This week on the program, we look back to the year 1984, a year critics have called the "best year ever" for pop music. With massive releases by Prince, U2, Van Halen, Springsteen and many others, Jake Rudh totally gets where those critics are coming from … but best year ever? Let's listen to those and many more — we'll check them out together — and see if we agree.

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