In your opinion whose songs all sound the same?

karaokeman

I hear arguments like this everyday so I thought I would create a thread for it.

What artists/bands in your opinion have songs that more or less all sound the same? I will list the main three that come to my head;

1. Adele - yes I know she has a fantastic voice but I really would like to hear her experiment more

2. Westlife - always seem to be rewording the same melody, especially with the new song they played on the Late Late Show last week

3. Mumford & Sons - the entire album, everything is literally just that

I can't think of anyone else just now:p

Conor Bourke

Ha- Mumford and Sons were the first ones that popped into my head when I read the thread title. Same inane pseudo-folk shoite with the one note banjo chorus. Gowls.

As much as I enjoy AC/DC, I have to admit that most of their stuff sounds exactly the same. Maybe therein lies the appeal though? You know exactly what you're getting with them, every time!

Thankfully you don't hear too much about them any more, but a few years ago you could hardly switch on the radio without hearing The Feeling and pretty much every one of their songs was interchangeable. Zero imagination, just four or five inoffensive radio friendly variations of the one song.

I'm sure I'll think of others but those are the first to spring to mind.

Odaise Gaelach

Scouting for Girls spring to mind immediately.

J_E

Metallica. They have a few standout songs but the rest is rather forgettable. Let's pretend Lulu doesn't exist either.

Malice

Cydoniac wrote: »

Metallica.

:eek: You seriously think all Metallica songs sound the same?

Sinfonia

I've always hated this sentiment.
Generally speaking, an artist/group will have a stylistic idiom that goes a long way toward defining 'their' sound. So on first glance, of course everything will sound the same. Moreover, if every song by an artist was stylistically completely different, they'd probably be criticised for their inconsistency.
Even with AC/DC, because the songs are stylistically similar in much of the albums, there's a tendency to say they all sound the same, but really they're not. I played in an AC/DC tribute thing for a while years back, and becoming familiar with each song backwards and forwards I could see how different the songs were from each other. Maybe the big big hit singles for them were more closely related to each other.. I also found that AC/DC's song structures were more complicated than I had appreciated. Their use of rhythm is very idiomatic, the downbeat never seems to be where you think it's going to be, or where it's "supposed" to be.

As for Mumford & Sons, same argument really. I'm not a fan of them, although I do think Timshel really stands out.

You're right though karaokeman, people throw this argument out there all the time, and it's usually from people who aren't really familiar with the artist/group, or at best, who are only familiar with the singles rather than albums.

GoldenTickets

Status Quo

Curly Judge

Morrissey !

Clanket

Red Hot Chilly Peppers

monkeypants

There was a recording studio in Sweden years ago where the guy who ran it liked a particular guitar sound. Therefore every band that recorded there ended up sounding very similar.

SilverScreen

AC/DC and Motorhead are pretty much the obvious ones. Was never really a big fan of both of them but I guess they both just stick to a formula that works and feel no need to experiment and try something different.

The songs on the last few Slayer albums pretty much all sounded the same as well, felt a bit too repetitive at times.

Someone already mentioned Scouting For Girls. Christ, whenever I heard a new song of theirs on the radio it had the EXACT SAME tune as their other singles.

rcaz

monkeypants wrote: »

There was a recording studio in Sweden years ago where the guy who ran it liked a particular guitar sound. Therefore every band that recorded there ended up sounding very similar.

That doesn't mean all their songs sounded the same though.

Malice

monkeypants wrote: »

There was a recording studio in Sweden years ago where the guy who ran it liked a particular guitar sound. Therefore every band that recorded there ended up sounding very similar.

Are you talking about the Gothenburg sound?

R P McMurphy

James blunt

fluff_daddy

Vengaboys

Kold

Tool.

SilverScreen

I forgot to mention Sleater-Kinney. Even though I'm a fan and have all their albums, I do admit that a lot of their songs do tend to sound the same. That's no means a bad thing as they had a sound that was theirs and it worked for the most part. You know what you are going to get with every album.

ItsAWindUp

Oasis.

harsea8

M people (god i hate her voice)

theparish

Coldplay

RC88

the smiths, pixies, rihanna, paramore, greenday, limp bizket and every modern rapper

irishh_bob

ac/dc
bon jovi
kiss
brian adams
def lepard
westlife

and of course

meat loaf

irishh_bob

RC88 wrote: »

the smiths, pixies, rihanna, paramore, greenday, limp bizket and every modern rapper

the pixies have a very distinctive sound

SilverScreen

RC88 wrote: »

the smiths, pixies, rihanna, paramore, greenday, limp bizket and every modern rapper

What Smiths and Pixies albums have you listened to? I find there is quite a bit of variety in both bands' discographies. Also have you heard every single modern rapper there is today? Wow that's some feat.

bigwormbundoran

Bob Dylan - All miserable shíte I cant distinguish any one of his songs from the rest, dont get his appeal at all

rcaz

bigwormbundoran wrote: »

Bob Dylan - All miserable shíte I cant distinguish any one of his songs from the rest, dont get his appeal at all

lolwut

Malice

RC88 wrote: »

pixies

Jesus wept, this thread gets better and better.

Pighead

Admittedly I haven't heard too many songs by the band but every Linkin Park single I can remember all followed pretty much the same pattern. Nice guitar chimey hook, shouty rap verses and a strained shouty singalong chorus.

adamshred

Scouting For Girls

karaokeman

Pighead wrote: »

Admittedly I haven't heard too many songs by the band but every Linkin Park single I can remember all followed pretty much the same pattern. Nice guitar chimey hook, shouty rap verses and a strained shouty singalong chorus.

You just stated the reason why you think all Linkin Park songs sound the same.

You "haven't heard too many songs by the band" and you mention every single you've heard. By "every" would you be referring to every single Linkin Park ever released or is it a select few?

Unless you listen to their full albums, track-by-track it won't be that difficult to think every song used for promotion sounds the same.

Da Shins Kelly

Gotta be Adele - boring sh*te.