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

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

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

Deerhunter should have stuck with the more shoegazey/krautrocky stuff

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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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Perhaps. I can’t be arsed with half of Halcyon Digest and much else beyond that so would personally have quite enjoyed them doing similar stuff again and again despite that probably not being too rewarding for them as artists.

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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