Hi folks, it’s time for the results of #5albums86 In a busy voting week, well over 800 people took part, nominating 380 different albums (thanks all 👍). No surprises at the top as The Smiths stormed to victory with The Queen Is Dead. Here’s the top 8 qualifiers this week…

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It all happens tomorrow.

Now, it's time to decide.
UGH!
Decisions... decisions!

Richard Shaw Thanks Rich 🤝

My #5albums86 are:

1: Talk Talk - Colour of Spring (5 pts)
2: The The - Infected
3: New Order - Brotherhood
4: Smiths - Queen is Dead
5: Depeche Mode - Black Celebration

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Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring

I Don’t Believe In You, live at Montreux.
*sigh*

#nowspinning
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986) youtu.be/3r-qDvD3F3c

Time to get the boxset out for #5albums86

Now playing Hüsker Dü - Candy Apple Grey
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💜 Such a brilliant year for music... these 1986 albums are all excellent, but sadly there are no spaces left on my list #5albums86 💜

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1. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
2. Billy Bragg - Talking with the taxman about poetry
3. The Smiths - The Queen is dead
4. The Brilliant Corners - What’s in a word
5. The Communards - The Communards

We'll have another from his Purpleness. One I unaccountably forgot about during the #5albums86 shenanigans. 🤦‍♂️

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We just leave these here, right?

In order:
1. XTC - Skylarking
2. REM - Life's Rich Pageant
3. They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
4. Peter Gabriel - So
5. The The - Infected

Superb.

#fallfriday

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#NowPlaying A few late listens at the end of #5albums86 . I've been in the mood for some hip hop & metal, & saved these to usher in the weekend. My fave Megadeth album, + just 2 of the classics Rick Rubin produced that year, with him also having worked on Run-DMC's Raising Hell 🤯

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The best album of 1986

At least for me….

I wonder if anyone agrees?

Richard Shaw #EveningRich
A hot June day in 86: I ran from school to the town centre to get a copy of TQID.
Poignant voting it #1 today.
RIP Andy Rourke.
My #5albums86 are:
1. Queen is Dead Smiths
2. Black Celebration DM
3. Skylarking XTC
4. Strange Times Chameleons
5. Circus Maximus Momus

This absolute bastard though... #5albums86

Records in #5albums86 that didn’t cross a picket line..

Number 1
It's a covers album.
But it's not just any covers album.
It's the best covers album ever and it's probably his best record.
The soundtrack to my life for about 4 years after it came out.
Nothing else could be Number 1.
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Hide, hide, all good people hang out for a result

#fallfriday
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Richard Shaw Hi Richard! Here's my Top #5albums86

1. Peter Gabriel: So
2. R.E.M. Lifes Rich Pageant
3. Paul Simon: Graceland
4. Crowded House: Crowded House
5. The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead

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Mad Professor

I'm short of reggae music in 86, but this is another fine dub album from South London
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