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Let's list good bands and musicians who tried something cringeworthily different.

Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 14:00:00) by Spectre of Pithecanthropus

You know how a band or solo performer can be really good at what they normally do, but when they try to step outside of those boundaries, they fail utterly and miserably. I'll start: Creedence Clearwater Revival. A good, basic, roots-type rock band, pumping out nice little three minute rock-and-roll songs. Then they go and cover "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and subject us ...

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 14:17:00) by psycat90

I don't think anything has ever cracked me up more than when Dee Dee Ramone left the Ramones to record his rap album as Dee Dee King. (And yes, I owned it, though more as a novelty.)

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 14:27:00) by pravnik

Rhett Miller, lead singer and songwriter of the Old 97's, was a famous folk musician signed to a major label even as a high school teenager. In between, though, he and future Old 97's bassist/vocalist Murray Hammond had a brief attempt at a punk rock band: "Rhett's Exploding."

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 14:31:00) by BurnMeUp

Didn't Garth Brooks release an album under an alternate persona, some rock thing?

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 14:48:00) by pravnik

Quote: Originally Posted by BurnMeUp Didn't Garth Brooks release an album under an alternate persona, some rock thing? Yeah, Chris Gaines .

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 15:40:00) by It's Not Rocket Surgery!

Two similiar ones: Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Disclaimer: I've never heard it. From what I do know, it's the textbook definition of what the OP is looking for. Pat Metheny's Zero Tolerance For Silence. Anyone who blind buys this one based on Pat's other work is in for a BIG surprise! I gave it to my nephew, who likes Metheny AND experimental music. I don't hate the tracks...

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 19:13:00) by Mister Rik

Does Pat Boone's In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy count?

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 19:18:00) by ultrafilter

General public opinion places Metallica on the list, although there are a few of us who like their later stuff.

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 20:32:00) by Sampiro

Quote: Originally Posted by pravnik Yeah, Chris Gaines . Who, though an Australian rocker, sounded amazingly like Garth Brooks. His old French whore alter ego on Saturday Night Live was far more creatively stretching. I think Gaines was a case of "he's sold 400 billion CDs, we owe him this ego trip" move. Ray ...

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Started 5 months ago (2008-05-13 21:14:00) by Harry1945

Bill Cosby decided he was a singer in addition to a stand-up comic and did Silverthroat. Don't know if I still have it or not. I don't recall if it was good enough to go look for...

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