Pink Floyd Cover Songs

atom heart mother. if you loved "echoes" and "one of these days" then should fit into AHM pretty well. at first it sounds like a soundtrack to a horror film, the title track is full of choirs and everything! it is very demanding to listen to but it is one of their best pieces. I think you should definetly get this album. The rest of the tracks are good too but its a brilliant album.

atom heart mother = amazin epic suite that flows like a dream, similar to echoes
if = acoustic ballad by waters. its ok but not the strongest one here
summer 68 = an uplifting piano based piece by wright. tis good.
fat old sun = a bluesy guitar based piece by gilmour
APB = a roadie cooks up breakfast while the floyd jam away.sizzling instrumental

i think the reason it gets mixed reviews is because its a lot harder to appreciate than the other albums as it is mainly instrumental based.

as to the last question, i cannot say if AHM is better than dark side or meddle, they are very different pieces and its very hard to judge but i would say meddle wins. dark side and ahm are both incredible pieces tho.

my fave era is piper - meddle.

radiohead have done wish you were here. it wasnt great but it was only a dinky unreleased song. pearl jam did it too i think.

Good - "Shine on you crazy diamond" - Transatlantic. Pretty faithful, but a nice interpretation.

ooh i shall have to check that out!

I have heard lots of covers of Pink Floyd songs and it seems like most modern bands have decided to butcher the songs by the great band. Occasionally there will be some good ones. Here are the covers i have heard...


scissor sisters - comfotably numb - an awful pop butchery with stupid high pitched vocals, techno-ish backing music and not even a solo which is the best part of the song!

korn - another brick in the wall (parts 1-3). combining all 3 parts of this song really didn't work as they are meant to be separate from each other, not together. Also i did not care for the nu-metal distorted guitar noise used. Korn have also decided to disgrace the floyd. I sware to god they just blagged the choir from the original as well!

marilyn manson - another brick in the wall (part 2), this is much better than korn and has his own manson interpretation by using a more dramatic choir and his distorted vocals. Its not brilliant but it i like the way it has its own tint to it and isnt a disgraceful copy.

dream theater - in the flesh?/ comfortably numb/ hey you - i've heard these covers tackled live by dream theater and they toned down their heavy guitars slightly to do brilliant versions of these tracks. they know how to make proggressive rock and john petrucci is excellent at gilmour style solos. best floyd covers i have ever heard

think floyd - well they are a tribute band so they dont count as much.


what do you think?

Edited by frenchie