Editing 1986 in music (section)

===October–December===
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! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="36" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''O<br />C<br />T<br />O<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Eye of the Zombie]]'' || [[John Fogerty]] ||-
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| style="vertical-align:top;"|2
| ''[[Whites Off Earth Now!!]]'' || [[Cowboy Junkies]] ||Debut album
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[The Dark (Metal Church album)|The Dark]]'' || [[Metal Church]]||-
|-
| ''[[Scoundrel Days]]'' || [[A-ha]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|7
| ''[[United (Commodores album)|United]]'' || [[Commodores]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|13
| ''[[Count Three & Pray]]'' || [[Berlin (band)|Berlin]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Rock the Nations]]'' || [[Saxon (band)|Saxon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[One to One (Howard Jones album)|One to One]]'' || [[Howard Jones (British musician)|Howard Jones]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|14
| ''[[Mosaic (Wang Chung album)|Mosaic]]'' || [[Wang Chung (band)|Wang Chung]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Better Than Heaven]]'' || [[Stacy Q]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Dreamtime (The Stranglers album)|Dreamtime]]'' || [[The Stranglers]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|20
| ''[[Reign in Blood]]'' || [[Slayer]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Liverpool (album)|Liverpool]]'' || [[Frankie Goes To Hollywood]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Get Close]]'' || [[The Pretenders]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Between Two Fires (album)|Between Two Fires]]'' || [[Paul Young]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Whiplash Smile]]'' || [[Billy Idol]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Whispering Jack]]'' || [[John Farnham]] || Australia
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" |21
| ''[[Polka Party!]]'' || [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Stars & Hank Forever: The American Composers Series|Stars & Hank Forever!]]'' || [[The Residents]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Radio Musicola]]'' || [[Nik Kershaw]] ||-
|-
| ''[[To Hell with the Devil]]'' || [[Stryper]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|27
| ''[[Aretha (1986 album)|Aretha]]'' || [[Aretha Franklin]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Skylarking]]'' || [[XTC]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|28
| ''[[Power (Kansas album)|Power]]'' || [[Kansas (band)|Kansas]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|31
| ''[[Beyond the Gates (Possessed album)|Beyond the Gates]]'' || [[Possessed (band)|Possessed]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pearls of Passion]]'' || [[Roxette]] || Canada, Sweden Only Release
|-
| rowspan="10" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Trilogy (Yngwie Malmsteen album)|Trilogy]]'' || [[Yngwie Malmsteen]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Strange Charm]]'' || [[Gary Numan]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Alive and Screamin']]'' || [[Krokus (band)|Krokus]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Can't Hold Back (Eddie Money album)|Can't Hold Back]]'' || [[Eddie Money]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Fame and Fortune]]'' || [[Bad Company]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Greetings from Timbuk3]]'' || [[Timbuk3]] ||-
|-
| ''[[London 0 Hull 4]]'' || [[The Housemartins]] ||-
|-
| ''[[No. 10, Upping St.]]'' || [[Big Audio Dynamite]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Repossessed (album)|Repossessed]]'' || [[Kris Kristofferson]] ||-
|-
| ''Shake You Down'' || [[Gregory Abbott]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="41" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''N<br />O<br />V<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|3
| ''[[Another Step]]'' || [[Kim Wilde]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Christmas with The Jets]]'' || [[The Jets (Minnesota band)|The Jets]] || Christmas
|- 
| ''[[Forever (Kool & the Gang album)|Forever]]'' || [[Kool & the Gang]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Leather Jackets (album)|Leather Jackets]]'' || [[Elton John]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Menlove Ave.]]'' || [[John Lennon]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Your Funeral... My Trial]]'' || [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|4
| ''[[They Might Be Giants (album)|They Might Be Giants]]'' || [[They Might Be Giants]] || Debut
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|5
| ''[[Raw, Uncut and X-Rated]]'' || [[Too Short]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;" |10
| ''[[The Whole Story]]'' || [[Kate Bush]] || Compilation + 2 new tracks
|-
|''[[The Moon and the Melodies]]''
|[[Cocteau Twins]] and [[Harold Budd]]
| -
|-
| ''[[Live/1975–85]]'' || [[Bruce Springsteen]] and [[The E Street Band]] || Live Box Set
|-
| ''[[Brighter than a Thousand Suns (album)|Brighter Than a Thousand Suns]]'' || [[Killing Joke]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Morbid Visions]]'' || [[Sepultura]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|11
| ''[[Heartbeat (Don Johnson album)|Heartbeat]]'' || [[Don Johnson]] ||
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|15
| ''[[Jazz from Hell]]'' || [[Frank Zappa]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Licensed to Ill]]'' || [[Beastie Boys]] ||-
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| ''[[Live Alive]]'' || [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]] || Live
|-
| rowspan="6" style="vertical-align:top;"|17
| ''[[Through the Barricades]]'' || [[Spandau Ballet]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Darkness Descends]]'' || [[Dark Angel (band)|Dark Angel]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Infected (The The album)|Infected]]'' || [[The The]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Strong Persuader]]'' || [[Robert Cray]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Think Visual]]'' || [[The Kinks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Saint of the Pit]]'' || [[Diamanda Galás]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|20
| ''[[Holy Money]]'' || [[Swans (band)|Swans]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" style="vertical-align:top;"|24
| ''[[Notorious (Duran Duran album)|Notorious]]'' || [[Duran Duran]] ||-
|-
| ''[[August (Eric Clapton album)|August]]'' || [[Eric Clapton]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Deep in the Heart of Nowhere]]'' || [[Bob Geldof]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Utter Madness]]'' || [[Madness (band)|Madness]] || Compilation
|-
| ''Now That's What I Call Music 8'' || Various Artists ||-
|-
| rowspan="12" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Pleasure to Kill]]'' || [[Kreator]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Medusa (Clan of Xymox album)|Medusa]]'' || [[Clan of Xymox]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Chronicle, Vol. 2]]'' || [[Creedence Clearwater Revival]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Doctor (Cheap Trick album)|The Doctor]]'' || [[Cheap Trick]] ||-
|-
| ''[[3.V]]'' || [[Zebra (American band)|Zebra]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The 20 Greatest Christmas Songs]]'' || [[Boney M.]] || Compilation/Remix
|-
| ''[[Famous Blue Raincoat (album)|Famous Blue Raincoat]]'' || [[Jennifer Warnes]] || Canada
|-
| ''[[Hot Together]]'' || [[Pointer Sisters]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I Against I]]'' || [[Bad Brains]] ||-
|-
| ''[[No More the Fool (album)|No More the Fool]]'' || [[Elkie Brooks]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Trick or Treat (Fastway album)|Trick or Treat]]'' || [[Fastway (band)|Fastway]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''Stand Tall'' || [[Killer Dwarfs]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" |'''D<br />E<br />C<br />E<br />M<br />B<br />E<br />R'''
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|1
| ''[[Live Magic]]'' || [[Queen (Band)|Queen]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Anything (The Damned album)|Anything]]'' || [[The Damned (band)|The Damned]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" style="vertical-align:top;"|6
| ''[[Gang (album)|Gang]]'' || [[Johnny Hallyday]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|8
| ''[[Hot, Cool & Vicious]]'' || [[Salt-N-Pepa]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Mechanical Resonance (album)|Mechanical Resonance]]'' || [[Tesla (band)|Tesla]] ||-
|-
| style="vertical-align:top;"|9
| ''[[Good Music (Joan Jett and the Blackhearts album)|Good Music]]'' || [[Joan Jett and the Blackhearts]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|16
| ''[[Electric Café]]'' || [[Kraftwerk]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Live ?!*@ Like a Suicide]]'' || [[Guns N' Roses]] || Live EP
|-
| rowspan="3" style="vertical-align:top;"|?
| ''[[Eine kleine Nachtmusik (album)|Eine kleine Nachtmusik]]'' || [[Venom (band)|Venom]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know (Dead or Alive album)|Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know]]'' || [[Dead or Alive (band)|Dead or Alive]] ||US
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