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musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited March 2007 in Other Music
Name some bands that dont change their sound from album to album, but still are a quality band. I cant think of too many
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  • donravendonraven Posts: 144
    Ac/dc
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  • DeadmanDeadman Posts: 794
    i love them and they change slightly, but it's still their signature sound everytime around... bad religion
  • Alex_CoeAlex_Coe Posts: 762
    I'm sure there will be rabid hordes of bitches trying to argue this to death...

    Pearl Jam.

    Also Kyuss.
  • GardenpartyGardenparty Posts: 1,910
    Alex_Coe wrote:
    I'm sure there will be rabid hordes of bitches trying to argue this to death...

    Pearl Jam.

    Also Kyuss.

    Not from me. Was one of the first that came to my mind.

    However, in no way is that a bad thing;)

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  • RyeGuyRyeGuy Posts: 215
    Pink Floyd
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  • LiftedLifted Posts: 1,836
    Definatly COLDPLAY.....more than any other band i can think of.
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    RockMan wrote:
    Pink Floyd


    Interesting. Syd once said of the band after he left, "When I went I felt the progress the group could have made. But it made none, none at all, except in the sense that it was continuing."
  • 1STmammal2wearPants1STmammal2wearPants Worcester, MA Posts: 2,938
    Gardenparty wrote:
    Not from me. Was one of the first that came to my mind.

    However, in no way is that a bad thing;)

    uhhh, Mono


    Pearl Jam didn't change their sound? Really? Check out 'Of the Girl' versus 'Leash.' While they may have kept their harder edge on many songs, each album varies completely from one to the next.
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    Ah, but they've never radically changed their sound, in the sense of doing a Kraftwerk-style Krautrock synth LP, or disco pop, or an assortment of Bavarian clog dancing tunes. You've never had that album where they reinvented themselves as an instrumental unit: they tried different compositional approaches, but they've always used guitars, bass, vocals, and occasional keys/mellotron/the odd strings/a fire extinguisher. And most - okay, not all - of the songs have, harmonically and melodically, been based around blues riffs, major or minor, or PT style power chords. Maybe Stupid Mop, or that Olympic Dream Whitney-spoof thing they did, are the furthest they've gone in trying different effects in terms of instrumentation. And that's coming from a huge, long term PJ head.

    Oh, I suppose you could count the new song too, but it's a fairly faithful cover, rather than a creative departure.
  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,018
    Deadman wrote:
    i love them and they change slightly, but it's still their signature sound everytime around... bad religion

    i disagree with this suffer sounds like stranger than fiction??? or against the grain sounds like gray race??? bad religion is a punk band that i think has changed their sound. danzig's misfits thats pretty much all the same.

    id also say ratm is one of these bands. though their first album was more bluesy i think any song could fit on any album for the most part.
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  • AbookamongstthemanyAbookamongstthemany Posts: 8,209
    1STmammal2wearPants wrote:
    Pearl Jam didn't change their sound? Really? Check out 'Of the Girl' versus 'Leash.' While they may have kept their harder edge on many songs, each album varies completely from one to the next.

    As far as your example goes, check out Leash vs Elderly Woman. They've always had a good mix on each album.
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  • hailhail82hailhail82 Posts: 330
    Deadman wrote:
    i love them and they change slightly, but it's still their signature sound everytime around... bad religion


    Ah, aren't we forgetting Into The Unknown?
    But besides that, yeah. From Suffer onward it's been consistently amazing fast, harmony-laden punk. First band I thought of when I saw the thread.
    Using the word "methinks" in your message board posts doesn't make you look smart.
  • azwyldcatsazwyldcats Posts: 710
    Neil Young but in a very good way

    Zeke

    Bon Jovi

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  • Lost_ClayLost_Clay Posts: 1,085
    iron maiden
    tool

    the ramones used to do it
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  • The MaestroThe Maestro Posts: 100
    Red Hot Chili Peppers (although many would dispute calling them "good")
    Franz Ferdinand
  • DOSWDOSW Posts: 2,014
    Rage Against the Machine. I love them, but 99% of their songs could be on any other album of theirs and it would sound perfectly in place.
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  • culot4culot4 Posts: 775
    Tiki Barber wrote:
    Definatly COLDPLAY.....more than any other band i can think of.

    First band that I thought of. I'll also add Jack Johnson.
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  • Blind MelonBlind Melon Posts: 911
    Sparta
    The Strokes
    Deftones (the only thing that really has changed is the way Chino uses his voice... he screams more now.)
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    decemberists
    hold steady
    new pornographers
    sloan
    black crowes
    oasis
  • Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,884
    RockMan wrote:
    Pink Floyd


    um...what? If you listen to Atom Heart Mother and then listen to The Wall, it sounds like two completely different bands.
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  • tonadaxtonadax Posts: 594
    one of the most obvious:
    Slayer

    others:
    the ramones
    rammstein
    sonic youth
    tool
    pj makes changes, not really wide changes...
    the melvins
    papa roach´, urgh....
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Tiki Barber wrote:
    Definatly COLDPLAY.....more than any other band i can think of.

    He said bands that are still quality, there is more life in a shooting alley full of smack heads than a Coldplay song.
    azwyldcats wrote:
    Bon Jovi

    Again I would'nt describe these as quality but each to there own.

    Metallica have somewhat of a trademark sound.
    Queens of the Stone Age are probably my favourite band I can think of that has'nt been mentioned that have a sound and are quality
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  • KlumpieKlumpie Posts: 2,649
    Motorhead
  • beckerbecker Posts: 9
    pearl jam. you could take tracks from any of their albums and interchange them. they are a good band though still.
  • dirtyTdirtyT Posts: 3,620
    Korn. They hardly even change lyrics.
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  • PearlJamaholicPearlJamaholic Posts: 2,018
    well going by what i heard a metal head saying at the record shop when arguing why metallica sucks now, he said "atleast new metal church sounds like old metal church." though ive only heard a few metal church songs im gonna have to say them also.

    about pj, i dont know about that. i dont recall the uke being around since the beginning or boom. and i really cant picture them doing a song like leash or evenflow today. plus they really didnt do the punk sound until maybe dte.
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  • dirtyTdirtyT Posts: 3,620
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    well going by what i heard a metal head saying at the record shop when arguing why metallica sucks now, he said "atleast new metal church sounds like old metal church." though ive only heard a few metal church songs im gonna have to say them also.

    about pj, i dont know about that. i dont recall the uke being around since the beginning or boom. and i really cant picture them doing a song like leash or evenflow today. plus they really didnt do the punk sound until maybe dte.
    I agree with you. I think No Code is a great example of how they changed their sound, and then to Yield, and so on. I think their albums are each unique, but everyone has their opinion. I happen to agree with your's.
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  • harmless_little_f***harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    dirtyT wrote:
    I agree with you. I think No Code is a great example of how they changed their sound, and then to Yield, and so on. I think their albums are each unique, but everyone has their opinion. I happen to agree with your's.

    Me too. If anything, Pearl Jam are frustratingly DIFFERENT with each album. I wish that Avocado was just slightly darker a la Riot Act, and I was thrown off PJ for a couple of years after hearing Binaural. It was just SO different to the PJ I knew and loved at the time.
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  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    PearlJamaholic wrote:
    well going by what i heard a metal head saying at the record shop when arguing why metallica sucks now, he said "atleast new metal church sounds like old metal church." though ive only heard a few metal church songs im gonna have to say them also.

    about pj, i dont know about that. i dont recall the uke being around since the beginning or boom. and i really cant picture them doing a song like leash or evenflow today. plus they really didnt do the punk sound until maybe dte.

    I would class Whipping, STBC, Blood, and Lukin all as having the punk sound not to mention the cover of Sonic Reducer, but I agree I think Pearl jam mix it up toa large degree compared to the majority of bands mentioned in this thread.
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  • Alex_CoeAlex_Coe Posts: 762
    reeferchief wrote:

    Metallica have somewhat of a trademark sound.
    Queens of the Stone Age are probably my favourite band I can think of that has'nt been mentioned that have a sound and are quality


    Queens of the Stone Age are great, but they have definitely changed their sound. Lullabies to Paralyze was totally different from anything else they have ever done. The same goes for all their albums. Each one is a different beast. The S/T was a bass-heavy robot rock album, and R was slightly different. Poppier with songs like Ode to Clarissa, Lost Art, and Pointless. Those songs would have seemed horribly out of place in the S/T.

    Then came Songs for the Deaf, and that was completely different from R in that it was a hundred times heavier and raw, in that Mark Lanegan is a main member of the band rather than a guest vocal.

    Now Era Vulgaris is coming out, and the news is it/s nothing like any other Queens records. Era Vulgaris is going to be more about the vocals, where Josh breaks out of his comfortable range of singing.


    Sorry for the long rant, but I had to say it!
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