Origin: London, England

Decades: 1960's, 1970's, 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's

Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and, ultimatel... Read More

Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Sun Ra and William S. Burroughs

Acetone, Alice Cooper, Can, Daniel Lanois, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Plastikman, Queen, Radiohead, Roxy Music, Rush, The Orb, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Coheed and Cambria, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Alan Parsons Project, Mellow, Hawkwind, Snow Patrol, The Church, The Moody Blues, Tool, The Small Faces, The Verve, Scissor Sisters, Styx, Ween, Wellwater Conspiracy, Blind Melon, Days Away, Secret Machines, Super Furry Animals, The Beta Band, Genesis, Queensrÿche, José Padilla, The Fall, The Nazz, Television Personalities, The Dream Academy, John Digweed and Mansun