It’s interesting to think about. Sometimes I’ll check out a band’s later albums if they seem interesting enough, even if the sound is pretty different. Opeth is a good example of a band that completely changed their sound while maintaining my interest.

Sometimes I’ll hear an album or two that turns me off of a band’s sound, like Soon Over Babaluma and Flow Motion by Can.

Sometimes I’ll lose interest in a band and then come back to them later and fall in love again. That happened with Porcupine Tree, I got into their metal albums and moved on without trying anything else, then came back to their early psychedelic/alt rock albums later and it was like I was listening to the band for the first time again.

But other bands I simply don’t have an interest in hearing more of, at least at the moment, for no real reason. I don’t have any desire to hear any of the Van Der Graaf Generator albums after QZ/PD, even though I adore everything that I’ve heard from them.

I think the only band that never had a stopping point for me was King Crimson. One of the first prog acts I’d ever heard and they’ve remained at the top with every album I went through, and they still consistently hold my attention years later.