:O Next you're going to tell me Glass Hammer sounds like Yes! Do Mostly Autumn sound like Pink Floyd and Renaissance?

Those early albums sound nothing like Genesis, composition styles between the bands are far too different for anything other than a passing semblance. 

 

Anyway, Minsk are a Neurosis clone, except they sound better than Neurosis.

 

I even think that in Script Marillion already has a very own sound. Probably heavily inspired by Genesis, but in no way a clone.

 

Also, early RPWL sounds similar to Pink Floyd.  Not surprising since they were a Pink Floyd cover band before they started writing original material.

 

I really think, specially the admins and the folks that work this board, that we need to be wary of "sounding like", specially when you can go get a Prophet 5 and sound like so many of those bands because of the keyboard, or someone else sound like Michael Jackson because he made the DX7's famous.

 

Or that all musicians that play a Hammond organ sound the same ...

 

It's too easy ... and I really think this is unfair to the musicians themselves.

 

I don't think that Marillion and Genesis are anywhere near each other at all ... I actually think that in the beginning, Marillion with Fish actually payed more attention to the lyrics and acting them out, than Genesis, where Peter Gabriel, for all intents and purposes, was more of a story teller, than he was acting them out! The costumes makes you think he's acting them out, but the only place he really acts it all out is the one where he got rid of the costumes ... The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway!

 

IF, and this is my thinking, you think that something sounds like something else, I have this idea that you are not listening to the music at all ... like saying that there is no difference between Beethoven, Brahms and anyone else at the time ... and that's insane and ... sophomoric for most history courses out there.

 

You have to give ALL the work some credit, not discredit Marillion because Fish is not your cup of tea, which would make your liking of Peter Hammill rather strange in my book.

 

Go to a music store ... every thing in there is the same as it is in the next music store you go visit ... and you have to realize that the chances that things will sound similar become way too good, specially when they are teaching crap music theory in school, while you go out and play conventional stuff with the jazz band ... and then you wonder why some revolt and go play metal ... it's like a finger and say ... I'm tired of that crappy stuff ... and this is more fun!  The problem is ... they are doing exactly the same thing as everyone else ... because it is all they know.

 

The most important part of the "progressive" movement, is that a lot of these people were revolting against the standards that were set in the music business for pop music and anything else, not to mention social ... a lot of things! But the only keyboard they could use was the one that was available at merde music ... and then you are going to say ... they sound like blah and blah ...

 

Heck ... I guess that we're all born the same ... and can't be different! After all, it's always a womb, right?

 

Not quite the correct interpretation of this at all.

 

The Beatles, along with the Rolling Stones, Kinks and many others had just finished cracking the popular music hold/controls that prevented artists from doing what they wanted to do. Things like Sgt. Peppers making it big were absolutely huge ... and it brought a wave of copycats the world over.

 

Pink Floyd started as a pop band ... but one that was already anti-establishment when it came to its music. That they also, accidentally or otherswise, found trippy stuff and a mood and flow that they thought was more interesting and experimental and fun than the crappy 3 minute radio songs, specially when the ones that made to top ten were total garbage when compared to what Pink Floyd and many other people were writing ... it was time to leave that whole thing behind ... and this is where the Beatles failed ... they could not leave it behind and Paul never left it!

 

The resemblance between the two is ... limited to the fact that the instruments used are probably the same, since they were the only ones anyone could buy at the time! I think it's easy to say that it is similar 40 years later, but in essence, and in the end ... it really isn't. The Beatles wording is much more serious. Pink Floyd's is almost all, totally surrealistic, which was something the Beatles were incapable of doing themselves.

 

Side story on all this ... check out the internet on the ten worst business decisions ever made! ... you got it, a jerk saying this crap would never sell! The band? ... The Beatles!

Wobbler have moments where they sound like ELP, Gryphon, Genesis & VDGG, I also think there is enough originality in their music to still make it valid.

I also saw Porcupine Tree around the time of the Sky Moves Sideways album and had my ear bent for the whole concert by someone who kept moaning that they were a second rate Pink Floyd!  I didn't agree.

 

I would say they were a Pink Floyd for the 90's, though! And a very good replacement for it, too!

but

in one of my madder moments i `bet` a `fiver` that a trk on the pub sound system was a nazareth trk

next few days i was doubting my own bet

then it struck

jo jo gunne [run run run]

i had to pay up

Magenta sounds like Yes

Tiles sounds like Rush

Vangough sounds like Pain of Salvation

Airbag sounds like Pink Floyd

Tame Impala sounds like Beatles (not on Currents though)

Druid

Mirthrandir

Starcastle

You know who the above acts sound like.

Sections of Porcupine Tree's first 3 albums sound like Sun Dial's 1990 album " Other Way Out"...