Haha 
. Staring absently out a train window isn’t to be underestimated. Good thinking time.
In the mid/late 80’s there was a lot of romanticizing of 60’s music – i.e The Big Chill, Tour of Duty (tv) and Levis ads rocking Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke, etc. As a teenger I remember feeling a quite dudded that I’d missed all this music, and instead had to console myself with ‘Katrina and the Waves’ and Michael Bolton. :-/
Only later I realized there were just as many Michael Bolton’s around in the 60’s – they just never made it to a Levis ad.
I bet there are teenagers now looking at the 80’s in the same way.
(I must say, I still think 1985-89 was an ordinary time for ‘popular music’. You had to dig deeper off commercial radio to find the earlier REM stuff and Husker Du and a lot of the stuff I still play now. By the early 90’s Nirvana and Chilli Peppers were getting played on mainstream radio.)