[Closed] When bands become something totally different

Pantera!

At first I was like
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U2

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Fashion comes and goes....

Not a band but it's some change.

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Wow is that Seasick Steve one legit??

Wow is that Seasick Steve one legit??

[quote=tops 5 ]Wow is that Seasick Steve one legit??

https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/sep/29/seasick-steve-session-musician-ramblin-man-book

I'll be honest the Seasick Steve one hurts a little, when you've listened to him talk and all those stories and it was all lies?

Whitesnake started off as a half-decent blues rock band, then descended into the very worst hair-rock claptrap

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I wonder if his Steve Leach incarnation was as shit as his Seasick one..

Recent one comes to mind. how did they go from a tremendous first album

to
soft rock blandness

Idlewild... Went from (quote NME) sounding like a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs, to being happy REM. Now that's OK, bands can evolve but they never really announced or acknowledged the change so in the first tour afterwards, it was like we didn't get to see the band we'd paid for. And they just brazened it out completely and ignored it- did an acoustic version of one of their really punky songs, and weirdly covered I wanna be sedated but didn't play any of their own rock stuff... Crowd chanted for Captain, they played El Capitan and it really felt like they were taking the piss.

Ended up with a huge block of the crowd chanting the lyrics to You Just Have To Be Who You Are at them, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR LIARS.

I like 'em again but that was really annoying. We hope you like our new direction!

I'll be honest the Seasick Steve one hurts a little, when you've listened to him talk and all those stories and it was all lies?

I assume everyones backstory is at least a partial fabrication. End of the day if you like the tunes then its all good

Oh oh - Primal Scream!

and a few other styles ..!

Other than Joy Divsion becoming New Order post Ian Curtis, has there ever been any other examples of it working?

I can't think of any. It all seems to be of the 'sod it! Let's jettison any pretence at doing owt decent, just churn out crap to be bought by idiots, and make a killing!'

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Anathema, from this -
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To this -

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You could argue that Pink Floyd did it twice: once from the acid induced Syd Barrett era to the DSoTM/Wish you were here era; and from that to the later stuff.

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back in the day - Dream Theater into Nightmarte cinema in the same gig

I used to love when they had a sense of humour

Visually the difference is pretty good although musically you can kind of see the thread they were following so only half points for Keith Flint from the Prodigy. He used to be such a nice young man*

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* By most accounts he still is.

Weren't Quo hippies at one stage?

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i know there was more to them than the thrash of punk, but it didnt work for me.

on a less important scale but still astonishing to me......

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Band called The Rapture - they were one of my fave bands back in the early 2000s - spikey punky dancy, lots of post-punk influences, then... I think the singer's mum died and he went soppy and their last album was keyboardy pop sludge with religious themes - song titles:
[i]Sail Away
Miss You
Blue Bird
Come Back To Me
In The Grace Of Your Love
Never Die Again[/i]
Yuck.
They've spilt up now.

Good call organic! Forgot about that. I saw Sub Sub live at the Hacienda back in the day. They were great. Saw Doves live loads of times and they''re quite partial to doing this as an encore

And why wouldn't you? 😀

Did I miss radiohead? Kings of the reinvention and evolution, kid a was a departure, king of limbs is a long way from creep.

Not better or worse just different

RHCP - from punk funk loons to dad rock bland dullards. Comes with age, I guess.

Wtf I had no idea about seasick Steve!

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Jefferson Airplane > Jefferson Starship > Starship

Don't come bigger than that IMO

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Beck pretty much from one album to the next. Incubus went from weird jungle, dance metal to elevator music. Cypress Hill, from two brilliant claustrophobic Hip Hop albums to a rubbish Rage Against The Machine tribute band.

QUEEN

Post Freddie it is just not the same no matter who fronts em,

Not to mention John retired from music

Manic Street Preachers. From Generation Terrorists to the most anodyne of dad rock.

Beastie boys

That Bronx one isn't fair as the Mariachi thing was a spin-off band. They still do the punk thing, and always did.

Check out their FB page for a snippet from their new album, out soon.

Yup, in fact they've toured as The Bronx supported by Mariachi El Bronx, and it was awesome.

One of these gentlemen went from doing this:

To doing this:

Nah, Quo were initially a nice packaged pop/psych boy band, 'till they jacked it in and brought the boogie.
Then they sacked the bass player, became a turgid pile of embarrassing toss and I wept.
Aquostic was pretty decent though.

Alright fussy pants ,Neil Young. Starting with one of the best songs ever and finishing with one thats not.

Mariachi El Bronx made me think of this:

Not the same band but all the same frontman and creative driver

Oh, Gong.

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SLF

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Still got it.

For those who might have missed Karl Hyde in his "Francis Rossi lookalike" period, Underworld were a bit different before Darren Emerson arrived..

Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

Blood sugar sex magik album is so different to what came out later, such as Roller Coaster and Californication!

There's quite a lot of metal bands who have evolved into, what are now, completely different sounding bands. One example is Enslaved, who have incorporated a lot of Pink Floyd. Devin Townsend has changed from extreme metal to prog rock.

One big one that affected me at the time was Corrosion of Conformity, who changed from hardcore punk to stoner rock. They did it very well, fortunately. Neurosis also changed quite a bit between The Word as Law and Souls at Zero.

More famously, Celtic Frost suddenly went from proto-death metal to glam metal on Cold Lake. Mastodon are also another band who sound quite different now, compared to their first couple of albums, although still recognisable.

Lo Fidelity Allstars
How To Operate with a blown mind is one of my favourite albums of al time and seeing them live at t in the park was the highlight of that weekend. Second album, don't be afraid of love. So disappointed, not even recognisable as the same band.

Northwind - Member
Idlewild... Went from (quote NME) sounding like a flight of stairs falling down a flight of stairs, to being happy REM. Now that's OK, bands can evolve but they never really announced or acknowledged the change so in the first tour afterwards, it was like we didn't get to see the band we'd paid for. And they just brazened it out completely and ignored it- did an acoustic version of one of their really punky songs, and weirdly covered I wanna be sedated but didn't play any of their own rock stuff... Crowd chanted for Captain, they played El Capitan and it really felt like they were taking the piss.

Ended up with a huge block of the crowd chanting the lyrics to You Just Have To Be Who You Are at them, THERE'S NO ROOM FOR LIARS.

I like 'em again but that was really annoying. We hope you like our new direction!

Like the killers for me. Hot Fuse was superb imo but they never came close again and each new song drifts further from Athat album. Still quite enjoy some of their stuff but it's different from the first album.

Opeth and Solstafir haven't changed their looks but musically they are pretty far from where they started.

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To Congo Natty (a big improvement btw)

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DRI and Suicidal Tendencies. Started out as great hardcore bands, and evolved into shite metal bands.

Dexys went from Geno to Come on Eileen with added dungarees and neck scarves.

Pretty wrong about Suicidal up there. Yes, they had a couple of dodgy albums but everything up to, and including Lights Camera... was awesome. Their new stuff s pretty good, too, and a bit more punky.