Like Atreyu, for example. Don't get me wrong, I like some of their new stuff. But when someone says they like them, I'm always thinking of Suicide Notes and Butterfly Kisses, or even The Curse. Same thing goes for Aiden, or even Taking Back Sunday.

I think everyone hates that. When I Bought You Bullets, You Bought Me Your Love came out, I thought My Chemical Romance was going to be great. As it turns out...

The Black Parade > I Brought You My Bullets...

I guess, but only when it's for the worst. I remember I used to love Blink 182 back in the day with albums like Dude Ranch or Cheshire Cat. Then they got all poppy with Enema of The State. Two albums later, I didn't even recognize them anymore. They turned into some pop/techno/MTV rock bullshit band. Of course, looking back Blink has always sucked, but I can still stand to listen to Dude Ranch for old time's sake. Every other album makes me cringe.

Yes. Every 70s band went to garbage in the 80s except for a couple.

It can work if they are talented enough to pull it off, like when Nightwish replaced Tarja with Annette.

Absolutely.

carcass metallica genesis king crimson sepultura behemoth at the gates bathory judas priest eeeeeetttttttttcccccccccc

80s Genesis is good though...

Not for me it ain't, I don't think I could sit through the S/T or especially Invisible Touch ever again. Invisible Touch (the song) and Mama are like the polar opposite of what I look for in music

I guess you people would of been bitching about how the Beatles changed too.

Blink's old drummer sucked



*grabs popcorn*

Except the Beatles weren't good until Rubber Soul. Fuck some Twist and Shout, I would rather listen to Miley Cyrus.



I personally celebrate all of Blink 182's catalog, but who is listening to the drumming? I like Travis Barker and everything, but it's simplistic pop-rock.

Pfft, Mama is sweet; the buildup to the drums is so awesome.

But check out Duke (1980). The songs are split up but Behind the Lines, Duchess, Guide Vocal, Turn It On Again, Duke's Travels and Duke's End are supposed to be one song like Supper's Ready. Duke's Travels is amazing, the last lingering prog elements of Genesis.

The Black Parade is total shit IMO, especially that Teenagers song that has the same rhythm as Achy Breaky Heart.

Also, Blink's old drummer sucks, but their older music was better as a whole. SPeaking of pop punk outfits that changed for the worst, I really liked 39/Smooth from Green Day, and I thought Dookie was alright. Then I thought everything sucked after that, but to be honest, I liked American Idiot a lot.

I think MCR's change was for the better.

Less emo, more musical talent.

The Strokes first album, Is This It, is great, and set the stage for the commercialization of "indie" with bands like The Bravery, Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, etc (whether or not this is a good thing is debatable). But Room On Fire, First Impressions of Earth . . . wtf is this?

Room on Fire was fine. First Impressions does suck.

Their musical talent does show through more on the later work, but eh, I dunno...I just don't like the sound of it as much.

Also, I guess you people hate Paul Simon too.

Tisk.

Garfunkel solo was better.

Room on fire kicked ass. But yeah, the last one was terrible.

YOU DID NOT JUST SAY THAT

Depends, I think it worked pretty well with Radiohead

Their transition was kind of smooth an natural, though. Even if you gave somebody who hadn't heard from them since Pablo Honey their new stuff, you can still tell it's Radiohead.

Just because of Yorkes voice though, the music changed completely.

I personally think that from Hail to the Thief to In Rainbows was completely unexpected. It worked great, but no one really expected it. You can only hear hints in their earlier work that could possibly lead up to IR.

I can see the progression between their last two albums. In Rainbows is just less shoegazey/progressive influenced, all of them had hints of electronica since OK Computer though. It's just more of a 'return to their roots'.

No and I feel like I'm the only person to ever exist who doesn't.

The biggest change I can think of is Sugar Ray.

Seriously. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjb7UD7jPqM

I don't either.

I mean, I potentially dislike it (Metallica), but I don't like it when a band doesn't evolve. The Beatles would suck if all of their million songs were the same. So would any band that was together any real period of time.

The only drastic example that comes to mind at the moment though is Pain of Salvation with Scarsick or Trans-Siberian Orchestra with Beethoven's Last Night, and both of those were rad. Sometimes a complete change is good. But those are more like "let's try this" than "let's become this."

It depends on the era for me. For the most part I agree with the part when 70s bands turn to crap.

I am slowly digging the new Weezer CD. Mainly because it's a different lead singer in all the songs. Gives it a more unique sound to it for me.

It's blasphemy to say good things about a Weezer album after Pinkerton (other than maybe the green album if you're liberal about it) and honestly I can't disagree. They're horrible. But it might just be that watery garage rock got kinda played out and their problem is they didn't change at all when they should have.

Amazing that we can actually agree on something from time to time. You couldn't have said it better.

I think overall they probably should call it a slow quits though. The Red Album probably shouldn't have came out, but it was probably the best they could probably do.

And damn, Pork and Beans is so damn catchy. I blame that youtube video.