Now some bands may have sounded different after their first album, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about bands that had an established sound/style over several albums and built a following on it, then changed into something very different.
Genesis (obvious one).
Fleetwood Mac.
Pink Floyd (the Syd era sounds nothing like the post-Syd era).
others?
King Crimson?
King Crimson?
King Crimson was anti-established, then came Discipline.Originally Posted by firth5th
Opeth
Anathema
Porcupine Tree
The Beatles
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The Beatles..yes that's a good one.
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I could list a TON of 70s Funk bands, including Cameo, Slave, etc, but drastic lineup changes seemed to be par-for-course for those groups
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Jefferson Airplane/Starship
Compare the first four Eloy releases, they changed right before our eyes...
Deep Purple.
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Talk Talk
Depeche Mode
Synth-pop bands that moved on in different ways.
I don't think this is very interesting unless you go with bands that formed after 1980. Almost all of the bands that formed in the 1960s and pre-punk 1970s chaged their sound through the years, because music as a whole was changing.
The Beatles, definitely.
I purposely did not list Porcupine Tree because I have a problem with the word "established". Although roughly speaking I think their output can be categorised into three musical periods, I don't think they ever stayed with one type of sound long enough for people to get used to it.
T Rex are a possible candidate. Their early albums were more in the psych-folk vein than the glam rock style for which they later became known.
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Ulver
I'm only going to list bands that I heard the change in, in real time.
Terrorvision - went from a good hard rocking debut to a rather boring indie grungy follow up
Clearlake- went from a beautiful weird and enchanting Cardiacs inspired debut (which Cardiacs themselves were fans of) to rather boring indie pap follow ups
Porcupine Tree - went from being an interesting festival friendly acid-psych-space rock band to being a rather boring indie pop band
Radiohead - went from being a quirky rock band to being a boring pop band
What? DM have always been a synth band they've never left that behind.
Yes, but their sound changed drastically over time.....Granted, that had more to do with technological advancements than personnel changes, but there is a huge difference just in the ten years between "Speak n Spell" and "Violator", let alone the twenty years since
The Byrds: folk rock to psychedelia to country and western
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Yea..I see what you're kind of getting at, but the general dark moody synthy vibe has always been present. I mean they didn't do a Human League and go from being a dark, moody synth band to being a vanilla pop band.
Nobody listed The Moody Blues (unless I missed it)?
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