For me there are two kinds of band when a particular fashion/style of music surfaces.
Those bands that embrace the style to fit the movement in a bid to be more marketable and the kind of bands, usually the minority, that somehow get lumped in and go along for the ride.
Almost without exception the bands that become the movement find themselves high and dry along with fad when it runs it's course.
The others use it as a springboard and progress to become great bands.
Examples;
Talking Heads, Joy Division, The Cure etc.
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