Band of Horses stole their sound from My Morning Jacket.

Floyd,post-"Final Cut", does have a distinct sound. But throughout the 60's & 70's, their sound was all over the place.

Soul Coughing

My Bloody Valentine

Bjork

The Wild Swans
The Blue Nile

I'm specifically referring to post-Syd. Around the time of Meddle/Obscured by Clouds, Floyd found their spacey, bluesy distinct sound, IMO.

The Mars Volta
The Cure
The Smiths

I would add Tool to that list and probably Incubus.

Type O Negative Peter Steeles voice cannot be mimicked........

I started listening to them in 68/69 and during the 69 states tour which was recorded as ya yas, that was one of the introductions from Jagger.

As for the pistols, they came from nowhere(malcom mclaren is about as close to that as possible), some of them never played an instrument, they fought with everybody, hated their audience, got thrown off tv, arrested on the thames for the queens jubilee, made 1 great album, toured the states not in the cities but in small southern towns in redneck bars with the expected result, and destroyed themselves at the end of the tour. Some dead, some just pissed. To me that was the personification of a band. Just my opinion.

Morrissey sounds just like the Smiths

Caaaaaaaake!

I mean Cake.

Dire Straits

Bloodhound Gang

I would say as far as an overall sound.

Tool
Queens of the Stone Age
White Stripes
Eagles of Death Metal

thats a few that instantly came to mind, where you can hear just the first part of most of the songs and say, "Hey thats xxxx"

And yes, EODM are not huge or anything but they do have a very distinctive sound if you know the sound at all.

Beach Boys
Pet Shop Boys

I'd say that Weezer would fit on that list.

= J

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Elliott Smith
Grant Lee Buffalo/Grant Lee Phillips
The Selecter
Violent Femmes
Nirvana
B-52s
The Psychedelic Furs
Material Issue
Concrete Blonde

The list goes on, for me anyway.


I also agree with: Cake and Soul Coughing, and a bunch of the others

I was going by the slap bass that fieldy does is what makes them stand out imo. As soon as you hear it, I can instantly tell its them

Tell that to all the kids who love the Smiths but hate Morrissey.