Three Sisters - INXS
Sleepwalk - Santo and Johnny
Favourite Instrumentals (Title changed for Soulnet, but will now be incorrect for some other reason)
■■■■■■ hell,
Oxygene II and IV
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D.T. - AC/DC
Thread needs more Zappa
If you post links, I am much more likely to listen…
OK, not strictly instrumental, but mostly. Many of his pieces had some vocals (and satirical lyrics) just to carry his musical compositions which otherwise wouldn’t have got any exposure:
Lol, now I’m remembering that poster from years back who used that same Zappa pic as his avatar. Pies fan? Blues fan? What was his username?
My Elastic Eye - Chemical Brothers
Christian’s Theme - Elfman (never seen the movie, just like it)
Sleepwalker dominated my dreams for a decent two weeks.
Wasn’t actually looking for this, but eh.
My elastic eye over star guitar?
Sirius - Allan parsons project
In memory of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Brothers
I normally get pushback on It Came From Afrika…
But yeah-nah…My Elastic Eye is my favourite from that album.
It’s the ticking, the clockwork; the feeling of being forced forward in time.
Also…it’s always hard to know where to draw the line.
Awww, chilly!
Where did you go?
I mean…I can’t be having with Song For Guy not being an instrumental just because Elton says ‘lay’ lots of times, for no apparent reason.
So…where do you draw the line?
Even if my favourite moment of this track just happens to be…Aaaaaarmagedon!
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Fanfare for the common man, ELP
Going Home, Mark Knoffler
Cliffs of Dover, Eric Johnson
Also Sprach Zarathustra, Eumir Deodato
Top Gun Theme, Steve Stevens and Harold Faltermeyer
And only because it intimidated/scared a 15 year old me into playing bass
Eruption, EVH
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And Dueling Banjos from Deliverance. Reminds me of Collingwood
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Fluff - Black Sabbath
Astradyne - Ultravox
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Interesting question, because do you consider musics by artists that routinely don’t have lyrics/singing to be ‘instrumental’?
Anyway, with that doubt:
Fanfare for the common man
The Big Ship - Eno
I’m gonna say: the great gig in the sky - there’s voice but not one lyric.
Also the whole Koln Concert -see clip from the film ■■■■ Diaro
The six wives of Henry VIII
Lotsa stuff by Sky
Paris Texas soundtrack
C.aro gets censored WTF?
I realise I posted much of this a bit earlier. Looks like the alzheimers is kicking in!
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Could be Rick Wkeman playing anything
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Theme For Great Cities - Simple Minds
Sunspots - Bob Mould
Signify - Porcupine Tree
Sleepless - Ups And Downs
Wedding Cake Island - Midnight Oil
Space Invader - Pretenders
Astradyne - Ultravox
Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Oh Boy - Cheap Trick
Spacesuit - They Might Be Giants
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I tend to gravitate towards instrumental music more than music with singing. So this is hard for me to nominate any favourite tracks. It would be easier for me to list instrumental albums.
Stoner stuff like Earthless, Mother Engine, Ørsund Space Collective, Astrodome, Causa Sui and Colour Haze (which has some vocals), threw to countless Jazz/funk stuff like the Strata East record lable catalogue, the Tribe catalogue, the Black Jazz cataloge, to Blue Note and all the wondeful Japanese Jazz instrumental records and then back to even local modern day instrumental acts like Surprise Chef and Brown Spirits (both from like Camberwell or something).
I even love Library Music, like the KPM stuff etc.
But two tracks I always listen to with absolute awe and get most inspiration from would probably be:
Lampoc Boogie by Eddie Hazel. An eleven minute univibe and fuzzed up journey into the cosmos that just makes me smile everytime i listen.
Pali Gap by Jimi Hendrix. An exotic almost Polynesian sounding jam backed by a somewhat basic yet relentless groove with intricate and tasteful guitar parts washing in and out threw the length of the track.
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It’s mainly instrumental, but “Lay”? Elton says “Life” and “Isn’t everything”.
edit: Some context for @wimmera1 et al … Elton was feeling morbid, imagined he was dead and wrote the song. The following day, he learned that Rocket Records messenger boy Guy Burchett (17) had been killed in a motorcycle accident and so named the song after him. Guy died on the very same day that the song had been written.
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