# What Song Did You Instantly Love? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2007, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528 "2007-06-18T23:54:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/41 "2007-06-19T13:59:32Z")
_Hooked_, by Seabound, and _Re-Align_, by Stromkern. I heard them both and I just started bouncing. They’re fun. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/42 "2007-06-19T14:17:04Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] I just started bouncing. They’re fun. [/QUOTE] I had the same reaction to: “I Only Want to Be with You” by Hootie and the Blowfish “Mary Mac” by Carbonleaf “Rave On” done by Steeleye Span ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/43 "2007-06-19T14:21:10Z")
[QUOTE=Paintcharge] _Looking at the World form the Bottom of a Well_ by Mike Doughty. First heard it on World Cafe while driving to the hardware store, made a detour into the Borders to pick up the CD. [/QUOTE] The ones that sent me to the record store: **Oh What a World** by Paul Brady **Chasing Cars** by Snow Patrol which now has been overplayed on the radio ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/44 "2007-06-19T14:36:58Z")
Since it is so rare to absolutely love a song the very first time, I’ve kept a list over the past decade or so. I’m surprised at how long it’s gotten… AFI _The Missing Frame_ Angels & Airwaves \*The War \* Bad Religion \*Infected \* Beastie Boys \*Sabotage \* Buckcherry \*Crazy Bitch \* Cake \*Let Me Go \* Catherine Wheel \*Black Metallic \* Charlatans UK, The _The Only One I Know_ Counting Crows _Einstein on the Beach_ Cracker _Get Off This_ Cracker \*Teen Angst \* Dramarama \*Last Cigarette \* Dramarama _Work For Food_ Elastica _Stutter \* Fall Out Boy Dance, Dance \* Farm, The Groovy Train Finger Eleven \* Paralyzer Foo Fighters The Best of You \* Foo Fighters Walking After You Franz Ferdinand Take Me Out Fratellis, The Flathead Freedy Johnston Bad Reputation Gabriel, Peter \* The Book Of Love Gorillaz DARE Gorillaz Feel Good, Inc. Inspiral Carpets This Is How It feels Inspiral Carpets Two Worlds Collide Jet \* Are You Gonna Be My Girl_ Lemonheads, The _If I Could Talk I’d Tell You_ Linkin Park _Breaking the Habit_ Linkin Park \*Crawling \* Lush \*Ladykillers \* Midnight Oil _The Dead Heart_ Muse \* Starlight \* Oasis _Lyla_ OK Go _Get Over It_ Pete Drodge _If You Don’t Love Me_ Primitives, The _Crash_ Rancid \*Ruby Soho \* Red Hot Chili Peppers \*Dosed \* Schilling, Peter _The Different Story_ School of Fish \*3 Strange Days \* She Wants Revenge _Tear You Apart_ She Wants Revenge _These Things_ Shiny Toy Guns _Le Disko_ Shiny Toy Guns \*You Are The One \* Silversun Pickups \*Lazy Eye \* Single Gun Theory _From a Million Miles_ Smashing Pumpkins _Muzzle_ Smithereens _A Girl Like You_ Sneaker Pimps \*Six Underground \* Snow Patrol _Run \* Social Distortion Bad Luck Social Distortion Ball and Chain Social Distortion I Was Wrong Soup Dragons Divine Thing Stone Roses \* Ten Storey Love Song_ Sweet, Matthew \* Evangeline \* Sweet, Matthew _Sick of Myself_ Tegan and Sara \*Walking With a Ghost \* The The _Dogs of Lust_ Third Eye Blind _Motorcycle Drive By_ U2 _Bad_ Utah Saints _Something Good_ Velvet Revolver _Fall To Pieces_ Weezer _Island in the Sun_ Weezer _This is Such a Pity_ Yorn, Pete _Undercover_ plus pretty much every song by The Smiths, Radiohead and The Clash ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/45 "2007-06-19T15:19:42Z")
Most recently it was Put Your Records On (Corinne Bailey Rae). Before that, Silver, Blue and Gold (Bad Company). (I’m not going back any further - I’d be here all day typing.) ---
**Author:** ![Flea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d78d45/32.png) [@Flea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flea)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/46 "2007-06-19T15:36:42Z")
Jack Johnson’s **Bubbletoes** was love at first listen for me. It never fails to make me smile. I also instantly loved The Cure’s \*\*Just Like Heaven \*\* and \*\*Kiss Off \*\* from the Violent Femmes. So much fun to sing along to. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/47 "2007-06-19T15:57:10Z")
Akon- Don’t Matter Killers - Read my Mind Jimi Hendrix - Burning of the Midnight Lamp ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/48 "2007-06-19T16:37:17Z")
Last year sometime, I heard The Shins’ “Caring Is Creepy” on the radio while driving, and once it was over and they didn’t immediately say who the song or artist was, I pulled the car over and called the radio station to find out what I’d been listening to. That’s a more extreme reaction than I usually have when I fall in love with a song on first hearing, but still. IIRC, I instantly loved Amy Winehouse’s “Rehab” and KT’s “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” which have already been mentioned. Another one, from a few years back: “New York” by U2 off the _All That You Can’t Leave Behind_ album. One of my favorite U2 songs, and, for me at least, more evocative of NYC than any other song I know. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/49 "2007-06-19T17:19:14Z")
And probably “These are Days” by 10,000 Maniacs since it starts off peppy and pulls you right into it. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/50 "2007-06-19T18:59:43Z")
Most recently, “Don’t Fall In Love With a Homo” by Jonny McGovern, the Gay Pimp. Repeated plays with sing-along when it comes up on the CD, silent smirking when it shuffles up on the iPod. Oh, and “This is How You Go-Go” by Jay\*. ---
**Author:** ![Delly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Delly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Delly)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/51 "2007-06-19T19:02:25Z")
Two recent ones: Freewheel by Duke Special and The Bitter Song by Butterfly Boucher. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/52 "2007-06-19T19:23:35Z")
Sophtware Slump\* - Grandaddy (actually, as soon as I heard it, I knew the entire album was something special) - title track ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/53 "2007-06-19T19:41:45Z")
I’m showing my age, but the first time I heard _Life in the Fast Lane_ and found out it was The Eagles. I was blown away. The first time i heard _Turn the Page_ by Bob Seger. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/54 "2007-06-19T19:50:40Z")
Please forgive my stupidity. _This_ is what my post above should have said: “He’s Simple, He’s Dumb, He’s The Pilot”\* - Grandaddy (actually, as soon as I heard it, I knew the entire album was something special) \*opening track ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/55 "2007-06-19T21:28:26Z")
The last song to really sweep me off my feet was “Still Waters,” by Jim White. Here’s a YouTube video of it from the documentary the song was created for. The song gets interrupted and overridden occasionally in this video, but you can get a sense for how lush and gorgeous the song is. [Still Waters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XWlV6SBPfY) ---
**Author:** ![Senior\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Senior\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senior_Smith)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/56 "2007-06-19T21:53:27Z")
I’ll only state the songs that I instantly fell in love with but still love today. There have been way too many songs that I liked at first and got sick of after the 4th or 5th listen. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts New Pornographers - The Laws Have Changed Pinback - Fortress REM - Fall On Me REM - Talk About the Passion Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored Sufjan Stevens - Come on, Feel the Illinoise Sufjan Stevens - The Predatory Wasp U2 - Gloria ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/57 "2007-06-19T21:59:11Z")
_Lazy Eye_ - Silversun Pickups ditto on _I Wanna Be Adored_- I could listen to that 1000 times and not get tired of it! ---
**Author:** ![Proudest\_Monkey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/proudest_monkey/32/13257_2.png) [@Proudest\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Proudest_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2007, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/58 "2007-06-19T22:28:42Z")
I feel like this reply is not half hip enough for the thread, but the only time I recall loving a song at first listen was Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas’s **Smooth**. Then I heard it a jillion more times and wanted to puke. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/59 "2007-06-20T00:32:42Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] _Hooked_, by Seabound, and _Re-Align_, by Stromkern. I heard them both and I just started bouncing. They’re fun. [/QUOTE] Similar genre, today’s choice is _Exterminate, Annihilate, Destroy_ by Rotersand. Talk about a badass bassline. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528/60 "2007-06-20T01:14:57Z")
I was listening to the radio the other day (I listen to the pop station! Oh, the humanity! :rolleyes: ) when I heard an incredibly catchy song and fell in love immediately. It took me a week and a half to find out the song was “The Way I Are” by Timbaland. If I’d heard the title in all its ungrammatical glory before I’d heard the song, I might not have given it a chance. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-did-you-instantly-love/408528.md?page=4)