Album Year: 1986
Pretty in Pink
As with previous films by John Hughes, Pretty in Pink featured a soundtrack composed mostly of new wave music. While director Howard Deutch originally intended the film to primarily contain theme music, Hughes influenced Deutch’s decision to use post-punk music throughout the film. The title song by the Psychedelic Furs acted as a bit of … Read more
Balance of Power
Balance of Power is an album by the Electric Light Orchestra (ELO) released in 1986. Balance of Power was the last studio album by the Electric Light Orchestra for a period of over 15 years (until Zoom was released in 2001). By this time Kelly Groucutt had departed and the group was pared down to … Read more
The Ultimate Sin
The Ultimate Sin is the fourth studio album by British vocalist Ozzy Osbourne. It was released on 22 February 1986, and it was remastered and re-issued on 22 August 1995. This album features guitarist Jake E. Lee (formerly of Mickey Ratt, Rough Cutt and Dio). The Ultimate Sin is the first and only Osbourne album … Read more
War Games
War Games is the third studio album by the German heavy metal band Grave Digger, released in 1986 through Noise Records.
Mean Business
Instead of copying the finely crafted riffs of “Radioactive,” The Firm’s second and final album wallowed in the banal arena rock that only occasionally appeared on the debut.
Parade: Music From the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon
Parade: Music from the Motion Picture Under the Cherry Moon is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Prince and The Revolution, released on March 31, 1986, by Paisley Park Records and Warner Bros. Records. It served as the soundtrack album to the 1986 film Under the Cherry Moon. Keith Harris of Blender writes … Read more
Live in New York City
Live in New York City is a posthumous live album by English rock musician John Lennon with the Plastic Ono Elephant’s Memory Band. It was prepared under the supervision of his widow, Yoko Ono, and released in 1986 as his second official live album, the first being Live Peace in Toronto 1969.
Love Zone
Billy Ocean was riding atop the charts when he issued this album in ’86. The title track contained both a fine arrangement and Ocean’s emphatic lead vocal, and was a huge hit. He topped the R&B charts twice that year with both “Love Zone” and “There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry),” each of … Read more