Musicians who used to make a totally different genre

Tom Waits - still the occasional whisky soaked ballad at the end of his career, but from Heart of Saturday Night to Bone Machine is a pretty drastic shift.

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Vessels went from making thunderous two-drummer post-rock to electronic-y dance music.

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The Hidden Cameras have shifted from gay church folk music to dance.

The National went from good indie rock to boring indie rock

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Looking at bands Ministry are one of the best examples from their debut

Andre 3000
Dev Hynes
Gwenno

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Beastie Boys

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Lemonheads

Punk to indie pop

Avalon Emerson pivoted from more or less purely instrumental techno to being an indie pop singer songwriter

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Phil Collins

Prefab Sprout

From sweet new wave pop bangers:

To classical/ambient/experimental:

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The Notwist
Black Eyed Peas

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Genesis too

Talk Talk (the song) has also been on quite the journey.

Also. The Shamen.

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feel like there’s a world of difference between. or is this just one band becoming a completely different band. See also Fleetwood Mac.

Pink Floyd - See Emily Play

and

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two (Official Music Video)

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Between Lord Of The Dance and the Pipettes Gwenno had a brief Celtic dance-pop phase that she doesn’t talk about and is so hidden I’ve had to go to Dailymotion to find evidence.

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4vpd8

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And Yes

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Afi

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Snow Patrol were Sebadoh acolytes on their first two albums (and part of their third, just not the hit parts)

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Guys! “Good” and “shite” aren’t genres.

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