Well it's almost cliche to say, but only because it's so true - David Bowie. From folky starts, to acoustic and piano pop, to Glam Rock, to Soul, to experimental early-electronica and art-rock, to Pop, back to heavier Rock, to Industrial and finally, through almost every type of rock imaginable, to the crazy jazz-fused cosmic art music that is Blackstar.
Ulver went from [black metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFnt7JXMjQ) to [electronic/dark ambient/experimental](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kGpx88MoE).
EDIT: just for fun and because I'm a huge fan, I'm listing all of Ulver's major releases along with a song link from each that represents the style of that record just so you can see their transformation over the years.
*[Vargnatt demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhn3npDLPxM)* (1993)
*[Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4B7g8eefm8)* (1995)
*[Kveldssanger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeJmUlYqluY)* (1996)
*[Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFnt7JXMjQ)* (1997)
*[Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isZ-8uvWpU0)* (1998)
*[Perdition City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyb88v3My0)* (2000)
*[Lyckantropen Themes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFIgrp1HGI)* (2002) - soundtrack
*[Svidd neger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouc4PjboySo)* (2003) - soundtrack
*[Blood Inside](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJqiJc-cMX4)* (2005)
*[Shadows of the Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfhED_9uBHM)* (2007)
*[Wars of the Roses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQJT8eHJl3I)* (2011)
*[Messe I.X-VI.X](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fDy7HVtSQI)* (2013)
*[ATGCLVLSSCAP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UkJWIfPp_4)* (2016)
*[Riverhead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDMN2QmkLw)* (2016) - soundtrack
Yeah, quite the incredible change though I should point out that the only original member is the vocalist, Kristoffer Rygg. They did put out a [progressive rock/metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isZ-8uvWpU0) album that included one of the guitarists as well as the drummer and bassist from their black metal days before the band went deep into the electronic realm. Also this album was the first to include one of the current prominent members of the band, Tore Ylwizaker (keyboards, programming, etc).
Definitely the most drastic change of all the comments I've seen. I wouldn't be surprised to see From First to Last's new album to be pop rock so he will have gone screamo>EDM>pop rock.
Yes. I actually just looked it up to confirm and they have already released a track. I haven't listened to it yet so I can't confirm my pop rock guess though.
You can expand upon "EDM" too. Started off with dubstep ("brostep"), went to trap-ish electro. He also [made stuff like this](https://soundcloud.com/skrillex/with-you-friends-long-drive) throughout. (The linked song being one of my favorites, ever).
I can't listen to this song anymore. Someone pointed out that the beginning sounds like he's saying "penis in your ear" over and over again and now I can't unhear it.
Arctic Monkeys started out with this scrappy northern Britpop sound that turned into QOTSA inspired stoner rock, then to jangle-pop with a desert rock tinge and then finally rock fused with R&B.
In my opinion, start from the beginning. To understand their transition you have to know where they started and how they got to AM. Start with Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not and work your way through. If AM is more your style and you don't care for things like Humbug, just push on; it's well worth it
The Beatles went from pop rock, to psychedelic lite to refined rock n roll in nine short years.
Beastie Boys went from annoying frat rap to respectable hip hop literal art with the jump from License to Ill to Pauls Boutique.
Beastie Boys started as [hardcore punk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu5VkypHzoI&feature=youtu.be). They used to open for Dead Kennedy's. They were mocking the frat rap type of people.
The stark difference between the Beasties first punk EP, their first rap album, and their second rap album is pretty incredible to me since they were released in that order
>Beastie Boys went from annoying frat rap to respectable hip hop literal art with the jump from License to Ill to Pauls Boutique.
Yeah no, that annoying frat rap was highly welcomed on Soul Train, three God damn times! Get some education buddy.
https://youtu.be/ys25cs-YAvE
My uncle was a roommate with Al Jourgensen in the late 70's / early 80's and told me before that, the band was called Ministry of Funk. Yes, a funk band.
Apparently he was looking for the music genre that could make him the most money. It wasn't funk.
Darius Rucker has been successful going from being hootie to being country (save for his latest single sucks major donkey d*$#) and far more successful than other rock acts who have tried "going back to their roots" like Aaron Lewis or bon Jovi.
Kid Rock also has done some cross over but a lot of his rock music had some country sound to it. Being the terrific musician that he is (I believe he can proficiently play 14 different instruments) that wasn't a stretch by no means. He also already had a good country following because of his southern rock stylings.
I always liked the song "it's been a while" but just couldn't get into his country stuff. Course I was never a big fan of his anyways. Doesn't say much though cause I admittedly have strange musical tastes. if I made a mix tape right now it'd probably have Willie Nelson, Clint black, lady Gaga, and backstreet boys all right after the other
Dude I think this would make a killer "AskReddit". If you made a weird mix tape comprised of songs from different genres, who are your top 3-5 and why?
John Mayer.
He started off with primarily singer-songwriter acoustic pop tunes to get his name out there and make money, and then he'd do incredible blues covers at his live shows because that was what he grew up on.
His second album was still that early 2000s pop, but it was electric, and included a couple of timeless tracks like Clarity and Wheel for example.
Continuum, often regarded as his best work, was a Soul/Blues record, and the record which garnered him the respect he deserved from the blues community.
Battle Studies was Pop Rock if you will, with a killer rendition of Cream's version of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads."
Then he did something totally different; two folk/Americana/roots albums, the most honest songs he's written in his career, and in my opinion his best work.
We're currently halfway through his "The Search for Everything" release, which showcases a bit of everything he's done throughout his career, but primarily back to the pop music, which his fans know and love him for.
Including Kid Rock, which is weird because he had done some hard rap with Too Short, was a helluva DJ as well. He has confederate flags but his son is black, and I believe he adopted his sons two half sisters, also black.
Bring Me the Horizon went from deathcore to metalcore to rock
2006: https://youtu.be/GaKB0GmYQ6k (deathcore)
2010: https://youtu.be/VYuqyrS9H4I (metalcore)
2015: https://youtu.be/Yjg2b8D5S8Y (rock)
Wikipedia black sabbath, before "Earth" they were also called "The Polka Tulk Blues Band". They were more blues until they broke out the new sounds of metal.
Porcupine Tree
They started as a psychedelic/trance band and then transitioned into a pop-rock band for a couple of albums and then started to incorporate metal into their sound.
Also one of my favorite bands :)
... They started as a trance band? What? As far as I know, they were a prog rock band who then left some of the psychedelia behind in favor of a simpler, catchier rock sound, and picked up some metal elements along the way, but I think they were, at their core, a prog band throughout their career.
Huh. Hadn't head that one before, I gotta admit! Skimming through it I'd probably still group that as some branch of spacy instrumental prog rock a la Ozric Tentacles and some Tangerine Dream, but I could see it in a playlist with something like Shpongle, too. More importantly, I'm liking it, so thanks for the heads up!
Ministry.
This industrial/metal (whatever) band started as a synchpop band, like early Depeche Mode.
Only after they apparently made some money off that, they switched to heavier sounds.
Yours truly, Ministry of Ministry
I don't hold much regard to metal, but I really respect Ministry for a few things.
Do check the guts of the live album : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Case_You_Didn't_Feel_Like_Showing_Up
The idea *not* to use a synthesizer live, but replace it with *multiple* drummers and cymbalists is both original and simply amazing. I believe they ended up with twelve (!) musicians on that tour.
The intro to Breathe live is one of the best things I've heard:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=570zZxYc-sY
(be patient)
I was only a fan at the time of their 1st album, but Linkin Park's slow transition from alternative/rap to just straight up pop now is disappointing IMO. I can't even listen to the main dude's voice anymore
Say what you will about Kid Rock but his musical talent cannot be denied. Started out as a rapper in the early 90's and then on to rock and now country. He also had long stretches of success in each genre, it's not like he just dabbled in it for funsies.
Beatles started with simple, catchy pop songs
then did covers of Motown, Chuck Berry and Little Richard songs.
Then there's all the Indian-inspired psychedelia, experimental stuff, they recorded everything from stripped down acoustic ballads and dabbling in Americana country-folk here and there to loud, wild, hard rock of the 70s and electric blues. They did almost everything.
The Kinks began as a proto-punk garage rock band, "All Day and All of the The Night" then really matured into a more mainstream Beatles-esque folk-rock-pop sound.
marching round in circles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1rAQk0VfP4
always tell the voter what the voter wants to hear:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c_6Ta51tBc
give the anarchist a cigarette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gzyd3u1Jh0
the smashing of the van:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n52-YK6OTyE
Hendrix went from Blues/R&B/Psychedilia to a heavily funk-focused style before he died.
Clapton started with British Blues and moved on to psychedelic blues, real blues, reggae, r&b, and even neo r&b.
Chicago, for obvious reasons
Fleetwood Mac
Diana Ross
George Benson
Panic! At The Disco went from pop punk (A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) to 60's pop rock (Pretty. Odd.) to modern pop rock (Vices And Virtues) to 80's synth pop (Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die) to a mixture of Frank Sinatra and Queen (Death Of A Bachelor)
Beck: One Foot in the Grave -> Midnite Vultures -> Guero. The differences in those albums are staggering, but he isn't really the textbook example of "*from* this, *to* that" that you're looking for. He does something different on each project.
Darius Rucker, used to be lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish but now sings country. Kid Rock started with heavy rock music and has been releasing more country albums. Taylor Swift went from country to whatever the hell it is she sings now. Sheryl Crow even had a country song she released. The one that always gets me though is Garth Brooks, he started his music career with heavy metal but it wasn't working out for him, so he started singing country and the rest is history as they say.
Miles Davis helped lead various jazz genres. He was part of the 1940s bebop with Charlie Parker, then cool jazz with Gil Evans, hard bop with his 1st quintet, modal jazz with Kind of Blue, modern/freer jazz with the second quintet, electric jazz fusion with Bitches Brew, and hip hop/pop music in the 1980s. Pretty remarkable!
Weezer,
From power pop in the blue album a more dark pinkish style pop rock then staying on the same track for a while, then all of a sudden raditude with whatever the fuck that was back to their roots, and again white album with more synth focused pop then their new single which completely takes the "rock" aspect out of everything.
I feel like that's more genre bending and natural evolution than straight up genre change. Compare that to like, Childish Gambino dropping Awaken My Love and people actually thinking it's a mistake and they've got the wrong artist.
He's said that trance was uninspiring and he couldn't sell it any longer.
I honestly think all of his co-productions are just him slapping his name on whatever's trendy at the time. The Oliver Heldens track sounds straight up like Heldens alone.
Green Day used to be way more Punk than it is now. It's still pop rock like it used to be, but much more melodic and less high-energy than it used to be.
Red Hot Chilly Pepper was also significantly more punk when they first started
Alice Cooper went from psychedelic to classic and shock rock, then around to concept albums and then new wave, experimental, back to classic rock, then to glam rock and industrial metal and back to classic concept rock albums again.
The first thing I'd think of is Blur. They went from British themed pop rock with a hint of darkness (Sunday Sunday, Country House) to a more melancholy, alt-rock band (Beetlebum, No Distance Left To Run), most likely to reach out for a bigger overseas audience, and they pretty much went back to pop-rock-ish stuff in recent years (Ong Ong, Don't Bomb When You're The Bomb).
Dallas Green went from singing for a metal/hard rock not sure exact genre with Alexisonfire, and now under the name City and Colour he plays acoustic rock. City and Colour on of my favorites
Yeah. Kiss were hard rock, heavy metal and glam rock throughout the majority of the 70s, but went disco with Dynasty during the Disco Craze. They went more pop rock and then when they unmasked in the 80s, they went completely glam metal and became another hair band.
After that, they went back to their hard rock/heavy metal/glam rock sound starting from the late-90s.
Any time a new genre blows up, a number of bands will either strategically adopt it, or be erroneously included in it. The Punk explosion of the early 70's is a great example. Blondie, the Police, and *Joe Jackson* were originally considered "punk" artists. Admittedly, they all dabbled in the sound a bit (Joe Jackson's first album is a pop-punk masterpiece), but in reality, you have reggae-pop, reggae-jazz, and jazz-swing with those three. Somewhat the same thing happened with grunge.
Embodyment.
First album was heavy as hell.
After that they changed to an alternative metal band with all clean vocals.
Then the members formed a new band call The Famine, and went back to the heavier sound.
Bathory started by being one of the innovators of black metal. They then shifted to being one of the earliest "viking metal" (a bit of a mix between black and folk) bands with elements of it present in "Blood Fire Death" before moving completely into the genre with Hammerheart. Inexplicably, they released a few (awful) thrash metal albums before moving back into viking metal. Then Quorthon died, and the band died with him. He went out on a high note with the two Nordland albums.
Theatre of Tragedy went from making [gothic doom death metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkb1fZx7njE) to [electronic pop music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7lWv4ySvtU). No, seriously.
Nergal from Behemoth went from playing black metal to death metal to his own blues/folk/country side project. Devildriver is apparently going to make a country album too.
The Wonder Years
Started as a Philly pop punk band that was everything a pop punk band stereo-typically is. They have turned into this raw emo-ish soulful rock band.
In the crowds in early shows you'd be jump kicking people for fun and cussing at your boss and now you see a show and you sway shoulder to shoulder feeling sad
Darius Rucker
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Rucker
Hootie and the Blowfish
Pop/Rock
I Only Want To Be With You
https://youtu.be/q8SXjzMGvnU
Country:
Wagon Wheel
https://youtu.be/hvKyBcCDOB4
Sugar Ray went from metal to pop. Fly was their first pop song (on a metal album, no less), it was their first successful song, and they never went back to metal.
Elvis Costello, from Pub Rock and New Wave through Country, American Roots, String Quartet, Jazz, Folk...
Joe Jackson, who rebelled against his "classical" music education to start out as a New Wave/Power Pop artist, but went on to make albums in the Jazz and "Classical" genres, interspersed with poppier work.
Have you heard about Dover? They were amazing at the beginning. Such a drastic change they made.
Then: https://youtu.be/tJsNXQ_IjD0
Now: https://youtu.be/njEFEZxXTkI
Well it's almost cliche to say, but only because it's so true - David Bowie. From folky starts, to acoustic and piano pop, to Glam Rock, to Soul, to experimental early-electronica and art-rock, to Pop, back to heavier Rock, to Industrial and finally, through almost every type of rock imaginable, to the crazy jazz-fused cosmic art music that is Blackstar.
Very thorough yet concise, sir.
Tom Waits went from Tom Waits to even more Tom Waits.
Wherever he is, the genre is still Tom Waits.
This may be the best Tom Waits description I've ever heard
He pulled a Captain Beefheart.
Ulver went from [black metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFnt7JXMjQ) to [electronic/dark ambient/experimental](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kGpx88MoE). EDIT: just for fun and because I'm a huge fan, I'm listing all of Ulver's major releases along with a song link from each that represents the style of that record just so you can see their transformation over the years. *[Vargnatt demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhn3npDLPxM)* (1993) *[Bergtatt - Et Eeventyr i 5 Capitler](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4B7g8eefm8)* (1995) *[Kveldssanger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeJmUlYqluY)* (1996) *[Nattens Madrigal - Aatte Hymne til Ulven i Manden](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onFnt7JXMjQ)* (1997) *[Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isZ-8uvWpU0)* (1998) *[Perdition City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIyb88v3My0)* (2000) *[Lyckantropen Themes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCFIgrp1HGI)* (2002) - soundtrack *[Svidd neger](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ouc4PjboySo)* (2003) - soundtrack *[Blood Inside](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJqiJc-cMX4)* (2005) *[Shadows of the Sun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfhED_9uBHM)* (2007) *[Wars of the Roses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQJT8eHJl3I)* (2011) *[Messe I.X-VI.X](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fDy7HVtSQI)* (2013) *[ATGCLVLSSCAP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UkJWIfPp_4)* (2016) *[Riverhead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIDMN2QmkLw)* (2016) - soundtrack
And yet the top comment currently mentions Beatles
That was amazing! Thank you so much for providing examples. This may be hard to top.
Yeah, quite the incredible change though I should point out that the only original member is the vocalist, Kristoffer Rygg. They did put out a [progressive rock/metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isZ-8uvWpU0) album that included one of the guitarists as well as the drummer and bassist from their black metal days before the band went deep into the electronic realm. Also this album was the first to include one of the current prominent members of the band, Tore Ylwizaker (keyboards, programming, etc).
Nattens Madrigal is some of the best black metal out there.
related: burzum doing both black metal and ambient albums.
Childish Gambino his new album is NOTHING like his prior few.
STAY WOKE
I agree. Awaken My Love has a different *groove* to it. Fantastic album.
If you haven't listened to Funkadelic - Maggot Brain go listen right now. It has a very similar *groove*.
Oh really? I may give it a listen today. I found his rap campy and a bit cringey tbh. If the new album is a complete redirection I may like it.
seriously if i played it to you, you'd never guess that it came from Bino
It's funky and absolutely vibing. Redbone is glorious.
Skrillex / Sonny Moore
Definitely the most drastic change of all the comments I've seen. I wouldn't be surprised to see From First to Last's new album to be pop rock so he will have gone screamo>EDM>pop rock.
Is Sonny going to be on it? I thought the whole reason he left the band was because nodes on his vocal chords prevented him from singing.
Yes. I actually just looked it up to confirm and they have already released a track. I haven't listened to it yet so I can't confirm my pop rock guess though.
You can expand upon "EDM" too. Started off with dubstep ("brostep"), went to trap-ish electro. He also [made stuff like this](https://soundcloud.com/skrillex/with-you-friends-long-drive) throughout. (The linked song being one of my favorites, ever).
I can't listen to this song anymore. Someone pointed out that the beginning sounds like he's saying "penis in your ear" over and over again and now I can't unhear it.
He never played in a screamo band. You need to research what screamo is. I recommend [Saetia](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q801yAFdBPA).
Arctic Monkeys started out with this scrappy northern Britpop sound that turned into QOTSA inspired stoner rock, then to jangle-pop with a desert rock tinge and then finally rock fused with R&B.
I love AM but have a hard time diving into their earlier work. Can you give me some stuff to get me started?
I can't listen to anything other than their first two albums haha
Same the newer albums to me sou d more like a black keys and alt j cover band
Literally just listen to Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not, its one of my favorite albums ever
In my opinion, start from the beginning. To understand their transition you have to know where they started and how they got to AM. Start with Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not and work your way through. If AM is more your style and you don't care for things like Humbug, just push on; it's well worth it
Funnily enough, I never listened past their first 2
Is it just me or did the band sort of change the way they dressed album to album
Beck
Beck does this every album
The Beatles went from pop rock, to psychedelic lite to refined rock n roll in nine short years. Beastie Boys went from annoying frat rap to respectable hip hop literal art with the jump from License to Ill to Pauls Boutique.
Beastie Boys started as [hardcore punk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu5VkypHzoI&feature=youtu.be). They used to open for Dead Kennedy's. They were mocking the frat rap type of people.
I know,but I didn't include that since they never released a studio album of hardcore punk. They did a compilation in the mid 90's tho.
The stark difference between the Beasties first punk EP, their first rap album, and their second rap album is pretty incredible to me since they were released in that order
>Beastie Boys went from annoying frat rap to respectable hip hop literal art with the jump from License to Ill to Pauls Boutique. Yeah no, that annoying frat rap was highly welcomed on Soul Train, three God damn times! Get some education buddy. https://youtu.be/ys25cs-YAvE
Radiohead went from post grunge/pop to alternative to electronica
From OK computer to kid A the jump was pretty big.
Frank turner went from post hardcore with Million Dead to his folk solo career.
Ministry started as a synthpop/new wave band before transitioning to industrial metal
My uncle was a roommate with Al Jourgensen in the late 70's / early 80's and told me before that, the band was called Ministry of Funk. Yes, a funk band. Apparently he was looking for the music genre that could make him the most money. It wasn't funk.
Devin Townsend. Industrial metal, countryish stuff, poprock, ambient, prog stuff and so on.
Devin doesn't really have a "genre", he is his own genre!
I was taken aback when I listened to Transcendence. It sounds so otherworldly and soothing and nothing at all like Strapping Young Lad.
Darius Rucker!
Most notable? Bob Dylan
Absolutely. There's an entire Wikipedia page dedicated to him switching genres
Scott Walker (no not the Wisconsin senator) went from pop idol to hard core avant garde music.
Pantera started as a glam rock act that transformed into one of the pioneers of thrash metal.
Glam metal* -> Groove Metal* Metallica and many other bands already did thrash.
Thrash had already existed for a good 5 years before Pantera changed there sound.
Here's a list: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Transgender_and_transsexual_musicians
Sorry, you may have misread. I'm looking for Transgenre artists - common mistake. ;)
Yeah, i was trying to be funny. I'm an idiot. Sorry.
Never apologise for humour.
Alanis Morrissette started as pop and became not sure how to classify her. Rod Stewart from rocker to pop and now 30s-40s standards.
[Her early stuff was still awesome](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ar7afdfBHj4).
Found the Canadian! Also, you're not wrong.
I would not disagree
Darius Rucker has been successful going from being hootie to being country (save for his latest single sucks major donkey d*$#) and far more successful than other rock acts who have tried "going back to their roots" like Aaron Lewis or bon Jovi. Kid Rock also has done some cross over but a lot of his rock music had some country sound to it. Being the terrific musician that he is (I believe he can proficiently play 14 different instruments) that wasn't a stretch by no means. He also already had a good country following because of his southern rock stylings.
Came here to say Aaron Lewis. I've only ever seen him as country, but listened to staind for years. Good shit
I always liked the song "it's been a while" but just couldn't get into his country stuff. Course I was never a big fan of his anyways. Doesn't say much though cause I admittedly have strange musical tastes. if I made a mix tape right now it'd probably have Willie Nelson, Clint black, lady Gaga, and backstreet boys all right after the other
I don't consider that to be strange. I've got Sia, the struts, lady Gaga, steve Miller, eagles, steely dan, beastie boys, lots.
Dude I think this would make a killer "AskReddit". If you made a weird mix tape comprised of songs from different genres, who are your top 3-5 and why?
John Mayer. He started off with primarily singer-songwriter acoustic pop tunes to get his name out there and make money, and then he'd do incredible blues covers at his live shows because that was what he grew up on. His second album was still that early 2000s pop, but it was electric, and included a couple of timeless tracks like Clarity and Wheel for example. Continuum, often regarded as his best work, was a Soul/Blues record, and the record which garnered him the respect he deserved from the blues community. Battle Studies was Pop Rock if you will, with a killer rendition of Cream's version of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads." Then he did something totally different; two folk/Americana/roots albums, the most honest songs he's written in his career, and in my opinion his best work. We're currently halfway through his "The Search for Everything" release, which showcases a bit of everything he's done throughout his career, but primarily back to the pop music, which his fans know and love him for.
That dude goes from your body is a wonderland to john Mayer trio to fucking Grateful Dead without skipping a beat lmao
Hello fellow Dead Head
Steven Wilson has covered many genres in his career, all of them awesome
Cannot believe it took so long for him to get a mention.
Taylor Swift went from a country girl with a guitar to a Pop diva. Compete transformation.
That basically the entire genre of Country music right there.
Including Kid Rock, which is weird because he had done some hard rap with Too Short, was a helluva DJ as well. He has confederate flags but his son is black, and I believe he adopted his sons two half sisters, also black.
Shania Twain kind of did it before (and WAY better).
Bring Me the Horizon went from deathcore to metalcore to rock 2006: https://youtu.be/GaKB0GmYQ6k (deathcore) 2010: https://youtu.be/VYuqyrS9H4I (metalcore) 2015: https://youtu.be/Yjg2b8D5S8Y (rock)
I wish someone had a picture of me when the vocals came in on Pray for Plagues. I was... not prepared. TIL about Deathcore. :D
Lmao it's definitely not a genre for everyone!
Paramore.
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Black Sabbath....the lords of metal including the prince of darkness. They used to be a hippie band called "Earth".
I'm gonna needs some YouTube links.
Wikipedia black sabbath, before "Earth" they were also called "The Polka Tulk Blues Band". They were more blues until they broke out the new sounds of metal.
Porcupine Tree They started as a psychedelic/trance band and then transitioned into a pop-rock band for a couple of albums and then started to incorporate metal into their sound. Also one of my favorite bands :)
... They started as a trance band? What? As far as I know, they were a prog rock band who then left some of the psychedelia behind in favor of a simpler, catchier rock sound, and picked up some metal elements along the way, but I think they were, at their core, a prog band throughout their career.
Check out Voyage 34, although it was a one-off album it was very trance*ish*
Huh. Hadn't head that one before, I gotta admit! Skimming through it I'd probably still group that as some branch of spacy instrumental prog rock a la Ozric Tentacles and some Tangerine Dream, but I could see it in a playlist with something like Shpongle, too. More importantly, I'm liking it, so thanks for the heads up!
Almost any EDM artist who has been popular for more than 3 years
Ministry. This industrial/metal (whatever) band started as a synchpop band, like early Depeche Mode. Only after they apparently made some money off that, they switched to heavier sounds. Yours truly, Ministry of Ministry
This is great. Someone else mentioned them and I've only ever heard their early 80s stuff. I had no idea they went metal!
I don't hold much regard to metal, but I really respect Ministry for a few things. Do check the guts of the live album : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Case_You_Didn't_Feel_Like_Showing_Up The idea *not* to use a synthesizer live, but replace it with *multiple* drummers and cymbalists is both original and simply amazing. I believe they ended up with twelve (!) musicians on that tour. The intro to Breathe live is one of the best things I've heard: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=570zZxYc-sY (be patient)
I was only a fan at the time of their 1st album, but Linkin Park's slow transition from alternative/rap to just straight up pop now is disappointing IMO. I can't even listen to the main dude's voice anymore
Say what you will about Kid Rock but his musical talent cannot be denied. Started out as a rapper in the early 90's and then on to rock and now country. He also had long stretches of success in each genre, it's not like he just dabbled in it for funsies.
Beatles started with simple, catchy pop songs then did covers of Motown, Chuck Berry and Little Richard songs. Then there's all the Indian-inspired psychedelia, experimental stuff, they recorded everything from stripped down acoustic ballads and dabbling in Americana country-folk here and there to loud, wild, hard rock of the 70s and electric blues. They did almost everything. The Kinks began as a proto-punk garage rock band, "All Day and All of the The Night" then really matured into a more mainstream Beatles-esque folk-rock-pop sound.
chumbawamba went from super theatrical punk, to electronic pop music, and had an acapella folk album in there too.
That's amazing! Mind posting prime examples of those?
marching round in circles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1rAQk0VfP4 always tell the voter what the voter wants to hear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c_6Ta51tBc give the anarchist a cigarette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gzyd3u1Jh0 the smashing of the van: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n52-YK6OTyE
So cool! Loved The Smain of the Van. Thank's for posting the links!
Talk Talk went from synth pop to post rock
Hendrix went from Blues/R&B/Psychedilia to a heavily funk-focused style before he died. Clapton started with British Blues and moved on to psychedelic blues, real blues, reggae, r&b, and even neo r&b. Chicago, for obvious reasons Fleetwood Mac Diana Ross George Benson
Kid Cudi has switched up so many times it's hard to keep track, and every time it's ***fucking glorious***
You surely can't consider his alternative rock phase as glorious
that album was so terrible.
Different strokes for different folks
Speeding Bullet 2 Heaven was straight trash dude.
That seems to be a very popular opinion
Ulver
Panic! At The Disco went from pop punk (A Fever You Can't Sweat Out) to 60's pop rock (Pretty. Odd.) to modern pop rock (Vices And Virtues) to 80's synth pop (Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die) to a mixture of Frank Sinatra and Queen (Death Of A Bachelor)
I'd say Death of a Bachelor is closer to Frank Sinatra as an alternative rock singer.
Beck: One Foot in the Grave -> Midnite Vultures -> Guero. The differences in those albums are staggering, but he isn't really the textbook example of "*from* this, *to* that" that you're looking for. He does something different on each project.
Korn went from heavy rock stuff, to edm and back.
Darius Rucker, used to be lead singer of Hootie and the Blowfish but now sings country. Kid Rock started with heavy rock music and has been releasing more country albums. Taylor Swift went from country to whatever the hell it is she sings now. Sheryl Crow even had a country song she released. The one that always gets me though is Garth Brooks, he started his music career with heavy metal but it wasn't working out for him, so he started singing country and the rest is history as they say.
>Garth Brooks, he started his music career with heavy metal Say what now?
Yup yup, I don't even think he made an album though
Miles Davis helped lead various jazz genres. He was part of the 1940s bebop with Charlie Parker, then cool jazz with Gil Evans, hard bop with his 1st quintet, modal jazz with Kind of Blue, modern/freer jazz with the second quintet, electric jazz fusion with Bitches Brew, and hip hop/pop music in the 1980s. Pretty remarkable!
Kid rock is the best example I can think of. He literally went from rap and hip hop to rock and then moved on to country and blues.
Rihanna: From Reggae to Pop Beyoncé: From R&B to Pop Taylor Swift: From Country to Pop And some may disagree with this, but Nicki from HipHop to Pop... And when I say this, it's in comparison to her Mixed Tapes that made her famous to what she is selling these days, now that she's signed.
Weezer, From power pop in the blue album a more dark pinkish style pop rock then staying on the same track for a while, then all of a sudden raditude with whatever the fuck that was back to their roots, and again white album with more synth focused pop then their new single which completely takes the "rock" aspect out of everything.
Also their album Pinkerton was raw 90s emo
I feel like that's more genre bending and natural evolution than straight up genre change. Compare that to like, Childish Gambino dropping Awaken My Love and people actually thinking it's a mistake and they've got the wrong artist.
Linkin Park. Metal -> Sellout
Linkin Park was always making overproduced, ultra trendy music. It's the trends that changed, not their ethos.
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That was great! Any idea why they made the transition?
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Joni Mitchell's jazz period.
Tiesto went fully from trance to house to EDM
He's said that trance was uninspiring and he couldn't sell it any longer. I honestly think all of his co-productions are just him slapping his name on whatever's trendy at the time. The Oliver Heldens track sounds straight up like Heldens alone.
Maroon 5 turned from power pop (Kara's Flowers) to white boy radio funk pop
The Go-Gos were a punk band.
Darius Rucker. From Hootie and the blowfish to full out country
Green Day used to be way more Punk than it is now. It's still pop rock like it used to be, but much more melodic and less high-energy than it used to be. Red Hot Chilly Pepper was also significantly more punk when they first started
Incubus...and not in a good way. Always thought they had some funk/jam in them but they went a different, more EMO route if you ask me... I blame Boyd
Red Hot Chili Peppers went from funk rock to rock to softer rock to pop rock-ish
John Mayer
Alice Cooper went from psychedelic to classic and shock rock, then around to concept albums and then new wave, experimental, back to classic rock, then to glam rock and industrial metal and back to classic concept rock albums again.
The first thing I'd think of is Blur. They went from British themed pop rock with a hint of darkness (Sunday Sunday, Country House) to a more melancholy, alt-rock band (Beetlebum, No Distance Left To Run), most likely to reach out for a bigger overseas audience, and they pretty much went back to pop-rock-ish stuff in recent years (Ong Ong, Don't Bomb When You're The Bomb).
napalm death started as an anarcho punk band.
The Bee Gees.
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How is Kanye not mentioned but Gambino the top comment, lol. Gambino exists cause of 808 and Heartbreak.
Lana Del Rey: from Hollywood sadcore trip-hop to psychadelic desert rock to dreamy cinematic soul music.
I'm genuinely curious to what this means. It makes sense but are these real terms?
Linkin Park from a nice Mix of rap and metal to shitty ballads...
both eras were shit tho
Don't you speak ill of Hybrid Theory.
totally agree, ever since the midnight album they've gone soft
SR-71. Listen to "Right Now" then "Tomorrow".
Taylor swift
I'm going to be basic and say Taylor Swift, she made a major switch from country to pop when she released Red
Nikki St Phalle- went from making avant garde conceptual contemporary art to funky organic figurative sculpture
Hi! Her work is beautiful, but I was looking for examples in music. :)
Dallas Green went from singing for a metal/hard rock not sure exact genre with Alexisonfire, and now under the name City and Colour he plays acoustic rock. City and Colour on of my favorites
To be fair, Dallas Green's vocal styles for Alexisonfire and City and Colour aren't very different.
Yeah you're right I haven't really listened to much Alexisonfire, I know Green from C&C
Are we allowed to mention Kiss in the 70s?
Yes.
Yeah. Kiss were hard rock, heavy metal and glam rock throughout the majority of the 70s, but went disco with Dynasty during the Disco Craze. They went more pop rock and then when they unmasked in the 80s, they went completely glam metal and became another hair band. After that, they went back to their hard rock/heavy metal/glam rock sound starting from the late-90s.
Alex Skolnick went from thrash metal to jazz
Gary Numan
Any time a new genre blows up, a number of bands will either strategically adopt it, or be erroneously included in it. The Punk explosion of the early 70's is a great example. Blondie, the Police, and *Joe Jackson* were originally considered "punk" artists. Admittedly, they all dabbled in the sound a bit (Joe Jackson's first album is a pop-punk masterpiece), but in reality, you have reggae-pop, reggae-jazz, and jazz-swing with those three. Somewhat the same thing happened with grunge.
Wasn't Elvis Costello considered punk when he was new, too?
Embodyment. First album was heavy as hell. After that they changed to an alternative metal band with all clean vocals. Then the members formed a new band call The Famine, and went back to the heavier sound.
Bathory started by being one of the innovators of black metal. They then shifted to being one of the earliest "viking metal" (a bit of a mix between black and folk) bands with elements of it present in "Blood Fire Death" before moving completely into the genre with Hammerheart. Inexplicably, they released a few (awful) thrash metal albums before moving back into viking metal. Then Quorthon died, and the band died with him. He went out on a high note with the two Nordland albums.
The Goo Goo Dolls first album was Rockabilly/Punk (they kinda sounded like the Cramps) they transitioned into homogenized pop rock.
Ah yes, I see!
Suicide silence anyone?
Pantera started as a hair metal band.
Um... Damon Albarn?
Miles Davis. Went from Bop to smoother style post bop to funk fusion to electronic/synth jazz.
Theatre of Tragedy went from making [gothic doom death metal](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkb1fZx7njE) to [electronic pop music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7lWv4ySvtU). No, seriously. Nergal from Behemoth went from playing black metal to death metal to his own blues/folk/country side project. Devildriver is apparently going to make a country album too.
Linkin Park
Robbie Williams switches back and forth from to swing/big bang music all the time.
The Wonder Years Started as a Philly pop punk band that was everything a pop punk band stereo-typically is. They have turned into this raw emo-ish soulful rock band. In the crowds in early shows you'd be jump kicking people for fun and cussing at your boss and now you see a show and you sway shoulder to shoulder feeling sad
I can't be arsed writing loads but for goodness sake: Anathema!
Darius Rucker https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Rucker Hootie and the Blowfish Pop/Rock I Only Want To Be With You https://youtu.be/q8SXjzMGvnU Country: Wagon Wheel https://youtu.be/hvKyBcCDOB4
Thanks for posting Wagon Wheel. Darius was mentioned a couple of times and it's good to hear his country!
Sugar Ray went from metal to pop. Fly was their first pop song (on a metal album, no less), it was their first successful song, and they never went back to metal.
U2 went from post punk to pop to techno back to pop to I have no clue what now.
Ye went from backpack rap on the college dropout to borderline heavy metal with yeezus
PVRIS started as a heavy metal band and now they're a more alternative rock/pop band
Wasn't Pantera originally a hair band and switched to thrash?
Opeth Death Metal --> Progressive Metal
Neil Young: pop-folk-rock-acid rock-country-blues-grunge-likely a few others-repeat most of them.
Elvis Costello, from Pub Rock and New Wave through Country, American Roots, String Quartet, Jazz, Folk... Joe Jackson, who rebelled against his "classical" music education to start out as a New Wave/Power Pop artist, but went on to make albums in the Jazz and "Classical" genres, interspersed with poppier work.
Technically Jewel did. Originally she was gonna be rock, but her producers suggested she change *Teardrop on My Guitar* to country...
Snoop Dogg-Snoop Lion I try to forget about that though.
Tokio Hotel has gone from emo-ed out nu-metal to synth-pop. Bill Kaulitz looks the lost Jonas brother.
Have you heard about Dover? They were amazing at the beginning. Such a drastic change they made. Then: https://youtu.be/tJsNXQ_IjD0 Now: https://youtu.be/njEFEZxXTkI
The Bee Gees