The Top Albums from 1986

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	30	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead		Listen
2	67	Paul Simon	Graceland		Listen
3	173	Beastie Boys	Licensed to Ill		Listen
4	175	Metallica	Master of Puppets		Listen
5	186	Run-D.M.C.	Raising Hell		Listen
6	208	Peter Gabriel	So		Listen
7	395	Slayer	Reign in Blood		Listen
8	419	XTC	Skylarking		Listen
9	590	Bon Jovi	Slippery when Wet		Listen
10	624	Sonic Youth	EVOL		Listen
11	629	Janet Jackson	Control		Listen
12	652	Anita Baker	Rapture		Listen
13	701	Prince and The Revolution	Parade		Listen
14	716	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Blood and Chocolate		Listen
15	731	R.E.M.	Life's Rich Pageant		Listen
16	752	Bad Brains	I Against I		Listen
17	777	Billy Bragg	Talking with the Taxman about Poetry		Listen
18	787	The Costello Show	King of America
19	937	Steve Earle	Guitar Town		Listen
20	968	Talk Talk	The Colour of Spring		Listen
21	1005	The Go-Betweens	Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
22	1037	Big Black	Atomizer
23	1102	Madonna	True Blue		Listen
24	1169	Hüsker Dü	Candy Apple Grey		Listen
25	1175	Depeche Mode	Black Celebration		Listen
26	1201	The Triffids	Born Sandy Devotional
27	1203	Les Rita Mitsouko	The No Comprendo		Listen
28	1210	Astor Piazzolla	Tango: Zero Hour		Listen
29	1249	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Your Funeral … My Trial
30	1295	Robert Cray Band	Strong Persuader		Listen
31	1380	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Kicking Against the Pricks		Listen
32	1396	Crowded House	Crowded House		Listen
33	1527	Pet Shop Boys	Please		Listen
34	1532	Stan Ridgway	The Big Heat		Listen
35	1534	The The	Infected		Listen
36	1573	Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force	Planet Rock - The Album		Listen
37	1695	Cameo	Word Up		Listen
38	1699	The Feelies	The Good Earth		Listen
39	1700	Megadeth	Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?		Listen
40	1832	New Order	Brotherhood		Listen
41	1862	Throwing Muses	Throwing Muses
42	1879	Bruce Springsteen	Live 1975-1985		Listen
43	1882	Pat Metheny with Ornette Coleman	Song X		Listen
44	1995	Miles Davis	Tutu		Listen
45	2089	Died Pretty	Free Dirt
46	2149	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water from an Ancient Well		Listen
47	2155	The Woodentops	Giant		Listen
48	2182	They Might Be Giants	They Might Be Giants		Listen
49	2228	The Housemartins	London 0 Hull 4		Listen
50	2261	Randy Travis	Storms of Life		Listen
51	2275	Paul Kelly	Gossip		Listen
52	2276	Jennifer Warnes	Famous Blue Raincoat
53	2282	Salt 'n' Pepa	Hot, Cool & Vicious		Listen
54	2314	Van Morrison	No Guru, No Method, No Teacher		Listen
55	2347	Hunters & Collectors	Human Frailty
56	2383	Lyle Lovett	Lyle Lovett		Listen
57	2410	Public Image Ltd.	Album/Compact Disc/Cassette		Listen
58	2428	David Lee Roth	Eat 'Em & Smile		Listen
59	2435	Van Halen	5150		Listen
60	2451	Coil	Horse Rotorvator
61	2492	This Mortal Coil	Filigree and Shadow
62	2596	DeLillos	Suser Avgårde
63	2650	The Fall	Bend Sinister
64	2675	John Zorn	The Big Gundown		Listen
65	2717	Nanci Griffith	The Last of the True Believers		Listen
66	2800	The Chills	Kaleidoscope World		Listen
67	2840	The Bangles	Different Light		Listen
68	2901	Constance Demby	Novus Magnificat		Listen
69	2971	The Chameleons	Strange Times		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Steve Winwood	Back in the High Life		Listen
		Dwight Yoakam