Best albums of 1986

[Rockindeano]

Choose your favorite album released in 1986...

Great year for music. "5150" was the album that first turned me on to Van Halen and it was my favorite album for several years. "Somewhere in Time" was also my first Iron Maiden album.

However, I chose "Third Stage" by Boston, which also happened to be my first Boston album. Actually, that was probably the year I got into music in general, so there you go.

How could you off all people forget Stryper's To Hell With The Devil.
Only one bad song on there. Amazing album. So many songs on their rocked beyond belief and sent Stryper into arenas.

That was a damned good album, seriously.

[Ms_M]

To Hell with the Devil was a good album. As usual, there were any number of these I could've voted for...

[Uno_up]

I went with Boston here, even though Boston was a band for 28-year old cheesedicks who peeled out in high school parking lots in their Z28s and crashed high school keggers while still living in their parents' basement...You know, the guys who banged 1 fat chick and sat around for a week smelling their finger. (just kidding, I love Boston)

[Rockindeano]

.You know, the guys who banged 1 fat chick and sat around for a week smelling their finger. (just kidding, I love Boston)

I totally did that. I loved smelling my finger.

[Uno_up]

.You know, the guys who banged 1 fat chick and sat around for a week smelling their finger. (just kidding, I love Boston)

I totally did that. I loved smelling my finger.

In my late teen years, I even felt the need to share that finger smell with my buddies. As you can see, I was generous.

[Rockindeano]

When I showered, I would hold my arm/hand out of the shower curtain, in order to savor that motherfucker. Amazingly, that "stuff" would clean the shit out of your fingernails!

[Uno_up]

LOL...
I'm going back to bed. You people blathering is more addictive than a free virtual reality tour of Jessica Alba's ass.

[Rockindeano]

LOL...
I'm going back to bed. You people blathering is more addictive than a free virtual reality tour of Jessica Alba's ass.

You have that video?

[*Laura]

Hard choice between SWW and 5150! Both monster albums...Today I would pick Van Halen,but in '87 I was a complete Jovihead ,so there goes my vote.

[Enigma869]

How 5150 doesn't win this in a landslide has me scratching my head. The only band to replace an established singer and not miss a single beat...and do so with the first number 1 record the band has ever experienced is simply, well, unheard of...

To this day, it hasn't been done.

I'm with you here, 1000%! The fact that Raised on Radio outranks 5150 on this board is EMBARASSING! That tells me that Journey choices shouldn't be on these polls, because we're all too biased to be honest Listen...I love Journey, and they've actually always been my favorite band, but Raised on Radio over 5150?????? Jesus...That's ASTONISHING! Truly fucking astonishing! To Strangegrey's point...The fact that Van Halen (a band who had been around FOREVER at that time) had their most commercially successful album, EVER, with a new lead singer makes "5150" an automatic slam dunk!


John from Boston

[Higgy]

Great year - except for that shit Journey put out!

[belar]

Tonight for the first time I actually watched and listened to Van Halen III on youtube. And after seeing and hearing it, I didn't miss anything. What was Van Halen thinking getting this guy? He's completely not made for the part both vocally and in stage performance. They should have worked hard to keep Sammy or kiss his ass trying to get him back. I'm nearly at a loss for words after watching this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJt3peL7dkU

Looks like Ted Danson fronting Van Halen.

[Red13JoePa]

5150
So
Invisible Touch
The Stones' Dirty Work

Wasn't Steve Winwood's Back In The Highlife in '86? That was a smash album.


Agree with Enigma, let's get a mod to remove Journey from all these poll, pointless to have them in there.