Posted on April 3rd, 2009 2:10pm by Zac Crain
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What’s the best year ever? Confining myself to the Zac Crain Era (1974-2051), my list looks a little something like this:
1. 1977
2. 1974
3. 2000
4. 2004
5. 1986
28 comments
You must be referring to the Quit-Smoking Zac Crain Era. The Smoking Zac Crain Era cuts off at 2029.
@ 2:15 pm on April 3, 2009
1948 — Harry Truman, Larry Doby, my birth.
1964 — British Invasion
1991 — 2nd wedding, tranquility arrives.
@ 2:15 pm on April 3, 2009
1969. sorry you missed it!
@ 2:25 pm on April 3, 2009
@IJS: I’ve talked the Internet, and stand by my reporting.
@ 2:26 pm on April 3, 2009
1986 – Reagan wins next term, Soviets loSE
@ 2:31 pm on April 3, 2009
1980 – turned 18, went to Europe, graduated high school and lost my virginity.
@ 2:33 pm on April 3, 2009
2008 – Texas Tech beats the #1 ranked Texas Longhorns — TV audience discovers Lubbock actually is a pretty cool college community. Town runs out of beer one hour after game ends. Mack Brown cried.
@ 2:43 pm on April 3, 2009
1986 — Several of my Cistercian classmates will know why.
@ 2:46 pm on April 3, 2009
1984 was a great year! Best one I can remember:
Top movies were Ghostbusters, Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Terminator, Beverly Hills Cop and Sixteen Candles.
The following musical artists either had their biggest album or broke into the U.S. mainstream in 1984:
U2, Madonna, The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Prince, Paul Weller (Style Council), Michael Jackson, Van Halen
Sports – The LA Olympics (without Russia, we won everything), 49ers had their very best season (18-1) ending with the Montana/Marino match-up in the 1985 Super Bowl, the first of the Celtics/LA Lakers NBA Championships (Celtics win), Wayne Gretzky won his first Stanley Cup, McEnroe vs. Connors at Wimbledon
PRETTY DAMN GOOD YEAR ALL THE WAY AROUND!
@ 2:54 pm on April 3, 2009
I see I’m not alone…
1984!
@ 2:58 pm on April 3, 2009
i like to see 1977 topping the list – my birth year. nice.
@ 3:01 pm on April 3, 2009
@j.d.w & Jason Meyer: Yeah, 1984 I have at No. 6, but easily could have slotted it higher. Other honorable mentions: 1992 and 2006.
@ 3:04 pm on April 3, 2009
2004 – got cholera.
@ 3:08 pm on April 3, 2009
1980 – 8 years old, straight-A student and sports junkie; Magic scores 42 to beat the 76ers in 6 games, bobby nystrom was offsides as the Isles beat the Flyers in 6, phillies finally win a WS in 6 games, and then the Eagles beat the Cowboys in the NFC Championship but fall to the Raiders in Jan. 81
1985 – 13 years old, no longer getting all A’s; ‘nova beat g-town and i started drinking beers and kissing girls for real like
1999 – 27 years old, barely made it out of college with a BA after nearly a decade; living in NYC and partying like it was 1999 and the bubble was never gonna burst
@ 3:16 pm on April 3, 2009
Are we allowed to group multiple years into one ranking? 1992 – 1997. College. I would provide more details, but I can’t remember… and anything you can’t remember should be at the top.
@ 3:23 pm on April 3, 2009
2008 – met and courted my bride to be
@ 3:37 pm on April 3, 2009
Taki, I hate to spoil your fuzzy memories of 1986, but Reagan was re-elected in 1984. And the Soviet Union didn’t fall till 1991.
@ 4:00 pm on April 3, 2009
Let’s go with 1985. … Actually had a girlfriend then. … and hair.
@ 4:05 pm on April 3, 2009
@pr…you meant “pretty cool community college” right?
@ 4:17 pm on April 3, 2009
1983-met Eric Clapton at a party. He asked me out, and I said no. He got totally piffed and left the party in a huff with his gang. Then the hosts of this party got totally piffed with me for not being cooperative. WTF! I am not THAT kind of girl! Well, anyway, Eric called me again and again over the next few weeks while he was on tour. Then it all stopped until 1985…
@ 4:29 pm on April 3, 2009
1974: Graduated HS, left small town WTX for college, discovered Willie and the rest of the progressive country music scare.
@ 4:31 pm on April 3, 2009
Matt,
bwwwwaaaaaaaa hahahahahahaahahahahaha -that’s a good one.
@ 4:54 pm on April 3, 2009
@Gadfly: You seriously turned down a date with Eric Clapton? I am married and wouldn’t turn down a Clapton date. (He’s on my exemption list so it’s ok.)
@ 5:24 pm on April 3, 2009
Well…you see…I still had morals in those days. There is more to this story, but some of the local characters are still alive.
@ 5:28 pm on April 3, 2009
1977. Star Wars. Punk rock. I was born.
@ 5:50 pm on April 3, 2009
2010, because after this year, anything will look like the best ever.
@ 9:44 pm on April 3, 2009
I’m trying to figure out Zac’s progression of years, he’s 3 (pottytraining?), he’s 0 (birth?), he’s 26 (met the Mrs.?), he’s 30 (married or new baby?), then he regresses to 12 (alcohol, pot or sex, or all three is my guess).
@ 10:27 am on April 4, 2009
In terms of Dallas, 1984 was the year–three of the 20 largest banks in the nation (imagine that…) the Republican Convention, the Mavericks were a hot ticket, and you still had the newspaper wars between Belo and the Times Herald.
@ 6:15 am on April 6, 2009
FrontBurner® launched in March 2003, the first blog in Dallas run by a media organization. This is where the editors of D Magazine come to waste a tremendous amount of time.
28 comments
You must be referring to the Quit-Smoking Zac Crain Era. The Smoking Zac Crain Era cuts off at 2029.
1948 — Harry Truman, Larry Doby, my birth.
1964 — British Invasion
1991 — 2nd wedding, tranquility arrives.
1969. sorry you missed it!
@IJS: I’ve talked the Internet, and stand by my reporting.
1986 – Reagan wins next term, Soviets loSE
1980 – turned 18, went to Europe, graduated high school and lost my virginity.
2008 – Texas Tech beats the #1 ranked Texas Longhorns — TV audience discovers Lubbock actually is a pretty cool college community. Town runs out of beer one hour after game ends. Mack Brown cried.
1986 — Several of my Cistercian classmates will know why.
1984 was a great year! Best one I can remember:
Top movies were Ghostbusters, Romancing the Stone, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Terminator, Beverly Hills Cop and Sixteen Candles.
The following musical artists either had their biggest album or broke into the U.S. mainstream in 1984:
U2, Madonna, The Smiths, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Prince, Paul Weller (Style Council), Michael Jackson, Van Halen
Sports – The LA Olympics (without Russia, we won everything), 49ers had their very best season (18-1) ending with the Montana/Marino match-up in the 1985 Super Bowl, the first of the Celtics/LA Lakers NBA Championships (Celtics win), Wayne Gretzky won his first Stanley Cup, McEnroe vs. Connors at Wimbledon
PRETTY DAMN GOOD YEAR ALL THE WAY AROUND!
I see I’m not alone…
1984!
i like to see 1977 topping the list – my birth year. nice.
@j.d.w & Jason Meyer: Yeah, 1984 I have at No. 6, but easily could have slotted it higher. Other honorable mentions: 1992 and 2006.
2004 – got cholera.
1980 – 8 years old, straight-A student and sports junkie; Magic scores 42 to beat the 76ers in 6 games, bobby nystrom was offsides as the Isles beat the Flyers in 6, phillies finally win a WS in 6 games, and then the Eagles beat the Cowboys in the NFC Championship but fall to the Raiders in Jan. 81
1985 – 13 years old, no longer getting all A’s; ‘nova beat g-town and i started drinking beers and kissing girls for real like
1999 – 27 years old, barely made it out of college with a BA after nearly a decade; living in NYC and partying like it was 1999 and the bubble was never gonna burst
Are we allowed to group multiple years into one ranking? 1992 – 1997. College. I would provide more details, but I can’t remember… and anything you can’t remember should be at the top.
2008 – met and courted my bride to be
Taki, I hate to spoil your fuzzy memories of 1986, but Reagan was re-elected in 1984. And the Soviet Union didn’t fall till 1991.
Let’s go with 1985. … Actually had a girlfriend then. … and hair.
@pr…you meant “pretty cool community college” right?
1983-met Eric Clapton at a party. He asked me out, and I said no. He got totally piffed and left the party in a huff with his gang. Then the hosts of this party got totally piffed with me for not being cooperative. WTF! I am not THAT kind of girl! Well, anyway, Eric called me again and again over the next few weeks while he was on tour. Then it all stopped until 1985…
1974: Graduated HS, left small town WTX for college, discovered Willie and the rest of the progressive country music scare.
Matt,
bwwwwaaaaaaaa hahahahahahaahahahahaha -that’s a good one.
@Gadfly: You seriously turned down a date with Eric Clapton? I am married and wouldn’t turn down a Clapton date. (He’s on my exemption list so it’s ok.)
Well…you see…I still had morals in those days. There is more to this story, but some of the local characters are still alive.
1977. Star Wars. Punk rock. I was born.
2010, because after this year, anything will look like the best ever.
I’m trying to figure out Zac’s progression of years, he’s 3 (pottytraining?), he’s 0 (birth?), he’s 26 (met the Mrs.?), he’s 30 (married or new baby?), then he regresses to 12 (alcohol, pot or sex, or all three is my guess).
In terms of Dallas, 1984 was the year–three of the 20 largest banks in the nation (imagine that…) the Republican Convention, the Mavericks were a hot ticket, and you still had the newspaper wars between Belo and the Times Herald.