Most people who love music have heard a Beatles or Stones album by the time they are 30.
Perhaps my error is assuming you love music? Or you were a late bloomer? When I was in college you could not have failed to hear led Zep albums.
I am definitely atypical but I meant atypical for a music lover. The kind of person who hangs out on a music related board.
I don’t think one is a music lover if one doesn’t have curiosity to listen to music. And that would be ok….
When I got into "alternative" music in my early 20's. I saw the Beatles and the Stones as part of the evil classic rock cabal that alternative rock was being the alternative to (at least my my mind.) Besides, I figured I had heard the best of the Stones and Beatles already, having listened to classic rock radio as a teen (though not having to money to start a music collection.)
Then in my late 20's/early 30's, I took a deep dive into Americana. At some point, I did start going back and listening to the Rolling Stones, but I was much more interested in exploring the Gram Parsons catalog than the Jagger/Richards catalog. And the Beatles just seemed way too pop to bother with when i was listening to old timey country.
What is a "music lover" anyway? My wife calls herself a "music lover," yet listens to the same Internet Money songs over and over, hates live music, thinks (like most people under 30) there's no point in full length albums because singles are where it's at, and thinks music by Dylan, Cohen, Waits, etc is "music made by white men for old white men/music snobs."
