Your Favourite Instrumental Regardless Of Genre

[ZeroDude]

Fairly self explanatory title:

To start off the proceedings I would have to say that my favourite instrumental ever is:

Stevie Ray Vaughan; Little Wing

 

[IWasBored]

pluxus - psykopotat
nine inch nails - the frail
eric johnson - the cliffs of dover

 

[IrishDawg]

Joe Satriani - Flying In a Blue Dream

Joe Satriani's my 2nd favorite band/artist, right behind U2.

 

[ZeroDude]

^
I'm currently surfing with the alien right now.

eric johnson - the cliffs of dover

 

[IrishDawg]

^
I'm currently surfing with the alien right now.

I can play Summer Song on my guitar

 

[ZeroDude]

I can play Summer Song on my guitar

Great tune; I actually love the video as well.

I can play Satch Boogie.

No I can't.

I try.

 

[IrishDawg]

lol that one looks hard from the live DVD I have. I can't wait, I'm goin to see him play at the House of Blues Orlando April 21, it'll be my first concert.

 

[impy13]

I guess anything from Explosions In The Sky?

 

[Axver]

The Dance Of Eternity by Dream Theater.

 

[shart1780]

King Crimson - Lark's Tongue in Aspic Pt. 1.

Good LORD I love that song sooo soo much. The end when the biiig bubbly bass comes in I get a tear in my eye every time

You prog fans NEED to buy the album Lark's Tongue in Aspic. It's easily in the top 5 prog albums ever IMO.

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

velvet underground - ride into the sun

 

[VertigoGal]

earl klugh- wishful thinking

 

[GibsonGirl]

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

 

[dandy]

beethoven's moonlight sonata

 

[GibsonGirl]

Oh god, I didn't even think of classical music! The list suddenly becomes so much longer.


Shostakovich - Symphony No. 5 in D Minor, Op. 47: IV. Allegro non troppo

Shostakovich - Symphony for Strings, Op. 118a: III. Adagio

Shostakovich - Chamber Symphony for Strings, Op. 110a: V. Largo

Chopin - Etude in C minor op. 10, No. 12

Beethoven - Piano Sonata in E flat major, op. 23 (Pathethique) - 3rd mvt.

Mozart - Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major, K. 331 - Rondo alla Turca

Stravinsky - The Firebird

Stravinsky - The Rite Of Spring


I'll stop.

 

[Jack In The Box]

I guess anything from Explosions In The Sky?

absolutely

or anything by: Godspeed You! Black Emperor and 65daysofstatic

mi favorite song of all-time is: "Sleep" (by GY!BE)

"Jerusalem" by Sleep (the band, not the song) too, 70 minutes of pure and heavy drone metal

 

[Zoots]

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother

Hey... that's not an instrumental! You forgot Mason's 'Quiet in the studio!' or something like that.

Seriously, outside of that line it's one hell of a classical/jazz/prog rock/avant garde instrumental piece!

Also... Joe Satriani's Always With Me, Always With You.

And Def Leppard's criminally underrated Satriani inspired instrumental Disintegrate from their '99 album Euphoria!

 

[GibsonGirl]

Hey... that's not an instrumental! You forgot Mason's 'Quiet in the studio!' or something like that.

Seriously, outside of that line it's one hell of a classical/jazz/prog rock/avant garde instrumental piece!

Pfft, spoken word doesn't equate to vocals. Another one I love is A Saucerful Of Secrets. The end is beautiful, especially the live versions with David's "ohh"s. Can't forget Interstellar Overdrive either. The part (on the stereo version of the album) that rapidly pans between the left and right channels makes my head explode when I'm listening on headphones.

 

[Zoots]

Can't forget Interstellar Overdrive either. The part (on the stereo version of the album) that rapidly pans between the left and right channels makes my head explode when I'm listening on headphones.

yes yes yes!!!

aSoS...

pre DSOTM Floyd

 

[the rockin edge]

Stevie Ray Vaughan; Little Wing

that's near the top on my list too


#1 is probably: bruce cockburn - mistress of storms

very close to number 1: bruce cockburn - down to the delta

 

[got_edge]

I'll stop.

Please do.

 

[BrownEyedBoy]

Tender Surrender by Steve Vai is AMAZING. Listen to it. Listen to it.

 

[phanan]

Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (yeah, I know Nick Mason speaks one line on it - it's still an instrumental!)

The entire Blade Runner soundtrack by Vangelis.

 

[yertle-the-turtle]

Maurice Ravel - 'Bolero' is brilliant, especially with a good helping of Torvill and Dean, but I want to categorically state my favourite instrumental ever is 'Miles Runs The Voodoo Down' by Miles Davis from 'Bitches Brew'. It's just plain badass.

 

[LJT]

Instrumental music is something I need to check out more....but a personal favourite is U Boat of Kasabian's album...it rocks

 

[LJT]

Bugger..I can't change it now...I meant Ovary Stripe not U Boat as it most definitely has vocals...

 

[unforgettableFOXfire]

Rush - YYZ
Rush - 2112 Overture

Mark Knopfler - Going Home (the Local Hero/Wild Theme)

Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan


There's also some classical (or, perhaps more properly 'baroque') music that I have on my computer that I ripped from a burned cd... but the CDDB evidently doesn't have the original cds listed, and so I'm not sure what the pieces I liked were... so, I'll have to get back on that once I do some research.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

that's really tough but I'll go with the first one that came to mind - Jimi Hendrix Star Spangled Banner

 

[Diane L]

This is a great question! Technically, my all-time favorite piece of music, Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue, is an instrumental. I also love Copland's Appalacian Spring.

But I think you're asking more contemporary instrumentals--in which case, I would say a song from the 60's, "Java" by Al Hirt. It makes me smile.

 

[I'm Ready]

baba o reily (off of pete townshend's lifehouse chronicles)

10 minutes of brilliance

if that doesn't count then: sparks-the who