The Aging Alternative Canon

By this point, there is a significant amount of recent material by 80s and 90s alternative acts. What are the best records? To qualify, they have to be 40+ when they made it, in the last 10 years.

My favorite is Lee Ranaldo, Between The Times and the Tides.

The Feelies - Here Before
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Goodnight Oslo

Love the last R.E.M. album.

The Bangles - Sweetheart of the Sun
Susanna Hoffs - Someday

Wire - Red Barked Tree
The Fall - Real New Fall LP
Mission Of Burma - OnOffOn

the last half dozen outrageous cherry records
gbv surely

The Obliterati by Mission of Burma is better IMO

Dino Jr reunion has been surprisingly fruitful

Grinderman

sonic nurse

You talking original / reformed bands still making records or people from the scene in new bands? If the latter counts then Off!

Grant hart

Greg Dulli's Twilight Singers - Powder Burns is a pretty good record. Still haven't heard the last one, but both of those were made in his 40s.

Nick Cave with Grinderman and the Bad Seeds has been working as much as ever in the past decade. I haven't heard enough to qualify compared to the earlier records, but what I have has been of similar quality to his classic records.

the latest Ultrasound record ain't bad at all and there's no way those peeps aren't all 40+

Early returns yet, but the new Grant Hart record is surely a good candidate for this thread.

I've only picked it up recently, but I'm liking Funplex - a surprisingly solid return from the B-52s.

No takers for MBV?

Do people care or rate highly enough Bob Mould's Silver Age?

Off! is a pretty good call.

There's a bunch I wish I could include like the latest Oblivians and Redd Kross records - but honestly I never listen to them.

I thought about suggesting "The Silver Age" but while it is truly a return to form, it hasn't made me love it like many other old punk's work. Also:

Killing Joke - Killing Joke 2003

It passed unnoticed here, but the last Eyeless In Gaza album (Everyone Feels Like A Stranger) was fantastic. Think I've enjoyed the second half of their career heaps more than the old 'classic' stuff a lot of which for me is either too shrill and dissonant (post-punk phase) or too upbeat and cheesy (indie pop phase). The more recent stuff from about 1995 onwards is a lot more meditative and droney and has more of a spooky folk quality to it. Great band, hope they never stop making records.

The last dB's album had some excellent material on it.

The Obliterati is seriously a candidate for best MoB album.

Mountain Goats, Transcendental Youth

Paul Buchanan - Mid Air

The Breeders, Mountain Battles
The Magnetic Fields, Distortion

Swans - "The Seer" [if we don't rule out bands with substantial lineup changes]
Mekons - "Natural" ["OOOH (Out of Our Heads)" is probably the stronger album, but misses the ten-year cutoff]
Bark Psychosis - "Codename: Dustsucker"

Mark Eitzel and American Music Club's recent output has been stellar.

My Bloody Valentine - "m b v"

Ed Kuepper - Jean Lee & The Yellow Dog
The Church - Untitled #23

Portishead - Third

the aging whte canon

white see how it ages, it becomes harder to type

Fushitsusha - Hikari to Nazukeyo

The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent

RTX - Transmaniacon
Black Bananas - Rad Times Xpress IV

hot snakes - audit in progress
melvins - nude with boots
billy childish - my first billy childish album
dinosaur jr - i bet on sky

hot snakes not an 80s/90s act, but composed of 80s/90s dudes

Not sure picking a compilation mostly comprising material from the 70s-90s is in the spirit of this thread.

How about Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire - Punk Rock At The British Legion Hall instead?

American Music Club's The Golden Age is really one of the best of this field imo - gorgeous throughout, so aching - plus, Eitzel's schtick was always "youth is passing/has passed me by" backward-looking wistful/yearning stuff - it's only grown richer with time

the aging whte canon

I was waiting for that old chestnut to pop out. You can't have an alt rock thread without some white guilt.

Cindytalk

Not sure picking a compilation mostly comprising material from the 70s-90s is in the spirit of this thread.

How about Wild Billy Childish & The Musicians Of The British Empire - Punk Rock At The British Legion Hall instead?

― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo)

yeah, fair enough and good call. dig the buff medways' 1914 too.

(but first album is a great listen & shows he's still kicking)

1914 is probably the best Buff Medways album, I thought it was more than 10 years old but it came out in 2003 so you can have that one ;)

by a nose! my favorite semi-recent BC joint = thee headcoats' the messershmitt pilot's severed hand, but that's reaching back 15 years

big fan of Breeders' Mountain Battles as well

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