Bands that change their sound often

Deep Purple

Uriah Heep

Family

Gong

Mudpuppy64 wrote: Manuel wrote: Jethro Tull went from blues to rock, prog, folk influenced, middle eastern and some classical influences all over. Hardly a prog folk band as is clasified on this forum.

There are two reason for a band to change sound: 1) Artistry, which I would regard as the best reason. All good artists evolve over time, and it is necessary to take new approaches to the music to keep it interesting for a talented band. The trick is to keep the basic sound or ideology of the band intact. My favorite example is Jade Warrior, whose diversity can not only be seen album to album but often song by song on a single album. 2) Commercialism. This is where the keeping to a sound or ideology intact comes most into play. A band or artist can modify over the years to maintain commercial viability yet keep to artistic vision of the music. This can best be seen by Prog stawarts who lasted for years, some of them still going. I do not think I have to mention all of them, but one that comes to mind is Rush, especially with Roll the Bones, which incorporated a rap into the title track, and the grungy Test For Echo. Neither of these albums are particularly highly rated on Prog Archives, yet they allowed the band to continue. The same can be said for the Rabin 80s years of Yes.

Peter Gabriel
Talk Talk
Rush,several times
Tull
Supertramp moved gradually through their career to a poppies. sound.
Steely Dan moved it seems every album from the rock of cant buy a thrill to the jazzier sounds of gaucho.

rushfan4 wrote: ...And they won a Grammy for best Metal album.

yeah, I always play that album when listening to doom metal.

Jethro Tull went from blues to rock, prog, folk influenced, middle eastern and some classical influences all over. Hardly a prog folk band as is clasified on this forum.

Frank Zappa
Mike Keneally
Pain of Salvation
Gong
Adrian Belew
Opeth
Steven Wilson