Favourite Instrumentals

[LostDoggy]

No singing/talking please.

Anything from The Atlantics - love the surf guitar, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Shadows, Dick Dale.
I even like Herp Albert.

Ennio Morricone was/is great.

All time favourite instrumental song would have to Green Onions from Booker T & the MGs.

[hujsh]

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Cliffs of Dover, Eric Johnson.

[The Doctor]

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I even like Herp Albert.
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Herb Alpert is the greatest ever.


I like Interstellar Overdrive by Syd Barrett era Pink Floyd.

I like most Jean Michel Jarre and Tangerine Dream.

[Twodogs]

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I'm a big Morricone fan, great atmospheric music.



Weddingcake Island by Midnight Oil is my favorite instumental.

[LostDoggy]

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Weddingcake Island by Midnight Oil is my favorite instumental.

Oh yes, great song.
I've already spoke about Lalo Schfrin and his stuff on the Dirty Harry films.

Others i like include (All different but right mood-right time)
808 state
Air
Juley Kruise/Angelo B.../Twin Peaks
Branford Marsalis - Mo Better Blues
Dave Brubeck - Take 5
Henry Mancini
Hot Butter - Pop corn - weird & stupid
John Williams
Kevin Shields ex My Bloody Valentine
Kraftwerk
Link Wray
Mason Williams - Classical gas
Miles Davis John Coltrane and all the jazz era stuff
Pigbag - Papa's got a brand new pig bag
Ry Cooder - Paris,Texas
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Cruel Sea have good stuff too.
The Ventures - Hawaii Five O would have to be the best TV series song ever.
Tito Puente

[Mofra]

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Aside from Jazz on Saturday mronings on community radio (I admit I have no idea who is playing or what I'm in fact listening too), I've always been a big fan of the Kyuss instrumentals from Blues for the Red Sun & Welcome to Sky Valley.

Local lads Firewitch do some interesting stuff with a drummer & two bass players.

[Yankee Hotel Foxtrot]

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Paligap & South Saturn Delta by Jimi Hendrix and Lenny by Stevie Ray Vaughan are 3 of my fave instrumentals.
Love Coltrane, Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery's intrumental work as well.

[soupman]

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Ocean by John Butler hands down.

Different every time he plays live, 14 minutes long and is captivating. I challenge anybody to not say its amazing after seeing it live in concert. One of those songs that isn't captured well in recordings, but is great live.

[LostDoggy]

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I'm a big Morricone fan, great atmospheric music.



Weddingcake Island by Midnight Oil is my favorite instumental.

Would most definitely agree with Wedding Cake Island, absolute classic.

Other Favs include:

The Lonely Shepherd - Zamfir (Picnic at Hanging Rock, Kill Bill Vol.1)
Sisters - Steve Vai
I would love to - Steve Vai

Does classical count, if so:

Adagio for Strings (Barger) - Platoon ~ very moving using strings.

[Twodogs]

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Oh yes, great song.
I've already spoke about Lalo Schfrin and his stuff on the Dirty Harry films.

Others i like include (All different but right mood-right time)
808 state
Air
Juley Kruise/Angelo B.../Twin Peaks
Branford Marsalis - Mo Better Blues
Dave Brubeck - Take 5
Henry Mancini
Hot Butter - Pop corn - weird & stupid
John Williams
Kevin Shields ex My Bloody Valentine
Kraftwerk
Link Wray
Mason Williams - Classical gas
Miles Davis John Coltrane and all the jazz era stuff
Pigbag - Papa's got a brand new pig bag
Ry Cooder - Paris,Texas
Ryuichi Sakamoto
The Cruel Sea have good stuff too.
The Ventures - Hawaii Five O would have to be the best TV series song ever.
Tito Puente

Have you heard "the river at night" by Nick Cave?

[LostDoggy]

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Have you heard "the river at night" by Nick Cave?

No .
I have a Cave 3 disc set of B-sides and rarities and it might be on that. Great set BTW

[Twodogs]

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No .
I have a Cave 3 disc set of B-sides and rarities and it might be on that. Great set BTW

Asides and besides? Fantastic stuff-Opium Tea and Right Now Im-a Roaming are just great, great songs, as is Shane MacGowan's take on Lucy.

[Twodogs]

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BTW Ern-check this out.

http://www.last.fm/music/Nick+Cave+-+Mick+Harvey+-+Blixa+Bargeld

[LostDoggy]

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Asides and besides? Fantastic stuff-Opium Tea and Right Now Im-a Roaming are just great, great songs, as is Shane MacGowan's take on Lucy.

Yepp.
Black betty, different versions of The Mercy Seat and others.
I can't find my copy.

[LostDoggy]

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honourable mentions...

a. Toumani Diabate's symmetric orchestra (weird beats)
b. Chris Joss - You've been Spiked (funk)
c. Cinematic Orchestra - Everyday (literally stuff that sounds like it's from old movies)
d. Jimmy Chamberlin Complex (Smashing Pumpkins drummer's solo experimental project)
e. Sigur Ros's stuff (ambient icelandic emo, I suppose)
f. Some house stuff I heard in Berlin this year. Those guys are nuts over there.
g. Debussy and Satie, of course. (piano stuff)
h. Heard Emmanuel Ax play Chopin earlier this year with the MSO. Heard him 15 years ago in Israel, but did he bring back some memories.. incredible.