Under the Blue Moon is a concept album released by R&B/pop group New Edition by MCA on November 24, 1986. Their fourth album and third with MCA and first album after New Edition member Bobby Brown was voted out of the group, the group was going through a transitional phase during this period. It is … Read more
QR III is the fifth studio album released by American heavy metal band Quiet Riot in 1986. The name of this recording is short for “Quiet Riot III”. Despite the title, this is actually the band’s fifth studio album. However, it is their third major label/worldwide release and the band’s first two releases were titled … Read more
Made in U.S.A. is a 1986 double vinyl album (or one-CD) compilation of some of The Beach Boys’ biggest successes. Released by their original label, Capitol Records, it marked a brief return to the label, with whom The Beach Boys released one further album, 1989’s Still Cruisin’. Featuring a number of their 1960s’ classics, in … Read more
Oh, My God! is the debut album of emcee Doug E. Fresh. It was released in 1986 on Reality Records, a short-lived subsidiary of the legendary Fantasy Records, and was produced by Dennis Bell and Ollie Cotton. The album was only a moderate success when it was released, peaking at #21 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop … Read more
Revenge is the fifth studio album by the British pop duo Eurythmics, released in 1986. The album was named after the closing track of their debut album In The Garden. Following on from their previous album, Be Yourself Tonight, Revenge continued further in this direction as the duo embraced a more commercial “rock band” style. … Read more
Delivered in the wake of Phil Collins’ massive success as a solo star, Invisible Touch was seen at the time as a bit of a Phil Collins solo album disguised as a Genesis album, and it’s not hard to see why. Invisible Touch is, without a doubt, Genesis’ poppiest album, a sleek, streamlined affair built … Read more
Talking with the Taxman About Poetry is the third album by Billy Bragg, released in 1986. With production by John Porter and Kenney Jones, Talking with the Taxman About Poetry featured more musicians than Bragg’s previous works, which were generally little more than Bragg himself and a guitar. There were two singles released from the … Read more
Broadcast is the debut album the English pop/rock band Cutting Crew, released in 1986. It reached #16 on the US charts and #41 on the UK charts. The album was released in Europe with different packaging 8 months before it was released in America. For the American version, 4 tracks were remixed (“Any Colour”, “One … Read more