I remember the Talking_Heads/Cars being a transition point for lots of my friends in the 70's. Getting off the Sabbath/Stones/Zep/Skynard/... Merry-Go-Round was a good thing. Not that there was anything wrong, it's just that there's a infinite amount of music out there...
If/when our species gets off this rock in space, and get on other rocks in space, they'll have 1000's of years of music to listen to...till The Sun Goes Down...