Singers/Bands Who Shift Genres

[JaseSF]

Pat Dubar has went through some startling changes with the different bands he's most famour for being involved with...

A number of these are probably NSFW due to potentially offensive lyrics

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[Mofo Rising]

I think any good musician shifts genres by the nature of creative endeavor. It's rare to find originality right off the bat, most artists start by copying their influences until they can find their own voice. Even then, that voice may morph over the course of a career.

It's rarer to find an entire band that changes and still remains together.

One of my favorite bands, Radiohead, started off with a sort-of whiny college rock album that just happened to have one of the biggest hits of the past few decades. Then they released another album which was guitar-oriented and leagues and away better than their first. Then they released another few albums which steadily became more abstract.

Of course, there's the flip side. The band Sugar Ray was a very poor band, not really good at all. But their first album was a pop-punk focused affair, that just happened to have one hit song, "Fly," that did not sound like the rest of the album. That song became very popular, so the next album was entirely music in that vein. All garbage, of course, but they very readily changed their tune to what was radio-friendly.

[Psycho Circus]

Circus you'll know this, what's the KISS album that sounds like grunge, a bit like soundgarden, doesn't sound like KISS at all? I swear I heard this unless I'm imagining it lol

Carnival Of Souls: The Final Sessions. They recorded it in '93 but it didn't come out 'til four years later. Awful record.

[zombie no.one]

 '93, just in time to cash in on grunge? (well not really if it didn't come out then). suppose a lot of bands did that as well tho'. sudden;y added a bit of "grunge" to their sound

like how now loads of crappy chart pop songs will have a 'dubstep' remix etc..

(not implying KISS is crappy  there btw )

[claws]

Sheena Easton went from pop to dance-pop (1981-1983), Minneapolis funk (1984-1987), did Urban/R&B (1988-1991) and jazz (1993).

[Psycho Circus]

'93, just in time to cash in on grunge? (well not really if it didn't come out then). suppose a lot of bands did that as well tho'. sudden;y added a bit of "grunge" to their sound

Yeah, lots of bands did it and failed. Basically because one half of the band thought it was a good idea or that the record company told them to otherwise they would be dropped. Many bands who were good, but slated for being associated with the "hair metal" movement went grunge and got even more flack. Grunge was like punk. Not technical, no need for lots of talent but an almost raw, devolution that came about as a backlash to modern society and pop culture.

In my collection, Wildside and Sven Gali are the worst offenders. Made a great debut album, on par with the likes of Guns N' Roses and Skid Row, then followed it up 3 years later with bland inaudible alt-rock.

[voltron]

'93, just in time to cash in on grunge? (well not really if it didn't come out then). suppose a lot of bands did that as well tho'. sudden;y added a bit of "grunge" to their sound

In my collection, Wildside and Sven Gali are the worst offenders. Made a great debut album, on par with the likes of Guns N' Roses and Skid Row, then followed it up 3 years later with bland inaudible alt-rock.

Don't forget Slick Toxic! Started off as hair metal then their next album was awful alt rock. I though they sucked either way. 

[zombie no.one]

I can vaguely remember tommy vance playing sven gali on the friday rock show but I think I was only interested in thrash back then and didn't pay attention. just checking some tracks out on YT and liking their tunes, although no one has uploaded any tracks from the second album

another band who shifted their style a lot is Husker du. their first album is hardcore punk and by their 5th or 6th album they were doing acoustic ballads and more alt/poppy sounding stuff