500 standout songs from an(y) artist's "late period"

424. Portishead - The Rip

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.

423. Slowdive - Sugar for the Pill

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?

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.

422. Nick Lowe - Let's Stay In And Make Love

421. David Axelrod featuring Ras Kass — 'The Little Children' (2001)

421 Bryan Ferry - San Simeon

420. Sparks - Dick Around

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

Also they were headliners in several festivals the year those albums came out.

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.

419. Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart
418. Warren Zevon - Porcelain Monkey
417. Bruce Springsteen - We Take Care of Our Own
416. Bob Dylan - Pay In Blood

But.. but.. "Sometimes I Don't Need to Believe in Anything" !!!

― geoffreyess, Sunday, 14 January 2018 16:30 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

actually yeah I do like that one

415. Paul Simon - Love is Eternal Sacred Light

"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 83
413. armand schaubroeck - god made the blues to kill me

419. OutKast - Morris Brown

Sorry - 412. OutKast- Morris Brown

411. Neil Diamond - Hell Yeah

There are two 421s so

409. R.E.M. - Horse to Water

408. Vainica Doble - Dices Que Soy
407. Emmannuelle Parrenin - Maison Cube
406. Meredith Monk - Ascent

Can we try not to post tracks by currently-active bands that might have twenty more years in them? Cheers

405. Grace Jones - Williams Blood
404. Kylie - Get Outta My Way
403. The Go-Betweens - Finding You

402. ZZ Top: "I Gotsta Get Paid"

401. Harry Nilsson "Everything is Food"
400. Yoko Ono "Goodbye Sadness"

399. Solomon Burke: "Diamond In Your Mind"

398. Garland Jeffreys - Coney Island Winter
397. A Tribe Called Quest - We The People

396. Monkees: "Birth of An Accidental Hipster"

Can we try not to post tracks by currently-active bands that might have twenty more years in them? Cheers

― #TeamHailing (imago)

oh look it won't literally kill anybody, i'd rather we not just spend _all_ our time around here talking about dead people

395. Monkees - Shorty Blackwell

394. george harrison - when we was fab

393. moloko - statues

392. David Bowie - I Can't Give Everything Away
391. Richard Thompson - She Never Could Resist a Winding Road
390. Leonard Cohen - Show Me the Place
389. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Life is Long
388. Tom Petty - Down South
387. Tommy Keene - Black and White New York
386. Blondie - Under the Gun (For Jeffery Lee Pierce)
385. Pretenders - Who's Who
384. Kate and Anna McGarrigle - Jacques et Gilles
383. The Ramones - I Don't Wanna Grow Up
382. Tina Turner - I Don't Wanna Fight
381. Billy Joel - River of Dreams

380. Bobby Womack - Please Forgive My Heart

379 dr. john LOCKED DOWN

378. Pulp - Sunrise
377. The Blue Nile - High
376. Dusty Springfield - In Private
375. Prefab Sprout - The Best Jewel Thief In The World

374. Kate Bush - Lake Tahoe

373. Grant Hart - It Isn't Love
372. Bob Mould - Lucifer & God

371. The Roches - Us Little Kids

370. Big Star "Lady Sweet"

369. Michael Jackson "You Rock My World"

368. Elton John "I Want Love"
367. Pixies "Ain't That Pretty At All"
366. Beastie Boys f/ Nas "Too Many Rappers"
365. Mariah Carey "#Beautiful"
364. Gil Scott Heron "New York Is Killing Me"
363. Scott Walker "Epizootics"
362. Swans "Oxygen"

361. Beach Boys - Somewhere Near Japan

369. Michael Jackson "You Rock My World"

― billstevejim, Monday, January 15, 2018 1:39 AM (forty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so otm

360. Todd Rundgren - That Could Have Been Me [feat. Robyn]

yesssss to somewhere near japan

359. Love - “Gather ‘Round”

358. Squeeze - Can of Worms

357. Rodney Crowell - I Don't Care Anymore

356. The Alarm - 45 RPM