When Bands Change Their Sound...

The evolution of music, eh? I LOVE this sort of discussion.
I don't usually feel right to judge a musicians ideological evolution in sweeping manners, but here are a few of my thoughts on what ideas some bands may have had in their sound.


Mastodon: Oh god, I love starting here. If you listen to The Baron and DON'T have Black Sabbath scream into your mind, then I may have to send you some albums and weed for some deep thinking time :3

This band has clearly chosen the route of hard rock roots, more than anything at this point. Their riffs derived from Tony Iommi, their solo's from David Gilmour, we can only expect to hear more of those golden hard rock days of the 70's.



Radiohead: My experience with Radiohead is a little too limited, but I feel their sound changing prowess may not just be common, but a necessity. Radiohead's perpetual exploration has clearly picked up on the ears of a few other notable musicians; The clearest being Muse, the less obvious being Opeth's "Damnation", which I feel shares some similar musical, and experimentation examples.


Muse: I have too much to say about this band, and since I already likened them up thar with Radiohead, I'd rather move onto the other aspect of Muse I feel drives their general sense of musicality. Their understanding of how a band actually works together. The guitarist plays melody, the bassist ACTUALLY PLAYS A RHYTHM PART (Rather than just playing up the asshole of the guitarist or drummer), and the drummer plays without completely relying on the high hat, snare, kick combo. Many of his drum lines are very tribal in origin. By this I mean he plays heavily using the lower toms.

I won't say Muse is the greatest band that ever lived, or anything that overzealous. But I do think that they aren't going to lose their fanbase for a long time.

(Yushiro, your post only brought this to my mind

Green Day: They didn't change their sound, just their image(a big part of their problem, as I see it). People need to stop crying over this, and be less objective. Just to double check, I looked up a song of theirs I thought was from before warning. Turns out it was Boulevard of Broken Dreams. I think a better way of explaining their "downfall" was that they were adopted by another generation. People younger than those who remembered their first albums coming out, they decided to flow with the marketing (Their old fans kind of shit on them for making money with their career) and it bred even more resentment as years went on.

Just for fun, I decided to go to wikipedia and see what kind of drama I could read up on about Dookie.

Quote:

Signing to a major label caused many of the band's original fans from the independent music club 924 Gilman Street to regard Green Day as sell-outs. The club has banned Green Day from entering since the major label signing.

It's been 15 years since they officially "Sold Out". Can't we, as a society just let it go, and talk about much worse bands....like The Sex Pistols?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Is there any process by which I can exchange it for street cred?

My point was Green Day kind of always sucked the same way, so corporate affiliation seems kind of moot as far as I can tell.

There's nowhere I can't reach.