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Originally Posted by Phillyboy
Not to deny the obvious shift in sound from album to album, I think anytime a band gets national or mainstream attention, they get hated on or called "sell-outs".
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I think you've got it backwards. It's because the band changed their sound that they captured "mainstream attention", and that's because they changed their sound to a mainstream sound. Thus, older fans become alienated not because they grew popular with the mainstream, but because they changed their sound. Popularity was just a byproduct.