C86
by Various Artists

Year	Source	Chart	Rank	Rank Score
2026	Exist-en-ciel	Top 61 Music Albums of 1986	36/61	2
2026	LittleM1971	Top 89 Music Albums of 1986	25/89	4
2026	Norman Bates	Top 85 Music Albums of 1986	54/85	2
2026	zags7000	Top 100 Music Albums of 1986	47/100	3
2024	Stevo796	Top 8 Music Albums of 1986	2/8	4
2024	Stevo796	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s	34/100	13
2024	johnner	Top 25 Music Albums of 1986	11/25	3
2024	drstuey	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s	64/100	7
2021	Graeme2	V/A Compilation	88/100	-
2021	ERadio	Top 36 Music Albums of 1986	29/36	1
2021	uDiscoverMusic	The Best Albums of 1986	18/57	4
2020	pa	Top 48 Music Albums of 1986	18/48	3
2019	boppare	Top 15 Music Albums of 1986	10/15	2
2019	boppare	Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s	68/100	7
2014	DigitalDreamDoor	Albums of the year 1986	74/96	1
		Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in.		15
		Total Rank Score: The total rank score.		56

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76/100 (from 13 votes)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Album ratings	Avg. album rating
75/100 !	03/20/2026 00:35	Exist-en-ciel	12,945	70/100
60/100 !	07/29/2024 06:46	TonySayers61	24,896	64/100
85/100 !	09/25/2023 13:40	Stevo796	1,148	73/100
75/100 !	03/28/2022 13:22	newt	805	66/100
80/100 !	05/26/2018 16:45	TodFitz	27,378	63/100

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This album is rated in the top 5% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 76.2/100, a mean average of 79.2/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 79.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 9.8.

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70/100

From larryrrr 12/12/2017 07:09 | #203004

(This review is for a version of NME's C86 that's available on streaming services like Google Music. The track listing is much different than what's listed here on BEA but shares some tracks.) Nice compilation of fun songs from mostly lesser knowns from this time and place. Some appear to be knockoffs of more successful British guitar bands, like the Jam and Jesus & Mary Chain. (The Primitives' "Lazy" and 14 Iced Bears' "Inside" are especially obvious JMC copies, and the Claim's "Gullible's Travels" sounds a lot like the Jam, though it's one of the album's better songs. Meanwhile The Enormous Room's "I Don't Need You" appears to presage Stone Roses, who were around at the time but not yet a success.) The derivative nature of the knockoffs is endearing at this distance in time, though also a little sad, like watching insecure tweens try too hard to be like a more confident peer.

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