Well out of all of the 80's decade which year do you think was the best?

Im gonna have to say 1984 because that's when we were introduced to some of the best artist.

Any year before 1990!  ;)

Tanya

i would like to say 86 as my graduation year name says.  bon jovi's slippery when wet came out i thnk top gun  came out then too.  wild blue released no more jinx  with my just about  my favorite song  fire with fire  and i have it on cd very rare !!!!!!!!!!!  Sincerely, Richard

I'm surprised you don't have that many replies!!! my favorite year is definitely 85'.of course girls played a big part of that summer.ya know first real girlfriend, parties, going swimming everyday, and of course the music.

Howard Jones-Things Can Only Get Better
Survivor-the search is over
Paul Young-Everytime you go away
Prince-raspberry beret
wham-Everything she wants
Madonna-into the groove
tears for fears-everybody wants to rule the world.....

86' is a close second though.

I have three influential years (1984, 1986 and 1989). Out of all those . . . Hmm! O.k, I'll go for 1984.  :)

1985 'cause that's the year I was born  :) 8)

I like 1984.  But the thing about those mid 80s years, well early and mid 80s years, is that they could be really really cool, but also really cheesy and lame at the same time.  You'll hear a really cool song like nothing you've heard before from that time, but then you'll see them wearing those atrocious leather jackets and headbands, complete with gaudy a 1984 hairstyle. 

Earlier 80's (Pre-1985)

1984 8)

Well out of all of the 80's decade which year do you think was the best?

Im gonna have to say 1984 because that's when we were introduced to some of the best artist.
I'M GOING TO HAVE TO SAY 1983 CAUSE THAT'S WHEN I WAS INTRODUCED TO DURANDURAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1985 without a doubt! Folllowed closely by 86

-Thomas

1984.  Because of Nik Kershaw, Automatic - The Pointer Sisters..there are loads more..my fav year ever.

Well, I was born in 86', but musically 1984 is the year I choose.(the birth year of techno and mid level of new wave :))

Summer of 1987 man, I was 17 and one of my roommates and I took off on a two week trek from mid June to July 4th and followed Motley Crue thru 9 cities in 6 states what a freakin’ blast that was. That was my early Sr. graduation trip/gift from my folks. They funded most of it and we had been saving up for the better part of a year and we borrowed my roomies sisters car. We started in our hometown, TX then on to Albuquerque, NM, El Paso, TX, Austin, TX, San Antonio, TX, Houston, TX, Oklahoma City, OK, Shreveport, LA, Biloxi, MS, Little Rock, AR and finally back to home. Man… what a GREAT memory that made!

My favorite year is 1984.

1984 :)

1983-1989

Very hard to say as each was/is somewhat special to me. But I'm going for 1980. Lots of great music was made back then.

Closer - Joy Division
Vienna - Ultravox
Signing Off - UB40
Sadinista - The Clash
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
In The Flat Field - Bauhaus
Kaleidoscope - Siouxsie & The Banshees
Crocodiles - Echo & The Bunnymen
Sound Affects - The Jam
Scary Monsters - David Bowie
Empires And Dance - Simple Minds
Suicide - Suicide
Travelogue - The Human League
Kilimanjaro - The Teardrop Explodes
Organisation - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Waiting For A Miracle - Comsat Angels
Boy - U2
Peter Gabriel III - Peter Gabriel

...etc.

  Like others, 1984...

  Thinking back on all of it, seems '84 (perhaps also '85) really felt like "the 80's".  Earlier seemed like 70's-lite; later, like a self-parody...

Geeze....it would be too hard to pick the best year out of the 80's! I think all of them rocked!  ;)

my second choice would be 1985. I dig the John Hughes films.

my second choice would be 1985. I dig the John Hughes films.


;D

And Depeche Mode's "Singles 81-85" compilation came out that year too! (See your avatar!)  ;)

I'm preoccupied with 1985! :D

87-89 for me..my first days of partying and dancing to great music at the bars(the music got better in the early 90s though  :))