Music that Imprinted on you as a Child

[CCoburn]

Music has always been important, but how young?

I'm guessing it doesn't begin having any profound effect until maybe 5 years of age more or less i.e. begins "imprinting" (hard to say exactly). I was born late 60s and tons of the 70s imprinted on me. Maybe even a two-year-old or younger can resonate with a musical melody or voicing.
 

Do you really want to be tortured with Paula Abdul, Madonna, and then Boyz 2 Men?

Probably not any more than you want to be tortured by the Bee Gees, ABBA, or Dan Fogelberg et al.
 

My music tastes didn't get cool until 1993.

The point of this thread is more an analysis of perspective and how it "changes and evolves" as stated in the thread intro, and less about contemporary musical tastes.

And I was wondering when you'd get around to posting the Arch Enemy which only took about a year as far as I can tell, but wrong thread. That'd be like me posting Children of Bodom and Dark Tranquility in lieu of Judas Priest and Iron Maiden.

The arrival of the internet was a double-edged sword in some ways and stole the anticipation of beautiful things transforming them to broken records.

And speaking of Dan Fogelberg there was this, but of course I don't care for it as much as I once did which is part of the point here more or less, and given a past several decades perspective comes pretty close to borderline embarrassing although maybe not quite so much as I've Never Been to Me by Charlene: