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Poll Question: Pick your favorite from my 1986 titles.
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A bunch of these I've not heard, but I seriously doubt there's anything better in the list than Skylarking, which was (and is) perfection.
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I'll add another vote for "Graceland".  Exploitation or not, it was really my first exposure to world music and I loved it and still do to this day.

I'd also second Dean's suggestion for "Express" by Love and Rockets.  It remains in my top thirty albums of all time along with Graceland.
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1. Beauty In the Beast - Wendy Carlos.  An extraordinary album, full of complexity and surprises.  It demands careful listening.
2. Jazz From Hell - Frank Zappa.  Performed almost entirely on the Synclavier, Uncle Frank creates a very strange album (natch).
3. Graceland - Paul Simon.  Not just the African stuff.  A great album all the way around.
4. Skylarking - XTC.  If only all pop music were as good as this.
5. So - Peter Gabriel.  He finally got the hit he wanted by diving fully into the R&B.
Special mention goes to Kansas, Eno, and Shadowfax.  Not a bad year at all!
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Voted for Eno - Ambient 4.
Good poll, hard to choose just one. Waiting for 87', that is my personal favorite year for 80's music.

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1.Phillip Glass
2.Adrian Belew
3.Robert Wyatt
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UNIVERS ZERO's Heatwave
SHUB-NIGGURATH's Les morts vont vite
Les mains, les pieds balancés
Sur tant de mers, tant de planchers,
Un marin mort,
Il dormira

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the only one here ive listened to was 'SO,' and i didnt like that much at all...
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Actually I didn't see Songs from Liquid Days up there. That's a fantastic collaboration. I'll vote for that. 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Actually I didn't see Songs from Liquid Days up there. That's a fantastic collaboration. I'll vote for that. 
Liquid Days is the one Glass ablum I've never liked - I guess I should give it another chance
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Skylarking is clearly my favorite here.  Among my favorite albums ever, in fact.  Most of the rest are either unknown or just ehh to my ears.  The Old Rottenhat album is quite nice though, kind of an underrated Wyatt thingy.  Terje Rypdal can also always be counted on to put out a good album, though I don't have the "Blue" one you listed.  How does it rate to "Chaser" (another album from the same band, I think?)?
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Points: 15784 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2009 at 10:06
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Actually I didn't see Songs from Liquid Days up there. That's a fantastic collaboration. I'll vote for that. 
Liquid Days is the one Glass ablum I've never liked - I guess I should give it another chance

I would recommend it. I especially enjoy the Paul Simon collaboration "Changing Opinion." If you don't have a problem with a crossover between popular music and academic music, which you mostly likely don't if you listen to Glass, then I think you'll enjoy the album eventually. 
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Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Equality 7-2521 Equality 7-2521 wrote:

Actually I didn't see Songs from Liquid Days up there. That's a fantastic collaboration. I'll vote for that. 
Liquid Days is the one Glass ablum I've never liked - I guess I should give it another chance

I would recommend it. I especially enjoy the Paul Simon collaboration "Changing Opinion." If you don't have a problem with a crossover between popular music and academic music, which you mostly likely don't if you listen to Glass, then I think you'll enjoy the album eventually. 
Of course it depends on how "low-brow" the crossover is Tongue ... LOL seriously though, I don't have artist issues, if the music appeals to me I don't care who the performers are (ref: my Sarah Brightman collection Wink)... unfortunately on re-listening last night, this album still doesn't hit my pleasure nodes.
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Points: 36516 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 31 2009 at 13:32
I'm tempted to go with Robert Wyatt's Old Rottenhat, but there's an album from 1986 he performed on that I prefer: News From Babel's Letters Home.  Other favourites from the year include Shub-Niggurath's Les Morts Vont Vite and Univers Zero's Heatwave.

I'm afraid that I haven't heard that many from this poll list.
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T Dream is a classic. Thank you febus Cry   RIP
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Originally posted by Takeshi Kovacs Takeshi Kovacs wrote:

Of those, I'd go for Peter Gabriel, but generally they are far from representative of my favourites from 1986.

Mine would be more like:

The Colour Of Spring - Talk Talk (clear best album of 1986 for me)

Pergamon - Tangerine Dream
Underwater Sunlight - Tangerine Dream
Hat And Field - Ain Soph
Palimpseste - Anamorphose
Infected - The The




Just realised after one of the last posts that Underwater Sunlight - Tangerine Dream is actually on the list and I just failed to spot it. I voted for Peter Gabriel but really should have voted for TD.
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