Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1986

The Top Albums from 1986
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	28	The Smiths	The Queen Is Dead		Listen
2	76	Paul Simon	Graceland		Listen
3	157	Metallica	Master of Puppets		Listen
4	178	Run-D.M.C.	Raising Hell		Listen
5	207	Beastie Boys	Licensed to Ill		Listen
6	214	Peter Gabriel	So		Listen
7	288	Slayer	Reign in Blood		Listen
8	476	XTC	Skylarking		Listen
9	607	Prince and The Revolution	Parade		Listen
10	634	Les Rita Mitsouko	The No Comprendo		Listen
11	669	Anita Baker	Rapture		Listen
12	698	Janet Jackson	Control		Listen
13	703	R.E.M.	Lifes Rich Pageant		Listen
14	735	Sonic Youth	EVOL		Listen
15	762	The Costello Show	King of America
16	787	Bad Brains	I Against I		Listen
17	810	Bon Jovi	Slippery when Wet		Listen
18	849	Talk Talk	The Colour of Spring		Listen
19	856	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Blood and Chocolate		Listen
20	888	H�sker D�	Candy Apple Grey		Listen
21	900	Big Black	Atomizer
22	922	Billy Bragg	Talking with the Taxman About Poetry		Listen
23	1027	Steve Earle	Guitar Town		Listen
24	1161	Depeche Mode	Black Celebration		Listen
25	1242	Astor Piazzolla	Tango: Zero Hour / Nuevo Tango: Hora Zero		Listen
26	1245	The Go-Betweens	Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
27	1266	Madonna	True Blue		Listen
28	1312	The Triffids	Born Sandy Devotional
29	1430	The The	Infected		Listen
30	1467	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Your Funeral... My Trial
31	1494	Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds	Kicking Against the Pricks		Listen
32	1535	Robert Cray	Strong Persuader		Listen
33	1561	Crowded House	Crowded House		Listen
34	1605	New Order	Brotherhood		Listen
35	1643	Pet Shop Boys	Please		Listen
36	1657	Stan Ridgway	The Big Heat		Listen
37	1724	The Housemartins	London 0 Hull 4		Listen
38	1772	Bruce Springsteen	Live 1975-1985		Listen
39	1786	Miles Davis	Tutu		Listen
40	1840	Cameo	Word Up!		Listen
41	1842	Megadeth	Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?		Listen
42	1913	Public Image Ltd.	Album/Compact Disc/Cassette		Listen
43	1968	Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman	Song X		Listen
44	1977	Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force	Planet Rock - The Album		Listen
45	2025	Coil	Horse Rotorvator
46	2065	Throwing Muses	Throwing Muses
47	2094	The Feelies	The Good Earth		Listen
48	2124	Van Morrison	No Guru, No Method, No Teacher		Listen
49	2233	Died Pretty	Free Dirt
50	2245	The Woodentops	Giant		Listen
51	2360	They Might Be Giants	They Might Be Giants		Listen
52	2574	Abdullah Ibrahim	Water from an Ancient Well		Listen
53	2591	Salt 'n' Pepa	Hot, Cool & Vicious		Listen
54	2655	Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette	Standards Live		Listen
55	2738	Paul Kelly	Gossip		Listen
56	2790	Van Halen	5150		Listen
57	2801	James	Stutter		Listen
58	2831	Hunters & Collectors	Human Frailty
59	2879	Lyle Lovett	Lyle Lovett		Listen
60	2900	Bangles	Different Light		Listen
61	2904	The Fall	Bend Sinister
62	2945	Jennifer Warnes	Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		David Lee Roth	Eat 'Em & Smile		Listen
		Dwight Yoakam	Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.		Listen
		John Zorn	The Big Gundown		Listen
		DeLillos	Suser Avg�rde
		Randy Travis	Storms of Life		Listen
		The Chills	Kaleidoscope World		Listen
		The Chameleons	Strange Times		Listen
		Talking Heads	True Stories		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
		Peter Case	Peter Case		Listen
		Steve Winwood	Back in the High Life		Listen
		David & David	Boomtown		Listen
		Sonny Sharrock	Guitar		Listen
		David Sylvian	Gone to Earth		Listen
		Schoolly D	Schoolly D
		T-Bone Burnett	T-Bone Burnett
		A-ha	Scoundrel Days		Listen
		Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians	Element of Light		Listen
		Felt	Forever Breathes the Lonely Word		Listen