To what scorch said....
A. Rap... liking the second album...
I have almost NEVER heard a second album by a rap artist... snoop's second sucked... same with dre... outkast their second was MUCH more evolved... I liked it but by the 3rd they had changed again sooo much that I didn't really like them anymore..
B. Old punk... The misfits don't really even exist anymore... the band tours but Glen Danzig is the real lead singer... maybe they got back together and I missed it... But in general punk (especially bands album to album) is REDICULOUSLY similar... you can identify a punk song as punk WAY before you can identify most rap songs as gansta or hiphop or whatever...
My favorite band (bad religion) is punk rock and they don't chang much album to album... if you listen to the first then the last there's some change but it's still VERY similar. But they're GREAT... and it takes a LONG time to get old...
Same goes for Murphy's Law (another personal fav... talk about not getting big...), Pink Floyd... Most GOOD music is the same album to album... Metallica (till they changed). etc etc.
I think rap is WAY more progressive as a music then any other...
Listen to sugar hill gang and the run-dmc... then Public Enemy... then Tribe Called Quest.. then Dre... then snoop... then... You see where I'm going... it's evolved VERY fast over not too long... and Sure if you look at EVERY band that's played you won't think it's individual or very progressive but when you take into consideration that it changes in leaps (one artist comes out with a whole new style) then everyone copies or is influenced by it and ALL rap changes from there on out... That's what I like about rap soo much... the more you listen to the more it makes sense... there are references 12 levels deep in most songs... it's pretty cool... Almost all songs are influenced by almost all others and it grows and changes CONSTANTLY as a whole...
If you ask me Rap is the only true evolving form of music... sure other genres change and develop but no where near the level of rap...
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