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* Sugar Ray are primarily known for breezy pop-rock, but spent their first two albums as an AlternativeMetal band. The turning point was "Fly", a massive hit from ''Floored'' that was more than a bit softer than the surrounding material. Instead of letting "Fly" become a BlackSheepHit, they opted to just roll with it and go in a LighterAndSofter direction. They did some humorous LampshadeHanging on this: their third album ''14:59'' opened with a short [[LyricalDissonance lyrically dissonant]] mock-DeathMetal song called "New Direction", immediately followed by much calmer material.
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* Sugar Ray are primarily known for breezy pop-rock, but spent their first two albums as an AlternativeMetal band. The turning point was "Fly", a massive hit from ''Floored'' that was more than a bit softer than the surrounding material. Instead of letting "Fly" become a BlackSheepHit, they opted to just roll with it and go in a LighterAndSofter direction. They did some humorous LampshadeHanging on this: their third album ''14:59'' opened with a short [[LyricalDissonance lyrically dissonant]] mock-DeathMetal song called "New Direction", immediately followed by much calmer material. material.
* Music/TheRollingStones' musical output was very different in their early years, especially for fans who only know of them based on their last two-three decades of work. The self-titled album released in 1964 was comprised almost entirely of covers (with one original song written by Jagger/Richards), and was heavily R&B-oriented. Their debut tour in the United States was a disaster - television hosts made fun of them for dressing as a ripoff of other successful [[TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] groups like Music/TheBeatles, and their former manager/publicist Andrew Oldham removed at least one man from the group because they did not fit the mould of "thin, long-haired boys" wearing identical suits. It was only on 1966's ''Aftermath'' that the group began to codify their signature sound, not only making the songs much more otherworldly and [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]], but unintentionally ditching the "boy band" image.
* When {{Music/Metric}} first formed in 1998, they had a different stage name (Mainstream) and very different musical output compared to their later releases. The "Mainstream" EP had little to none of the signature sound the group would codify on "Static Anonymity" and "Old World Underground", was much more downtempo and electronica-based, and didn't have supporting bandmates Joules Scott-Key and Joshua Winstead (they hadn't joined the band yet).
* Music/TheRollingStones' musical output was very different in their early years, especially for fans who only know of them based on their last two-three decades of work. The self-titled album released in 1964 was comprised almost entirely of covers (with one original song written by Jagger/Richards), and was heavily R&B-oriented. Their debut tour in the United States was a disaster - television hosts made fun of them for dressing as a ripoff of other successful [[TheBritishInvasion British Invasion]] groups like Music/TheBeatles, and their former manager/publicist Andrew Oldham removed at least one man from the group because they did not fit the mould of "thin, long-haired boys" wearing identical suits. It was only on 1966's ''Aftermath'' that the group began to codify their signature sound, not only making the songs much more otherworldly and [[DarkerAndEdgier darker]], but unintentionally ditching the "boy band" image.
* When {{Music/Metric}} first formed in 1998, they had a different stage name (Mainstream) and very different musical output compared to their later releases. The "Mainstream" EP had little to none of the signature sound the group would codify on "Static Anonymity" and "Old World Underground", was much more downtempo and electronica-based, and didn't have supporting bandmates Joules Scott-Key and Joshua Winstead (they hadn't joined the band yet).
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* {{Sabaton}} now sings almost entirely about historical battles, but didn't settle on this until ''Primo Victoria''. This can lead to a lot of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome, as the style's more or less the same, but you're hearing about the exploits of a random biker gang instead of, for instance, [[YouShallNotPass the battle of Wizna]].
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* {{Sabaton}} now sings almost entirely about historical battles, but didn't settle on this until ''Primo Victoria''. This can lead to a lot of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome, MundaneMadeAwesome, as the style's more or less the same, but you're hearing about the exploits of a random biker gang instead of, for instance, [[YouShallNotPass the battle of Wizna]].
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* Sugar Ray are primarily known for breezy pop-rock, but spent their first two albums as an AlternativeMetal band. The turning point was "Fly", a massive hit from ''Floored'' that was more than a bit softer than the surrounding material. Instead of letting "Fly" become a BlackSheepHit, they opted to just roll with it and go in a LighterAndSofter direction.
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* Sugar Ray are primarily known for breezy pop-rock, but spent their first two albums as an AlternativeMetal band. The turning point was "Fly", a massive hit from ''Floored'' that was more than a bit softer than the surrounding material. Instead of letting "Fly" become a BlackSheepHit, they opted to just roll with it and go in a LighterAndSofter direction. They did some humorous LampshadeHanging on this: their third album ''14:59'' opened with a short [[LyricalDissonance lyrically dissonant]] mock-DeathMetal song called "New Direction", immediately followed by much calmer material.
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* Underworld started out as a new wave/alternative pop band and released two albums (''Underneath the Radar'' and ''Change the Weather'') in this style, which also fetched them a minor American hit in the single "Stand Up". After a nearly five year recording hiatus following their second album, they emerged as an electronica/house group, which they have remained ever since.
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* Underworld Music/{{Underworld}} started out as a new wave/alternative pop band and released two albums (''Underneath the Radar'' and ''Change the Weather'') in this style, which also fetched them a minor American hit in the single "Stand Up". After a nearly five year recording hiatus following their second album, they emerged as an electronica/house group, which they have remained ever since.
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** The major influence in their shift was when they hired Mutt Lange as their producer, starting with their Highway to Hell album, the last one with Bon. You can clearly tell it sounds much more like their next few albums than ever before.
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** Music/ShaniaTwain's first album was good, if unremarkable, mid-1990s mainstream country. Her second album, ''The Woman in Me'', paired her up with rock producer Music/RobertJohnMuttLange, and she developed (for better or worse) the slick crossover sound she's forever known for.
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** Music/ShaniaTwain's first album was good, if unremarkable, mid-1990s mainstream country. Her second album, ''The Woman in Me'', paired her up with rock producer Music/RobertJohnMuttLange, Music/RobertJohnMuttLange (who became her husband), and she developed (for better or worse) the slick crossover sound she's forever known for.
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* Music/{{Slayer}}'s first album, ''Show No Mercy'', is quite a bit different from their later albums. It's slower and has more of a NWOBHM tint. In fact, the album is very similar in style to Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Kill'em All''.
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* AliceInChain's first album, ''Facelift'', is decidedly more metallic and clean-sounding than the band's later albums would be.
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* AliceInChain's AliceInChains' first album, ''Facelift'', is decidedly more metallic and clean-sounding glam-influenced than the band's later albums would be.
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* BadReligion's second album, ''Into The Unknown'', wasn't a punk album at all but a PROG ROCK album!
* AliceInChain's first album, ''Facelift'', is decidedly more metallic and clean-sounding than the band's later albums would be.
** The lyrics, while far from upbeat/happy, are also a little lighter and less pessimistic.
* JudasPriest's first album ''Rocka Rolla''. Need I say more?
* The first Music/{{Anthrax}} album with John Bush, ''Sound Of White Noise'', is a bit different from their later Bush-era albums. Its production is rawer, its songs are more brutal, and Bush uses far more multilayered vocals and high pitched screaming than on the following three albums.
* AliceInChain's first album, ''Facelift'', is decidedly more metallic and clean-sounding than the band's later albums would be.
** The lyrics, while far from upbeat/happy, are also a little lighter and less pessimistic.
* JudasPriest's first album ''Rocka Rolla''. Need I say more?
* The first Music/{{Anthrax}} album with John Bush, ''Sound Of White Noise'', is a bit different from their later Bush-era albums. Its production is rawer, its songs are more brutal, and Bush uses far more multilayered vocals and high pitched screaming than on the following three albums.
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* GarthBrooks' debut album was noticeably more mainstream than his distinctive rock and pop influences on later work, even if it contains his SignatureSong "The Dance". In particular, "Not Counting You" sounds like it could've been cut by nearly any guy in a cowboy hat.
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* GarthBrooks' debut album was noticeably more mainstream than his distinctive rock and pop influences on later work, even if it contains his SignatureSong "The Dance". In particular, "Not Counting You" sounds like it could've been cut by nearly any guy in a cowboy hat.hat.
* ZacBrownBand's first two singles, "Chicken Fried" and "Whatever It Is", are far more mainstream than their later work. This was because they were written well before the rest of the songs on their breakthrough album, ''The Foundation'' (2009). In fact, "Chicken Fried" was originally released in 2006 by The Lost Trailers, whose version was withdrawn because Zac changed his mind about letting someone else record it.
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* ZacBrownBand's first two singles, "Chicken Fried" and "Whatever It Is", are far more mainstream than their later work. This was because they were written well before the rest of the songs on their breakthrough album, ''The Foundation'' (2009). In fact, "Chicken Fried" was originally released in 2006 by The Lost Trailers, whose version was withdrawn because Zac changed his mind about letting someone else record it.
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* TaylorSwift was a lot less pop on her first album. The change in sound may owe to her phasing out Liz Rose as a co-writer: they wrote most of the first album together, but Rose co-wrote only a couple songs on her second. Since then, Taylor generally writes all her stuff solo.
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* TaylorSwift was a lot less pop on her first album. The change in sound may owe to her phasing out Liz Rose as a co-writer: they wrote most of the first album together, but Rose co-wrote only a couple songs on her second. Since then, Taylor generally writes all her stuff solo.solo.
* GarthBrooks' debut album was noticeably more mainstream than his distinctive rock and pop influences on later work, even if it contains his SignatureSong "The Dance". In particular, "Not Counting You" sounds like it could've been cut by nearly any guy in a cowboy hat.
* GarthBrooks' debut album was noticeably more mainstream than his distinctive rock and pop influences on later work, even if it contains his SignatureSong "The Dance". In particular, "Not Counting You" sounds like it could've been cut by nearly any guy in a cowboy hat.
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** Sara Evans and Martina [=McBride=] both had a very neo-traditionalist sound on their respective debut albums. Both ladies pursued a more country-pop oriented sound on their far more successful second albums, and gradually pushed in more pop-oriented directions for the most part.
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** Sara Evans and Martina [=McBride=] both had a very neo-traditionalist sound on their respective her 1992 debut albums. Both ladies pursued album ''The Time Has Come'', before adding a lot more country-pop oriented pop influence. Even her breakthrough hits from the mid-1990s ("My Baby Loves Me", "Independence Day", "Wild Angels", etc.) can seem like this compared to the much slicker, poppier, melismatic sound on their she developed as early as "A Broken Wing" in 1997.
*** Likewise, Sara Evans' debut album ''Three Chords and the Truth'' in 1997 was far moresuccessful second albums, traditional than everything that came afterward. It even had covers of Patsy Cline, Buck Owens and gradually pushed in more pop-oriented directions for the most part.Bill Anderson.
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* {{Skillet}}'s music used to sound very explicitly religious, like a lot of Christian rock groups; ''Ardent Worship'' and ''Hey You I Love Your Soul'' being the most obvious albums. "Collide" is when they started changing, and their songs began to sound more like mainstream Alternative Rock that have various Alternate Character Interpretation's. A lot of people don't even notice they're a Christian Rock group nowadays.
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* {{Skillet}}'s music used to sound very explicitly religious, like a lot of Christian rock groups; ''Ardent Worship'' and ''Hey You I Love Your Soul'' being the most obvious albums. "Collide" is when they started changing, and their songs began to sound more like mainstream Alternative Rock that have various Alternate Character Interpretation's.Interpretations. A lot of people don't even notice they're a Christian Rock group nowadays.
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* German [[IndustrialMetal NDH]] band Oomph!'s [[SelfTitledAlbum first album]] in 1992 was considered to be an ElectronicBodyMusic album. Their second album, ''Sperm'' (1994) had much more of an industrial metal sound, while retaining some EDM influences. It is considered to be the [[UrExample first NDH album]], inspiring artists such as Eisbrecher, Unheilig, Megaherz, and most famously, {{Rammstein}}.
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* German [[IndustrialMetal NDH]] band Oomph!'s [[SelfTitledAlbum first album]] in 1992 was considered to be an ElectronicBodyMusic album. Their second album, ''Sperm'' (1994) had much more of an industrial metal sound, while retaining some EDM influences. It is considered to be the [[UrExample first NDH album]], inspiring artists such as Eisbrecher, Unheilig, Megaherz, and most famously, {{Rammstein}}.{{Rammstein}}.
* TaylorSwift was a lot less pop on her first album. The change in sound may owe to her phasing out Liz Rose as a co-writer: they wrote most of the first album together, but Rose co-wrote only a couple songs on her second. Since then, Taylor generally writes all her stuff solo.
* TaylorSwift was a lot less pop on her first album. The change in sound may owe to her phasing out Liz Rose as a co-writer: they wrote most of the first album together, but Rose co-wrote only a couple songs on her second. Since then, Taylor generally writes all her stuff solo.
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* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches, and the humorous songs were less ethnocentric to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Furthermore, Lynn actually played a synthesizer instead of keyboard.
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* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches, and the humorous songs were less ethnocentric to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches, and the humorous songs were less ethnocentric to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Furthermore, Lynn actually played a synthesizer instead of keyboard.
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** JohnnyCash was originally a rock and roll singer (and in fact was one of the earliest inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame). In later years, he would often say that it wasn't ''him'' that switched genres; rather, but rather the genres themselves that changed. He just kept playing the same old music.
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* KatyPerry, she of the gravity-defying cleavage and songs about kissing girls, started out in the Christian music genre before going secular.
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** On Rodney Atkins' first single, he sang in a tremolo-heavy voice like Roy Orbison. He also dressed like a cowboy and sported a mustache. After a five-year hiatus, he returned with an image more akin to labelmate TimMcGraw before changing again to a more family-man appearance and sound.
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* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches.sketches, and the humorous songs were less ethnocentric to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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* ''{{Radiohead}}'''s whose first album, ''Pablo Honey,'' is cited as ''not being weird enough'' and is a fairly standard alt-rock album. They [[GrowingTheBeard grew much more ambitious]] with their next album, ''The Bends'', before becoming the wonderfully weird band we know and love with ''OK Computer'' onwards.
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* ''{{Radiohead}}'''s {{Radiohead}}, whose first album, album ''Pablo Honey,'' Honey'' is cited as ''not being weird enough'' and is a fairly standard alt-rock album. They [[GrowingTheBeard grew much more ambitious]] with their next album, ''The Bends'', before becoming the wonderfully weird band we know and love with ''OK Computer'' onwards.
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* CaptainBeefheart fans who stumble across his first album, 1967's ''Safe As Milk'' will be shocked to find that it's relatively normal, with very little of the weirdness that would appear in later albums like ''TroutMaskReplica'' and ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby''.
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* CaptainBeefheart fans who stumble across his first album, 1967's ''Safe As Milk'' Milk'', will be shocked to find that it's relatively normal, with very little of the weirdness that would appear in later albums like ''TroutMaskReplica'' and ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby''.
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** ShaniaTwain's first album was good, if unremarkable, mid-1990s mainstream country. Her second album, ''The Woman in Me'', paired her up with rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and she developed (for better or worse) the slick crossover sound she's forever known for.
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** ShaniaTwain's Music/ShaniaTwain's first album was good, if unremarkable, mid-1990s mainstream country. Her second album, ''The Woman in Me'', paired her up with rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, Music/RobertJohnMuttLange, and she developed (for better or worse) the slick crossover sound she's forever known for.
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* The Avalanches' ''El Producto'' EP did have the same dense layers of [[{{sampling}} samples]] as their more well-known ''Since I Left You''[[hottip:*: (The parrot sample that would later show up in "Frontier Psychiatrist" even makes an early appearance in "Rap Fever")]], but used them to a somewhat trippier and slightly less danceable effect. More importantly, while ''Since I Left You'' was instrumental except for sampled vocals, ''El Producto'' actually featured the group rapping WordSaladLyrics over most of the songs.
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* The Avalanches' ''El Producto'' EP did have the same dense layers of [[{{sampling}} samples]] as their more well-known ''Since I Left You''[[hottip:*: (The parrot sample that would later show up in "Frontier Psychiatrist" even makes an early appearance in "Rap Fever")]], but used them to a somewhat trippier and slightly less danceable effect. More importantly, while ''Since I Left You'' was instrumental except for sampled vocals, ''El Producto'' actually featured the group rapping WordSaladLyrics over most of the songs.songs.
*German [[IndustrialMetal NDH]] band Oomph!'s [[SelfTitledAlbum first album]] in 1992 was considered to be an ElectronicBodyMusic album. Their second album, ''Sperm'' (1994) had much more of an industrial metal sound, while retaining some EDM influences. It is considered to be the [[UrExample first NDH album]], inspiring artists such as Eisbrecher, Unheilig, Megaherz, and most famously, {{Rammstein}}.
*German [[IndustrialMetal NDH]] band Oomph!'s [[SelfTitledAlbum first album]] in 1992 was considered to be an ElectronicBodyMusic album. Their second album, ''Sperm'' (1994) had much more of an industrial metal sound, while retaining some EDM influences. It is considered to be the [[UrExample first NDH album]], inspiring artists such as Eisbrecher, Unheilig, Megaherz, and most famously, {{Rammstein}}.
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* The Avalanches' ''El Producto'' EP did have the same dense layers of [[{{sampling}} samples]] as their more well-known ''Since I Left You'', but used them to a somewhat trippier and slightly less danceable effect. More importantly, while ''Since I Left You'' was instrumental except for sampled vocals, ''El Producto'' actually featured the group rapping WordSaladLyrics over most of the songs.
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* The Avalanches' ''El Producto'' EP did have the same dense layers of [[{{sampling}} samples]] as their more well-known ''Since I Left You'', You''[[hottip:*: (The parrot sample that would later show up in "Frontier Psychiatrist" even makes an early appearance in "Rap Fever")]], but used them to a somewhat trippier and slightly less danceable effect. More importantly, while ''Since I Left You'' was instrumental except for sampled vocals, ''El Producto'' actually featured the group rapping WordSaladLyrics over most of the songs.
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* The Avalanches' ''El Producto'' EP did have the same dense layers of [[{{sampling}} samples]] as their more well-known ''Since I Left You'', but used them to a somewhat trippier and slightly less danceable effect. More importantly, while ''Since I Left You'' was instrumental except for sampled vocals, ''El Producto'' actually featured the group rapping WordSaladLyrics over most of the songs.
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* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches.
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* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches.sketches.
* The Avalanches' ''El Producto'' EP did have the dense layers of [[{{sampling}} samples]] as their more well-known ''Since I Left You'', but used them to a somewhat trippier and slightly less danceable effect. More importantly, while ''Since I Left You'' was instrumental except for sampled vocals, ''El Producto'' actually featured the group rapping WordSaladLyrics over most of the songs.
* The Avalanches' ''El Producto'' EP did have the dense layers of [[{{sampling}} samples]] as their more well-known ''Since I Left You'', but used them to a somewhat trippier and slightly less danceable effect. More importantly, while ''Since I Left You'' was instrumental except for sampled vocals, ''El Producto'' actually featured the group rapping WordSaladLyrics over most of the songs.
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** KennyChesney is another pretty extreme example. In the 1990s, his material was barely discernible from any other young hunk in a cowboy hat, and he had a twang that could rival Aaron Tippin's. By the end of the decade, he started to lean a little more pop and his voice lost some of its nasality. After a detour into JimmyBuffett-esque beach music, he's gone very mellow, downbeat and introspective, and his voice is soft and devoid of twang.
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** KennyChesney is another pretty extreme example. In the 1990s, his material was barely discernible from any other young hunk in a cowboy hat, and he had a twang that could rival Aaron Tippin's.heavy twang. By the end of the decade, he started to lean a little more pop and his voice lost some of its nasality. After a detour into He now sings without the slightest hint of twang, and alternates between arena rock, JimmyBuffett-esque beach music, he's gone very mellow, downbeat country, and introspective, slow, acoustic numbers such as "You and his voice is soft and devoid of twang.Tequila".
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* {{Sabaton}} now sings almost entirely about historical battles, but didn't settle on this until ''Primo Victoria''. This can lead to a lot of WhatDoYouMeanItsNotAwesome, as the style's more or less the same, but you're hearing about the exploits of a random biker gang instead of, for instance, [[YouShallNotPass the battle of Wizna]].
* The songs recorded in the mid-1970s by [[Music/{{ACDC}} AC/DC]], arguably the biggest rock band on the planet today, sounded very different from their later hits; this was primarily because they weren't quite taking themselves seriously yet, and mostly preferred crude novelty songs. And the band that was the spiritual forerunner of AC/DC - the BritishInvasion one-hit wonder The Easybeats - hardly sounds like AC/DC at all.
** Probably because that was with their original singer, Bon Scott, who [[AuthorExistenceFailure died in 1980]].
** The major influence in their shift was when they hired Mutt Lange as their producer, starting with their Highway to Hell album, the last one with Bon. You can clearly tell it sounds much more like their next few albums than ever before.
* ''{{Radiohead}}'''s whose first album, ''Pablo Honey,'' is cited as ''not being weird enough'' and is a fairly standard alt-rock album. They [[GrowingTheBeard grew much more ambitious]] with their next album, ''The Bends'', before becoming the wonderfully weird band we know and love with ''OK Computer'' onwards.
* Listen to the first works of Music/{{Pantera}} that came out in the early 1980's, then listen to anything from/after ''Cowboys from Hell''. The difference can be... staggering.
** If you believe Pantera's official website, their first release ''was'' ''Cowboys from Hell''. [[OldShame Their early works aren't even listed.]]
* This happens often in CountryMusic:
** ShaniaTwain's first album was good, if unremarkable, mid-1990s mainstream country. Her second album, ''The Woman in Me'', paired her up with rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and she developed (for better or worse) the slick crossover sound she's forever known for.
** ConwayTwitty was a rock/pop singer in his early days. It wasn't until the mid-1960s that he switched to country and became known for his sultry, romantic ballads.
** Sara Evans and Martina [=McBride=] both had a very neo-traditionalist sound on their respective debut albums. Both ladies pursued a more country-pop oriented sound on their far more successful second albums, and gradually pushed in more pop-oriented directions for the most part.
** Before Big & Rich was founded, members Big Kenny and John Rich cut solo albums (which went unreleased until 2005). Although Big & Rich's music was a bizarre yet appealing country/rock/rap mashup, Big Kenny's solo album was psychedelic rock mixed with synthpop and John Rich's was unflinchingly bland late-nineties radio fodder.
** KeithWhitley was also rather mainstream country-pop until 1988's ''Don't Close Your Eyes'' and 1989's ''I Wonder Do You Think of Me'', which pushed him to a hardcore honky-tonk sound. Unfortunately, he died in late 1989.
** Similarly, listen to VinceGill's 1980s work on RCA Records versus his 1990s and 2000s material for MCA Records. The RCA material reverberates the hell out of his voice and throws it up against walls of keyboards (par for the course in the 1980s), while the MCA material shows him exploring mainstream country, traditional country and bluegrass with equal skill.
** KennyChesney is another pretty extreme example. In the 1990s, his material was barely discernible from any other young hunk in a cowboy hat, and he had a twang that could rival Aaron Tippin's. By the end of the decade, he started to lean a little more pop and his voice lost some of its nasality. After a detour into JimmyBuffett-esque beach music, he's gone very mellow, downbeat and introspective, and his voice is soft and devoid of twang.
** RascalFlatts sounded very much like a boy band on their first album, particularly on "Prayin' for Daylight" and "This Everyday Love". This basically meant catchy hooky choruses, breezy high-voiced harmonies, and none of the band members playing instruments. By the time the second album came out, they shifted to a more country-pop sound, replete with two of the band members playing their own instruments (lead singer Gary [=LeVox=] doesn't play anything) and slightly more substantial songs.
* Long-lasting British band StatusQuo started out in the late 1960s as a psychedelic/prog rock band (during this time, they had their [[OneHitWonder one American hit]], "Pictures of Matchstick Men"), before switching in the early 1970s to the guitar boogie style they've maintained ever since. This is parodied by the very un-metal early songs of SpinalTap.
* CDR's 1999 debut was written and released before he had decided on a distinct sound. It's longer and more eclectic than much of his output, yet you'd be hard-pressed to draw a link between it and his later works.
* The 1982 self-titled debut EP by the band Swans is vaguely creepy, saxophone-laced PostPunk with a pronounced No Wave influence; their first LP, 1983's ''Filth'', is far harsher, not unlike some sort of primitive hybrid of {{Industrial}} and HardcorePunk. It is also far more unsettling. And then there's their second LP, 1984's ''Cop''. [[HellIsThatNoise "Brutal" does not begin to describe it.]]
** To simplify, the [[MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness relative rock "hardness" of the band's sound]] increased from a 5 to a hard 10 in ''less than two years''.
* Listen to {{Korn}}'s first album. Then listen to ''every single other one''. Sure, it's all NuMetal, but none of their work sounds as angry and raw as their first album.
* One could argue that TheBeatles were an example of this. Their first three albums were pure boy band pop music, meanwhile it wasn't until ''Beatles for Sale'' that they started to find their artistic footing. However it is argued that they didn't completely go from the [[FanNickname Fab Four]] to artists until ''Revolver'', which included much more experimental songs.
** It's insane that "I Am The Walrus" came out only three years after ''A Hard Day's Night''.
* CelticWoman's first concert focused much more on the solo artists, which makes sense - it was originally intended to be a one-off event at the Helix in Dublin, bringing together five of the biggest names in Irish music. The concert sparked a tour, Celtic Woman exploded onto the World Music scene, and by ''A New Journey'' the five artists - and the production team - had gelled into an organic, coherent whole. From ''A New Journey'' onward the performances were a pretty solid mix of duets/trios/group numbers and solo numbers, with each of the girls generally having one or two solo songs in the concert, and Celtic Woman had matured into its current form.
* TheResidents. Their earliest known works were remarkably less coherent than their more recent output.
* Merzbow, of all people. His earlier stuff put far more emphasis on avant-garde than it did noise. For example, compare ''Merzbient'' (a box set of twentysomething-year-old recordings on CD) with the more recent (2009-2010) ''13 Japanese Birds'' series.
* {{Slipknot}}. Seriously, ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'' bordered on NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly. It's considerably less cohesive than their current works.
** It gets weirder. The original vocalist, Anders Colsefini, had an entirely different style than Taylor that was more akin to the late Peter Steele of TypeONegative, meets [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Windstein Kirk Windstein]] of Crowbar, with a dash of [[Music/{{Metallica}} James Hetfield]]. The album also contains more than a few references to ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'' series; the eponymous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQqVhbMxj5w ''Slipknot'']] (an early version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC5ecWH8QgM ''(sic)'']]) being the most glaring example. And finally, to say it bordered on NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly, is a gross understatement as the album had jarring elements of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oQo72z6YW8&feature=related glam, funk, jazz, and lounge]]. Yes, ''lounge''.
* You can make this argument about NineInchNails. The first album, ''Pretty Hate Machine,'' was very electronic-influenced, sounds almost like a darker version of DepecheMode. It would take ''Broken'' and ''The Downward Spiral'' to transform the band to the industrial metal its known for.
* TypeONegative were always DoomMetal, but their first album ''Slow Deep And Hard'' contained more ThrashMetal influence than their more well known GothicMetal sound. Their lyrics focus more on Peter's hatred for certain people than they do on sex, although there are a couple of songs about the latter.
** Justified in that the songs on the album were written for Peter Steele's previous band Carnivore, who were a thrash band. This is also why the sound of the album is so raw. Type O Negative would become known for their clean sound quality (rare in metal) later on.
* {{Nickelback}}'s debut ''Curb'' and the follow-up album ''The State'' were a far cry from the Post-Grunge Pop-Rock sound that they're famous for. Those albums were much more in the vein of Godsmack as they were much heavier and Chad Kroeger's vocal style was much louder with a lot more screaming. It wasn't until ''Silver Side Up'' that Nickelback found their signature sound.
* The Spinto Band had a lot of self-released albums full of {{Ween}}-inspired NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly; by the time they got signed they whittled down their influences to something more coherent. ''Nice And Nicely Done'' and ''Moonwink'', their better known albums, are basically a mix of indie, Music/NewWave, and PowerPop. Earlier albums like ''Digital Summer (New Wave Techno Pop)'' jump from trippy instrumentals to ska to novelty rap.
* Japan's first album ''Adolescent Sex'' is camp glam rock with frequent use of the words 'dancing' and 'babe' and vocals delivered in quite a high range. Japan would become famous for melancholic new romantic music with baritone vocals and oriental influences. So anyone who was into the later stuff picking up their first album out of curiosity without reading about it first would have been shocked. Their second album, 'Obscure Alternatives' is very experimental and has Sylvian singing in both his older falsetto style and his later baritone style, with a mix of both the glam rock songs and the post-punk/new romantic style they would evolve into. Unsurprisingly, David Sylvian wishes Adolescent Sex never existed and that Obscure Alternatives should have been their first album, which is quite a brave statement considering many fans of the band discredit the first two albums entirely and start with their third "Quiet Life", which sounds like the band's signature style coming into place but not being quite there yet. Possibly because of this dramatic change in style, the compilation "Assemblage" was released at the height of their popularity in 1981. It features some of their early work and but also most of their later work that didn't appear on albums.
* The Human League were one of several bands who pioneered dark synthpop, recording two very dark albums, ''Reproduction'' and ''Travelogue''. A few years later, they dropped two of their original members, hired two female vocalists and gradually began turning into a pop-disco band, the most infamous example being ''Crash''. They were eventually ridiculed for their change in sound and have begun re-embracing their old style. It should be noted that the two members who left the original lineup (Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh) were those who formed the band originally, but were actually fired by the singer they hired (Phil Oakey). As a result they formed the band Heaven 17 with the singer they originally intended for The Human League (Glenn Gregory), so it turned out alright for them too.
* The majority of ''Split Enz'''s earlier songs could best be described as strange, ethereal ballads, often over six minutes minutes in length. As of their third album they shifted to a much more poppy and mainstream music style (though still fairly quirky).
* {{Skillet}}'s music used to sound very explicitly religious, like a lot of Christian rock groups; ''Ardent Worship'' and ''Hey You I Love Your Soul'' being the most obvious albums. "Collide" is when they started changing, and their songs began to sound more like mainstream Alternative Rock that have various Alternate Character Interpretation's. A lot of people don't even notice they're a Christian Rock group nowadays.
* On their self-titled first album, {{Rush}} sounds like just another Music/LedZeppelin clone. This started to change with their second album, ''Fly By Night'', when drummer Neil Peart joined and took over writing most of the lyrics, although it took another couple albums until they finally became the {{Rush}} pop culture knows them as.
* Similarly, on ''their'' first album, ''This Was'', JethroTull sound like a {{Cream}} rip-off. Again, this began to change with their second album, ''Stand Up'', when original guitarist Mick Abrahams left, and front-man Ian Anderson started to monopolize the band's song-writing duties.
* {{Queen}} had much more of a rock feel to them in their early albums. They didn't really hit their stride as a GenreRoulette band until ''A Night At The Opera'', which featured hits like "I'm In Love With My Car", "39", and the wildly popular "Bohemian Rhapsody".
* TheFlamingLips' first EP was heavily psychedelic-influenced punk rock, with very low-pitched monotone vocals (courtesy of Wayne Coyne's brother Mark - Wayne got [[StepUpToTheMicrophone promoted to lead singer]] soon after). While psychedelia has pretty much always been a part of their sound, the first EP is barely recognizable as the same band. Even after switching singers, it sort of took a while for their sound to evolve - for instance, [[VocalEvolution Wayne Coyne took a few albums to start using the higher-pitched vocal style he's now known for.]]
* If you met LadyGaga from "Bad Romance" onward, listening to ''The Fame'' will be weird, as it's mostly standard electropop that mostly lacked the DarkerAndEdgier shock-rock/pop overtones from the newer tunes (except maybe "Paparazzi").
** Even more jarring is her pre-Gaga work as the namesake of the Stefani Germanotta Band. Their one EP, ''[[http://ladygaga.wikia.com/wiki/Red_and_Blue_(EP) Red and Blue]],'' features mostly (as phrased by [[TheWikiRule Gagapedia]]) "female-vocal ballads with a glam rock edge," very similar in style to her [[RearrangeTheSong acoustic versions]] of "Poker Face" and "Paparazzi". Though the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy6z23iJMLk title track]] is more in the vein of NoDoubt than anything else.
* The first two MatthewGood Band albums, ''Last of the Ghetto Astronauts'' and ''Underdogs'' are decidedly different from the next album, ''Beautiful Midnight'', and ''miles'' away from Good's solo work. The sound is different (''Astronauts'' in particular is fond of guitar-strumming instead of the guitar-playing in later albums), the themes are different, and the lyrics are much heavier on repetition. They're not ''bad'' albums, but the jump from ''Underdogs'' to ''Beautiful Midnight'', or from either to ''Avalanche'' (Good's first solo album) is jarring.
* Music/{{KMFDM}}'s second (and breakout) album, ''What Do You Know Deutschland'', had more of a proto-EBM or industrial electro type sound, similar to Microchip League, early {{Ministry}}, and NineInchNails' first album, rather than their signature IndustrialMetal style. Their obscure first album, ''Opium'', was more experimental and thus even weirder.
* PinkFloyd began in 1965 as the prototypical psychedelic rock band, a band noted for improvisational "freakouts", who were encouraged by [[ExecutiveMeddling record execs]] to produce hit pop singles. After 1967's ''The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'', their bandleader, Syd Barrett, became a tragic acid casualty (he only appears on three songs on ''A Saucerful Of Secrets'', and only sings on one), and bassist Roger Waters and new guitarist David Gilmour became vocalists/bandleaders. They spent 1968-72 basically "learning to use their chisels", as Waters would recently put it in a TV documentary, experimenting and slowly forming a group sound and style independent of Barrett, creating CultClassic albums like ''Ummagumma'' and ''Atom Heart Mother'' in the process. 1971's ''Meddle'' was the first work to resemble what we now know as the Pink Floyd sound and style. They also created music for Italian [[LeFilmArtistique psychedelic art films]] of largely instrumental tracks, two of which were released as soundtracks: ''More'' (1969) and ''Obscured By Clouds'' (1972). Fans who realize the existence of the first six or seven albums might barely recognize them prior to their 1973 breakthrough album, ''TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', by which Waters began to take over as FaceOfTheBand.
* DeltaGoodrem's first single ("I Don't Care") and the first two video's she recorded were decidedly pop to take advantage of the trend of the time. It was 2001 and she was finding her feet, but contrast incredibly with her Innocent Eyes and Mistaken Identity albums.
* While not as left-field as some others on this page, Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Kill 'Em All'' contains some weirdness that wouldn't be found in their next several albums. James Hetfield sings in more of a "shriek" than on later albums, and the album has a couple songs ("Hit the Lights", "Whiplash") whose lyrics are, in his words, "Sort of Music/JudasPriest, [[HeavyMeta 'let's go rock out..']]"
** Not to mention that while the music is as fast, loud and angry as they arguably never repeated, the production is kind of muddy and the instruments are hard to discern (particularly the drums).
* {{Covenant}}'s first couple albums were [[DarkerAndEdgier darker and harder]], closer to true industrial. They didn't take on the familiar Futurepop style until ''Europa'', their third album.
* {{Clutch}}'s first LP, ''Transnational Speedway League'' is a gritty metal album with a few lyrical homages to southern life. While there are some of Neil Fallon's trademark spacy lyrics, the blues influence that is currently a hallmark of the band's music is almost nonexistant.
* Underworld started out as a new wave/alternative pop band and released two albums (''Underneath the Radar'' and ''Change the Weather'') in this style, which also fetched them a minor American hit in the single "Stand Up". After a nearly five year recording hiatus following their second album, they emerged as an electronica/house group, which they have remained ever since.
* {{Ministry}}'s first album ''With Sympathy'' was a synth pop album in which Alain Jourgenson attempted to sing in a fake British accent. Their next album, ''Twitch'' is an album of aggressive EBM. Neither prepared anyone for their third album, ''The Land of Rape and Honey'', which premiered the harsh industrial sound they became famous with. [[CanonDiscontinuity Jourgenson has]] [[CreatorBacklash disowned]] ''With Sympathy'' and has been varying in his press statements on ''Twitch''.
* {{Coldplay}}'s work is mostly based on pianos ("Clocks") or sonic landscapes ("Viva La Vida"), but their debut, ''Parachutes'', is mostly filled with acoustic guitars.
* The Descendents' first single, ''Ride The Wild \ Hectic World'': As opposed to the melodic HardcorePunk they'd become known for, the two featured songs were sort of a mix of PowerPop and Music/NewWave, prominently featuring a SurfRock-influenced guitar-playing style with no distortion. In addition, Milo Aukerman hadn't joined the band yet, so lacking a real lead singer, members Frank Navetta and Tony Lombardo sang one song each. "Ride The Wild" and "Hectic World" were later included on the compilations ''Bonus Fat'' and ''Two Things At Once'', and the contrast with the rest of the material can be sort of jarring.
* The first two albums of {{Yes}} count. Along with the unique playing styles of founding guitarist Peter Banks and founding keyboardist Tony Kaye, Yes specialized in re-arranged covers of [[TheByrds Byrds]], [[TheBeatles Beatles]] and BuffaloSpringfield songs, while their originals showed more '60's pop influences. The band's second album, ''Time And A Word'' also incorporates orchestral accompaniment, which Yes would rarely use to such an extent until 2000's ''Magnification''.
** Also, their breakthrough third release, ''The Yes Album'', was Yes' first attempt at using synthesizers, and were used in a relatively subtle way, as keyboardist Kaye was reluctant to use them. Their multi-keyboard sound would not develop until the followup, ''Fragile'', by which Rick Wakeman would replace Kaye in the lineup.
* The RedHotChiliPeppers fit this trope to a T with everything before ''Mother's Milk'' (or their breakthrough ''[[NewSoundAlbum Blood Sugar Sex Magik]]'').
* {{Yeah Yeah Yeahs}} "Fever To Tell" is a lot more punk-sounding than "Show Your Bones" and "It's Blitz!".
* SelenaGomez mentioned that when making her first album as "Selena Gomez And The Scene", ''Kiss + Tell'', she hadn't yet decided on a style, so she imitated all of her favorite female singers. The album explores [[GenreRoulette pop-rock, pop-punk, new wave, electro-dance and hip-hop styles]] in a way she wouldn't for the rest of her career. It was only when the synth-electro-dance-styled "Naturally", her personal favorite, became a Top 10 hit, that the style for her next two albums would be decided on.
* {{Eminem}}'s [[OldShame first album]] ''Infinite'' had more of a low-key feel and sounded more like the other hip-hop artists of the time that inspired him, and even contained less profanity. It wasn't until ''The Slim Shady EP'' and ''The Slim Shady LP'' that Eminem established his more "unique" style and his eponymous psychotic alter-ego, as well as more story elements in his tracks.
* {{Goldfrapp}} are constantly changing styles, so those more acquainted with the electro/dance of ''Black Cherry'', ''Supernature'' and ''Head First'' will probably be quite surprised at ''Felt Mountain'', their first album, which was incredibly trippy and about as far from dance as it gets.
* CaptainBeefheart fans who stumble across his first album, 1967's ''Safe As Milk'' will be shocked to find that it's relatively normal, with very little of the weirdness that would appear in later albums like ''TroutMaskReplica'' and ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby''.
* Industrial/EBM band ''Eisenfunk'''s first album, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Eisenfunk]] was nothing special compared to other bands. The only thing that distinguished them from others was the heavy use of electronic music and sampling. In their next album, 8-Bit, they kept the electonic music but overhaluled everything else, becoming much LighterAndSofter ([[RuleOfFunny and humorous]]) and incorporating numerous references to [[OneOfUs geekdom]]. It was these changes that made them well known. Their third album, Pentafunk stayed the course (for most part), leaving Eisenfunk as the odd ball album.
* {{Chimaira}}'s first album featured a much rawer, lighter sound, leaning towards NuMetal / IndustrialMetal. This sound was largely dropped on their second album, in which they found their signature [[GrooveMetal groove]] / [[DeathMetal death]] / {{metalcore}} hybrid sound.
* {{Chevelle}} has always been an AlternativeMetal band, but their first album featured a much closer sound to {{Tool}}, and Pete's voice was quieter.
* Gothic rock band Helalyn Flowers' first album had a rather IndustrialMetal-influenced sound. With their second album, they went somewhat LighterAndSofter and focused more on synthesizers, giving it a {{darkwave}} vibe.
* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches.
* The songs recorded in the mid-1970s by [[Music/{{ACDC}} AC/DC]], arguably the biggest rock band on the planet today, sounded very different from their later hits; this was primarily because they weren't quite taking themselves seriously yet, and mostly preferred crude novelty songs. And the band that was the spiritual forerunner of AC/DC - the BritishInvasion one-hit wonder The Easybeats - hardly sounds like AC/DC at all.
** Probably because that was with their original singer, Bon Scott, who [[AuthorExistenceFailure died in 1980]].
** The major influence in their shift was when they hired Mutt Lange as their producer, starting with their Highway to Hell album, the last one with Bon. You can clearly tell it sounds much more like their next few albums than ever before.
* ''{{Radiohead}}'''s whose first album, ''Pablo Honey,'' is cited as ''not being weird enough'' and is a fairly standard alt-rock album. They [[GrowingTheBeard grew much more ambitious]] with their next album, ''The Bends'', before becoming the wonderfully weird band we know and love with ''OK Computer'' onwards.
* Listen to the first works of Music/{{Pantera}} that came out in the early 1980's, then listen to anything from/after ''Cowboys from Hell''. The difference can be... staggering.
** If you believe Pantera's official website, their first release ''was'' ''Cowboys from Hell''. [[OldShame Their early works aren't even listed.]]
* This happens often in CountryMusic:
** ShaniaTwain's first album was good, if unremarkable, mid-1990s mainstream country. Her second album, ''The Woman in Me'', paired her up with rock producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange, and she developed (for better or worse) the slick crossover sound she's forever known for.
** ConwayTwitty was a rock/pop singer in his early days. It wasn't until the mid-1960s that he switched to country and became known for his sultry, romantic ballads.
** Sara Evans and Martina [=McBride=] both had a very neo-traditionalist sound on their respective debut albums. Both ladies pursued a more country-pop oriented sound on their far more successful second albums, and gradually pushed in more pop-oriented directions for the most part.
** Before Big & Rich was founded, members Big Kenny and John Rich cut solo albums (which went unreleased until 2005). Although Big & Rich's music was a bizarre yet appealing country/rock/rap mashup, Big Kenny's solo album was psychedelic rock mixed with synthpop and John Rich's was unflinchingly bland late-nineties radio fodder.
** KeithWhitley was also rather mainstream country-pop until 1988's ''Don't Close Your Eyes'' and 1989's ''I Wonder Do You Think of Me'', which pushed him to a hardcore honky-tonk sound. Unfortunately, he died in late 1989.
** Similarly, listen to VinceGill's 1980s work on RCA Records versus his 1990s and 2000s material for MCA Records. The RCA material reverberates the hell out of his voice and throws it up against walls of keyboards (par for the course in the 1980s), while the MCA material shows him exploring mainstream country, traditional country and bluegrass with equal skill.
** KennyChesney is another pretty extreme example. In the 1990s, his material was barely discernible from any other young hunk in a cowboy hat, and he had a twang that could rival Aaron Tippin's. By the end of the decade, he started to lean a little more pop and his voice lost some of its nasality. After a detour into JimmyBuffett-esque beach music, he's gone very mellow, downbeat and introspective, and his voice is soft and devoid of twang.
** RascalFlatts sounded very much like a boy band on their first album, particularly on "Prayin' for Daylight" and "This Everyday Love". This basically meant catchy hooky choruses, breezy high-voiced harmonies, and none of the band members playing instruments. By the time the second album came out, they shifted to a more country-pop sound, replete with two of the band members playing their own instruments (lead singer Gary [=LeVox=] doesn't play anything) and slightly more substantial songs.
* Long-lasting British band StatusQuo started out in the late 1960s as a psychedelic/prog rock band (during this time, they had their [[OneHitWonder one American hit]], "Pictures of Matchstick Men"), before switching in the early 1970s to the guitar boogie style they've maintained ever since. This is parodied by the very un-metal early songs of SpinalTap.
* CDR's 1999 debut was written and released before he had decided on a distinct sound. It's longer and more eclectic than much of his output, yet you'd be hard-pressed to draw a link between it and his later works.
* The 1982 self-titled debut EP by the band Swans is vaguely creepy, saxophone-laced PostPunk with a pronounced No Wave influence; their first LP, 1983's ''Filth'', is far harsher, not unlike some sort of primitive hybrid of {{Industrial}} and HardcorePunk. It is also far more unsettling. And then there's their second LP, 1984's ''Cop''. [[HellIsThatNoise "Brutal" does not begin to describe it.]]
** To simplify, the [[MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness relative rock "hardness" of the band's sound]] increased from a 5 to a hard 10 in ''less than two years''.
* Listen to {{Korn}}'s first album. Then listen to ''every single other one''. Sure, it's all NuMetal, but none of their work sounds as angry and raw as their first album.
* One could argue that TheBeatles were an example of this. Their first three albums were pure boy band pop music, meanwhile it wasn't until ''Beatles for Sale'' that they started to find their artistic footing. However it is argued that they didn't completely go from the [[FanNickname Fab Four]] to artists until ''Revolver'', which included much more experimental songs.
** It's insane that "I Am The Walrus" came out only three years after ''A Hard Day's Night''.
* CelticWoman's first concert focused much more on the solo artists, which makes sense - it was originally intended to be a one-off event at the Helix in Dublin, bringing together five of the biggest names in Irish music. The concert sparked a tour, Celtic Woman exploded onto the World Music scene, and by ''A New Journey'' the five artists - and the production team - had gelled into an organic, coherent whole. From ''A New Journey'' onward the performances were a pretty solid mix of duets/trios/group numbers and solo numbers, with each of the girls generally having one or two solo songs in the concert, and Celtic Woman had matured into its current form.
* TheResidents. Their earliest known works were remarkably less coherent than their more recent output.
* Merzbow, of all people. His earlier stuff put far more emphasis on avant-garde than it did noise. For example, compare ''Merzbient'' (a box set of twentysomething-year-old recordings on CD) with the more recent (2009-2010) ''13 Japanese Birds'' series.
* {{Slipknot}}. Seriously, ''Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat.'' bordered on NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly. It's considerably less cohesive than their current works.
** It gets weirder. The original vocalist, Anders Colsefini, had an entirely different style than Taylor that was more akin to the late Peter Steele of TypeONegative, meets [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Windstein Kirk Windstein]] of Crowbar, with a dash of [[Music/{{Metallica}} James Hetfield]]. The album also contains more than a few references to ''TabletopGame/TheWorldOfDarkness'' series; the eponymous [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQqVhbMxj5w ''Slipknot'']] (an early version of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC5ecWH8QgM ''(sic)'']]) being the most glaring example. And finally, to say it bordered on NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly, is a gross understatement as the album had jarring elements of [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oQo72z6YW8&feature=related glam, funk, jazz, and lounge]]. Yes, ''lounge''.
* You can make this argument about NineInchNails. The first album, ''Pretty Hate Machine,'' was very electronic-influenced, sounds almost like a darker version of DepecheMode. It would take ''Broken'' and ''The Downward Spiral'' to transform the band to the industrial metal its known for.
* TypeONegative were always DoomMetal, but their first album ''Slow Deep And Hard'' contained more ThrashMetal influence than their more well known GothicMetal sound. Their lyrics focus more on Peter's hatred for certain people than they do on sex, although there are a couple of songs about the latter.
** Justified in that the songs on the album were written for Peter Steele's previous band Carnivore, who were a thrash band. This is also why the sound of the album is so raw. Type O Negative would become known for their clean sound quality (rare in metal) later on.
* {{Nickelback}}'s debut ''Curb'' and the follow-up album ''The State'' were a far cry from the Post-Grunge Pop-Rock sound that they're famous for. Those albums were much more in the vein of Godsmack as they were much heavier and Chad Kroeger's vocal style was much louder with a lot more screaming. It wasn't until ''Silver Side Up'' that Nickelback found their signature sound.
* The Spinto Band had a lot of self-released albums full of {{Ween}}-inspired NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly; by the time they got signed they whittled down their influences to something more coherent. ''Nice And Nicely Done'' and ''Moonwink'', their better known albums, are basically a mix of indie, Music/NewWave, and PowerPop. Earlier albums like ''Digital Summer (New Wave Techno Pop)'' jump from trippy instrumentals to ska to novelty rap.
* Japan's first album ''Adolescent Sex'' is camp glam rock with frequent use of the words 'dancing' and 'babe' and vocals delivered in quite a high range. Japan would become famous for melancholic new romantic music with baritone vocals and oriental influences. So anyone who was into the later stuff picking up their first album out of curiosity without reading about it first would have been shocked. Their second album, 'Obscure Alternatives' is very experimental and has Sylvian singing in both his older falsetto style and his later baritone style, with a mix of both the glam rock songs and the post-punk/new romantic style they would evolve into. Unsurprisingly, David Sylvian wishes Adolescent Sex never existed and that Obscure Alternatives should have been their first album, which is quite a brave statement considering many fans of the band discredit the first two albums entirely and start with their third "Quiet Life", which sounds like the band's signature style coming into place but not being quite there yet. Possibly because of this dramatic change in style, the compilation "Assemblage" was released at the height of their popularity in 1981. It features some of their early work and but also most of their later work that didn't appear on albums.
* The Human League were one of several bands who pioneered dark synthpop, recording two very dark albums, ''Reproduction'' and ''Travelogue''. A few years later, they dropped two of their original members, hired two female vocalists and gradually began turning into a pop-disco band, the most infamous example being ''Crash''. They were eventually ridiculed for their change in sound and have begun re-embracing their old style. It should be noted that the two members who left the original lineup (Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh) were those who formed the band originally, but were actually fired by the singer they hired (Phil Oakey). As a result they formed the band Heaven 17 with the singer they originally intended for The Human League (Glenn Gregory), so it turned out alright for them too.
* The majority of ''Split Enz'''s earlier songs could best be described as strange, ethereal ballads, often over six minutes minutes in length. As of their third album they shifted to a much more poppy and mainstream music style (though still fairly quirky).
* {{Skillet}}'s music used to sound very explicitly religious, like a lot of Christian rock groups; ''Ardent Worship'' and ''Hey You I Love Your Soul'' being the most obvious albums. "Collide" is when they started changing, and their songs began to sound more like mainstream Alternative Rock that have various Alternate Character Interpretation's. A lot of people don't even notice they're a Christian Rock group nowadays.
* On their self-titled first album, {{Rush}} sounds like just another Music/LedZeppelin clone. This started to change with their second album, ''Fly By Night'', when drummer Neil Peart joined and took over writing most of the lyrics, although it took another couple albums until they finally became the {{Rush}} pop culture knows them as.
* Similarly, on ''their'' first album, ''This Was'', JethroTull sound like a {{Cream}} rip-off. Again, this began to change with their second album, ''Stand Up'', when original guitarist Mick Abrahams left, and front-man Ian Anderson started to monopolize the band's song-writing duties.
* {{Queen}} had much more of a rock feel to them in their early albums. They didn't really hit their stride as a GenreRoulette band until ''A Night At The Opera'', which featured hits like "I'm In Love With My Car", "39", and the wildly popular "Bohemian Rhapsody".
* TheFlamingLips' first EP was heavily psychedelic-influenced punk rock, with very low-pitched monotone vocals (courtesy of Wayne Coyne's brother Mark - Wayne got [[StepUpToTheMicrophone promoted to lead singer]] soon after). While psychedelia has pretty much always been a part of their sound, the first EP is barely recognizable as the same band. Even after switching singers, it sort of took a while for their sound to evolve - for instance, [[VocalEvolution Wayne Coyne took a few albums to start using the higher-pitched vocal style he's now known for.]]
* If you met LadyGaga from "Bad Romance" onward, listening to ''The Fame'' will be weird, as it's mostly standard electropop that mostly lacked the DarkerAndEdgier shock-rock/pop overtones from the newer tunes (except maybe "Paparazzi").
** Even more jarring is her pre-Gaga work as the namesake of the Stefani Germanotta Band. Their one EP, ''[[http://ladygaga.wikia.com/wiki/Red_and_Blue_(EP) Red and Blue]],'' features mostly (as phrased by [[TheWikiRule Gagapedia]]) "female-vocal ballads with a glam rock edge," very similar in style to her [[RearrangeTheSong acoustic versions]] of "Poker Face" and "Paparazzi". Though the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy6z23iJMLk title track]] is more in the vein of NoDoubt than anything else.
* The first two MatthewGood Band albums, ''Last of the Ghetto Astronauts'' and ''Underdogs'' are decidedly different from the next album, ''Beautiful Midnight'', and ''miles'' away from Good's solo work. The sound is different (''Astronauts'' in particular is fond of guitar-strumming instead of the guitar-playing in later albums), the themes are different, and the lyrics are much heavier on repetition. They're not ''bad'' albums, but the jump from ''Underdogs'' to ''Beautiful Midnight'', or from either to ''Avalanche'' (Good's first solo album) is jarring.
* Music/{{KMFDM}}'s second (and breakout) album, ''What Do You Know Deutschland'', had more of a proto-EBM or industrial electro type sound, similar to Microchip League, early {{Ministry}}, and NineInchNails' first album, rather than their signature IndustrialMetal style. Their obscure first album, ''Opium'', was more experimental and thus even weirder.
* PinkFloyd began in 1965 as the prototypical psychedelic rock band, a band noted for improvisational "freakouts", who were encouraged by [[ExecutiveMeddling record execs]] to produce hit pop singles. After 1967's ''The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn'', their bandleader, Syd Barrett, became a tragic acid casualty (he only appears on three songs on ''A Saucerful Of Secrets'', and only sings on one), and bassist Roger Waters and new guitarist David Gilmour became vocalists/bandleaders. They spent 1968-72 basically "learning to use their chisels", as Waters would recently put it in a TV documentary, experimenting and slowly forming a group sound and style independent of Barrett, creating CultClassic albums like ''Ummagumma'' and ''Atom Heart Mother'' in the process. 1971's ''Meddle'' was the first work to resemble what we now know as the Pink Floyd sound and style. They also created music for Italian [[LeFilmArtistique psychedelic art films]] of largely instrumental tracks, two of which were released as soundtracks: ''More'' (1969) and ''Obscured By Clouds'' (1972). Fans who realize the existence of the first six or seven albums might barely recognize them prior to their 1973 breakthrough album, ''TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'', by which Waters began to take over as FaceOfTheBand.
* DeltaGoodrem's first single ("I Don't Care") and the first two video's she recorded were decidedly pop to take advantage of the trend of the time. It was 2001 and she was finding her feet, but contrast incredibly with her Innocent Eyes and Mistaken Identity albums.
* While not as left-field as some others on this page, Music/{{Metallica}}'s ''Kill 'Em All'' contains some weirdness that wouldn't be found in their next several albums. James Hetfield sings in more of a "shriek" than on later albums, and the album has a couple songs ("Hit the Lights", "Whiplash") whose lyrics are, in his words, "Sort of Music/JudasPriest, [[HeavyMeta 'let's go rock out..']]"
** Not to mention that while the music is as fast, loud and angry as they arguably never repeated, the production is kind of muddy and the instruments are hard to discern (particularly the drums).
* {{Covenant}}'s first couple albums were [[DarkerAndEdgier darker and harder]], closer to true industrial. They didn't take on the familiar Futurepop style until ''Europa'', their third album.
* {{Clutch}}'s first LP, ''Transnational Speedway League'' is a gritty metal album with a few lyrical homages to southern life. While there are some of Neil Fallon's trademark spacy lyrics, the blues influence that is currently a hallmark of the band's music is almost nonexistant.
* Underworld started out as a new wave/alternative pop band and released two albums (''Underneath the Radar'' and ''Change the Weather'') in this style, which also fetched them a minor American hit in the single "Stand Up". After a nearly five year recording hiatus following their second album, they emerged as an electronica/house group, which they have remained ever since.
* {{Ministry}}'s first album ''With Sympathy'' was a synth pop album in which Alain Jourgenson attempted to sing in a fake British accent. Their next album, ''Twitch'' is an album of aggressive EBM. Neither prepared anyone for their third album, ''The Land of Rape and Honey'', which premiered the harsh industrial sound they became famous with. [[CanonDiscontinuity Jourgenson has]] [[CreatorBacklash disowned]] ''With Sympathy'' and has been varying in his press statements on ''Twitch''.
* {{Coldplay}}'s work is mostly based on pianos ("Clocks") or sonic landscapes ("Viva La Vida"), but their debut, ''Parachutes'', is mostly filled with acoustic guitars.
* The Descendents' first single, ''Ride The Wild \ Hectic World'': As opposed to the melodic HardcorePunk they'd become known for, the two featured songs were sort of a mix of PowerPop and Music/NewWave, prominently featuring a SurfRock-influenced guitar-playing style with no distortion. In addition, Milo Aukerman hadn't joined the band yet, so lacking a real lead singer, members Frank Navetta and Tony Lombardo sang one song each. "Ride The Wild" and "Hectic World" were later included on the compilations ''Bonus Fat'' and ''Two Things At Once'', and the contrast with the rest of the material can be sort of jarring.
* The first two albums of {{Yes}} count. Along with the unique playing styles of founding guitarist Peter Banks and founding keyboardist Tony Kaye, Yes specialized in re-arranged covers of [[TheByrds Byrds]], [[TheBeatles Beatles]] and BuffaloSpringfield songs, while their originals showed more '60's pop influences. The band's second album, ''Time And A Word'' also incorporates orchestral accompaniment, which Yes would rarely use to such an extent until 2000's ''Magnification''.
** Also, their breakthrough third release, ''The Yes Album'', was Yes' first attempt at using synthesizers, and were used in a relatively subtle way, as keyboardist Kaye was reluctant to use them. Their multi-keyboard sound would not develop until the followup, ''Fragile'', by which Rick Wakeman would replace Kaye in the lineup.
* The RedHotChiliPeppers fit this trope to a T with everything before ''Mother's Milk'' (or their breakthrough ''[[NewSoundAlbum Blood Sugar Sex Magik]]'').
* {{Yeah Yeah Yeahs}} "Fever To Tell" is a lot more punk-sounding than "Show Your Bones" and "It's Blitz!".
* SelenaGomez mentioned that when making her first album as "Selena Gomez And The Scene", ''Kiss + Tell'', she hadn't yet decided on a style, so she imitated all of her favorite female singers. The album explores [[GenreRoulette pop-rock, pop-punk, new wave, electro-dance and hip-hop styles]] in a way she wouldn't for the rest of her career. It was only when the synth-electro-dance-styled "Naturally", her personal favorite, became a Top 10 hit, that the style for her next two albums would be decided on.
* {{Eminem}}'s [[OldShame first album]] ''Infinite'' had more of a low-key feel and sounded more like the other hip-hop artists of the time that inspired him, and even contained less profanity. It wasn't until ''The Slim Shady EP'' and ''The Slim Shady LP'' that Eminem established his more "unique" style and his eponymous psychotic alter-ego, as well as more story elements in his tracks.
* {{Goldfrapp}} are constantly changing styles, so those more acquainted with the electro/dance of ''Black Cherry'', ''Supernature'' and ''Head First'' will probably be quite surprised at ''Felt Mountain'', their first album, which was incredibly trippy and about as far from dance as it gets.
* CaptainBeefheart fans who stumble across his first album, 1967's ''Safe As Milk'' will be shocked to find that it's relatively normal, with very little of the weirdness that would appear in later albums like ''TroutMaskReplica'' and ''Lick My Decals Off, Baby''.
* Industrial/EBM band ''Eisenfunk'''s first album, [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Eisenfunk]] was nothing special compared to other bands. The only thing that distinguished them from others was the heavy use of electronic music and sampling. In their next album, 8-Bit, they kept the electonic music but overhaluled everything else, becoming much LighterAndSofter ([[RuleOfFunny and humorous]]) and incorporating numerous references to [[OneOfUs geekdom]]. It was these changes that made them well known. Their third album, Pentafunk stayed the course (for most part), leaving Eisenfunk as the odd ball album.
* {{Chimaira}}'s first album featured a much rawer, lighter sound, leaning towards NuMetal / IndustrialMetal. This sound was largely dropped on their second album, in which they found their signature [[GrooveMetal groove]] / [[DeathMetal death]] / {{metalcore}} hybrid sound.
* {{Chevelle}} has always been an AlternativeMetal band, but their first album featured a much closer sound to {{Tool}}, and Pete's voice was quieter.
* Gothic rock band Helalyn Flowers' first album had a rather IndustrialMetal-influenced sound. With their second album, they went somewhat LighterAndSofter and focused more on synthesizers, giving it a {{darkwave}} vibe.
* The first album by DaYoopers included two dead-serious songs ("My Shoes" and "Critics Tune") and a parody ("Road to Gwinn", a spoof of WillieNelson's "On the Road Again"), two formats in which the band almost never dabbled again. It was also their only album besides ''Yoopy Do Wah'' not to include interstitial comedy sketches.
