Artists Who Changed Their Sound - A Bucket of Jake

[@JJW001]

I remember when Kid A came out. Everyone knew that it was going to be a lot different from OK Computer. It wasn't a shock. Radiohead had made no secret of how burnt out they were from touring the world for over a year. They're old material was boring them and they needed something completely different in order to stay together as a band. I seem to remember all of this being made pretty clear well before the album dropped. No one knew what to expect but when it hit everyone was like, "yeah, this is pretty cool". It's basically a rock band experimenting with electronic sounds. The indie/garage band methodolgy is there but with new equipment.

[@davezarairl]

chloe burbank to in tongues to ballads 1 to nectar has been a fun progression to see happen

[@liammm7036]

And each one of those has been extremely enjoyable to listen to- curious to see where he goes next

[@nikkoa.3639]

It's been an interesting Journey though I'll admit I still miss the Chloe Burbank tracks. Heck I even miss the old Pink guy and some of the Pink season style.

[@2dan4me97]

some artists are well-known for their constant stylistic changes, just look at King Crimson, King Gizzard, and many other King bands

[@normalchannel6997]

**laughs in twenty one pilots**

[@bobroctopus2210]

king glizzy

[@snowy9587]

Aphex Twin's "Syro" is a great example of a splitting fanbase. On one half, people were upset that Richard ditched his iconic style in favor for an experimental pop-inspired sound. The other half welcomed the change, even after 6/8 years of no new releases and praise the album for being innovative I'm a part of that other half, I think Syro stands well against his older music like Richard D. and Selected Ambient Works, and even stays relevant with the recent release of Orphans

[@omegatv8865]

Earl sweatshirt is another pretty good one too, he went from aggressive rap like Tyler (no surprise, both of them coming from odd future), to some of the most beautiful abstract hip hop I've ever heard to be honest, if you haven't listened to 'Some Rap Songs' I would defo recommend, great album.

[@yannickv3948]

Miles Davis is a great example that could be put in the category of Tyler en Death Grips. His whole discog is very interesting and diverse going from cool jazz, hard bop, post bop, model jazz to jazz fusion, jazz rock and some cultural steps. He made a lot of albums and some "era's" even overlapped with each other.

[@yannickv3948]

More artists; Nick Cave, Charli XCX, Tame Impala, Xiu Xiu idk.

[@debaxer]

The Scott Walker from Tilt is unrecognizable. Especially when you compare him to, say, Scott 4. Talk Talk went from bright synth pop darlings to moody post rock pioneers. Ulver abandoned black metal to embrace IDM. Scritti Politti switched between Post Punk and Trip Hop after a long ass hiatus. Those are the most extreme stylistic shifts I can think of that were celebrated / well received. On the other hand you have Celtic Frost in Cold Lake (ditching their extreme sound to make a hair metal album didn't make anyone happy). Also Boris going J Pop towards the end of the 2000s, although I actually love this stuff.

[@TitoSilvey]

To go back to the 90's, the big one I always think about is Nine Inch Nails. Pretty Hate Machine to Broken is such an intense change that their label dropped em (well, the Broken film is also a part of that - if you don't know it, research it, just don't eat during it) Dark synth pop to straight up destructive industrial? My man Reznor knows what he's doing Though for a failure of one, Bad Religion's Into the Unknown pissed people off so bad they turned right around and went straight back to their punk rock sound, which, thank god, because then we got the absolute banger that is Suffer

[@MapleMilk]

The Poppy thing reminds me of KKB The group went from simple pop music with simple instruments to more complex pop music with dark lyrical undertones to like fucking Noise, Rock, and Shoegaze type stuff to an electronic EP back to fucking Bugsnax Now note, they didn't completely change their sound front to back, still having that poppy (heh) background but like What the hell???

[@dtfilms2011]

jake. i dont know why youre in my recommendations. i dont know why im seeing this without even having a single idea of who you are. but this is nice. thank you jake.

[@ABucketofJake]

you’re welcome diego

[@iamveryconfusedabout]

more like a bucket of immediately unlisted video

[@commssoldier]

hi lol

[@ABucketofJake]

Da miss click

[@hippojuice23]

Bucket of mis-quotes and masturbitory floe!

[@AtrocityEquine01]

Remo Drive is an example on how you shouldn't really respond to detractors.

[@ABucketofJake]

Agree

[@r5pod]

10:30 + 10:45 So Radiohead suddenly went from making conceptual soft rock to ambient/post-rock/electronic fusion right? It's known as the greatest left turn in music history because of how radical a change in sound it was. They're credited positively for this since they tread on new ground for them and expanded their sound. For Linkin Park, One More Light was heavily criticised because the radical change in sound was more of a step backwards. Even if you make a high-brow or just well made record, it's not really getting out of your comfort zone and exploring new sounds if your next album follows more conventional tropes. In a way it's actually digging themselves deeper into a comfort zone. There's nothing wrong with making pop music, but if you're a band who purposefully opposes a sound by making very different stuff, going backwards and making the very stuff you used to criticize confuses your audience. What's more, we tend to associate label control with the most popular conventions in music atm, like the oversaturation of trap percussion or bland subject matter, because at the moment, it sells. One More Light was hated on because it seemed like that was what LP were doing at the time, while Radiohead were going against the grain in the contexts of both their own sound and the sounds that were selling at the time.

[@corrosion83]

This is basically what i was going to say too. Radiohead made an advancement, their music changed drastically but it was in a more artistic and visionary direction. It didn't alienate all of their old fans and brought in a huge new fanbase. Linkin park went the opposite direction, their sound changed but it was to something more simplistic and less artistic.

[@MrZilgen]

Animal Collective fans love and want the change every album. Seriously how you not gonna talk about Animal Collective they are masters of changing styles, moreso than death grips or radiohead if you ask me

[@MysteryHandle76]

The reason why Radiohead was a success is because Kid A is still an art rock album, yeah there's IDM, jazz, ambient and electronic sounds and songs but it's still laced in their rock sound, they may have implimented more sounds and ideas but it still sounds like Radiohead. They also where able to take their sound and evolve it with Kid A the reason Linkin Park didn't work is because they went from Nu Metal straight to mainstream electropop with cheesy pop melodies and mainstream rap features. It was literally a Chester Bennington solo album it didn't sound like Linkin Park at all

[@ajyomastr]

i love your vids man. you gave me a taste for music that wasn't just metal lol.

[@ABucketofJake]

That’s what I’m here for

[@NorthSideCai]

I think a lot of it is really just finding that new audience that is gonna like your new sound. You're gonna lose some old fans regardless because they were a fan of your sound, but not you. XXX is another great example. people don't realize he lost a lot of his older fans that just liked his hard grungey shit. Especially when he switched to the sounds of 17 and even ? But he also had so many fans that were just down for him as a person it didn't matter. along with the fact his new music was very marketable and was very good.

[@TiredTrace]

Really great video man, loved how relaxed you talked about these artists, keep up the good shit Weyes Blood is another example with her starting off doing stuff like noise and drone to folk to a pop album with Titanic Rising

[@caleyepstein6382]

Excuse me did you just call AM a "garage rock classic record" wtf

[@franks8462]

I wouldn't even know how to categorize it tbh, but it's definitely not garage rock lol

[@yungxwill5688]

@@franks8462 psych/indie rock ig

[@tescobesco]

yungxwill trash rock

[@alex11v3]

@@yungxwill5688 indie rock, this album isnt psych.

[@camoufleur]

@Frank S if you listen to their earlier stuff at least, they started out very garage-y

[@gamingwithnicko1942]

toro y moi is the goat. been listening to boo boo on repeat since 2020, it never gets old

[@bubbadoo10]

I think one of the most interesting changes in music would have to be Serj Tankian. He was (I think is now, I believe the band is now back together) the singer for System of a Down who after SoaD did some solo stuff. From SoaD it was clear how they do whatever but they did mostly stay in their metal and rock type roots, Serj giving even less of a shit about what style he did once he was doing solo stuff. Sure there is the usual rocky stuff he does, Empty Walls being my favorite song by him on the Elect the Dead album. He really starts changing it up though with the live album Elect The Dead Symphony, which is the same music but with a whole ass ORCHESTRA instead of the rocky stuff. From that he then made Orca Symphony No. 1 a couple years later which is a whole ass instrumental orchestra that's in four parts about 8 minutes each.

[@morganwardfilm]

If u ever revisit this topic please look into Metronomy. They pretty much redefine their entire sound every album, using different instruments and techniques. They’re my favorite band but every time they release a new album it takes about a month for me to open up to the new sound and then it all sounds incredible

[@josemiguelmaciasvocar2690]

Scott Walker's transit from a crooner that your grandma would stan 50 years ago, through making postpunk in the 80's to being an experimental/modern classical artist who collaborated with Sunn O))) is probably the most interesting case of stylistic changes in music.

[@Hadassa223]

came here after your video on the caretaker, you seem really cool! keep it up :)

[@kendal59]

i like how you played hot head while reading the remo drive tweet.

[@SuperGabetendo777]

I love Joji and Tyler

[@carcrashereal]

Some people you should’ve mentioned Kid rock:why not Quadeca:went from KZbin chopper rap from abstract art pop r&b alternative experimental hip hop? Watsky:most intresting to me he went from making slam poetry to jazz rap for his first 2 projects(invisible inc and self titled) to indie(a new kind of sexy to X infinity)then like experimental pop rap? On complaint and on placement he did like experimental indie abstract futuristic electro it’s really cool to see his gradual progression into his genres

[@awhile]

thank you for the funny in video randomly for no reason

[@ABucketofJake]

You’re welcome

[@erwann.entertainment]

Back in 2018 I went into the latest Arctic Monkeys album expecting something in the vein of their previous albums and didn't know what to think of the album at first. Today, it's one of my favorite albums ever. There are a lot of albums I didn't like at first that became some of my favorites. Another example would be The Ooz by King Krule which I first listened to expecting more of his previous album, but for some reason I came back to it like six months after it released and loved it. On the other hand, when Mac Demarco released Here Comes The Cowboy, which wasn't a total departure from his other albums but took a way more minimalist route, I could never get on board with this direction. But it doesn't matter, I didn't like it, but some people did and it's only my personal feeling and artists don't owe us anything in my opinion. I think people should keep an open mind about albums they didn't like, and try not having expectations for upcoming releases. I wish the thumbnail of this video wasn't so clickbaity because I don't think there's really one answer for how a band should go about changing their sound, but I think it's something interesting to talk about.

[@Roxanneredpanda]

just not gonna talk about the Beatles? they went from making really good bubble gum pop to heavy psychedelic rock over the course of about 4 albums and the entire musical landscape just kinda shifted with them.

[@UntitledNameGangIsTouringAmmos]

it's funny how Remo Drive say they didn't want to make the same sound in between Greatest Hits and Everyday Degradation but that Portrait of An Ugly something whatever sounded exactly like Everyday Degradation. So, they want to 'evolve' their sound whenever it's convenient for their defense.

[@limethelemon]

Legit surprised that Bring Me The Horizon wasn’t brought up, they went from deathcore to pop/pop metal

[@nathann999]

i still listen to greatest hits so often

[@SlyHikari03]

Oneohtrix Point Never has a lot of weird changes. From the weird midi instrumentals of R Plus Seven, to the Alt-Rock inspired Electronic Rock of Garden of Delete.

[@kearbillings5719]

Not gonna mention joji making medicine while doing filthyfrank? That was wild as hell

[@vetonrecica5558]

Aesop rock is a good example of a well done transition, from none shall pass to his newest album

[@nathanmabey6523]

The comment about Arctic Monkeys completely ignoring the first 4 albums makes me sad

[@ireggularegg9595]

Wait how early am i? 32 views? Update: 16 minutes edit: also jake you got me into death grips thats entirely your fault, now all youtube will recommend me is death grips

[@TheRealMutttastic]

It was a trap, you see!

[@ABucketofJake]

I love this comment

[@TheFearlessGoat]

Came here from the carti speed run video. Glad I found your channel, entertaining stuff.

[@ABucketofJake]

I think you are the only one

[@ape2831]

Aint nobody gonna talk about Scott Walker? He went from making folk-pop music to nightmare inducing dark experimental music

[@newchxppa6419]

bastard and goblin to flower boy was crazyyyyy

[@fakesmile172]

I'll be honest, I don't really listen to any of the artists you tend to talk about, but videos like this are interesting nonetheless. I mainly listen to so-called "boomer music", though I've been slowly expanding my tastes. There are some artists I know of that also changed their sound, though this usually corresponds with a lineup change, or just a change with the times over the decades, with varying degrees of change. Although, I can't think of many that change genre entirely. Artists like King Crimson, Blue Öyster Cult (my two favourite bands), Blue Cheer, Bathory, Death (slightly), Celtic Frost, Deep Purple, and many others to a lesser extent.

[@z39836]

For some reason this video really reminded me how Humanz by Gorillaz proly had the wierdest fan reaction ive ever seen with an album. I mean, the band was known for their genre and style switches since day one. Then 2017 rolls around and one of the most common criticisms for the new album was that it "doesnt sound like Gorillaz"

[@AMP098]

Remo Drive is my favorite example of this. I’d hate to be that guy, but I want the old Remo Drive back

[@AtrocityEquine01]

*cue the vocalist of Remo Drive rage quitting*

[@thebigboysclubhouse4269]

0:14, me: Hey what's up Kyle, Remember last night when you shot gunned those beers. God your insane dude!

[@joshuadavid1804]

logitech keyboard lighting? I dig it...also I dig these videos take my sub you bastard!

[@JaneDoe87110]

I really liked Remo Drive a few years back. I thought it was cool they were bringing pop punk back. Its totally not cool that bands get pissed when they turn their sound on its head and expect everyone to enjoy it.

[@aaliyahrose712]

I feel like if you were familiar with the work Alex Turner's work on the "Everything you've come to expect" album from his second band The Last Shadow Puppets with his friend Miles Kane then the transition to TBH+C is a bit less jarring than going from AM to TBH+C. The sounds and style of music in Everything you've come to expect clearly fuel the new arctic monkeys album.

[@vetonrecica5558]

MGMT They did what they wanted too From pop To experimental Then blended it all together.

[@manowar6898]

Am I the only one that likes all of Metalica's progression as a band?

[@saladhands1127]

I think every album ranges from good to flawless except for st anger. Thats the only one i just cannot appreciate whatsoever

[@yolocrayolo9190]

Justice is a pretty good example for the second category

[@dunkelstevenson4413]

Pink floyd from the final cut to a momentary lapse un reason was a BIG shift. Enough that it divided the fanbase in 2, with the waters era and the Gilmore era, or even 3 if you add the barrett era

[@pabloarranz3626]

I feel like momentary lapse is them going back to their old sound pre the wall and final cut

[@juanmatias5932]

Well, “the greatest left turn in music history” depends on how you reason it. I think people (and i as well) think about how Radiohead made masterpieces (imo) on two completely different ends. I do understand why people would argue for the title with different criteria tho

[@sandyman3070]

An example that hit hard for me is the band Set It Off. Their first album Horrible Kids is mostly bangers. The next one got a little more poppy, but there’s a few good ones. The next album was mostly garbage, but it also had their best song, “Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing” The rest of that album and everything they’ve made since has been some horrible pop butchery of metal.

[@bella_ciao4608]

Prolly nobody here is gonna be all too familiar with them but Caravan Palace DEFINED the electro swing/house genre. That’s not an exaggeration, they’re the ones who revolutionized the genre, making music nobody else came anywhere fucking close to. They made two banger albums and then did a much more massively successful album that was more of a mix of their two last records that added in a minor pop element which made it somewhat catchier and more palatable to general audiences. Unfortunately, after THAT album, two band members left and they decided “hey maybe the reason this album was successful was because of the pop” and basically the next album was nothing but shitty pop music. Now, I’m a fucking swing snob and I HATE pop music, but to be fair, this wasn’t even good POP music, it was just pretty meh altogether. That album was basically nothing but pop music that wasn’t unique and very generic and the overall popularity shows it. Nothing on that record was a hit, it was all pretty shit. Hopefully they at least compromise next and make shit more like their earlier stuff, shit I’ll take a mix of pop and swing, that worked the first time they did it. If anyone wants to see for themselves, listen to their titular album “Caravan Palace” (fucking awesome), “Panic” (their second album which was mostly meh but had a few major bangers), and their most popular album “” or “robot face” was a fusion of electro swing/house with pop that really fucking worked. Now compare those to their latest album “Chronologic”, which has no songs with the same energy and excitement, no hits, just pretty bland. I’m still pissed about this. Sorry for the long rant but fuck me it sucks seeing your favorite band go to shit. At least Parov Stelar is still good.

[@awesomebydefault3877]

Dunno why 7:50 cracks me up every time

[@n0etic_f0x]

Flume is a band that when I found their new songs, I realised I had their old songs and had no idea. In the back of my mind think I was like Oh man Flume they sound like that band I forgot about... oh it was Flume. Wait what?

[@YoMothar]

Is no one gonna bring up King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard? They do a compleatly different genre on every single album so i would think they would fit in perfectly in this conversion.

[@ABucketofJake]

That is a very good point

[@YoMothar]

@@ABucketofJake I'm glad you agree.

[@Multi-Waves_Music]

I was really wondering if flume was going to be mentioned!

[@jacobtape]

Love the death grip

[@ABucketofJake]

Same bro, you’re gonna love next video

[@jacobtape]

@@ABucketofJake we have similar names high five

[@camerondodge2070]

"If you've gathered an audience that pretty much knows you as ... the spiritual lyrical miracle individual, and then you decide to release an experimental drone/ambient album, probably gonna lose some fans." So... Lou Reed with "Metal Machine Music"? I think a good representaion of the loose lips category is probably Bowie, who changed it up every few albums but didn't care if people hated it. Also, I'd say FOB are still rock, stuff like "Church" and "Hold Me Tight Or Don't" and their live shows showing that side strongly. Close: Warren Zevon. (Okay maybe Beatles as well.) Lucky Strike, aka the Panic! category (or again Bowie). I'd also maybe include Hank 3 (Hank Williams 3) who went from traditional country music, to death and groove metal, to country again, to hardcore punk, to ambient/drone music, to sludge/doom metal, to country rock, and kept his fanbase through it all.

[@NateTheMateForever]

luh u brah

[@djed7235]

A thousand suns is now a fan favorite just like kid a they both got a lot of hate but then got reevaluated by fans and critics and are now both seen as one of if not THE best album in both bands discographys. Also, Radiohead were in tune with the critical seitgeist at the time having a lot of 'indie cred'with critics and fans while LP was part of thr nu metal movement, which was not a favorite among critics, to say the least.

[@PMRizzle66]

Deafheaven new album infinite granite. It blows

[@Qmontun]

"tH3 gREaT35t L3fT TurN 1n MUs1k HysToRi" - some bucket 2020

[@nerdyoutube7847]

Linkin park has bangers on every album even if some of them are lesser

[@haykal5221]

Thanks for this vid jakeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[@pablovasquez2201]

Fuck yeah it does

[@Intrusionstm]

While not very jarring, polyphia changed from straight shred to something completely new and it sounds amazing

[@talan2861]

im starting out to make some music and im planning on making 3 eps all different styles of music with the first one im releasing being just some normal bedroom pop/kota the friend type shit to the next one being some real sad rnb stuff to just making the most experimental thing i can im still working on the first one but i really want to work on the experimental one next

[@alex11v3]

Cmon man, TBHC is Arctic Monkeys best album easily.

[@japanman4094]

not me watching this at 3 am contemplating if my music is shit or not :P

[@treasurebloom2794]

Your music is really unique tbh! Kep on grooviiiing

[@evancurzon5244]

rich brian is worth looking at as well

[@ABucketofJake]

I got the sailor on vinyl

[@bellapagan3989]

i’m surprised you didn’t mention alt-j.. they drastically changed their sound AND look for relaxer and ppl really did not like it

[@ABucketofJake]

Didn’t even think of alt j but you bring up a good point

[@commssoldier]

ok jake ill watch the video while its unlisted then ill tell you if its ok to post

[@str1ve305]

I don’t think Poppy was a complete left turn. Am I Girl really was the transitional album for her. In three parts you can start to slowly hear the transition from full pop, to self aware hard pop, to metal. And then culminating to X, which is like a bipolar mix of pop and metal. And then of course after that album she released I Disagree, which was full metal.

[@mason_gilmour12gilmour81]

TF I saw Mc virgins and joji I clicked immediately

[@harrisonkeller2034]

I'm sad silverchair didn't get brought up

[@Juicegoose5752fan]

MGMT is an example of this done right

[@thefrogger6507]

Poppy did walk on the edge of heavier shit with more than just X (Play Destroy was heavyish) and the Choke EP had a total banger on it. But I Disagree was absolutely unchained. Thank hell she got rid of her producer

[@koopakoo3813]

You forgot Cage the Elephant. They went from a very youthful juvenile rock to very emotional and hard rock. (Idk)

[@thewillustrater2847]

Damn that joke DaBaby hurt... Lmao

[@mauropaillacar9237]

why the room it`s so dark??? r u okay bro????

[@ABucketofJake]

Atmosphere

[@RochenAxt]

Thanksss good video

[@KingOfNo2000]

not a single mention of king gizzard. pain

[@dannyosborne810]

great video dawg

[@ABucketofJake]

thanks

[@bananapopcdemoji9266]

LINKIN PARK and Radiohead are two very different bands with two very different audiences and you have to realize kid A was not loved on first release

[@dimi4je]

How are you gonna mention Linkin Park falling flat on their face but forget Paramore and their "After Laughter" record which came out around the time of Linkin Parks last record and, in comparison, got praised for the stylistic change

[@crispybaboy]

weezer

[@dadgrade7837]

Yeah, I gotcha. Radiohead was decent before & after the style change & Linkin Park was bad before & after the style change. Obviously my opinion ,but I am sure I am not alone in this thought.

[@dad641]

woah I didnt know bucket of jake was hot 0.0

[@armavir740]

cool

[@onjk]

earl ?

[@ABucketofJake]

Didn’t even think of

[@experi-mentalproductions5358]

The Beatles

[@ineztrajanovic7277]

wait hold up, seriously, how did you get ginger!?

[@ABucketofJake]

I’m fucking awesome

[@ninganerd4433]

How tf do u have Yeezus on vinyl?

[@ABucketofJake]

I got a cool record store

[@KingMemeMachine]

Personally I think that real Joji music was chloe burbank. All this other stuff he makes in my opinion sounds like generic sad boy pop music. However as you stated there's indeed a market for that and I'm just simply not his market anymore.

[@hamstermane8604]

Remo Drive upsets me I was big fan :(

[@lightning3605]

7:53

[@pranawdhital]

I honestly prefer linkin parks electronic albums such as a thousand suns far over meteora