Bands that change musical genres during their career

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Let me list the ones I know so far..

Genesis - Progressive rock band at 1st, then when Peter Gabriel left and Phil Collins took over, they became pop..:P

Jefferson Airplane - Psychedelia rock band at 1st with songs like White Rabbit etc, then went thru changes and became Starship, with hits like Sara, We Built This City. Commercial pop, with Grace Slick, at the time in 1988, becoming the oldest female to sing on a no 1 single in the Billboard charts.

Queen - Glam rock like Bohemian Rhapsody, then 80s came, the synth and drum machines appeared aka Radio Ga Ga..:P

Any more bands tat I missed out?
 
U2 - From Rock to something dance in Discotheque-era, which was not so well received. Has reverted back to rock.

Blur - Brit Rock at first, moved to experimental towards 13 and Think Tank. No longer playing.
 
Level 42 used to be some Fusion band, then they turned kinda retro after Mark King stepped up to the mike.

Black Sabbath used to play blues, if I'm not wrong....
 
X Japan - they were more inclined towards hard rock/metal during their first 3 albums until The Art of Life and Dahlia albums came out , from then on they became pop.

I'm pretty sure the song "Rusty Nails" came as a great shock for hardcore X Japan fans eh? :)
 
Paradise Lost. From their death metal beginings, to basically pioneering doom death, to goth, to electronica and then back to some semblance of metal again. Nobody can accuse these guys of stagnating.
 
Here's what I can recall -

R.E.M. - College Rock in 1981, to Modern Crap today
Pearl Jam - Grunge rock to pop to rock again (latest album)
Green Day - punk to pop anthems (thankfully still edgy and relevant)
The Eagles - country rock to sacharrin pop
Coldplay - inventive Brit pop revival to commercial drivel
RHCP - punk/funk to rock/funk to commercial drivel and back to form again (starting from Californication to Stadium Arcadium)
Los Lobos - latin-infused blues/rock and roll to electronica-influenced pop
ZZ Top - swampy blues to electronica-influenced blues (the beards remain the same)


How about a thread on bands that have never changed their genre, regardless of music trends, such as:

1. Steely Dan
2. TOOL
3. A Perfect Circle
4. Anthrax
5. TOTO
6. Prince & NPG
7. Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
8. ABBA
- Insert band name here...
 
SherT said:
bluepowder said:
WOW...no mention of Metallica :D
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I wouldn't exactly say metallica changed their genre, they just ran out of ideas. :lol:
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I'm not sure about what you meant, but this sentence gives me the idea that you're stereotyping "bands who change their career" as a bad thing.

Look at SRV and Double Trouble, they made blues into a complete new genre and brought the blues into a brand new level.
 
headwan said:
it will be deftone...........
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But they didnt change much?

Exodus is another, they had another metallica type phase in the 90's

Pantera - glam/hair metal to heavy metal

AC/DC - rock and blues
 
Kwerty said:
I'm not sure about what you meant, but this sentence gives me the idea that you're stereotyping "bands who change their career" as a bad thing.
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Nobody's stereotyping anything. Reading too much into stuff isn't good for the mind, bro. :wink:

By the way, I believe it's bands who change genres, not bands who change their careers.

And headwan, Deftones are heavy into all sorts of strange experimental musical explorations, well, up till their latest obsession with seizure-inducing down tunings, so changing their genre would be pretty much a given, wouldn't it? :lol:
 
How about G'nR?

From a good hard rock 5 man band until Axl went ballistic and took over, fired everyone and became a one man band, dressin up like a hip hop artist and made an album that has nver came out after 10 years
 
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