Pink Floyd Fan Music Recommendations

While some people were talking about something like this, I figured I'd make a topic about it.

What band or album do you think your fellow Floydians would enjoy? What music do you enjoy that you want the rest of the world to hear? (Please, nobody put their own bands in there).

I figure I'll start out.

All of Radiohead's albums (except for Pablo Honey)
Can
Manic Street Preachers (Best album: The Holy Bible)(which is unfortunately unknown to most people on this side of the Atlantic).
Tool (Lateralus)
J.S. Bach (for those who want to step up on the "musical sophistication" ladder)
Syd Barrett
Rick Wright
Roger Waters
Nick Mason (Fictitious Sports, the fellow did a good job on that one)
David Gilmour
Electric Sheep (my band)
Rage Against the Machine (Self-titled)

This isn't everything I listen to for I have a very wide range of tastes. Unfortunately, many of them are well-known and mentioning them may cause others to think un-musically sophisticated.

Good topic.

I pretty much agree with you about Rage, Tool, and Radiohead. I'd also like to throw in Bjork, and Phish. Despite the fact that these 2 have become trendy as of late, they are still incredible.

Rage Against The Machine is horrible.

All Pink Floyd albums
Chris Rea - The Road To Hell
Nirvana - In Utero
Smokie - Best Of..
R.E.M
Robert Miles - Dreamland (if you dislike this album of progresive trance, you need to visit a doctor immediately)

At the moment, I can only think of one track which does for me as much as any PF song, and I realise what a contentious comment this is but...like I care.

Tangerine Dream's "Cloudburst Flight" on their Force Majeure album. Killer guitar solo; will leave you feeling as though you'd been ridden hard and put away wet; like being dragged through a hedgerow backwards.

Try it, I know you'll like it.

I don't like Rage at all...

My favorite bands, and the ones I recomend are:
Pink Floy (of course)
Nirvana (Lithium rocks)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Great Guitar and Bass work)
Xutos e Pontapés (It's a portuguese rock band, they don't sing in english, but their music is really great. They survived 20 years of pop music here, so really try to download some of their songs. If you know portuguese, thats even better)

After naming these bands, I can only say that the main reason for getting into Floyd was because of their guitar work. The melodies or the lyrics dind't get to me at once, but the magnificent Any Color You Like / Breath 2nd Reprise solo wsa what really got me to listen to Floyd

I dig:

Sigur Ros- Aegitis Byrjun(but you all know that anyway)
Post "Bends" Radiohead
Ultramarine- Every man and woman is a star
Leftfield- both Leftism and Rhythm and stealth
Pink Floyd- about half, to be honest
First 2 Massive Attack albums
Air- Premier symptomes & the virgin suicides OST
The Beta Band- 3 EPs (check it out)
Metallica- first 3 albums +, I suppose, the black one
Black Box Recorder- The facts of life
the Spaced soundtrack CD
Sabbath's first 6 albums
Queensryche's Operation Mindcrime, which is a fantastic mid eighties concept album, if you've never previously heard of it.
The Buffalo 66 soundtrack,
Hunky Dory + a lot of early Bowie...
Houses of the Holy...
Just anything that has that real 70's embodiment vibe + to my chagrin, some more extreme metal hangovers from my teen years and
Virus 100- an Alternative Tentacles compilation of DK's covers- it rocks!


"It's all good"


Cheers,

Mark








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Isn't this where we came in?

right... by hjurrying I forgot to mention metallica and Pearl Jam in my last post

My personal Favs:
All of Radiohead (Just saw them in concert Tuesday night, one of the most amazing things ever)
Smashing Pumpkins, up to and including Mellon Collie
Moxy Fruvous, the Canadian succesors to TMBG
The Clash
Led Zepplin
The Who

Thats all I can think of right now, I'm sure there's more.

-Hob

By the way- Ficticious Sports has been widely acknowledged, even by the man himself, as a Carla Bley solo album that it was useful to have his name attached to.

I like his production on Steve Hillage's Green album, though.

It's dry.


Cheers, Mark

Yeah Mark. And another thing about "Sports" is that it is nothing if not the biggest load of festering tripe....Ever!

I mean, jeez. It's like listening to Leonard Cohen singing falsetto. "Singing" used very very loosely as well.

Discuss.

Ok, here's my listo...

Yes - (one of the best progressive rock bands out there, tho they have succumbed to 80's styles and changed somewhat drastically, but look at Pink)

Supertramp - (these keyboardists are increadible, i grew up with the music)

Alan Parsons - (just classic music really, nothing extremely special, but i did get into them before the Floyd, and it was great to learn he enginnered DSOTM)

Led Zepplin - (Just some great tunes)

The Beatles - (I mean, i don't like all their stuff, but alot of it is very nice, and i can play it on my guitar! )

And then their's those bands i've heard but a few tunes which i think are very nice: Radiohead, Peal Jam, The Doors, The Who.

and i must agree with Radiochair on the Bach thing, him and Vivaldi are just magnificent.

Charade,

And here I was a bit wary of including Alan Parsons, Supertramp and Yes, but I must agree.

All my 70s and 80s techno-pop faves are also in the list: Brian Eno, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Klaus Schultz, etc., etc.

nine inch nails (esp the fragile and PHM)
radiohead (all except pablo)
tool (all albums)
faith no more
massive attack
just to name a few favourites at the moment

Boab, I wasn't the least bit afraid - i mean, really Yes is a great progressive rock band.

Well, here are some more I thought of, a bit more ridiculous then some others. I am prepared for the laughter.

TMBG, pre-Malcolm in the Middle fame.

Tom Petty, nearly all his ablums excluding Echoes

Micheal Jackson, the Thriller album (I know what you are all gonna say, so keep it to yourselves, this is a great album)

Pet Shop Boys, I can't think of one album that I like as a whole but various songs of theirs are great--especially October Symphony

Weird Al, ok I know he's not really a musical genius, but he is so damned funny

Public Enemy

NWA


Now you may all commence the criticism.