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The Year You Were Born
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What's the best film and album from the year you were born?
I've got a few films to choose from, but I'd have to say Once Upon A Time In America has to be the best. Honourable mentions go to Ghostbusters, Gremlins, This Is Spinal Tap, The Terminator, Nightmare On Elm Street and Beverly Hills Cop, Police Academy and The Temple Of Doom. Class year for films.
For albums, the only critically acclaimed album I found from 1984 was Purple Rain by Prince. I guess it was a bit of a crap year for music. On a positive note, it did see the debut releases by The Smiths, The Chili Peppers, Run DMC and The Flaming Lips. And Mr. T's Commandments was another outstanding release. And a special mention has to go to that well known album "The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks" by Flux Of Pink Indians. I'm gonna have to find a copy of that.
I've got a few films to choose from, but I'd have to say Once Upon A Time In America has to be the best. Honourable mentions go to Ghostbusters, Gremlins, This Is Spinal Tap, The Terminator, Nightmare On Elm Street and Beverly Hills Cop, Police Academy and The Temple Of Doom. Class year for films.
For albums, the only critically acclaimed album I found from 1984 was Purple Rain by Prince. I guess it was a bit of a crap year for music. On a positive note, it did see the debut releases by The Smiths, The Chili Peppers, Run DMC and The Flaming Lips. And Mr. T's Commandments was another outstanding release. And a special mention has to go to that well known album "The Fucking Cunts Treat Us Like Pricks" by Flux Of Pink Indians. I'm gonna have to find a copy of that.
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Albums - True Blue, Madonna.
I had you down for being much older than an 86er.
Nay 86 all the way :thumb:
Indeed. :thumb:
Rocky, Bugsy Malone, Taxi driver, The Omen.
Hotel california - the eagles
Joan Armatrading - joan armatrading
Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre
Steve Miller band - fly like an eagle
Frank Zappa - zoot allures
Music = Black Sabbath, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Led Zeppelin III, Live At Leeds...
Best albums: The Smiths - Meat Is Murder, The Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist
ETA: 1985 btw
I want to be an 85er now
I also have to give an honorable mention to The Snowman which also aired for the first time in 1982... and I love it
I used to love that film!!
Used to? Shame on you
Haha, I did think that when I said it.
It was more in a cos its never on now kind of way.
Brazil & Back to the Future I suppose :chin: ('85) I don't really recall seeing many of them.
edit: ooh, and the Goonies as addict said, of course!
My favourite is My Beautiful Laundrette but honourable mentions have to go to: Back to the Future, The Boys Next Door, The Colour Purple, The Goonies, Return to Oz, Rocky IV, Santa Claus: The Movie, Teen Wolf, To Live and Die in LA.
As for albums, I guess it'd be cheating to say Dylan's Biograph (definitely my favourite musical event of '85, though) so I'll say Dare to Be Stupid by "Weird Al" Yankovic. You can't go wrong with "Yoda" and "Like a Surgeon"
Albums: Pink Floyd's The Wall pretty much shat all over all the rest. Although the Rolling Stones, Queen and the Bee Gees gave it a good go.
1981, btw.