Best Albums of 1986

Graceland

Paul Simon

Skylarking (Remastered)

XTC

8.9

Raising Hell

Run‐D.M.C.

9.3

True Blue

Madonna

4 Reviews

Control

Janet Jackson

5 Reviews

Rapture

Anita Baker

8.7

So

Peter Gabriel

Floodland

The Sisters of Mercy

Evol

Sonic Youth

8.8

Green

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Lifes Rich Pageant

R.E.M.

Parade (Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon)

Prince & The Revolution

8.6

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

8.5

Surround

Hiroshi Yoshimura

8.5

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Candlemass

King of America

Elvis Costello

Graceland (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Paul Simon

9.2

The Phantom of the Opera (Original 1986 London Cast)

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, Michael Crawford & Sarah Brightman

Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

Megadeth

For Olim

Cecil Taylor

Debussy & Ravel: String Quartets

Emerson String Quartet

Pontiac

Lyle Lovett

Love's Easy Tears - EP

Cocteau Twins

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records

Chumbawamba

The Tribe

Caspar Brötzmann Massaker

8.6

Explorations (Remastered)

Bill Evans Trio

Schnittke: Concerto Grosso I / Oboe and Harp Concerto / Piano Concerto

New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra & Lev Markiz

8.5

Music to Strip By

Half Japanese

Jetsun Mila

Eliane Radigue

Down to the Moon

Andreas Vollenweider

Belonging

Keith Jarrett, Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson & Jon Christensen

7.8

Raising Hell

Run-DMC

7.8

Live / 1975-85

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

Oktubre

Patricio Rey y sus Redonditos de Ricota

Storms of Life

Randy Travis

Somewhere in Time (2015 Remastered Edition)

Iron Maiden

Still Life (Talking)

Pat Metheny Group

Descanso Dominical / Une Femme Avec Une Femme

Mecano

Give Me The Reason

Luther Vandross & Martha Wash

Quiet Music 1

Steve Roach

Pateando Piedras

Los Prisioneros

Look What the Cat Dragged In

Poison

Pleasure to Kill

Kreator

Siroco

Paco de Lucía

Caetano Veloso

Express

Love and Rockets

The Perfect Prescription

Spacemen 3

Glad Music

R. Stevie Moore

Quiet Music 2

Steve Roach

Dois

Legião Urbana

Superficies de Placer

Virus

Black Celebration

Depeche Mode

7.6

The Mission (Original Sound Track from the Film)

Ennio Morricone

Entre el Cielo y el Suelo (Bonus Tracks Edition)

Mecano

Under Jolly Roger

Running Wild

Jazz from Hell

Frank Zappa

Invisible Touch (2007 Remaster)

Genesis

Passarim

Antônio Carlos Jobim, Joe Farrell, Hubert Laws, Eumir Deodato, Airto Moriera, Everaldo Ferriera, Ron Carter, Harry Lookofsky, Urbie Green & Joao Palm

Get Chickenized

Frank Chickens

Maximum Security

Tony MacAlpine

James Reyne

Music from the Edge of Heaven

Wham!

Bend Sinister

The Fall

Big Game

White Lion

October File

Die Kreuzen

They Might Be Giants

Strikes Back

Héctor Lavoe

Brotherhood

New Order

Beauty in the Beast

Wendy Carlos

Hope in a Darkened Heart

Virginia Astley

Boys Don’t Cry

The Cure

Hamburg 87 - Official Version (Live)

Front 242

Voodoo

Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet

Rage for Order (Remastered) [Expanded Edition]

Queensrÿche

Get Lost (Don't Lie!)

These Immortal Souls

Navigator

1986 OMEGA TRIBE

Slippery When Wet

Bon Jovi

The Age of Quarrel

Cro-Mags

Marilyn Martin

What If?

Kenny Barron

ADVENTURE

Momoko Kikuchi

Mingus at Monterey

The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop

Humungousfungusamongus

Adrenalin O.D.

Greatest Hits

The Skyliners

The Moon and the Melodies

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd

7.5

Miles Davis in Europe

Miles Davis

And The Stars Go With You

Jonn Serrie

The Ghost Trade

Camberwell Now

Please: Further Listening 1984-1986 (Deluxe Edition) [2018 Remaster]

Pet Shop Boys

Your Funeral... My Trial (2009 - Remaster)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Ljubav

Ekatarina Velika

Hole In the Heart

Ramleh

Born Too Late

Saint Vitus

Spokojnie

Kult

Fushigi (Including Karaoke Tracks) [2023 Lacquer Master Sound]

Akina Nakamori

The Ungovernable Force

Conflict

Mind: the Perpetual Intercourse

Skinny Puppy