My favourite albums from 1986

1. 30

   Tinderbox

   Siouxsie and the Banshees

   

   

   Alternative rock

   Tracks:

   1. Candyman ●
   2. The Sweetest Chill
   3. This Unrest
   4. Cities in Dust
   5. Cannons
   6. Party's Fall
   7. 92°
   8. Lands End

2. 29

   Orgasmatron

   Motörhead

   

   

   Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Deaf Forever
   2. Nothing up My Sleeve
   3. Ain't My Crime
   4. Claw
   5. Mean Machine
   6. Built for Speed
   7. Ridin' with the Driver
   8. Doctor Rock
   9. Orgasmatron ●

3. 28

   Mechanical Resonance

   Tesla

   

   

   Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. EZ Come EZ Go
   2. Cumin' Atcha Live
   3. Gettin' Better
   4. 2 Late 4 Love
   5. Rock Me to the Top
   6. We're No Good Together
   7. Modern Day Cowboy ●
   8. Changes
   9. Little Suzi
   10. Love Me
   11. Cover Queen
   12. Before My Eyes

4. 27

   The Ultimate Sin

   Ozzy Osbourne

   

   

   Heavy metal | Glam metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Ultimate Sin
   2. Secret Loser
   3. Never Know Why
   4. Thank God for the Bomb
   5. Never
   6. Lightning Strikes
   7. Killer of Giants
   8. Fool Like You
   9. Shot in the Dark ●

5. 26

   Crimson Glory

   Crimson Glory

   

   

   Power metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Valhalla
   2. Dragon Lady
   3. Heart of Steel
   4. Azrael ●
   5. Mayday
   6. Queen of the Masquerade
   7. Angels of War
   8. Lost Reflection

6. 25

   True Blue

   Madonna

   

   

   Pop

   Tracks:

   1. Papa Don't Preach
   2. Open Your Heart
   3. White Heat
   4. Live to Tell
   5. Where's the Party
   6. True Blue
   7. La isla bonita ●
   8. Jimmy Jimmy
   9. Love Makes the World Go Round

7. 24

   Trilogy

   Yngwie J. Malmsteen

   

   

   Neoclassical metal

   Tracks:

   1. You Don't Remember, I'll Never Forget
   2. Liar
   3. Queen in Love
   4. Crying
   5. Fury
   6. Fire
   7. Magic Mirror
   8. Dark Ages ●
   9. Trilogy Suite Op: 5

8. 23

   Black Celebration

   Depeche Mode

   

   

   Synth-pop | Industrial pop

   Tracks:

   1. Black Celebration
   2. Fly on the Windscreen — Final
   3. A Question of Lust ●
   4. Sometimes
   5. It Doesn't Matter Two
   6. A Question of Time
   7. Stripped
   8. Here Is the House
   9. World Full of Nothing
   10. Dressed in Black
   11. New Dress

9. 22

   Doomsday for the Deceiver

   Flotsam and Jetsam

   

   

   Thrash metal | Speed metal

   Tracks:

   1. Hammerhead
   2. Iron Tears ●
   3. Desecrator
   4. Fade to Black
   5. Doomsday for the Deceiver
   6. Metalshock
   7. She Took an Axe
   8. U.L.S.W.
   9. Der Fuhrer
   10. Flotzilla

10. 21

    Clairvoyance

    Screaming Trees

    

    

    Alternative rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Orange Airplane
    2. You Tell Me All These Things
    3. Standing on the Edge ●
    4. Forever
    5. Seeing and Believing
    6. I See Stars
    7. Lonely Girl
    8. Strange out There
    9. The Turning
    10. Clairvoyance

11. 20

    Game Over

    Nuclear Assault

    

    

    Thrash metal | Crossover thrash

    Tracks:

    1. Live, Suffer, Die
    2. Sin
    3. Cold Steel
    4. Betrayal
    5. Radiation Sickness ●
    6. Hang the Pope
    7. After the Holocaust
    8. Mr. Softee Theme
    9. Stranded in Hell
    10. Nuclear War
    11. My America
    12. Vengeance
    13. Brain Death

12. 19

    Born Too Late

    Saint Vitus

    

    

    Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Born Too Late ●
    2. Clear Windowpane
    3. Dying Inside
    4. H.A.A.G.
    5. The Lost Feeling
    6. The War Starter

13. 18

    Fatal Portrait

    King Diamond

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Candle
    2. The Jonah ●
    3. The Portrait
    4. Dressed in White
    5. Charon
    6. Lurking in the Dark
    7. Halloween
    8. Voices from the Past
    9. Haunted

14. 17

    I Against I

    Bad Brains

    

    

    Alternative metal | Hardcore punk

    Tracks:

    1. Intro
    2. I Against I ●
    3. House of Suffering
    4. Re-Ignition
    5. Secret 77
    6. Let Me Help
    7. She's Calling You
    8. Sacred Love
    9. Hired Gun
    10. Return to Heaven

15. 16

    Eternal Devastation

    Destruction

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Curse the Gods
    2. Confound Games
    3. Life Without Sense
    4. United by Hatred
    5. Eternal Ban
    6. Upcoming Devastation ●
    7. Confused Mind

16. 15

    Darkness Descends

    Dark Angel

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Darkness Descends ●
    2. The Burning of Sodom
    3. Hunger of the Undead
    4. Merciless Death
    5. Death Is Certain (Life Is Not)
    6. Black Prophecies
    7. Perish in Flames

17. 14

    Night Songs

    Cinderella

    

    

    Glam metal | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Night Songs
    2. Shake Me
    3. Nobody's Fool ●
    4. Nothin' for Nothin'
    5. One Around the Ride
    6. Hell on Wheels
    7. Somebody Save Me
    8. In from the Outside
    9. Push, Push
    10. Back Home Again

18. 13

    Slippery When Wet

    Bon Jovi

    

    

    Glam metal | Pop metal

    Tracks:

    1. Let It Rock
    2. You Give Love a Bad Name
    3. Livin' on a Prayer
    4. Social Disease
    5. Wanted Dead or Alive ●
    6. Raise Your Hands
    7. Without Love
    8. I'd Die for You
    9. Never Say Goodbye
    10. Wild in the Streets

19. 12

    Rage for Order

    Queensrÿche

    

    

    Progressive metal | Glam metal

    Tracks:

    1. Walk in the Shadows ●
    2. I Dream in Infrared
    3. The Whisper
    4. Gonna Get Close to You
    5. The Killing Words
    6. Surgical Strike
    7. Neue Regel
    8. Chemical Youth (We Are Rebellion)
    9. London
    10. Screaming in Digital
    11. I Will Remember

20. 11

    The Dark

    Metal Church

    

    

    Thrash metal | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Ton of Bricks
    2. Start the Fire
    3. Method to Your Madness
    4. Watch the Children Pray ●
    5. Over My Dead Body
    6. The Dark
    7. Psycho
    8. Line of Death
    9. Burial at Sea
    10. Western Alliance

21. 10

    Pleasure to Kill

    Kreator

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Choir of the Damned
    2. Ripping Corpse
    3. Death Is Your Saviour
    4. Pleasure to Kill ●
    5. Riot of Violence
    6. The Pestilence
    7. Carrion
    8. Command of the Blade
    9. Under the Guillotine

22. 9

    The Final Countdown

    Europe

    

    

    Hard rock | pop metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Final Countdown ●
    2. Rock the Night
    3. Carrie
    4. Danger on the Track
    5. Ninja
    6. Cherokee
    7. Time Has Come
    8. Heart of Stone
    9. On the Loose
    10. Love Chaser

23. 8

    Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

    Candelmass

    

    

    Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Solitude ●
    2. Demon's Gate
    3. Crystal Ball
    4. Black Stone Wielder
    5. Under the Oak
    6. A Sorcerer's Pledge

24. 7

    Awaken the Guardian

    Fates Warning

    

    

    Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Sorceress
    2. Valley of the Dolls
    3. Fata Morgana
    4. Guardian ●
    5. Prelude to Ruin
    6. Giant's Lore (Heart of Winter)
    7. Time Lond Past
    8. Exodus

25. 6

    Licensed to Ill

    Beastie Boys

    

    

    Rap rock | Hip hop

    Tracks:

    1. Rhymin & Stealin
    2. The New Style
    3. She's Crafty
    4. Posse in Effect
    5. Slow Ride
    6. Girls
    7. Fight for Your Right
    8. No Sleep till Brooklyn
    9. Paul Revere
    10. Hold It Now, Hit It
    11. Brass Monkey ●
    12. Slow and Low
    13. Time to Get Ill

26. 5

    Reign in Blood

    Slayer

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Angel of Death
    2. Piece by Piece
    3. Necrophobic
    4. Altar of Sacrifice
    5. Jesus Saves
    6. Criminally Insane
    7. Reborn
    8. Epidemic
    9. Postmortem
    10. Raining Blood ●

27. 4

    Lifes Rich Pageant

    R.E.M.

    

    

    Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Begin the Begin ●
    2. These Days
    3. Fall on Me
    4. Cuyahoga
    5. Hyena
    6. Underneath the Bunker
    7. The Flowers of Guatemala
    8. I Believe
    9. What If We Give It Away?
    10. Just a Touch
    11. Swan Swan H
    12. Superman

28. 3

    Somewhere in Time

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Caught Somewhere in Time
    2. Wasted YEars
    3. Sea of Madness
    4. Heaven Can Wait
    5. The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ●
    6. Stranger in a Strange Land
    7. Deja-Vu
    8. Alexander the Great

29. 2

    Peace Sells ... But Who's Buying?

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wake up Dead
    2. The Conjuring
    3. Peace Sells
    4. Devils Island
    5. Good Mourning / Black Friday
    6. Bad Omen
    7. I Ain't Superstitious
    8. My Last Words ●

30. 1

    Master of Puppets

    Metallica

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Battery
    2. Master of Puppets
    3. The Thing That Should Not Be
    4. Welcome Home (Sanitarium) ●
    5. Disposable Heroes
    6. Leper Messiah
    7. Orion
    8. Damage, Inc.