Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1986

The Top Albums from 1986
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	27	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead		Listen
2	73	Paul Simon	Graceland		Listen
3	153	Metallica	Master of Puppets		Listen
4	179	Run-D.M.C.	Raising Hell		Listen
5	202	Beastie Boys	Licensed to Ill		Listen
6	221	Peter Gabriel	So		Listen
7	281	Slayer	Reign in Blood		Listen
8	422	XTC	Skylarking		Listen
9	578	Prince and The Revolution	Parade		Listen
10	610	Les Rita Mitsouko	The No Comprendo		Listen
11	629	Anita Baker	Rapture		Listen
12	663	Janet Jackson	Control		Listen
13	668	R.E.M.	Life's Rich Pageant		Listen
14	698	Sonic Youth	EVOL		Listen
15	717	Bad Brains	I Against I		Listen
16	730	The Costello Show	King of America
17	776	Bon Jovi	Slippery when Wet		Listen
18	810	Talk Talk	The Colour of Spring		Listen
19	820	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Blood and Chocolate		Listen
20	832	H�sker D�	Candy Apple Grey		Listen
21	886	Big Black	Atomizer
22	904	Billy Bragg	Talking with the Taxman About Poetry		Listen
23	1085	Steve Earle	Guitar Town		Listen
24	1102	Depeche Mode	Black Celebration		Listen
25	1175	Astor Piazzolla	Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero		Listen
26	1196	The Go-Betweens	Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
27	1225	Madonna	True Blue		Listen
28	1329	The Triffids	Born Sandy Devotional
29	1405	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Your Funeral � My Trial
30	1428	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Kicking Against the Pricks		Listen
31	1477	Robert Cray	Strong Persuader		Listen
32	1496	The The	Infected		Listen
33	1505	Crowded House	Crowded House		Listen
34	1596	New Order	Brotherhood		Listen
35	1605	Stan Ridgway	The Big Heat		Listen
36	1637	Miles Davis	Tutu		Listen
37	1655	The Housemartins	London 0 Hull 4		Listen
38	1659	Pet Shop Boys	Please		Listen
39	1731	Bruce Springsteen	Live 1975-1985		Listen
40	1818	Megadeth	Peace Sells� But Who's Buying?		Listen
41	1824	Cameo	Word Up!		Listen
42	1893	Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force	Planet Rock - The Album		Listen
43	1943	Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman	Song X		Listen
44	2012	Van Morrison	No Guru, No Method, No Teacher		Listen
45	2013	The Feelies	The Good Earth		Listen
46	2014	Throwing Muses	Throwing Muses
47	2024	Public Image Ltd.	Album/Compact Disc/Cassette		Listen
48	2072	Coil	Horse Rotorvator
49	2222	The Woodentops	Giant		Listen
50	2393	They Might Be Giants	They Might Be Giants		Listen
51	2416	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water from an Ancient Well		Listen
52	2452	Died Pretty	Free Dirt
53	2454	Salt 'n' Pepa	Hot, Cool & Vicious		Listen
54	2485	Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette	Standards Live		Listen
55	2592	Paul Kelly	Gossip		Listen
56	2729	Hunters & Collectors	Human Frailty
57	2731	Van Halen	5150		Listen
58	2747	James	Stutter		Listen
59	2785	The Bangles	Different Light		Listen
60	2832	Jennifer Warnes	Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
61	2876	John Zorn	The Big Gundown		Listen
62	2878	The Fall	Bend Sinister
63	2978	David Lee Roth	Eat 'Em & Smile		Listen
64	2988	Randy Travis	Storms of Life		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Dwight Yoakam	Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.		Listen
		DeLillos	Suser Avg�rde
		Lyle Lovett	Lyle Lovett		Listen
		The Chills	Kaleidoscope World		Listen
		Nanci Griffith	The Last of the True Believers		Listen
		This Mortal Coil	Filigree and Shadow
		Arthur Russell	World of Echo		Listen
		Constance Demby	Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate		Listen
		The Chameleons	Strange Times		Listen
		Talking Heads	True Stories		Listen
		Steve Winwood	Back in the High Life		Listen
		Peter Case	Peter Case		Listen
		David & David	Boomtown		Listen
		Sonny Sharrock	Guitar		Listen
		David Sylvian	Gone to Earth		Listen
		Schoolly D	Schoolly D
		A-ha	Scoundrel Days		Listen
		Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians	Element of Light		Listen
		T-Bone Burnett	T-Bone Burnett
		Felt	Forever Breathes the Lonely Word		Listen