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* The band WHY? switch between alternative hip-hop, indie rock, folk, R.E.M.-inspired jangle pop and bizarre combinations of these genres. Their 2008 album ''Alopecia'' for instance, wobbled in between the band's various genres. Compare the first single, alternative rap song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ikWDmCatKA A Sky For Shoeing Horses Under]" to the third single, indie rock song "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5BQfC78Q4g Fatalist Palmistry]". The second single from the album, "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqcckeKtSU4 The Hollows]", is somewhat of a meeting point between the band's two main genres.
* ''Peergynt Lobogris'' switches between ambient rock, new age and jazz music.
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles' White Album]] switches from Surf Rock, to Acoustic, to Ska, to random banging on a piano, to [[Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly|Bluesy Doo-Wop Hard Rock]] to Pop to Folk to Country to Hard Rock to Proto-Metal to Blues to Avant-Garde to ballad.
** The Beatles in general did this a lot over the course of their career.
* Played with by [[Reel Big Fish]] on ''Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album'' with [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|"S.R. (The Many Versions Of)"]] where they played the entire song or parts thereof several times, picking new genres after each variation and commenting on the crowd's reaction as they included ska-punk, punk rock, blues, disco, death metal, a "sensitive and tender emo song", old school rap and more. The verdict was "play more country, the people love it!"
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* As is [[Bob Dylan]].
* This could be said of many of [[Radiohead]]'s albums, but ''Amnesiac'' fits this trope particularly well. Its tracks include the gloomy jazz of "Life in a Glasshouse," the twitchy electronic "Like Spinning Plates," the relatively straightforward rock of "Knives Out," and the indescribable "Pyramid Song."
* [[Elton John]] was known for this at the height of his popularity; ''Goodbye Yellow Brick Road'' alone switches from melodic piano ballads (the title track) to minimalistic glam-rock ("Bennie And The Jets") to Stonesy rockers ("Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting") to [[The Beatles (band)|Beatle-esque]] numbers ("Harmony") to soft rock ("Candle In The Wind") to reggae ("Jamaica Jerk-Off") to boogie blues-rock ("Dirty Little Girl") to progressive rock ("Funeral For A Friend") to proto-disco-soul ("Grey Seal") to pseudo-doo-wop ("Your Sister Can't Twist [But She Can Rock 'N Roll]") to country ("Roy Rogers"; "Social Disease") to '20's jazz ("Sweet Painted Lady") to cinematic pieces like "The Ballad Of Danny Bailey" and the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|aptly-named]] "I've Seen That Movie Too".
* Suicide Machines go back and forth from ska punk and ska-core (Destruction by Definition, Battle Hymns) to pop punk (Suicide Machines, Steal This Record) and back to a mix of hardcore and ska punk for their last two albums (A Match and some Gasoline, War Profiteering is Killing Us All), sometimes switching back and forth from ska to hardcore every other song.
* ''[[Gorillaz]]'', and just with three albums. In their first ''[[Self-Titled Album]]'', they managed to mix rock, alternative, dub, punk (even though is just one song, and appropriately titled 'Punk'), and hip-hop, and the last song (M1 A1) features sounds and clips from the ''[[Day of the Dead]]'' film. Demon Days, the following album, followed a similar pattern, but with a darker and somber sound, along some dance/synth (DARE), some acoustic dark tunes (El Mañana), and even a choral (Demon Days), along with another horror film sample, from the film ''[[Dawn of the Dead (film)|Dawn of the Dead]]'' (Intro). The third album, Plastic Beach, can only be described as "crazy", what with mixing in one song the Lebanese National Orchestra for Oriental Arabic Music with hip hop, and all the album has all over sounds of soul, electro, rock, pop, and even [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|seagulls and sea sounds and a breakfast commercial]]. Of course, Damon Albarn it's clearly doing a good job, so it's not risky business.
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