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Originally Posted by neardeathexperience
I don't really think that Black Sabbath can be used as a example of a band that evolved unless you count when Ozzy left and other singers took over. Their first second third and fourth albums all sounded pretty similar in my opinion.
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Personally I think they're fairly different. The first album had the birth of their core sound, it was atmospheric but it still had no focus compared to the following albums. Paranoid tightened everything up to perfection and imo the finest example ever of a metal album. Master of Reality laid the groundwork for the slower extreme metal genres (doom, sludge and stoner) and Vol.4 is a more straight-up metal record but high on experimentation for the band and strongly aimed at commercialism.
Whereas over much of this same period GFR gave us albums built around lengthy riffs (sure they did it well) but they were a one trick pony in this respect. They then put out a number of below-par commercial albums built around song structure, as said earlier it was only when Todd Rundgren arrived that the band found their hidden potential.
In my journal I've reviewed all these albums by Black Sabbath and Grand Funk Railroad)
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As for Grand Funk not evolving. They chose to do cover songs which most bands when they became huge would never have entertained that idea.
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But that could easily be construed as lacking quality material and using covers to fill in the gaps, loads of artists have done this.
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They also added a organist by the time Phoenix came out which totally evolved the band's sound.
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Point taken with this one.
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In the grand scheme of things they made some great albums and some terrible ones, but in all there was 13 actual albums, 4 live albums and 25 singles ( really?) They have left their signature on the American music scene for anyone who chooses to find out about them.
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They left their signature but sadly it's long since been erased and I think the points that I suggested above explain this, unless you want to add any other ideas and suggestions into the debate, as I'm sure there are other aspects to consider?