Bands who made the same album over and over again

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  1. klockwerk

    klockwerk Forum Resident

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    Just want to say I'm happy to hear the same album remade again, and again, and again if you just keep the quality up. That and Chuck Berry doesn't fit the thread title because Chuck really didn't do albums.
     
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  2. blaken123

    blaken123 Your Greater Tri-County CD Superstore

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    You are probably right but I don't think that Rope gets enough credit. They made the big jump into multiple styles on London Calling, but I think that their skills as composers of original pop compositions became fully evident in Rope.
     
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  3. LocustStar

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    AC/DC and Ramones.
     
  4. PhoffiFozz

    PhoffiFozz Forum Resident

    Reading through this thread and seeing The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, The Clash, Wilco ... and several others here listed as bands that have made the same album over and over had me go back to the original post 3 times to make sure I read it correctly. I mean, I'm having trouble thinking of mainstream artists NOT mentioned in this thread that have been more diverse.

    But also mentioned previously, it's not always a bad thing when a band sticks to their sound. It really works for some artists.

    But my head's still spinning over the thought of Surfin' USA, Pet Sounds, Carl & The Passions-So Tough, The Beach Boys Love You, Summer in Paradise sounding like the same album to some.
     
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  5. Hamhead

    Hamhead The Bear From Delaware

    Bands who made the same album over and over again, in the biz it's called ''formula".

    If it works and people buy it, let's beat it like a dead horse for the next 45 years. Who cares about redundancy as long as it sells.

    It worked for Kiss.
     
  6. BurtThomasWard

    BurtThomasWard Guided by Loke In Memoriam

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    While you may call KISS crap and other things that may be equally true according to personal taste and preferences, trying to fit them into this thread is so wrong that it is not even funny :D
     
  7. wiseblood

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    I said it in my post - guitar sounds. They are all really damn similar. Not the same. Also said that.
     
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  8. PsychedelicWheelz

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    My dad would say Creedence. I don’t totally agree, but I can see his point.
     
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  9. Man at C&A

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    I prefer Quo and I love the Ramones.
     
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  10. Man at C&A

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    Bob Marley kept making reggae albums over and over again.
     
  11. Bobby Morrow

    Bobby Morrow Senior Member

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    Not a band, but it’s fair to say Enya found her musical style and stuck rigidly to it...

    Though it was a nice musical style.
     
  12. PhilBorder

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    Not just the same album, but the same song.
     
  13. andrewskyDE

    andrewskyDE Island Owner

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    The Doors. Well, slightly.
    One album with brass orchestration (The Soft Parade) and another LP with more bluesy stuff (L.A. Woman).
    But generally there wasn't much changed. Wonder how they would've sound like if Jim was alive much longer.
     
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  14. Man at C&A

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    Bloody good song though!
     
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  15. PhilBorder

    PhilBorder Senior Member

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    Maybe the first 50 times, but after that....
     
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  16. SquishySounds

    SquishySounds Yo mama so fat Thanos had to snap twice.

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    Q: What does Free Willy have to do, thematically, with Starship Troopers?

    A: Nothing. But thanks to Basil Poledouris they sound exactly the same. Like ever movie he worked on.
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  17. Rfreeman

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    King Crimson's first two albums. Which were the only ones that included any of the originals other than Fripp.
     
  18. x2zero

    x2zero Forum Resident

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    Hard to think of a better litmus test than The Ramones.
    If you don’t “get” The Ramones, you don’t “get” Rock n Roll.
    In which case, I not sure what you’re doing here.
     
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  19. sacdfan

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    The Damned, The Sex Pistols and most other bands from the punk era.
     
  20. Vangro

    Vangro Forum Resident

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    The Sex Pistols made one album :rolleyes: and you've obviously never heard any Damned albums.
     
  21. BurtThomasWard

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    Well, the Sex Pistols made only one real album. But I would say that the Damned never did repeat themselves much. The ragged Detroit-style punk of their debut greatly differs from their psychedelic phase which again sounds pretty far from the goth pop years.

    As for 'most other band' from the punk era? That list simply cannot include bands like the Jam, the Police, the Clash, Stiff Little Finger, the Ruts or many other well-known ones...
     
  22. Django

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    The first 4 Peter Gabriel albums.
     
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  23. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    ABBA DABA DO!
     
  24. Synthfreek

    Synthfreek I’m a ray of sunshine & bastion of positivity

    Because Phantasmagoria sounds just like their debut. :shake:
     
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  25. Roger Thornhill

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    Yes, yes it is.

    For example; "My Old School" sounds nothing like anything on Aja while "Aja" itself sounds nothing like anything on CTE.

    There's nothing as raunchy on Aja as "The Boston Rag" - that guitar solo simply wouldn't sound right on Aja.

    A song like Pearl of the Quarter which I'm not that fond of wouldn't fit on Aja at all. POTQ is almost a country song!

    I'm not sure what this formula is - I don't think it exists. You could point to maybe Aja and Gaucho but that's about it.
     
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