Fortunately I turned 18 in 1971, just in time to see the movie A Clockwork Orange when it came out. Of course, I immediately ran out and got the soundtrack album. Kubrick always chose great music for his movies (I also had the 2001: A Space Odyssey soundtrack).
Not that Alex the Droog was a very good inspiration for loving the Great Ludwig Van. I had already been listening to some Beethoven: at home we had excellent recordings of both the Fifth and Sixth Symphonies as well as the Moonlight Sonata and other pieces he composed, but now I really wanted a good recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and got one!
Nothing in music more rousing than that choral finale:
Leopold Stokowski - Beethoven : Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125
("Choral") 4th movement - part 2
You can hear all of this excellent recording on YouTube:
First Movement
Second Movement
Third Movement
Fourth Movement Part 1
Fourth Movement Part 2
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