1984 was a fine year: US troops pulled out of Lebanon, Michael Jackson thankfully survived a terrible run-in with pyrotechnics while filming a Pepsi commercial, King Crimson broke up, Ghostbusters thrilled audiences, and I was born. All events of equal importance, of course.
The Mayer Unit makes a strong argument that the year was good for music too, with its top five songs of the Annus Akroydirilis:
1. MP3: Bruce Springsteen - “I’m On Fire” (from Born In The USA, 1984).
2. MP3: Cold Chisel - “Flame Trees” (from Twentieth Century, 1984).
3. MP3: Foreigner - “I Want To Know What Love Is” (from Agent Provocateur, 1984).
4. MP3: Echo & The Bunnymen - “The Killing Moon” (from Ocean Rain, 1984).
5. MP3: Talk Talk - “It’s My Life” (from It’s My Life, 1984).
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Anton - Love your playlist. We babies of the eighties sometimes get a bad rap… as if we can help the year we were born in?! Any who, loving the 1984 theme here. Good tunes to start a writing session with.
Thank you.
Black Flag put out four albums in 1984 — My War, Family Man, Slip It In, and Live ‘84. Not half bad for one year.
Bleh. Being a Black Flag superfan, I feel obligated to post this. But yes, a good year in music indeed. Carry on.
I don’t know any Black Flag. Which album should I check out first?
Anton, I’ll put together a Black Flag post this week!
And IllStabYou is right: Black Flag put out a few discs in 1984, and I really think it was their best work, but I like the live disc “Who’s Got the 10 1/2?” a little better than “Live ‘84.”