in terms of music history, and knowing songs rather than albums, I don't think it necessarily matters that much when you were young. Just because you didn't buy an album at the moment it came out doesn't mean you can't familiarize yourself with a band through albums rather than individual songs twenty or fifty years later. Like many people who were growing up in the nineties, I may have a certain nostalgic attachment to crappy nineties pop, but I far prefer the music of the 70s and 80s, before or around the time of my birth, and in many cases that includes entire albums or even series of albums.
By the way, as for music genres for the next quiz, my vote would be progressive rock. 
I'd say 'or metal' but my metal tastes are a lot more limited to specific individual bands and I'd probably do very poorly.
Seeing a song album as a unified set of songs instead of just remembering a band's greatest hits. Well that only occurs when there is something that makes the songs "sequential" in your head, for example you were listening to a cd or cassette and you see that these songs are connected for your mind realizes they are all from the same album and your brain remembers the "timing" like I listen to all of these songs on the same day and they are from the same cd. Aka your brain makes a mental group.
Well the radio can do this as well, the radio is randomish, but if you were told by the disk jockey this is a song from the most recent album in the present by band X you are once again anchoring songs to sensory times in your life and creating memorizes that are unified around a sense of time.
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But if you did not personally live this than time is amorphous. When I talk about the Ancient Romans, well it is harder for people to visualize years without you constantly referencing dates. For example Constantine and Publius Cornelius Scipio are separated from 500 years of history, but we "can't feel history" the same way from reading about them in books like we can do if we lived the experience ourselves. And even when we memorize history we often find it easier to remember history via incorporating sensory anchors to the experience for example maybe not just reading a book but if you had a history teacher you talked about the book it is more vivid in your long term memories due to that personal relationship you had with that teacher.
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I am rambling for I am trying to explain something that is vivid in my mind's eye but it is hard to find the words for and thus I am using long metaphors. But I think I get your point.
And I agree with your point somewhat Legolas, you are right some people learn music from albums instead of individual songs...but those people are just plain wierd and it is like they are trying to memorize stuff in a labor intensive way via research.
Well music is beautiful due to its spontaneity and its flexibility and you do not need to learn music in a certain way for it is almost infinitely adaptable.
But whatever...Legolas I see your point...you make lots of good points often even though you are plain old weird I forgot do I assign your points to Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, or Hufflepuff
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Mookie I already know all of that but I was being coy 
I will remain forever puer 
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