Best songs of 1984
Purple at the top of the year, and underneath it hip-hop made its first rock-shaped album and a Manchester band handed indie a voice it kept for a decade. American underground labels started functioning as scenes rather than as hobbies.
Songs from the albums of 1984, ordered by their own ratings rather than the record's.
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I Don't Wanna FightTina Turner · What's Love Got to Do with It4.13.8 avg · 4 ratings - 22
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Cups and CakesSpın̈al Tap · This Is Spinal Tap3.82.6 avg · 4 ratings - 31
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One great song, one bad album
Tracks carry their own ratings here, so a record you would never play front to back can still have a song worth defending.
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