Hidden Treasures - 1986

1986 Year in music...

January 4 – Phil Lynott died, bassist/singer and co-founder of Thin Lizzy, 36 (heart failure & pneumonia)
January 23 – The first induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame takes place. The first artists to be honoured are Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Fats Domino, Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Elvis Presley.
February 23 – In honor of the 20th anniversary of The Monkees' first appearance on television, MTV broadcasts Pleasant Valley Sunday, a 22-hour marathon of Monkees episodes.
March 27 – Van Halen opens its 5150 tour, the first with new lead singer Sammy Hagar.
May 25 – Norwegian band a-ha wins a record-breaking eight awards at the MTV Video Music Awards show.
May 30 – The Monkees begin their highly successful 20th Anniversary Reunion Tour.
June 7 - Queen starts The Magic Tour which becomes their final tour with all original member and also their most successful tour.
September 27 – A tour bus carrying the heavy metal band Metallica crashes in Sweden, killing their influential bassist, Cliff Burton.
Also, Alice Cooper returns to the mainstream after a two-year break. The Nightmare Returns Tour goes on to become one of the best selling tours of 1986.

My Top 5 Albums of 1986

Honeymoon Suite - The Big Prize
Van Halen - 5150
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time
Journey - Raised on Radio
Boston - Third Stage

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	Judas Priest Turbo 1 - Locked In While Turbo sold well initially, going Gold (RIAA) on 10 June 1986 and Platinum on 24 July 1987, and reaching No. 33 in the UK and No. 17 on Billboard 200, the long-term reaction from fans was quite negative. The band's use of guitar synthesizers and the introduction of hints of glam metal into their image were particularly unpopular with the band's fanbase at the time. Sales tapered off and the subsequent live album from the otherwise successful "Fuel for Life" tour tanked by the band´s standards, only going Gold after a string of Platinum certified albums. Aside from the title track, most of the songs on Turbo disappeared from the live setlist by 1989. Rob Halford referred to Turbo as the "love/hate Judas Priest album". In 2008 he told Kerrang!: The only agenda we've ever had in Priest was to really give every album its own life and I think we've achieved that on everything from Rocka Rolla up to the new one, Nostradamus. That said, if ever there was a controversial record in terms of what people might have expected from us, it's Turbo. It was the fact that we moved into a different atmosphere, but that's where we were at at that particular time. Some of the technological advances like the pedal boards that Glenn and KK used were giving us options for different sounds and experimentation. Personally I think there are still some great tracks on that album ... It's one of the recordings that divide opinion."
	Triumph The Sport of Kings 2 - Tears In The Rain On June 7th, 1985 Triumph was ranked #2 in Performance Magazine's 6-week period ending "Tops in Performance" list. Triumph would take a more commercial turn with their 1986 studio album, The Sport of Kings. Rik Emmett's "Somebody's Out There" reached the American Top 40 in late 1986, gaining some radio and video exposure. Written and recorded in the 11th hour of The Sport of Kings sessions, in an attempt to deliver a hit 'single' to satisfy the demands of the record company, Rik Emmett's "Somebody's Out There" made it to No. 27 on Billboard during Sept. and Oct. of 1986, climbing higher than Hold On. It stands as the highest-charting song from the Triumph catalogue. Gil Moore's "Tears in the Rain", cut from the same cloth as "Mind Games," did not fare as well in the charts. Adding Rick Santers to their line-up, Triumph toured with Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen across the United States.
	Queen A Kind of Magic 3 - One Vision The album enjoys the status of an unofficial soundtrack for the 1986 film Highlander (for which no official soundtrack album was released). The title, "A Kind of Magic", may have come from one of the lines Connor MacLeod (Christopher Lambert) says to describe his immortality. Six out of nine songs on the album appeared in the film, although in different versions. The three songs that did not appear in Highlander are "Pain Is So Close to Pleasure", "Friends Will Be Friends" and "One Vision" (which was featured a year earlier in the film Iron Eagle). Conversely, a recording of "Theme from New York, New York" made specifically for a scene in Highlander does not appear on A Kind of Magic, and in fact has never been released in album form to date. According to a statement by Brian May on the Greatest Video Hits 2 DVD (2003), at least at that point, he had the intention to work on a proper Highlander soundtrack in the future. In one scene, a snippet of "Hammer to Fall" plays on a radio, a song from the previously released The Works album.
	Megadeth Peace Sells...But Who's Buying 4 - Peace Sells In retrospect, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? has been regarded as a milestone of the thrash metal movement. Along with Metallica's Master of Puppets and Slayer's Reign in Blood, which were also released in 1986, Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? is considered pivotal in giving prominence to extreme metal. Allmusic's Steve Huey recognized the record as a notable achievement in the band's history, and called it a "classic of early thrash". Similarly, Chad Bowar of About.com said that the album captured Megadeth in their prime, and recommended it as a "mandatory" recording for the fans of this genre. Sputnikmusic's Mike Stagno named the album a "bona-fide thrash metal masterpiece" and said it was the main reason why Megadeth became one of the leading acts of the thrash scene. Joel McIver, writing in Record Collector, said that the album's main strength was its fluidity, with all songs moving in a continuous, steady stream. According to him, the album was "flip the bird" to the critics who were hostile to this type of music at the time.
	Iron Maiden Somewhere In Time 5 - Stranger In A Strange Land Somewhere in Time is notable for lacking any songwriting credits from lead vocalist Bruce Dickinson, whose material was rejected by the rest of the band. Dickinson had written several "acoustic-based" songs, explaining that "I felt we had to come up with our Physical Graffiti or Led Zeppelin IV ... we had to get it onto another level or we'd stagnate and drift away," although Steve Harris "thought he'd lost the plot completely," surmising that "he was probably more burnt out than anyone at the end of that last tour." On the other hand, the record is also notable for the number of "fully formed" songs written by guitarist Adrian Smith, who wrote both of the album's singles: "Wasted Years" and "Stranger in a Strange Land". Although "space and time" are common themes throughout the release, with songs such as "Wasted Years", "Caught Somewhere in Time", "Stranger in a Strange Land" and "Deja-Vu", the band never intended for it to be a concept album, with Harris stating, "We certainly never went in there and said, 'Right let's write a load of songs on the subject of time.'" While the majority of the release's songs have disappeared from the band's live shows shortly after its supporting tour, "Wasted Years" and "Heaven Can Wait" have often been played since. Performances of "Heaven Can Wait" have featured a group of local fans and celebrities invited onstage to sing along during the song's middle section.

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Permalink Reply by Jon on March 4, 2014 at 6:01pm

To me, '86 was REALLY weak compared to previous years of the 80's.

Then

Queen--A Kind Of Magic
David Lee Roth--Eat 'Em And Smile
Van Halen--5150
Tesla--Mechanical Resonance
Cinderella--Night Songs

Now

Metallica--Master Of Puppets
David Lee Roth--Eat 'Em And Smile
Megadeth--Peace Sells....But Who's Buying?
Paul Simon--Graceland
Zebra--3.V

Honorable mentions

AC/DC--Who Made Who
Bruce Hornsby & The Range--The Way It Is
Huey Lewis & The News--Fore!
Iron Maiden--Somewhere In Time
John Fogerty--Eye Of The zombie
Kansas--Power