• RetroBen81
    • 5 years 9 months ago
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    		 I have a question that will carry a lot of heated debate around here: What is the median age for which many of us start listening to music on the radio for the first time? (DISCLAIMER: This post is not meant to bring offense to any of us here.)

    It is said that many music fanatics start engaging themselves at age 12, give or take about three years.

    While I did catch a glimpse of the early age of MTV in 1987 at age 6, I didn't get a real interest out of it until I was 13-14 years old.

    ~Ben
    "I am such a purist for old information on anything '70s and '80s."
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    • Shazbot
      • 5 years 9 months ago
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      		 You probably want "mean", not "median".
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      • ImAllTheRage
        • 5 years 9 months ago
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        		 I'm trying to figure out how this could be offensive. And how anyone could debate over factual information such as "How old were you the first time you listened to the radio?".

        Anyway, the first time I intentionally tuned into a radio station was when I was eight years old.
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        • orliaurelijah
          • 5 years 9 months ago
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          		 I was probably about 8 also. Although I wasn't really into music nearly as much as I am now.
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          • MattNash
            • 5 years 9 months ago
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            		 For me it was 15, pretty late compared to most people. I grew up in a strictly religious household and no one in my family was allowed to listen to anything "secular" (except country). It was about the age of 15 that I started to rebel.
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            • JK Yoda
              • 5 years 9 months ago
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              		 I started at 11.
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              • orliaurelijah
                • 5 years 9 months ago
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                MattNash wrote:
                For me it was 15, pretty late compared to most people. I grew up in a strictly religious household and no one in my family was allowed to listen to anything "secular" (except country). It was about the age of 15 that I started to rebel.


                Oh yeah, I was stuck listening to Christian music too...I didn't actually start to like music much until I was able to branch out.
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                • Saltychuck
                  • 5 years 9 months ago
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                  		 Probably didn't really get into music until I was 12. There was a Library sale, and I went there to pick up books and movies for cheap. I saw a KISS CD, a Beatles CD, and a Rush CD. That's pretty much where it began.
                  Oh yeah?
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                  • Funky Guy
                    • 5 years 9 months ago
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                    		 I first listened to a station I chose myself on the radio around age 7, back then it was Q104, Nova Scotia's rock and classic rock station. That's also the age I first got heavily into listening to stuff from my parents' record collection, buying stuff at used record stores and going from hating pretty much all the stuff I saw on Much Music tv to actually starting to get into some of it.
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