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Originally Posted by Vanilla
Good to see you around vege! There are definitely many groups that have changed over time. In fact, if they don't morph it would be a little odd.
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Hey! I haven't paid much attention to how groups change over time, until yesterday.
Now I'm curious about the reasons bands change, especially when they change their sound or style very suddenly and drastically.
Do you have a particular band in mind that impressed you (or depressed you) because they changed quite drastically over time?
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Originally Posted by FRED HALE SR.
Angela!!! I love 68 guns but they certainly have morphed through the years. They took an even bigger turn in the later 80s and 90s to en even bigger degree. Electric Folklore live was certainly my favorite album by them, they morph even more live.
I always liked Mike's poppy yet gravely voice. Rain in the Summertime is just so catchy.
Another good one is Presence of Love, the lyrics are solid gold. I can play this on repeat and enjoy it equally with time.
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Thanks, Fred, for sharing two more songs by The Alarm. They definitely sound very different from the two they recorded when the band started as Seventeen!
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Originally Posted by DisaterX
Queen definitely. Queen went from songs about Jesus to Fat Bottomed Girls then to Miracles around the world.
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I haven't heard songs by Queen sequentially in order to realize they changed their sound and content that much over time. (I also haven't heard *that* many of their songs in order to notice changes.)
But I kind of hoped the song "Fat Bottomed Girls" was an anomaly and not indicative of any musical period that Queen went through.
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I just learned about a band called
Ministry that started out in the early 1980s as a synth-pop new wave group with lead singer Al Jourgensen, then in the late 1980s shifted their sound tremendously, becoming an industrial metal band.
Over time they added and lost an impressive number of members, which I assume must have also changed their sound quite a bit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_(band)
The change in Ministry's style seems to have been inspired in the late 1980s when Jourgensen became re-enchanted with the electric guitar.
I wish they hadn't morphed into an industrial metal band, because I prefer their synth-pop early sound.
Ministry - "Revenge" (synth-pop) 1983 (better)
Ministry - Revenge (1983) [HQ] - YouTube
Ministry - "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" (industrial metal) 1991 (worse!)
Ministry - "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" - YouTube