Bands you wouldn't recognize a few albums ago

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dustbin31

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You'd think between ...And Justice for All and St. Anger that Metallica was a different band, same vocalist.

EDIT: Scratch that, his voice was different enough somone might think it was a different guy.
 
A few people mentioned radiohead, and while they are definitely a good example, I think they're similar to the chilli peppers in that it has been more of an ongoing evolution as opposed to a sudden a drastic change between albums.

Smashing pumpkins is an interesting one. Their evolution has been more of a sporadic, wierd, jerky transition from alt-rock, to more "experimental" sounding accoustic-electronic-rock-ish-mishmash, to their stuff now thats a lot more uniformly hard rock than any other album. Oh, and don't forget all the meraber's forays into solo work thrown in there as well.
 
This thread is dedicated to all those banRAB who have gone a few years in between albums, who then suddenly come out with something that makes you say "what the f*ck? that CAN'T be ____!!" Or for those banRAB who became popular with a style that is on the total opposite side of the spectrum than what they started out with.

I'll start it off with Sugar Ray. Remeraber all those happy, poppy songs popping up on the old Now albums and Big Shiny Tunes CD's (for the Canucks at least). All those teenie-bopper junior high dance anthems like Fly, when it's over, etc.

Here's a few songs from their first album:

YouTube - 10 SeconRAB Down - Sugar Ray

YouTube - Mean Machine - Sugar Ray

and now here's one of the newest ones:

YouTube - Sugar Ray - Every Morning

quite the difference
 
Exactly what I was thinking. Let's put it this way...

Before;
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After;
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*shudder* I really hate zwan. I was a huge fan of siamese dream and mellon collie (like everyone who likes the pumpkins) but after that there wasn't enough in their albums to keep me interested in the whole thing.

Zwan was really average. The whole thing I loved about the pumpkins was that earlier on they were able to somehow mix a whole ton of different influences and yet keep a kind of uniform alt-rock sound without letting one sound really overpower the others.

Any time zwan seemed to try something creative and different it seemed as if it was just for the sake of throwing in something unique, without anything that tied it in to the rest of the sound.

but hey, thats just me.
 
Mindless Self Indulgence

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Radiohead`s the obvious one but I`m thinking Talk Talk.

Compare (can`t post links yet) any of their new wave stuff like It`s My Life (off the album of the same name) with their later post-rock stuff like Ascension Day (off of Laughing Stock).
 
^RHCP did stay fairly consistant up until the last album. Does anyone know if that album was produced by a different company?
 
Not quite a band anymore but this was Clint Mansells baby circa 1987:

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To Hollywood soundtracks circa 2007:

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I like both...
 
To be fair, they've sounded fairly different on each successive album. The only parallel between Wilco albums I can see is between Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born. Their last album sounRAB completely different from anything else they've done, but I think that's more due to the addition of an experienced guitarist like Nels Cline rather than a change in direction.
 
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