…and not necessarily for the better!

Fleetwood Mac
Genesis
Pink Floyd

Pantera!

At first I was like

But then I was like

U2

Fashion comes and goes….

Not a band but it’s some change.

Wow is that Seasick Steve one legit??

Wow is that Seasick Steve one legit??

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

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

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
[video]https://youtu.be/RIOmX14M054[/video]

to
soft rock blandness
[video]https://youtu.be/A8mw5i43-uQ[/video]

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!

[video]https://youtu.be/d8KynrRA1u8[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/wWUC2-ypnDQ[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/Z3ZCZjhjguA[/video]

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!’

then kinda ..

Anathema, from this –

To this –

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.

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*

* By most accounts he still is.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRguEi3wufQ[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RadUfjnnqOE[/video]

Weren’t Quo hippies at one stage?

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……

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:
Sail Away
Miss You
Blue Bird
Come Back To Me
In The Grace Of Your Love
Never Die Again
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

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC9O32R1BZY[/video]

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!

Jefferson Airplane > Jefferson Starship > Starship

Don’t come bigger than that IMO

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

[video]https://youtu.be/ASt7ZRSWiKo[/video]
[video]https://youtu.be/A5YFj9kHaTE[/video]

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.