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Posted: June 07 2025 at 19:07

Roine Stolt - The Lonely Heartbeat (1989) -> The Flower King (1994)

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Posted: Yesterday at 03:37

Wind and Wuthering to ATTWT.

Also Drama to 90125.

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Posted: Yesterday at 03:44

Hector Enrique wrote:

Marillion: Fish era >>> Hogarth era

I can't judge the band in two different periods, like that.
There was n of much of a change between Clutching at Straws and Seasons End.

There were changes between albums in the Hogarth era, for instance from Brave to Afraid of Sunlight. Or marillion.com to Anoraknophobia.

Edited by Cristi - Yesterday at 03:45

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Posted: 13 hours 60 minutes ago at 00:30

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Wind and Wuthering to ATTWT.

Again, not a really big change in sound. Quality? Perhaps. But a pretty gradual progression in style there. Genesis have a pretty consistent gradient in their musical history. Their first album to Trespass is the biggest change, and even then it's not THAT drastic. Simply not a band that belongs in this conversation.

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Posted: 11 hours 42 minutes ago at 02:48

twosteves wrote:

Th Yes Album to Fragile - CTTE to Tales and Tales to Relayer - Yes in its glory days changed sound as they brought in a new great player

Maybe from Tales to Relayer. Otherwise I only hear a very natural and organic change and sometimes growth from one album to the next.
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard has got quite a few:
Paper Mâché Dream Balloon (2015) Nonagon Infinity (2016)
Murder of the Universe (2017) Sketches of Brunswick East (2017)
Fishing for Fishies (2019) Infest the Rats' Nest (2019)
Made in Timeland (2022) Omnium Gatherum (2022)
PetroDragonic Apocalypse* (2023) The Silver Cord (2023)
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Kraftwerk: Autobahn (1974) Radio-Aktivität (1975)
Peter Hammill: Nadir's Big Chance (1975) Over (1977)
Tortoise: St. (1994) Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
Motorpsycho: Heavy Metal Fruit (2010) The Death Defying Unicorn (2012)

*; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation

**could have gone with In Camera (1974) Nadir)