As someone once wrote:
‘Some people call it the 80s, but we can call it paradise’
Discuss.
Depends when you were born. I’m 73, and see the 60’s & earlier 70’s as the best. For a variety of reasons my parents never found out about.
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Definitely 70s for me!
I met my wife, our kids were born, all the relatives that i had ever known were still alive, and in my opinion, the best of the biking years. 
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70’s and early 80’s for me. I had so many great friends and fantastic times. Brilliant memories.
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90’s for me 
Born 1970….
So for me the 80’s were about music memories,
Madness, The Jam, The specials & Big country.
The 90’s…
Gazza (Italy90) Keegan and his entertainers and my first gti…. 1990 VW Jetta MK2 (big bumper)GTi 
Oh happy days
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There was some pretty good stuff in the 80s.
Motorhead and The Ramones among others.
Some great video games. (Robotron, Pac Man etc)
Killer movies (especially in 83)
The Mitsubishi Starion was an 80s car too.
And of course last but definitely not least.. The MX 5 first appeared in the late 80s
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I love the 80’s music….. fond memories as a teenager
The 80s had some good tracks.
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As a perpetual 8 year old I took my first step into paradise in 1967 when a radio 1 DJ recomended I turn up the volume for his next platter ’Purple Haze’. I have not ventured too far from paradise since and my little MX-5 makes it almost impossible these days, which decade was best, always the next one.
Ah, 1960s, happy days.
End of academic year~June 67 I’d just finished building a 30W valve guitar amp and accompanying hi-fi speaker cabinet with 18" Goodmans for a friend.
My room in Hall of Residence was ground floor on an outside corner. The Warden’s accommodation was diametrically opposite also facing outwards.
My friend brought round his guitar at lunchtime, and we shut all the windows and tested the pre-amps newly discovered Fuzz feature with Purple Haze.
The Warden was complaining in less than a minute; about as long as it took him to sprint around the quadrangle.
While we apologised and promised to remove it, my friend and I silently agreed the amp and speaker had passed Acceptance Testing with flying colours.
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Unfortunately being born in ‘59 I missed out on the wider cultural significance of the moment but for the first time I heard something I really, really liked it communicated so deeply with me and that feeling never left me.
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“Just a minute, dear. Someone is wrong on the internet. This won’t take long.”
Roadhouse Blues - The Doors - 1970
Silver Machine - Hawkwind - 1971
Metal Guru - T Rex - 1972
Radar Love - Golden Earring - 1973
Freebird - Lynyrd Skynyrd - 1974
You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive - 1975
Show Me The Way - Peter Frampton -1976
Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band - 1977
Driver’s Seat - Sniff n the Tears - 1978
Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits - 1979
I rest my case.
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Sorry man I have to disagree for me the 70s as they were the 1st of almost 3 decades in the Army 
closely followed by the…80s -90s Hussar..!
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1984. My mates dad had an R reg 180B that failed the MoT because the exhaust was blowing, he was going to scrap it for £15 so I gave him £25 for it. Swapped it for an R reg 2000E 8 months after.
Got my first flat 86 and swapped the Cortina and a couple of quid for a Rover Vitesse, quickly bought a ‘66 Morris Cooper for a tenner and used the V8 from payday til Monday and the Mini until I could afford more juice. I was earning good money and you could take a girl for a drink, see Motörhead or Sabbath etc play and get a big Chinese meal afterwards for about £40 but I’d burn about £50 of petrol . Good Times.
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Born in early ‘60s here, Was brought up largely on prog rock. Was just about coming of the youthful revolution age when punk hit in ‘76. Been there ever since.
Punk tought me an important lesson. What ever you want to do, do it yourself.
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Born in ‘68 but still a ‘child of the sixties’. My music tastes cross every decade from 60s to the 00s. Not finding much I like in this modern era!
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I made up a cassette with most of those tracks on it! All recorded off the radio…
It was nicked when my old Bitsa was stolen.
I never bought any of the albums they came from though.
The CD is available second hand…
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