1986 in music

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Albums released

• ABBA Live - ABBA
• Russian Roulette - Accept
• Who Made Who - AC/DC
• Classics Live - Aerosmith
• Scoundrel Days - a-ha
• Dangerous Games - Alcatrazz
• American Girls - American Girls
• I Against I - Bad Brains
• Rapture - Anita Baker
• True Confessions - Bananarama
• Licensed to Ill - The Beastie Boys
• Atomizer - Big Black (debut full-length)
• Nasty, Nasty - Black N' Blue
• Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
• Notorious - Duran Duran
• Third Stage - Boston
• Strange Land - Box of Frogs
• In America EP - Britny Fox
• Truthdare Doubledare - Bronski Beat
• Camper Van Beethoven - Camper Van Beethoven
• Solitude/Solitaire - Peter Cetera
• 18 - Chicago
• Night Songs - Cinderella (debut)
• Tom Cochrane & Red Rider - Tom Cochrane & Red Rider
• Constrictor - Alice Cooper
• King of America - Elvis Costello
• Strong Persuader - Robert Cray
• Crowded House - Crowded House
• From Luxury to Heartache - Culture Club
• Then and Now...the Best of the Monkees - The Monkees
• ' - The Cure
• Le Visage de l'Amour - Dalida
• Le sixième jour - Dalida (compilation)
• The Best Of Dalida - Dalida (compilation)
• Hwgr Grawth-Og - Datblygu
• Into The Light - Chris de Burgh
• Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
• Intermission EP - Dio
• Guitar Town - Steve Earle
• Emerson, Lake and Powell - Emerson, Lake and Powell
• Wonderland - Erasure
• The Final Countdown - Europe
• August - Eric Clapton
• Trick or Treat - Fastway
• The Good Earth - The Feelies
• Mean Business - The Firm
• So - Peter Gabriel
• Invisible Touch - Genesis
• The Collection - Amy Grant
• Shot in the Dark - Great White
• Live Like A Suicide EP - Guns N' Roses
• The Way It Is - Bruce Hornsby & the Range
• Somewhere in Time - Iron Maiden
• Rendez-Vous - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Control - Janet Jackson
• Psycho Candy - Jesus & Mary Chain
• Tones - Eric Johnson
• Raised On Radio - Journey
• Turbo - Judas Priest
• The Final Frontier - Keel
• Stand Tall - Killer Dwarfs
• Thrill of a Lifetime - King Kobra
• Change of Address - Krokus
• Alive & Screaming - Krokus
• True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
• Home Of The Brave - Laurie Anderson
• Menace to Society - Lizzy Borden
• Lightning Strikes - Loudness
• Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett
• True Blue - Madonna
• Trilogy - Yngwie Malmsteen
• Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? - Megadeth
• Master of The Metal - Messiah Prophet
• Master of Puppets - Metallica
• Mind's Eye - Vinnie Moore
• Portfolio - The Michael Schenker Group
• Orgasmatron - Motörhead
• Kicking Against the Pricks - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Your Funeral, My Trial - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Little Miss Dangerous - Ted Nugent
• The Ultimate Sin - Ozzy Osbourne
• Parade - Prince
• Look What the Cat Dragged In - Poison (debut)
• Rage for Order - Queensrÿche
• QR III - Quiet Riot
• Finyl Vinyl - Rainbow
• Dancing Undercover - Ratt
• They Don't Make Them Like They Used To - Kenny Rogers
• Eat Em' and Smile - David Lee Roth
• Want Some - Rough Cutt
• Raising Hell - Run DMC
• Not of This Earth - Joe Satriani
• Like A Rock - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• Graceland - Paul Simon
• ' - Skinny Puppy
• Reign in Blood - Slayer
• The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths
• Sound Of Confusion - Spaceman 3
• Live 1975-1985 - Bruce Springsteen
• The Yellow and Black Attack - Stryper
• To Hell With the Devil - Stryper
• True Stories - Talking Heads
• Mechanical Resonance - Tesla (debut)
• They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants (debut)
• Storms of Life - Randy Travis
• When In Rome Do As The Vandals - The Vandals
• 5150 - Van Halen
• Another View - The Velvet Underground
• Vinnie Vincent Invasion - Vinnie Vincent Invasion
• Synthetic Socks - Ween
• Inside the Electric Circus - W.A.S.P.
• True as Steel - Warlock
• White Tiger - White tiger
• Back In The High Life - Steve Winwood
• Skylarking - XTC
• Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam
• Zebra/3.V|3.V - Zebra
• High Priest Of Love EP Zodiac Mindwarp