365 Albums from 1986 191. Hank Williams Jr. - Montana Café A mad libs of country cliches: Fishin’, drinkin’, fightin’, fuckin’, cowboys hats, cars, honky tonks, & Amazing Grace. There’s a couple of fun rockers on here though. Otherwise, the Montana Café is located right outside Dull City.

365 Albums from 1986 190. Gordon Lightfoot - East of Midnight Lounge act set that would’ve sounded right at home at the Regal Beagle in the late fall of ‘79. Some choices were made here, and it was kind of a fun ride.

365 Albums from 1986 189. Missing Persons - Color in Your Life The critics were unkind to this album but I don’t hear it. It’s a fine, catchy mid 80’s pop record. There are no obvious hits, but no stomach turners either. I’d put it somewhere between Berlin and Bananarama. I dig it.

365 Albums from 1986 188. 54-40 - 54-40 Moody alternative that was 10 years ahead of its time. I had no idea that Hootie & the Blowfish's I Go Blind was a cover from this album. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out a lot of 90’s bands were big fans of these guys. I’m one now.

Wow when was the last time a team scored a run in every inning that they batted?

365 Albums from 1986 187. David Lee Roth - Eat 'Em and Smile Somehow this one managed to escape me all these years. That sucks because this is a banger! Ladies Nite in Buffalo is a stone cold groove!!

Like a monkey trying to fuck a football

365 Albums from 1986 186. Chaka Khan - Destiny Perfectly competent R&B/Pop album. Tomorrow I won’t remember a single thing about it, and I listened to it twice. I would still listen to it again though. 🤷‍♂️

Holy fuck

Topps photog made bank one afternoon at Tiger Stadium in 1985. Hendrick & Holland were traded to the Angels in August that year so these pics were likely taken during the Sept 2-4 series. At least theirs were. DeCinces didn't play in any of the 6 Angels @ Tigers games that year.

365 Albums from 1986 185. Quiet Riot - QR III I never even knew this album existed. Sounds more like 80’s Cheap Trick or Loverboy than Quiet Riot. Maybe that’s why?

365 Albums from 1986 184. Loudness - Lightning Strikes Japanese metal band with a slick sound. I’m surprised I’ve never heard of them before. This was just as good as any American metal album I’ve heard from ’86.

365 Albums from 1986 183 Samantha Fox - Touch Me Bouncy pop that falls somewhere between Debbie Gibson and Sheena Easton, which is not what I expected at all. That’s not the worst place to be though.

365 Albums from 1986 182. Doug E. Fresh - Oh, My God! The genre from '86 that I’m continually blown away by is rap. Yet another album that sounds crisp & innovative. (Didn’t see an anti-abortion song coming though)

365 Albums from 1986 181. George Strait - #7 Pure Country is one of my all-time guilty pleasure movies. It’s a fitting description for Strait. He always was and that’s what you get here as well. A couple of classic hits and the rest are solid too. Thumbs up.

It sure seems like the Tigers M.O. after a big win is to lay down their bats for the rest of a series. Prove me wrong tonight & tomorrow boys.

365 Albums from 1986 180. Eurythmics - Revenge Doesn’t have their biggest hits but might be their best album from start to finish. Definitely their most fleshed out album to date. This is a good’un.

365 Albums from 1986 179. Madonna - True Blue Her ascendency continued despite this being a pretty lackluster album (outside of Live To Tell, which is in her top 5). The rest of it sounds like the same song & it wasn’t an interesting one.

Scott Harris is responsible for this mess & he’s the guy who’s going to fix it? Tigers are fucked…

365 Albums from 1986 178. Willie Nelson - Partners Two Willies in one week! This doesn’t rank with his best stuff, but again, there are no bad Willie Nelson albums. Some just ain’t as good as others. So Much Like My Dad is a great song I'd never heard before.

Framber Valdez throwing BP today…

365 Albums from 1986 177. Wham! - Music from the Edge of Heaven And just like that, they were gone (well, Andrew was anyway). I always thought it was funny that A Different Corner was released as a GM solo song even though it was on this album. I guess when it's over, it's over.

365 Albums from 1986 176. Waylon Jennings - Will the Wolf Survive Blend of country/soft rock/pop that somehow works largely due to Waylon’s vocals. Suddenly Single is a hidden gem.

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365 Albums from 1986 175. Willie Nelson - The Promiseland Willie on autopilot was still better than 99% of the country music of that era. This is pure classic Willie here.

365 Albums from 1986 174. Rod Stewart - Every Beat of My Heart In the context of his 80’s albums, this is fine. Starts off sounding like he’s trying to get back to his roots and rock it some, but then Love Touch gets dropped in the middle and all bets are off after that.

365 Albums from 1986 173. Reba McIntire - Whoever's in New England I’m shocked that this was her TENTH album! I assumed it was her debut. Regardless, it’s not great. The songs sound like they were leftover Barbara Mandrell B-sides, and her A-sides weren’t all that hot.

365 Albums from 1986 172. Danny Wilde - The Boyfriend Catchy power pop record from one of the guys responsible for that damn song from Friends. It’s a shame this was never released on CD because I’d go out & get it. This is really fun.

365 Albums from 1986 171. Sting - Bring on the Night 
At the time I remember thinking “who the hell wants a live album full of B sides & jazzed up Police deep cuts?” I get it now, Sting. I get it now.

365 Albums from 1986 170. Big Country - The Seer Despite liking a lot of 80’s bands that I’d group them with (U2, Alarm, Simple Minds) Big Country just never really grabbed a hold of me. That’s changed with this album. I’ll definitely check out more.

365 Albums from 1986 169. Agent Orange - This is the Voice Melodic surf/power pop. I enjoyed it, but even after listening to it twice, I still couldn’t differentiate one song from another if I was quizzed about it.

I don't understand the outrage over hydration breaks. I have to take several every night just to get through a Tigers game and I'm not even playing...

365 Albums from 1986 168. Queensryche - Rage for Order Heady theatrical metal album. Dennis DeYoung would’ve felt right at home here. Probably would’ve made it better too. Never thought I’d ever utter those words.

They're Ghana win it!!!

365 Albums from 1986 167. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead 
Fantastic jangle pop. Another band where I know a few songs but never did a deep dive. Crazy, because this would’ve been right in my wheelhouse in the late 80’s.

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Tigers are 12 games under .500 with a -6 Run Differential. Twins are 6 games under .500 with a -40 Run Differential. Guardians are 3 games OVER .500 with a -3 Run Differential. Fucking baseball.

365 Albums from 1986 166. Peter Cetera - Solitude/Solitaire Cetera went full on schlock here. I can’t imagine being in a band as good as Chicago and quitting to put this out. Of course Cetera probably can’t imagine being poor either.

365 Albums from 1986 165. Labyrinth Soundtrack Big quirky/funky/majestic movie score with Bowie singing on about half the tracks. (I’ve never seen the movie before and now I need to find/watch it.)

That time Panini bought only one Ichiro photo & by the end they were like, “just fucking flip it over…” #cardsky

(I forgot to post last night so I'm doubling up tonight) 365 Albums from 1986 164 Krokus - Change of Address Middle of the road pop metal. Apparently it was considered their worst album ever. Even the band didn't care for it. I need to check out more of their stuff because this wasn’t bad at all.

365 Albums from 1986 163. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Criminal Tango Slick catchy keyboard driven pop. Every song on here sounds like it could’ve spent 3 weeks at the bottom of the Top 40.

I had a good weekend. This isn't even the best stuff.

365 Albums from 1986 162. Glass Tiger - The Thin Red Line Criminally underrated anthem pop album. If George Michael sang for the Fixx, you’d get an idea what that would sound like here. I think they were wrongly pigeonholed based on Bryan Adams appearing on both singles. This deserved better.

Always looking for these in packs @every-topps-card.bsky.social

365 Albums from 1986 161. Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus Doom Metal. One of the most uninteresting albums I’ve ever heard. By the time I get to the end of this sentence I’ll have forgotten it completely. (so uninspiring I forgot to post it last night...)

You could've seen the Top 15 shows for less than what it costs to see an arena show now...

365 Albums from 1986 160. Alphaville - Afternoons in Utopia Dreamy synth pop with a little bit of a New Age vibe lyrically mixed in. None of it was really interesting though.

365 Albums from 1986 159. Cinderella - Night Songs I can definitely say that the genre I misjudged the most as a teen was hair/glam/pop metal. I wouldn’t have even considered listening to something like this in ’86. Turns out it’s a decent rocker.

365 Albums from 1986 157. Randy Travis - Storms of Life Top notch classic country. A lot of country in 1986 sounded like cheesy lounge music. This is old school all day. No wonder it was so popular.