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1986: Best Musical Year Ever?

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PLAYLIST

Duran Duran, "Notorious"

PiL, "Rise"

Violent Femmes, "I Held Her In My Arms"

Ozzy Osbourne, "Shot In the Dark"

Bangles, "Manic Monday"

Talk Talk, "Life Is What You Make It"

Glass Tiger, "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)"

Janet Jackson, "Nasty"

Run-DMC, "Peter Piper"

Depeche Mode, "A Question of Lust"

Fabulous Thunderbirds, "Tuff Enuff"

Rolling Stones, "One Hit (To the Body)"

Pet Shop Boys, "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)"

Judas Priest, "Turbo Lover"

Dwight Yoakam, "Heartaches by the Number"

Butthole Surfers, "Moving To Florida"

Siouxsie & the Banshees, "Cities In Dust"

Blow Monkeys, "Digging Your Scene"

Lou Reed, "Video Violence"

AC/DC, "Who Made Who"

Jeffrey Osborne, "You Should Be Mine (The Woo Woo Song)"

Sonic Youth, "Expressway To Yr Skull"

The Fixx, "Secret Separation"

Randy Travis, "On the Other Hand"

Erasure, "Oh L'amour"

The Smiths, "Bigmouth Strikes Again"

Belinda Carlisle, "Mad About You"

Lyle Lovett, "If I Had a Boat"

David Lee Roth, "Yankee Rose"

Eurythmics, "Thorn In My Side"

Nanci Griffith, "Looking For the Time (Working Girl)"

Bob Dylan, "Brownsville Girl"

Billy Joel, "A Matter of Trust"

2 Live Crew, "We Want Some Pussy"

R.E.M., "Cuyahoga"

Paul Simon, "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes"

Bon Jovi, "Wanted Dead or Alive"

Love and Rockets, "Kundalini Express"

Iron Maiden, "Stranger In a Strange Land"

OMD, "Forever (Live and Die)"

Timbuk 3, "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades"

Cameo, "Word Up"

Slayer, "Angel of Death"

Talking Heads, "Wild Wild Life"

Iggy Pop, "Real Wild Child"

Billy Idol, "To Be a Lover"

They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start"

Eric Clapton, "It's the Way That You Use It"

Willie Nelson, "Living In the Promiseland"


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Chris Gray has been Music Editor for the Houston Press since 2008. He is the proud father of a Beatles-loving toddler named Oliver.
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