[ Many Afternoons, Still No Utopia ] --  In 1986, Alphaville released their sophomore album, Afternoons in Utopia . It was something of a co...

[ What a Wonder ] -- Erasure released their studio debut album, Wonderland , in the UK on May 1, 1986, and in the US on June 2, 1986. So, it...

 Oh, dang. Rac Shade appeared in Absolute Green Lantern as a Darkstar . Does this make him Shade the Absolute Changing Man, or Absolute Sh...

[ So, It's Been Four Decades ] -- This week in 1986, Peter Gabriel released his fifth solo studio album, So . It was his first studio LP...

[ 40 Years of Raising Hell ] -- 40 years ago this week, Run-D.M.C. released their third studio album, Raising Hell . Produced by Russell Sim...

[ Four Decades in the Zone ] --  Forty years ago this week, Billy Ocean released his sixth studio album, Love Zone . Ocean had already toppe...

[ Not That Final Frontier ] --  In the spring of 1986, I was not yet in college and I had not yet finished high school. And, hitting the sto...