Many artists living/dead have been influential, and some that came after had/have no problem admitting they were heavily influenced by singing and/or lyrical style, dance moves, etc.. But I'm sure there are some artists no one would dare to emulate, because it would come off silly. I'm guessing most candidates will be lead singers. I think most would laugh at someone trying to pretend to be Jim Morrison, for example.
sharePicasso to me seems impossible to emulate.
Also, I haven't heard another band similar to Pink Floyd.
Picasso started or at least popularized the entire school of Cubist art, he had many imitators. Or followers, or acolytes, to be polite.
But yeah, nobody sounds like Pink Floyd. Nobody successful, anyway.
I totally agree about Pink Floyd
shareI don't know much about that form of art, so you're probably right.
shareI took a year of art history in college.
It was a long, long time ago, but then I don't think much has changed with cubism since then.
It's true. It was a whole enormous scene of artists doing their best Picasso impressions. There are still contemporary artists doing new takes on Picasso today.
Here's one of my favorite current artists whose work shows a lot of Picasso influence, Rhys Lee:
https://www.instagram.com/rhyslee_
Here are just a few successful Pink Floyd influenced bands that have a lot of PF in their sound:
Marillion, Moody Blues, King Crimson, Alan Parsons Project, Steven Wilson/Porcupine Tree, Ozric Tentacles, Yes, Van Der Graaf Generator, Hawkwind, Soft Machine, Gong, Rush, Camel, Anathema, Airbag, Buckethead, The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Pond, The Mars Volta, The Pineapple Thief, Midlake, Archive, Tiamat, maudlin of the Well, Riverside, Dream Theater, Opeth, The War on Drugs, Tame Impala...
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Mike Oldfield. You have Rob Reed's Sanctuary albums, and some isolated themes in youtube... and that's it.
And it's a pity. I think he created a style that could bring (still) much more.
Gordon Giltrap, Pepe Maina, Bo Hansson, Hartmut Zinn, Colin Masson, Anthony Phillips, Steve Jolliffe, David Bedford, Vangelis, Asturias, Goblin, Clearlight, Gong, Magyar Posse, lots of other post-rock, prog, RPI and new age artists, and many more.
shareHartmut Zinn, fair enough, but he just did one album.
The other ones, nope. They're instrumental cross-prog. I've listened to almost all of them, and I could add Hostsonaten, Engel, Par Lindh & Bjorn Johansson, Johan Van de Voet, Paul Brett, EliphasZ. But again, either they just made a few themes (like Engel) or they're standard (good) cross-prog.
https://bit.ly/2EjaW6m
All good additions! I don't know dude, I personally see most of these guys taking liberal influence from Oldfield and being more or less of a kind. When you say they're standard crossover prog, what are you seeing in Mike's music that separates it?
Absolutely love Mike btw, I mean, Ommadawn dude?
Ommadawn is my all-time favorite album 😄
I don't know where to draw the line when it comes to Oldfield's influence, it's more like a feeling. It seems that music is either too close, so it's considered a copy (Rob Reed, Zinn), or the influence is vague and blends into a more generic cross-prog approach. I never found an artist that manages to get close but not too close. I hope Reed will be that guy... eventually.
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If you never listened to Engel, give him a try. Sadly, he gave up after the first album.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2SLjTc92wE
And another little jewel I found in youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6th4jN5zhC4
Awesome! Excellent taste kuku. I know exactly what you mean.
It’s obvious that Mike is an exceptionally gifted genius. That quality of genius that makes someone truly great and an original in the way that we go on to talk in terms of who emulated them, even though all the while everyone borrows from and references someone else, is what makes them impossible to emulate. It’s tough to come close to the same form of expression without putting yourself a tier below the master by fault of the emulation.
I’ll check these out, thanks for sharing!
Tiny Tim lol?? 😅
Not that he was great or anything. Just trying to come up with someone because so far everyone has be emulated LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LhwtVh9Oj8
shareBAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
shareThat looks more like a high-pitch emulation of Beirut
https://youtu.be/X61BVv6pLtw?t=29