Best Instrumental Tracks
 

What are your favorite instrumental tracks to listen to ? I'm gonna bend the rules a little and count tracks that have words as long as the instrumental part is longer than the verses (i.e. Sister Ray)

my favorites...

Pink Floyd- Interstellar Overdrive, Pow R Toc H
Ritchie Valens- Sleepwalk
Oxes- Russia is here, boss kitty tony baines
Lightning Bolt- all of hypermagic mountain
Dick Dale- Miserlou
Link Wray- Rumble
Meat Puppets- Magic Toy Missing, Aurora Borealis, Teenagers
Sonic Youth- Mildred Pierce (goo demo version), Diamond Sea,death to our friends
Pillows- Nightmare, Thunder Whales Picnic, Sayonara Universe
Velvet Underground- Sister Ray
Breeders- Flipside
Nick Drake- Things Behind The Sun
Minutemen- cohesion
Jimi Hendrix- Third Stone From the sun, 1983
Big Black- strange things

Anything by Yellow Swans.

Don't forget Pell Mell:D

Anything by Lighning Bolt and Do Make Say Think

stevie ray vaughan- little wing
dark was the night- blind willie johnson
aurora borealis- meat puppets

Pow R toc H has a lot of vocals! All these chicken screams..... :p

But I think Careful with that axe Eugene is the best PF instrumental ever. 2nd would be Atom Heart Mother

"Woodpecker From Mars" -Faith No More, one of my all-time favs.

sunship-john coltrane quartet
pali gag-jimi hendrix
anagrama-sy
sister hotel-nels cline trio

pretty much everything i listen to

so long as we're allowed to "bend the rules" i'll add european son to that list.

also . . .

tortoise -- djed
kinski -- new india
sy -- tremens
brian eno -- all of apollo: atmospheres and soundtracks
joy division -- incubation
js bach -- harpsichord concerto in e major :D

cool list & topic, dazedcola

i like everyone's selections

 

 

in addition to doing a spot-on cover of Interstellar Overdrive (much better than any other band), Camper Van Beethoven have many other original instrumentals that are really fine.



Border Ska, Yanqui Go Home, 9 of Disks, Payed Vacation: Greece, Vladivostock, Skinhead Stomp, Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China, Balalaika Gap, Abundance, Turtlehead, 073003000, S.P. 37597, Cattle (Reversed), Eye Of Fatima (Pt. 2), L'Aguardiente, No Flies On Us, No Krugerrands For David, R'n'R Uzbekistan, The Fool, The Perfect Enigma Machine, The Poppies Of Balmorhea, Waka, ZZ Top Goes To Egypt

SYRs, Peter Gabriel's Passion, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts really doesn't have lyrics really, there's some rather soothing ones on the Twin Peaks soundtrack,
& there's so many Zappa instrumentals that I'll just mention Son of Mr. Green Genes from Hot Rats...

any of Mogwai's instrumentals (which is most of their stuff).

You can't beat the jams Hendrix did.

Tax Free

(Tango Samba)

baby

Neu- Negtivland

sonic youth-crosby (earl goldne blue), kim's chords
pavement-5-4=unity
sebadoh-weed vs speed
!!!-shit schize merde pt 2
SRV-scuttle buttin'

I've been listening to a lot of boards of canada and aphex twin lately which are prety much all instrumental. ANd pretty much all awesome./

That reminds me, their cover of Sickles & Hammers is much better than the Minutemen's.

I know there are more instrumentals out there, but my mind is drawing a blank.

I just listened to SYR 6 #3 twice, and it was pretty damn good.

never heard the original actually. I've only listened to double nickles a few times. Love the cover tho

I don't believe it! Haven't heard it though-- I'll check it out. Seems hard to top.

Zither-REM

There are just way too many that I like to even try and come up with a favorite.

Well, Saturnine proved that we can't see the forest for the trees.

Since you're mentioning R.E.M., krastian...

White Tornado
that little outro coda on Reckoning
New Orleans Symphony No. 1
Emphysema
Surfing The Ganges
2JN
165 Hillcrest (this is the address of John Keane's home studio in Athens right around the corner from Michael's Grady St. house)
Hastings and Main
Take Seven

Endgame (contains some la la las, so it's not an instrumental exactly...i'm mentioning it because it's so horrible actually.)

Ha....that is on the Daysleeper single, right? I bought that for like 2 bucks I think and I've listened to it probably once. I was pretty pissed it was not a track with vocals! I might have to dig that out.

anything black dice does
and sonic youth - stil

Mozart.

Most everything by Explosions in the Sky, Mono and Do Make Say Think.
Eno's 'Apollo' is great.
Mahler's 5th and Siegfrieds Funeral March by Wagner.
The Orb's first album and Lifeforms by FSOL
Life Jam by Terry Brooks & Strange
Any live version of Expressway to Yr Skull