Bands that sold out

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I was listening to radio 2 the other day and Ken Bruce played 'running in the family' by level 42 and I thought it was different from all their earlier stuff that I loved like love games, hot water, the sun comes down, and starlight. They sold out, pure and simple, they took on a different producer in order to move more units and were never same after that.

Who's your most disappointing sell out?
 
Queen, The Who, The Stones and virtually any other band that's been around for a long while. It seems the curse of longevity in rock/pop is to turn into a shit cabaret act.
 
The Beatles. George Martin turned everything they did into sugary pop pap. Lennon, asked which tracks he would like to record anew replied : "all of them". There was a good band in there somewhere.
Yeah yeah yeah.
 
KS55 said:
The Beatles. George Martin turned everything they did into sugary pop pap. Lennon, asked which tracks he would like to record anew replied : "all of them". There was a good band in there somewhere.
Yeah yeah yeah.
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Down to taste this. I get what you say about George Martin and he made them a lot more 'produced', but I'd argue their early skiffle/R&R stuff was generally more 'pop' - not withstanding the obligatory ringo single of course. Possibly the only band besides the Smiths who's last album I enjoy - probably because they both split up before they went really shit. I often wonder what the next album after abbey rd would have been like, but if it would have been a mixture of Yoko era Lennon and Wings I'm glad it didn't happen.

3000 posts! - In your face @Blue Bruce . @karen7 I'm catching you up - last one to 100000 smells.
 
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KS55 said:
The Beatles. George Martin turned everything they did into sugary pop pap. Lennon, asked which tracks he would like to record anew replied : "all of them". There was a good band in there somewhere.
Yeah yeah yeah.
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They did the opposite of selling out.

Their songs were pop tunes for the masses until the mid 60’s and then they started making music purely for music itself, often taking big risks and trying to be innovative.

Had their albums come out in the opposite order then yes but they didn’t.
 
KS55 said:
The Beatles. George Martin turned everything they did into sugary pop pap. Lennon, asked which tracks he would like to record anew replied : "all of them". There was a good band in there somewhere.
Yeah yeah yeah.
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Don't agree.
George Martin with his classical knowledge helped them enormously arranging their later more artistic music.
He encouraged them to experiment with song's like A day in the life, Eleanor Rigby and Tomorrow Never Knows.
They were the opposite of a selling out band.
 
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