Soft proggies Opus (Germany,not the austrian ones)
became Germanys greatest cheese Pop band
Soft proggies Opus (Germany,not the austrian ones)
became Germanys greatest cheese Pop band
Italian prog band J.e.t.
became major Pop band Matia Bazar
and of course that should be a major change not a mayor one
PFM
Bee Gees
Yes
Genesis
Jethro Tull
King Crimson
Pretty Things
Tyrannosaurus Rex
Germany's Faithful Breath began as a symphonic prog band who released a lovely album called Fading Beauty in 1973 (I love this album) :
...before eventually morphing into this (I *don't* love this album) :
....in 1987, they dropped the name (and logo) and continued on in this same 80s heavy metal style as a band called Risk.
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Murder By Death
Margot & the Nuclear So & So's
Anathema
Not really a band changing, but just because it's good fun:
Anathema
Humble Pie
Genesis
Deep Purple
XTC
Fleetwood Mac
Ephemeral Sun
BeeGees
Beatles
"My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician, and to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference"
President Harry S. Truman
I would say Gentle Giant took a pretty major left turn when they evolved from Simon Dupree and the Big Sound. Maybe that doesn't count as it was really only the Shulmans common to both bands. And of course, The Beatles were kind of the prototype for evolving from basic pop to something more sophisticated.
Most bands go through some sort of metamorphosis...bands that are/were, to me, unrecognizable to themselves from first album to latest/last:
R.E.M.
E.L.O.
Klaatu
Queensryche
Bee Gees
Fleetwood Mac
Rush
Porcupine Tree
Stone Temple Pilots
...theres more: cant think of 'em atm
Ministry. I remember hearing them in the late 80's and it was your standard synth-pop, New Order type music. Not bad but nothing that stood out from the rest of the bunch. Then I heard "Stigmata" and couldn't believe it was the same band. Still love that song, but can imagine how pissed some people must have been that bought that follow up album.
"I want to be someone, who someone would want to be." Marillion
By far the most extreme example I ever heard (of) - and for mum's sake listen to these songs in full:
Stormy Six in 1971:
Stormy Six in 1979:
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Small Faces
Marillion
There's ones that just evolved over time, changes as they grew as musicians and got older. That's often a more interesting journey and I would include the following as evolutionists: Beatles, the Who, the Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Queen, R.E.M., U2, Radiohead, Rush.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Re: Ministry: Definitely. There's a mighty big difference from "Every Day Is Hallowe'en" to something like "Burning Inside". They were big when I was in high school.
I don't see how Rush counts. Yes, the difference between the debut album and Clockwork Angels is pretty huge. But that's over the span of several decades, a much slower evolution. Check out my Faithful Breath example above, for what I consider a 'major change in direction'. IMO of course.
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Marillion
Pendragon
Queen
Deep Purple
Uriah Heep
The Bee Gees, definitely- consider the same guys wrote 'Every Christian Lion Hearted Man' and 'You Should Be Dancing'. When you consider their writing for others ('Islands In The Stream', 'Guilty', 'Chain Reaction' etc.) they must have encompassed virtually every form of popular music. Before someone says 'what about rap', they even had a go at that on 'Backtafunk' (not their finest hour!).
I actually hesitated a bit before I wrote Rush because they are actually the only band I can think of that went "Full Circle" and got back into the neighborhood of their origins with their latest album, almost 40 years later..........but they oscillated greatly throughout their career and there is very little about "Hold Your Fire" or "Test For Echo" that says this is the same path the band started out on....So yeah, there was hesitation there but I still think they apply
As far as Ministry: all Industrial/Electronica/Synth Pop bands changed with the technology because - after all - the entire genre is based on technology. I think some berth needs to be given to Industrial/Electronica/SynthPop bands that started out in the days of Pay Phones and still exist in the age of SmartPhones.....Ministry is one of the bands that did opositte of the others: as technology improved, they rejected it further. As always, your mileage may vary
Amen
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'60s-'70s Santana
blues>psychedelic latin rock>jazz
We're trying to build a monument to show that we were here
It won't be visible through the air
And there won't be any shade to cool the monument to prove that we were here. - Gene Parsons, 1973
The only band that took a change because of a mayor(that I know of)was Chicago.
Incidentally, they did change their sound quite a bit over the years leaning in a more poppy direction although it was a much more subtle change and took longer than Jenny Sis.
Japan (pop to ... Japan)
Kraan (from 2 albums of Kraut to melodic fusion)
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