Bands and their evolution
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Pantera... started out as a hair glam band. Then switched gears and went full blown, in your face metal.
Listen to Tesla. Tesla is one of the most underrated bands from that Era. They have a great sound.
What Radiohead fans like about Radiohead and what rock fans like of Radiohead can be radically different.
The Bends is a top ten album of all time to me, I mean I like it that much I put it up there with Abbey Road, What's Goin On, Velvet Underground and Nico, etc...but if I go on a forum of Radiohead fans it's very typically the second to last ranked album, they hate it.
To me they are like Great White. They’re a rock band that just said **** it, if I gotta tease my hair and put on a little makeup so I can go on tour, do coke, and get laid for a living instead of clocking in some ******** job then that’s what I’ll do.
Hard to fault them.
If I recall REO Speedwagon completely changed their style in the 80's.
I love Tesla but I think they would have been better as a non hair band. Kind of did the hair band thing to get signed but abandoned it pretty quickly. Went with wearing Jeans and shirts.
Bowie definitely. He changed styles/personas multiple times and usually did so with critical and commercial success. For the most part his music didn't suffer for it. He (Bowie) always seemed ahead of the curve in sensing where trends were going in music.
But my favorite Bowie era would be the Ziggy Stardust days with The Spiders from Mars backing him. That's probably the most underrated backing band ever. Mick Ronson was a virtuoso on guitar and was a great partner in songwriting to Bowie. Mick (Woody) Woodmansey (drums) and Trevor Bolder (bass) were also great musicians.
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Great White could have been an amazing blues rock band had they come up in the early to mid 70s rather than the 80s. Many of their lessor known tracks have some great blues riffs to them, with some extended intros and outros.
I know John Mayer is kind of a tool, but he'd be on this list for me. He's done campy pop, acoustic, John Mayer Trio, tons of blues and now his work with Dead and Co.
Moody Blues first were blues and their first album with "Go Now" is completely different after Denny Laine left and they began to delve into what I would call art rock or progressive.
Believe it or not Manfred Mann also started out doing straight blues. But before they hit in the US had changed to more pop/rock. They were much much more successful in the UK than here.
Believe it or not Manfred Mann also started out doing straight blues. But before they hit in the US had changed to more pop/rock. They were much much more successful in the UK than here.
Kid A was a mind bender when it came out.
And I know to afficionados Pablo Honey is not among their most favored albums, but I've always liked it.
Tesla singer, Jeff Keith is still really good live. So is Tom Keifer from Cinderella.
Old enough to remember when the Doobie Brothers brought on Michael McDonald, aka Mr. Top 40.
Compare: 1972
with 1976
Compare: 1972
with 1976
When Kid A dropped, I loved it. It was such a unique sound. Then they kept pushing further into that sound and I really lost interest. I respect them as artists, but it almost seems too avant garde for my tastes.
I have become a pretty big Twenty One Pilots fan and they seem to move between genres/sound in every album they put out. They have some songs that are heavier rock, some songs that a mix of rap and rock, some songs have a pop vibe, others are slower. It's always interesting to listen to their albums and how they change up their sound throughout.
