365 Albums from 1986 82. The Dead Milkmen - Eat Your Paisley Fun punkabilly mix. I envisioned them being a lot more hardcore. This was a nice surprise. Funny too.

Drove from Memphis TN to Portland ME with a friend. 1,400 miles. 23 hours straight & I drove all but about 2 hours of it. Left at noon on a Friday, dropped my friend off on Saturday morning at 6 am in Brooklyn, and got to Portland at noon. I never tried anything like that again after that.

365 Albums from 1986 81. Game Theory - The Big Shot Chronicles Also produced by Mitch Easter. Eclectic indie pop mix that gives off huge Big Star vibes. Hell, this should be titled The Big Star Chronicles.

This was so much fun last time, let's do it again!

365 Albums from 1986 80. Let’s Active - Big Plans For Everybody Breezy jangly indie pop with a nice blend of new wave. Has a real 60’s meets 80’s vibe. The singer, Mitch Easter, was the producer for several early REM albums, which you can get a tiny bit of here. This is a pleasant find.

Project Hail Mary was even better than the hype!

365 Albums from 1986 79. Anita Baker - Rapture I wasn’t mature enough musically to appreciate this in 1986. This is smooth as silk and now something that I could listen to every day of the week. Perfect R&B & Jazz balance.

I’ve got some garbage account reposting some of my posts, but when I click on it to see who it is I get a message saying that there are no reposts even though at the top it says 1 repost. Anybody know how to stop that? It’s fucking annoying.

Damn, if Chuck Norris can die what chance in hell do the rest of us have?

365 Albums from 1986 78. Black Flag - Who’s Got the 10 1/2? Live punk album. It’s a fun one. Probably a much better time to be had at the show instead of listening to the record at home though.

365 Albums from 1986 77. Eros Ramazzotti - Nuovi Eroi Sounds EXACTLY like what I would think an Italian pop record would sound like in 1986. Actually, it was even better than that.

365 Albums from 1986 76. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration I have tried for a long time to get into DM and it just won’t happen. This album didn’t change that. It’s a little too somber on all fronts for my taste. It’s not bad. It’s just not for me.

10 years ago today I was in Lakeland. Miggy was in the best shape of his career. #tigers

365 Albums from 1986 75. Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Paint Your Wagon British Goth rock? I kinda dig it? Has a Siouxsie and the Banshees vibe without Siouxsie Sioux caliber vocals.

Rays-Braves is a free game today on mlb tv and there are no announcers, just the sounds of the park, and GODDAMMIT WHY CANT EVERY GAME BE LIKE THIS?!?

Saw this on FB. The “All-Star” variation in Heritage. #fail #cardsky

Before there was Marlin Man... iykyk

365 Albums from 1986 74. Cirith Ungol - One Foot in Hell Run of the mill metal album. Nothing stood out. Cool album cover.

365 Albums from 1986 73. Voivod - Rrröööaaarrr I don’t know whether or not this is death metal, but I’d rather die than have to listen to it again so I’m applying it here.

Built my own blaster at the card shop today. Gonna be a fun night of opening!

Got some much needed Vitamin D today moving some plants to newer homes & starting a second batch of seeds. Just in time to bring them all in the house tomorrow night bc it’s supposed to be 25 degrees Monday morning…

365 Albums from 1986 72. Ministry - Twitch Snappy industrial synthpop album. File this under: I liked it but will probably never have the urge to listen to it again (a common theme for me with this genre).

365 Albums from 1986 71. The Go-Betweens - Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express Nice jangly pop album from an Australian indie band. I actually know of them from a later album, 16 Lovers Lane, which I prefer over this one. Both albums are good though.

Better: Third Eye Blind - Couldn't stand that 1st song. Saw them open for U2 & they were great. Bought the album the next day. Worse: REO Speedwagon - Cronin was a putz. BS stories between songs + numerous equipment problems = I left before the end of the show & never cared for them again.

365 Albums from 1986 70. Neil Diamond - Headed for the Future Four things are true. 1. I love Neil Diamond. 
2. This is embarrassingly bad. 3. I’m bad at counting.

FB & eBay are eavesdropping on my BS convos!

365 Albums from 1986 69. Siekiera - Nowa Aleksandria Wiki calls this “coldwave” and “darkwave”. I’d call it industrial punk. Whatever it is, it’s somber yet catchy, but I wouldn’t want to listen to this all the time. Oh yeah, the lyrics are all in Polish.

I "discovered" the Replacements because of 120 Minutes and completely changed my music trajectory as a teenager. I miss 80's MTV. All of it.

365 Albums from 1986 68. Chris Rea - On The Beach Soft rock masterpiece by one of the smoothest cats to ever to do it.

365 Albums from 1986 67. Joe Satriani - Not Of This Earth Not at all what I was expecting. This is rooted more in jazz/pop than hard rock/metal. I don’t how many guitar god albums are great to just chill out to, but this is one of them. Rubina is a groove.

I never noticed the background masking on this card until today. I wonder if there was a Marlboro sign somewhere above the fence back there haha. @vossbrink.bsky.social

365 Albums from 1986 66. Bonnie Raitt - Nine Lives Unremarkable mix of a little bit of everything style-wise but nothing that sticks. An all-star lineup of songwriters & musicians must’ve been saving their best stuff for somebody else. It’s not bad by any means, just mediocre.

Sunflowers and Black-Eyed Susans have joined the party!

365 Albums from 1986 65. Matt Bianco - Matt Bianco Funky latin/jazzy/dance pop that sounds like something right out of the early 60’s. Matt Bianco is the name of the band. One of the original members was Basia, who had departed by this point.

He sings a song that reminds him of the good times, he sings a song that reminds him of the better times

365 Albums from 1986 64. Steve Earle - Guitar Town Solid debut album for its time. Definitely leans more into the pop country sound of those years than the stuff he’d be better known for later in his career. The title track is a good ‘un.

Cornflowers, Marigolds, and Zinnias have started to sprout!

That's twice in one year. A few more and this might actually be a real blog again. detroittigerscards.blogspot.com/2026/03/febr...

365 Albums from 1986 63. The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional Richly layered, mesmerizing mix with haunting vocals that remind me a lot of James. Wide Open Road is the track to check out first and it you like it dive in from there. This is a really good album. I highly recommend.

what athlete's expression will stay with you the rest of your life

365 Albums from 1986 62. Great White - Shot In The Dark I always felt like Great White was a notch above the rest of the hair metal bands and that’s certainly the case here. More bluesy hard rock than glam, this is a fine effort.

365 Albums from 1986 61. Husker Du - Candy Apple Grey I think I like every band that ever claimed HD was an influence, but I never got into them myself. I never thought they were bad, I just never found them to be interesting. This might just be the album that changed my mind.

365 Albums from 1986 60. ELO - Balance of Power Textbook ELO album (and I'm guessing the reason why it was so poorly received?) Sounds EXACTLY like what an ELO album should sound like. I really enjoyed it. The critics did not.

Seeds planted!

365 Albums from 1986 59. Pretty In Pink - Soundtrack One of the best soundtracks of the 80s. Not a single bad song. I went to my senior prom about the time If You Leave was blowing up the radio. What a great time in life. I also went to a 30th anniversary showing of the movie 10 years ago today.

365 Albums from 1986 58. Tanya Tucker - Girls Like Me Sounds like an album full of songs that either Anne Murray passed on in ‘85 or Shania Twain had hits with 10 years later. 1/2

On New Year’s Eve I made a list of fun and/or new things to do/try in 2026. The 365 Albums from 1986 was one of those things. This is another that I started today. I’ve never tried gardening before. (If I can just get one of these fuckers to actually bloom it’ll be a triumphant success !)

365 Albums from 1986 57. Metallica - Master of Puppets I mentioned before that I can’t tell the difference between good jazz or bad & the same applies to metal. This doesn’t sound any better or worse to me than the Grave Digger album I listened to earlier this week. 1/2

365 Albums from 1986 56. Front Line Assembly - Nerve War Industrial noise that sounds like it should be playing in the background of a movie during a bank heist gone wrong. In Berlin.