| First Day of My Life | |
| Cover: | First Day of My Life.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Bright Eyes |
| Album: | I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning |
| Genre: | Indie folk, emo |
| Length: | 3:09 |
| Label: | Saddle Creek |
| Prev Title: | When the President Talks to God |
| Prev Year: | 2005 |
| Next Title: | Easy/Lucky/Free |
| Next Year: | 2005 |
"First Day of My Life" is a single from the album I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning by American band Bright Eyes, released on February 7, 2005. The song reached number 37 on the UK Singles Chart.[1] The video was directed by John Cameron Mitchell.
The song was listed at number 266 on Pitchfork Medias "Top 500 Tracks of the 2000s".[2]
The music video displays a variety of couples as well as single people wearing headphones while sitting on a couch. The video received a Special Recognition in the 2006 GLAAD Media Awards due to its inclusion of gay and lesbian couples.[3]
It can be heard in the 2007 film Elvis and Anabelle and the film The Bubble. Also, on The Sarah Silverman Program: S3E8 "Just Breve" (2010).It was featured in an episode of NBC's Chuck (season 4, episode 23), titled "Chuck Versus the Last Details".The song has been used for multiple commercials. It was used in a 2012 Zillow commercial. It featured in a 2021 Citibank commercial.
James Corden selected this song as one of his favorites on Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.[4]
In 2013, Stereogum ranked the song number five on their list of the 10 greatest Bright Eyes songs,[5] and in 2020, Paste ranked the song number seven on their list of the 15 greatest Bright Eyes songs.[6]
The song appeared in the 2017 Netflix mini series Atypical (season 2, episode 6), the Showtime series Ray Donovan (season 6, episode 12), and in the CW series Roswell, New Mexico (season 1, episode 6 and season 2, episode 5).
| Region | Date | Format(s) | Label(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Triple A radio | Saddle Creek | [7] | |
| United Kingdom | [8] |