Best Albums of 1986

The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths

6 Reviews

Control

Janet Jackson

4 Reviews

Reign In Blood

Slayer

9.2

True Blue

Madonna

3 Reviews

Skylarking (Remastered)

XTC

8.9

Horse Rotorvator

Coil

8.8

Evol

Sonic Youth

8.8

So

Peter Gabriel

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

Prince & The Revolution

Raising Hell

Run‐D.M.C.

9.7

Floodland

The Sisters of Mercy

Monk's Music (Remastered)

Thelonious Monk

Green

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Surround

Hiroshi Yoshimura

Rapture

Anita Baker

Graceland

Paul Simon

Lifes Rich Pageant

R.E.M.

Tinderbox

Siouxsie and the Banshees

Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

Candlemass

I Against I

Bad Brains

9.3

Graceland (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

Paul Simon

9.2

Keyboard Fantasies

Beverly Glenn-Copeland

Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?

Megadeth

3 Reviews

For Olim

Cecil Taylor

9.0

Locust Abortion Technician

Butthole Surfers

9.0

Love's Easy Tears - EP

Cocteau Twins

King of America

Elvis Costello

8.7

The Tribe

Caspar Brötzmann Massaker

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

New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra & Lev Markiz

High Rise II (High Rise II) - EP

HIGH RISE

Music to Strip By

Half Japanese

Jetsun Mila

Eliane Radigue

8.3

Down to the Moon

Andreas Vollenweider

8.3

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

Black Celebration

Depeche Mode

Pleasure to Kill

Kreator

Siroco

Paco de Lucía

Caetano Veloso

Under the Sign of the Black Mark

Bathory

Gone to Earth (Remastered 2003)

David Sylvian

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

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

Passarim

Antônio Carlos Jobim

Maximum Security

Tony MacAlpine

Africa

Pharoah Sanders

Music from the Edge of Heaven

Wham!

Bend Sinister

The Fall

Disco

Pet Shop Boys

Brotherhood

New Order

Beauty in the Beast

Wendy Carlos

Hope in a Darkened Heart

Virginia Astley

Hamburg 87 - Official Version (Live)

Front 242

Rage for Order (Remastered) [Expanded Edition]

Queensrÿche

Get Lost (Don't Lie!)

These Immortal Souls

Navigator

1986 OMEGA TRIBE

ADVENTURE

Momoko Kikuchi

Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records

Chumbawamba

The Moon and the Melodies

Cocteau Twins & Harold Budd

7.5

ARETHA

Aretha Franklin

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

Saint of the Pit

Diamanda Galás

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

Blind Idiot God

Day of Reckoning

Pentagram

Llegando los Monos

Sumo

Water From an Ancient Well

Abdullah Ibrahim

Explorations (Remastered)

Bill Evans Trio

7.8

Muddy Waters Sings Big Bill Broonzy

Muddy Waters

7.4

Licensed to Ill

Beastie Boys

6.9

3 Reviews

Scoundrel Days (Deluxe Edition)

a-ha

3.0