I love eighties music, these songs just ain't the bomb-diggidy. I was born in '88 so I can't claim to have personally experienced the eighties, but if I were cognizant of my surroundings at the time I'm confident I'd have been a rock, metal, and punk head.
It's fair to say also that having grown up with a mother who was a kid/teen in the eighties, I can assure you that car rides were spent head bobbing to these bands and their contemporaries.
My mom's hair looked like this (and so too does mine, thanks Mom):