Artists whose best album was released 10 years or more after their debut

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Starting off with "Blood On The Tracks"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:08 (twenty years ago)

pastels
guided by voices
yo la tengo

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

I honestly don't know if I have a favorite Cure album per se but Disintegration is pretty damned close to the pinnacle, so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

fleetwood mac (sort of)

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:11 (twenty years ago)

if you count all of his king bees, mannish boy, and "laughing gnome" stuff, then the obvious answer is david bowie.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:13 (twenty years ago)

R.E.M. (arguably)
U2
The Flaming Lips
Kylie Minogue

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Wonder probably, too lazy to double-check.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

Ian Mackaye.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:19 (twenty years ago)

almost the Stones

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

much jazz to thread

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

And U2's debut album was released in 1980, and we all know The Joshua Tree is far superior to Achtung Baby. :p

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

pulp?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

Da Fall

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Tom Waits
Gwen Stefani

did Madonna debut in '82 or '83? If the former then she counts for Erotica.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

Plastikman, "Closer"

pulp?

of course

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

haha, björk

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

haha if we're including old bands then Tori Amos

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Lucinda Williams, "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" (nearly 20 years after her debut!)

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:27 (twenty years ago)

Jorge Ben.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Wonder's a good answer.

1962: The Jazz Soul of Little Stevie
1973: Innervisions

Marvin Gaye's another.

1961: Soulful Moods
1971: What's Going On

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:31 (twenty years ago)

did Madonna debut in '82 or '83?

Madonna's first single, "Everybody," was released in the US in October 1982.

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

kraftwerk
james brown
holy modal rounders
miles davis
willie nelson
fleetwood mac

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

by kraftwerk you're talking 'computer world'?

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

The Isley Brothers did their album debut more than 10 years before 3+3, I guess..???

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Michael Jackson maybe

― Sven Bastard (blueski), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

yes computer world!!!!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:38 (twenty years ago)

Isley Brothers:

1959: Shout!
1973: 3 + 3

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

The Cure, GbV, and Flaming Lips all OTM

Arguably all these: Miles Davis, Pink Floyd, Sun Ra, Charles Mingus, James Brown, Johnny Cash, Depeche Mode, Stephen Malkmus.

― Quiet Water, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

(in answer to Geir Hongro)

xpost

― ffirehorse (firehorse), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

scott walker's tilt

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

gbv NOT otm

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

jim o'rourke!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

bruce springsteen!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

um, gbv has never had a "best" album ever inasmuch as they've never had a GOOD album EVER.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

captain beefheart!

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

The Ex! Boredoms! Paul Simon! Sleater-Kinney!

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

good call on the ex

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

I don't know all their early albums but I'm gonna say the Boredoms.
(xxpost!)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

some people might argue Neil Young, with Rust Never Sleeps in '79.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

Giant Sand - Chore of Enchantment

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

Cher - Believe

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

(This was a great thread idea, btw.)

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Blue Mask fans would say Lou Reed. Shoot Out The Lights fans would say Richard Thompson. And Rock n' Roll, or OOOH! Out of Our Heads fans would say The Mekons.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:15 (twenty years ago)

In a roundabout way: Jeff Tweedy and MF Doom

― dronez are not ours to eat, dronez are not ours to wear (smile), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:16 (twenty years ago)

Technique fans would say New Order.

― the scent of the conifers, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)

the killers

― deannnnnnnnnn, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

GEORGE FUCKING MICHAEL

― A Delicious Bass, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:19 (twenty years ago)

M.I.A. she is the future of music!!!

― Mickey (modestmickey), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:20 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't agree with this, but you could make the argument for James Brown if you prefer the 1968 Live at the Apollo or 1970's Sex Machine to the 1962 LATA. (his debut was 1956's Please Please Please)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

George Fucking Michael would be a great name for a gay hardcore duo.

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

(actually that should be 1956's "Please Please Please," the PPP album was '59 or something)

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:23 (twenty years ago)

OU812 fans would say Van Halen.

― still falls the rain, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:38 (twenty years ago)

Technique fans would say New Order.

Nope, two years short.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Not if you count Unknown Pleasures. Blasphemy maybe but Joy Division were a better singles than album band.

― the scent of the conifers, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:45 (twenty years ago)

OOOH! Out of Our Heads fans would say The Mekons.

They'd also be insane.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 02:53 (twenty years ago)

The Boss. Tunnel of Love.

― chaste stranger, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 03:54 (twenty years ago)

Beethoven.

― Collardio Gelatinous (collardio), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:23 (twenty years ago)

OOOH! Out of Our Heads fans would say The Mekons.

They'd also be insane.

Perhaps...but Rock n' Roll fans would be correct

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

YOU ARE ALL WRONG.

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR

― gargoyle, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

Nick Cave--Let Love In

― Filth of Hell, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

man, the number of wrong answers on this thread is mind-numbing, which is to say scott OTM.

i'm surprised, though, that no one has yet argued:

david bowie (1967 debut, 1977 low)

bee gees (1967 debut, 1977 saturday night fever)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

oh, and charlie rich: circa 1960 debut, 1973 behind closed doors

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Willie Nelson--Red Headed Stranger

― Flith of Hell, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

i'm surprised, though, that no one has yet argued:

david bowie (1967 debut, 1977 low)

ahem:

if you count all of his king bees, mannish boy, and "laughing gnome" stuff, then the obvious answer is david bowie.
-- Eisbär (llamasfu...), March 9th, 2005.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:15 (twenty years ago)

oops!

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:19 (twenty years ago)

Marianne Faithfull
Serge Gainsbourg

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:24 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could have said Howard Tate, but his comeback record wasn't all I hoped it would be.

So I'll say Curtis Mayfield if we can start the timeline with his Impressions recordings.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

i can't seem to pin down when frank sinatra's first proper album came out, but it was the late '40s at the latest, which means any of his late '50s or '60s classics would qualify depending on your tastes.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 05:45 (twenty years ago)

Sinatra's songs really did swing from brilliant to horrible at times. 'That's Life' is awesome, with it's funky soul keyboards and shits all over his sappier, vegas work.

― , Wednesday, 9 March 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

Portishead, hopefully.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boys-- "Surfin'" 45 in 1961
Surf's Up, 1971

― late adopter, Wednesday, 9 March 2005 09:11 (twenty years ago)

How about...

John Mellencamp (1976, "The Chestnut Street Incident"; 1987, "The Lonesome Jubilee")
Liz Phair (1993, "Exile In Guyville"; 2003, "Liz Phair")
The Cynics (1986, "Blue Train Station"; 2002, "Living Is The Best Revenge")

― John Fredland (jfredland), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

Herbie Hancock (1962, "Takin' Off"; 1972, "Sextant")

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:30 (twenty years ago)

Herbie Hancock's best album was called "Future Shock" and was indeed release more than 20 years after his debut. :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

I'll agree with Lou Reed - The Blue Mask (1982)

Bowie - Scary Monsters

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

Kirsty MacColl!

― Alex in Doncaster (Alex in Doncaster), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Some of these answers are nuts. Tunnel of Love is not the best Springsteen album (maybe it makes the top 5, depending on taste). "Liz Phair" is not better than Exile in Guyville.

OTH --
Parliament: first single, late 50s; Mothership Connection 1975
Emmylou Harris: first album mid 70s; Wrecking Ball mid 90s
Peter Gabriel: Genesis emergence late 60s; So mid 80s
Aimee Mann: Voices Carry '85; Bachelor #2 2000
Rachid Taha: 1st Carte de Sejour album early 80s; Made in Medina 2000 or Tekitoi? 2004
Richard Thompson: First Fairport Convention 1968; Shoot Out the Lights 1982; Rumor & Sigh 1991

― Vornado (Vornado), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

Chopin: debut, 1820s, Donna Summer's A Love Trilogy, 1976.

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 11 March 2005 20:32 (twenty years ago)

elvis presley, from elvis in memphis (1969)

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:43 (twenty years ago)

I thought about putting that too, but "Suspicious Minds" and "Kentucky Rain" weren't on the original album release so I backed down.

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 12 March 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

Van Morrison - Blowin' Your Mind (1967)

It is hard to be completely objective about this, but MY fave Van album is Into the Music (1979)

Wavelength fits the criteria as well.

― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 12 March 2005 02:56 (twenty years ago)

Sonny Sharrock! He's the answer for everything. Either Guitar or Ask the Ages will work.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Ah, I'll say Randy Newman, too, for Bad Love.

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:10 (twenty years ago)

Matthew Sweet

― selah, Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:11 (twenty years ago)

entirely appropriate link?

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 12 March 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

Brave New World--Iron Maiden

― Eddie, Saturday, 12 March 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

Meshell Ndgeocello - The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams

― when a real whiney hold you down, you sposed to drown (The Reverend), Saturday, 30 November 2013 19:55 (eleven years ago)

gold cobra

― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 30 November 2013 20:12 (eleven years ago)

Portishead, hopefully.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee)

good call

― NoTimeBeforeTime, Sunday, 1 December 2013 12:42 (eleven years ago)

gold cobra

― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, November 30, 2013 3:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

― some dude, Sunday, 1 December 2013 14:06 (eleven years ago)

Portishead, hopefully.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee)

good call

― NoTimeBeforeTime

But not quite yet.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 2 December 2013 00:35 (eleven years ago)

Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One
Erasure - Nightbird
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat
The Roots - Game Theory
Diana Ross - Diana
Gang Starr - Moment of Truth

― Kitchen Person, Monday, 2 December 2013 02:27 (eleven years ago)

Agree with In Rainbows.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 2 December 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago)

Do Swans qualify? Every incarnation is such a drastically different beast, it seems unfair to compare them to each other.

― StanM, Monday, 2 December 2013 03:36 (eleven years ago)

Some critics have been calling 'Surgical Steel' Carcass' best, wouldn't agree myself though.

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Monday, 2 December 2013 03:38 (eleven years ago)

Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond (ok ok, controversial, maybe, but it's the one I like best when I think about it)

― StanM, Thursday, 5 December 2013 13:30 (eleven years ago)

Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat

Seriously?

― Saturated with working class intelligence and not afraid to show it (Tom D.), Thursday, 5 December 2013 13:35 (eleven years ago)

smog, "river ain't too much to love," "apocalypse" "dream river" etc etc

― marcos, Thursday, 5 December 2013 14:19 (eleven years ago)

Superchunk
Bowie

― the objections to Drake from non-REAL HIPHOP people (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 December 2013 14:20 (eleven years ago)

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