Favourite Instrumentals

[WireHawk]

Brian Eno with the rare track 'Mist/Rhythm' a bonus disc from 'Working Backwards'.

 

[CURVE]

This is one of my favourite songs from the 80s. No words are spoken only a couple of letters.

 

[IAMDASH]

This is one of my favourite songs from the 80s. No words are spoken only a couple of letters.

An amazing track. One of life’s great joys is that it’s played every Thursday on RRR at about 2157.

One of Australia’s most underrated bands The Spys!

 

[emuboy]

Sleepwalk by Santo and Johnny from 1959 is one of the most beautiful, haunting instrumentals ever composed.

 

[rank and file]

Midnight Oil when Peter Garret keeps his mouth shut

 

[Plugger35]

 

[IAMDASH]

Midnight Oil when Peter Garret keeps his mouth shut

The Break (composed of three Oils and a Violent Femme) put out two amazing instrumental albums a decade or so ago.

Saw them live. Unbelievable energy and offered the opportunity to watch Rob Hirst front and centre.

 

[rank and file]

The Dakotas had a song called The Cruel Sea,which was renamed The Cruel Surf and covered by The Ventures.

The Cruel Sea were an all instrumental band until Tex Perkins decided they needed lyrics.

 

[rank and file]

Green Onions,possibly the GOAT instrumental.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Jeff Beck - Nessun Dorma. Amazing playing.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

And now for something completely different.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

The Ventures had a heap. This is the one I remember as my very first music discussion at a Monday Morning Assembly in Grade 5. It was an amazing sound back then.

 

[Spearman]

So far most have been guitar centric, so I would add a couple that are a little different.

Tubular Bells was my first ever music purchase, 8 track, 1976 as a junior high kid. I like especially the ending with the naming of the instruments as they each played the riff.

 

[Spearman]

Fleetwood Mac: Albatross
The very first of all their hits.

So more Peter Green without the sappy orchestra backing. Song actually starts at :40 after some in studio banter.

 

[CliffMcTainshaw]

Weather Report - Havona

 

[Plugger35]

 

[stax on the mull]

Jon & The Nightriders - Splashback.

Pretty silly thing from the early 80's which is a medley of a lot well known guitar tunes.

 

[dumb]

some others i dig out of the media player occasionally

 

[catscratchfever]

Fela Kuti: Palm Wine Sound

 

[utility]

 

[stax on the mull]

Plagal Grind - "Blackout"

Short lived group on the NZ underground Xpressway label in 1990, with Alastair Galbraith and members of Dead C, This Kind of Punishment, 3D's playing a kind of post-punk psychedelic folk recorded on a Teac 4-track. Only have their tracks on an Xpressway CD comp but the youtube clip is from a vinyl rip. Current cheapest copy is around $750 which would be a nice thing to have with David Mitchell's amazing artwork.

 

[stax on the mull]

Hala Strana - Street of Raised Platforms

One of many solo instrumental projects of Steven R. Smith. This from the early 2000's. Has something of an eastern European folk funereal gloom sound before it blisses out with a chiming melody interspersed with a little psychedelic feedback.

 

[stax on the mull]

Current fave album. Modern Folk Trio Band's "Crater Family" LP released locally by Ramble Records, Melbourne.

Spacey folk psych instrumentals recorded onto a 4 track cassette.