469. They Might Be Giants, "Can't Keep Johnny Down"
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
468. Stereolab - "Everybody's Weird Except Me"
― flappy bird, Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:50 (six years ago) link
477 - vashti bunyan - across the water― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, January 13, 2018 7:37 PM
― kolakube (Ross), Saturday, January 13, 2018 7:37 PM
Just, the entirety of Lookaftering and Heartleap, really.
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link
467. REM, "Supernatural Superserious"466. Nilsson, "I'll Take a Tango"
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:55 (six years ago) link
465 linda perhacs - prisms of glass
(yeah austin)
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 04:57 (six years ago) link
464. Sonic Youth - “Rain on Tin”
― flappy bird, Sunday, 14 January 2018 05:05 (six years ago) link
463. Prince - “Baltimore”
462 - marianne faithfull - no child of mine
(also riffed on in a pj harvey uh huh her cut)
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 05:07 (six years ago) link
Technically not a song, but whatever:
461. Franz Liszt, 'Nuages gris'
Always got the sense that pop musicians (in the broadest possible sense) tend to burn out fairly quickly while classical composers' late works are often among their very best (cf. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Sibelius, Nielsen, Berg, Webern, Shostakovich, etc.). There are exceptions, of course, but even those are debatable (Chopin, Schumann, Fauré, Schoenberg, Ives, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Takemitsu, etc.).
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 January 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
Similarly in other areas of music: John Coltrane did some of his most significant and influential work in the last 1-2 years of his life. Bill Dixon made an absolute game-changer (Vade Mecum) at 67. Cecil Taylor’s legendary Berlin residency, which included arguably his most towering work (Alms/Tiergarten (Spree)), occurred when he was in his late 50s.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 14 January 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
Also, Gyorgy Ligeti's Violin Concerto. Not numbering since it's not a song but it's my go-to answer for this.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 January 2018 14:29 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that’s a good one. Love the Viola Sonata as well.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 January 2018 14:30 (six years ago) link
"Always got the sense that pop musicians (in the broadest possible sense) tend to burn out fairly quickly while classical composers' late works are often among their very best (cf. Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Wagner, Brahms, Debussy, Ravel, Sibelius, Nielsen, Berg, Webern, Shostakovich, etc.). There are exceptions, of course, but even those are debatable (Chopin, Schumann, Fauré, Schoenberg, Ives, Stravinsky, Messiaen, Takemitsu, etc.)."
yeah i kind of want to omit classical musicians for that very reason, we could put in everything from Beethoven's Late Period here easy
460. robert wyatt - free will and testament459. demis roussos - who gives a fuck
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 January 2018 14:50 (six years ago) link
458. jimmie rodgers - years ago457. richard jose - when you and i were young, maggie (1930 electrical recording)
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
456. Pet Shop Boys - Love is a Bourgeois Construct455. XTC - Easter Theatre
― frogbs, Sunday, 14 January 2018 14:53 (six years ago) link
454. Blue Cheer- 'Gypsy Rider'
― earlnash, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
453. george harrison - any road452. charles mingus - cumbia and jazz fusion451. czeslaw niemien - spodchmurykapelusza450. sun ra - pleiades449. the cowsills - under the gun448. van dyke parks - wall street447. sly stone - get away446. silverchair - tuna in the brine445. ultrasound - sovereign
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:05 (six years ago) link
444. Robert Forster - Demon Days443. Suede - Snowblind 442. Scritti Politti - The Boom Boom Bap 441. Kate Bush - A Coral Room 440. Prince - A Million Days 439. Brian Wilson - Midnight's Another Day 438. The Cure - Cut Here 437. Soft Cell - Last Chance 436. Paul Buchanan - Cars In The Garden 435. Tindersticks - This Fire Of Autumn 434. Saint Etienne - Over The Border 433. Edwyn Collins - 31 Years432. Janet Jackson - No Sleeep431. Tracey Thorn - Oh The Divorces 430. Duran Duran - Runway Runaway
― kitchen person, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:25 (six years ago) link
Re: classical musicians, the Ligeti violin concerto is kind of a special case in that his late period found him struggling to find a style or some cohesion, but in terms of "significant late work" for Ligeti I'd put the piano Etudes way higher than the violin concerto (which has some of the most superfluous alternate-string tunings I've ever encountered)
429. Cher - Believe428. Diamanda Galas - O Death
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:30 (six years ago) link
I'd put the piano Etudes way higher than the violin concerto (which has some of the most superfluous alternate-string tunings I've ever encountered)― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, January 14, 2018
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, January 14, 2018
Them's fighting words.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
Luther Vandross - "Dance with My Father"
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:51 (six years ago) link
426. Massive attack with hope Sandoval - the spoils
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
425. Laurent Garnier - "1-4 Doctor C'est Chouette"
― Jeff W, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:00 (six years ago) link
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Saturday, January 13, 2018 11:51 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Came here to post this. Heartleap in particular is astonishing--she made her best album at age 69.
― J. Sam, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
I like the Ligeti piano etudes, yeah. I should listen to them again; not sure I have since I did my comprehensive exams. Would be interested to hear fgti expand on the tunings in the violin concerto. What about Penderecki's third string quartet from 2008?
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
(I think it's great, although obv not as iconic as Threnody.)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:17 (six years ago) link
<3 Baby Lee, so good. rest of the album didn't do it for me at all
But.. but.. "Sometimes I Don't Need to Believe in Anything" !!!
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:30 (six years ago) link
Well I'll pull out my score of the thing and take it to the Ligeti thread lol
― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
424. Portishead - The Rip
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:05 (six years ago) link
Jazz and classical probably has many albums that qualify. In rock/folk Scott Walker, Tom Waits and Nick Cave are the ones that come to my mind and which have aged like fine wine. I could probably add like 40 songs from Tom Waits alone.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:07 (six years ago) link
423. Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
does Damon Albarn as Gorillaz count as a late period? Does 13 by Blur count? He was only 30 when the debut by Gorillaz and 13 got out but he had a decade experience with Blur by then.
Is there an age restriction or is it based on the position of the last albums in the overall discography?
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:16 (six years ago) link
so far it mostly feels like "after the world moved on" which i think is fine... thread could theoretically work as a signpost for fans of the more famous stuff to check out this one song and realize hey, they kept on making music, and it was good! though i imagine ilm is the kind of place where most people already know all the 'late work' of artists they like.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:31 (six years ago) link
422. Nick Lowe - Let's Stay In And Make Love
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
421. David Axelrod featuring Ras Kass — 'The Little Children' (2001)
― he doesn't need to be racist about it though. (Austin), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
421 Bryan Ferry - San Simeon
― kolakube (Ross), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
420. Sparks - Dick Around
― kitchen person, Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:57 (six years ago) link
If that’s the definition then scratch Portishead and Slowdive as it seems the world was still paying attention 10+ years later and they ended up in several EOY lists
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 14 January 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
Also they were headliners in several festivals the year those albums came out.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:00 (six years ago) link
nah i mean do whatever you want, it's not my thread anyway! plus i think comebacks of whatever kind count in the sense that people may not be expecting them to be good, they are "late" in the sense of no longer being in the moment/movement that they once seemed a part of, records that land independently of larger forces and come out of whatever that artist is pursuing in their own path, whatever.
― Righteous wax chaperone, rotating Wingdings (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:02 (six years ago) link
419. Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart418. Warren Zevon - Porcelain Monkey417. Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care of Our Own416. Bob Dylan - Pay In Blood
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
― geoffreyess, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:30 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually yeah I do like that one
― Colonel Poo, Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
415. Paul Simon - Love is Eternal Sacred Light
― kornrulez6969, Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:17 (six years ago) link
"late period" is something that's frequently only visible in retrospect. in 2004 would mission of burma's "onoffon" be considered "late period"? is it now? they've made three albums since then. you know what (so) fuck it:
414. mission of burma - ssl 83413. armand schaubroeck - god made the blues to kill me
― Arnold Schoenberg Steals (rushomancy), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:22 (six years ago) link
419. OutKast - Morris Brown
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
Sorry - 412. OutKast- Morris Brown
― Futuristic Bow Wow (thewufs), Sunday, 14 January 2018 18:24 (six years ago) link
411. Neil Diamond - Hell Yeah
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:26 (six years ago) link
There are two 421s so
409. R.E.M. - Horse to Water
― cwkiii, Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:29 (six years ago) link
408. Vainica Doble - Dices Que Soy407. Emmannuelle Parrenin - Maison Cube406. Meredith Monk - Ascent
― jesus and figs and science and the foo fighters (unregistered), Sunday, 14 January 2018 19:58 (six years ago) link
Can we try not to post tracks by currently-active bands that might have twenty more years in them? Cheers
― #TeamHailing (imago), Sunday, 14 January 2018 20:14 (six years ago) link
doesn't
― rip van wanko, Wednesday, 23 May 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
309. Puff Daddy - Come with Me Feat. Jimmy Page308. The Beach Boys - Kokomo
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
307. Buddy Holly - Love Is Strange (Apartment Tapes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zb3DrMioVA
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
(1998 is "late" puffy?)
― noel gallaghah's high flying burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
306. Jackson Browne - You Know the Night (Full 15 minute version is best)
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 24 May 2018 00:03 (five years ago) link
I'm disappointed this thread died in its infancy. Mainly I was just hoping to uncover great post-2000 songs from the corny bands I listened to in the '90s. (I stopped being a regular consumer of music in 2000.)
Sonic Youth, Yo la, BTS, Will Oldham, Blonde Redhead, Wu Tang guys, Robyn, New Pornos, Broadcast, Chan Marshall, Mary Timony, Natalie Merchant, Thalia Zedek, Steve Malkmus, Pixies, etc etc
So many of us are now in our 40s and probably hopped off many bandwagons a long time ago and are missing out on some good stuff.
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:42 (four years ago) link
Leonard fucking Cohen
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:43 (four years ago) link
stones, dylan, fmac, scott walker
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:47 (four years ago) link
305. The Breeders - Dawn: Making an Effort
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:53 (four years ago) link
(actually all of All Nerve)
cool ty
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:55 (four years ago) link
listening now
― otm into winter (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 23:56 (four years ago) link
nice, my work here is done :)
― cwkiii, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:12 (four years ago) link
Mary Timony? hope you're not sleeping on Ex Hex:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNe_xrmd28w
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:18 (four years ago) link
Robyn almost won the albums poll last year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IxdQUpQjqc
― omar little, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:22 (four years ago) link