Album of The Year - Endgame

The N+G Top 20 Albums of 1986

  1. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
  2. Paul Simon - Graceland
  3. Peter Gabriel- So
  4. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
  5. REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
  6. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
  7. Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
  8. Janet Jackson - Control
  9. XTC - Skylarking
  10. Prince - Parade
  11. New Order - Brotherhood
  12. Run DMC - Raising Hell
  13. Arthur Russell - World of Echo
  14. Slayer - Reign in Blood
  15. Bad Brains - I Against I
  16. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet (tie 16)
  17. Megadeth- Peace Sells...But Who’s Buying (tie 16)
  18. Billy Bragg - Talking To The Taxman About Poetry (tie 18)
  19. Coil - Horse Rotorvator (tie 18)
  20. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (tie 18)
 
1. Ali Farka Toure - The River
2. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Ragged Glory
3. Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
4. Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Mustt Mustt
5. Boubacar Traoré - Mariama
6. The Charlatans - Some Friendly
7. The Sabri Brothers - Ya Habib
8. Sonic Youth - Goo
9. Pixies - Bossanova
10. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
 
Struggled to hit 10 on this one.

1. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
2. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
3. Digital Underground - Sex Packets (A comedy album with some decent tracks in there, plus the debut of then-roadie, Tupac Shakur)
4. The Pixies - Bossanova
5. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - A Good Son
6. Brand Nubian - One For All
7. LL Cool J - Mama Said Knock You Out
 
1990:

1. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell
2. The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
3. Sinead O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
4. Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
5. They Might Be Giants - Flood
6. Judas Priest - Painkiller
7. Bad Religion - Against the Grain
8. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
9. Depeche Mode - Violator
10. Garth Brooks - No Fences
 
Top 10 - 1990:
  1. Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
  2. Depeche Mode - Violator
  3. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1
  4. Pixies - Bossanova
  5. A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm
  6. Jane’s Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
  7. Public Enemy - Fear Of A Black Planet
  8. Ride - Nowhere
  9. Sonic Youth - Goo
  10. The Sundays - Reading, Writing And Arithmetic
HMs:
John Zorn - Naked City
The KLF - Chill Out
Jean Leloup - L’Amour Est Sans Pitié
Dusty Springfield - Reputation
Sinead O’Connor - I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got
 
Joe Mac said:
Looking at 1990 this not quite so strong a year! That said I love this album!
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I'm going to agree to disagree with @Joe Mac here. For sure, 1986 has some all-timers that are particularly in my wheelhouse (Smiths, Metallica, Beastie Boys) - which should bias me in concurrence with him here. But, there are a couple of releases that, arguably, have a had greater impact overall than 1986's best. Fear of A Black Planet is arguably one of the most musically and culturally significant records of all time.

It was actually harder to whittle this down to a top 5/10 than for other years. These are in order of my own personal preference and there are some here I know I am waaaay out on my own personal on a limb on:
  1. Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
  2. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
  3. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
  4. The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
  5. They Might Be Giants - Flood
  6. Social Distortion - S/T
  7. Fugazi - Repeater
  8. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
  9. Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Midnight Radio
  10. Cinderella - Heartbreak Station
Honorable Mentions who didn't make the cut
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Sonic Youth - Goo
Depeche Mode - Violator
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam
 
The Commish said:
I'm going to agree to disagree with @Joe Mac here. For sure, 1986 has some all-timers that are particularly in my wheelhouse (Smiths, Metallica, Beastie Boys) - which should bias me in concurrence with him here. But, there are a couple of releases that, arguably, have a had greater impact overall than 1986's best. Fear of A Black Planet is arguably one of the most musically and culturally significant records of all time.

It was actually harder to whittle this down to a top 5/10 than for other years. These are in order of my own personal preference and there are some here I know I am waaaay out on my own personal on a limb on:
  1. Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
  2. Uncle Tupelo - No Depression
  3. Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
  4. The Black Crowes - Shake Your Money Maker
  5. They Might Be Giants - Flood
  6. Social Distortion - S/T
  7. Fugazi - Repeater
  8. George Michael - Listen Without Prejudice
  9. Big Head Todd & The Monsters - Midnight Radio
  10. Cinderella - Heartbreak Station
Honorable Mentions who didn't make the cut
Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Sonic Youth - Goo
Depeche Mode - Violator
Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting
Midnight Oil - Blue Sky Mining
Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam
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you mean you’re disagreeing with me 😲🤯

tbh I’d be much more worried if you agreed with me 😜😂
 
The Commish said:
I know...shocker right?
When this occurs, I'm convinced its is grounded in Left vs. Right side of the pond experience/context, more than anything.
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more than likely. I think up until about 00 we still had pretty distinct music scenes and only the biggest/most interesting crossed over to a large degree. In our online everything everywhere at the same time world now the boundaries are much less clear.
 
Joe Mac said:
more than likely. I think up until about 00 we still had pretty distinct music scenes and only the biggest/most interesting crossed over to a large degree. In our online everything everywhere at the same time world now the boundaries are much less clear.
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Until 1985, when I started playing guitar and developing ideas beyond what MTV was spoon-feeding kids like me I really didn't consider music coming from a "scene" or location...just "was it popular?". I mean I knew Men W/out Hats were Aussies and U2 were Irish and the Police were English, but I never really considered where they came from b/c they had become MTV approved/ubiquitous by that point.

Meat is Murder, New Day Rising and Fables of the Reconstruction kind of opened the idea of different sounds from different scenes to me. But even then, most of what I was getting from over the pond was still heavily vetted and not as underground as the US, and I paid little attention to it beyond bands like the Smiths and the Cure.

Your Doves is probably my early Big Head Todd.
 
spreddy updated (you people DISGUST me that bon fucken jovi gets a guernsey when the likes of the triffids, hunters and collectors, go-betweens, and nick cave don't!)

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i expect to be similarly disappointed when the likes of nick cave's "the good son", inxs' "x", the mark of cain's "the unclaimed prize", midnight oil's "blue sky mining", ratcat's "tingles (ep)", and underground lovers' "gets to notice" all fail to make the grade for y'all from 1990

bah! humbug!!
 
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