# Albums which define the 1980s **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [April 25, 2023, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-which-define-the-1980s/983184 "2023-04-25T23:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2023, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-which-define-the-1980s/983184/44 "2023-04-26T12:44:22Z")
May I present a post which I created back in…Christ, August '20-- _ **almost 3 years ago??!?** _ Anyway, it’s about the Eighties-est **songs** , but the Eighties-est songs will be found on the Eighties-est albums: > [@What's the "Eighties-est" song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-eighties-est-song/919247): > > Yes, this is clearly a ripoff of… ummm, I mean an homage to this thread: [‘What’s the “Seventies-est” song?’](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-seventies-est-song/533777). I enjoyed but didn’t reply to it, because my choice would have been “Chevy Van” which was already cited about 3 or more times by the time I got there. Anyway, I was watching ‘Tuff Turf’ on Amazon Prime last night, which is one of the eighties-est movies ever, and it had a very 80’s soundtrack, which got me wondering. I won’t require a specific genre for this, unlike the “Seventies-est s… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-which-define-the-1980s/983184)._