Was Music More Magical When You Were Younger?

[BOGBLAST]

I would have to say YES it was more magical when I was younger. We're going back to the 60's now but my parents had a HI-FI record player/radio. This thing was so big it was like a piece of furniture, all wood. The top was hinged so you'd open it up and underneath was the turntable, radio tuner and album storage.

They had some classical albums I liked, Broadway show and movie soundtracks like Fiddler on the Roof and Mary Poppins. I'll bet I still know most of the words to the Fiddler album. They even had some of THEIR parents' 78rpm polkas. And my older brother was buying 45's like ? and the Mysterians and Music Machine. Just the discovery of all this different kind of music was amazing. I listened often.

Then when I was 10 my older brothers started buying and borrowing albums like Black Sabbath, Jimi, Zep, Humble Pie and more. This opened up another Magical door that I entered and never looked back. As I got into my teens I started buying 8-Tracks of Aerosmith, Boston, Kiss, Ted Nugent, etc. but always hung onto my love of my early exposure to good hard Rock.

I got Married at 17 and had a son at 18 which didn't leave much time for music exploration so I was left with the bands I liked and not much more. I would say that's when the "Magic" ended for me.

As the years went on with the introduction of MTV I liked a lot of songs but nothing that blew me away except maybe for Guns 'n' Roses. I even had a hard time getting into Metallica. A friend brought Kill 'em All to work and I thought this was too friggin' fast and dismissed them. It wasn't until The Black Album that I decided to look back and realized I denied myself of some great music, but it wasn't magical, it was music.

Now at the ripe old age of 58 I'm pretty much set in my ways. I try to keep an open mind but nothing really hits me in the way I want to go out and buy the album. I cruise YouTube a lot and find cool songs here and there but nothing I can get passionate about.

I think in time we will all revert back exclusively to that music that felt Magical, whether we experienced it at age 10 or age 60. It was just something special that sticks with you and you never let go. 

[Zzzptm]

Maybe it's also a matter of staying open to new possibilities to find magic in music well after childhood?

[Thelemech]

No

As a teen I became obsessed with Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and those first and fiftieth listen/s
were very magickal.

When I later found Reggae and Jazz at around the same time wjen I was about 20 that was magickal too.

I find myself listening to anything new that really is exceptional - Jazz albums still impress me and so does well done Heavy Metal albums and I will get that magickal feeling. And as you all know I listen to a huge range of artists and styles.

I do understand the innocence factor and first hearing the awesomeness of say Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. It had an incredible effect on me hearing that when I was about 13 -  14 - and it was very magickal. And I have never quite felt the same as I did when I first heard SBS or say Benefit by Jethro Tull.

What I am basically saying is that yes it was magickal when I was young and it has remained magickal to this day as an old fart.