Alberto the Frog wrote:

Josef K wrote:Primal Scream would be acceptable only if this evolution was reversed.

Agreed, but only if it concluded with BG drumming for the JAMC.

Agreed. A good period for Scottish pop.

The Boys Next Door -> The Birthday Party

Beastie Boys

chairman_hall wrote:Blur.

Not a huge fan, but they became an okay band once Damon started
using smack.

If you look past some of the production, and past whatever stigma got attached to them due to popularity (something I was isolated from here), I actually thought they were a pretty good band the whole way through. Very different from start to end/now, but Graham Coxon was always doing something interesting and distinctive that caught my ear.

Tortoise. Oh wait, this thread is about the best band evolution isn't it?

Alberto the Frog wrote:John Denver meets baggy.

That was the worst piece of shit I have ever seen. jesus.

dontfeartheringo wrote:

Alberto the Frog wrote:John Denver meets baggy.

That was the worst piece of shit I have ever seen. jesus.

I'm left reeling.
How did they come up with this video?!
The song is pretty boring and inoffensive, if you ask me, but the accompanying image of Bobby Gillespie dancing like a twat, and a girl who looks mentally ill really throws me. Was it meant to be cool? Is this cool? Am I cool?

I'm so confused.

As for band evolutions, Black Dice is a great example, as simmo (I think) said.

Earth's trajectory has been pretty interesting. I think Hex is probably their best LP. Probably partly because it seems to have come out of nowhere.

houseboat wrote:Earth's trajectory has been pretty interesting.

haydon wrote:does it ever get good? i am not being silly, i just have the latest and it is bad. was it something different a long time ago? should i bother?

In their earliest incarnation, when they were signed to Rough Trade, Scritti Politti were a Marxist-inspired Post Punk group. They were originally a squat band like Crass and definitely very vocal on the whole independent ethos. Some of this early material is actually pretty good.

Later on, oh my.

Silkworm. The albums leading up to Firewater get progressively better in my opinion, but then again I was pretty late in hearing of them so that might affect my perception of them.

also Six Finger Satellite

and Kraftwerk, from the live band era up to the late 70's albums.