Bands Similar To Pink Floyd?
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Topic: Bands Similar To Pink Floyd?
Posted By: Cboi Sandlin
Subject: Bands Similar To Pink Floyd?
Date 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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Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 17:30
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VSTRS ------------- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4IKuxIZkenfvukL_Y8VBqzK" rel="nofollow - Duos for fave acts |
Posted By: Cboi Sandlin
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 18:49
wow thats awesome |
Logan wrote:Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 21:26
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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. |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 26 2021 at 22:47
Mostly Autumn, mostly on their Pink Floyd Revisited DVD |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 00:14
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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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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 00:56
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. |
Posted By: Davesax1965
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 02:14
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What particular era of Floyd ? ------------- |
Posted By: Ronstein
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 02:48
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Anathema are very atmospheric and have a PF vibe https://youtu.be/tzzIiO5FDK0 https://youtu.be/JrgrEkhudfo (links because video's can't be embedded) |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 02:51
That blows my suggestion out of the water then.  |
Posted By: PhideauxFan
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 03:16
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-Airbag and Bjorn Riis (Norway). -RPWL, Solar Project, Osta Love (Germany). -Juke (France).
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Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 03:27
Miley Cyrus - Comfortably Numb  |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 03:29
are you sure you've understood the topic?
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Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 04:50
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He's trolling, he's mostly just on the right side of trolling, this is squarely on the wrong side. ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 05:19
Or maybe he just has a thing for Miley Cyrus.
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 05:22
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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Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 09:17
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." Chloė Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: Progishness
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 09:28
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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." Chloė Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2 |
Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 10:30
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Perhaps one of the most derivative Floyd clones of all ELOY
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 10:56
Clone? No Influenced? Yes.
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Posted By: siLLy puPPy
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:15
Too close for my liking. Especially albums like Ocean which are basically Floyd sounds revisited ------------- https://rateyourmusic.com/~siLLy_puPPy |
Posted By: Cosmiclawnmower
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 12:55
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The Far East family band, particularly the 'Nipponjin (join our mental phase)' album.. and the original Japanese 'the Cave down to the Earth' lp.. i always thought they sounded very Saucerful to Meddle era floyd (though Klaus Schultze's remixes on Nipponjin are a bit odd to my ears..) Astra kinda had a bit of a Floydian vibe going.. what happened to them? ------------- |
Posted By: Psychedelic Paul
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 13:22
They're two of my all-time favourite Japanese psych albums.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 15:53
| Igra Staklenih Perli (Serbia) - Igra Staklenih Perli (1979) |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: October 27 2021 at 17:29
| Solar Project from Germany, great band and they have a very personal sound with strong pf influences (not a clone band) |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 11:25
| Maybe not representative of the band overall, but the Barclay James Harvest song "Ra" sounds a bit like Floyd. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 15:17
| definitely Eloy (D) - Ocean (1977) |
Posted By: Easy Money
Date Posted: October 28 2021 at 19:02
| If you like the early Pink Floyd before they became a cash cow stadium band, then you might like some things by Popol Vuh. |
Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: October 29 2021 at 02:58
If I want to find some new albums in a certain subgenre, I look first at the highest rated ones on RYM and PA.
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 00:53
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Check out the CD "In Extremis," by the project/band Days Between Stations. It was Peter Banks' last recording Rick Wakeman is on it as well. Excellent music! Channels DSOM Floyd nicely. Both versions are double LP with full color gatefold design featuring the gorgeous artwork by Paul Whitehead. The audio was specially mastered for vinyl by Grammy® Award winning engineer Evren Göknar. The packages are being manufactured by Erika Records, the premiere vinyl manufacturer in the United States. Besides us Oscar and Sepand the album features amazing performances from several notable musicians including- Peter Banks (YES, Flash) Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel, ABWH) Colin Moulding (XTC) Billy Sherwood (YES) Rick Wakeman (YES) ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 03:12
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For post-psychedelic early Pink Floyd, Astra. For The Wall, a group that uses elements from this album is Queensr’che. Astra - The Weirding Queensr’che - Silent Lucidity ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: November 01 2021 at 04:09
| That Astra album is excellent , maybe a cross between Floyd and Sabbath! |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: November 02 2021 at 20:40
That's why my favourite Eloy Era is the early 1980s...still Floydian sounding but more symphonic with occasional heaviness - not sure Floyd ever had a riff as monumental as the one in "Child Migration". Also, Eloy were so popular in Germany that many bands copied them.
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Posted By: David_D
Date Posted: November 03 2021 at 02:21
 kenethlevine wrote:Also, Eloy were so popular in Germany that many bands copied them." That sounds fine with me as well, so maybe I need to have a look again at that period because I've had the impression that they got more Pop influenced. ------------- quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond |
Posted By: CrimsonMojito
Date Posted: November 13 2021 at 13:30
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Hi there, If you like bands which are influenced by Pink Floyd, here are two great bands from France that I love  |
Posted By: hergest ridge
Date Posted: November 14 2021 at 04:18
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Bands very similar to Pink Floyd : - Eloy, certainly. - Hawkwind, for some records. More recently : - Airbag - Astra
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Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: November 14 2021 at 06:11
^This Add Crippled Black Phoenix. ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |