Top Five Pink Floyd Covers and Tributes

With the recent, temporary reunion of Roger Waters and David Gilmour, and Waters' upcoming tour featuring complete performances of The Wall, this is a good time to write about Pink Floyd. Here's a look at a few artists who have done exceptional covers of Floyd's material. No particular order.

Voivod: Astronomy Domine
This French-Canadian metal quartet covered "Astronomy Dominé" as part of Nothingface, an elaborate concept album in its own right. Lead singer Snake's guttural, robotic vocals suit the spacy music, and the band tears into one of the Floyd's earliest and meatiest riffs. Voivod later covered Floyd's "The Nile Song" on its 1993 album, The Outer Limits.

Fish: Fearless
The ex-Marillion frontman covered this Meddle track on his third solo album: the all-covers Songs From the Mirror. Fish delivers a soulful version of the tune, aided by female backing vocals an a bizarre answering machine message that wouldn't be out of place on a Floyd record.

Shadow Gallery: Floydian Memories
This 25-minute mega-medley incorporates fragments of Pink Floyd songs into a giant symphonic collage. It was released as a bonus with the Pennsylvania progressive metal band's album Room V. A pleasurable listen for the Floyd-o-phile, who will recognize such rarities as "Corporal Clegg," "Wot's…uh…the Deal" and "The Fletcher Memorial Home" alongside sections of "On The Turning Away" and "Mother." It starts and ends with Parts I and II of "Pigs on the Wing."



Korn: Another Brick In The Wall Pt. I , II, III
The Bakersfield-based nu-metal act covered all three parts of Another Brick in the Wall" on their Greatest Hits Vol. 1 disc. Marching, rhythmic guitars add to the song's heaviness. Jonathan Davis roars through Pink's abandonment by his father, his misery in English public schools, and eventual self-isolation, before ending with a few bars of "Goodbye Cruel World."

Dream Theater: The Dark Side of the Moon
Some bands cover songs. Dream Theater cover whole albums! Recorded and filmed during the band's Octavarium tour, this is a complete live performance of "Dark Side of the Moon." And the best part is a smoking  And it's much better than that Flaming Lips thing that came out sometime last year.

Honorable mentions:
Queensrÿche: "Welcome to the Machine"
Nightwish: "High Hopes"
Van Morrison: "Comfortably Numb"