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| From | "Andrew Hickey" <stealthmunchkin@gmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Career equators |
| Date | Tue, 4 Apr 2006 12:49:55 +0100 |
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On 4/3/06, floatingunder <Steven.Durben@cignabehavioral.com> wrote:
> --- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@...>
> snip
> > I guess it matters where you put the dividing line, especially if
> the artist
> > wasn't consistently prolific, and artists would have to have a
> decent output
> > to be a candidate (lets say six or more records).
> > But there aren't too many artists where I wouldn't side with their
> earlier
> > days over their later - matter of fact I can't think of one right
> now. Can
> > you?
>
> I can't think of anyone that I REALLY love that I prefer their later
> output.
> But, I offer up... Tom Waits? I don't honestly have a lot by Waits
> but it seemed to me that he got more eccentric musically as time went
> and to my ears, also more interesting as his career went on...
> Any Wait's fans agree, disagree??
Waits has essentially always been three different artists, each of
whom predominate at different times - a Dylan-cum-Springsteen
singer-songwriter with a little beat poetry thrown in, a Captain
Beefheart clone and a Kurt Weill wannabe. I prefer the latter two to
the former, so I definitely prefer the post-swordfishtrombones period,
but I'd be hard-pressed to argue it was inferior to the early stuff -
just different.
With most bands, however, I'd argue it's their *mid* period that's
better than either the early or late ones.
Beatles - Help through Magical Mystery Tour
Beach Boys - Today! through (insert cut-off point here - for me it
would be Love You).
Kinks - Face To Face through Lola
Dylan - Blond on Blonde through Blood On The Tracks (although I do
love Another Side Of...)
Waits - Swordfishtrombones through Franks Wild Years
REM - Green through Automatic
etc etc etc
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