--- In audities@yahoogroups.com, "Holmes Online" <bholmes_fm@...> 
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> 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??
 
> The closest I came was The Replacements, and that's if I take 
> TIM/PLEASED/DON'T/SHOOK over STINK/SORRY/HOOTENANNY/LET.
> 
> b


That's a tough split. I'd still take the early years per Let it Be.

Steve D
(Driving home from vacation..saw an Isuzu and thought "Pere Ubu").