Sometimes you love a song because of how old you were when you first heard it.
It's a trick our silly brains play on us and the prevailing reason why so people suffer from Good Ol' Days brainworms. Stuff was better when I was younger. Weird how so many humans across every generation feel this way, whether you grew up eating lead paint chips or Lunchables.
I have studied this disease, understand how it works - and yet I cannot be convinced there was a better 15-year musical period in recorded human history than 1983-1998.