SONGS similar to Pink Floyd

Hello,

yes I know there are a lot of topics on the net about Bands who play music in the style of Pink Floyd and there are always the same names like Porcupine Tree, Anathema, Camel, Eloy, RPWL and so on, but I want to create a list especially with Songs (and not only the artists) and they similarity to Pink Floyd. A lot of bands, who had Pink Floyd-like Songs cannot be compared in total to PF.

You know what all of us will declare as the Pink Floyd Style: slow tempo, repetitive patterns, a slightly depressive mood, psychedelic, simple drums, long song structures, wide keyboard sounds and so on. So I want to keep a focus on the "middle era" from Atom Heart Mother until Animals (and not the atonal early stuff or the more pop orientated later music).

Ok, I will start with the List:

Porcupine Tree - Radioactive Toy (Live Version on Coma Divine)
Porcupine Tree - The Sky Moves Sideways (Little Brother of Shine on you crazy Diamond, isn't it?)
Porcupine Tree - Dark Matter (reminds me of Comfortably Numb)
Porcupine Tree - Neural Rust (same style as Dark Matter)
Porcupine Tree - Dark Origins (same style as Dark Matter as well)
Eloy - Astral Entrance: Master Of Sensation (reminds me on Shine On You Crazy Diamond as well)
Eloy - The Apocalypse (maybe a little bit of Animals)
Genesis - The Waiting Room (Interstellar Overdrive in the beginning, wide keyboard sounds in the Rest of the song)
Frank Zappa - The Torture never stops (from "In New York", slow tempo - psychedelic touch)

So you see - my list of suggestions is really short, thats why I want to have more references here.

greetz
Sarah

Edited by SarahKerrigan - November 03 2015 at 13:55

For me The Future Kings of England are perfect in that area though they aren't always as polished as Floyd.

Airbag - Surveillance
Airbag - Homesick I-III

Could be off the mark here, but I always thought The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway's Hairless Heart was an ode to the atmospherics 'Floyd could typically produce. I'm sure at least a couple others off the seminal album are comparable to 'Floyd to say the least.

Intruder wrote: You know, whenever I put on a proggy album in front of non-prog fans, they inevitably say, "This sounds like Pink Floyd."  Happened two or three times in the past week alone:  I put on the BBC Soft Machine 70s collection, sounds like Floyd; I put on a Gong album, sounds like Floyd; I put on a Nucleus (!) albums, sounds like Floyd. When all you know is Floyd, everything sounds like Floyd.

I agree, that's so annoying 

Hi there
Have you come across Airbags The greatest show on earth?.
Floyd to the point of being a copy.yet brilliant despite that.
Hope you like
Trebor

Riverside's "The Same River".
Camel's "Ice" (mostly on the guitar department).