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Best Single 1984 (1 Viewer)

Best Single 1984 Part 4

  • Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions

    Votes: 14 8.9%

  • Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2

    Votes: 37 23.6%

  • Thriller - Michael Jackson

    Votes: 50 31.8%

  • Against all Odds - Phil Collins

    Votes: 11 7.0%

  • You Spin Me Around (Like a Record) - Dead or Alive

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • Rock Box - Run-D.M.C

    Votes: 2 1.3%

  • Do they know it's Christmas Time / Feed the World - Band Aid

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • People are People - Depeche Mode

    Votes: 8 5.1%

  • Turn up the Radio - Autograph

    Votes: 4 2.5%

  • Stuck on You - Lionel Ritchie

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I Can't Drive 55 - Sammy Hagar

    Votes: 7 4.5%

  • Heavens on Fire - Kiss

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • I Can Dream About You - Dan Hartman

    Votes: 3 1.9%

  • Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - The Smiths

    Votes: 5 3.2%

  • Still Loving You - Scorpions

    Votes: 8 5.1%
  • Total voters
    157
Some good stuff here. Not as strong as '82, but a bit better than '83.

I'm sure my picks will be different than others since I'm not really a Prince fan (even though I got my first movie theater hand/bj during Purple Rain). Went with Sea of Love, Shout, King of Pain, and Rock You Like a Hurricane.

 
Great tunes in the poll. I thought there were more beatbox type songs this year. What year was White Lines by grandmaster flash?

 
Some notable exceptions to the poll choices...

Back for More – Ratt

Big In Japan – Alphaville

Borderline – Madonna

Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce Springsteen

Dancing in the Dark – Bruce Springsteen

Footloose – Kenny Loggins

Ghostbusters – Ray Parker, Jr.

Illegal Alien – Genesis

I'll Wait – Van Halen

Jump – Van Halen

Like a Virgin -Madonna

Missing You – John Waite

Oh Sherrie – Steve Perry

Pretty in Pink – The Psychedelic Furs

Radio Ga Ga – Queen

The Reflex – Duran Duran

Run Runaway – Slade

She Bop – Cyndi Lauper

Somebody's Watching Me – Rockwell

We're Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister

You Might Think – The Cars

 
'Andy Dufresne said:
Some notable exceptions to the poll choices...Born in the U.S.A. – Bruce SpringsteenFootloose – Kenny LogginsGhostbusters – Ray Parker, Jr.Jump – Van HalenLike a Virgin -MadonnaOh Sherrie – Steve PerryWe're Not Gonna Take It – Twisted Sister
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:goodposting: on these, especially Born in the USA.
 
'ODoyleRules said:
I'll just go ahead now and point out that "Loverboy" by Billy Ocean is the best song of all time and should have been included in the options for 1984 or 1985. I'm still petitioning my senator to have this be our National Anthem. thank you.
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Loverboy is a '85 single. It does have a great groove to it. I remember it being played in dance clubs a lot during that time.
 
Some tough choices.

Purple Rain

Hallelujah

Time After Time

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (I'd have gone with William, It Was Really Nothing, but both are great)

I've have probably taken U2's A Sort of Homecoming, Bad, or The Unforgettable Fire over everything in the poll, though I think only the Unforgettable Fire was a single. First two groups were tough, last two easy.

 
I know there is probably not many John Cougar fans here, but Authority Song is one of my favorite singles released in '84.

 
'Apple Jack said:
I've have probably taken U2's A Sort of Homecoming, Bad, or The Unforgettable Fire over everything in the poll, though I think only the Unforgettable Fire was a single. First two groups were tough, last two easy.
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Unforgettable Fire was a single in '85. Homecoming wasn't a single.
 
'simey said:
This is the year I graduated high school :grad: and started college :banned: .
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:thumbup: This was an interesting one. Went with Let's go Crazy over Purple Rain, and Willie Nelson made an otherwise tough choice easy for me. #3 could have gone in a few directions moment by moment, but 34 imo demsnded I give a nod to Thriller!
 
The Ghost In You- one of my favorite pop songs ever.

The Boys of Summer

Time After Time

Pride- not in love with the last grouping, though.

What about "When Doves Cry?"

 
There weren't any singles, but The Minutemen's Double Nickels on the Dime is easily my favorite album of 1984 and one of my favorites ever.

 
These three in the same group? They could have each won their own group had they been separated:

[*]Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2

[*]Thriller - Michael Jackson

[*]Against all Odds - Phil Collins

 
'Idiot Boxer said:
These three in the same group? They could have each won their own group had they been separated:

[*]Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2

[*]Thriller - Michael Jackson

[*]Against all Odds - Phil Collins
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If Thriller were in part 3 I might change my vote. Time after Time is a personal favorite but I would have likely picked Thriller over it. Not sure I pick Against All Odds over anything else I took no matter the bracket.
 
Let's Go Crazy, Jungle Love, Time After Time, Pride...

"Time After Time" may be my favorite single from this entire list, not for any memory it dredges up (I was 11 when it came out), but that it's just such a fantastic ballad with perfect backing vocals from Rob Hyman. Puts me in a trance each time I hear it.

I was listening to Sirius XM the other night & heard "Run To You" playing. My initial thought was, "wonder if it's gonna be in the next 'Best Single' poll?"

 
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Again, not a single, but one of the greatest songs ever. And finally Johnny Marr got around to remastering their catalog last year. Haven't heard it, but this first record especially needed it.

 
Wow - to me, 1984 is Prince. I remember seeing Purple Rain with my sister - and we were the only white people in the theater. :grad: I had both the PR soundtrack and Morris Day & the Time's cassettes and I played them all summer long.

I went with Purple Rain, Jungle Love, Panama and Thriller.

 
Definitely got my new wave groove on that year courtesy of CFNY Toronto, so I went with the Furs, Echo, REM (So. Central Rain) and Depeche Mode.

 
While I understand why it was such a huge hit...the video...I always thought the title track was one of the weaker songs on Thriller.

 
'Apple Jack said:
While I understand why it was such a huge hit...the video...I always thought the title track was one of the weaker songs on Thriller.
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I think so too, but I know a lot of people love that song. I know I"m in the minority, but I always liked Jackson's "Off the Wall" album better than "Thriller", but I do like the songs "Billie Jean" and "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin".
 
'Idiot Boxer said:
These three in the same group? They could have each won their own group had they been separated:

[*]Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2

[*]Thriller - Michael Jackson

[*]Against all Odds - Phil Collins
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Just came into post this - but also wouldve added the Scorpions uber-anthem 'Rock you like a Hurricane'

 
Voted:

Fade to Black - Metallica

(Don't Go Back To) Rockville - REM

I'll Wait - Van Halen

Turn up the Radio - Autograph

Plenty of tough choices. Others not in the poll:

1. Would have voted for When Doves Cry (Prince) over all of these.

2. How Soon is Now? (Smiths) was originally released in 1984 as a B-side; if it were in the poll, I also would have voted for it over all of these.

3. Other great choices not mentioned so far: Forever Young (Alphaville), I Want to Know What Love Is (Foreigner), Are We Ourselves (Fixx).

 
Speaking of Forever Young...I went to our sister school's senior prom my junior year and the band was asked to play Forever Young and did the Rod Stewart song. LOLZ ensued.

 
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