bands that sound like pink floyd
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Topic: bands that sound like pink floyd
Posted By: ravensoul
Subject: bands that sound like pink floyd
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 08:48
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hello, could you tell me bands that play music like pink floyd?
thx
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Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 08:59
Welcome to the forum. 
Some bands that come to mind: Hawkwind (classic space rock) Godspeed You Black Emperor! (very trippy and experimental) Porcupine Tree (if you like a slightly crunchy, metallic edge) |
Posted By: Vince
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 12:32
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The band does not sound like PF at all, but there is a song they did which I think does: High as Pride - by Echolyn But beside that, I don't think anyone came close to sounding like Floyd. ------------- "The mind is like a parachute: it doesn't work until it's opened"... Frank Zappa. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 13:14
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I don't think Hawkwind sound like Floyd - they sound altogether more like Hawkwind Eloy are a mix of Hawkwind and Floyd - quite uncanny sometimes... |
Posted By: VLADO
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 13:27
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kitaro ------------- ...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make... |
Posted By: Poxx
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 13:45
I think Eloy is closer to the sound of VDGG, albeit faster like Hawkwind. Pink Floyd has a pretty distinctive sound - something in between Hawkwind, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Camel and Dire Straits, is probably most accurate. |
Certif1ed wrote:Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 14:45
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Eloy sounds a bit like floyd, but it's really less good.
"Dom", a german band sounds close to PF, but it's quite amateurish. |
Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 14:47
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Hi Ravensoul, welcome to the forum! Pink Floyd went through some changes in style themselves of course, any particular albums of their's you had in mind? |
Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 15:29
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Riverside - Out Of Myself
Very good album with many moments of Floydesque magic. ------------- 
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Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 15:34
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David Gilmour - First album Richard Wright - wet dreams & Broken china Both are members of PF RPWL
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Xanadu
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 16:03
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There might be some similarities between GY!BE and PF, but there seems to be an awful lot more difference... ------------- "Oh, yes, sitting-the great leveler. From the mightiest pharaoh to the lowliest peasant, who doesn't enjoy a good sit?" |
Posted By: terramystic
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 18:05
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The Alan Parsons Project Igra staklenih perli |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 19:48
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Porcupine Tree has some very obvious Floyd influences, closest thing Floyd I can think of right now. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 19:59
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if your looking for the sound of peak period Pink
Floyd or Tangerine Dream, mostly without vocals and created in europe during the same time period you need to look into mostly German Kosmiche Musik! Lard Free - I Am After Midnight or 3(france) Atila - Reviure(spain) Neuronium - Quasar 2C361(spain) Sensations Fix - Portable Madness(italy) Yatha Sidhra - A Meditation Mass(germany) Ashra - Blackouts Schicke, Fuhrs, & Froeling - Symphonic Pictures is a good place to start! I would hate for you guys to run your car into a ditch, I dont think you could find the door to get out! 
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Posted By: Yams
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 20:41
| The Sky Moves Sideways is really an ode to Pink Floyd. The Sky Moves Sideways Part 1 even has the Gilmour guitar thing going on. |
Posted By: Canga
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 20:55
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Timthy Pure sounds quiet similar to Pink Floyd ------------- Canga (Argentina) |
Posted By: KeyserSoze
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 21:16
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Without a doubt, the closest thing to Pink Floyd is a german band "RPWL". They even started as PF Revival Band, though they changed their style two albums ago. |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: April 11 2005 at 23:57
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Porcupine Tree is the one that comes to mind of the neo-progs ------------- 
"Music is the Wine that fills the cup of Silence" - Robert Fripp |
Posted By: philippe
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 07:07
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the 70s german band GILA: the two first albums are very closed to PF at their best moments ------------- 
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Posted By: oliverstoned
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 07:32
| yes, in more heavy |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 12:58
| Mostly Autumn guitarrist Bryan Josh has a thing for Gilmour, so a lot from PF his heard on their songs, along with their own folkish sound. |
Posted By: Litl
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 13:20
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Some of Mostly Autumn sound like Division Bell era Floyd. Floyd
with a little folk/celtic rock going on. The guitarist is very
Gilmoresque. RPWL was a Floyd cover band origonally and still carry some of their Dark Side era sound. Dyolf Knip sound a lot like them played backward |
Posted By: Arteum
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 14:12
| RPWL (their MP3 that is available on this website sounds like PINK FLOYD 1967-1968) and PORCUPINE TREE. |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 14:13
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Anathema (at least since the times of "Alternative 4") and Lake of Tears (the album "Forever Autumn"). ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Johnik(Genesis)
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 14:38
The Vow Cinema RPWL Pendragon Eloy Mostly Autumn ------------- I know only Russian. Apologies for bad English. I translate by means of the computer program |
Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 15:13
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Maybe I'm just a Floyd purist... but Mostly Autumn altho I know Brian is a big Gilmour fan, sounds nothing like Floyd to me. Neither does Porcupine Tree (even in their early years).. altho I like Porcupine Tree. Some of Alan Parson's sounds Floyd like. He has one cd out in the 90s thats got a few Floyd sounding numbers... "Try Anything Once".. and of course, Gilmour played on one song from his current CD "A Valid Path"... Floyd has a specific sound because no one plays like Gilmour. Its something Roger probably realized when he went solo... Gilmour carried on the Pink Floyd sound, because he was the Pink Floyd sound. ------------- THIS IS ELP 
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Posted By: Syzygy
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 15:21
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That band who made The Wall and The Final Cut sounded a bit like Pink Floyd at times. ------------- 'Like so many of you I've got my doubts about how much to contribute to the already rich among us...' Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 15:22
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Posted By: threefates
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 15:24
Nothing from "The Final Cut" sounded like Floyd to me... ------------- THIS IS ELP
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Posted By: Fishy
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 15:59
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Bands which are mentioned before : Porcupine tree, eloy, RPWL, Alan Parsons Project, Anathema, Mostly autumn Other : Tale, Omega
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Posted By: gok22us
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 16:21
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Radiohead - OK Computer floyd influenced. |
Posted By: nick63
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 16:50
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Hello, I agree with some writers here at this forum; Mostly Autumn (try a "Gab is too Wide", absolutely influenced by Pink Floyd with a Celtic edge a must have for PF fans, the guitarist Bryan Josh, looked even as David in his younger days), RPWL ("As God has failed" and more)(both have covered PF songs and played a few times Comfortably Numb together!) , Porcupine Tree ("The Sky Moves Sydeways"), Eloy, Pendragon, Camel and also; By the way at almost every session recording Dave Gilmour is playing there is that strong recognizable guitar work present; from Propaganda till Lionna Boyd, All about Eve, Jimmy Nail, The Pretty Things, Arcadia, Snowy White, Sam & Vicky Brown or Warren Zevon... all beauties. You could fill 3 ceedees with his solo's very easy without becomming boring. See: http://home.hetnet.nl/~nickgielkens/david/index.htm - http://home.hetnet.nl/~nickgielkens/david/index.htm
http://home.hetnet.nl/~nickgielkens/who/ma/ma-floyddavid.jpg -
Mostly Autumn at their first trip to the States...
------------- Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands |
RPWL and David Gilmour...Posted By: illustrated
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 19:47
| I would suggest early Van der Graaf Generator, because they definitely have that spacey/psychedelic sound, but are quite different than Pink Floyd and much, much less accessible... |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 24 2005 at 20:00
| fripp&eno-evening star |
Posted By: balkan_progster
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 11:22
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Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid totally sounds like Pink Floyd. At moments German band Jane sound very much like PF. |
Posted By: headboy
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 13:19
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mostly autumn?!! nah, never. don't believe the hype! |
Posted By: Flyingbebert
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 14:37
| I know a band called "The Radar Brothers". They sound like Pink Floyd to me, but with short songs ! I recommend their album "...and the surrounding mountains", very spacy ! |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 14:38
Pink Fraud sounds like Pink Floyd  .
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Posted By: TAAB
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 16:13
Eloy- late 70's sound a bit like PF mid 70's (only better )I agree with some of the bands posted here (Anathema, Porcupine Tree, etc) but I would never compare Omega's sound to PF's. ------------- 
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Posted By: nick63
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 16:25
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Try this one: Area 39 http://www.area39project.com/ - www.area39project.com/ if that don't sound as.... funny. And by the way; But indeed Heather doesn't sound like Roger, Rick, Nick or David. Keep smiling ;-) ------------- Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 16:43
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There is a japan band called Far out that shares some similarities with PF.
------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: VLADO
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 16:43
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Progres 2 but they are better ------------- ...and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make... |
Posted By: Kotro
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 16:44
| Mostly Autumn's last album (Passengers) sounds alot like DSOTM, only the jazzy feel on that one was replaced by their own folkish influence. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 27 2005 at 18:27
| None! |
Posted By: Gloryscene
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 10:45
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Nektar - Remember The Future in parts sounds like Floyd but with better drumming as Mason is pretty average!? ------------- "The Beautiful Ally Of Your Own Gravediggers" www.gloryscene.co.uk |
Posted By: Progger
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 10:50
The Australian Pink Floyd
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Posted By: Gloryscene
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 10:55
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or..... "THINK FLOYD!!" ------------- "The Beautiful Ally Of Your Own Gravediggers" www.gloryscene.co.uk |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 11:21
| Well, maybe some Eloy and perhaps even more, This mortal coil and some Tangerine dream, but overall they are pretty unique, I think. |
Posted By: Manunkind
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 12:24
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And how about Blue Floyd - the members of The Allman Brothers' Band and Gov't Mule doing PF songs live! ------------- "In war there is no time to teach or learn Zen. Carry a strong stick. Bash your attackers." - Zen Master Ikkyu Sojun |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 12:39
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NW USA band Obscured By Clouds, do unplugged Floyd (also the odd Doors & Nick Drake cover). Greatly enjoyed their first album (privately issued via their own website - go surfing for details at: http://www.obscuredbyclouds.com/ - http://www.obscuredbyclouds.com/ where you can download mp3s), They even suggest that stripped of the electronics that Floyd are even closer to Roy Harper than you think................ |
Posted By: beef
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 16:30
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listen the negative zone at the 70's pink floyd sound http://www.negativezone.net - http://www.negativezone.net |
Posted By: Yanns
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 17:39
| Bands that sound like Pink Floyd.... well, there are bands that play the same genre, but in my opinion, no one can play music like the Floyd. They will never be touched. |
Posted By: Eddy
Date Posted: April 28 2005 at 18:04
| actually amon duul II has a great deal of floyd influences hidden in there music, Ecpecially taze de lemminze! |
Posted By: Waters
Date Posted: November 01 2005 at 20:43
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Hi everyone .. im just come around here by searching for similar bands like pink.. i could simply say that theres no bands meet there genius playing .. Anyway i suggest Alan parsons & camel... about camel do y try to listen to album "harbour of tears" i think you will like it sure!! regards -------------  THE DARK SIDE OF THE PINK FLOYD ?? IS > Leave the Band Going into PIECES , '''
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: November 01 2005 at 20:47
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NO DONT LISTEN TO ALL THOSE OTHER REPLIES... THE CLOSEST THING TO PINK FLOYD (well, the post dark side of the moon PF) is BY FAR "ASH RA TEMPEL's album, SCHWINGUNGEN" |
Posted By: honganji
Date Posted: November 01 2005 at 21:22
They may not be famous .... However I can recognize them as Pink Floyd type bands. |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 02:01
If you like early PINK FLOYD with Syd Barret, check some of his solo material (with caution)! You probably mean something like the albums "Dark Side of The Moon", "Wish You Were Here" or "Animals" though? Can't get anything quite similar to such in my mind! 
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Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 08:08
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To add some Floydian inspired bands: Brasilian Tisaris/German Eloy (Silent Cries, Mighty Echoes)/Japanese Cosmos Factory (album An Old Castle .. sounds like early PF)/mid-Porcupine Tree (The Sky Moves Sideways-era)/early Ayreon (very Gilmourian guitar work)/Swiss Metamorphosis (album And Then All Was Silent)/French band Phaesis (album Reminiscence)/Thule and Popol Ace (Popol Vuh) from Norway/....
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Posted By: Erik
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 09:45
| Sweet Smoke would be worth a try if you like Pink Floyd. |
Posted By: Space Dimentia
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 10:05
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The only people who sound like Floyd are Floyd. Most bands take cues from Floyd like the mars volta who sound abit like Sid Barrett era at times bar that they dont sound Lkie them. Unless you count the cover bands like Think Floyd (who I must say are rather good) or Dream Theater last week when they done Dark Side of the moon lol. ------------- Prog is music for the mind Hear your Orphaned child! Check out my bands myspace site: www.myspace.com/equinox17 |
Posted By: Evolver
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 10:55
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Try "From The Greenhouse" by Crack The Sky ------------- Trust me. I know what I'm doing. |
Posted By: rockandrail
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 11:18
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Hungarian band "Omega", at least in 2 albums: 200 Years After The Last War Time Robber (this one sounds really like PF) ------------- Pierre R, the man who lost his signature |
Posted By: W.Chuck
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 12:16
early Porcupine Tree  ------------- 
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Posted By: nimrodel
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 13:41
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porcupine trees album Voyage 34... ------------- We want... a shrubbery! |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: November 02 2005 at 15:47
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I find Band Of Rain a bit Floydish (they are here in the archives) and check out the new band Pure Reason Revolution they are most definitely influences by Floyd. ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |