Bands Whose Later Stuff You Prefer

[Flex]

This is kinda cheating, because it conveniently excludes the clash and incorporates a number of "& [band name]" but Joe's post-clash solo work was basically a consistent increase in quality from start to finish.

Earthquake Weather as a starting point for anyone would be a serious cheat.

I'm actually starting at cut the crap

[Flex]

I wouldn't actually make the case because I love his whole body of work too much, but i suspect a lot of folks would make the case for Johnny Cash and those American Recordings.

[oliver]

Of The Smiths real albums, this order is pretty solid for me.

Strangeways Here We Come (1987)
The Queen is Dead (1986)
Meat is Murder (1985)
The Smiths (1984)

Not sure this really counts as 'later stuff' since it's only 4 years between the first and last

[Flex]

Of The Smiths real albums, this order is pretty solid for me.

Strangeways Here We Come (1987)
The Queen is Dead (1986)
Meat is Murder (1985)
The Smiths (1984)

Yeah, I could get behind this.

[matedog]

Tom Waits

Waits and RATT are the first to come to mind.

*edit* to clarify, I mean Detonator and Reach for the Sky RATT, not whatever they did in the 90s.

[Dr. Medulla]

Of The Smiths real albums, this order is pretty solid for me.

Strangeways Here We Come (1987)
The Queen is Dead (1986)
Meat is Murder (1985)
The Smiths (1984)

Not sure this really counts as 'later stuff' since it's only 4 years between the first and last

This is true, tho the gap between the second to fourth albums is a lot closer to each other than to the debut. Just a massive step forward from album one to album two.

[revbob]

This is kinda cheating, because it conveniently excludes the clash and incorporates a number of "& [band name]" but Joe's post-clash solo work was basically a consistent increase in quality from start to finish.

Earthquake Weather as a starting point for anyone would be a serious cheat.

I like EW. But yeah the Meskies stuff is just awesome.

[Dr. Medulla]

I like EW.

No way. Like … no way.

[revbob]

I like EW.

No way. Like … no way.

I still have the cassette I bought soon after it was released. Some crap songs but overall I like it. Ive expressed this here before to manys disbelief.

[Dr. Medulla]

I like EW.

No way. Like … no way.

I still have the cassette I bought soon after it was released. Some crap songs but overall I like it. Ive expressed this here before to manys disbelief.

What kind of hipster angle you working here?

[revbob]

I like EW.

No way. Like … no way.

I still have the cassette I bought soon after it was released. Some crap songs but overall I like it. Ive expressed this here before to manys disbelief.

What kind of hipster angle you working here?

A lot probably comes down to timing. CtC was so bad I was probably desperate for something at least pretty good and it at leadt me those expectationsat the time. Mind you I haven't actually listened to it in a good many years.

[Dr. Medulla]

I like EW.

No way. Like … no way.

I still have the cassette I bought soon after it was released. Some crap songs but overall I like it. Ive expressed this here before to manys disbelief.

What kind of hipster angle you working here?

A lot probably comes down to timing. CtC was so bad I was probably desperate for something at least pretty good and it at leadt me those expectationsat the time. Mind you I haven't actually listened to it in a good many years.

I remember buying it, rushing home to play it, and wondering whether Mick was the sole real talent in the Clash.

[motorsmell]

My top 2 bands of all time are Clash/Motorhead
Motorhead's later stuff for me was the best they did,everything (with a couple of exceptions) after Wurzel joined was fucking amazing...the old stuff is great as well however perhaps I just get sick of hearing Motorhead mentioned as the ace of spades band...
Top 3 Motorhead
1.Bastards- First 4 on the A side tear your fucking chest open!
2.Overkill (I know very early)
3. Aftershock (One of the most overlooked PUNK/metal albums ever, they should have stopped there as for me Bad Magic was not great...even though Bad Magic everyone loves just because it's the last one...people don't know...I know)