Monday, November 28, 2011

60 Albums 1986

1986 was the last year I spent any time working in bars as a DJ. The end of an era for me and time to spend more quality time with my little girl. I was growing tired and bored with the bar scene especially when you had to be there regardless of what was going on. It was a job. The year was not particularly a good one for music in my opinion and putting together 60 favorite albums was a little more harder for this year. Of course part of the reason was I was not buying lots of records for both family reasons and there wasn't a whole lot out there I was interested in at the time. But with that being said there is lots of great music on this list.

XTC has always been one of my favorite bands and this is probably my favorite album of theirs. These are also some of the last albums I bought on vinyl on a regular basis. Yes, I bought a CD player in 1986 and the first album I purchased was the Beatle's Rubber Soul. I'll need to think about what my first new album was on CD.

The BoDeans album here is one of the few times I bought an album for it's cover without knowing what it might sound like. It turns out this is a great album and they are a wonderful unique sounding band. At this time I was very interested in everything that T Bone Burnette was producing and I saw him listed in the credits so I took a chance. Of course it wasn't a big financial chance because this album, like so many on these list, were in the used record bin at Play It Again Sam's on Elmwood which maybe around that time became Home of the Hits. It's amazing how many albums I still have with those little colored dots in the corner.

  1. XTC - Skylarking
  2. Steve Earle - Guitar Town
  3. BoDeans - Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams
  4. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
  5. Crowded House - Crowded House
  6. World Party - Private Revolution
  7. The Smithereens - Especially For You
  8. Iggy Pop - Blah Blah Blah
  9. Elvis Costello - King of America
  10. Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat
  11. T Bone Burnett - T Bone Burnett
  12. Guadalcanal Diary - Jamboree
  13. Paul Kelly - Gossip
  14. New Order - Brotherhood
  15. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
  16. Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
  17. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Element of Light
  18. The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
  19. Billy Bragg - Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
  20. Bruce Springsteen - Live/1975-85
  21. Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey
  22. The The - Infected
  23. Pretenders - Get Close
  24. Lone Justice - Shelter
  25. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking Against the Pricks
  26. Bad Brains - I Against I
  27. Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
  28. Talking Heads - True Stories
  29. Paul Simon - Graceland
  30. Peter Gabriel - So
  31. Solomon Burke - A Change Is Gonna Come
  32. The Rainmakers - The Rainmakers
  33. Sonic Youth - EVOL
  34. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tinderbox
  35. Nanci Griffth - The Last of the True Believers
  36. This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow
  37. Ennio Morricone - The Mission
  38. True West - Hand of Fate
  39. Let's Active - Big Plans for Everybody
  40. The Flaming Lips - Hear It Is
  41. The Del Lords - Johnny Comes Marching Home
  42. Rubber Rodeo - Heartbreak Highway
  43. Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett
  44. Roky Erickson - Don't Slander Me
  45. The Mekons - The Edge of the World
  46. Bob Dylan - Knocked Out Loaded
  47. Lyres - Lyres Lyres
  48. Bruck Cockburn - World of Wonders
  49. David & David - Boomtown
  50. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral... My Trial
  51. That Petrol Emotion - Manic Pop Thrill
  52. Van Morrison - No Guru, No Method, No Teacher
  53. Love Tractor - This Ain't No Outerspace Ship
  54. The Feelies - Good Earth
  55. Yo La Tengo - Ride the Tiger
  56. Arthur Russell - World of Echo
  57. The Beat Farmers - Van Go
  58. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
  59. John Fogerty - Eye of the Zombie
  60. The Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enuff
  61. John Lennon - Live In New York City
  62. Lou Reed - Mistrial
  63. Prince - Parade
  64. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional
  65. The Triffids - In The Pines
  66. The Cure - Standing On The Beach
  67. Eurythmics - Revenge
  68. 54-40 - 54-40
  69. Kate Bush - The Whole Story
  70. Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
  71. The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
  72. Chris Isaak - Chris Isaak


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