Most Versatile Band?

[dude316]

Was listening to Faith No More recently and was amazed how versatile they are.

Which other band could get away with covering Black Sabbath on one album (war pigs) and then Lionel Ritchie on the next (Easy)?

Then on their album 'King For a Day' they follow this brutal song:

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with this delightful number:

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I'd love to know which other bands are capable of this kind of stuff

 

[krisholio14]

Ween. Easily.

 

[The_Big_Ship]

Prince.

 

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Flight of the conchords

 

[Roos4eva]

Ween. Easily.

Yep.

Beck would be up there, too.

 

[Powerade 08]

Flight of the conchords

Agree... also Boris. First one that came to mind.

 

[thurmanmunson]

The FNM 'Angel Dust' show in 93 was amazing. 'King For A Day' was pretty underrated I thought.

I remember when FNM did 'Malpractice', the place went nuts.

Other versatile bands to me are Butthole Surfers, Fugazi, The Ex...bands whose output is hard to pigeonhole from album to album

 

[Rooface]

Dandy Warhols.

 

[GED YLE]

RUSH....say no more!!!


www.rushinoz.com

 

[HARKER]

Must say Muse.

They do covers at Festivals better than anyone I've seen previously, doing AC/DC and U2 better than the original.
Covers like Feeling Good are again more interesting than the original.
Rock as hard as anyone yet have time for 11 minute symphonies.

I admire them also for always adding to and tweaking tracks when playing live.

 

[krisholio14]

Must say Muse.

They do covers at Festivals better than anyone I've seen previously, doing AC/DC and U2 better than the original.
Covers like Feeling Good are again more interesting than the original.
Rock as hard as anyone yet have time for 11 minute symphonies.

I admire them also for always adding to and tweaking tracks when playing live.

It's not about being a band that does good covers.

It's about artists that can take any style of music and make them their own.

Artists mentioned in this thread like Ween, FNM and Beck can write original tracks in basically any genre and sound more than convincing.

A journey through Weens back catalogue finds them pulling off just about every style of music that's ever been committed to tape. From musak to death metal, there isn't much they haven't had a go at, and done exceptionally well.

 

[HARKER]

It's not about being a band that does good covers.

It's about artists that can take any style of music and make them their own.

Artists mentioned in this thread like Ween, FNM and Beck can write original tracks in basically any genre and sound more than convincing.

A journey through Weens back catalogue finds them pulling off just about every style of music that's ever been committed to tape. From musak to death metal, there isn't much they haven't had a go at, and done exceptionally well.

I know what your saying but I guess that versatile to me, means flexible in the understanding of music and not just trying to be everything to everyone.
Not saying that Ween etc. do that, but a lot of bands do and it comes off more miss than hit.
You certainly need a lot of tools in your armoury to pull it off and kudos to the very few bands that can do it successfully.
Even more Kudos to the few bands/artists who actually form a new genre, as it is exceedingly harder to do so these days.

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Like what Bellamy did here for the movie, Internationalist.

 

[smasha]

Patton's other band Mr. Bungle.

They were very versatile.

 

[dude316]

Patton's other band Mr. Bungle.

They were very versatile.

They were definitely something!


Mike Patton has got to be one of the most interesting singers going around.

He could do opera and make it sound good.....in fact i'd be surprised if he hasn't done that already.

 

[krisholio14]

They were definitely something!


Mike Patton has got to be one of the most interesting singers going around.

He could do opera and make it sound good.....in fact i'd be surprised if he hasn't done that already.

When it comes to singers, there's Mike Patton, then there's everyone else.

 

[HARKER]

When it comes to singers, there's Mike Patton, then there's everyone else.

Pretty much. Cornell goes O.K.

 

[rugmop]

The Band spent at least ten years singing perfect harmonies with a man who was constantly out of tune, Dylan. That's versatile.

 

[Twoslabs]

The Clash

Punk
Hard Rock
Gospel
Rockabilly
Reggae / Dub
Ska
Rap
Jazz

 

[smasha]

The Clash

Punk
Hard Rock
Gospel
Rockabilly
Reggae / Dub
Ska
Rap
Jazz

London Calling.

Mr.Bungles Disco Valante has those covered with some grind metal thrown in.
Bungle have the muso chops as well.

 

[jonoman89]

Instantly thought of Faith No More reading this thread's title.

Or more specifically, Mike Patton. Peeping Tom and Fantomas are on the extreme ends of the scale.

The bloke's a musical chameleon.

 

[Neen]

The most versatile band / artist would have to be Buckethead. Metal, funk, Blues, Thrash and just about any other style there is. As an artist, he records albums based around styles. One album will be entirely metal / thrash (The Cuckoo clocks of hell), then ballads (Shadows between the sky) and ambient rock (Albino Slug). He has released over 40 albums and collaborated with other artists.

Here's some of his styles ;

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[dumb]

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garm in particular is all over the place

 

[bungalow_bill]

The Beatles

Proto heavy metal - Helter Skelter,coda of I Want You(She's So Heavy)
Psychedelia - I Am The Walrus,Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds et al
Ska -obladioblada
Proto techno - Tomorrow Never Knows
Gospel tinged pop - Let It Be
Blues - Yer Blues
Raga - Within You Without You


The final two tracks on The White Album say it all

Nightmarish musical collage

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Followed by..

Disney-esque childrens lullaby

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[Mint Condition]

Queen would be up there too.

They've done hard rock (most of their early stuff...Stone Cold Crazy is basically early thrash), prog (Ogre Battle, March of the Black Queen), disco (Another One Bites the Dust), vaudeville (Seaside Rendezvous, Good old fashioned lover boy), pop (I want to break free), r&b (Somebody to Love), jazz/blues(ish) (My Melancholy Blues), Arena/anthemic rock (We Will Rock You/We are the champions), Rockabilly (Crazy Little Thing Called Love) and plenty of different stuff that's hard to categorise like Millionaire's Waltz and Mustapha as two examples. All 4 of them wrote hit songs and 3 of them sung. Freddie Mercury also wrote and recorded an album of classical/opera/pop songs with the opera singer Montserrat Caballe (Barcelona). Since then you see a lot of crossover between pop and classical.

 

[Plugger35]

It's not about being a band that does good covers.

It's about artists that can take any style of music and make them their own.

Artists mentioned in this thread like Ween, FNM and Beck can write original tracks in basically any genre and sound more than convincing.

A journey through Weens back catalogue finds them pulling off just about every style of music that's ever been committed to tape. From musak to death metal, there isn't much they haven't had a go at, and done exceptionally well.

Yeah Beck is definitely one of the most versatile musicians in recent years. He pretty much reinvents himself with each album and has written and performed in just about every genre. Not only that but he plays most of the instruments on his albums.

Neil Young is another versatile artist that has covered most genres quite successfully over his long career.