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Old 05.20.2006, 04:08 PM   #1
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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
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Pink Floyd- Interstellar Overdrive, Pow R Toc H

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

But I think Careful with that axe Eugene is the best PF instrumental ever. 2nd would be Atom Heart Mother
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sunship-john coltrane quartet
pali gag-jimi hendrix
anagrama-sy
sister hotel-nels cline trio
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pretty much everything i listen to
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Old 05.20.2006, 07:53 PM   #10
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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
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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...
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any of Mogwai's instrumentals (which is most of their stuff).
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sonic youth-crosby (earl goldne blue), kim's chords
pavement-5-4=unity
sebadoh-weed vs speed
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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./
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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.
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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.
never heard the original actually. I've only listened to double nickles a few times. Love the cover tho
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