This week we posted the results of the latest round of our Best of the ’80s feature, a year-long series of readers’ polls that now has us at 1986. To coincide with the publication of the Top 100 Albums of 1986 list, here’s a handy Spotify playlist featuring one song apiece off each of the albums on that list — well, the 82 albums off that list that actually are on Spotify.
Enjoy the music, and, if you haven’t perused it yet, here’s the full 1986 list.
Author: Slicing Up Eyeballs
Q&A: Daniel Ash on Love and Rockets’ reunion, his new band — and figuring out how to play “So Alive” 
Q&A: Chris Frantz talks Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club and new book ‘Remain in Love’ 
Q&A: Hifi Sean on life after The Soup Dragons and the quest to make the perfect 7-inch 
Q&A: Steve Wynn on The Dream Syndicate’s first new album in nearly 30 years 
Q&A: Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant on new instrumental trio Poltergeist 
Q&A: Steve Wynn on The Dream Syndicate reunion, upcoming tour — and new music 
Q&A: Bauhaus’ David J on his ‘accidental’ concept album ‘Not Long For This World’ 
Q&A: Howard Jones on revisiting ‘Human’s Lib,’ ‘Dream Into Action’ — and future plans 
Q&A: Peter Murphy on ‘Ninth,’ the break-up of Bauhaus, reuniting Dalis Car 
Q&A: Joey Santiago on Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’ tour, possible ‘Surfer Rosa’ shows, new album talk
And here is the imported playlist to rdio for those enjoying their free premium 3 month access. http://rd.io/x/QXxtETMEWdg
so…you mostly chose the most obvious song from each record. we kinda coulda done that ourselves.
Well, qotita, slicingupeyeballs even chose the most obvious albums from each year. So you kinda could’ve done the whole survey yourself. Y U still here?
“well, the 82 albums off that list that actually are on Spotify”
Isn’t Spotify supposed to have everything?
That’s why I dropped it after a week.