What's your favourite late career album?
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Young people often think they have all the best tunes but I've been recently very pleasantly surprised by albums from artists who have been around for decades, making great albums late in to their careers - I'm talking about artists in their 40s, 50s and beyond.
Recent albums by David Bowie and Neil Young have received very positive reviews and those late albums of cover versions by Johnny Cash were met with pretty much universal acclaim.
So what are your favourite late career albums?
Here's a few of my recent favourites:
Swans - The Seer
Ultravox - Brilliant
Wire - Change Becomes Us
OMD - English Electric
Recent albums by David Bowie and Neil Young have received very positive reviews and those late albums of cover versions by Johnny Cash were met with pretty much universal acclaim.
So what are your favourite late career albums?
Here's a few of my recent favourites:
Swans - The Seer
Ultravox - Brilliant
Wire - Change Becomes Us
OMD - English Electric
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Yes! Great to see Swans get a mention on here and I agree that 'The Seer' is a brilliant album.
Tom Waits is another good call, 'Alice' in particular is fantastic and on his most recent album 'Bad as Me' he certainly sounds cooler than your average 62 year old.
I'd have to add Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds as well - 'Push the Sky Away' is one of my favourites of 2013, and Cave was already well into his 40s when career highlights like 'No More Shall We Part' and 'Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus' were released too.
Im really intrigued to hear Cher's new album. I love Woman's World
'That Lucky Old Sun' is another
The Beatles - Abbey Road (does this count?)
As a general rule though I tend not to like late career albums.
Innuendo, mentioned above, is probably my favourite late Queen album but on the whole their output from the 80s onwards wasn't a patch on their early stuff.
Agreed. Such a fine album!
I would add Hurricane - Grace Jones. And Electric - Pet Shop Boys.
Also, I know she's still only in her 30's but Melanie C's 5th album The Sea is excellent, one of her best. Such a shame people didn't seem to bother with her much after her debut album as I think she just got better and better with each subsequent album (not counting Stages as that's an album of showtune covers, not original songs). The Sea is probably her best album, imo! Some amazing songs on it!
Tori Amos 'Night Of Hunters' is also I believe the best since her 90's output.
Was just about to mention X too, lol! Great album from Kylie, one of my favourites.
Also, I'm currently listening to the latest offering from Nine Inch Nails, Hesitation Marks, and it sounds pretty damn good!
I don't know why but this post made me so sad when you think we'll never get another Whitney album
I liked Kirsty McColl and bought this on the strength of the reviews. Just not for me I'm afraid.
I have all the America albums by Johnny Cash and they are fantastic. Neil Diamond's last couple of albums have been excellent as well.
Rick Rubin works his magic.