Artists who made great albums when they were way past their prime
Can anyone help me with this? I was just thinking the other day.. are there any Bowie albums worth listening to after 1983? (I know that year probably wasn't his "prime", but you get my drift.)
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Dylan - Time out of Mind
Hadn't made a good album for 20 years. Still a few boring bluesy jams on it for me, but at least half of it is great.
same goes for Modern Times
and Tempest to a lesser extent. but time out of mind is pretty amazing.
Does this only apply to artists that had a bad era or two?
Didn't we have this exact thread about a month ago?
Scott Walker - The Drift
Does that count?
No
The Drift is Scott Walker's prime
manic street preachers - journal for
In Rainbows
Come at me bro
I thought to say that
But I was too lazy to troll
The Damned
made a great album in 2008 called 'So, Who's Paranoid?'
Buffalo Tom - Three Easy Pieces
Tindersticks - The Something Rain
Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
This for Tour de France
Although only two non-awesome albums had come between this and the last great one, so much time has passed that nobody expected another great Kraftwerk concept album.
Paul Buchanan's solo record Mid-Air
is beautiful. Hats and A Walk Across the Rooftops were from the 1980s.
It's late and I nearly posted Neil Buchanan instead.
Art rocker
Go-Betweens made at least two
Bowie Albums worth listening to after 1983:
(I presume you mean post-Let's Dance)
Outside - 1995
Earthling - 1997
Heathen - 2002
Outside is seriously essential Bowie. It's up there with Diamond Dogs and Scary Monsters. Not kidding.
i was gonna say heathen too
very great and underrated
I'd also throw...
...'The Buddha of Suburbia' into the equation.
Cannot this Heathen enough
Such a good record.
this is what makes Heathen so good
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlBPKjB1KY
it's seriously lovely
Great!
Until he starts singing
Leonard Cohen- Old Ideas
Tom Jones last few
finally had the balls to ball it out.
Johnny Cash shurely
he had a good run of later albums
enough that I'd think of that as being a 2nd 'prime' period, a complete rejuvination rather than just an aberration of an artist long past their best
is it the same when you're just singing other peoples songs though?
it's not a massive change for him though
he's always recorded a lot other people's songs along with traditional songs so it's inkeepeing with his career, also the selection and delivery of a lot of those songs is quite brilliant
Plus, The Man Comes Around...
...was probably the best song he wrote in 30 years (as well as being one of the best songs of the 00's.
That Jack White produced Lorretta Lynn album in the mid-2000s
was very good. The last Blondie album was good too.
he's quite a good producer, isn't he?
That last Wanda Jackson album was amazing.
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
Nah
Aside from most of the 80s he has always released good stuff, even if it can sometimes get lost in the quantity somewhat.
Nah, don't agree with that at all..
Prairie Wind, Living with War, Chrome Dreams and Fork it the Road were all a bit disappointing for me.
I loved Le Noise and think Psychedelic Pill is even better.
the lyrics on Psychedelic Pill are so bad
there's some cool jamz on there but fucking hell those lyrics
Yeh, some of the lyrics on two tracks aren't that grand..
But he more than makes up with it with the music/guitars.