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

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.

not enough love for the feelies here. the good earth was my first album of theirs. such a pristine album of bukolic guitar freshness.

Ohh yeah Song X is a great album too!

Skylarking is one of my ten favorite albums ever, so that one

glad I hadn't gotten around to voting yet because I forgot that EVOL is on this list

http://www.youtube.com/embed/bGBtwLdwxDA?start=110&end=120&version=3

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.

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.