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[ImRonBurgundy?]

what are yours?  here's some of mine:

Dick Dale & His Deltones- "Misirlou"
Al Hirt- "Green Hornet"
Man or Astro-Man?- "Interstellar Hardrive"
Man or Astro-Man?- "Maximum Radiation Level"
The Promise Ring- "We Don't Like Romance"
Broken Social Scene- "Pitter Patter Goes My Heart"
Eels- "Theme for a Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists"
Vince Guaraldi- "Linus & Lucy"
The Most Serene Republic- "Epilogue"
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra- "Filmmakers Bleed"
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra- "Jingi Tataki No Theme"
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra- "Stroke of Fate"
Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra- "Tongues of Fire"
The Ventures- "Journey to the Stars"
The Aquabats!- "¡Phantasma Del Mar!"
The Aquabats!- "Fight Song!"
The Aquabats!- "Welcome to Eltingville! (Opening Theme)"
King Geedorah- "Monster Zero"
Gorillaz- "Double Bass"
Duke Ellington & His Orchestra- "Take the 'A' Train"
Chris Murray- "All-Nite Dinah"
Dallax- "Twenty Junk Rock"
Voodoo Glow Skulls- "Los Hombres No Lloran"
Skavoovie & the Epitones- "Fat Soul"
Polysics- "Buggie Technica"
Leo Kottke- "Red and White"
The Skatalites- "Shot in the Dark"
The Skatalites- "Man in the Street"
The Skatalites- "Eastern Standard Time"
The Skatalites- "(Music is My) Occupation"
Animal Chin- "Station 57"
and most anything by Jaga Jazzist

there's a lot more that i'm forgetting, i'm sure.

[tania]

Broken Social Scene - Shampoo Suicide

They have a lot, but that's the one I like most. By far.

[Storm Rider]

Joe Satriani - Ceremony
Joe Satriani - One Big Rush
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
Dream Theater - Erotomania
Iron Maiden - Transylvania
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick (especially the live version)
Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain
Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Rush - YYZ
Steve Vai - For the Love of God

Of course, I could list just about every Joe Satriani and LTE song, but that's the cream of the crop right there.

[La Creme]

Liquid Tension Experiment - Every song except "Freedom Of Speech", "Hourglass", and "State Of Grace".

Roy Buchanan - The Heat Of The Battle

Eels - Marie Floating Over The Backyard

Spoon - Theme From Wendel Stivers

Mephiskapheles - Foursome

Tin Hat Trio - All, but especially (right now) Old Grey Mare, and Anna Kournikova

Colonel Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains - Jackalope

Mr. Bungle - The Bends

And forever: Miles Davis - What I Say


This isn't really a sensible topic, since a lot of great bands are entirely instrumental and one is tempted to post the band's entire repetoir. I would say that 4/5 of my favorite songs are instrumentals. Whatever though.

[Switchblade]

The only one that springs to mind is Modest Mouse- Custom Concern.

[inseutculnaime]

I really like The Quiet Village.

[Gryff]

'Swing Set' by Jurassic 5.

Plus Miles Davis.

Oh snap, also 'Alone in Kyoto' by Air.

[sjbrot]

"Electrocuted Blues" by the Mooney Suzuki

[Gryff]

three words:

Boards

Of

Canada

[McTaggart]

Can I count Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back And Forth?

[Kai]

Seconded  on everything Storm Rider said, and Lacreme (well, the LTE, Eels, and Bungle part). On Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, I'd go with Elephant Ghost rather than Jackalope. I also really like Bungle's Chemical Marriage.



Alone in Kyoto is insturmental? I have to relisten to that record.


and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew trumps everything else. seriously.

[Natas]

Gorillaz - intro
basically every boards of Canada song
D.J. Tiesto- leathal industry. bass control, trance energy x, traffic, lord of trance and oh so many more!
 and now Dominik Eulberg!

[Kai]

Also, pretty much everything Praxis ever did ever.

[KharBevNor]

Agalloch - Folorium Viridium
Apocalyptica - Path Vol. 1
Arch Enemy - Marching on a Dead End Road
Burzum - Han Som Reiste
Crown of Autumn - Forlorn Elven Realms
Cruachan - A Celtic Mourning
Cryptic Wintermoon - Obsidian Fragments
Dimmu Borgir - Fear and Wonder
Dissection - Feathers Fell
Finntroll - Under Varje Rot Och Sten
Forefather - The Sea-Kings
In Flames - Pallar Anders Visa
Iron Maiden - Transylvania
Korpiklaani - With Trees
Liquid Tension Experiment - Paradigm Shift
Orthaugr - Der Weinende Hadnur (Burzum Cover)
Skyclad - Bombed Out
Sol Invictus - Figures on a Beach
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - Die Knochenblume
Unleashed - Where No Life Dwells
:wumpscut: - Black Death [Muted Concept]

Only one per band. Burzum gets in twice because Orthaugr's cover is utterly beautiful. With more than this, the list would be dominated entirely by a few artists.

[Bunnyman]

What do you mean by instrumental exactly?  Because most of the stuff I listen to already lacks lyrics, or what lyrics exist are twisted and cut beyond recognition, Prefuse 73-style.

However...

Phuture - Acid Trax

[Hairy Joe Bob]

Big Cave In by Therapy?
5 - 4 = Unity by Pavement

[Kid Modernist]

Mogwai - Yes! I am far away from home
Afro Celt Sound System - Dark Moon, High Tide
Othar Turner  - Shimmy She Wobble

Are three I think of off the top of my head.

[TheLoweringTide]

Seeing as the vast majority of the music in my favorite genre (post-rock) is instrumental, I might as well just transcribe the entire discographies of godspeed you! black emperor, set fire to flames, A Silver Mt. Zion, Do Make Say Think, Explosions in the Sky, etc., etc.

[Inlander]

5 - 4 = Unity by Pavement

I love Pavement, but do yourself a favour (if you haven't already) and check out the tune from which they drew inspiration for this number: "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from the 1959 album Time Out.  It's a jazz classic.

[amok]

Can I count Four Tet - My Angel Rocks Back And Forth?

I hope that guy counts 'cos She Moves She was my answer

[MilkmanDan]

and now Dominik Eulberg!

Mmmm... Minimal House.
If you like the Eulberg vibe, you should check out this mix by Sami Koivikko. It's devastatingly minimal.

1. Dominik Eulberg: "Die Rotbauchunken vom Tegernsee" Traum
2. Beese & Schmitz: "Meander" Liebe*Detail
3. Osborne: "Graphite" Spectral Sound
4. Marc Houle: "Borrowed Gear" Minus
5. Mathew Jonson: "Magic Through Music" Itiswhatitis
6. Luciano & Serafin: "Yaki Soba" Telegraph
7. Noon(at: "Maggot" Treibstoff
8. Sten: "Stalker" Sender
9. Meteo/Thiel: "Moonoverdada" (Peter Grummich Remix) Meteosound
10. Pan/tone: "Smoke Signals" Sender
11. Televerket: "Pretty Girls" Italic
12. Tomas Andersson: "Happy Happy" BPitch Control
13. Rex The Dog: "Frequency" Kompakt
14. Metope: "Libertango" Areal

Anyway, I'd say at least 90% of the music I listen to is instrumental, so there isn't a simple answer. Turquoise Hexagon Sun by Boards of Canada and She Moves She by Four Tet have to be a strong contenders though.

[Kossie]

IRON MAIDEN - TRANSYLVANIA!!!!!!!!

Iced Earth did a really good cover of it too, pretty much the same song just a half step lower and it doesn't sound as dated. UP THE IRONS!!!!

[Thrillho]

Hope of the States - The Black Amnesias

[Praeserpium Machinarum]

Probably something classical(Ride of the Walkyries comes to mind) or the entirety of Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antenna to Heaven. Plenty of soundtracks as well e.g. Road to Perdition, Lord of the Rings and others.
I am not really big on instrumentals, hardly ever listen to it to be honest.

[lastclearchance]

"Untitled" from Neutral Milk Hotel's In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Unbelievably amazing. I could just listen to that bagpipe-joy over and over. And I sometimes do.

[rive gauche]

5 - 4 = Unity by Pavement

I love Pavement, but do yourself a favour (if you haven't already) and check out the tune from which they drew inspiration for this number: "Take Five" by the Dave Brubeck Quartet, from the 1959 album Time Out.  It's a jazz classic.

Woot! Dave Brubeck is currently in my CD player as we speak. I love that song/album to death.

Also, ImRonBurgundy?, kudos for Vince Guaraldi. I love the Charlie Brown music. It makes me so happy.

[TrueNeutral]

Eels - Going To Your Funeral Part II
Manowar - My Spirit Lives On (I love it because it reminds me of NES games)
The Nice - America
Midtown - The Tragedy of the Human Condition
Godsmack - Someone In London
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Blue Turning Grey
Metallica - Call of the Ktulu

Yeah, I guess I'm a tool.

[Sideways]

Orion - Metallica - Cliff Burton (credited)

Beautiful.  Back when Metallica was good (Master of Puppets), and Cliffy was alive.

[Patrick]

Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick (especially the live version)

Hearts@u.

And my two favourites:

Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix (Woodstock '69)
Arco Arena - Cake

[Luke C]

Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick (especially the live version)

Hearts@u.

And my two favourites:

Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix (Woodstock '69)

Moby Dick is superb. Would had loved to hear that live.
Star Spangled Banner is also pretty awesome.

I also love listening to 32 Ways to Die by Sum 41. Its a good track even if you dont like their other stuff.

[HeroX]

explosions in the sky - your hand in mine

[Natas]

Beyond lsd- velvet acid christ.

SERIOUSLY IF YOUR ON ANY DRUGS THIS SONG WILL MAKE YOUR HEAD IMPLODE!

[Arcen dawn]

Flim- Aphex Twin
Avril 14th- Aphex Twin
slipstream- Bela Fleck
"Pathetique":I. Allegro di Molto- Beethoven
Ornithology- Charlie Parker
Tiny's Tempo- Charlie Parker
Karma Police- Christopher O'Riley

[Kai]

Go Velvet Acid Christ! woo!



Also, Iron Maiden - Duelists, and whoever mentioned Metallica's Call of Ktulu, I agree heartily.

[ASturge]

The Album Leaf - Streamside

[Cpt.Fantastic]

Architecture In Helsinki - One Heavy February

also

Neutral Milk Hotel - The Fool

[Kai]

And to top of this list, Frank Zappa's Peaches En Regalia.

[ALoveSupreme]

John Cage's work.

I heard a piece tonight called Durations by Morton Feldman that was superb.    

Steve Reich, also.

[Spartan Pho3nix]

4 words.
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[FallDownTree]

three words:

Boards

Of

Canada

AMEN, BROTHER!!!

[lastclearchance]

Steve Reich, also.

Section 2 of Music for 18 Musicians is the shit.

[Storm Rider]

Iced Earth did a really good cover of it too.

OK, I totally need to fucking find that.

[Storm Rider]

Also, Iron Maiden - Duelists, and whoever mentioned Metallica's Call of Ktulu, I agree heartily.

I could have sworn Duelists had vocals, are you sure you don't mean Losfer Words, which was on the same album?

And I was considering saying Call of Ktulu, except that it's basically Hetfield ripping off Hangar 18 by Megadeth, but I couldn't say that because Mustaine sings in it.

[trashmatic]

This thread has gone too long without mention of Squarepusher.  Try, eh... some of his more melodic stuff.  
Iambic 5 Poetry, I Wish You Could Talk, Tetra-Sync.  These just come to mind.
Miles Davis fans might really like Music Is Rotted One Note as a whole album, though.

[KharBevNor]

Iced Earth did a really good cover of it too.

OK, I totally need to fucking find that.

It's on 'The Horror Show'.

[Patrick]

The Great Gig In The Sky - Pink Floyd


Aight, aight, I know, so there's that one chick singing, but she's not really saying any words, so I just count her as an instrument. An instrument with breasts.

[McTaggart]

How hasn't anyone mentioned the Flaming Lips yet? Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part 2. Unless screaming counts.

[ImRonBurgundy?]

well, a few of the songs i mentioned have some toasting or what-have-you... i just listened to one and realized that it has some chanting in it in one part.  i guess we'll count use of voice as long as it's not like... singing lyrics.

[IronOxide]

I love the Yoshida brothers oh so much.

[Merkava]

And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - After the Laughter
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Blue Turning Gray
Fugazi - Combination Lock
Pavement - 5-4=Unity