Acts who were on their way down, then got popular again by changing their style

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Bee Gees
Green Day
The Zombies
Britney Spears

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

yes

― bob abernethy (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

madonna

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:20 (twenty years ago)

james

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Elvis Presely (TV comeback/American Studios sessions)

This may also be true for the other Elvis (C.)...

― James, Monday, 19 December 2005 16:41 (twenty years ago)

The Rebel MC
Norman Cook

― Sororah T Massacre (blueski), Monday, 19 December 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

blur, just before modern life is rubbish

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 19 December 2005 17:05 (twenty years ago)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club?

Seemed like they were pretty much finished, and then "Howl" came out and folks were suddenly interested again.

― vartman (novaheat), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Santana

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 19 December 2005 20:54 (twenty years ago)

FLAMING LIPS!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 December 2005 21:03 (twenty years ago)

KISS c. 1983-84?

― Joe McCombs, Monday, 19 December 2005 22:12 (twenty years ago)

word...lick it up was big....and they sort moved over to a more metal style, less 70s rock.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

Hmm.. Neil Young fits in here to some extent. Or more, like, he got popular again after he stopped changing his style radically with every new album he released.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

nada surf, sort of

― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

Hall & Oates
Black Eyed Peas
Rod Stewart (about a dozen times)
Human League (Jam & Lewis era)

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:27 (twenty years ago)

Van Halen, unfortunately

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 19 December 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)

Kelly Clarkson

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

zombies? didn't they break up before they had hits

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:19 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie

― LeRooLeRoo (Seb), Monday, 19 December 2005 23:56 (twenty years ago)

Genesis
Frank Zappa (seemed to emphasize the humor more in the later years)
Spinal Tap

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

Hall & Oates is a really great answer to this. Their Philly Soul days were numbered when they turned rock on Voices.

Wondering if the Starship counts here, though I don't think their style really changed all that much between Nuclear Furniture and Knee Deep in the Hoopla. Just their membership.

― Joe McCombs, Tuesday, 20 December 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

Kylie Minogue - massive with PWL/SAW backing ---> started hanging around with the Manics ---> discovered hotpants and disco.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:47 (twenty years ago)

blur, just before modern life is rubbish

and again, after The Great Escape.

also, LIARS.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 13:50 (twenty years ago)

No Doubt

― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 20 December 2005 23:15 (twenty years ago)

nada surf, sort of

They got 1000 times better, but sadly, not more "popular."

The Weight Is A Gift is one of the best power pop albums of the 2000s, easy.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

would Tom Waits count? Seems like after the "change" he lost some of his audience(that was dwindling anyway) and gained an audience from other areas(but not en masse), he might have just come out even.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Human League (Jam & Lewis era)

Depends on whether you are speaking of the UK or the US. In the UK, they were never quite gone during the 80s, and apart from "Human", the "Crash" singles flopped completely. It took a couple of singles from the very synthpop oriented "Octopus" to bring them back into the UK Top 10 again.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 21 December 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

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