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Instrumentals

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Of course I do, I like them because it allows the drummer or guitarist to express themselves more than if in a regular song, my favourite would be Maggot Brain :thumbsu:
 

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I absolutely love them if they're done well.

Not really big on the widdly diddly guitar shredder type of instrumental, but if an instrumental piece of music can take me on a journey and create a landscape in my head or just create a mood then they can often be just as powerful and in some cases more so than a piece with words and an obvious theme.

Most of the jazz stuff i listen to is instrumental and while it might not fit under Roddy's definition, a fair portion of the electronic music i own is without words and IMO it involves as much musical ability to conceive the stuff as would a conventional instrumental.
 
Of course I do, I like them because it allows the drummer or guitarist to express themselves more than if in a regular song, my favourite would be Maggot Brain :thumbsu:


maggot brain isnt actually intrumental. it just has a very long, and incredibly mind blowing solo.

for what its worth, i love em. some of my favorite tunes are instrumentals. of course if youre a jazz and early electronica fan like me, thats going to happen.

as carlos says its about the journey, and also about the vibe too.

a good example is miles davis 'in a slient way/shhh peaceful'. its 20 minutes long, but its worth listening to just to hear the other musicians take it down a notch as miles himself comes in for his solo about 15 minutes in.
 
yeah i'm a huge fan of instrumentals of various styles, from the beach boys pychedelic stuff, to the dreamy music of sigur ros, to the raw, rough reverb of mogwai. i've seen the latter two in concert and they were unreal!
 
Hocus Pocus by Focus - instrumental with Yodeling

Green Onions

Telstar
 

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The 13 variants of Oxygene by Jean Michel Jarre. IV is the best known, II is the version you hear in Peter Weir's Gallipoli.

I also have about 5 differnet versions of Peter Gunn (**** Dale, Art of Noise, Duane Eddy, Henry Mancini & Ray Anthony) and I love them all.
 

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Careful with that axe Eugene - Pink Floyd

Cause we've ended as lovers - Jeff Beck

Weddingcake Island - Midnight Oil

Rumble - Link Wray

Red - King Crimson


There's five great ones from my collection
 
My music collection doesn't consist of too many instrumentals but they are great to listen to when done well.

Rob D's Clubbed To Death is probably my favourite, but I'm really enjoying the work of Explosions In The Sky which I only found recently.

EDIT: I remember another favourite instrumental track that I hadn't listened to for a while. Robert Miles' Children.
 
Hocus Pocus by Focus - instrumental with Yodeling

Green Onions

Telstar

I love Telstar too - got The best Of the Tornados recently [only problem is, apart from that and Jungle fever, it absolutely sucks! Worth having tho hehe]

Other faves:

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
Fanfare For The Modern Man - ELP
Headcutter's Duel - Steve Vai
Moby **** - Zeppelin
Soul Sacrifice - Santana
Tubular Bells - Mike Olfield
 
Yep, though don't get into guitar solo type bands.
Some of my favourites...

Woodpecker from Mars - Faith No More
Orion - Metallica
Into The Lungs Of Hell - Megadeth (probably the best track on So Far So Good imo)
Sear Me MCMXCIII - My Dying Bride

and pretty much anything by Apocalyptica - 'Path' especially...
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