For example: The Beatles, Radiohead, Moody Blues, Outkast, Pink Floyd, etc.
I know i'm missing some obvs ones, but help me out here .
Okay, /moo/. Which artists/bands have gone through the craziest transition through their music
Animal Collective
recently paramore
How so?
Have you heard Hard Times?
I wasn't saying it wasn't i just wanted an explanation
David Bowie
The Microphones to Mount Eerie.
At The Drive-In to The Mars Volta.
The Who
Maximum R&B to Psychedelic Rock to Rock Operas (prog rock in a way.)
NIN
>Industrial Synthpop - Industrial Metal & Alternative Rock - Art Rock, Industrial, & Ambient - Noise Rock, IDM, Digital Hardcore -Industrial Rock & Metal -Electronic Rock - Back to noiser Industrial music.
The avalanches went from this to SILY in less than a year
>pink floyd
>radiohead
Wot
kanye what with the whole old kanye/new kanye
>pink floyd
Went from unmistakably psychedelic sound to prog rock to a much more processed sound with AMLOR
>Radiohead
Maybe not such a crazy transition but their delivery has definitely changed a lot between Pablo Honey/OK Computer all the way to Moon Shaped Pool
Boris
>Drone Metal - Sludge Metal - Post-Rock - Stoner Rock - Feedbacker - Sludge Metal but super accessible and catchy - Stoner Rock again - Dream Pop - Harsh Noise
Oh come on, are people really going to act like Radiohead of all bands didn't dramatically change their sound over the course of their career?
>Beatles
Pop to Pop
>Radiohead
Alternative Rock to Alternative Rock with 'experimental leanings'
>Moody Blues
Okay i'll give you that
>Outkast
Hip Hop to Hip Hop
>Pink Floyd
Psychedelic to Prog, not a 'crazy' transition there
>Animal Collective
Weird pop to folky weird pop to electronic weird pop. Bit of a changer
>Paramore
Shit to shit
60's Folk Pop to Glam Rock to R&B and Funk to Experimental Art rock and Ambient to 80's Dance-pop to shit to Art Rock again (ish) to experimental jazz death core. That's a good one
>The Who
Who?
>NIN
Alright that's a good one
>The Avalanches
Good to shit
>Kanye West
Hip-hop to electropop to Hip-hop again
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>Rock to rock
Swans
U2
Charlie Simpson went from making boyband pop punk
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to releasing a post hardcore concept album based on neon genesis evangelion
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in the space of a year or so