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

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

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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.