Question: The Pink Opaque is a 1986 compilation album by a band active between which years ?

Context articles: Motherlode (James Brown album)
Cocteau Twins
Jawbreaker discography
Angels of Death (Hawkwind album)
Sub Pop 1000
Greatest Hits (Amy Grant album)
Twenty Years of Dirt
Looking Back to Yesterday
Kentucky Avenue
The Pink Opaque

Motherlode is a 1988 James Brown compilation album.
 Created as a follow-up to the successful 1986 compilation "In the Jungle Groove", it similarly focuses on Brown's funk recordings of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
 It includes live performances and remixes as well as studio recordings, most of them previously unissued.
 Writing in 2007, critic Robert Christgau called it "the finest of the classic [James Brown] comps".
 Highlights include a live "Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud", the first album release of "I Got Ants in My Pants (and I Want to Dance)", the latter-day UK chart hit "She's the One", and a nine-minute-long remix of "People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul" from the "Slaughter's Big Rip-Off" soundtrack.
Cocteau Twins were a Scottish rock band active from 1979 to 1997.
 The original members were singer Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Will Heggie, who was replaced by multi-instrumentalist Simon Raymonde in 1983.
 The group has earned much critical praise for its distinctive ethereal sound and the distinctive soprano vocals of Fraser, which often abandoned recognizable language altogether.
 They were associated with the UK label 4AD for much of their career.
The discography of Jawbreaker, an American punk rock band active from 1986 to 1996, consists of four studio albums, one live album, one compilation album, two extended plays (EPs) and eight singles.
 The group has also contributed multiple songs to various compilations over the years, both during their time together as a band and posthumously.
Angels of Death is a 1986 compilation album by Hawkwind covering their RCA/Active period 1981-1982.
Sub Pop 1000 is a compilation album released by Sub Pop.
 The album was limited, one-time release of 5,000 colored 12-inch vinyl records with cover art by Nathan Fox and will also include a 16-page booklet and MP3 download coupon.
 The record's release date coincides with Record Store Day on April 20, 2013, but is not a Record Store Day exclusive.
 The title references the 1986 compilation "Sub Pop 100" and features previously unreleased songs by up-and-coming artists on the Sub Pop label.
Greatest Hits is a compilation album by contemporary Christian music-pop singer Amy Grant, released on October 2, 2007 (see 2007 in music).
 It was released by EMI CMG, Grant's new record label, to mark the start of her contract with them.
 It does not contain new songs, but the record label did remaster all of her songs.
 It is her latest career-spanning collection (following the 1986 compilation "The Collection"), and thus overlaps several tracks with both "The Collection" and "Greatest Hits 1986–2004".
 As with "The Collection", the songs are arranged in reverse chronological order.
Twenty Years of Dirt is a 1986 compilation album from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.
 It is a collection of hits from their 20-year career.
 The album contained one new song, "Stand a Little Rain", which reached #5 on the "Billboard" Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.
 The album reached 10 on the US Country charts and went Platinum.
Looking Back to Yesterday is a 1986 compilation album featuring a collection of tracks from Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5.
 As part of Motown's "Never-Before-Released" series, all songs were previously unreleased except for "Love's Gone Bad" and "I Was Made to Love Her", alternate versions were released in 1979 on the Motown compilation "Boogie".
"Kentucky Avenue" is a song written and performed by Tom Waits, and released on Side Two of his 1978 album, "Blue Valentine."
 The song was also included on the 1986 compilation album "Asylum Years."
The Pink Opaque is a 1986 compilation album by Cocteau Twins, composed of tracks recorded between 1982 and 1985.
 A joint release by the UK-based 4AD (the band's label) and the American Relativity Records, it was the band's first official domestic U.S. release.