Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1986!!

I'm going to Graceland

Infected

skylarking by a hair over several of these, including gabriel, talk talk, bad brains, janet, cameo, and the fall

Wow, a better list than I'd expect for this year. Evol vs Master of Puppets vs Queen Is Dead vs Reign in Blood.

The Colour of Spring, ahead of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus and Reign in Blood.

Missing: Astor Piazzolla's Tango: Zero Hour.

(Speaking of Argentina.)

XTC or Talk Talk. Probably.

One of these, I think.

Anita Baker – Rapture
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Prince – Parade
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Sonic Youth – EVOL
The The - Infected

Oops, I missed the Beastie Boys and Run DMC

Lifes Rich Pageant > Candy Apple Grey > The Queen is Dead > Brotherhood, but they're all A+.

At the time, probably Licensed to Ill

Missing: Kaleidoscope World, but I'm OK with compilations not counting, and... True Blue?

One of these, no question.

Anita Baker – Rapture
Janet Jackson - Control
Prince – Parade

I would've included Kaleidoscope World but its a comp

hard to get past rapture

I don't know Rapture or even Anita Baker so I guess I have someone to listen to

I'll have to choose between Horse Rotorvator, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, and Throwing Muses. Evol's great of course but not a favorite.
I don't have any blatant omission to point to, which is very weird. Ok a few still:
- Poison - Into the Abyss
- Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian
- Michael Palmer - Half Pint - Joint Favourites
- Hotline - You are mine

Gone to earth vs rapture vs master of puppets vs le mystére des voix Bulgares

But if I could live
Safe and sound
In God given fields
Or mountains of steel

Talk Talk vs Chameleons
Talk Talk vs Chameleons
Talk Talk vs Chameleons
Had to go Chameleons, that album meant the world to me when I was doing my first job.

missing Game Theory's Big Shot Chronicles, one of 3 CVB releases, and The Church's best album.
Going with Atomizer.

Throwing Muses. But what a list.

Throwing Muses. But what a list.

Throwing Muses. But what a list.

This is tough

Bad Brains – I Against I
Big Black – Atomizer
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Cameo – Word Up!
Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Saint Vitus – Born Too Late
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Sonic Youth – EVOL
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Swans – Greed
Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring

Any of those but candlemass just over saint vitus just over big black

Parade for sure, Sonic Youth & Coil close seconds

Gone To Earth. I'm always putting Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen on the highest pedestal as my fave album ever/greatest album ever made, but sometimes I do wonder if GTE is secretly the true answer.

I'd say this year marks a bit of a step up from '85 - Parade, Skylarking, Colour of Spring, EVOL and Lifes Rich Pageant are all 10/10 albums for me for starters.

Metals big year where's NYCNative?

Only ones of these albums I’ve listened to in the past year are The Go-Betweens and The Feelies. Voting for the The Go-Betweens - starts strong with Spring Rain, ends strong with Apology Accepted. And plenty of quality in between.

Big Shot Chronicles & Camberwell Now's The Ghost Trade are imo the big omissions here (also UT's Conviction but it's long been OOP, practically forgotten)

...anyways, Sonic Youth over Throwing Muses. No way this list isn't one of the best cases ever made for 86.

Ghost Trade is so incredible, good catch

(still not as good as Parade imo)

How the fuck do I choose between Colour of Spring and Reign in Blood?

also UT's Conviction but it's long been OOP, practically forgotten

reissued last month.

My two favourite Aussie albums...went with Go Betweens but Born Sandy Devotional is amazing too.

also UT's Conviction but it's long been OOP, practically forgotten

reissued last month.

― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, May 24, 2019 6:13 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

REALLY?????

https://utmusic.bandcamp.com/album/conviction

Oh I think I'm voting for C86.

Electric Cafe

Victorialand, one of my favourite albums.

Electric Cafe

― big gym sw0les (crüt), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:02 (eleven minutes ago) Permalink

Its got a bad rep and it's not as strong as previous efforts but I love it

Word Up just ahead of Skylarking. They're both in my all time top 20. The Colour of Spring, Parade and Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express are ridiculously perfect records too.

Parade over Rapture just but Rapture is a pretty flawless record

ok i feel like we got some genuine good shit here after the horror of '85, let's go

achwgha ney wodei - s/t
afrika bambaataa - planet rock the album
akina nakamori - fushigi
andrzej panufnik - symphony no. 9 'sinfonia di speranza'
astor piazzolla - tango: zero hour
banda elastica - 2
the cleaners from venus - living with victoria grey
curtis hairston - s/t
dagmar krause - supply & demand
dead - musical abortions
dwarr - animals
elektradrive - over the space
gauze - equalizing distort
hirax - hate, fear, and power
hotline - you are mine
luzbel - pasaporte al infierno
marlon cherry - life after theatre
moonriders - don't trust over thirty
motorhead - orgasmatron
news from babel - letters home
nobuo uematsu & takashi uno - cruise chaser blassty
pauli carman - dial my number
ran blake - short life of barbara monk
roberta eklund - the process of recognition
robyn hitchcock - element of light
siekiera - nova aleksandria
sodom - obsessed by cruelty
x-creta - patronizing the heterodox
yawning man - the birth of sol
rosa luxemburg - puri puri
kou machida - wild and crazy guys
akiko yano - brooch

ok kind of an odd (and pretty limited genre-wise) mix but i really do like a lot of the noms here as well, voted "parade", it's one of prince's best imo

Horse Rotorvator, Atomizer, Rembrandt Pussyhorse, Born Sandy Devotional, So

& a couple of personal favourites not on the list:

The Cramps - A Date With Elvis
Crime & The City Solution - Room of Lights
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking against the Pricks AND Your Funeral, My Trial
SPK - Zamia Lehmanni
The Sisterhood - Gift

xp Supply And Demamd is not good imho, dry amd sterile and unexciting

i get your criticisms - it's got that very '80s production to it - but dagmar krause is a good singer and a good interpreter of brecht/weill/eisler imo.

Oh totally, I love her other work (Slapp Happy) especially) but just can't connect w/ that one

what do you think of the news from babel record from '86?

i think our friend morrissey is going to fare better in this one

Reign in Blood & Chocolate

(Why are the two EC albums one entry? Idgi)

My favorite album from one of my all time favorite bands, Victorialand.

This is a very strong year

Completely out of character, this is the Triffids. Love that album.

Yes it is brilliant, isn't it...but then so is LBATBDE.

You may be interested in watching this if you haven't seen it already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keYoFOnuHMU&t=133s

It was likely Born Sandy Devotional I voted for, come to think of it. Sadly I never liked "Wide Open Road" (or the Calenture singles) as a child, so the greatness of this one still feels like a relatively recent revelation.

Stolen Property (and Hell of a Summer iirc) was my gateway.

Sorry, watching them do those songs on The Tube in 1986 (or late 85 maybe?) was what I meant but somehow forgot to type.

The Tear Garden s/t mini album made an impression on me in this year and I still have a fondness for it. Ophelia is an all-time great electro-goth song and The Centre Bullet is some excellent dubbed out bleeping to infinity electronica.

https://youtu.be/qzpsl9sOOSg

From here up to 1990 I'm gonna vote for a Pet Shop Boys album, if eligible.

Throwing Muses

Voting Skylarking; even though it's only like my 4th or 5th favorite XTC record,it's the one I've played most from this list.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

It's not often that I find myself torn between Graceland and Reign in Blood.

I’m torn between Control and Rapture (ha!) myself. Should I give it up and just give in?

Old person here: I look at that list and wonder to myself, huh, in 30 years will someone have just as much trouble picking their favorite record of 2019 from 10/15/20+ serious legit candidates for Favorite Album of All Time that they've been listening to regularly for the previous 30 years?

would be nice to think so

not so sure though

All you need to know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZl5t30Lhc

As much as I hate to say it, I can't lie to myself and vote for anything other than The Queen is Dead.

Oh yes, Alfred, that is an all-time performance, and Rapture is a glorious album, but I decided to go with Control in the end for all the joy it’s given me over the years, and again when I played it this week, remixes and all.

Meanwhile in Turkey, after 1984’s Sen Ağlama album, Sezen Aksu continues to remake Turkish pop music in her image with Git.

(not a million miles removed from Anita Baker at times, if I may be so bold.)

Also, İbrahim Tatlıses releases one of the best of his mega-selling collections of popified arabesk and East Anatolian folk songs, Gülüm Benim/Gülümse Biraz...

...and in exile from Turkey, Kurdish troubadour Şivan Perwer releases his Lê Dilberê album.

I cant believe Mike forgot to include them

Oh dear, pointless sarcasm, the best kind.

for the 12" version of 'Sweet Bird of Truth' alone (its on the original cd edition of the album), it has to be Infected.

But please, do update me about the guidelines on what kinds of music we are allowed to post about on ILM, so I (and everyone else) can behave accordingly.

xp

xp

lol

i had 10 weeks of people complaining i had left out their faves in the 69-79 polls so it does get a tad annoying but cheer up i was only joking

Well, you see, I wasn’t complaining about this stuff being left out. One of the things I like most about these polls is people listing additional favourites of their own from that particular year. There always tend to be some things there that intrigue me, and the rest I ignore. Same as with the main list, basically.

I don’t think in general this kind of thing is meant as a slight against the compiler. Everyone, including I’d hope the compiler themselves, understands that no selection of 50 albums will do a year justice. So it’s a form of crowdsourcing, to get a fuller picture of the year in question.

I don’t really get why anyone would find this annoying, unless they somehow think everyone should adhere to the same limited canon.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

You be you, Beastie. I love reading people's lists of what they feel was left out, often quite surprised (and informed by) how they differ from mine.

Oh look, XTC won. More power to my fellow Chameleons voter as well as the sole voters for The Fall and C86!

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration 0

*record scratch noise*

I'd say Skylarking by a significant margin is just as (or even more) surprising!

yes that surprises me too

Just one vote for So it seems — I am an album ILM de-ser-ted...

Don't give up — it's not the only poll

The results are fair. Several of the finalists are among the best albums in history. So too.

Slightly disappointed to see I was the only vote for Cameo, but overall some great results. XTC winning is a nice surprise. Nice turnout for The Go-Betweens too.

wow, pleasantly surprised to see throwing muses do so well

Yep.

I hate consensus

I'm glad Throwing Muses scored highly, not XTC.

Happy now?

Late call: Various Artists - The House Sound of Chicago, the very first (I think) Chicago House compilation.

my vote wasn't counted. the poll is invalid. xtc winning is a joke anyways.

If you're one of the five other people who voted for The Colour of Spring and you're on Facebook, hmu for a friend invite! Same for the two of you who voted for Gone to Earth. You are all my very, very good friends.

I rank Pazz & Jop this year. Voters sure loved Elvis C, T-Bone Burnett, and Richard Thompson.

Man I hope I was present to record a vote for Parade on this one. Great year though. Thanks for the Pazz & Jop link. True Stories was an unbelievable disgrace, though Little Creatures did warn us.

"City of Dreams" keeps True Stories from being a total bust, for me.

The hype around True Stories may have been my first feeling of New Jersey crestfalleness.

City of Dreams is not bad, I agree. It's just amazing that it's the same band that recorded Remain in Light. Is there any band that got so radically conservative so fast? I mean, Sonic Youth's Dirty is not even in the same category.

Love the BOC ref, Bendy.

Hahahahahahaha fuckin’ Robert Cray.