&gt; it never had any deep emotional or cultural impact to those who saw it in the first place.<p>How could you possibly know what had a deep emotional impact on anyone other than yourself or possibly the people you interact with most closely in life?<p>Here&#x27;s an alternate proposal for you:  You&#x27;ve grown as a person, and all the deep emotional impacts that music might be able to make on you <i>have been made</i>.  To those still growing, you aren&#x27;t able to assess the impact, because you now view the world through the eyes of an adult.<p>Give it 30 years, and watch as all these things come back again into pop-culture because those kids from today will be in your shoes, as decision makers at TV&#x2F;Internet&#x2F;Whatever companies that push pop-culture -- being guided by their own sense of nostalgia about the things that impacted them as kids.