1984

Here's an article from The Sports Guy on ESPN.com arguing that 1984 was the best year he can remember. I'd have to agree with him because I remember so much from this time.
You had a number of sporting events that were memorable (even though I was 7 I can remember them), the Olympics, etc.
And then you had MTV's breakout year. I can remember watching all these videos over and over. And plenty of good movies that year as well.

Read it and see if you agree.
Remember when MTV had videos? Seems like that was ages ago. And remember when MTV2 had videos? That's come to an end as well.