30 years ago - 1986 - Haven's favourite album ?

[Shireblogger]

Nostalgia time. What are your top albums from 30 years ago ?

If enough people post a list, we'll be able to determine Haven's favourites.

[Shireblogger]

Here's my Top 10:-

1. Peter Gabriel -- So
2. Talk Talk -- The Colour Of Spring
3. Pet Shop Boys -- Please
4. Paul Simon -- Graceland
5. Housemartins -- London 0 Hull 4
6. Talking Heads -- True Stories
7. Furniture -- The Wrong People
8. Hipsway -- Hipsway
9. Eurythmics -- Revenge
10. Big Dish -- Swimmer

[thehitparade]

This is going to be a tough one, although there are a couple of obvious ones (some of them already on your list).

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Jan 1, 2016 16:29:45 GMT 1 Shireblogger said:

Here's my Top 10:-

1. Peter Gabriel -- So
2. Talk Talk -- The Colour Of Spring
3. Pet Shop Boys -- Please
4. Paul Simon -- Graceland
5. Housemartins -- London 0 Hull 4
6. Talking Heads -- True Stories
7. Furniture -- The Wrong People
8. Hipsway -- Hipsway
9. Eurythmics -- Revenge
10. Big Dish -- Swimmer

Where is True Blue ?

[Shireblogger]

Jan 1, 2016 19:07:07 GMT 1 @alexrange said:

Where is True Blue ?

#16

[raliverpool]

1. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
2. XTC - Skylarking
3. Peter Gabriel - So
4. Duran Duran - Notorious
5. A-ha - Scoundrel Days
6. Prince and The Revolution - Parade
7. The The - Infected
8. Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
9. Pet Shop Boys - Please
10. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant

[Smurfie]

1) Madonna - True Blue
2) Jaki Graham - Breaking Away
3) Genesis - Invisible Touch
4) Red Box - The Circle and The Square
5) Princess - Princess
6) Kate Bush - The Whole Story
7) Dead or Alive - Mad Bad and Dangerous To Know
8) Pet Shop Boys - Please
9) The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
10) Janet Jackson - Control

[TheThorne]

oooh I didnt  buy many albums in 1986 but I will include the ones I did buy.

1. Huey Lewis & The News- Fore
2. Bruce Hornsby & The Range - The Way It Is
3. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
4. Peter Gabriel - So
5. Glass Tiger - Thin Red Line
6. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
7. The Bible - Walking The Ghost Back Home
8. INXS - Listen Like Thieves
9. REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
10. Madonna - True Blue



Just missing out are Five Star,Big Country and Paul Simon

[Kingpin]

1) Madonna - True Blue
2) Janet Jackson - Control
3) Belinda Carlisle - Belinda
4) Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
5) Five Star - Silk And Steel
6) Wham! - The Final
7) Bananarama - True Confessions
8) Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
9) Pet Shop Boys - Please
10) Communards - Communards

[o]

Crowded House – Crowded House
Big Country – The seer
Cure – Standing on a beach
New Order – Brotherhood
Depeche Mode – Black celebration
Bon Jovi – Slippery when wet
Pet Shop Boys – Please
Eurythmics – Revenge
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Tinderbox
Smiths – The queen is dead
OMD – The pacific age
Erasure – Wonderland
The The – Infected

[smokeyb]

These are the only albums I bought from 1986

1. Kate Bush - The Whole Story
2. Peter Gabriel - So
3. Genesis - Invisible Touch
4. Roxy Music - Street Life 20 Greatest Hits
5. Queen - A Kind Of Magic
6. Ultravox - U-Vox
7. Human League - Crash

[vastar iner]

I could do a top 10 if we included EPs...

[suedehead]

Here's a list of 30 albums from that year which may help some people.

sonicmoremusic.wordpress.com/2016/01/02/30-alternative-albums-that-turn-30-years-old-in-2016/

[thehitparade]

I'm listening to one of those albums right now.

In fact I've probably been taking the whole thing a bit too seriously, listening to a lot of albums from years that end in 6 for research. I already know what my top 1986 album is though, it's not even close.

[rubcale]

What about an album which spent 2 wks in the bottom half of the top 75 in 1985 but was repromoted in 1986 when one of the tracks became a hit single and spent two months in the chart reaching #11?

[Razzle Dazzle]

1. REM - Life's Rich Pageant
2. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
3. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
4. Ramones - Animal Boy
5. Queen - A Kind Of Magic
6. Madonna - True Blue
7 Crowded House - Crowded House
8. Paul Simon - Graceland
9. Peter Gabriel - So
10. Van Halen - 5150

[Earl Purple]

Some great albums back then I simply didn't buy.

Smiths - The Queen Is Dead. I didn't actually buy this until later...
Queen - A Kind Of Magic
GTR - GTR. Unusual choice maybe but I bought this at the time...

[meister]

Wasn't Whitney's first album released in 1985? Or did it take a while to chart in the UK. Anyway, going on release dates, here are mine :

1. Five Star - Silk & Steel
2. Michael McDonald - Sweet Freedom
3. LaToya Jackson - Imagination
4. Janet Jackson - Control
5. El Debarge - El Debarge
6. Rebbie Jackson - Reaction
7. Jermaine Jackson - Precious Moments
8. Nik Kershaw - Radio Musicola
9. Madonna - True Blue
10. The Jets - Christmas With The Jets

edit : If Whitney's is included then it goes in at #2 and everything else moves down a notch.

[vya]

1. The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express
2. New Order - Brotherhood
3. Smiths - The Queen is Dead
4. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
5. Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
6. Billy Bragg - Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
7. Pet Shop Boys - Please
8. Janet Jackson - Control
9. The The - Infected

[thehitparade]

Think I've got this one now, it was probably the easiest to decide.

1. XTC - Skylarking
2. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
3. The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle & The Black Diamond Express
4. Talk Talk - The Colour Of Spring
5. Peter Gabriel - So

6. The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
7. John Martyn - Piece By Piece
8. Crowded House - Crowded House
9. New Order - Brotherhood
10. Genesis - Invisible Touch

Possibly Crowded House would be a place or two higher if I'd heard a decent-sounding copy of it.