What was the first music you ever loved?

my musical awakening was basically the 2 Tone era.
i had enjoyed music previously (random cassettes bought from Woolies, TOTP taped off tv etc), but this was a whole new level of enjoyment.
for my 12th birthday (Feb 1980) someone gave me a 7" copy of My Girl by Madness, and that was it.
from then on (until hip hop/acid house) i had to get everything i could with the lads on it.
still love'em when in the mood, but rarely listen to them now due to burnout

boxedjoy, I was also obsessed with Shakespeare's Sister aged 11/12, more the whole Hormonally Yours LP than Stay, used to listen to the tape a couple of times a day for about a year, if I had last.fm all my life they might still be my top artist based on that alone. I was quite protective of them and hated the Newman & Baddiel sketch, they were clearly in on the goth camp joke, without it ever becoming a pantomime.

when I was 5 my favourite song was Happy Birthday by Altered Images

by 6 my favourite band was Madness. my uncle John gave me a Baggy Trousers 7", my first record which I still have. my mum also had the Complete Madness compilation LP, a Squeeze singles LP and randomly a Jonathan Richman 7" which was basically all I listened to if I put anything on myself.

didn't pay much attention to music apart from that for most of the 80s, until I was about 12 when house music was appearing on TOTP and I got really into that

first album I ever owned and played to death was Pet Shop Boys - Disco (a remix collection with suburbia, panninaro, west end boys etc). When I was much younger I used to play my mum's ex-jukebox 45's that were a mix of very white 50's/60's pop hits, oddly no Motown, and with the odd 70's ones as well (the strawbs, the theme song from the movie Convoy). I think I had an Adam and the ants stage that lasted for about a week when I was 9 and my brother bought Antmusic (from Woolworths of course).

Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel. When I was 5 or 6, my parents got me the K-Tel Breakdance cassette, which had one side with questionable breakdance instructions and another side with a mixture of legitimate electro hits and session musician copies of the same. For example, they had the original Electric Kingdom by Twilight 22 but Tour de France was credited to a group called 10-Speed. I didn't learn that it was a Kraftwerk song until I was in my twenties, probably. Fortunately, Wheels of Steel was the real thing, although iirc it's a slightly shorter edit. That song just blew my mind away. I didn't understand what I was listening to at all! Up until then I had mostly just heard my dad's Beatles and folk records. I had a Jackson 5 album and Thriller at this point too. I thought there was an ENORMOUS band in there and that they brought in an actual dad and his kids to do the little spoken word "Adams, North Dakota" bit. It was the most amazing thing I had ever heard and just made me feel so good from start to finish.

Side note:
What I've just learned in scanning through the discogs entry for Breakdance, is that there were multiple different track listings for this release. So if I had lived in the UK, the opening track would have been "Break Dance Party" by Break Machine followed by Kids' Rap (The Hip Hop Beat) by The Rapologists* Featuring Flakey 'C' & Early Daze...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gx1FYoMsRw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78S2a_bR3Js

...as well as a version of Let's Hear It For the Boy by some group called Joy & the Sticks that is not available on YouTube. I don't think I would have been as captivated by any of these selections.

However, Latin American pressings got It's Like That by Run DMC!

Air Supply - “All Out of Love”

What can I say? I was loaded up on Sudafed and this song spoke to my 11 year old brain. And heart.

oh, I loved "Take On Me". I would sing it to my brother, but being like 4 years old, I kept saying "take on knee"

lol and Mr Mister "Broken Wings". but of course I was so young I took the lyrics very literally

i don't have any relevant additions, but here's the hiphop sample of "broken wings" because lol samples, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IX1cvDPDn30

The first music I remember *needing* to hear again was soundtrack stuff - Star Wars, the Rocky montage music. In terms of pop music, it'd be stuff on the radio; I recorded You Win Again by the Bee Gees and Cherish by Kool and The Gang and just listened over and over. Then it was Bat Out of Hell and Infinite Dreams and I was away.

my parent's vinyl copy of Creedence Clearwater Revival's Chronicle vol 1 especially their cover of "Heard it Through the Grapevine"

my first musical memories are my dad playing guitar & singing john prine songs, especially "spanish pipedream" & "please dont bury me" and me thinking it was the greatest shit ever

I also deeply loved "Total Eclipse of the Heart," which seemed like the biggest and most emotional music possible. My friend and I created a whole dance routine one afternoon which involved somersaulting off the couch during the choruses.

I keep imagining you as one of the guys in white robes and glowing eyes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

around 4:15

when i was a kid we had a budget comp CD of aretha franklin's greatest hits. i remember being FLOORED by "respect" — i mean, deeply moved, but also overjoyed. my little brother and i used to do this thing where he would jump up and down on the bed and pantomime the "sock it to me" background vocal part and then i would "sock it" to him with a pillow.

"countdown to ecstasy" was another CD that was in steady rotation, and although i'm not a huge steely dan fan, it's still a very important record to me. my mother moved to a different city this spring and this was one of the records we played during our 10+ hr road trip. it occurred to me that it's probably one of the very few records that we both know all the words to.

the chorus of "Born to be Wild"

i remember as a wee kid on independence day, some older cousin or another would always allot me some paltry amount of non-dangerous fireworks to go light on my lonesome. and i remember thinking that i had to coordinate lighting them in order to make the most of my comparatively unexciting private fireworks show. and i'd think to myself: fire all of your guns at once and explode into space

- "To Sir with Love," from seeing the film at the drive-in
- bubblegummy stuff like "Dizzy," "Sugar, Sugar" and Andy Kim's early hits
- Ray Stevens' stupid novelty songs like "Gitarzan" and ones with titles that make we wince (and not realizing how many of them were covers)
- Beatles singles from '67 or so

New Kids. Though it's possible I was more into the cartoon and the fashion plates.

I reallly don't kno. The first lp I ever bought wasa copy of Oklahoma when i was 12 so wonder if I was heavily into musicals. Did used to watch the Sunday afternoon film o British tv in th emid 70s. Also knnow I got to see teh Jungle Book when i was a toddler and had the single when i wasa little older.

First stuff I started buying heavily was mod related British bands and soul from the mid 60s and bits of the Jam etc. I still love teh mid 60s stuff.
May have enjoyed bits of heavier rock that were turning up on TOTP late 70s/early 80s. and post punk pop a little later.
My brother was playing things like teh Stooges and Velovet Underground from the room next to the living room at the start of the 80s so I was picking up on them in my early teens also Can. Then i went from the mod stuff to more psychedelic stuff from it being played in mod discos. I also know I loved X Ray Spex in my early mid teens. & other bits and pieces of punk stuff like taht.
THink I've mainly just picked up on more stuff along those lines. Picked up most of FUnkadelic in the late 80s too.

But what exactly i really loved when in my childhood i can't remember brilliantly. Do remember some bits of glam turning up on the radio when i would have been i my mid 00s.
I know I wound up with a copy of Motown Revue live in Paris which would have been bought mid 60sby one of my parents . Also remember having the red Beatles double around the time it came out. Also Nina & Frederick who were an infamous gangster combo or was taht when he went solo?
I think we had a Scott Joplin which might have been in th ewake of The Sting bringing him back to attention. Also there were a few trad jazz lps my mother had bought in the early 60s. Do remember a Peter Cooke and Dudley Moore lp being something I listened to quite a bit too though that's not music.

not sure if I have a correct way of retracing my steps since childhood and thinking what turned up when.

As a kid, I was into Top 40 radio, and often listened to popular LPs of the day (Thriller, Like a Virgin, She’s So Unusual, Brothers in Arms... uh, Dare to Be Stupid, Eddie Grant, Alphaville)—but Wish You Were Here is the first album I remember getting into via a side channel (camp counselor) and being totally fascinated with, felt like it was special and “mine,” etc.

somehow neglected to add having been driven around bits o fEngland asa child to go and see Morris dances. ONe of my mother's schoolfriends was marriede to the gy who's on stage leading the Morris dance in the St Trinians Great Train Robbery. The family lived about a 10 minute walk away from where I spent part of my childhood and we'd be driven around in this mini woodie car to various parts of at least Essex and close counties.
I probably connected to other music since i used to dance around to music asa small child not sure what though.