Without repeating REM, Prince, Minutemen, or Replacements:

It was hard not picking that Los Lobos, Boss, or U2 records.

btw Bloor, I thought for sure you'd have the Fat Boys on yr list.

I used to like that record, back when it came out. But I haven't listened to it since about that time, either.

Shit, forgot all about it. Good call though.

Good call on the Hoodoos, BG!

Most of mine have already been posted.

Minutemen - Double Nickels
The Fall - Wonderful and Frightening World
Meat Puppets - II
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

to these I'll add

Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains

I feel like I've acquired a lot of stuff from 1984 in the past year or so and not yet had the chance to fully process or evaluate all of it. But these are still probably my favorites.

some i would've picked already but i'm going (mostly) metal.

Buy 6 get one free?

Guess lots of obvious ones from 84 'cause most of mine already mentioned. But here goes:

Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime
Husker Du: Zen Arcade
Replacements: Let it Be
REM: Reckoning
Black Flag: My War
Run DMC: S/T

Damn, left out a lot of good stuff, mostly already mentioned like Butthole Surfers, Los Lobos, Prince, Sugur Minott, Yellowman's King Yellowman album, Violent Femmes. I could also list a bunch of silly New Wave stuff that was fun from then. Also wanna give a mention to The Alarm: Declaration, something I've listened to tons over the years. Really great year I think. Scratch Acid was good that year. I really did like the first Chili Peppers album. Walking into the record shop and coming out with Husker Du and the Minutemen was maybe my best record shopping trip ever.

and, who can forget this...

Totally didn't realize that Cramps was '84. Great pick.

Nice on the Cramps, didn't come into my mind since its a comp.
That Gun Club is the return of Kid Congo Powers.

this album means a lot to me.

Most of my first choices have been listed....Hoodoos, Echo, Robyn Hitchcock, Lloyd Cole Here's a few more to round out the year:


A quarter century on, and this one's held up better than "Love".


Anything these guys did for Glass is dynamite (i.e. anything with Max)


We got two from JC in '84...this one ekes it out by a nose.


Before they joined the Breakfast Club generation.


A high school staple.

I'm as pissed off as you are about the differing sizes of image.



Others I'd pick would be Smiths, Cramps and, em, something else.