POX new albums from the 21st century by old fossils

topic came up in Year-End Critics' Polls 2012 of the rarity of good albums of new material by grizzled old vets. for the sake of this exercise i'm defining fossils as anyone who'd started establishing their legacy before the dawn of the '80s but i guess whatever definition works for you. mine:

Lou Reed & Metallica – LULU
Jonathan Richman - Because Her Beauty Is Raw and Wild
Walter Becker – Circus Money
The Who – Endless Wire
ZZ Top – La Futura
Elvis Costello & The Imposters – The Delivery Man
Loudon Wainwright III - Older Than My Old Man Now
David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Prince - 3121
Little Feat - Rooster Rag

Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos

All of Peter Hammill's recent solo albums are good, the really great ones are Singularity and Thin Air.

Kate Bush - Aerial

^ would be my number one, but my mind is too tired to think of many more right now

yeah POX is probably too tall an order, just mention whatever you wanna mention

Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas

Quickly cobbled together, I'd say mine is:

The B-52's - Funplex
Leonard Cohen - Old Ideas
Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
Bob Dylan - Love & Theft
Robyn Hitchcock - Goodnight Oslo
Los Lobos - The Town and the City
Motorhead - The Word Is Yours
Willie Nelson & Asleep at the Wheel - Willie and the Wheel
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
ZZ Top - La Futura

The Willie is a stretch, as it's mainly old covers. But it's too damn amazing to overlook. Could also throw in one pretty decent Judas Priest record, a couple of solid Iron Maiden ones, and the Heven and Hell record too, if you want more old metalheads.

Lots of grizzled vets still tear it up live and have put out good live records, but not really the purview of this thread.

Old Ideas and Aerial are the two that immediately spring to mind, in that they stand up against the artist's best work in a way that, say, the recent Dylan albums really don't. But then again I think a lot of Cohen's best records are from the 80s and 90s, so relatively late in his career anyway.

Funplex is a good one, almost made my 10. also forgot about Raising Sand, prob would've included that.

Grace Jones' "Hurricane" was pretty good

I forgot about that one. It was pretty patchy but Williams Blood was so great that I was willing to forgive.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill
Ian Hunter - Shrunken Heads

heathen : david bowie

Cool thread idea.

Scott Walker - The Drift
Tom Waits - Alice
Gil Scott-Heron - I'm New Here
John Fahey - Red Cross, Disciple of Christ Today
Kate Bush - Aerial
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Johnny Cash - Solitary Man
Neil Young - Silver & Gold
Lindsey Buckingham - Under the Skin

Yoko Ono - Between my head and the sky

Al Green - I Can't Stop

Robert Wyatt - Comicopera

yeah duh -- I should have mentioned this one

Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out and Summer Sun. (They started early-mid '80s...close enough.)

All in all, I thought the last Wire album was good.

yes!

opening the floodgates to Sonic Youth and later bands should be left for another thread imo

Weren't you riding for a Robbie Robertson album, EZ?

Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks

Fuck Robbie Robertson! I don't even like The Band except as a backup to other artists.

Jeremy Spencer - Bend In The Road
Neil Young - Le Noise
Jeff Beck - Emotion & Commotion

Oh fuuuck: Robert Forster - The Evangelist

Lol my bad

Scritti Politti-White Bread Black Beer
Dexys-One Day I'm Going to Soar
Sparks-Hello Young Lovers
Sparks-Lil' Beethoven
Robert Forster-The Evangelist
Go Betweens-Oceans Apart
Kate Bush-Aerial
Paul Buchanan-Mid Air
Human League-Secrets
Grace Jones-Hurricane
New Order-Get Ready

The Who – Endless Wire

Right on. This thing is way underrated.

Really liked "Face on the Bridge" but still haven't heard the whole new Asia album. Liked the single from the last one a lot, too.

John Cale - Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood
Brian Eno - Lux

Sade is from the early 80's, but Soldier Of Love (2010) was really good.

Merle Haggard - If I Could Only Fly
Bob Neuwirth - Havana Midnight
Nick Lowe - The Convincer, At My Age
Loudon Wainwright III - 10 Songs for the New Recession
Loretta Lynn - Van Lear Rose
Jim Lauderdale & Ralph Stanley - Lost in the Lonesome Pines

AND THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcHZ4Jk0OqE

I wasn't sure whether to include Forster and the Go-Be's since they don't qualify under ship's criteria.

Paul Smon - You're The One
Bob Dylan - "Huck's Tune"

May be easier to come up with the perfect 10-song mix (throw in some Keith Jarrett) than a list of albums.

So Beautiful or So What even better.

I mentioned it elsewhere, but Bebe Buell's 2011 album Hard Love is really pretty good trashy glam-ish rock. I don't know if I'd call her a fossil, but she doesn't look as good now as she did when I got all excited by her Playboy appearance way back when...

Paul McCartney - Chaos and Creation in the Backyard
Memory Almost Full

his ZZ Top record rules, thanks guys

*this

Ozzy Osbourne, Scream
Iron Maiden, A Matter of Life and Death
Buddy Guy, Sweet Tea
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Mojo
Cecil Taylor, a whole bunch of stuff (Cecil Taylor/Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley, Algonquin, The Owner of the River Bank, more)
Anthony Braxton/William Parker/Milford Graves, Beyond Quantum
Motörhead, Hammered, Inferno, Kiss of Death, and The World is Yours (I didn't love Motorizer)

Mose Allison - The Way of the World
Frank Black - The Golem
Sonic Youth - Murray Street
Bob Dylan - Modern Times
Bob Dylan - Love and Theft
Bob Dylan - Tempest
DJ Quik - The Book of David
Henry Threadgill - Everybody's Mouth A Book
William Parker - Double Sunrise Over Neptune
Robert Forster - The Evangelist

That is a good Threadgill record. Totally forgot it.

Magma - K.A
Tony Allen - Lagos No Shaking
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
Magazine - No Thyself
Sly & Robbie - Blackwood Dub
Lee Fields & The Expressions - My World
Horace Andy - Livin' It Up
Candi Staton - His Hands
Dr. John - Locked Down

Guy Clark - The Dark

Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus (Birthday Party started in the '70s right? Guess this is borderline)

Mary Weiss - Dangerous Game

Sketch Show - Loophole

Thomas Dolby - A Map of the Floating City

Lindsey Buckngham - Seeds We Sow
Bobby Womack - The Bravest Man in the Universe

Anyone mentioned the recent Bill Fay album? Title eludes me at the moment.