Name a band you used to like before they changed their sound.

[Cant trust em]

I just got a message from Kings of Leon that their new tour dates have been announced and they have new luxury entertainment packages available for purchase. The first time I heard of them was a few years ago after the release of their second album when I read how popular they were in Britain and totally unknown here. Back then they were a cool little ragged sounding rock-almost punk band. Now they sound like a slightly rougher version of Coldplay.

[old mark]

1. Fleetwood Mac - the used to be a blues band. Their album "Then Play On..."

was really very good, then guitarist Peter Green left for a trip inside his mind and they got that other girl and her guitar player....(formerly Buckingham -Nicks) and everything changed.
Here is "Oh, Well" with Peter Green and the Mac in 1969: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/music/watch/v400052t3rpNEKy#


mark

[taterguy]

2. True story: I had a burned CD of Fleetwood Mac from the Peter Green era

My wife was craving something like Rumors when I wasn't home.

She left me a note saying that I mislabeled my CD.

[old mark]

4. It is a whole other band, despite having three of the original members

-Mick Fleetwood and John Mac Vie as well as Christine Perfect (Mac Vie)...

mark

[Chemical Bill]

60. Wait a minute!

Christine wasn't officially a member until after the Kiln House album, though you can hear her singing backup sometimes. Hell, John MacVie wasn't their first bass player. I love their blues stuff. Do you have the Boston Tea Party CDs from February 1970?

Bill

[Capn Sunshine]

27. "anyway, back to the initial idea"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvH1fJeLvP4

[Kat45]

10. Agreed. And I found out about the change when I saw them in concert.

Back when I was in college, my boyfriend and I were really into old Fleetwood Mac, so when they came to town we went to see them. Boy were we surprised by the version of Fleetwood Mac we saw that night. (Of course we knew Peter Green was long gone from the band, but we still liked the Bob Welch--Future Games, Bare Trees--era. This was a totally different band.) As a matter of fact, the lineup was so new that they were the opening band--for Jefferson Starship!

[bif]

31. Totally agree!

The band turned into total shit after that. Commercial dreck!

[mvd]

40. I love the "pop" Fleetwood Mac; think it is some of the..

most inventive pop ever.

[Richardo]

3. Chicago - used to be an original, rocking, edgy, musically talented, political group

Then Terry Kath died and they became the Peter Cetera Treacle Machine.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

43. Amen!

Utter crapola for about the past thirty years. Are they still officially together as a band?

[muffin1]

61. Love this song...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ykMNtzMT8


High school, first love...

[Burma Jones]

74. +1

[Arkansas Granny]

79. You've got that right. They never were the same again.

[we can do it]

89. Agree and Its a Damn Shame How He Died

[KG]

5. Jimmy Lafave - jamming roots rocker and ballader.

then he got married and had a kid. now it's one limp, sappy tune after another.

[hippywife]

8. I don't think I've ever

liked anything he's done. He's a real big deal here, and lots of folks like him, including one of my best friends, who's a DJ. I've tried but I just can't be likin' him.

:hi:

[carlyhippy]

6. Van Halen pre Sammy Hagar......don't get me wrong

I just liked Diamond Dave's sound better, I think Sammy Hagar is an icon all by himself. He is a great singer, I just thought he was better when he was solo, and Van Halen was better in the early days.

[Kat45]

11. I agree with you.

I liked Sammy's solo stuff before he joined Van Halen, but I really didn't like VH's music when he was in the band. I thought they rocked harder and better before Sammy.

[Iggo]

14. Sammy's solo stuff is shite compared to his work with Montrose.

Rock Candy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUeuAnMNDhA

Space Station Number 5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BTTJo1KmM

Bad Motor Scooter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8T_PQoTC30

Rock The Nation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loaxDYWPZ54

And that's just the popular stuff.

[driver8]

69. I saw Sammy Hagar open for Boston in '78 or '79.

He and his band did a lot of the Montrose stuff, and blew Boston away! Sammy is a kick ass guitar player and singer! I never liked him in Van Halen, though.

[Patsy Stone]

7. Red Hot Chili Peppers

Before "Under the Bridge" they were great. Once that song took off, everything they released started to sound like that.

[rcrush]

9. +1

[grace0418]

19. Yeah, what the hell? Every song is a power ballad and has the word "California" in it.

They used to kick ass!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

12. Black Eyed Peas.

Their first two albums were solid underground-flavored hip-hop, but after they brought in Fergie and went pop, I tuned out.

[jmm]

26. I couldn't agree more.

Their first two albums were great and ironically filled with lyrics about how they will never become what they are now.

[Odin2005]

44. LOL, I actually started liking them AFTER they brought in Fergie...

:yoiks:

[Odin2005]

45. edit, Dupe

[bluesbassman]

13. Everything Journey did after this...

Feeling That Way/Anytime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OOUY1Z_XOQ


edit for spelling

[Condem]

15. Spinal Tap.

I hated when they went to that fusion shit. That was me in the audience with the thumbs down.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

39. Two words: "S**T SANDWICH."

"THEY CAN'T PRINT THAT!"



:rofl:

:toast:

[gmoney]

64. Actually, their follow-up albums HAVE been pretty dreadful

The soundtrack to the original movie was excellent, but the other stuff since then... Shit Sandwich indeed

[keroro gunsou]

16. metallica

before load and lars turning out to be a world-class douchenozzle.

[Iggo]

17. I can' really express how much it hurts to agree with you.

They used to be the best.

Now they blow.

[HughBeaumont]

56. Yep, I'm a "First Four" Metallica fan myself.

Even Justice doesn't really do it for me like it used to.

Everything from Smell the Glove on up is a hot steaming PILE. Smell the Glove is a mullet/giant haystack prom soundtrack.

[Iggo]

59. Yep. That's where The Great Metallica Schism occurs for me, too.

Right after ...And Justice for All and before The Black Album (which is caca).

[raptor_rider]

88. I loved Metallica.

The Black album is when they changed. Ride the Lightening and Master of Puppets. Great albums!

[Iggo]

18. Oh wait! Bad Religion!

What the fuck?

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

20. The Doobie Brothers.

Boy, did THEY jump the shark.

[Kali]

30. that was what I was going to post

yep

[Mutley]

21. Live

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_(band)

[darkstar3]

22. Gotta agree with you there.

The turning point for me was V. There were only a couple songs on there that I liked, and then Birds of Prey was a pantload.

I miss the Throwing Copper Live.

[Mutley]

23. Mental Jewelry and Throwing Copper

are two of my favorite albums of all time. Everything they did after that was... ick.

[darkstar3]

25. Agreed.

I used to like The Distance to Here, but then I grew up.

[darkstar3]

24. This happens to me with a lot of bands.

Many of the bands I've liked follow the same arc from original and raw to poppish and manufactured.

The worst offenders on my list are the Goo Goo Dolls. Other bands that have made me go "wow, they suck now" include:
Staind
Linkin Park
Metallica (why hasn't their plane crashed yet?)
NIN (I really hated Capital G)
Live
Third Eye Blind
Stone Temple Pilots
Matchbox Twenty (seriously, fuck Rob Thomas)
Green Day
3 Doors Down (though, to be fair, they may have sucked to begin with and I just didn't notice)

[XemaSab]

29. It pains me to say this

but NIN has sucked ever since Trent got sober. :(

[darkstar3]

33. Most of them have a similar problem.

In fact, it's usually either newfound sobriety or newfound money that causes the shift in sound.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

81. I'm somewhat inclined to agree.

Trent just seems too old and sober for his own good these days. All the edge that you found on the first couple of albums just doesn't exist anymore. He tried doing political allegory in Year Zero to some effect, but all in all he'll never return to the days of PHM or TDS.

[Odin2005]

46. What's wrong with Green Day!?!

HERETIC! BURN HIM!!! :grr:

[Orrex]

49. Wow

I've hated Green Day since their first power chord, and nothing I've heard since then has inspired me to change that opinion.

[Odin2005]

50. *Odin burns Orrex at the stake*

BWAHAHAHA!!! :evilgrin:

[Orrex]

52. Oh, well.

I had a good run.

:evilgrin:

[darkstar3]

53. Follow the lyrics:

They at least tried to be edgy back in the days of Dookie, but the latest album is poppish trash. It's kinda sad...I can't believe they're touring with AFI. I really hate skater rock...

[Gold Metal Flake]

28. Yeah Yeah Yeahs

[Cant trust em]

37. Fever to tell is such a great album.

Karen O casts a spell over me every time I listen to it.

[mvd]

41. Personally, hated Fever To Tell, but think..

every album from them since then has been better than the last.

[PBS Poll-435]

32. Ace of Base

They were so with it! (And then they lost it)

:(

[Orrex]

47. I have never read a sentence more difficult to believe than that one.

I can't think of anything but I Saw The Sign and All That She Wants when I think of A o' B, and both of those wretched songs make me want to hurl.

[Steely_Dan]

34. Chicago

Back when they were known as CTA (or Chicago Transit Authority), they were much more daring and original. The first album is absolutely classic...South California Purples, I'm a Man, Free Form Guitar, etc. etc. They were fresh and loud! Of course, Terry Kath died (suicide? accident?) After that, they produced Musak. Very sad.

-P

[Tabasco_Dave]

35. Aerosmith

I was fortunate to see them live (1984) before they became a hair band.

[WinkyDink]

36. Jefferson Airplane. And another vote for Chicago.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

38. GENESIS..."And Then There Were Three" is the worst shark-jumping album of ALL TIME.

I never realized that Steve Hackett would take so much of the band's heart and soul with him when he left. Compare "Wind & Wuthering" and "And Then There Were Three" and you can see that they were no longer the same band at all. This piece 'o' vinyl garbage pointed the way to "Sussudio."

[mvd]

42. If I like a band, I usually like a band regardless.

But there are a few exceptions: 90s Aerosmith, Weezer, Decemberists' more prog-rock Hazards Of Love to name some.

[Orrex]

48. Pink Floyd

I can't stand the Syd-era stuff, nor anything they've done after The Final Cut.


For that matter, the group Lush underwent quite a musical transformation in the mid-90s, and they came out the worse for it IMO.

[Odin2005]

51. Linkin' Park.

:banghead:

[mix]

54. I love best and most X's first two albums: Los Angeles and Wild Gift.

That's all I got to say.

[BlueIris]

55. R.E.M. Post-"Monster," it's pretty much all down hill.

:hide:

[tk2kewl]

62. +1

[driver8]

68. REM was my favorite band since I first heard "Murmur" in 1983.

I have hated everything they have done since Bill Berry lift the band. Put away the piano and turn up the guitars -- I have not even bothered purchasing their albums since "Monster". I did buy "Accelerate", though.

[SoxFan]

82. Accelerate isn't bad

I blame Scott Litt for the bigger problem. REM has always been very much influenced by their producers, and Litt made a mess out of things when he showed up for "Green". I loved the weird Easter/Dixon stuff, Joe Boyd's folkie Southern gothic, and Don Gehman's heartland crunch, but around 1989 or so, REM became dull and repetitive.

[HughBeaumont]

57. Suicidal Tendencies.

was a classic. I don't even mind stuff off of Join the Army. Everything after that . . . well, let's just call their attempts at metal "half baked" at best. Never understood why metal ST, Danzig, The Cult and Pantera, out of so many far better thrash/power/death acts of the era, got all of the major opening/headlining gigs.

It was because of crap like this as to why I kind of drifted away from the metal scene for a few years until the underground surged again.

[caitxrawks]

58. my husband agrees with kings of leon.

He liked them back when they were little-known and stuff. Now he says they sold out, and they're not fun anymore.

[Schema Thing]

63. they are a boy band. completely manufactured by their manager

who writes and produces their songs.

[Cant trust em]

73. It's like someone decided that they're good looking and realized that they could be a cashcow.

See what some new haircuts and a few sappy faux-rock love songs can do?

[Schema Thing]

77. yep. To their credit, I think they had some talent

... and they actually did exist as a band in a raw form before the talent scout found them. But they would be going from town to town in a Ford 16 passenger with a trailer had they not been "discovered" and molded and produced and promoted.

[Rambis]

67. Stevie G does not like hearin that

:wow:

[RadiationTherapy]

65. Modest Mouse

Another shell of former rockdom.

[XemaSab]

76. I celebrate their entire collection

n/t

[eyepaddle]

78. Have you been missing work a lot lately? eom

[XemaSab]

80. I can't say I've been *missing* it.

:D

[eyepaddle]

84. Why should I have to change my name--

he's the one sucks!?! :hi:

[XemaSab]

86. What would you say you DO here?

:shrug:

[Rambis]

66. Soul Asylum

:boring:

[JanMichael]

70. Alice in Chains. The new stuff just doesn't do it for me.

The old stuff rocked.

[Orsino]

71. The Scorpions...before they went country.

Don't believe me? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJAsiZpib9c

I would actually like to hear Garth Brooks' version, though.

[Forkboy]

72. Pitchshifter and Mastodon

[LynneSin]

75. I love old Genesis but then they started spewing pop crap in the 80s

:puke:

[Brother Buzz]

83. The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

As a jug band from Long Beach, they were tops and had a sound I really enjoyed even though I suspected Jeff Hanna was totally insane.

[tango-tee]

85. Kool and the Gang.

What a difference a few years made.

[LanternWaste]

87. Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago Transit Authority.

Their first four or five albums are a masterful blend of fusion jazz and well-orchestrated rock, topical and relevant to the times, each piece quite often divided into movements (Chicago II is great in that last respect).

Then something happened, and they became a ballad group. :(