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** This was actually intended as a spinoff project (named "Cinema"), until Yes vocalist Jon Anderson liked the sound of the demos and decided to make it a Yes album.

** ''Drama'' from the same band is worth mentioning here, as it brought a new wave influence to Yes (courtesy of The Buggles' Trevor Horn, who helped define that musical style throughout the 1980s) years before ''90125''. Some critics, like Jeremy Parish of [[Game Spite]], argue that it did a better job of bringing the band into the new decade than the two subsequent albums. Not satisfied with taking Yes in ''one'' new direction, Horn and his bandmates also wrote Machine Messiah, the heavy metal-flavored lead track that would become an influence for the harder sound of neo-prog artists like Dream Theater.

** Also, when frontman Tom Delonge went on to form [[Angels and Airwaves]], which was radically different in nature from Blink.

* [[Stone Temple Pilots]] started as a 90s grunge band typical of the era, but switched to 60s/70s-inspired psychedelic rock with ''Tiny Music''.

* [[Beck (musician)|Beck]], on '''every''' '''single''' '''album'''.

** From ''Guero'' onward, he's no longer been radically changing his sound on each release: but maybe it only seems that way, because (by now) he's ''already'' explored '''every possible''' genre.

* [[Led Zeppelin]], with their third album. The first two are mostly heavy blues-rock material; the third features only one blues song and an entire side of acoustic folk songs. Later albums would continue to explore different styles, but with hard rock being dominant.

* [[Franz Ferdinand]] executed one of these with ''Tonight: Franz Ferdinand'', breaking with the fairly typical (if well-executed) guitar-driven post-punk revival sound of their first two albums for a synthesizer-driven, dance-y sound. It works well, and they remain recognizably them.

* The [[Foo Fighters]], after their [[Post-Grunge]]-heavy first two albums ([[Self-Titled Album]] and ''The Colour and The Shape''), have decided to explore different styles - including an all-acoustic disc for their double-disc set, ''In Your Honour''.

** The Colour And The Shape is also their only album with a notable emo influence, which was caused by the band's bassist and then drummer (who had both been in Sunny Day Real Estate) contributing to the songwriting process. My Hero is the primary example of this, though so are the verses of Hey Johnny Park. Awkwardly, it remains the band's most popular album despite the fact they rock much harder these days.

* Rap superstar [[Lil Wayne]] decided to follow in the footsteps of his friend [[Kid Rock]] and record a [[Rap Rock]] album entitled ''Rebirth''. [[Your Mileage May Vary|It sucked hard]]..

* BT has changed sounds several times. His first album ''Ima'' was deep/progressive house, then he changed to drum&bass/trance/ambient/trip-hop for ''ESCM'' and ''Movement in Still Life'', then ''Emotional Technology'' was pop-trance, electro, and rock ballads. ''This Binary Universe'' was a complete [[Genre Shift]] to experimental ambient and new age material (influenced by [[Creator Breakdown]] due to his equipment being stolen and his daughter's kidnapping), then ''These Hopeful Machines'' ventured back down the ''Emotional Technology'' route, as well as incorporating elements of IDM and glitch-hop.

* [[Talk Talk]] started out as a [[New Wave]] band that already experimented with their sound as soon as during production of the second album. By the fourth one - titled ''Spirit of Eden'' - they may have became a [[Ur Example]] of [[Post Rock]].

* After helping define Melodic Death Metal in Sweden, In Flames began changing their style with ''Colony'' and to a greater extent with ''Clayman''. Then they released ''Reroute to Remain'' which is now considered by fans where "Old" ''In Flames'' ends and "New" ''In Flames'' begins. Each album after that has had its own distinct sound. This has lead to one hell of a [[Broken Base]]. Just check the comments on any of their music videos.

** Mostly due to heavy [[Executive Meddling]] in her first albums. The ones with her pink hair.

*** Well, to clarify, her first album was R&B/Hip-Hop, due to [[Executive Meddling]] (P!nk was supposed to have fronted an R&B girl-group, but was then offered a solo deal). She fought for more creative control with her second album, deciding to sing music in her preferred style. Each album reflects the people she worked with closely during the writing process (Linda Perry on "Missundaztood", Tim Armstrong of [[Rancid]] on "Try This", Max Martin for much of "I'm Not Dead"). The albums are also pretty good reflections of different periods in her life ("Missundaztood" dealt with much of her childhood, "Funhouse" was written during the time she had separated from husband Carey Hart).