Preferred years for music in the eighties( 80s)?

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  1. KingPrawn19

    KingPrawn19 Forum Resident

    All these are great
    1982
    1989
    1981
    1988
    1980
    1983

    These not so good

    1984
    1987
    1986

    This imho probably the worst year in popular music of the last 100 years

    1985

    I love the 1980s - had basically all my youth in that decade - 14 when they kicked off 24 at the end

    But strangely find the period from 1984-87 one if THE worst music, fashion, graphic design wise of the 20th century. Talk about a falling of the cliff in quality.
     
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  2. carlwm

    carlwm Forum Resident

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    Ha ha. I love 1985.

    Some great albums released that year, though I'd have to research where it finished, for me, in the pantheon of great years. I prefer it to all of the Sixties, that's for sure. :)
     
  3. Phil12

    Phil12 Radiant Radish

    1989:
    Kaleidoscope World - Swing Out Sister
    The Seeds Of Love - Tears For Fears
    Rockin' In The Free World - Neil Young
     
  4. Grant

    Grant Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me!

    College and work years.

    1981
    For me it was all about soul and jazz music.

    1982
    Good all-around year, the second-half, anyway.

    1983
    Great year for pop and rock music

    1984
    Another good year for pop music. Hard rock, too.

    1985
    's OK...

    1986...


    What's the point? The rest of the 80s were great for pop music. For me, the 80s were a rotten decade, and I tend to put the music in that.
     
  5. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    Eighties ?
    Best decade for videos.
    Music ?
    Early eighties.
     
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  6. koshrecords

    koshrecords NZ-based Xennial, Manics expert

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  7. koshrecords

    koshrecords NZ-based Xennial, Manics expert

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    FYI... 1980 came out top for that decade, at #16.
     
  8. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

  9. Paul_s

    Paul_s Forum Resident

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    Going off my Discogs collection - 1985, 1986, 1987, 1984, 1988, 1983, 1989.
     
  10. koshrecords

    koshrecords NZ-based Xennial, Manics expert

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  11. Paul_s

    Paul_s Forum Resident

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    height of fashion I'll have you know! :cool::uhhuh::hide:

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  12. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    Sexy.
     
  13. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    More photographic evidence.
     
  14. Fischman

    Fischman RockMonster, ClassicalMaster, and JazzMeister

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    In general earlier is better.

    '81 is easily best overall.
     
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  15. samthesham

    samthesham Forum Resident

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    Moorhead MN
    1980-1984 exclusively,Lou Reed reevaluated, the birth of the Paisley Underground movement, Soft Boys, Robyn Hitchcock,Los Lobos along with Plan 9(from NYC) & The Nomads (from Sweden)
     
  16. WolfSpear

    WolfSpear Music Enthusiast

    Location:
    Florida
    1984
    1983
    1981
    1985
    1982
    1987
    1986
    1989
    1980
    1988
     
  17. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    I was born in 1974, so my entire childhood was the 80s.

    1980 & 1981 - I'd just got my first record player. Madness, Adam and the Ants, The Human League etc etc. A vibrant, colourful, inventive and optimistic time for pop music. It was also excellent for rock, metal and indie music.
     
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  18. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    Much prefer the 80s to the 90s.
     
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  19. Man at C&A

    Man at C&A Senior Member

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    So do I for music, but I had a great time in the 90s and loved the indie music up until just after Britpop, when there was a real comedown. The so called Britpop scene was exciting until the media got hold of it and that awful term came about.
     
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  20. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits.... Thread Starter

    Yeah I loved it around 94-96. UK had predominantly the best music in the nineties( for me at least).
     
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  21. LandHorses

    LandHorses I contain multitudes

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    For Grateful Dead concerts.........................

    1985
    1989
    1982
    1986
    1983
    1984
    1981
    1987
    1988
    1980
     
  22. Led9

    Led9 Forum Resident

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    Allentown, PA
    1980-81, then 1988-89. Everything else in between kinda sucked for me even though I was in my early 20's then and should feel nostalgic about it. The end of the 70's and then the beginning of alternative/grunge. The 1982-87 void inspired me to discover all the great late 60's and 70's hard rock and prog that was before my time. So if the 80's didn't suck so bad I wouldn't have discovered all that great stuff.
     
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  23. Baldo

    Baldo Forum Resident

    Location:
    Butte, Montana
    1982 (KISS - Creatures of the Night; Rush - Signals; Eddie Money - No Control; Y&T - Black Tiger; Led Zeppelin - Coda)
    1983 (The Police - Synchronicity; KISS - Lick It Up; Stevie Ray Vaughan debuts with Texas Flood; Metallica make their debut with Kill 'Em All; Motley Crue - Shout at the Devil; Motorhead - Another Perfect Day; Thin Lizzy release their final studio album, Thunder and Lightning; Jake E. Lee debuts with Ozzy on Bark at the Moon)
    1984 (Van Halen - 1984; Rush - Grace Under Pressure; KISS bounces back with Animalize; SRV follows up with the excellent Couldn't Stand the Weather; Metallica - Ride the Lightning)
    1980 (the year literally starts off with Rush - Permanent Waves; AC/DC - Back in Black; The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta; Ozzy Osborune - Blizzard of Ozz; Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell; Paul McCartney - McCartney II; Van Halen - Women and Children First; the good stuff is enough to outweigh the bad things about this year)
    1981 (Rush finally hit the mainstream with Moving Pictures; KISS go progressive with Music From "The Elder"; The Police - Ghost in the Machine; Van Halen - Fair Warning; Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman; The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You)
    1985 (Dokken - Under Lock and Key; KISS - Asylum; Stevie Ray Vaughan - Soul to Soul)
    1987 (Guns 'N Roses release Appetite for Destruction; The Beatles become available on CD; Ace Frehley makes a comeback with Frehley's Comet; Dokken - Back for the Attack; George Harrison makes a comeback with the outstanding Cloud Nine)
    1989 (Badlands release their first album; Ace Frehley - Trouble Walkin'; King's X - Gretchen Goes to Nebraska)
    1986 (Van Hagar makes its debut with 5150; Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin; Metallica - Master of Puppets)
    1988 (Zakk Wylde debuts with Ozzy on No Rest for the Wicked; Jane's Addiction releases their first full-length studio album, Nothing's Shocking; EMI release Past Masters Volume One and Past Masters Volume Two, completing what would be the official Beatles catalog until 2009)
     
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  24. DiabloG

    DiabloG City Pop, Rock, and anything 80s til I die

    Location:
    United States
    1985
    1983
    1984
    1986
    1982
    1981
    1987
    1980
    1989
    1988
     
  25. Terrapin Station

    Terrapin Station Master Guns

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    Answering a question like this might make some sense to me if I had info like that at my disposal, but unfortunately I don't keep track of what I'd rate every album. That would take me forever to do.

    But then I'd still have the problem that probably the only reason I have 300 5/5s from 1984, say, while I have 276 from 1985, is that there are 24 albums from 1985 that either I still haven't heard (or that will grow on me more) so that I wind up with 300 5/5s from 1985, too. So it still seems infeasible to me.

    The bottom line is that "favorite years" and even really "favorite decades" just doesn't reflect my interaction with music very well. There's a ton of stuff from every year, every decade, from a huge variety of genres and from hundreds of artists, that I'd rate a 5/5 or 4/5, a fair amount that I'd rate a 3/5, not too much that I'd rate a 2/5, and usually close to nothing I'd rate a 1/5.
     
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