As there's no way to actually measure the effects of nostalgia, I'll just say yes I would enjoy the music. I assume that my taste in music has been steady.
Some proof of this is that I got rid of hundreds of once-loved records, cassettes, and CDs when I was in my teens because I decided they were crap in some fit of teenage stupidity (such as that I was suddenly too cool for hair metal or top-40 pop), and now I wish that I had them all back.
Also, this mainly goes back to my pre-teen music because my general tastes were pretty much solidified by the time I was 15 (although, naturally, they expanded a lot since then). It was then that I stupidly disavowed my old loves such as Dokken, Cinderella, W.A.S.P., Def Leppard, Heart, INXS, Belinda Carlisle, Salt-n-Pepa, etc.
As an aside, I still can't listen to certain music that I discovered and hated when I was a teen/pre-teen such as: just about all 70s prog, the Rolling Stones, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, anything resembling nu-metal, etc.
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