Other bands that sound like Pink Floyd?

[Stewie26]

I am about to enter a studio project and the goal is to write and record original songs with a heavy Pink Floyd influence and Floyd type instrumentation. Can you name some other bands/songs that have the Floyd sound.
I am always looking for additional inspiration before putting my writing hat on. Any help would be well appreciated.

Just an additional note. These song will be for recording only and there no plans to play these song live at this time. It would require too many backing tracks.

 

[elgecko]

Pre-Roger, Roger-era, or post-Roger?

 

[Stewie26]

Pre-Roger, Roger-era, or post-Roger?

Actually all. I would like to listen- research as many of their styles as possible. But I really would like to hear some other bands who have been strongly influence by Floyd.

 

[Jazz Ad]

There were 100s of great progressive psyche rock bands in this era.
Coming straight to mind Are Aphrodite Childs' 666, Thin Lizzy, Pavlov Dogs, Ange, there really are 100s.

 

[Febs]

Check out this album that I played bass on. It has a very strong Pink Floyd influence.

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[elgecko]

For Roger era Floyd, you won't get closer than his solo albums. Amused to Death and The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking are excellent while never really got into Radio K.A.O.S.

The next closest thing I can think of is Alan Parson Project.

 

[elgecko]

A lot of songs off Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake It's Morning wouldn't sound out of place on Floyd's The Final Cut.

 

[Stewie26]

Check out this album that I played bass on. It has a very strong Pink Floyd influence.

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Wish I could listen to this but not a member of Facebook

 

[OEW3]

The British band July, from the late sixties kind of reminded me of early Syd-Floyd, a little. Radiohead has come close to a Floyd sound on some of their material. Tame Impala is kinda Floydian sometimes.
But nobody came even close to doing it as well as Floyd did, whatever era.

 

[10cc]

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[brianrost]

Thin Lizzy????

 

[Rimbaud88]

Porcupine tree. In the 90s they composed a whole album dedicated to the Pink Floyd fans.

 

[callofcthulhu]

What am I reading here...

The only band so far that makes any sense being mentioned in this thread is Radiohead.

There have been a lot of psychedelic bands, there have been a lot of prog rock bands, but the thing that makes Pink Floyd amazing is the sense of scope, the vision, how they can craft an emotional roller coaster of different moods, tempos, even entire genres, and still make it seem like a unified experience, if not a singular statement.

There have been too many psychedlic bands, making poppy, fuzzy, singsongy nonsense sprinkled with feedback explosions. Too many to count or care.

There have been fewer (but still more than necessary) dedicated prog rock bands, trying desperately to form catchy melodies around exhaustingly complex chord structures or time signatures, or bombastic overblown anthems that fall short of grandeur by virtue of their pointlessness.

There have been almost no true successors to the throne from whence Pink Floyd dictated the language of the gods into the human-audible sound frequency range.

Radiohead is one worthy contender for the title. Tool is another. If there are any others I can't think of them right now...

 

[Rimbaud88]

The fact Radiohead are kind of Pink Floyd followers is just a myth in my opinion. I have never found any kind of similarity beetween them and Pink Floyd. They dont even play progrock. They are much closer to Queen than to Pink Floyd.

 

[Bisounourse]

The big 'rival' group in the early (Syd Barrett-) days was Soft Machine, although they didn't really sound like the Floyd (they did however play on a few songs on Syd Barrett's solo offerings).
Kevin Ayers (ex-Soft Machine, but more in the vain of the early Floyd).
Tangerine Dream/Klaus Schulze, for the eerie bits.
Perhaps Gong (the early 70ies incarnation), Ozric Tentacles, Hawkwind (the 70ies stuff), Steve Hillage, The Orb (they even did an album with David Gilmour),...

 

[hrodbert696]

Actually, listening to the latest Black Keys album (Turn Blue), I've been thinking there's a Floyd vibe to a lot of it.



I'd also agree on Porcupine Tree (the Lightbulb Sun album, anyway) and Steven Wilson's solo stuff.

 

[brumebat]

The Tangent, Astra, and Ancestors all seem to get pretty close.

 

[mwbassace]

Is there a pre-Roger era? Seems more like pre-Gilmore, post-Barrett, post Waters. But I digress...

 

[Febs]

Wish I could listen to this but not a member of Facebook

Sorry, I didn't realize you needed to be to use Spotify. Try this:

Justin DiFebbo

The tracks that are probably the most Floyd influenced are Play It Slow, She Refused, Storm and Certain Company.

 

[OldCityBassman]

Definitely check out Alan Parsons, his close ties to Pink Floyd are evident in his music. I robot greatly inspires me to play and mess around with songwriting. I love the style.