#584 The Smiths – The Queen Is Dead

The Smiths return with their third studio album The Queen Is Dead. I had this album on CD when I first started buying them. I know I will love it. I had trouble getting through this album because I was already dealing with a deep depression. It is one of those where I am not […]

#583 Anita Baker – Rapture

Anita Baker made the list. I was a bit surprised. Diana Ross is not on it. Patti LaBelle is not on the list. I remember listening to Baker’s album Rapture in 1987, a year after its release, because I had a new job in a restaurant and I was a bar back. The bartender had […]

#582 Bad Brains – I Against I

Bad Brains is a band I have definitely never heard. I Against I is their third album of hardcore punk music. A piece of interesting trivia is that their second album was produced by Ric Ocasek of The Cars. He died this past weekend at the time I am writing this post and not the time […]

#581 Steve Earle – Guitar Town

Steve Earle sounds like he would sing country music. That is my first thought. I hate country is my second one. And I would be correct. His debut album Guitar Town is even listed on the 500 greatest albums of all time in Rolling Stone magazine. I am not convinced it will be good. Did I […]

#580 XTC – Skylarking

I have been a fan of XTC for a long time, mostly due to my best friend at the time who introduced them to me in the beginning of the 90s. I had heard them before that, but they became a bigger part of my life. The band had released NONSVCH. in 1992. It became one […]

#579 Run–D.M.C. – Raising Hell

Run–D.M.C. again? One was more than enough. This list sucks for 1986, actually it sucks in general. Raising Hell is their third studio album. Hip hop really sucks, especially this type of it. I hate the sparse music and the stupid rhymes. The best part of this album is the time; it is less than […]

#578 Paul Simon – Graceland

1986 is possibly one of the worst years of music. I have hated almost every album on the list of 1001 Albums… And to add to it, Paul Simon‘s Graceland album was released in 1986. I liked him a little bit when he was with Garfunkel, but most of his solo stuff is irritating. I […]

#577 Throwing Muses – Throwing Muses

Throwing Muses self-titled album was the first album from an American band to be released on the British label 4AD. I have been a fan of many of their artists over the years. It is strange that their album is not on Spotify. I had to search for it on YouTube, which I hate. Now […]

#576 Slayer – Reign in Blood

Slayer is definitely not a band I have heard. I have had my fill of thrash metal. Unfortunately, there are three albums in 1986 and one in 1987: Megadeth’s Peace Sells… but Who’s Buying?, Metallica’s Master of Puppets, Slayer’s Reign in Blood and Anthrax’s 1987 album Among the Living, that are influential in this genre and […]

#575 Sonic Youth – EVOL

It seems strange that I have never listened to Sonic Youth. My former best friend used to listen to them, but I guess I never really paid much attention to them. If he had played them for me, then it would have been Dirty. He listened to a lot of music. It was one fo the […]