark and scary and stinky bedroom. He had all the most hideous posters and I swear that room gave off an aura of evil. I was so afraid of it that it occupied many, many hours in which my imagination would run away with all of the evils that could befall a person who went in there all alone. But I would enter when Beff was on the stereo. I had to have been introduced to it from the Double Platinum album because I remember being upset when I found out that the same freaks that were on the cover of Destroyer were the ones who were singing my precious song. But then, my brother also had their solo albums and I fell in love with Peter, Ace and Paul through those lovely headshots with the colored backlighting. So rad. (That probably wasn’t even a word back then, but still). I loved looking at Paul’s album so much because it was purple and I just couldn’t resist making it even more beautiful by sticking a grape scratch ‘n sniff sticker on it (sorry Mikey). But, just for the record, Peter was always my favorite because he looked like a kitty cat.
So, for the handful of you that read this thing, I demand that you tell me your very first favorite song. Just for fun.
*I’m sure I knew the lyrics because I’ve always been good at knowing lyrics for some reason. Bryan, on the other hand, is so much the opposite in that regard. In fact, when I told him I was blogging about Beth he immediately started singing, “Beth I hear you crying and I’ll be right there for you…just a few more hours and I’ll see you through and through,” when I shook my head at him he was really all like, “That’s not right?” and omigod I almost stabbed him.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
LOL!! I mess up the lyrics to songs all the time. It isn’t because I don’t know the lyrics. Because I do. I just have bad recall reflexes and at the last moment when I am all caught up with feeling and ready to pour my heart into the song, the wrong words come out. It is funny what ends up coming out sometimes. it is more like a word association game. Let’s see. I always LOVED music so I had a lot of favorite songs. The first one that I can remember is Listen to What the Man Says by Paul McCartney and Wings. There is this part where he says, “Soldier boy, kisses girl…” and then there is this smooch sound and I didn’t miss a beat on that part. “And leaves behind a tragic world…he don’t mind, he’s in love and he thinks love is fine…do do do do do do do do…the wonder of it all baby.” It was a very cutesy love song and I loved it. It was really because Paul McCartney had the musical genius to add that smooch sound. That made the whole song, really. It made it seem cartoony to me, so I could relate better. I must have been 4 or 5.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
Oh and I also really loved 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover by Paul Simon because it rhymed. It had this nursery rhyme cadence to it that I could totally dig because that was like what we did at Nursery School.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:56 am
I was in the KISS Army! For real! Man, I LOVE telling people that! I was totally in love with Paul.
My first favorite song… I think it might have been Detroit Rock City, or I Wanna Rock and Roll All Night. But, after my tour of duty in the KISS Army (I was in the KISS Army!) it might have been Queen “Drowse” which was not a hit, but on their Day at the Races album, which I listened to over and over. It is still a great song, btw. I also loved that Paul Simon song Melissa mentioned. And I remember singing “Tonight’s the Night” by Rod Stewart. And I loved “Hot Child in the City” by Nick, um… Nick… crap, now I have to go look it up. Nick Gilder. And it was about a child runaway prostitute. And I was singing it. And I was, you know, 12 years old. And I was singing “Tonight’s the Night” when I was even younger, and wondering what that lady was moaning about.
It was so different back then. I miss the 70’s. Riding around in the back of a pick up truck was legal.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
I loved 50 Ways, too! And Alissa, I loved Hot Blooded by Foreigner when I had no idea what they were talking about. I was very naive about songs for a long time. I even remember doubting Prince’s Darling Nikki was actually saying what it was saying. “No, he can’t be saying that, can he?” I was probably in 4th grade when I first heard that song and I didn’t believe it until I was in high school.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
Oh Yeah! 50 ways was the greatest. Paul Simon’s voice was so mesmerizing. I thought the lyrics said “hop off the key, Lee.” I couldn’t understand why Lee would be on a key in the first place.
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
Will you stop loving me if I confess that I don’t know off the top of my head what Kiss song is my favorite? I mean, I’m sure I know one, but I can’t tell you what they sing and I really don’t know which album or anything.
I… I love you… really a lot. I do.
I’ll learn a Kiss song, will that do? Which one do you want me to learn?
Kendra
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
It doesn’t have to be a Kiss song, silly. Just your first ever favorite song. Evah!
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 am
Oh, wow…It might be Michael Jackson’s “Off the Wall” or “Another One Bites the Dust” by Queen. Those are the first things I can remember as MY OWN (as opposed to my brother’s or sister’s music). After middle school, it was all about NEW WAVE!
“…I almost stabbed him.”…OMGLOL!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:59 am
I bought “Off the Wall” when I was in desperate need of more MORE! Michael Jackson after Thriller and the Jackson 5 reunion thing (does anybody remember that besides me? It was called Victory, and the Victory tour was my very first concert ever!)
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Geez-I was in junior high when Beth was popular! My first song I played over and over agian in my basement on my portable record player was the 45 (yes with the yellow plastic round puzzle piece thing that you had to use to play the wide holed 45’s) was I’m Leavin’ on a Jet Plane by Peter Paul and Mary! How old am I??????? Molly wants to check out your girls blog-Send my the directions-and don’t get me lost-like you got today!!Ha Ha Ha
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
That would only make you, like, 35 right? (just go with it, nobody who reads this blog can do math). Don’t worry, I remember the plastic puzzle piece; I had to use one for my kick-ass “Purple Rain” 45. It was purple. And it had rain on it. I’m pretty sure I heard “I’m Leavin’ on a Jet Plane” on the radio on Solid Gold Saturday Night when I was a wee lass.
I’m an asshole.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
Delta Dawn, what’s that flower you have on,
Could it be a faded rose from days gone byyyyyy
and did I hear ya say, he was meetin’ you here today
to take you to his mansion in the skyyyyy
I was about four and we lived in the blue house on Line Street. I would sing that at the top of my lungs while I was swinging on my swing set or riding my sweet new Big Wheel.
I also was pretty fond of Knockin’ on Heavens Door, but I really didn’t sing it with as much soul and passion as I did with Delta Dawn.
I remember you singing Hot Blooded while sitting on mom’s lap in the Pacer. You thought that song was the shart.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
Hell yeah, Hot Blooded! ‘Member when we were driving back to MI from Phoenix and there was no radio station for, like, 800 miles except for one that just played Delta Dawn over and over? You thought that was awesome.
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:01 am
Aruba, Jamaica, ooo I wanna take yah,
Bermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
Tiargo, Montego, baby why don’t we go?
Down to Kokomo,
there’s the place I wanna go,
to get away from it all,
down to Kokomo!
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:02 am
OMG, Erin, how *young* are you? lol I remember when that song was popular. I don’t remember *why* it was popular, though.
But I remember trying to lay out in the sun and having to get up and constantly change the station on the radio every 20 minutes because that song just kept playing over and over and over and over. (Of course the radio had to be plugged into the garage with a big ol’ extension cord on it so it could reach out to the yard, and I still had to get up and walk over to it. What an unfortunate existence that was.)
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am
Ok comment 2 haha! Don’t delete this one! So ne ways…. I have two songs! First one being “Let It Be” by The Beatles and second one being “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King. No specific order. I know I know two songs that were way before my time! You have to understand I grew up listening to my mothers music! It wasn’t appreciated at the time. Looking back now every time I hear these songs I have chills up and down my spine! When I went to see my most fav. band of all time for the third time (INCUBUS) they actually covered “Stand By Me” (on my profile) It was probably the greatest musical experience of all! Not only is it like my all time favorite song but my fav band in the whole world was playing it! TO SAY THE LEAST IT AMAZED ME! “Let it Be” on the other hand just flat out reminds me of my youth haha! I don’t know why but this was the one beatles song that always stuck in my head….. If you’ve ever seen across the universe you would have seen the little kid singing it and I loved his version of it just as much as the original…. Well maybe not just as much but it was great!
His voice is amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:03 am
I read all these other comments and realize I am a loser! Or maybe I just didn’t like “songs” when I was younger either. I have no recollection of any song I “loved”, it was once or twice relayed to me that when I was 3ish I sang “Thank You Baby” by James Taylor. I however do not recall this, nor do I get fuzzy feelings when I listen to it. When everyone else was showing off their Michael Jackson buttons (This one girl, Lisa Hoffman, had her entire jacket covered. OMG) I was sitting in the door cubby doing my word search puzzles. Something about the introvert in me combined with easily bothered ears…
March 5th, 2008 at 1:19 am
First of my VERY OWN favorite songs (not the ones you liked cuz your parents did)….
ZZ TOP… Sharp Dressed Man!!!
Top Coat, Top hat I don’t worry cuz my wallet’s fat…
Cuff links, Stick Pin, when I step out I’m gonna do you in…
They come a’runnin’ jus’ as fast as they caaann…
Cuz ev’ry girl’s crazy ’bout a sharp dressed man.
(i cannot guarantee the order is correct, but each line is… I do better when the song is playing)