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Jonesy's last album Dark Matter is total Floyd.
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I heard a band once that sounded sort of like Pink Floyd but I don't remember their name. Glad I could help!
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Originally posted by jhunnoh jhunnoh wrote:

ASTRA-The Weirding and The Black Chord.  You can't go wrong.
 
^^^GREAT band! Both albums are two of the best prog releases of recent years.
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Check out the album "Rain Falls In Grey" by the band Radio Massacre International. It's got a Pink Floyd vibe to it. 

I also really like PF member David Gilmour's solo album "On An Island" (Rick Wright also plays on it).

As someone else mentioned earlier in the thread, the first three Alan Parsons Project albums ("Tales Of Mystery And Imagination", "I Robot" and "Pyramid") often sound similar to Pink Floyd too.


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Not properly floyd-ish, but this album features Nick Mason and Rick Wright, is produced by Nick Mason and it seems that also Gilmour has taken part in the recording.
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Check out the album "Rain Falls In Grey" by the band Radio Massacre International. It's got a Pink Floyd vibe to it. 
I also really like PF member David Gilmour's solo album "On An Island" (Rick Wright also plays on it).
As someone else mentioned earlier in the thread, the first three Alan Parsons Project albums ("Tales Of Mystery And Imagination", "I Robot" and "Pyramid") often sound similar to Pink Floyd too.




But "On an Island" only feature Wright in one song, if I remember well. At the best on 2 or 3 songs. However, there's the live album "Live in Gdansk", and the DVD "Remember that Night", which feature the whole "On an Island", plus several Pink Floyd classics, and those ones do have Wright on the whole performance... making them almost Pink Floyd releases. Plus, the songs from "On an Island" are played with more energy, making them for me more enjoyable. Oh yeah, and the version of Echoes is really wonderful. Plus, we may say this live releases are the last farewell for Wright
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Originally posted by King Only King Only wrote:

Check out the album "Rain Falls In Grey" by the band Radio Massacre International. It's got a Pink Floyd vibe to it. 

 
Nice pick, very Floydish (which is unsurprising seeing as it's a tribute to the recently departed Syd) with a lot more guitar than RMI usually uses.
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

But "On an Island" only feature Wright in one song, if I remember well. At the best on 2 or 3 songs. However, there's the live album "Live in Gdansk", and the DVD "Remember that Night", which feature the whole "On an Island", plus several Pink Floyd classics, and those ones do have Wright on the whole performance... making them almost Pink Floyd releases. Plus, the songs from "On an Island" are played with more energy, making them for me more enjoyable. Oh yeah, and the version of Echoes is really wonderful. Plus, we may say this live releases are the last farewell for Wright

I love the "Live In Gdansk" release too, I have the 5-disc version which has some extra tracks on it. Watching the DVDs is very inspiring for me... Gilmour and Wright were over 60 but still doing their best, playing with a lot of emotion.  

I love Rick Wrights "Wet Dream" album too, it's a pity he didn't release more albums like "Wet Dream".
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Originally posted by King Only King Only wrote:


Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

But "On an Island" only feature Wright in one song, if I remember well. At the best on 2 or 3 songs. However, there's the live album "Live in Gdansk", and the DVD "Remember that Night", which feature the whole "On an Island", plus several Pink Floyd classics, and those ones do have Wright on the whole performance... making them almost Pink Floyd releases. Plus, the songs from "On an Island" are played with more energy, making them for me more enjoyable. Oh yeah, and the version of Echoes is really wonderful. Plus, we may say this live releases are the last farewell for Wright

I love the "Live In Gdansk" release too, I have the 5-disc version which has some extra tracks on it. Watching the DVDs is very inspiring for me... Gilmour and Wright were over 60 but still doing their best, playing with a lot of emotion.  
I love Rick Wrights "Wet Dream" album too, it's a pity he didn't release more albums like "Wet Dream".


Yeah, but Broken China was very nice too. And have you heard "David Gilmour on Concert", a semi acoustic Gilmour release, with some nice arrangements of old songs, plus, it has one song with Wright too, his own "Breakthrough", which played by both Gilmour and Wright (and Floyd's usual sax player, just forgot his name right now), it sounds like a true Floyd song. I'm still hoping that Wright's last intended album, which he didn't have a chance to finish, would come out somehow some day... but I guess it's really kind of out of the question really.
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The guitarist in Riverside, Piotr Grudzinski has some epic David Gilmour like solo's, especially in the albu
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Try The Future Kings Of England very spacey very good band.







I agree! FKOE are one of those bands that deserve much more exposure (like iamthemorning, for instance, but in a diffferent musical vein). Certainly can hear strains of  Echoes-era Floyd in there.
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I made an account simply because the Vancouver band Black Mountain has not been mentioned...easily the best floyd-esque band out there IMHO. In addition to Floyd/Hawkwind influences, some of the guitar work reminds me of early Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath (nice combo btw). Here are a few tasty morsels:
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Probably been mentioned before, but, PULSAR.
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Freedom To Glide: Rain (UK-2013).
http://freedomtoglide.bandcamp.com/
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I'll second the band Djam Karet. Also, I haven't read this whole thread so I don't know if they've been mentioned yet but you definitely should check out the band ELOY. There's also a band called Negative Zone who seem rather Floydish(early Floyd)but I don't know them too well. Anyway, if you like the mid period Floyd like WYWH or Animals then check out mid to late seventies Eloy in particular. 
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Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

I'll second the band Djam Karet. Also, I haven't read this whole thread so I don't know if they've been mentioned yet but you definitely should check out the band ELOY. There's also a band called Negative Zone who seem rather Floydish(early Floyd)but I don't know them too well. Anyway, if you like the mid period Floyd like WYWH or Animals then check out mid to late seventies Eloy in particular. 


Negative Zone channels Dark Side of the Moon; I did an instrumental mix of some of the tracks from their album:

http://soundcloud.com/jude111/negzo-dj-mic-dsotm
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Originally posted by jude111 jude111 wrote:

Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:

I'll second the band Djam Karet. Also, I haven't read this whole thread so I don't know if they've been mentioned yet but you definitely should check out the band ELOY. There's also a band called Negative Zone who seem rather Floydish(early Floyd)but I don't know them too well. Anyway, if you like the mid period Floyd like WYWH or Animals then check out mid to late seventies Eloy in particular. 


Negative Zone channels Dark Side of the Moon; I did an instrumental mix of some of the tracks from their album:

http://soundcloud.com/jude111/negzo-dj-mic-dsotm

Definitely!
I forgot about Negative Zone, I don't know how many albums they have, I have only the debut and it is very Floydian.
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One does wonder about the value of answering a question that was asked 2½ years ago by an OP who visited us for a mere 7 days and was never seen again.

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Still, it's always nice to list random albums that we know regardless of any practical reason for doing it.
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Originally posted by yanch yanch wrote:

German Band RPWL started as Floyd tribute band and then moved to their own material. Very good band. 


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Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

One does wonder about the value of answering a question that was asked 2½ years ago by an OP who visited us for a mere 7 days and was never seen again.

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Still, it's always nice to list random albums that we know regardless of any practical reason for doing it.

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I didn't notice that. But anyway it is still a good chance to blab about our favorite albums.
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