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"The Beatles started out with only three-chord songs... two years later, they were doing Sgt. Pepper's."
"Travis Scott is not only wrapping his ass off for the majority of this actual album but there's so many types of different performances where I never heard that in his catalog."
"The sound has changed in a way that I believe is great for hip hop."
"The reinvention of the Bee Gees was further demonstrated by the birth of Barry Gibb's iconic falsetto."
"This will probably go down as one of the best genre transitions for a rapper in history."
"I think the future of music is it's not uncommon to hear acoustic guitars on a rap song, to hear metal thrown together with pop, to hear all of this stuff kind of coming together."
"I think J Cole has gotten better over the years though I think him and dreamville collectively have kind of you know become like the label and the group to sort of like watch."
"I mean, the voice that you found on this record, there are moments that I feel you've found a tone and an emotion and a feeling to go along with these songs that I've heard very rarely if ever from you."
"From UK underground metalcore pioneers to global electro-pop superstars, Bring Me The Horizon are arguably one of the most innovative bands of our time."
"Franchise mode this year, it's much different than in the years past."
"Because the music evolved one of the things that I was very weary and I was very kind of focused on was the way that the music has to evolve."
"Bob Dylan's electric performance at Newport signaled the decline of folk and the rise of rock and roll."
"There's quite the transition not only with the musical aspect but the lyrical aspect as well."
"Rock and roll is constantly drifting... Let's reclaim this feeling that we need to express."
"Kendrick's sonic choices constantly evolve and serve as a model for rappers looking to stand out from a crowd."
"The resulting album, A Trick of the Tail, was released... Genesis surprised Everyone by sounding better than ever before."
"It honestly... took it to a whole other level... it's like part of the story... it's just fresh as can be."
"When Coldplay released 'Yellow,' everything would change."
"Viva La Vida would feature their most story-driven songwriting thus far, dealing with themes of love, war, death, loss, and revolutions."
"Dude, I can't wait to see if your music evolves... we're all cheering for you."
"Despite their continued commercial success, sometime around the release of their fourth record, 'Viva La Vida,' the world's adoration for Coldplay began to change completely."
"If there's like one single thing that's been the biggest common thread throughout the history of hardcore it's been the increasing influence of metal over time."
"I think their songs are becoming more badass their choreography and styling is becoming more badass but at the same time they're not an NCT clone you know."
"Tantrum is the name of this new track over here, and it goes a lot harder than some of the stuff she's been doing as of late."
"Kanye making gospel isn't something that's new to him because gospel music has always been influenced by black people."
"I think disco can still be a valid genre today."
"It's the best encapsulation of the Weeknd, and even though he's been around for a decade, it feels like he's only getting started."
"Perhaps Cemetery Gates is the best distillation of Pantera's new and exciting sound."
"Eric became driven to master the music he heard from the states, from the likes of blues man Big Bill Broonzy."
"How did they go from being a really nasty raw underground hardcore band to some of the most iconic universally respected rappers?"
"Madonna has proven to be not just a musician but a cultural phenomenon, changing the face of music."
"It's almost like a rough draft of their first album fallen."
"There's no real evolution in the sound, but a lot of enjoyable music."
"I feel like he's evolved as a rapper... evolved... step in the good direction."
"It's kind of like in the 70s phaser was to guitar what that west coast whistle thing was to Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg."
"He's willing to take risks and I feel like a lot of artists that are up and coming aren't willing to take the same risks and push the envelope the way that Baby Keem is."
"Lady Gaga, you know, I had only known her as a pop dance artist at that point."
"It was actually so bad I'm not gonna say that I don't think there would have been another record if he was still with us like Danny came into our group because we'd known him for a long time and brought like a new I think light or life to the band."
"Nikki DiMar's music changes direction from her sister's like a path that splits in a forest fire."
"The big story of 20th-century music is the way that classical and popular music collided with each other."
"Kanye brought the soul back, brought back a soul platinum and gold."
"In Rainbows bridges the gap between all eras of the band with cutting-edge production and intricate melodies."
"How did rock lose its place as the dominant musical force in pop culture and how did we get from like Motley Crue to Chief Keef?"
"The next generation will keep evolving the blast beat from here and take it to places that even now nobody could have ever thought was possible."
"Gorillaz: they are definitely not a gimmick at this point."
"Musically, artistically, this album is very much an improvement."
"Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde: this album represents the closest he ever got to the sounds that were in his head, the sound of the dying gasp of Bob Dylan as the folk troubadour."
"Where's the cultural movement around that? Where's the anger? Where's the new Joe Strummer? Where's the new Noel Gallagher?" - Peter Huck
"It doesn't just cancel the hum but as we take for granted now gave us a completely new sound." - Video Narrator
"Red Hot Chili Peppers, they change into the band that everyone else loves, with the good songwriting, 'California C' and all those songs, but I love the '80s Red Hot Chili Peppers."
"Music needs to evolve, it needs to have people trying things out, you know, and if they can't because there's no medium for them, then it sucks, you know, and then you might lose something really good."
"This was a Led Zeppelin of more ambitious songwriting and complex arrangements."
"We always try to have the same Backstreet sound which is our sound but sonically musically lyrically production-wise we always want to keep evolving and keep trying new things."
"Silence couldn't possibly top that third album, but it's really gone above and beyond this year."
"Whenever I'm listening to this and it feels like the natural evolution of brand new where they would be at this point in their career."
"Some people call them the Radiohead of metal because they always change and evolve their sound over time."
"Travis Scott always reinvents himself with every single album."
"Rubber Soul marks the Beatles as we know them to be: experimental, often playful, boundary-pushing musicians."
"For me, that was the apex of the creativity of the band."
"The year where new music and a new sound, a new era is upon us."
"Once Dave joined, Nirvana was just like a tight machine." - Chris Novoselich
"The big change in this album is that they added Scar back to their sound and it sounded amazing."
"Kanye West just did what he's always done. He's always had a gospel sound, period."
"After Hours brought The Weeknd back to life, combining the nihilistic sinister morbid aesthetic of trilogy and the polish and pop appeal of Starboy and Beauty Behind the Madness."
"The Beatles were kind of some pioneers and moving us towards this rock style."
"Cherry Bomb was the start of a new creative direction for Tyler, straying away from the rap and hip-hop side of his work."
"...they do it well on this record, and not to mention ftsk are kind of heavier than they've ever been before on this album..."
"Every band, no matter what band you love... there's a period in their history you don't care for."
"There was a lot of kind of birth pains in the process by which the group arrived at its more identifiable, cogent style a couple years later."
"Musical instruments have always used the most advanced technology at the time."
"Every album Mac's done, he's changed his sound."
"Honestly, getting back into the subject of Steely Dan's musical evolution, I consider this album to be one of their most sophisticated and fusion-oriented efforts, alongside 'Asia'."
"This music that I put out now is undeniable. And you're going to hear that from the next project versus the last project because the last project is music from two, three years ago."
I think this is a really interesting kind of pivot after "X and Y," still big anthemic stadium rock for the most part, but I think Eno pushing them to do something different on every track really works compared to "X and Y."
"As a loose concept album, the Arctic Monkeys sixth LP marks the moment the British band have evolved from garage rock revivalists into a fully fledged art rock band."
"This LP is a remarkable evolution from the Arctic Monkeys earlier work with a fairly clever sci-fi concept and it will be interesting how they continue to develop this new musical approach."
"17's success story is one of the best that I've had the pleasure to witness... they had a slow and steady rise getting better and better with each era."
"The biggest thing I'm noticing is not only sonically are these songs different, but the structure and the way the songs transition is completely structurally different than anything we've heard from her before."
"But then, you know, they had the pop hooks were still here in a big way, especially you can start to hear it on 'I, Robot,' but the arranging, the production values, just absolutely top-notch."
"Purpose, it's not us, what's the purpose? She's on her Renaissance."
"It's okay for us to say that Mr. Moran and Big Steppas is one of his better, more open projects without saying this is the best that he's done just because it's his most recent."
"I enjoyed Jay going in his conscious bag."
"We were talking about Voodoo before we even finished Brown Sugar."
"You're holding on to the past, but jazz is about the future."
"Back in the 1950s and 60s when rock combos had taken a firm foothold in the music scene, all of the main instruments—guitar, bass, and drums—had one common character: their sound. They all had a sharp attack."
"I love the evolution of this band."
"The old Taylor stylistically is dead, but the songwriter Taylor just gets better."
"1984... so many great songs and I really admire the direction they went at the time."
"Okay Computer is the perfect bridge between guitar rock of The Bends and experimentalism of Kid A."
"With each new album, Bernie Shaw is becoming the definitive voice of Uriah Heep."
"It's just like shimmering from the speakers, it was recorded in Paris at Elton John's urging, gone are the early leaning hippie-isms traded in for one of the cockiest struts in rock history."
"This piece transformed the way composers used rhythm, harmony, and orchestration, paving the way for the radical musical changes of the 20th century."
"It's a natural evolution of a band."
"I think better guitars being made today than ever before."
"Rubber Soul was the bridge from the early Beatles to the experimental Beatles."
"Instrumental surf would continue to innovate on itself, spitting out classic riffs, guitar lines, and rhythms, getting faster, bolder, perfecting itself."
"Rubber Soul is the bridge from the early Beatles to the experimental Beatles."
"The album was noted for its different musical style compared to One Direction's previous albums."
"I can't wait to hear the modern-day version of 'Adrenaline'."
"Radiohead started off in more traditional grunge and alternative rock territory with Pablo Honey only to take a complete departure with their third record OK Computer."
"My setup for my live solo gigs has just completely changed."
"Going in a more jazzy, neo-soul direction compared to Cherry Bomb's distorted rock and soul sound."
"Lana finally embracing the vintage pop and rock sounds that have always inspired her."
"Hip hop's been progressing through the decades... these fringe artists are always pushing the medium forward."
"As the Grateful Dead progressed, they just really developed their own style, the jam band style you know."
"She took control of her career, moved out on her own, and developed her own sound and influential style."
"The 'Awake' part was eye-opening from Serj and prophetic of what the band would become."
"Soundwise very minimal, very different from 'Bite Me', right? It's such a different sound."
"After Hours, The Weeknd would enter an entirely new era both sonically and creatively."
"So well at the time of this album coming out, it felt like the perfect follow-up to 'From Mars to Sirius'."
"This shift into an even more abstract direction was almost inevitable in retrospect; it defined Broadcast's biggest legacy moment in music."
"For better or worse, Satie instigated a shift in the way that we listen to music, and we're still seeing the effects of this in our everyday lives."
"These changes will be reflected in their sound."
"Every song that I put out, my voice is just going deeper and deeper."
"It was against this backdrop that just as psychedelic Cumbia was emerging in Lima, a similar sound was forming with a distinctly Amazonian touch."
"By the time of Rubber Soul, they were ready for new musical directions."
"For the first time, we began to think of albums as art on their own, as complete entities."
"We managed to erase that sort of tag and cliche that got put on us... when 'The Stairway to Heaven' came out, they realized that we were a group that was intent on change."
"What can we expect from the new album? Better production, growth in my lyrics, growth in my voice."
"As the musical landscape evolved, so too did their sound, embracing the diverse influences of the 1970s."
"The term Byzantine music refers to the music from the founding of Constantinople in 330 A.D to the present day."
"This Love works on many levels and when you pull a song like this and compare it to the past 15 plus years of Maroon 5, this track is light years above everything else."
"The idea that music didn't actually progress; music was just different now than it was then, but that didn't rob early music of its ability to be powerful or to speak to people."
"Self-titled added more maturity, another little step up."
"Dirty Mind was exciting, from the second album to Dirty Mind, it's a big leap, the biggest leap of all."
"I think A Rush of Blood to the Head actually shows Coldplay advanced, they got a little darker, they got a little heavier."
"The new Memphis Sound was just beginning to emerge around this time."
"This sound was different from the music TI, Gucci, and Jeezy popularized as trap in the 2000s."
"I've kind of found myself a little bit more in conscious music."
"That song has maturity and the sort of Firepower these charts could really use and shows a real Evolution for Kesha as an artist."
"I've gotta say I enjoy it, but damn if it doesn't feel like we're getting like a whole other side of both Lovejoy and Wilbur."
"They completely reinvented themselves with this record."
"This is the album that brings Deftones into another bold new era."
"I think it really was another level and another gear that Cozy helped them get into."
"Freddie switched from the banjo to the guitar and really began developing an artistic rhythm approach."
"In Rainbows by Radiohead, it just feels like the band was just gelling so well on this record."
"But when I go to play it loud, I can really start to hear the differences that this piano has in power, in cleanness, and of tone and all kinds of stuff like that that really separates this from a modern piano."
"I personally, I want to pass this on to the next generation of music and stuff that I want to listen to, like new things and other people making new things."
"She's clearly on this upwards trajectory of musical refinement and increasing sophistication of her music."
"That one decade from '60 to '70 was just pure evolution of music."
"I'm feeling, I uh, I know that I'm pretty strict towards the Beatles, but this to me is like their final evolution."
"The progression from mento to ska, Rocksteady into reggae."
"It's so interesting to see how they've gone from District 9 to My Pace, where I feel like they're really experimenting with their sound and styling."
"This one, they sound grown... it just feels like grown man hip-hop, grown man music."