Sunday Showcase Top Pop Songs In Nashville October 5, 1986

I was not into mainstream pop music at all circa 1986. I knew what was playing on college radio and that was about it. WRVU 91.1 at Vanderbilt was once a beacon of alternative music, but like most everything from that era in Nashville it's now long gone. Sold out to classical music. The top alternative songs from 1986 as a whole taken from a website called Pulse:

01 REM - Superman
02 New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
03 Dramarama - Anything, Anything (I'll Give You)
04 INXS - What You Need
05 Smithereens - Blood And Roses
06 Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire (Come And Get It)
07 Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
08 Talking Heads - Wild, Wild Life
09 OMD - If You Leave
10 Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

Let's see: I think I had every album these songs came from back then except for Wang Chung, Gene Loves Jezebel, and Peter Gabriel. Gabriel was much more mainstream than alternative. Keep in mind that was an annual list. This top ten from The Tennessean Sunday Showcase from October 5, 1986 is just a weekly look at what was hot.

I liked Bananarama and picked up their album used at some point. Lionel Richie is okay. I have never seen Top Gun so Berlin's tune doesn't do anything for me. All of the rest are unmemorable except for one tune which towers over the list and that would be Run-DMC's "Walk This Way." I most likely bought "Raising Hell" on cassette the day it was released. I was a huge Run-DMC fan. Heck I was a huge hip hop fan in addition to loving heavy metal and punk. That tune is the shining beacon in that top ten from then.