Top 17 Music Albums of 1986 by mrmcrook 
Not an overly spectacular year. The top 3 are legendary though. Compilations etc ranked after studio albums.
My top 10 favorite songs from 1986
1. Metallica - Master of Puppets. close 2nd - Welcome Home (Sanitarium)
2. Dead Kennedys - Almost every song on the album
3. Slayer - Angel of Death
4. Megadeth - Peace Sells. close 2nd - Devil's Island
5. Judas Priest - Turbo Lover
6. Iron Maiden - Wasted years
7. Nick Cave - Stranger Than Kindness
8. The Angels - Don't Waste My Time
9. The Chills - I Love My Leather Jacket
10. Peter Gabriel - Don't Give Up
- Chart updated: 09/04/2025 22:15
- (Created: 10/03/2020 00:30).
- Chart size: 17 albums.
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80.62 Always enjoy Nick Cave. This one took a bit longer than usual to grow on me. It's a dark jazzy gothic storytellers album. It was due to the jazz element that it took time to gel, but now it gets better every time I listen to it. It's down the list on my most preferred albums from him, but it's still a fucking great album. That just shows the caliber of the man. Top notch musician.
[First added to this chart: 12/03/2020]
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1986
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77.91 Classic Aussie hard rock. They deserved to be bigger internationally. Well done to them for making 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place' they're own. A version that surpasses the original 07/24
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Aussie band. In similar league as Echo & the Bunnymen. Slight hints of The Cure and similar style of early Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (more so the music, not the vocals). This was a lot better than I expected 09/25
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Top 17 Music Albums of 1986 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Cramps | 1 | 6% | |
| Judas Priest | 1 | 6% | |
| Dead Kennedys | 1 | 6% | |
| Slayer | 1 | 6% | |
| Metallica | 1 | 6% | |
| The Chills | 1 | 6% | |
| Megadeth | 1 | 6% | |
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Top 17 Music Albums of 1986 chart changes
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| Down 1 from 9th to 10th A Date With Elvis by The Cramps |
| Down 1 from 10th to 11th Turbo by Judas Priest |
| Down 1 from 11th to 12th Reign In Blood by Slayer |
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