Bands that sound like eachother - Progressive Rock Music Forum

With the same exemple: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon sounds really much like the Beatles but with saxophone. I don't hate sax but on the album it's sounds horrible.

Triceratopsoil wrote:

Marillion sounds like Genesis

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

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The_Jester wrote:

With the same exemple: Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon sounds really much like the Beatles but with saxophone. I don't hate sax but on the album it's sounds horrible.

That might be its only redeeming feature. In fact, I'd pay good money to hear a version where waters, mason, gilmour, wright and all the voices are edited out. Nothing but Alan Parsons-engineered sax. Mmmm, far more interesting than beatles-like floyd (a prissy mix even in the best of times).

Triceratopsoil wrote:

Marillion sounds like Genesis

Very early Marillion sounds like Genesis. Anything after Misplaced Childhood, and especially Seasons End, sounds bugger all like Genesis - I know. I was there! Wink

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lazland wrote:

Triceratopsoil wrote:

Marillion sounds like Genesis

Very early Marillion sounds like Genesis. Anything after Misplaced Childhood, and especially Seasons End, sounds bugger all like Genesis - I know. I was there! Wink

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

I think, to be fair, you could make an argument that Grendel was very much in the spirit of a certain epic track from Foxtrot and that Garden Party drew a little bit of inspiration from tracks like Harold The Barrel.

However, in the main, you are right. Marillion have never been copyists. It's why they have been so good & successful.

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Citizen Cain is a proper Genesis clone

Marillion was inspired by Genesis and that influence is present in Script... but after that it's progressively more different. The h era is something else entirely (and even better than the fish period imo)

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I'm surprised noone has mentioned the Starcastle sounding like Yes connection.

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

Oh yes, and apparently Manning sounds like a cross between Jethro Tull and a goat.

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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?

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Prog Geo wrote:

I love post rock/metal but I must confess that the sound is very similar between the bands.

AGREE.

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