people who grew up in the 1980s :which was the better years of the 1980s ?

was it the the early 1980s that started from 1980 to 1984 ? or was it 1985-1989 ? was the early 1980s (1980 to 1984) culturally different from the mid/ late 1980s(1985to1989)?

was it better than the 1970s or worse than the 1990s