My parents played Astral Weeks for me when I was about 7 years old. It was the first “proper” album that I heard when I was old enough to think about music in any kind of way. 11 or 12 would have been both too young and too old. I was still a small enough kid to just think of it as music that sounded good, without being so young that I couldn’t think about what I liked about it and why I felt it sounded good. It’s been special to me ever since and I’m grateful it was able to be my intro to caring about music.