• _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
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    4 hours ago

    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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    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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    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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    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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    Linkin Park.

    Look, I like them, so I’m not exactly knocking them, but a long time ago I was working an overnight inventory shift, and my manager at the time put on a Linkin Park album, and I predict how every song was going to go because they all seemed like the same song.

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      11 hours ago

      This was true up until Minutes to Midnight came out. They’re a lot more versatile these days. I really like their new singer.

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      Tiger Army can release 10,000 songs that sound exactly like In The Orchard and I’ll gladly buy em all 😆

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    Everything Sabaton released between Carolus Rex and the last album.

    Almost everything Powerwolf released after Blood of the Saints.

    Nocny Kochanek after Zdrajcy Metalu.

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    “look at this photograph”

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

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      I disagree on that one. If you listen to Adrenaline and then skip forward to Private music there’s barely any resemblance left.

      I will agree though that their overall vibe has remained consistent, but I think that speaks to their vision of the band instead of a lack of creativity.

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        It’s funny, I listened to Adrenaline first, decided it wasn’t for me and forgot about Deftones for a couple years. Finally listened to Saturday Night Wrist and loved it and literally every other Deftones album after that.

        The differences in albums has been more subtle, but I thought what they did with Pink Cellphone and the instrumental only Konami Code were unique to their music.