Words are for losers

[Polythene Pam]

Favourite Instrumentals... go!

Note: It is up to you discretion of what an instrumental is, however I would be okay including something like The Dead Flags Blues etc as it is just a spoken word introduction


1 Hell's Angel Cracker Factory - The Flaming Lips
2 Providence - Godspeed You! Black Emperor
3 Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
4 Spare Chaynge- Jefferson Airplane
5 Blue Train - John Coltrane
6 Speed Of Life - David Bowie
7 So What - Miles Davis
8 Mood Indigo - Duke Ellington
9 Shine On You Crazy Diamond - Pink Floyd
10 Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa

[Hayden]

[btener11]

Hmm... interesting that you include jazz in yours; I don't know if I can do that because my heads would explode. So these are my top rock instrumentals (in no particular order...yet). And I guess I accidentally pluralized 'head.' Oh well...I'm not gonna change it. I stand by my dual-headedness. So without furthe-

Slint - Rhoda
Rush - YYZ
Metallica - Orion, Call of Ktulu
David Bowie - Speed of Life
Anathema - Violence
Tortoise - Djed
Mogwai - Like Herod
Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Godspeed You Black Emperor! - East Hastings
Iron Maiden - Transylvania
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
Don Caballero - Cold Knees (In April)
Faust - Krautrock
Can - Aumgn
This Heat - 24 Track Loop
Neu! - Hallogallo
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[CellarDoor]

Yep definitely needs some krautrock and post-rock. And love that Slint inclusion

Here are my fav (also limited to rock) :

Brian Eno - The Big Ship
NEU! - Negativland
Tangerine Dream - Sequent C'
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Moya
Dirty Three - The Restless Waves
The Shadows - Man of Mystery
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Tortoise - Djed
Sigur Ros - Untitled 3
Colin Stetson - The Righteous Wrath of an Honorable Man
Faust - Krautrock
Tim Hecker - The Fog I II III
Tuxedomoon - Volo Vivace
Klaus Schulze - Frank Herbert
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[joyofdivision]

Plastikman's 'Consumed' album from start to finish (amazing with headphones on) and maybe Teenage Fanclub's 'Satan'

[alelsupreme]

Pet Sounds - Beach Boys
Green onions - Booker T and The MG's
Deep Blue Day - Brian Eno
Freedom Of Choice theme song - Devo
Miserlou - Dick Dale
The Hall Of The Mountain King - Electric Light Orchestra
Fanfare For The Common Man - Emerson Lake And Palmer
Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Dignity Of Labour (parts 1-4) - The Human League
Bouree - Jethro Tull
Quadrophenia - The Who
ISI - Neu
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
Samba Pa Ti - Santana
The Entertainer - Scott Joplin
Wipeout - The Surfaris
Phaedra - Tangerine Dream
Battle Without Honor Or Humanity - Tomoyasu Hotei
Walk Don't Run - The Ventures

[Guest]

Oh this is well hard for me as I am a very lyric-orientated person. As I really struggle to do without words altogether, I am including songs with sampled lyrics of 15 words or less.

Voodoo People - The Prodigy
Blue Rondo A La Turk - Dave Brubeck Quartet
Come Home - The Chemical Brothers
Perpetual Dawn - The Orb
Deep Burnt - Gilles Peterson
Push the Feeling on - Nightcrawler
Bye Bye Blackbird - Miles Davis
His Majesty King Raam - Lemonjelly (ok this is a 'couple' more than 15 words but it is essentially an instrumental track)
C'est Le Vent, Betty - Gabriel Yared
Soul Limbo - Booker T & The MGs
Wild Cats of Kilkenny - The Pogues
God is a DJ - Faithless (ok this is a 'couple' more than 15 words but it is essentially an instrumental dance track)
Oscillate Wildly - The Smiths
So Easy - Royksopp
I can't get started - Dizzy Gillespie
Spastic Sister - Huge Baby

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[cartoken]

here's my top 20, Each song have been rated 5/5 so was pretty hard to rank within the "creme de la creme"


1. Aerodynamic- Daft Punk (this is already one of the greatest songs of the century)

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2. No God Only Religion- Spiritualized (easy, one of the greatest songs ever!)

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3. So What- Miles Davis (this song can cure cancer, Aids...etc)

4. Da Funk- Daft Punk
5. Napalm Brain/Scatter Brain- DJ Shadow
6. Rollin' & Scratchin'- Daft Punk
7. Pharaoh's Dance- Miles Davis
8. All Blues- Miles Davis
9. Endless Fight- Gustavo Santaolalla
10. TRON Legacy- Daft Punk
11. Space Mountain- Fuck Buttons
12. French- Saint Germain
13. Samskeyti- Sigur Rós
14. Still Dead- Thomas Newman
15. Voyager- Daft Punk
16. A Nomad’s Retreat- Pantha Du Prince
17. Green Onions- Booker T. & The MG's
18. Sing- Four Tet
19. Mozaik- Zomby
20. The Wings- Gustavo Santaolalla

(Classical Excluded)

[Polythene Pam]