3 is an American progressive/hybrid band formed in Woodstock, New York in the early 90s.
Over the course of their discography, the band has covered a wide variety of music genres. This spectrum of style includes the following songs: hip hop (Don't Even), R and B (You Call Me Baby), rockabilly (Paint by Number), blues (Bedroom in Hell), reggae (Brother), funk (Get 2Gether), psychedelic (Signs of Life), metal (These Iron Bones), pop rock (Live Entertainment), acoustic rock (Careless Kim), punk (Sawed Off Shotgun), progressive (Monster), instrumental (Bramfatura), experimental progressive (Dregs), rock 'n roll (One Way Town), soft rock (Lay Down the Law), pop (Soul Reality), folk (The Game), experimental (Broadway Alien), and progressive funk (Leaving on the Light).
While that intro sounds like many progressive rock bands, I really enjoy 3's works. From the above list you can see that their sounds change drastically over their albums and songs. Their first few albums have a really funk bass line in the background of most of the songs - something that took me a while to notice - which has seemed to fade as time has gone on.
This group often re-records their own material on later albums, often times with a different instrumentation or even different lyrics. The song "Dregs" has been re-done at least three times, and that is off the top of my head.
Paint by Number - 1999
Summercamp Nightmare - 2003
Wake Pig - 2004
The End is Begun - 2007
Revisions - 2009
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