band sells out
their music gets better
Has this ever happened?
Band sells out
Talking Heads
Define selling out
Nirvana
Selling out is based i hope my project takes off and I can get a chance to sign my soul away and sell out and do pop songs
Has this ever happened?
Yes. Every single time.
Aerosmith
Metallica
either means you change genres and make more commercially appealing music or you decide to spend a little more money on better production and this makes fans mad for some reason because they enjoy shitty sounding guitars.
In that case Teenage Fanclub for sure
Pink Floyd the thread
No.
Nine Inch Nails sold out to pop shit and it was extremely ass
Radiohead with Creep
Though you could argue the reverse and say they sold out by going "bleedbloop I'm le sad" and gained them selves the midwit faggot demographic
That might be the only answer.
So Iron Maiden?
Which is bullshit because s/t is the only album that sounds like that and is also the least faggy.
Genesis
Opeth
nirvana
selling out with your first single
the most wrong answer possible. The platonic ideal of wrongness.
Powerwolf and Sabaton
Some of the Britpop bands that sold out and got big in the 90's actually started in the 80's, but weren't that good. I am thinking of James and Pulp in particular. I remember going through their 80's work and thinking "this is really boring."
Queen
Fleetwood Mac
many such cases
Bee Gees
Black Eyed Peas
Foster The People
Dylan comes to mind unironically
Green Day got a lot of backlash from the scene when they sold out with Dookie and it was arguably their best album, critically acclaimed even by punk standards, only to continue a run of other good albums with Insomniac and Nimrod.
A lot of people prefer the raw nature of their first two albums and some argue that Kerplunk is their best but personally I find that staying indie would've taken them nowhere
The le sad shit was not at all popular anymore
Good example. I do like their earlier stuff, they had some good melodies and a lot of underrated songs in the earlier days but nothing as solid as Dookie would be and their later stuff
I heard Husker Du a bit recently and it seems like Green day was super influenced by them mainly in their pre Dookie albums
dylan was already famous and successful so it's not the same. It moreseo applies to bands who were unknown then got signed to a major label and thus had more money to record better.
The Who
Pavement
arguable because Queen got linked with EMI since their first album, from a tiny studio but EMI was the big leagues already, and it's not like they didn't want to go mainstream from the very beginning
peter green era better
shit you're right
Rush if you consider Moving Pictures to be "selling out" (it's definitely more radio-friendly than their earlier albums). Same for Pixies with Doolittle.
Agreed.
or you decide to spend a little more money on better production and this makes fans mad for some reason
give me ONE example of this