Great Second Acts

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1) Dylan, since Time Out of Mind
2) Sonic Youth, since Murray Street
3) Mission of Burma, obv.

Any others come to mind?

― M.V., Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Squeeze, since "Play" and Marillion since "Brave". Although only a small group of fans ever noticed.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I'd also like to add Aerosmith from "Permanent Vacation" through "Get a Grip".

And that Dylan era was actually his third great act, the second one being from "Planet Waves" through "Desire".

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Neil Young from Freedom on...

Joe Strummer
Warren Zevon
New York Dolls

― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Human League from "Romantic?" onwards.

― Geir Hongro, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

Go-Betweens

― kornrulez6969, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Killing Joke. Didn't they break up at least once?

― Mr. Odd, Saturday, 5 May 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Peter Frampton

The Herd
Humble Pie
Comes Alive

personally the first is my personal fave but you have to hand it to this dude.

― Saxby D. Elder, Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:19 (eighteen years ago)

Dinosaur Jr.
Talk Talk

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

By Talk Talk, I mean that they totally changed their sound; the band's early hits are very dissimilar to the post-rock sound of Laughing Stock. I'm not sure if this means that the band had a "second act," though.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 6 May 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

Robert Christgau: The Thread

― abanana, Sunday, 6 May 2007 05:10 (eighteen years ago)

Skinny Puppy, though I suspect some wd argue the toss with me on that one but I am loving their new stuff.

― Trayce, Sunday, 6 May 2007 07:30 (eighteen years ago)

the drifters (act 1 the '50s, act 2 the '60s)

― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

fleetwood mac

― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

rolling stones

― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Nelly Furtado

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Fleetwood Mac. Great 3rd act too. Am starting to think that Fleetwood Mac is the answer to pretty much every question on ilm.

― dlp9001, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Scott Walker

― negotiable, Sunday, 6 May 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Mike Watt since his illness.

― MacDara, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone that says "Johnny Cash" gets slaps.

― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 6 May 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Bark Psychosis

― bassace, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

brian wilson.

― Emily Bjurnhjam, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Joni Mitchell, from Hissing of Summer Lawns to Mingus.

― mark 0, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Timbaland

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 6 May 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

there are some who would claim that earth came back pretty strongly with hex.

other than that, i can only second the bark psychosis shout.

― Just got offed, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

haha, i just realised that anyone idly scanning this thread will be like 'wtf didn't bark psychosis write hex' then 'oh ah'.

― Just got offed, Monday, 7 May 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

That's exactly what I just did until I read it again.

― Reatards Unite, Monday, 7 May 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

Watt's second act was pretty firmly in place before either bout of illness - since Ballhog he's been consistently churning out the 50-capacity mini-project gigs, hefty sidemouse session engagements, big-tour sidemouse employment and barely-noticed major-label solo records.

Strummer had an interesting second act - Love Kills, Walker, Sightsee MC tailing off into Earthquake Weather pointlessness (prompting retirement) - and a much more remarkable 3rd act ten years later with the Mescaleroes -> death.

― energy flash gordon, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:35 (eighteen years ago)

I really hope Rocket From the Tombs releases the new material they claim to have been working on. Wire's Read & Burn act (act III? act IV?) got me all worked up too.

― bendy, Monday, 7 May 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

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