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