Maven (famous)Whats a band/artist who's music all sounds the same?
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RhynoplazI get told this a lot. Sure, the range of guitar effects is limited if not non-existant, but fortunately they create a sound I like so… I’m glad they all sound the same? I guess.
I think though with Tool the changes are a lot more subtle than people expect, which makes them bad background music. The timing changes, and beats appearing and disappearing every second bar are not so noticeable unless you’re really listening to it.
Having been surprised to see Tool twice in this thread, I think you hit the nail on the head.
Between Maynard’s voice, and the basslines OP mentioned, they definitely have a distinctive sound, and I could see how it could blur together as background / casual listening music. Especially if you listen to mostly mixes ot playlists.
Personally, I almost exclusively listen to music by album, and I think thats where Tool’s songs really become more distinct from each other.
I love Tool but you’re right. Yeah they’re pulling all sorts of unexplored timing signatures out of their ass, so each song is technically unique in that respect, but the vibe is fairly consistently dark and meditative. There’s some exceptions though, I think The Pot really stands out from the rest of their stuff.
AC/DC and CCR come to mind. Doesn’t bother me though. It’s the audio equivalent to eating a bag of Doritos. The flavor doesn’t change, but every now and then there’s one with a little more powder on it.
IninewCrowand just like Doritos, every once in a while you gorge on a bunch of doritos until you get totally sick of them and swear you don’t like them any more. A month goes by and you start snacking on them again because you hopelessly like them.
"With us, it's to be expected. As my brother [Malcolm Young] used to say when somebody said, 'Every album you've ever made sounds the same...'
"He said, 'Yeah. It's the same band.' When we started, we weren't reinventing the wheel. This is what we do best - we make rock 'n' roll." ~ Angus Young
I am both amazed and disappointed it’s taken this long for me to learn how to sing AC/DC. It was Marge all along.
tatterdemalionHard disagree about CCR.
Nickelback
Multiple bands are just more Nickleback
they went disco for a little bit
Imagine Dragons. I don’t know a lot of their songs but when I hear them I can guess it’s them with pretty good accuracy.
I’d say Thunder sounds somewhat different from their other music, and I don’t enjoy it at all.
squirrelYOOOOOOOO sorry but this is my all time favorite band and Ive gotta stuck up for them. They have an unmistakable signature sound, yes, but not every song sounds the same like AC/DC par examplé as other people have rightly cited.
If you’d kindly take 2 mins to listen to a bit of the following songs I pulled off the top of my head and are still willing to say all their songs sound the same then I dont know what to say:
Here’s the standard kinda song you’re probably thinking about, You off of No Control:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=v1PgiBpTtao
Then put on Struck a Nerve from Recipe for Hate:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=vY-EXZkXWYA
Then Television from Stranger than Fiction:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-8hlEAJZdM
Then Turn Your Back on Me from Dissent of Man:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pqt38l_qTk
Then Faces of Grief from Age of Unreason:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=xpO7S29SgxQ
Thanks. For extra credit, they also had an album they kind of would everyone to forget about that was leaning into a kind of proggy sound, closer to The Who than their own sound if you want something thats way off in the wilderness:
Bad religion - you
Fuckin receipts brought up in here
hitstunOh dang! I also came in here to say Bad Religion, and I would have been wrong. Thank you for bringing sources.
It was not difficult to stand up to defend the world’s greatest punk band of all time (who’s lead singer has a Ph.D. and has taught Evolutionary Biology at UC Berkley (I think, somewhere in California)
I think I know what it is now. It’s the vocal melodies. It might be certain intervals and scales that he reuses over and over again.
Thanks for the suggestions. The songs you posted kind of back my claim. Don’t get me wrong, I like individual songs like 21st Century Digital Boy, Punkrock Song or No Control. But when it comes to listening to a whole album it’s too much of the same for me.
But “Into the Unknown” is crazy. I didn’t know they had an album that sounded completely different and each song is different. They seem to hide it well, it’s not on Qobuz, Deezer nor Spotify. I found a podcast about it, listening to it now.
Billion Dollar Record Club: Into The Unknown by Bad Religion
Just when you thought you knew someone...
fair enough. I kinda think if you think all BR sounds the same that you might think all Iron Maiden or Nine Inch Nails or Primus or The Doors sound the same, but I do get what you mean.
There are actually two primary song writers, Greg Graffin and Brett Guerwitz, and the album splits are about 50/50. Most of my favorite songs tend to be Guerwitz tunes. If you dont dig the whole BR gestalt then its gonna get old even if I think the songs I listed are pretty radically different. Il do get what you’re saying, though.
They deeeefinitely don’t do a lot of promotion of Into the Unknown. The only release of it after the initial cassette and CD release in SoCal was a pressing they made for their box set of their entire catalogue.
Id actually be interested to see if you thought Graffin’s bluegrass solo stuff sounds “samey” also:
Don't Be Afraid to Run
The Ramones.
If it’s been a while, I’ll listen to 5 tracks and be like “Yes, The Ramones!!!”
Then after a couple of tracks more I suddenly really need to put on something else.
That’s how I feel about Michael Jackson. Except he wasn’t a band. He was just 1 person who whispered like a shy little girl & flailed around onstage like a noodle and he kept grabbing his crotch and nobody asked him to grab his crotch.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 Hee hee!
^Hee^ Hee!
Mystery solved. The rhinoplasty was the reason MJ couldn’t stop grabbing his own crotch onstage.
You ever start trimming something and one side is longer than the other so, you try to even it up, but you go a little too far, so you have cut the other side some more, and it’s still not quite right, so you just keep cutting until nothing’s left?
Let’s just say Michael got that one on the house.
All your personal issues with the man are yours and not in dispute. I think a big difference here is that MJ was a musical virtuoso, not just a singer and showman.
Was he virtuoso though? I feel like his best work was with Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton and without them he was just meh.
Only two and one co-written on Off the Wall and three and one co-written on Thriller (although they are bangers). He did write most of Bad but anything outside of that is imo sub-par. I’m not denying he had a lot of talent but I think he’s far from a virtuoso.
Lol right. Give me a god damned break! You can’t be serious, you’re trolling, or genuinley know nothing of music.
Not trolling. I don’t find his solo work without Quincy Jones that exceptional. Granted the Jones stuff is amazing but Michael wasn’t able to replicate that on his own.
Maybe they’re sedated?
BamBamBamBam
They were reactionary, trying to destroy the pompousness of 70s stadium and prog rock. Fast and simple the way rock and roll began.
I’m not debating that they bring the hype, people love them and yes they have their influential place in the history of rock.
I’m just saying in this era, I am lost as to why anybody would seek that music out. It had its place and it had its time, but that was like 50+ years ago.
I don’t need to hear these boots are made for walkin’, and I don’t need to hear I wanna be sedated. They’re anthems from an ancient time.
Well, firstly, ‘These Boots are Made for Walkin’’ is a great song that sounds gorgeous compared to most of its contemporaries.
Secondly, there are pretty much no other bands that sound like Ramones. If you want that kind of fast and fun sound once in a while, there’s no other option. Most other punk sounds like punk, but no punk other than Ramones sounds like them.
The only ones sounding similar to Ramones are those making deliberate effort to emulate their sound: Ramonetures, ‘Gabber Gabber Hey!’, Helen Love.
Gabber Gabber Hey - A Loud And Fast Accelerated Tribute To The Ramones
You’re missing my point.
These are dried up, shallow pieces of music that had their place.
There’s actually good music you could spend your time on, which is what I do.
Somehow I’m sure just from your comments that I wouldn’t consider most anything that you listen to ‘good’, and I’ve heard lots of musics in my life.
Jackie's FridgeKrudler is coming at it like music is a zero sum game, which is silly. I love the Ramones. I also love more innovative, complex music, as well as plenty of vapid garbage. I’m happy jumping from Art Pepper to Guatafán. None of it is a waste of time if it’s what I’m in the mood for.
The Ramones were a fresh slap in the face back in the day, and without them punk & new wave wouldn’t be what they are. In the meantime, other artists have built on the Ramones’ foundation. Similarly, Jimi Hendrix revolutionised how people used the electeic guitar as an instrument, but other artists ran with it to the point that his stuff is archaic (I can’t listen to Hendrix for the same reason K dismissed the Ramones, but to each their own).
I guess what I’m saying is that even if you personally don’t like an influential band, you have to acknowledge that they might be exactly what resonates with someone else. That’s why we have so much music in the world. To the original topic though, Ramones music does all sound the same. Why mess with perfection?
In the case of Ramones, it’s kinda especially ironic to talk about other music building and improving on their foundation, seeing as they specifically returned to simple, fast and fun approach of early rock-n-roll. The heyday of punk was remarkably short-lived, post-punk swooping in almost immediately, and new-wave shortly after that. Already by '78, the ‘no wave’ scene did another round by steering away from commercialization of new-wave!
So indeed, Ramones are a document of this early era, but they also had their own particular approach to music, not quite captured by most other bands, as punk didn’t really have a groovy sound to it.
Traces of this can be seen in the fact that there are almost no electronic music that feels like Ramones-style structures, but with electronic instruments: i.e. electronic rock-n-roll. I know of ‘Gabber Gabber Hey’ and Helen Love linked above, and perhaps also Sexy Sushi. This is despite the existence of plenty of electronic punk and post-punk.
Fun fact: since Ramones are pretty much rock-n-roll in punk, their songs actually work well reinterpreted back in rockabilly (it’s impossible to find actual rock-n-roll covers because of their two songs with this word in title).
Marre, Marre, Marre, by Sexy Sushi
12 track album
OkokimupThat’s absolutely wild, her music is all over the place. None of the singles on her new album sounded anything alike lol
I’m not a huge Eilish fan, but “when the party’s over” is excellent and very different from everything else I’ve heard from her.
The Doors
Oh yes. They have certainly lost their touch.
Also Rammstein or Til Lindemann’s solo work (which is just Rammstein with less effort).
Bring in the downvotes.
Lol, there is no new singer