MCMGM
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Post by MCMGM on Jan 19, 2010 6:21:12 GMT -5
"All around the world, statues crumble for me, who knows how long I've loved you" Um, WUT LOL.
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Jobes
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Post by Jobes on Jan 19, 2010 9:17:06 GMT -5
Smashmouth did this. They were pretty hardocre ska/punk at first.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jan 19, 2010 9:47:38 GMT -5
You know some bands/artists you can see their evolution as a fairly straight road. Maybe exits to country or hard rock or electronic whatever. Bands like Sugar Ray seem to take a complete u-turn in the middle of that road.
Funny I never knew that about Sugar Ray.
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Jan 19, 2010 9:57:03 GMT -5
Oftentimes the label also affects these things. Oftentimes the label will push for something that remotely could work as a single, even with established and successful groups. Consider the plight of Warrant:
Warrant's debut album was extremely successful with a handful of hit singles, but they at least stood out amongst the late 80's hair bands as doing things a little differently. Their second album was going to be an attempt to move more towards a more serious artistic approach. Uncle Tom's Cabin (a song about witnessing local cops committing murder against a target of romance and her selected lover) was supposed to be the lead single and the namesake of the album. They had a number of potential singles (many of which dealt with more mature topics than the typical 80's hair band single), but the label kept pushing for one more poppy single in the event that the new direction was rejected by the fans. Since they were paying the bills, Jani Lane elected to spend an evening throwing together a typical pop song just to shut them up. To be honest, I think he made the song as ridiculous as possible so that the label would drop the subject since it would not fit well with an album of songs about murder, adultery, etc. Instead, the label took the song and ran with it. Cherry Pie became the title tract, the lead single, and the primary promotional focal point for the band, despite the fact that the band did not really like the song.
The real kick in the pants is that by focusing on Cherry Oie rather than Uncle Tom's Cabin, the label accelerated the demise of the band. Had the focus been on the more serious material, they might have better survived the onset of the Grunge movement much like Bon Jovi did (having already started writing more mature material by that point), but instead Cherry Pie made Warrant the epitome of exactly what Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc railed against specifically.
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Post by Grendel on Jan 19, 2010 10:56:31 GMT -5
Another band that did this was Soundgarden. If you listen to some of their early stuff like the Louder than Love album (which has some great songs like Big Dumb Sex) and then their following releases, they really changed their sound. Not that it wasn't an improvement, it was just so different.
And let's not forget when Metallica went from one of the best metal bands in the world to a bunch of pussies and then making the turn back towards the harder sound. But for me, all the albums after And Justice For All have been kind of blah.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 19, 2010 11:07:45 GMT -5
Eh, sometimes change can work in the band's favor. I've enjoyed Green Day more over the last few years.
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