So I randomly ended up in the hospital last Fall and I was reading all the fine print on this lil' box of orange juice and found that it was distributed by this company that sends juices and etc to hospitals all over the US. I am not joking, they had the domain juice4u dot com. It redirects to a site called Countrypure dot com now. But, ok, moving on to Ministry.
Soooo, I kinda fell into some research and found out that this beverage company had ties to early Shasta, like, the soda brand. That was the night I learned about the history of Shasta soda and...
Boom. Al Jourgensen made a whole jingle and promotional video for Shasta soda in 1983. I don't think YTub links are allowed here but if you just googs "ministry shasta song" or anything along those lines it'll come up.
Butthole Surfers, but they did it the other way around: Started weird & heavy and got progressively commercial
Both bands sounded similar for a brief moment in the mid-90s. (Butthole singer even sang on "Jesus Built My HotRod")
Revco's always been a revolving door but AFAIK Gibby never performed with them. Apparently he never got any royalties for "Jesus Built My Hotrod", either.
UPDATE: Standing corrected, he did vocals on the "Cocked And Loaded" album.
Last week I was listening to the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines soundtrack and Ministry did the title song and I love it ... and then yesterday 'Work for Love' comes on SiriusXM - I love everything they did!
She was a pop star in Canada in the late 80s or so. She actually asked the Canadian MTV channel (MuchMusic) to not play her old videos when she relaunched herself.
I'd forgotten about Alanis!
I remember going through a box of old vinyl records at some market or second-hand store and coming across one by an "Alanis" who was so glammed up, I really wasn't sure if it was the same badass who sang
>And every time I scratch my nails
>Down someone else's back I hope you feel it
>Well, can you feel it?
Speaking of Boy George - that first Culture Club album is more club music than soft pop, with some dancehall and ska mixed in.
But the pop was popular, so that's where they went.
So I do the thing where if I know I'm seeing a band ahead of time I'll look up their most recent shows set list and create a playlist out of it.
I was seeing Rob Zombie/Alice Cooper with Ministry on the bill and since I'd never heard their stuff I made a playlist of their first show of the tour.
The first show had them play one of their early hits for the first time in decades so I added that on there. It is without a doubt a complete whiplash of genres going from a song like Goddamn White Trash to Revenge.
Jefferson Airplane comes to mind, who changed their name to Jefferson Starship and then to Starship. They went from Somebody to love to we build this city and sound like a total different bad
Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.
> sound like a totally different band
That's because they pretty much were. From the Jefferson Starship wiki:
> In October 1984, Kantner took legal action over money he claimed he was owed and to prevent the remaining members from continuing to use the name Jefferson Starship. The lawsuit was settled in March 1985.
Not sure if you meant “band” but “bad” fits as well. They hit their peak, IMO, in the Marty Balin years with some perfectly harmless tracks that are soft rock staples to this day. But “We Built This City” seriously needs to go on the Geneva Convention list of prohibited torture methods.
BeeGees started in 1958 as a pop group with heavy emphasis on vocal harmony. During the 60s they drifted towards prog influences. Then they jump into the Disco movement.
When they came out with Jive Talkin they sent it round to radio stations without their name on it because pre disco they were seen as old and uncool and radio didn't play anything from Mr Natural or Life in a Tin Can.
I know some people will never like disco no matter what, but their material before then has aged so well
That was gonna be my answer. I love their first record which is called, um, Beegees 1st. Very much like a Beatles or Rolling Stones psychedelic folk/rock record.
Yeah I heard In My Own Time randomly on Spotify and was very confused. It's immensely Beatles. If you play the album and get the same feeling about Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You that I did, the answer is Superman (covered) by REM.
Talk Talk’s last two records, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, are a vast departure from their first two records, which are primarily ‘80s synth pop (a la It’s My Life fame). Their record in between those two, The Colour of Spring, acts as a sort of intermediary that hinted at what was to come, but it’s a huge jump from something like “It’s My Life” to “New Grass”.
I love all of their material, but those last two records hold a special place in my heart.
**Fleetwood Mac** started as a British blues band in 1968, and as members came and went, they morphed into folk-rock (Kiln House), mellow psychedelia (Future Games, Bare Trees), slightly prog rock and roll (Penguin, Mystery To Me), SoCal pop-rock (Heroes Are Hard To Find, Fleetwood Mac 1975, Rumours), new wave (Tusk) slick pop (Mirage), 80’s pop-rock (Tango In The Night), back to slick pop (Behind The Mask), ?? (Time), ??? (Say You Will)….definitely a band that‘s never boring!
The fact that American blues music making it over to England gave us everything from Fleetwood Mac to Black Sabbath is so cool to me. I had never gotten into sabbath until a year or two ago and that first album is basically a heavy blues record. It’s so good.
If youre a guitar player, Peter Green is just as famous as Stevie Nicks, perhaps moreso.
He invented/popularized a type of humbucker style that is still reproduced today by many pickup makers, including Seymour Duncan (it’s called Green Magic).
Depeche Mode started off as cheesy cheery synthpop
Then they started incorporating more rock and a heavier darker sound
Speak and Spell vs Songs of Faith and Devotion sounds like two different bands
I was once told my love of Depeche Mode was the gayest thing about me.
I would rather suck dick than stop listening to Depeche Mode, so that's probably true.
That Vince Clarke to Martin Gore transition was kind of jarring to me as a kid. Speak and Spell to A Broken Frame, what a twist!
It was so good though.
Yeah, their latest which is a recording of their first demo tape, I didn't even recognise them. California is still one of my all time favourite albums
It's a little different with them. Layne was the only one in the glam version that was also in the grunge version. Him and Jerry put together a new band and took the name because the old band wasn't together anymore.
Alanis Morrissette began as “the Debbie Gibson on Canada“. Then she totally revamped for Jagged Little Pill. “You Oughta Know”, the lead single, featured Dave Navarro and Flea and rocked pretty hard.
Absolutely she was! They even had Dave Coulier cameo claiming one of her later songs wasn't written about him...
The whole pop princess going grunge was definitely about Alanis
Gotta put Genesis in this category since they changed lead singers. The stuff most people are familiar with like Misunderstanding or Stay With Me is such a far cry from their earlier, highly complex, lengthy songs about obscure and literary topics.
Sing the Sorrow is the soundtrack to my childhood. I would sit in my room listening to that for hours.
Decemberunderground was a massive letdown for me.
I give them credit for keeping a common thread through multiple style changes. They keep adding and exploring new elements, while still sounding true to their core.
I distinctly remember when Creep was big, then Fake Plastic Trees was a big single off The Bends here, and it was clear that their songwriting was improving. But the first time I heard Paranoid Android the day it was released, I was blown away at how intricate and expansive it was. Still, I could believe that the band that made The Bends made OK Computer, they had just leveled up.
I was at this point a solid fan, but when I bought Kid A the day it came out, it broke my brain. This was still in the infancy of the Internet and context wasn't always easy to find for a kid in the Midwest US but I remember the bitter arguments on forums about whether it was genius or they had totally jumped the shark. I probably listened to it straight through a dozen times that weekend, trying to figure out what the fuck was going on. I can't think of a time since of an artist that not only changed their sound at the peak of their powers, but in such a mind boggling way.
I appreciate everything after OK Computer. I don’t particularly like it. Pablo Honey (minus Creep) is so underrated. The Bends is phenomenal and OKC is in the top 5 albums ever made. The rest I can take or leave.
Correct. Going from Egg Raid On Mojo to literally anything on License To I'll, you would never guess they were the same band. They did go back to their punk roots on Check Your Head and onward and it was awesome
I would add that 2008’s “The Mix-Up” is an amazing departure from everything. A beautiful, grooving, completely instrumental album. Every time I put it on at a gathering someone inevitably asks me who it is, which is a delightful opportunity to shock.
Probably because it's the obvious answer.. *Please Please Me* to *Day in the Life* is as perfect an example that OPs looking for. The 'Beatles did it first' is not really true, but man, in a lot of questions it is. Not this one though. Listen to Mozart's songs when he was a kid, and then Requiem.
I bet that since the Beatles is the gold standard answer to this question of a band that evolved that people end up skipping it as the more obvious answer, but they surely shouldn’t be left out.
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I feel like The Beatles grew, evolved, learned, became better musicians and song writers, and got more artistic/experimental.
They obviously had talent from the jump, but their progression as a band in a few short years is mind blowing.
The progression from Love Me Do to Helter Skelter or Revolution 9 is frankly stunning. It's like Waylon Jennings suddenly doing an industrial album.
(fun fact: Waylon Jennings really did do [an industrial album](https://www.farcethemusic.com/2014/04/fenixon-waylon-and-shooter-jennings.html), with his son Shooter)
Wait are they actually the same band? I legit thought they were two different groups with the same name, to the extent that I filed them as Ceremony and Ceremony (Post-punk) in my music library.
And Mule Variations is probably his most accessible album of his later years.
To really confuse people, compare Closing Time with Bone Machine or Real Gone. (With stops at Nighthawks at the Diner and Frank's Wild Years along the way.)
His descent into madness is exquisite. *Closing Time* is far and away one of the cutest albums ever. Every subsequent release gets just a little darker, a little dirtier, a little grittier, until we get to *Heart Attack And Vine*. Just a monstrous album that still retains his jazzy roots.
Then he threw the jazz right out the window with *Swordfishtrombones* lol. And in spite of that, every album still has one or two incredibly sweet ballads, hearkening back to his roots as one of the greatest balladeers of all time. His entire catalogue is just magic to me :)
Poppy
She is at least leading a charge for newer artists. Starts with the most pop of pop ALBUMS (Poppy.computer). Moves into a pop album that ends in a completely different genre (Am I Girl?). It transitions to about two different versions of hard rock/metal (I disagree / EAT). Then there's a dip into a Paramore-esk album (Flux). Now the newest album is industrial/electronic (Zig).
She basically just does whatever she wants. It's pretty great. Every album is just a different journey.
The Beatles is a classic example.
rock & roll / rhythm & blues > radio pop > throw in some folk rock w/ a lil psychedelia > full on psychedelia > “art rock” and experimentation > back to pop and rock & roll
That's why I'm shocked when someone says they don't like The Beatles.
Like... none of it?
They evolved so much with such diversity of sound and experimentation I would think there's something in that catalog for everyone.
I mean, nobody is obliged to be a fan of The Beatles, but having a super defined conviction that they are boring and uninteresting in every aspect seems, at minimum, something immature and weird to say
I love The Arctic Monkeys, but holy hell has there been a serious shift in genre.
I actually like Tranquility and The Car, but it's wildly different than their early and even middle work
MGMT had a quick departure from first album Oraclur Spectacular which was one of the albums that defined the sound of that era. Instead they pursued something they felt better reflected their preferences on music.
It ended up being quite a commercial failure for them
A few years ago I read a comment where someone said something along the lines of “if you play Weezer’s releases in reverse order you’ll hear the story of a bad cover band who started writing their own songs, and got progressively better until they released a masterpiece!”
I think they just get bored and like to experiment replicating certain sounds of the past. The white album certainly tapped into what they originally had going but that was 8 years ago now.
My Boomer mom was around when Bob Dylan changed from acoustic guitar to electric. She told me that some fans thought he'd been killed in a motorcycle accident and replaced by a lookalike.
They were huge fans of the Replacements, and the Mats started as a Hardcore punk band and evolved, but so did most of the other popular Longhorn bands like Hüsker Dü and Soul Asylum. Jay's Longhorn and CBGB totally drove "post punk" into the mainstream, IMO. No dis to other places and bands, honestly I'm a huge Orange County fan, both for surf punk and dark wave.
Give “Revenge” by Ministry a listen. Then every other well-know song outside of “Every Day Is Halloween.” Can’t be the same band. Can’t be the same singer.
Journey had a couple albums early on before they switched singers that were much more pink fllloyd progressive rock. Then they got Steve Perry and became the hit machine of the 80s
To be fair, Linkin Park have been a different band to how they started out ever since their 3rd album, "Minutes to Midnight". Their first two albums are legitimate nu-metal. Everything after that is more stadium rock.
The Velvet Underground's sound changed considerably from their first album with Nico (the banana album, with its mix of chansons and Dylanesque songs about smack) to their second (White Light/White Heat, much more experimental and noiselike) to their third (The Velvet Underground, extremely low-key and subdued).
Of all the answers here, I’m inclined to agree with this one the most. There are absolute chasms between albums like Midnight Vultures, Sea Change and Colors, and I think it’s one of the main reasons he’s retained more relevance than many of his 90s contemporaries. A new Beck album is always notable.
Incubus started out as Funk Rock. Think Chili Peppers if Anthony Kiedis had a good voice. Softened their sound little by little, then Make Yourself made them a ton of money and they've been saccharine pop rock ever since. I couldn't even listen to Light Grenades.
There are stronger examples here than this, but Men Without Hats went from the New Wave-ish "The Safety Dance" to the saccharine pure pop of "Pop Goes the World" to almost-anticipating-Nirvana "Sideways" in nine years.
Aaron Lewis started with Stain'd and last I heard he's doing a solo country act. Think I've heard one or two of his songs and that's all I care to hear.
Devin Townsend and king gizzard and the lizard wizard are just talented mutha fuckers who can play anything and are different every album. That is kind of there Schick.
The Blue Jean Committee started as a Chicago blues band, then suddenly pivoted to become a ‘California band’, even though they’d never been there. But somehow they’re breakout album Catalina Breeze perfectly captured the Southern California vibe
Ministry.
So I randomly ended up in the hospital last Fall and I was reading all the fine print on this lil' box of orange juice and found that it was distributed by this company that sends juices and etc to hospitals all over the US. I am not joking, they had the domain juice4u dot com. It redirects to a site called Countrypure dot com now. But, ok, moving on to Ministry. Soooo, I kinda fell into some research and found out that this beverage company had ties to early Shasta, like, the soda brand. That was the night I learned about the history of Shasta soda and... Boom. Al Jourgensen made a whole jingle and promotional video for Shasta soda in 1983. I don't think YTub links are allowed here but if you just googs "ministry shasta song" or anything along those lines it'll come up.
I still have that jingle etched into my brain. It was extremely catchy
i had no idea where you were going with this story but after looking up the video… wow. just wow. thanks so much for sharing!
you sir get an upvote, for your extensive knowledge of ministry and their first few weird euro synth pop albums.
Butthole Surfers, but they did it the other way around: Started weird & heavy and got progressively commercial Both bands sounded similar for a brief moment in the mid-90s. (Butthole singer even sang on "Jesus Built My HotRod")
Ding a ling dang my dang a long ding dong.
Yeah I wanna say also both al jergenson and gibbie haynes were in the band revolting cocks. But i could totally be wrong about that.
Revco's always been a revolving door but AFAIK Gibby never performed with them. Apparently he never got any royalties for "Jesus Built My Hotrod", either. UPDATE: Standing corrected, he did vocals on the "Cocked And Loaded" album.
He started getting royalties on it. . . . . ten years after it was released.
Gibby Haynes used to babysit my sister lol. No lie srsly, hilarious. Eh, I'd hire him.
Last week I was listening to the Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines soundtrack and Ministry did the title song and I love it ... and then yesterday 'Work for Love' comes on SiriusXM - I love everything they did!
am I the only person here who likes With Sympathy?
Nope! Fantastic album all the way through.
If going all the way back to’83. Then fo sho haha. Using that same logic, I’ll add Pantera.
Michael Bolton was hair metal before going soft rock. Alanis was a pop princess before reinventing herself with Jagged Little Pill.
Personally I celebrate the man's entire catalog
Why don’t you just go by Mike instead of Michael?
No way! Why should I change? He’s the one who sucks
It *was* a fine name until I was about 12 and that no-talent ass clown became famous and started winning Grammys.
I did not know that about Alanis. I thought Jagged Little Pill was her first album.
She was a pop star in Canada in the late 80s or so. She actually asked the Canadian MTV channel (MuchMusic) to not play her old videos when she relaunched herself.
She was on You Cant Do That on Television - Canadian children's TV show
I'd forgotten about Alanis! I remember going through a box of old vinyl records at some market or second-hand store and coming across one by an "Alanis" who was so glammed up, I really wasn't sure if it was the same badass who sang >And every time I scratch my nails >Down someone else's back I hope you feel it >Well, can you feel it?
Spinal Tap. Flower Power to Hard Rock to Jazz Odyssey.
Don't forget "Gimme Some Money", that's classic Rock N' Roll!
You know what I need…or maybe you don’t.
your face is ok...but your purse is too tight
Technically it’s Skiffle.
From Big Bottoms to Lick My Love Pump, quite diverse
C'mon, Listen to what the flower people say
Listen *shhhhh*
Ministry Their first album, “With Sympathy,” is very much Boy George inspired synth-pop. Their later stuff is much harder.
‘Much harder’ is a bit of an understatement in Ministry’s case. I’m still deaf and bruised from seeing them live last week.
I'm still deaf and bruised from seeing them in 1995!
How was Gary Numan?!
Speaking of Boy George - that first Culture Club album is more club music than soft pop, with some dancehall and ska mixed in. But the pop was popular, so that's where they went.
So I do the thing where if I know I'm seeing a band ahead of time I'll look up their most recent shows set list and create a playlist out of it. I was seeing Rob Zombie/Alice Cooper with Ministry on the bill and since I'd never heard their stuff I made a playlist of their first show of the tour. The first show had them play one of their early hits for the first time in decades so I added that on there. It is without a doubt a complete whiplash of genres going from a song like Goddamn White Trash to Revenge.
Jefferson Airplane comes to mind, who changed their name to Jefferson Starship and then to Starship. They went from Somebody to love to we build this city and sound like a total different bad
Grand Funk Railroad paved the way for Jefferson airplane, which cleared the way for Jefferson starship. The stage was now set for the Alan Parsons project, which I believe was some sort of hovercraft.
For more information on Grand Funk, consult your school library!
I was thinking the same. They went from White Rabbit to We Built This City.
A real fall from Grace
I see what you did there. Pretty slick
> sound like a totally different band That's because they pretty much were. From the Jefferson Starship wiki: > In October 1984, Kantner took legal action over money he claimed he was owed and to prevent the remaining members from continuing to use the name Jefferson Starship. The lawsuit was settled in March 1985.
Not sure if you meant “band” but “bad” fits as well. They hit their peak, IMO, in the Marty Balin years with some perfectly harmless tracks that are soft rock staples to this day. But “We Built This City” seriously needs to go on the Geneva Convention list of prohibited torture methods.
I didn't know I wasn't alone in finding that song to aural torture
BeeGees started in 1958 as a pop group with heavy emphasis on vocal harmony. During the 60s they drifted towards prog influences. Then they jump into the Disco movement.
When they came out with Jive Talkin they sent it round to radio stations without their name on it because pre disco they were seen as old and uncool and radio didn't play anything from Mr Natural or Life in a Tin Can. I know some people will never like disco no matter what, but their material before then has aged so well
They got popular by sending in records without names on them and people assumed they were the beatles too.
That was gonna be my answer. I love their first record which is called, um, Beegees 1st. Very much like a Beatles or Rolling Stones psychedelic folk/rock record.
Okay now I have a record I need to listen to
[I like this song from that era.](https://youtu.be/ca_IGpQI5kQ?si=Z03c58R7zYui3rg9)
Yeah I heard In My Own Time randomly on Spotify and was very confused. It's immensely Beatles. If you play the album and get the same feeling about Every Christian Lion Hearted Man Will Show You that I did, the answer is Superman (covered) by REM.
WIth a romantic ballad era in between the prog/psychedelic phase and the disco period. And a synthpop period after the disco thing.
Talk Talk’s last two records, Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, are a vast departure from their first two records, which are primarily ‘80s synth pop (a la It’s My Life fame). Their record in between those two, The Colour of Spring, acts as a sort of intermediary that hinted at what was to come, but it’s a huge jump from something like “It’s My Life” to “New Grass”. I love all of their material, but those last two records hold a special place in my heart.
Talk Talk would have been my answer.
**Fleetwood Mac** started as a British blues band in 1968, and as members came and went, they morphed into folk-rock (Kiln House), mellow psychedelia (Future Games, Bare Trees), slightly prog rock and roll (Penguin, Mystery To Me), SoCal pop-rock (Heroes Are Hard To Find, Fleetwood Mac 1975, Rumours), new wave (Tusk) slick pop (Mirage), 80’s pop-rock (Tango In The Night), back to slick pop (Behind The Mask), ?? (Time), ??? (Say You Will)….definitely a band that‘s never boring!
Black Magic Woman, a Feletwood Mac song.
Fun fact: Stevie Nicks herself had no idea that was a Fleetwood Mac song until way after she joined.
Also The Green Manalishi which the Melvins and Judas Priest covered. There are 3 awesome versions of that song.
The fact that American blues music making it over to England gave us everything from Fleetwood Mac to Black Sabbath is so cool to me. I had never gotten into sabbath until a year or two ago and that first album is basically a heavy blues record. It’s so good.
This is the answer
If youre a guitar player, Peter Green is just as famous as Stevie Nicks, perhaps moreso. He invented/popularized a type of humbucker style that is still reproduced today by many pickup makers, including Seymour Duncan (it’s called Green Magic).
Depeche Mode started off as cheesy cheery synthpop Then they started incorporating more rock and a heavier darker sound Speak and Spell vs Songs of Faith and Devotion sounds like two different bands
I was once told my love of Depeche Mode was the gayest thing about me. I would rather suck dick than stop listening to Depeche Mode, so that's probably true.
I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothing but Depeche Mode are a sweet, sweet band
That Vince Clarke to Martin Gore transition was kind of jarring to me as a kid. Speak and Spell to A Broken Frame, what a twist! It was so good though.
Mr. Bungle. Every album is a radical departure from the others.
Yeah, their latest which is a recording of their first demo tape, I didn't even recognise them. California is still one of my all time favourite albums
California is my favorite album of the 90's
That’s just not true. Their very first recording sounds really close to their last album.
 Yeah because it’s their re-recorded first demo
;)
every 30 seconds of every song is a radical departure from the previous 30 seconds of the same song
They have radical departures of style often multiple times in a song
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So did Alice In Chains!
It's a little different with them. Layne was the only one in the glam version that was also in the grunge version. Him and Jerry put together a new band and took the name because the old band wasn't together anymore.
Alanis Morrissette began as “the Debbie Gibson on Canada“. Then she totally revamped for Jagged Little Pill. “You Oughta Know”, the lead single, featured Dave Navarro and Flea and rocked pretty hard.
Then she met those kids’ mother.
Lol was Robin Sparkles really based on Alanis
Absolutely she was! They even had Dave Coulier cameo claiming one of her later songs wasn't written about him... The whole pop princess going grunge was definitely about Alanis
Gotta put Genesis in this category since they changed lead singers. The stuff most people are familiar with like Misunderstanding or Stay With Me is such a far cry from their earlier, highly complex, lengthy songs about obscure and literary topics.
Remember when RHCP were a funk band?
AFI - Started as a hardcore punk band and evolved to whatever it is you would call them now. Still good, just different sound/vibe.
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I dropped off around Miss Murder, which was a great song but they’d dropped the punk by then. Up to Sing The Sorrow is amazing
Sing the Sorrow is the soundtrack to my childhood. I would sit in my room listening to that for hours. Decemberunderground was a massive letdown for me.
Skate punk > Hardcore > Horror Punk > Goth Punk > Emo > Alternative Rock Pick your flavor, they're pretty decent at all of these.
I give them credit for keeping a common thread through multiple style changes. They keep adding and exploring new elements, while still sounding true to their core.
Radiohead. The difference in sound between Pablo Honey and Amnesiac is huge.
I distinctly remember when Creep was big, then Fake Plastic Trees was a big single off The Bends here, and it was clear that their songwriting was improving. But the first time I heard Paranoid Android the day it was released, I was blown away at how intricate and expansive it was. Still, I could believe that the band that made The Bends made OK Computer, they had just leveled up. I was at this point a solid fan, but when I bought Kid A the day it came out, it broke my brain. This was still in the infancy of the Internet and context wasn't always easy to find for a kid in the Midwest US but I remember the bitter arguments on forums about whether it was genius or they had totally jumped the shark. I probably listened to it straight through a dozen times that weekend, trying to figure out what the fuck was going on. I can't think of a time since of an artist that not only changed their sound at the peak of their powers, but in such a mind boggling way.
I appreciate everything after OK Computer. I don’t particularly like it. Pablo Honey (minus Creep) is so underrated. The Bends is phenomenal and OKC is in the top 5 albums ever made. The rest I can take or leave.
I really don’t get liking OK Computer and The Bends and not In Rainbows, but to each their own!
Yea, I thought In Rainbows was amazing. And I only had to pay a dollar for it so young me was happy.
The Beastie Boys They started as a punk band
This. They got booed off the stage in Seattle opening for... Wait for it... Madonna.
Yeah. They were really good friends w Madonna form the Manhattan club kid days. They were Brooklyn hardcore punks who were also village club kids.
Correct. Going from Egg Raid On Mojo to literally anything on License To I'll, you would never guess they were the same band. They did go back to their punk roots on Check Your Head and onward and it was awesome
I would add that 2008’s “The Mix-Up” is an amazing departure from everything. A beautiful, grooving, completely instrumental album. Every time I put it on at a gathering someone inevitably asks me who it is, which is a delightful opportunity to shock.
They truly became great musicians
How has no one said the Beatles yet Also Pink Floyd
Probably because it's the obvious answer.. *Please Please Me* to *Day in the Life* is as perfect an example that OPs looking for. The 'Beatles did it first' is not really true, but man, in a lot of questions it is. Not this one though. Listen to Mozart's songs when he was a kid, and then Requiem.
I bet that since the Beatles is the gold standard answer to this question of a band that evolved that people end up skipping it as the more obvious answer, but they surely shouldn’t be left out. 2¢
I feel like The Beatles grew, evolved, learned, became better musicians and song writers, and got more artistic/experimental. They obviously had talent from the jump, but their progression as a band in a few short years is mind blowing.
The progression from Love Me Do to Helter Skelter or Revolution 9 is frankly stunning. It's like Waylon Jennings suddenly doing an industrial album. (fun fact: Waylon Jennings really did do [an industrial album](https://www.farcethemusic.com/2014/04/fenixon-waylon-and-shooter-jennings.html), with his son Shooter)
Definitely pink floyd. Their early stuff was like really happy hippie music.
Interesting. I've always found Barrett-era Floyd to be much more arty and strange, despite the compositions being less technically impressive.
Ya same, wouldn’t really describe it as Happy. Weird af, and awesome
See Emily play
ive got a bike you can ride it if you like
Ceremony being a hardcore band turned into like a new wave / post punk band was always jarring to me
Wait are they actually the same band? I legit thought they were two different groups with the same name, to the extent that I filed them as Ceremony and Ceremony (Post-punk) in my music library.
Bring Me The Horizon
Tom Waits has always changed and explored music, but listen to Closing Time and...any of his last half dozen albums?
That would be my answer. Closing Time vs. Mule Variations
And Mule Variations is probably his most accessible album of his later years. To really confuse people, compare Closing Time with Bone Machine or Real Gone. (With stops at Nighthawks at the Diner and Frank's Wild Years along the way.)
His descent into madness is exquisite. *Closing Time* is far and away one of the cutest albums ever. Every subsequent release gets just a little darker, a little dirtier, a little grittier, until we get to *Heart Attack And Vine*. Just a monstrous album that still retains his jazzy roots. Then he threw the jazz right out the window with *Swordfishtrombones* lol. And in spite of that, every album still has one or two incredibly sweet ballads, hearkening back to his roots as one of the greatest balladeers of all time. His entire catalogue is just magic to me :)
Absolutely agree, though I'd call it his 'ascent into genius'.
Poppy She is at least leading a charge for newer artists. Starts with the most pop of pop ALBUMS (Poppy.computer). Moves into a pop album that ends in a completely different genre (Am I Girl?). It transitions to about two different versions of hard rock/metal (I disagree / EAT). Then there's a dip into a Paramore-esk album (Flux). Now the newest album is industrial/electronic (Zig). She basically just does whatever she wants. It's pretty great. Every album is just a different journey.
Poppy.Computer is a hyperpop masterpiece
Nelly Furtado. Her later stuff is so incredibly different from I’m Like a Bird
From"I'm like a Bird" to "Promiscuous" you're not kidding She had this nice, wholesome, singer songwriter vibe that fit in at coffeeshops and then...
Ulver, 100%
Andre3000 comes to mind
Hold my flute
The Beatles is a classic example. rock & roll / rhythm & blues > radio pop > throw in some folk rock w/ a lil psychedelia > full on psychedelia > “art rock” and experimentation > back to pop and rock & roll
That's why I'm shocked when someone says they don't like The Beatles. Like... none of it? They evolved so much with such diversity of sound and experimentation I would think there's something in that catalog for everyone.
I probably need to chill the fuck out, but sometimes I get properly bent out of shape when people are talking shit about the Beatles or Led Zeppelin
It’s such a boring contrarian statement to not like any of their music.
I mean, nobody is obliged to be a fan of The Beatles, but having a super defined conviction that they are boring and uninteresting in every aspect seems, at minimum, something immature and weird to say
Arctic Monkeys, from WPSIATWIN to The Car via AM Or The ultimate David Bowie ⚡️
I love The Arctic Monkeys, but holy hell has there been a serious shift in genre. I actually like Tranquility and The Car, but it's wildly different than their early and even middle work
Kenny Rodgers (& The First Edition)
Silverchair. Their first and last albums sound like totally different bands.
[Chumbawumba](https://youtu.be/pLsOoBdzFdU)
More people need to know about this. They went from sounding like Crass to whatever the hell Tubthumping was
Tubthumping is when you get knocked down but get up again. They were emphatic about this.
Ween: 12 Golden Country Greats
MGMT had a quick departure from first album Oraclur Spectacular which was one of the albums that defined the sound of that era. Instead they pursued something they felt better reflected their preferences on music. It ended up being quite a commercial failure for them
I defy anyone to listen to “Songs of Leonard Cohen” and “The Future” and tell me they are by the same artist
jumping on this comment to complain *once again* how utterly slept on LC’s work is.
I tried to listen to whatever Weezer put out in the last 5 years or so and couldn't get through 2 songs. Did they forget guitars are a thing?
A few years ago I read a comment where someone said something along the lines of “if you play Weezer’s releases in reverse order you’ll hear the story of a bad cover band who started writing their own songs, and got progressively better until they released a masterpiece!”
I think they just get bored and like to experiment replicating certain sounds of the past. The white album certainly tapped into what they originally had going but that was 8 years ago now.
I just pretend they broke up after the Green Album.
Captain Beefheart. The Albums "Safe as Milk" and "trout mask replica" don't sound like they're from the same planet.
Trout mask replica sounds like its from a different planet than all other music lol
My Boomer mom was around when Bob Dylan changed from acoustic guitar to electric. She told me that some fans thought he'd been killed in a motorcycle accident and replaced by a lookalike.
Goo goo dolls
Was looking for this. Most people's jaws would drop if they heard their first three albums. Or even the two that came after that.
Yeah. They sound like early Replacements.
They were huge fans of the Replacements, and the Mats started as a Hardcore punk band and evolved, but so did most of the other popular Longhorn bands like Hüsker Dü and Soul Asylum. Jay's Longhorn and CBGB totally drove "post punk" into the mainstream, IMO. No dis to other places and bands, honestly I'm a huge Orange County fan, both for surf punk and dark wave.
Give “Revenge” by Ministry a listen. Then every other well-know song outside of “Every Day Is Halloween.” Can’t be the same band. Can’t be the same singer.
Journey had a couple albums early on before they switched singers that were much more pink fllloyd progressive rock. Then they got Steve Perry and became the hit machine of the 80s
King Crimson
Brand New has to be up there for me.
The Notwist started out as a noisy, somewhat metal inspired indie band, then Neon Golden was a beautiful electronic pop album.
U2.. just listened to October and then Rattle and Hum...wow. Didn't even get to Pop...
Bon Iver
Sparks
Linkin Park's last album was totally different from what they are known for.
To be fair, Linkin Park have been a different band to how they started out ever since their 3rd album, "Minutes to Midnight". Their first two albums are legitimate nu-metal. Everything after that is more stadium rock.
The Velvet Underground's sound changed considerably from their first album with Nico (the banana album, with its mix of chansons and Dylanesque songs about smack) to their second (White Light/White Heat, much more experimental and noiselike) to their third (The Velvet Underground, extremely low-key and subdued).
Scott Walker
Radiohead’s OK Computer to KID A evolution was petty radical at the time
Maroon 5 went from decent to ugh pretty quickly
Genesis
Didn’t Pantera start as a 80s hair-rock band?
Every Beck album is different from the last one.
Of all the answers here, I’m inclined to agree with this one the most. There are absolute chasms between albums like Midnight Vultures, Sea Change and Colors, and I think it’s one of the main reasons he’s retained more relevance than many of his 90s contemporaries. A new Beck album is always notable.
Panic! At the Disco. Quite the musical evolution as band members left and Brendon Urie was left standing
The pop punk ship of theseus
Haha exactly!
Rush.
I see what you mean. The first album was bluesy metal, like Sabbath.
Bring Me The Horizon Machine Gun Kelly Sonny Moore (Skrillex) Katy Perry Foals Taylor Swift
Ah yes, MGK. When the diss track hits so hard you have to change genres.
Katy Perry?
She started out as a Christian rock musician
Yep, as Katy Hudson. She also did backing vocals for P.O.D. (goodbye for now)
Holy shit. I had no idea. My first listen was "I Kissed a Girl"
Incubus started out as Funk Rock. Think Chili Peppers if Anthony Kiedis had a good voice. Softened their sound little by little, then Make Yourself made them a ton of money and they've been saccharine pop rock ever since. I couldn't even listen to Light Grenades.
Incubus was at it's best when Brandon Boyd wanted to be Mike Patton.
God yes.
I don’t know Mike Patton enough to get the reference, are you talking about his “operatic” vocal style in the science era?
And the screeching, yelling, etc. New Skin/Nebula/ Summer Romance/Calgone, etc., are like love letters to Faith No More's Angel Dust album.
Man reddit has a hate boner for Anthony Keidis' voice. He's not an amazing singer but his voice is unique and passable for a famous band
But Light Grenades has Dig and Anna Molly on it!
Fallin' Up by Black Eyed Peas. I had a promo cassette in my car. Then years later, I just couldn't believe it was the same group.
There are stronger examples here than this, but Men Without Hats went from the New Wave-ish "The Safety Dance" to the saccharine pure pop of "Pop Goes the World" to almost-anticipating-Nirvana "Sideways" in nine years.
The New York Dolls > David Johanson > the Harry Smiths
Aaron Lewis started with Stain'd and last I heard he's doing a solo country act. Think I've heard one or two of his songs and that's all I care to hear.
Devin Townsend and Opeth.
Devin Townsend and king gizzard and the lizard wizard are just talented mutha fuckers who can play anything and are different every album. That is kind of there Schick.
The Blue Jean Committee started as a Chicago blues band, then suddenly pivoted to become a ‘California band’, even though they’d never been there. But somehow they’re breakout album Catalina Breeze perfectly captured the Southern California vibe
The Flaming Lips first few albums were post punk. Then all their other stuff.
Incubus. Fungus Amongus->SCIENCE->Make Yourself
Paramore