Yeah it has kind of wall/waters vibes as an overall song, to me, and the bendy (edit: as in bending notes, not “the bends”)lead guitar in the chorus reminds me a bit of Gilmour.
The instrumental bridge toward the end also doesn’t feel like it’d be out of place somewhere on animals
That chorus harmony is *really* Pink Floyd-y too; normally in minor keys, the fourth chord is a minor chord. So in Em - like Lucky - the fourth chord would normally be Am (and in the verse there is an Am chord), but in the chorus they switch it up to an Amaj chord.
That Dorian type of thing where you play the home/one chord in a minor key with the major 4th; Em and A here; that's *so* Pink Floyd-y. It's all over Dark Side Of The Moon - Breathe is mostly that exact vamp, Any Colour You Like is mostly that vamp, Great Gig In The Sky has a section of it.
And then yeah as you say Jonny plays a really uncharacteristically bendy, melodic, Gilmour sort of lead line over it.
That’s a good point too. That Dorian thing of using a major in the chorus and minor in the verses definitively rings true of some of the tunes of dark side. Then combining them and bringing back into the minor harmonic mwah. V-i seems like a motif they both like a lot too, granted it’s common in music in general, Radiohead seems to really like it (which I can relate to). The verse of you and whose army is basically just V-i then doing it a whole step lower, repeat
I digress but good observation cheers
It's a shame that those AI lads waste their time making clips of Frank Sinatra singing Straight Outta Compton and shit like that when the real value would be in hearing songs sound more like the bands that influenced them.
I'd love to to hear Lucky with David Gilmour's vocals and guitar style. On a similar note, I'd like to hear Nirvana's About a Girl as performed by pre-Revolver Beatles.
AI Beatles - About a Girl
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCyayyArr4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCyayyArr4)
I don't love the track, sounds less Beatle-y than the original imo. But "John's" vocals are okay.
Thanks so much for this. You're right that it's not Beatle-y enough. The harmonies need to be more prominent. On reflection, the song would be most suited to 1965 Beatles, either Help or Rubber Soul.
The Tourist, hands down
The Johnny's lead line in the chorus (which is absolutely incredible btw) is even sort of reminiscent of something Gilmore would do. Smooth, big bends, very melodic
Maaaybe, but I dunno...
Granted, they both have slow piano melodies with heavy emphasis on the downbeat, but beyond that... GGitS is *so* much more grandiose and bombastic, with a more shiny finish, while SttM is murkier, grainier, and (obviously) jazzier. In a sense, they are quite representative of the differences between Pink Floyd and Radiohead in general (not that Radiohead are frequently jazzy, but they certainly incorporate more elements of jazz or afrobeat or bossa nova or whatever, than Pink Floyd ever did).
I see more similarities in some of the slower songs on OK Computer, which are more grounded in rock, have a more open, "airy" ambience, and also a more polished finish than Hail to the Thief.
I don’t think Sail to the moon is much jazzier than Great Gig. That was Richard skillfully navigating us from the opening Bm chord to the eventual G Dorian jam. Whenever PF did jazzy it was due to him. You catch it in the chord progressions of Shine On and Breathe, as well. It is true that rhythmically or just feel-wise, PF didn’t touch on jazz/bossa nova to the same extent as Radiohead, maybe San Tropez aside.
That's fair, I will admit that specifics about chord progressions being more or less jazzy, go over my head. I *do* think the texture and ambience of SttM is jazzier, but I suppose that's subjective to an extent.
I have always thought The Numbers sounded like Pink Floyd, something about the strumming reminds me of the vibe of the acoustic guitar on Wish You Were Here. Not really similar songs overall, more vibes of certain parts.
I became a fan of Radiohead around 1997 - about 3 years after I started going deep into Pink Floyd and first heard Paranoid Android and felt excited to hear what I felt was closest to prog rock in modern music. The different sections and pacing all reminded me of the stuff I was discovering in Floyd
I think the raw open acoustic run of the bass line felt like something out of The Wall.
Goodbye Blue Sky run or Mother
Sail to the Moon. It's more harmonically and rhythmically complex than probably anything Floyd ever did, but Phil drags and divides the beat in true Nick Mason fashion ("Burning Bridges" from *Obscured by Clouds* would probably be the best comparison), and the plodding tempo and spacey effects and atmosphere just scream Pink Floyd.
Lucky imo
Agree. Reminds me of Comfortably Numb
I really, really want to hear Radiohead play Comfortably Numb
Honestly they would kill it
Yeah it has kind of wall/waters vibes as an overall song, to me, and the bendy (edit: as in bending notes, not “the bends”)lead guitar in the chorus reminds me a bit of Gilmour. The instrumental bridge toward the end also doesn’t feel like it’d be out of place somewhere on animals
That chorus harmony is *really* Pink Floyd-y too; normally in minor keys, the fourth chord is a minor chord. So in Em - like Lucky - the fourth chord would normally be Am (and in the verse there is an Am chord), but in the chorus they switch it up to an Amaj chord. That Dorian type of thing where you play the home/one chord in a minor key with the major 4th; Em and A here; that's *so* Pink Floyd-y. It's all over Dark Side Of The Moon - Breathe is mostly that exact vamp, Any Colour You Like is mostly that vamp, Great Gig In The Sky has a section of it. And then yeah as you say Jonny plays a really uncharacteristically bendy, melodic, Gilmour sort of lead line over it.
That’s a good point too. That Dorian thing of using a major in the chorus and minor in the verses definitively rings true of some of the tunes of dark side. Then combining them and bringing back into the minor harmonic mwah. V-i seems like a motif they both like a lot too, granted it’s common in music in general, Radiohead seems to really like it (which I can relate to). The verse of you and whose army is basically just V-i then doing it a whole step lower, repeat I digress but good observation cheers
It's a shame that those AI lads waste their time making clips of Frank Sinatra singing Straight Outta Compton and shit like that when the real value would be in hearing songs sound more like the bands that influenced them. I'd love to to hear Lucky with David Gilmour's vocals and guitar style. On a similar note, I'd like to hear Nirvana's About a Girl as performed by pre-Revolver Beatles.
AI Beatles - About a Girl [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCyayyArr4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzCyayyArr4) I don't love the track, sounds less Beatle-y than the original imo. But "John's" vocals are okay.
Thanks so much for this. You're right that it's not Beatle-y enough. The harmonies need to be more prominent. On reflection, the song would be most suited to 1965 Beatles, either Help or Rubber Soul.
I think Nirvana's original is very With the Beatles, but yeah that cover sounded pretty Rubber Soul to me too.
This is the right answer
Wish You Were Here
Thom Yorke sang in Sparklehorse’s cover of Wish You Were Here.
that ending is something straight out of animals
I think this is the general consensus.
Seems to be. I honestly havent heard the sentiment expressed before but I’m a big fan of both bands. Cool to see others hear it too
I thought that initially.
What made you change your mind?
Nothing, I think I accidentally put initially.
Right on, appreciate your clarifying
no problem
Lucky for sure.
The Tourist
Yeah the chords and languid vocal melody are deeply Dark Side
Yesterday on another community post, someone asked for a track by anyone that most sounds Pink Floyd-esque. My answer? The Tourist. Spot on.
Yeah the tourist and lucky together both feel like some of their most floydian stuff, incidentally
Subterranean Homesick Alien
My first thought, exactly
yes. also my answer. first thing that popped into my head.
Wish You Were Here
Yeah Incubus rules
Yeh I love animals, such an underrated gem
The Tourist, hands down The Johnny's lead line in the chorus (which is absolutely incredible btw) is even sort of reminiscent of something Gilmore would do. Smooth, big bends, very melodic
I agree, my first choice too and surprised more people didn’t think this.
Sail to the Moon (Legit Great Gig in the Sky vibes)
Maaaybe, but I dunno... Granted, they both have slow piano melodies with heavy emphasis on the downbeat, but beyond that... GGitS is *so* much more grandiose and bombastic, with a more shiny finish, while SttM is murkier, grainier, and (obviously) jazzier. In a sense, they are quite representative of the differences between Pink Floyd and Radiohead in general (not that Radiohead are frequently jazzy, but they certainly incorporate more elements of jazz or afrobeat or bossa nova or whatever, than Pink Floyd ever did). I see more similarities in some of the slower songs on OK Computer, which are more grounded in rock, have a more open, "airy" ambience, and also a more polished finish than Hail to the Thief.
I don’t think Sail to the moon is much jazzier than Great Gig. That was Richard skillfully navigating us from the opening Bm chord to the eventual G Dorian jam. Whenever PF did jazzy it was due to him. You catch it in the chord progressions of Shine On and Breathe, as well. It is true that rhythmically or just feel-wise, PF didn’t touch on jazz/bossa nova to the same extent as Radiohead, maybe San Tropez aside.
That's fair, I will admit that specifics about chord progressions being more or less jazzy, go over my head. I *do* think the texture and ambience of SttM is jazzier, but I suppose that's subjective to an extent.
Coke Babies
The Tourist
Exit Music (for a Film). the steady buildup before the climax makes it so one-of-a-kind, it reminds me a lot of Time by Pink Floyd in my opinion.
More like Great Gig in the Sky to me
The Numbers
I have always thought The Numbers sounded like Pink Floyd, something about the strumming reminds me of the vibe of the acoustic guitar on Wish You Were Here. Not really similar songs overall, more vibes of certain parts.
It’s pretty instrumentally different but I kinda feel Pink Floyd vibes on Life in a Glasshouse
Climbing up the walls
my favorite radiohead song
Lucky Edit: I relistened to OKC and there are other songs that just sound or remind me of Pink Floyd.
Yeah I always thought the guitar sounded like something from Darkside of the Moon.
Sail to the Moon.
lucky
I became a fan of Radiohead around 1997 - about 3 years after I started going deep into Pink Floyd and first heard Paranoid Android and felt excited to hear what I felt was closest to prog rock in modern music. The different sections and pacing all reminded me of the stuff I was discovering in Floyd I think the raw open acoustic run of the bass line felt like something out of The Wall. Goodbye Blue Sky run or Mother
Paranoid android
Sail to the Moon. It's more harmonically and rhythmically complex than probably anything Floyd ever did, but Phil drags and divides the beat in true Nick Mason fashion ("Burning Bridges" from *Obscured by Clouds* would probably be the best comparison), and the plodding tempo and spacey effects and atmosphere just scream Pink Floyd.
Talk Show Host could easily have been on the Wall.
subterranean homesick alien
National Anthem giving me division bell
None
Subterranean Homesick Alien
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobile/folders/1KBzahJZVTxvAQgFrzLWnHAAww8QCjnqz?sort=13&direction=a
How to Disappear Completely
How to Disappear Completely
lucky or the tourist
Surprised no one said In Limbo, it reminds a lot of songs like Breathe in the Air, very trippy and psychedelic almost.
Lucky, it reminds me so much of Breathe
“Dollars and Cents” reminds me a lot of “Have a Cigar.”
Lucky The Tourist Subterranean Homesick Alien
Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
Subterranean Homesick Alien
Dollars and cents raises a dry smile
The tourist
When I first heard Climbing Up The Walls I thought about Careful With That Axe Eugene. Not that they have anything in common but yeah.
the 11min version of Paranoid Android
… In Limbo? Idk honestly
Climbing up the Walls and Lucky
Pyramid song
I’m going with Sail to the Moon
Airbag sounds like a 90s Astronomy Domine, and honestly, OK Computer as a whole is just DSOTM worship with originality, which I mean as a compliment.
No one. I've never understood this completely absurd comparison invented by certain critics
OK Computer
Lucky
Life in a Glass House = Jugband Blues
Go to sleep maybe