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* The Colors Album by Between The Buried and Me (Can't say anything about the other albums) has this in each song. For example, Ants of The Sky has polka, [[Pink Floyd]]-esque guitar solo, thrashing a-la Metaliica and Megadeth, and intense speed-metal screaming, melodic sections that would make [[Joe Satriani]] and [[Dream Theater]] proud, and thudding doom-metal sections. ''In a single song.'' The thing is that the styles switch nearly immediately, and doesn't sound bad.

* Almost every single [[Beck]] album does this. There's [[Genre Roulette|country, hip-hop, funk, folk, anti-folk, rock, metal, rap, contemporary, balladry, pop, disco, jazz]]... What with this being Beck, sometimes half of those are in the [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|same song]].

* The first eleven songs on the [[Remedy Drive]] album ''Magnify'' are all pretty standard rock (and the occasional bass solo). The last one, "Smile Upon Me", is acapella three-part harmony.

* By 1993, [[REM|R.E.M.]] had 2 massively successful albums with ''Out of Time'' (Shiny Happy People, Losing My Religion), and ''Automatic for the People'' (Everybody Hurts, Man on the Moon). Both albums, especially the latter, were relatively slow, emotional albums, with string and acoustic instruments everywhere. In 1994, however, they released ''Monster'', with loud, grunge-y, distorted guitar on every single track.

* While [[Tori Amos]]' sound evolves with every album, 1999's ''Strange Little Girls'' is a [[Cover Album]] of songs originally performed by men, exploring what it means to be a man [[The Cover Changes the Gender|from a woman's perspective]].

* Bob Dylan's been known to do this from time to time and has had many different genres but ''Empire Burlesque'' stands out being a uncharacteristic (though not for [[The Eighties]]) heavily produced synth pop affair (with one song even leaning slightly towards disco) and then he does it again in the same album by having it end jarringly with the quiet "Dark Eyes" a simply structured track that features only Dylan, a guitar and a harmonica without any studio embellishment whatsoever.

* [[Da Yoopers]]' 1992 album ''Yoopy Do Wah'', the last full album to feature original guitarist Joe Potila, was also the only album after their first not to include comedy skits between the songs. It also included "When One Love Dies", their first serious song since the [[Early Installment Weirdness]] of their debut.

* [[Alan Jackson]] did this twice in 2006: first with a gospel album called ''Precious Memories'', then a few months later with ''Like Red on a Rose'', a smooth, ballad-heavy AC album that was a radical departure from his neotraditionalist country sound. The latter was also the only album of his career which Keith Stegall did not produce (bluegrass singer [[Alison Krauss]] produced).

 

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