Instrumentals

[MatteeG]

You know what I'm talking about, songs without vocals.

Metallica's 'Orion' was always a highly rated one in my circles.

Got hold of this one a year or so back- love it:



Anyone got other suggestions?

[LMA]

Not a huge instrumental fan but Dirty Three comes straight to mind.

Everything's F***ed - Dirty Three
Oscillate Wildly - The Smiths
Firesuite - Doves

[Baron Greenback]

Metallica's 3 big instrumentals are big faves of mine.
Probably Orion, To Live Is To Die and Call of Ktulu in that order.

[saintal]

Love instrumental rock. (although have to be in the right mood for it) A couple of favs:

Agalloch- The Hawthorne Passage, Sowilo Rune
Baroness- Bullhead’s Lament
Devin Townsend- Down and under
Dream Theater- Hell’s Kitchen, Overture 1928
Evpatoria Report- Taijin Kyofusho
Explosions in the Sky- Your hand in mine, Catastrophe and the Cure
Godspeed You! Black Emperor- 09-15-00
Hammock- Floating away in every direction
Jakob- Malachite
Laura- Ariadne, Levodopa, Non Servium, Every Light
Living End- Closing In
Pain of Salvation- Dryad of the woods
Pelican- Far from fields, city of echoes
Porcupine Tree- wedding nails
Red Sparowes- Alone and Unaware…
Rush- Leave that thing alone
This will destroy you- There are some remedies worse than disease
65daysofstatic- radio protector

Some of those are pretty mellow.

[southee]

[The Dark Knight]

Metallica's 3 big instrumentals are big faves of mine.
Probably Orion, To Live Is To Die and Call of Ktulu in that order.

(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth is a good one also.

The Call of Ktulu is my favourite of Metallica's Instrumentals, Black Sabbath's Rat Salad and The Living End's E-Boogie are favourites of mine aswell.

[Interceptor]

Surf guitar instrumental classics:

The Atlantics 'Bombara'
Midnight Oil 'Wedding Cake Island'
Dick Dale 'Misirlou'

A couple of others:

Mark Knopfler 'Going Home'
tonight on Top Gear... Allman Brothers 'Jessica'

[GWW]

This is what I thought of when seeing this thread:

[Wizard of Oz]

Steve Vai - For The Love of God

[Pseudo]

(bonus points for the theremin which kicks in at about 1:40)

[Pseudo]

[ORDoubleBlues]

Art Porter - KGB, Meltdown, We Are and Inside Myself amongst others

Najee - Noah's Ark

George Benson - Breezin'

[Dissident]

Orion was always my favourite Metallica instrumental - until I got Death Magnetic. Now it's second to Suicide and Redemption.

[Rik E Boy]

Peter Gunn theme: Not sure who did this one but it's on the Blues Brothers soundtrack
Bron-Yr-Aur: Led Zeppelin
Black Mountainside: Led Zeppelin
Coast to Coast: Scorpions
Terminal Frost: Pink Floyd
Loser Words (Big Orra): Iron Maiden
Reggata de Blanc: The Police (well there's a few yo yo yos in there LOL)
Eruption: Van Halen
Surfing with the Alien: Joe Satriani

regards,

REB

[Interceptor]

Always thought the original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy theme was an original, but no.

It was based on the Eagles' Journey of the Sorcerer from One of These Nights.
Top track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbhAf62wfgE

[RustyCage]

Orion was always my favourite Metallica instrumental - until I got Death Magnetic. Now it's second to Suicide and Redemption.

great song indeed

[Lightning McQueen]

Joe Satriani: Flying in a blue dream