I still agree with this one. I don't think any of those have a style that wouldn't take everything that made Pink Floyd good out of it. Not to say those bands are bad, they just don't have what Pink Floyd had, nor are they anywhere close. They do completely different stuff!
No.
Listen to Girl Anachronism. Dreden Dolls could do Bike FANTASTICALLY. Ewigkeit lists Pink Floyd as his primary musical inspiration, and the insane electro-rock he brings to tracks like 'How To Conquer the World', 'Esc' and 'Strange Volk' would rock the shit out of One of These Days. Hell, it's hardly a jump, he's already ripped off the bassline in About Time (though it IS just the Dr. Who bassline...) Swans: Mournful, depressing slowcore/industrial with neo-folk touches. Would rock out either of those tracks. See for reference their cover of Love Will Tear Us Apart, a song I could not previously have believed could have been done justice by anyone but the late Mr. Curtis. Bauhaus doing See Emily Play would be hilarious (I was thinking in the vein of their cover of 'Spirit in the Sky'), though now I think of it, it would be better if that one was done by the Bauhaus novelty side-project The Sinister Ducks (Featuring ALAN FUCKING MOORE). Coil are just geniuses, though there is the slight danger they'd take too much acid and get a choir of parrots in on the chorus or something. Placebo we've discussed. I've heard the Sisters of Mercy do Comfortably Numb, and basically, that means Alien Sex Fiend could pull it off better. British Sea Power are, what, oceanic-sounding shoegaze or something? Echoes is almost perfect for them, and they'd do wonderful things with it. Nightingale are one of the best not-quite-prog acts around, and Diamanda Galas would turn those vocals into something utterly mind-blowing. Throbbing Gristles effort would, I admit, be a crime against music and sanity, but it would be a glorious crime. It would be the Robin Hood of sonic atrocities. Tan-Hauser Gate are rather unknown, but, well, trust me. Those guys probably spent most of their teenage years smoking dope and listening to Floyd. They could do it and well. Anyone who thinks Hawkwind shouldn't be forced AT FUCKING GUNPOINT to do Astronomy Domine is mad, and, well, 'Several Species...' is one of the first songs I can think of outside Musique Concrete to be composed entirely of tape manipulation, which happens to be NWW's forte. Ok, ok, Nurse With Wound & Current 93. Dave Tibet could make the animal noises. It would be fucking SUBLIME.
I picked all those bands because they are all, (with the arguable exception of Placebo, who I just like, ok?) somewhat to extremely left-field, interesting acts, which is what Pink Floyd was. To get mainstream rock bands to create slavish clones or clumsy genre translations of the Floyd is an insult to the music itself. Covers come in two brands*: tributes and whacked out re-interpretations/deconstructions/fuck knows. I know which one I like.
Oh, and whilst we're at it, lets have an already existing cover on there:
Laibach - The Dogs of War
*Well, technically three, the other being the 'We couldn't write a good pop single of our own.'
