Best Albums of 1986

Listed below are the best albums of 1986 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 6 hours ago).
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1986 year summaryThe best artists of 1986 were The Smiths, Metallica, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, XTC, Talk Talk, Slayer, R.E.M., Beastie Boys and Depeche Mode.
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"Great debut with plenty of big hits on it. This is fun and catchy rock and roll that doesn't require a lot of thought to be able to enjoy. CC Deville's guitar playing sets the tone. Talk Dirty To Me sounds like it could be a New York Dolls song."  Reply
- Brandon8 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1986
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"Really love that album...for an album ranked as far as 10000+ I think it's pretty damn good ! It's their best after the first one of course... There is really awesome, overlooked songs on it like No Killing or Good Friend, but anyway most of the songs here are good."  Reply
- hoyquarlow | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1986
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"Excellent debut album from Crimson Glory - production work, layered guitars, high pitched vocals and wonderful melodies. Favourite tracks are Azrael, Dragon Lady, Queen Of The Masquerade and Lost Reflection."  Reply
- stevengnz | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Superb album composed entirely by Vela -- and what an incredible songwriting talent she displays here! And the icing on the cake is that none other than Becker and Fagen produced this. What a pity there was no follow up."  Reply
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"To be honest... I'm definitly no Ozzy Osbourne Fan, but this Album is great. Jake E. Lee Plays a helluva guitar but most important… It's the Ozzy record with the best songwriting"  Reply
- svk4ever | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Jazz from South Africa. There is a distinct African feel, but you can still hear an infusion of US Jazz as well. This album features the song Mannenberg which was to become the signature tune of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa."  Reply
- mozzmozz | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"Put out after 'Defenders of the Faith' which was always going to be a hard act to follow. I remember when this came out it got hammered in reviews due to them using synth guitars. The title track is up there with the best tracks they've made. There's a couple of songs where the synth guitars are ..."  [+]  Reply
- mrmcrook | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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