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Old 03-10-08, 07:46 PM
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What Are Your Favorite Instrumental Songs?

Simply question: what are your favorite instruments only songs?

(Pink Floyd's "Any Colour You Like" is what got me thinking about this subject, so that's one of my instrumental favorites)
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Just about anything by Explosions in the Sky, but I'll go with "Memorial".
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"Moya"-Godspeed You Black Emperor
"Apache" Incredible Bongo Band
"The Man Part One"-Peace Orchestra
"Hung Up On My Baby"-Isaac Hayes
"Beat Box (Diversion One)" The Art of Noise
"Woodpecker from Mars" Faith No More
"Changeling-Transmission 1"-DJ Shadow
"Super Shine"-The Boredoms
"Stranger on the Shore"-The Upsetters
"Don The Beachcomber"-Pell Mell
"Knucklehead"-Grover Washington Jr
"Girls"-Death in Vegas
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Surfing with the Alien
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Recently, I've really liked a lot of Holy Fuck's work.



There are no programmed backing tracks in their music. It's all done on live instruments (and non-instruments, like a 35mm film sequencer).

Here's what their live setup looks like:

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The Go! Team - Junior Kickstart
Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Tower
Air - Alone in Kyoto
Porcupine Tree - Wedding Nails

And of course Apache. It's not fair that somebody picked it before me.
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Do Make Say Think-Reitschule
Mogwai-Stanley Kubrick
Godspeed You Black Emperor-Moya
Explosions in the Sky-Your Hand in Mine
Brian Eno-An Ending (Ascent)
Fennesz-Endless Summer
Daft Punk-Rollin' and Scratchin'
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My favorite would be "Samba Pa Ti" by Santana
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1/1 - Brian Eno (from Music For Airports)
He Loved Him Madly - Miles Davis
Djed - Tortoise
The Box - Orbital
Kathryn - Black Tape For A Blue Girl
Gay Sons of Lesbian Mothers - Kaki King
Raga Piloo (Sitar and Violin Duet) - Ravi Shankar & Yehudi Menuhin
Broken Bell - Friends of Dean Martinez
D|P 4 - William Basinski (from the Disintegration Loops)
The Third Man Theme
Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking - His Name Is Alive
Ruddy and Wretched - This Mortal Coil
Over It - Tori Amos

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Close the thread, 'cause nothing's even close to this one.

(Ladies and Gentlemen, we have a winner....)
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This thread is incomplete without Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson
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First few that come to mind:

Aphex Twin- Xtal
Boris- Ketsubetsu (Farewell) (mostly instrumental, but with extremely phased and reverbed vocals)
Roxy Music- Tara
DJ Shadow- The Numbers Song
Funkadelic- Wars of Armageddon
Chemical Brothers: Morning Lemon
Allman Bros- In Memory of Elizabeth Reed

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Ben Harper - #3
Metallica - Orion
Satriani - Alway with you, always with me
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Metallica - Orion
Metallica - Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)
anything by Zombi/Steve Moore
Ulver - Darling, Didn't We Kill You?
Sunn O))) - Hell-O)))-Ween
David Bowie - anything off his "Berlin trilogy", those are great instrumentals

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Dream Theater - Erotomania
Steve Vai - pretty much the entire Passion and Warfare album
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Satriani - Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing
Rush - YYZ

...thought I'd also add:
Medeski Martin and Wood - I don't really know their albums. I saw them live here in Minneapolis, though. It was one of the most engaging and entrancing shows I've attended, and was fully instrumental.

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I like Kitaro.
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Everything by ENO

Bowie - "Crystal Japan"

Just about every NIN instrumental

Roxy Music - "India"
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Frankenstein- Edgar Winter / remade better by Overkill
Jeff Beck- Lead Boots or anything else off of the Wired cd
Stevie Ray Vaughan- Excited ? ( I think that's what it's called ) & too many others from Stevie to mention.
Had to add- Joe Satriani- Satch Boogie

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Originally Posted by Jason
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+1

I really like "Summer Song" too by Satch.
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Lipstick Traces - UFO (Michael Schenker)
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Mogwai - Auto Rock
William Orbit - Sea Green
Juno Reactor - Mars
Radiohead - Hunting Bears
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Agree with plenty of these, so I'll just add a few that haven't been specifically mentioned:

Nine Inch Nails - "A Warm Place"
Ben Folds Five - "Birds"
Mogwai - "Christmas Song"

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Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
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Voyager - Daft Punk
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Originally Posted by antennaball
Just about anything by Explosions in the Sky, but I'll go with "Memorial".
Same here. Anything by Explosions is awesome. But I'm gonna go with "Day 5" off the Rescue EP. Gonna see 'em at the GMA in SF next Saturday. Exciting.

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