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

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)

(xps) Tank Battles is better.

King of America gets my vote all on its own.

Parade will win this.

I voted for Slayer though.

This is The Chameleons "Strange Times", my favorite album ever.

I turned 17 in 1986 which is of course makes this year one of the best ever.
These are all pretty much unfuckwithable for me:

Bad Brains – I Against I
Beastie Boys – Licensed to Ill
Big Black – Atomizer
Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
Megadeth – Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?
Metallica – Master of Puppets
Peter Gabriel – So
PIL – Album
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Saint Vitus – Born Too Late
Slayer – Reign in Blood
Sonic Youth – EVOL
Swans – Greed
The Feelies – The Good Earth
XTC – Skylarking

Most of them I was actually listening to at the time. I didn't get exposed to Big Black, Swans and The Feelies until later on, but the rest I was listening to as a teenager.

I have to go with Slayer because Reign in Blood was a lot more than just a record a teenaged Brian loved, it is such a cornerstone album for extreme music.

I love another 17 albums on this list, including XTC's "Skylarking" which I find a bit overrated. I'd go with "Big Express" over it but that's a minority opinion and one colored by the fact that "Big Express" was my gateway LP.

Probably Lifes Rich Pageant, but Skylarking is up there too.

I still listen to both of these pretty regularly

In the end, I decided on Horse Rotorvator, because I have a dark heart.

Depeche Mode – Black Celebration
Kraftwerk – Electric Cafe
Metallica – Master of Puppets
New Order – Brotherhood
Pet Shop Boys – Please
Peter Gabriel – So
Prince – Parade
REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
The Fall – Bend Sinister
The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
XTC – Skylarking

^ One of these!

for me a tie between Horse Rotorvator and Atomizer

For me it's between Sound of Confusion and Throwing Muses.

Honestly while I love a lot of bands that were on C86, the tape itself is mostly a letdown, a lot of it is b-sides or songs that would've been b-sides

Given it's quite possibly my favorite album of all time, has to be Arthur Russell's 'World of Echo' for me.

A lot of excellent albums from this year, though.

Albums that I would have gladly considered voting for if they'd been present:

a-ha - Scoundrel Days (their best album)
Duran Duran - Notorious
Erasure - Wonderland
Genesis - Invisible Touch
Madonna - True Blue
Ministry - Twitch
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Pacific Age
Paul McCartney - Press to Play
The Stranglers - Dreamtime

I hate most of those albums, turrican

Almost voted for David Sylvian, but come on, there are zero guesses as to what I absolutely HAD to go for. Also, Michael B, if you hate Notorious I may have to shun you forever & ever.

"Notorious" is decent. "Seven and the ragged tiger" can do one though. I remember getting that for my 7th birthday and disliking it even back then.

Meh, I'm a Duranie so I love nearly every one of their albums (the less we say about Red Carpet Massacre the better) and even I have to admit 7&TRT was their weakest album of the '80s. Still great, just not god-tier like the rest of them. :D

haven't heard Throwing Muses in a long time, I really liked that album

didn't know about World of Echo until about 20 years after it was released

Apparently I already voted but that list is solid and it could have been any one of maybe 20 of these. I do know it wasn't the Housemartins, but kinda feeling it should have been if only to spread the love around.

Oh yes, The Housemartins' debut is also lovely.

Timely, and strangely not mentioned on this thread yet - this Pitchfork retro review

throwing muses

Almost voted for David Sylvian, but come on, there are zero guesses as to what I absolutely HAD to go for.

Wait, I actually don't know. Depeche Mode?

I don't know either!

Wait, I actually don't know. Depeche Mode?

Just in case you're not trying to be funny, check out my display name.

Oh, ha. I voted for Evol, probably predictably. I should listen to Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, though. Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X is probably my favourite 1986 album not listed here, although I'm pretty bad at remembering release dates.

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.