Bands love you loved but changed

[Turn7]

I ll start this with Band of Skulls - loved their sound and saw many many times , from 200 standing to Brixton academy.

Fantastic original tone and sound , but it seems
They fell out with the drummer and then disappeared sadly .

Watching the Glasto 2016 now, and they really had an original vibe for me .

What have you found ?

[Super Sonic]

Simple Minds. Great band up until New Gold Dream, Sparkle in the Rain had some good tunes.

[vladcjelli]

Surely the king of departure from where they were is Arctic Monkeys?

From working class social comment modern indie rock to faux anthem transatlantic bullst in a few short years.

Huge disappointment around these parts.

[Turn7]

Simple Minds - feel like their time had come and gone . Saw them in the pissing rain at Wembley stadium .

Artica - think they achieved success and started writing the songs they really wanted ?

[awooga]

Agree with the Simple Minds thoughts - they went downhill when they started doing the stadium rock stuff from Once Upon a Time onwards. A combination of Derek Forbes leaving, their drummer leaving and Jim Kerr changing his songwriting style from a notebook of lyrics to actually trying to be part of the composition.

Editors for me. First two albums were great, third album went all electronic and had some good stuff on it e.g. Papillon. Anything since is generic pop ste. Tom Smith's partnership on the Smith and Jones albums is superb though, although you wouldn't believe it's the lead singer and writer from Editors recording with the drummer from Razorlight and producing pure pop brilliance.

Coldplay and the Killers are the obvious ones I guess. Coldplay were decent the first two albums (Parachutes is still superb) and then went MOR and dreary. That Paradise song is pure dirge, can't stand it. Same with the Killers - hot fuss is epic, album after still decent then middle of the road beckoned and they've ran out of good ideas.