• Pika@rekabu.ru
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    14 hours ago

    Alan Walker

    The dude has just seen one tune go viral and decided “why not make ALL of my music exactly like this?”

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    That’s most bands, isn’t it? That’s why we have favorites, because we like how they sound. I mean, I suppose there’s people who like a particular band because of their technical skill in general, but for most people isn’t it the particular sound they have that draws us in?

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      To some degree you are correct, however there is a massive difference between a band like AC/DC which had jokingly been said they have have the same album for 40 years, and say Metallica.

      Metallica helped define what Thrash Metal is. But listening to Load/Reload vs Ride the Lightning is a huge difference in sound.

      And you take it forward another 10 years from Reload the sound has changed all over again.

      Very different from AC/DC but then again most bands/artists don’t have 50 year careers as the biggest name in their musical setting

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      I was just listening to them for the first time in a long while last week. There’s a noticeably difference pre and post elevation album.

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    Jack Johnson. If you hear one of his songs in public just say “oh, Banana Pancakes” and move on with your life. Not a soul on earth will be able to correct you

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    You have to make a distinction between bands that have a (more or less) coherent sound and style, and blatant repetition. Anyway, if anyone tries to tell me that Volbeat isn’t just rereleasing the same song for the whole time they existed, I have to assume that one of us must be demented.

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    Reading the comments, it sounds like it’s a bad thing for a band to stick to their sound. I actually think that’s good. After all, I started listening to a band because of their sound. When they suddenly reinvent themselves, they usually lose me.

    Positive example: Interpol. In my opinion, the band got better over time but kept the exact same sound.

    Negative example: Radiohead. At some point, Thom Yorke just started letting cats walk across synthesizers.

    Translated by a machine. Spelling errors are subject to the copyright of “Google Gemini”.

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      Mamaleek change up the sound on every album, and still have their defining mood and are different from everyone else. If I want the different Mamaleek sounds, I listen to the different albums.

      About the same with King Crimson, I think, but with longer series of albums.

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      I guess you stopped listening to Radiohead after Kid A? Really, really bad take.

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    AC/DC and CCR come to mind. Doesn’t bother me though. It’s the audio equivalent to eating a bag of Doritos. The flavor doesn’t change, but every now and then there’s one with a little more powder on it.

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    Green Day took a short hiatus from their usual sound for American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, but otherwise has been releasing the same sound as their original works since after 2009, just now overly produced.

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    “look at this photograph”

    Can’t even be bothered to name them, they suck so fucking hard