Blue - Eiffel 65. I was ~6 when I discovered it. My poor mother had to listen to that on repeat. I ended up growing up with severe depression. I guess I really am blue.
That whole album was and is definitely worth the listen. It may begin and end with Blue, but there is quite a range of emotions and messages. When I was young, Blue was my favorite, but as I grew up, different songs started to resonate with me.
Track 02 = anti-consumerism Track 04 = anti-selfish realism Track 07 = love triangle heartbreak Track 10 = optimism, encouragement, and hope
Europop by Eiffel 65
01 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) 02 - Too Much of Heaven 03 - Dub in Life 04 - Living in a Bubble 05 - Move Your Body 06 - My Console 07 - Your Clown 08 - Another Race 09 - The Edge 10 - Now is Forever 11 - Silicon World 12 - Europop 13 - Hyperlink 14 - Blue (Da Ba Dee) [Extended]
Lyrics from Track 10 - Now is Forever
we should think about, what we got right now, cause the good things are made up of time. smile to your problems, leave the past behind. never forget this. find the truth in your soul, keeping you alive. going on from minute to minute. don’t shade the future, with all that’s behind. live for today. […] don’t shade your future, with what you don’t have. keep your mind on what’s here today. now and forever, build the future now. keep this mind. though you will take your time, to get what you need, but you’ll do it step after step. yet to come is all that’s gone, learn to live this moment. live for today. […] the past is all that’s gone (the past is all that’s gone) the future is yet to come. (and the future’s yet to come) this moment is all our own. (you know it is) we should live this way, just building up our day, now is forever. the past is all that’s gone, (the past is all that’s gone) the future is yet to come. (the future is yet to come) this moment is all our own. we should live this way, just building up our day, now is forever.
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My first ever favorite song was DuckTales - Theme Song.
If TV show songs are off the list… then it would be, it would have to be The California Raisins - Lean On Me (Cover).
According to my parents, it was I Got My Mind Set On You by George Harrison. I was a toddler and apparently loved that song.
But the first one I distinctly remember was the B-52’s Love Shack.
This is letting my inner basic bitch out, but Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls. Still have a soft spot for that song to this day, right alongside Semisonic’s Closing Time.
Are the Goo Goo Dolls considered basic? They certainly got mainstream hype in their heyday, but I don’t think that makes them basic. Iris was one of my first favorite songs as well (I was about 9 years old when I heard the song playing at a Hudson Belk thay my mom and I were shopping at).
I’ve seen them 3 times live in concert and they’re great.
MC Hammer - Can’t Touch This
