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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Zingoleb on 26 Aug 2008, 20:08
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I'm wondering what people's favourite instrumentals would be...quick list, off the top of my head
Pink Floyd - Marooned
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Allman Brothers - Little Martha
Brian Keane & Omar Faruk Tekbilek - The Story of Süleyman (Also, Saint Sophia)
Anoushka Shankar - Sinister Grains
Enya - Aldebaran
Bob Dylan - Suze (If only because he starts coughing in the middle of it and has to stop playing)
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Peter Gunn
Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic Journey
aaaaand
The Moody Blues - Procession
That's all I can think of off-hand. I'll probably keep remembering more afterwards. Oh!
Alasdair Fraser - The Spirit of the Gael
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Some of my answers are probably in here: http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,20889.0.html
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor (all of it, the random rants don't count as vocals)
As well as most Post-Rock, as most of it doesn't include vocals
Miles Davis, particularly the "Bitches Brew" album
Jeff Beck's "Blow By Blow" album
Everything by The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Other Jazz Fusion as well
Some soundtracks, particularly anything by Joe Hisaishi.
Most electronica as well, like Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Venetian Snares.
Edit: Oh, I forgot, another one is pretty much all of Karl Sanders' (of Nile fame) solo album Saurian Meditation, all of it is awesome instrumental music based on traditional Egyptian styles. All is instrumental except for a bit of background growls (sound like tortured spirits) and some spoken word verses on one song.
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"Leave that Thing Alone" by Rush and "YYZ" by Rush are two of my personal favorite instrumentals as well as anything by Liquid Tension Experiment.
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Darkest Hour - Veritas, Aequitas
Beyond the Embrace - The Riddle of Steel
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"Gone" by My Friend the Chocolate Cake. It's probably the most beautiful minute and a half of all time. Listen here (http://www.myspace.com/officialmftcc).
Also: A majority of the tracks Jon Brion does for the Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Soundtrack. Namely, "Peer Pressure," "Row," and "Elephant Parade."
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Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe, Eugene
Hope Of The States - The Black Amnesias
Beastie Boys - Off The Grid
Beastie Boys - Eugene's Lament
Black Light Burns - Iodine Sky
Bonebox - Return To St. Jay's Infirmary
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme, Part One (Acknowledgement)
Divine Comedy - Threesome
DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
Fony - Circles
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Motherfucker = Redeemer (Parts I-II)
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I like that Mogwai song with no vocals.
sig quote, right there.
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But...but several Mogwai songs do have vocals. Or am I missing another joke here?
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The majority don't though. I'd say at least 75% of their songs have no vocals. I have no idea if it was a joke though. That makes it so much better,
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I like that Explosions In The Sky song with no vocals.
fix'd
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I mean that works better. Although, while not technically vocals, they do have a song with film dialog samples and a song with wordless vocals. I'm being a nit-picky and obnoxious though, so I'll stop.
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Ooooh, I forgot to mention a couple.
Georghe Zamfir - The Lonely Shepherd
He does panflute music, really lovely stuff.
and
Karunesh - Morning Celebration
Very Indian sounding.
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The Misshapen Steed - Agalloch
The Wolves of Timberline - Agalloch
A Celebration For the Death of Man - Agalloch
Just about all of The White - Agalloch
Bescreen'd - How Like A Winter
The Great Gig In the Sky - Pink Floyd
Marche Funebre - Candlemass
Lux Aeterna - Clint Mansell (the one that is in about half the movie trailers made, also known by Requiem for a Dream)
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I also forgot maybe one or two:
"Pitter Patter Goes My Heart" by Broken Social Scene and "Instrumental Died in the Bathtub and Took the Daydreams With It" by K.C. Accidental. Also, "40 Rods to the Hog's Head" by Tera Melos. They are probably the most schizophrenic band ever.
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Russian Circles - all of it.
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I've actually been on a bit of a Russian Circles binge recently. I've always liked them, but I never realized how fucking good they are until recently. Their combination of math rock and metal is really quite excellent. I maintain that their self titled demo is their best recorded material, though their other works are good as well. Excellent stuff.
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Dammit, I want to take PARTS of songs. "Oh, I like about 3:23 to 7:40, then it gets good again around 32:30."
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Dopesmoker? But that isn't all instrumental.
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This is a perfect song. Echoes, by Pink Floyd. 2:57-4:57 (wow, exactly) is vocals, then from 19:12-19:57 (what's with 57 seconds?) is vocals again. But the other 20 minutes is all...jamming. So, it's mostly instrumental, that's why I say, I want to take parts of a song.
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Neutral Milk Hotel's Untitled.
All of Lindstrøm's new album, Zappa's Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar, and Kind of Blue are probably my favourites.
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Listening to a bunch of Apocalyptica lately...perhaps, I dunno, anything by them.
Oh, and Foreplay, by Boston.
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Freddy Freeloader by Miles Davis, naturale
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Cynic - Textures
David Crosby - Song with no words (tree with no leaves)
Madvillain - Sickfit
Kaki King - Close your eyes and you'll burst into flames
Charles Mingus - Black Saint C - Group Dancers
I can't believe I was the first to mention Textures!
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Madahoochi - Neptune Squeegie aka Eargasm
Pretty much every song Jazz Mandolin Project does.
Every song MMW does :D
Most of the others I'd mention already have been.
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Bele Fleck and the Flecktones - Scratch and Sniff (funky shit i tell you what, victor wooten and jeff coffin are gods)
Nickel Creek - Smoothie Song
Dave Matthews Band - Kit Kat Jam
Gov't Mule - Sco-Mule
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Anything and everything by Detektivbyrån.
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Duuuudes. "My Kimono." Polvo. Do it up.
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The version of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" on Live at Pompeii.
Duuuuuuude.
fuck i wish i had that dvd now
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Morbid Angel - Desolate Ways
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The version of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" on Live at Pompeii.
Duuuuuuude.
fuck i wish i had that dvd now
I have the Director's cut, it's pretty nice.
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Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Electric - Boris
Those songs come to mind.
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The version of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" on Live at Pompeii.
Duuuuuuude.
fuck i wish i had that dvd now
I have the Director's cut, it's pretty nice.
Doesn't that have a couple of embryonic Dark Side... songs on it?
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My favorite instrumental sequence ever was on a mix I made this year. I can't get over this shit.
Saul - Song One (here (http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=6073808))
followed by...
Do Make Say Think - It's Gonna Rain (here (http://www.last.fm/music/Do+Make+Say+Think/_/It's+Gonna+Rain))
Album: Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
followed by...
The Books - If Never Changes to Stop (here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b96fSyofZaM))
Album: Lost and Safe
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The Books - Motherless Bastard
Fixed for you, man. But dang, man. That one you linked is gorgeous.
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Moby Dick- Led Zepplin
Seriously. In one version, there's a ten minute drum solo. Friggin amazing.
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I don't have Thought for Food and I refuse to steal it... they are too goddamn rad.
Pay day is tomorrow though.
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Pretty much everything by Lightning Bolt really. The vocals are distorted and buried, so it just becomes an instrument really.
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I'm trying to find a link for "Motherless Bastard" but I am coming up with nothing.
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biblical violence - hella
crazy and melodic.
to russia my homeland - ...and you will know us by the trail of dead
romantic and russian.
race in - battles
rocking and electronic and spacey and who knows what else... without discernable words..
helps both ways - mogwai
one of the most beautiful, slow, lurching songs ever.
any colour you like - pink floyd
just a beautiful display of melodic interplay, spacedoutness, and organnnnn - also a great segway song.
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magixburg by hella
koko b. ware by hella
hi/lo by Battles
The Moon Under Water by A Hawk and a Hacksaw
Those Who Stayed by Murder by Death
plus, lot's and lot's of post-rock that i won't bother naming.
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In one version, there's a ten minute drum solo.
I find it amusing that you, and indeed, Led Zeppelin, consider this to be a good thing.
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what's wrong with that?
i have tape of a Greatful Dead show where they brought out another drummer and both drummers just jammed with each other for a good thirty minutes (both drummers had HUGE sets that contained weird shit from all over the world) and it's fuckign amazing.
hehe and to hear the whole thing, you have to actually flip the tape over because it's too long. good stuff.
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Because they had wierd shit, and there were two of them.
I'm fairly sure one drummer becomes slightly boring after 10 minutes, and I can't image led zep wapping out tons of wierd shit.
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I'm a drummer. Banging for ten minutes is absolute insanity, but, if you can pull if off(like they did), it sounds awesome.
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Gordian Knot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2tIUzoQwcQ) because who DOESN'T love technical masturbation?
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Going To Your Funeral, Pt 2 by Eels. It's under two minutes, but somehow conveys a beauty that is near impossible to describe in that short time.
Also, The Birth and Death of the day, Explosions In The Sky
A Tear For Eddie, Ween
Robot Theme Song, The Aquabats!
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For All The Pretty People, by Ben Folds Five (The Idle Banter In the Beginning Does Not Count)
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Live at Pompeii...oh, fuck you. Now I have to find my DVD's (assuming my father didn't throw them out AGAIN. Bastard.).
I have a live version where Bonham is just drumming for 15 minutes. It's BORING. BORING. BOOOORING.
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I'm just not a big fan of instrumental solos, but especially unaccompanied ones. Plus something which is rhythmic rather than melodic - e.g. drums - is rarely going to hold my interest. The first time there's a 'WTFSKILL' factor, but the second time it's like, well, you're just bashing at 'em for ten minutes, aren'tcha.
If you can fit a drum solo so that it's awesome within the context of the music - say, the breakdown drumming in 'Won't Get Fooled Again' - then that's a different story. I hate Led Zep's live stuff usually anyway. They masturbate for hooooouuurs.
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Best live band in existence is "3". FACTS
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I'm just not a big fan of instrumental solos, but especially unaccompanied ones. Plus something which is rhythmic rather than melodic - e.g. drums - is rarely going to hold my interest. The first time there's a 'WTFSKILL' factor, but the second time it's like, well, you're just bashing at 'em for ten minutes, aren'tcha.
If you can fit a drum solo so that it's awesome within the context of the music - say, the breakdown drumming in 'Won't Get Fooled Again' - then that's a different story. I hate Led Zep's live stuff usually anyway. They masturbate for hooooouuurs.
My Generation. I want to just take the drumming out of that...and listen to it separately.
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He does manage some pretty ridiculous drums there. Nothing on the kit ever seems to stay still with Keith.
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Check out some jazz.
I have too many albums of instrumentals to mention.
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Who can't love Led Zeppelin's Bron Yr Aur, or, especially... Black Mountain Slide. The HTWWW dvd version is so neat compared to the studio
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Hell, I love the HTWWW version better. STRIDER!
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Who can't love Led Zeppelin's Bron Yr Aur, or, especially... Black Mountain Slide.
People always ask questions like this. And the answer is usually...
ME!
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12 out of 13 tracks on The Octopus Project's album "Hello, Avalanche" are instrumentals with a flavour of 8-Bit. I like very much.