I remember the good...English class (our teacher's gentle voice and how she made Cry, The Beloved Country a book I would never forget)...how then my best friend (whom I met that year) and I would not let go of our Duran Duran obsession...
and the bad...big hair and my first horrible, horrible crush (thankfully, not on my friend) and how I didn't know what to do with all those weird feelings and how grateful I was I had a good friend and actually liked learning and that it was blessed distraction not a curse.
Other songs like Jellybean's "Sidewalk Talk" (featuring Madonna) remind me (crazy as it is that I can sometimes forget) that my sister and I used to be really close and would sometimes like the same music and even hang out while we listened to it.
I honestly don't know that I would change growing up in the 80s no matter how much I sometimes hated some of it at the time. Though I much prefer other music over that from my teen years, no other quite affects me the same way.
The writer of this article explores the deep connection between music and memory:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201312/why-do-the-songs-your-past-evoke-such-vivid-memories
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