khfreek

You'd think between ...And Justice for All and St. Anger that Metallica was a different band, same vocalist.

EDIT: Scratch that, his voice was different enough somone might think it was a different guy.

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jibber

A few people mentioned radiohead, and while they are definitely a good example, I think they're similar to the chilli peppers in that it has been more of an ongoing evolution as opposed to a sudden a drastic change between albums.

Smashing pumpkins is an interesting one. Their evolution has been more of a sporadic, wierd, jerky transition from alt-rock, to more "experimental" sounding accoustic-electronic-rock-ish-mishmash, to their stuff now thats a lot more uniformly hard rock than any other album. Oh, and don't forget all the member's forays into solo work thrown in there as well.

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Dr_Rez

Do you like Zwan at all? Personally I don't, they seem pretty average.

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jibber

*shudder* I really hate zwan. I was a huge fan of siamese dream and mellon collie (like everyone who likes the pumpkins) but after that there wasn't enough in their albums to keep me interested in the whole thing.

Zwan was really average. The whole thing I loved about the pumpkins was that earlier on they were able to somehow mix a whole ton of different influences and yet keep a kind of uniform alt-rock sound without letting one sound really overpower the others.

Any time zwan seemed to try something creative and different it seemed as if it was just for the sake of throwing in something unique, without anything that tied it in to the rest of the sound.

but hey, thats just me.

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DearJenny

^Definately. I love that they admit they sorta sold-out too. They love it.

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Roygbiv

Has anyone mentioned Wilco?

Their sound on AM was very different from Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

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lucifer_sam

To be fair, they've sounded fairly different on each successive album. The only parallel between Wilco albums I can see is between Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born. Their last album sounds completely different from anything else they've done, but I think that's more due to the addition of an experienced guitarist like Nels Cline rather than a change in direction.

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Roygbiv

Yankee Hotel and A Ghost is Born shared the same producer, which might explain some things.

And you're right about Sky Blue Sky.

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dac

Not trying to be a Radiohead fanboy but c'mon. I think the Chili Peppers kept pretty much the same sound up until Stadium Arcadium, which gave them a slightly mainstream produced sound IMO.

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