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    Posted: October 26 2021 at 16:57
Pink Floyd has always been my favourite band. Does anybody know of any bands that are similar to them i could check out?
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VSTRS
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RPWL
Eloy
Nektar
Freedom To Glide
Negative Zone (This one is probably as close as you can get to the PF sound from 67-72)
Lucy In Blue
The Alan Parson's Project
Porcupine Tree (mid 90's era only though)
Djam Karet
Pulsar
Camel (to some degree anyway especially some of the later stuff)

Although I'm personally not that familiar with them apparently Airbag is very Floydish. 



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Originally posted by Cboi Sandlin Cboi Sandlin wrote:

Pink Floyd has always been my favourite band. Does anybody know of any bands that are similar to them i could check out?

Mostly Autumn, mostly on their Pink Floyd Revisited DVD
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Gandalf's Fist
Dave Kerzner (so Pink Floyd influenced it hurts!)
Porcupine Tree (if you ignore In Absentia to Fear of A Blank Planet when they got a bit more metal sounding)


Eloy have been mentioned but its mainly the early eighties albums Planets and Time To Turn that have that Floydian sound. In the seventies they were 'pinching' from a lot of prog bands!
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cboi Sandlin Cboi Sandlin wrote:

Pink Floyd has always been my favourite band. Does anybody know of any bands that are similar to them i could check out?

Mostly Autumn, mostly on their Pink Floyd Revisited DVD
I don't like to be rude, but I couldn't come up with a less interesting suggestion than a band playing a cover of Hey You, if I tried. Well maybe Miley Cyrus' cover of Wish You Were Here.

In general being a band similar to Pink Floyd is a bad idea. Unless you took their soundscapes (like Interstellar Overdrive, Saucerful of Secrets, Main Theme from More, first + last tunes on Meddle... and I suppose partly-or parts of Ummagumma etc) instead of their songs and created kosmische or krautrock with it. Early Floyd opened up for all of that (not singlehandedly of course). In many ways I think both Alpha Centauri and Rubycon are peak-Pink Floyd inspired music.
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What particular era of Floyd ? 

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Anathema are very atmospheric and have a PF vibe

https://youtu.be/tzzIiO5FDK0

https://youtu.be/JrgrEkhudfo

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Originally posted by Saperlipopette! Saperlipopette! wrote:

Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Originally posted by Cboi Sandlin Cboi Sandlin wrote:

Pink Floyd has always been my favourite band. Does anybody know of any bands that are similar to them i could check out?

Mostly Autumn, mostly on their Pink Floyd Revisited DVD
I don't like to be rude, but I couldn't come up with a less interesting suggestion than a band playing a cover of Hey You, if I tried. Well maybe Miley Cyrus' cover of Wish You Were Here.


That blows my suggestion out of the water then. Tongue










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-Airbag and Bjorn Riis (Norway).

-RPWL, Solar Project, Osta Love (Germany).

-Juke (France).


Edited by PhideauxFan - October 27 2021 at 03:53
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Miley Cyrus - Comfortably Numb Wink
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Miley Cyrus - Comfortably Numb Wink


are you sure you've understood the topic? Confused
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He's trolling, he's mostly just on the right side of trolling, this is squarely on the wrong side.
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

He's trolling, he's mostly just on the right side of trolling, this is squarely on the wrong side.

Or maybe he just has a thing for Miley Cyrus. Wink
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

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Dave Kerzner (so Pink Floyd influenced it hurts!)
Porcupine Tree (if you ignore In Absentia to Fear of A Blank Planet when they got a bit more metal sounding)


Eloy have been mentioned but its mainly the early eighties albums Planets and Time To Turn that have that Floydian sound. In the seventies they were 'pinching' from a lot of prog bands!

I would say late seventies also though because how can you leave out Ocean and Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes? Those are very Floyd sounding imo.
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

Miley Cyrus - Comfortably Numb Wink


Even worse than the version by the Scissor Sisters (and that is saying something) - for a start she's singing it about an octave too low.
"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

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If you prefer the space rock era of Floyd - i.e. approximately from Saucerful to Meddle, than I'd suggest the early Hawkwind albums from their S/T debut through to 'Warrior on the Edge of Time'.
"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

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Perhaps one of the most derivative Floyd clones of all

ELOY

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

Perhaps one of the most derivative Floyd clones of all

ELOY

Clone? No
Influenced? Yes. 
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