Bands which changed their sound and got a lot worse for it

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Because I’ve just heard some new Code Orange and they went from pretty good hardcore punk

to utterly hilarious industrial metal which would’ve sounded dated in 2001

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Radiohead

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How Rilo Kiley ended up like this I do not know

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Fucking Hell that second song is stunningly bad. The video too. Had to turn it off when the bass player did some kind of mid-air spinning kick, couldn’t take it seriously.

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Love them to bits, but that most recent “bold direction” Decemberists album was a stinker

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Listening to too much fleetwood mac and gloria estefan.

Love this song tbh

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What did @Ruffers call this kind of music? Iraq War metal?

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I saw them supporting Circle Takes The Square and they were brilliant - all members sang pretty much, felt like something special…then this

Three of them were in these too, an emo/indie rock band who were excellent

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Belle & Sebastian:

Tigermilk to Storytelling:

  • Ramshackle fun, slightly diminishing returns

Dear Catastrophe Waitress:

  • Oh, so THAT’S what a producer does! Fun!

The Life Pursuit onwards

  • Now we know what a producer does we can do it ourselves. Lol no we can’t this is fucking boring man
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Still haven’t got on board with Vessels’ shift from double drumming post-rock magnificence to forgettable electronic blandness.

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Spinal Tap Mk. 2’s new direction was bloody terrible. Think I preferred the puppet show.

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The Notwist used to be decent punk rock

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Think they took it as far as they could on Cryptograms, anything else would have been them repeating themselves. Don’t think they’ve ever made a bad album, though the last one was a little slight.

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The National - boring indie rock with really good drums to boring indie rock with electronic sampled drums

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Opeth lost me when they went full prog and dropped the death growls. I like to think they split up after Watershed and none of the subsequent albums exist.

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This. I really like damnation though

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KoRn did a dubstep album didn’t they

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I give that a pass as it was released the same time as Deliverance which was one of their heaviest so acted as a good counterpoint.

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My standard answer. From this…

To this…

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Least they sort of went back. I liked when Bad Religion went prog and had flutes for an album

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