Want to relive college? Visit your ninth-grade self? This site generates a playlist of the hottest jams from any year in the past 5 decades.
One of my most vivid music-related childhood memories is of watching the Thompson Twins on the 1984 season premiere of Saturday Night Live. Their performance of "Hold Me Now" (along with the Men's Synchronized Swimming sketch from the same episode, and the Padres' playoff victory) solidified that year in my mind as one of major pop-culture awakening.