Your favorite Instrumental Songs

[toadman]

Lately I've been really into instrumental music (no vocals) and have found some really great stuff. I've compiled a list of some of my very favorite instrumental tunes. Most are metal or progressive but not all. What are some of your favorites?

Dream Theater - Stream of Conciousness - I would have to say this is clearly my favorite
In Flames - Dialogue With The Stars
Yngwie Malmsteen - Far Beyond The Sun
Dream Theater - The Dance of Eternity
In Flames - Man Made God
liquid tension experiment - paradigm shift
Nightwish - Moondance
Dream Theater - Overture 1928
Liquid Tension Experiment - Acid Rain
In Flames - pallar anders visa
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Jethro Tull - Bouree
Iced Earth - Transylvania
Micheal Angelo - No Boundaries
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Iced Earth - 1776

Edit: Haha how could I forget these! :
Metallica - Orion
Metallica - To Live is To Die
Metallica - The Call of Ktulu

[piggyman18]

I don't think anyone could argue against the Allman Brothers' Jessica

[paranoia]

To live is to Die-Metallica

[LegendKiller]

Side O' Road-CCR
Poorboy Shuffle-CCR
Little Wing-SRV Version

[toadman]

I don't think anyone could argue against the Allman Brothers' Jessica
Ah yes, good one. What about "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" ?

To live is to Die-Metallica
Ahhh almost forgot about the Metallica ones! Those were the oens that got me started actually. I've listened to them so many times that I completely forgot to add them to my favs hehe ;)

[Bert254]

Allman Bros. - Mountain Jam
Tony Rice - Blackberry Blossom
Bela Fleck - Blue Mountain Hop
Booker T and the MG's - Green Onions
John Mayall w/ Clapton - Hideaway
Miles Davis - So What
Cream - Toad

emmm....

[MGselwonK]

yea im gonna vote for jessica by the allman brothers

runners up:

Dream Theater-The Dance of Eternity and Overture 1928
In Flames-Dialogue With The Stars
Iron Maiden-Losfer Words(Big 'Orra)
NightWish-Moondance
Sonata Arctica-Revontulet
Windir-Todeswalzer
and anything by liquid tension experiment

yea, good thread

[JarOfFlies]

Steve Vai - Bad Horsie
Steve Vai - For The Love Of God
Steve Vai - Whispering A Prayer
X-Japan - Endless Rain
Joe Satriani - Always With Me, Always With You
Buckethead - Electric Tears

[blademan83]

Death - Voice of the Soul

Fucking beautiful.

[Joe the show]

anyhthing by just blaze is perfect

[DazednConfused]

Frankenstein by Edgar Winter
The greatest instrumental ever made

[led_head]

Bron-Yr-Aur - Led Zeppelin
Swan Song - Led Zeppelin (it was unreleased but i have it on my computer :) )
YYZ - Rush
Rat Salad - Black Sabbath
Moby Dick - Led Zeppelin (live)
Toad - Cream
Black Mountain Side - Led Zeppelin
White Summer - Led Zeppelin
Pepperland Laid Waste - The Beatles
Yellow Submarine In Pepperland - The Beatles
Careful With That Axe, Eugene - Pink Floyd

[ScottPurcell]

Atreyu- An interlude
Primus- Les claypool bass solo
Black Sabbath- Rat salad
Metallica- "Guitar and Bass doodle"
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Flea Bass solo

[parabolic]

Atreyu- An interlude
Primus- Les claypool bass solo
Black Sabbath- Rat salad
Metallica- "Guitar and Bass doodle"
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Flea Bass solo
hey scottie hear you are in the market for a bass amp (says jake)
jsut so happens i have one to part with

[Living_Sin]

In Flames- Hargalaten *absolute bliss for a violinist*

Dimmu Borgir- Perfection or Vanity

and a bunch of others i can't seem to recall...

[Liquid_NRG]

Don't hate...but, I like a lot of Dr. Dre instrumentals.

[Musical_Box]

Frank Zappa - Peaches en regalia
Jason Becker - Air
Steve Vai - Whispering a prayer
Tangerine Dream - Fly and collision of Comas Sola
Steve Hackett - Horizons
Jethro Tull - Bouree

[Disgustipated]

Metallica - Orion, Call of Ktulu
Dream Theater - Overture 1928, The Dance of Eternity, Erotomania
The Mars Volta - Tira Me A Las Aranas, Track #9 on frances the mute (the 5th movement of Cassandra Gemini)
Iron Maiden - The Ides of March (Kind of short but oh well), Genghis Khan

[toadman]

Awesome guys. I will have to check out a lot of these ones, since I haven't heard many of them. Since you guys seem to have a diverse taste in instrumentals, here are some more of my favorites:

Dixie Dregs - The Bash
Michel Camilo - From Within
Michel Camilo - Caribe
Cradle of Filth - Castlevania
Patrick Street (or any other performer) - Music For A Found Harmonium
Vinnie Moore - April Sky

[Wurby Tictoc]

The Smashing Pumpkins
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

Pink Floyd
The Great Gig in the Sky
Signs of Life
Terminal Frost

Those last two are from "A Momentary Lapse of Reason," the most underrated Pink Floyd album by far. So get it! :D

[sparrky]

Acid Rain-Liquid Tension Experiment

[Musical_Box]

If we consider voice an "instrument", I think "Cantare la voce (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE5781FDF46AE7F20E9A70C6DEA955FCD2BF17B A8DE4E746A79F597147AA2435FD540D1B3B9C98636D57FE3FB 31A3450DD3CAEB1AF4D66538378EEEB61145&sql=10:o4o20r5al48j) " an album by Demetrio Stratos, could be one of my all time favourites. No other instruments here, just his amazing voice exploring every single aspect of singing and setting a new standard in this field.
He was probably the greatest singer of all times (no shit), I suggest you listen to some of his songs, just to realize what's the difference between an excellent singer and a wonder of nature.

[toadman]

If we consider voice an "instrument", I think "Cantare la voce (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE5781FDF46AE7F20E9A70C6DEA955FCD2BF17B A8DE4E746A79F597147AA2435FD540D1B3B9C98636D57FE3FB 31A3450DD3CAEB1AF4D66538378EEEB61145&sql=10:o4o20r5al48j) " an album by Demetrio Stratos, could be one of my all time favourites. No other instruments here, just his amazing voice exploring every single aspect of singing and setting a new standard in this field.
He was probably the greatest singer of all times (no shit), I suggest you listen to some of his songs, just to realize what's the difference between an excellent singer and a wonder of nature.

I'd like to check that out actually... trying to find a sample. I'd consider it vocal music not instrumental music though. But I'm always up for different things. ;)

[DaveP]

Atreyu- An interlude
Primus- Les claypool bass solo
Black Sabbath- Rat salad
Metallica- "Guitar and Bass doodle"
Red Hot Chili Peppers- Flea Bass solo

Just becasue you are my brother does not eman you can post a shitty list, most of these arent even whole songs. And rat salad isnt an instrumental. Best instrumental is is the Rush one, its fucking nuts.

[ScottPurcell]

Just becasue you are my brother does not eman you can post a shitty list, most of these arent even whole songs. And rat salad isnt an instrumental. Best instrumental is is the Rush one, its fucking nuts.

how the hell isnt Rat Salad an instruemental, i think you are thinking of a different song..

[fungusamongus]

A lot of you guys posted a lot of dream theater but didn't say anything about instrumedly, which is pretty cool. Did you forget about it or do you just not like it?

[Dual]

The Album Leaf - Vermillon
The Album Leaf - We Were Once
The Album Leaf - Gust of
Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing
Ulrich Schnauss - Gone Forever
Ulrich Schnauss - Clear Day

[Liquid Tension]

If we consider voice an "instrument", I think "Cantare la voce (http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=ADFEAEE5781FDF46AE7F20E9A70C6DEA955FCD2BF17B A8DE4E746A79F597147AA2435FD540D1B3B9C98636D57FE3FB 31A3450DD3CAEB1AF4D66538378EEEB61145&sql=10:o4o20r5al48j) " an album by Demetrio Stratos, could be one of my all time favourites. No other instruments here, just his amazing voice exploring every single aspect of singing and setting a new standard in this field.
He was probably the greatest singer of all times (no shit), I suggest you listen to some of his songs, just to realize what's the difference between an excellent singer and a wonder of nature.

If we consider voice as an instrument, this thread becomes just plain our favorite songs...

[BrainStew]

Any instrumental by Opeth, In Flames, or Metallica.
Katatonia - Inside the City of Glass

[Musical_Box]

If we consider voice as an instrument, this thread becomes just plain our favorite songs...
the example i made is kind of "instrumental, the other way round" thing, no instruments, just voice. I don't htink that could actually be considered a conventional song.

[Wurby Tictoc]

the example i made is kind of "instrumental, the other way round" thing, no instruments, just voice. I don't htink that could actually be considered a conventional song.
If we're using that logic, then A Perfect Circle's cover of "Fiddle and the Drum" by Joni Mitchell would be on my list. No music, just a bunch of Maynard vocal tracks mixed together in a ragtime kind of way.

[Frostdaddy]

If we're using that logic, then A Perfect Circle's cover of "Fiddle and the Drum" by Joni Mitchell would be on my list.
I love that song.

Orion - Metallica is my favorite instrumental. But I really haven't heard many.

[OhMaddie]

"I Know You Are But What Am I?" - Mogwai
"The Floating Waltz" - Unwed Sailor
Anything by the Kick Ass

[tophizzle]

Latin jazz is the best instrumental music, of all time, ever.

[heaven's satan]

moby dick by led zeppelin, and star spangled banner by GSaR.

[toadman]

Latin jazz is the best instrumental music, of all time, ever.

Yea Latin Jazz is great. I was never into this kind of music at all but one day I heard "from within" by Michel Camilo and some other guys and I was amazed

[floydheadnumba1]

Toad- Cream
Black Mountain Side- Led Zeppelin
In A Gadda Da Vida- Iron Butterfly (mostly instumental, little lyrics)
Marooned- Pink Floyd
The Great Gig In The Sky- Pink Floyd
Moby Dick- Led Zeppelin

Ill add more if I think of them later...
WOW took me 2 seconds after I posted to think of Moby Dick

[blackmonday611]

heres my list

regret not - all that remains (definitely number 1)

to live is to die - metallica
hell's kitchen - dream theater
man made god - in flames
dialogue with the stars - in flames
wayfaerer - in flames
lead me home - shadows fall

definitely check out in flames if you want good instrumental metal!!

[O'Bannion]

A Warm Place - Nine Inch Nails
Marvo Ging - The Chemical Brothers

[Trent215]

Weird that you bumped up such an old thread but anyways..

Pelican- City of Labels (sweetest guitar melody ever at the beginning)
Pelican- Spaceship Broken Parts Needed (Beautiful song)
Pelican- Sirius, Bliss in Concrete
In Flames- The Jester's Dance
Between the Buried and Me- Medicine Wheel and Viridian
Explosions In The Sky- Your Hand In Mine
Russian Circles- Death Rides A Horse (fucking amazing, seriously check this out)
God Is An Astronaut- All is Violent, All is Bright

[Lord Vollum]

A lot of Steve Vai, "Building The Chruch", "Tender Surrender", "Whispering A Prayer", "Bad Horsie", "I'm The Hell Outta Here".

So other worthy ones

Coming Home - Pagans' Mind
Technical Difficulties - Racer X
Scarified - Racer X
The Imaginary Force - Bob Katsionis
Far Beyond The The Sun - Yngwie Malmsteen
Icarus Dream Sweet Opus 4 - " "
Black Star - " "
Baroque And Roll - " "
Aire On a G String - Johann Sebastian Bach
Bouree - " "



I am also with ya on the Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment songs.

[Barry]

Explosions In The Sky- Your Hand In Mine


Dingdingdingding

[Dadahh]

Sonic Youth - Beautiful Plateau

look it up quite short but really beautiful

[BaxterII]

Buckethead - Soothsayer / Nottingham Lace / Too Many Humans
Umphrey's McGee - Nothing Too Fancy
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
Greg Howe - Acute
John Petrucci - Damage Control / Glasgow Kiss / Lost Without You
Yes - Mood For a Day / The Clap
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits
Metallica - To Live is to Die
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
Trace Bundy - Dueling Ninjas

[Meph1986]

Link Wray - Rumble (1958)

[Unhinged]

Buckethead - Soothsayer / Nottingham Lace / Too Many Humans
Umphrey's McGee - Nothing Too Fancy
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
Greg Howe - Acute
John Petrucci - Damage Control / Glasgow Kiss / Lost Without You
Yes - Mood For a Day / The Clap
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Meeting of the Spirits
Metallica - To Live is to Die
Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
Trace Bundy - Dueling Ninjas

I endorse this list.

[dude22]

La Mer - Nine Inch Nails
8 Ghosts I - Nine Inch Nails
The Greater Good (Instrumental) - Nine Inch Nails
Ecstasy of the Gold - Metallica
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

[TheMuffinMan]

Textures - Cynic
Cosmic Sea - Death

[glytch]

Rob Dougan - Furious Angels
Agreed.

Kittie — Immortal
One Minute Silence — And Some Ya Lose [Instrumental]

Couple favorites, could list more, electronic, etc, etc.

[Jordan]

So yeah...Anything by Buckethead

Specifically

Padmasana
Soothsayer
Nottingham Lace
Frozen brains tell no tales
Welcome to buckethead

Steve Vai:

For the love of god
Tender Surrender


Jerry C:

Canon in D

Joe Satriani:

Always with me, Always with you
Searching
Flying in a blue dream

And of course, the classics of Metallica (orion, live to die, ktulu etc)

[GALLIENVS AVG]

Buckethead- Soothsayer

[slapnpopbass]

Rush- Malignant Narcissism
Dream Theater- Instrumedley

[SatanTheSith]

Buckethead- Soothsayer

This. .....

[psychomonkey62]

Dream Theater - Stream of Conciousness - I would have to say this is clearly my favorite

This.

Stream Of Consciousness is AMAZING. In the whole 11 minutes, I never get bored.

EDIT: Or Soothsayer, Nottingham Lace, Electric Tears, Padmasana, Big Sur Moon........lots of Buckethead stuff.

EDIT II: Or Cliffs of Dover by Eric Johnson.

[SatanTheSith]

Stream of consciousness is good, always get bored halfway through though.

Death- Cosmic Sea
Death- Voice of the soul
Iced Earth- 1776

[G-manMET]

Tortoise has some great instrumentals.

[FlavaDave]

Miles Davis - So What

[BaxterII]

Buckethead's Soothsayer has been posted three times in this thread.

I think we can pretty much all agree. Best song ever?

ok maybe not but amazing nonetheless

[5150]

Van Halen - Eruption
Van Halen - Sunday Afternoon In The Park (being a bass player, its orgasmic)
Van Halen - Cathederal
Van Halen - Intruder
Van Halen - 1984
Van Halen - Pleasure Dome (Only released as an instrumental on the Live: Right Here, Right Now album)
Van Halen - Baluchitherium
Van Halen - Doin' Time
Van Halen - Respect the Wind

Satriani - Always with me, Always with you

AC/DC - D.T.
The other Pink Floyds mentioned

[Rootraz]

Pali Gap by Jimi Hendrix is definitely my favs

[Rising_Boognish]

don't know if anybody else has heard it, but beastie boys did an instumental album that was wicked. i don't normally like them too much, but the album is pretty damn good.

[Trent215]

Everybody's recommending "Soothsayer" by Buckethead on this thread and the epic song thread and holy sh!t that's an awesome song......9 minutes of soulful, emotional shredding by Buckethead

[choss]

hell's kitchen - dream theater .. one of the best DT songs evar
orion - metallica
midnight cowboy song - FNM version

[psychomonkey62]

Buckethead's Soothsayer has been posted three times in this thread.

I think we can pretty much all agree. Best song ever?

ok maybe not but amazing nonetheless

Nah. It's the best.

[322]

Explosions in the Sky - The only moment we were alone
Explosions in the Sky - Have you passed through this night?

Hope of the States - Black Amnesias


listen to these. amazing.

[Lord Gold]

The Day Hell Broke Loose At Sicard Hollow by Maylene & The Sons of Disaster

Viridian by Between The Buried & Me

Cannonball Hand by He Is Legend

Can't think of anymore at the moment.

[Lord Vollum]

I endorse this list.
Should add Dirty Napkins by Zappa to the list too.

[tripb19]

Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia is the best instrumental I've ever heard.

[Trent215]

The Day Hell Broke Loose At Sicard Hollow by Maylene & The Sons of Disaster


Nice! I've always thought they're kind of underrated

[hotsauce22]

Get Organized- Boston

[Daucus Karota]

Cinema Strange- Intermezzo bright violet euphoria

[lovestospooge]

anything by GODSPEED YOU! Black emperor

[ahaga]

Pat Metheny - Minuano
Metallica - Orion

[lovestospooge]

don't know if anybody else has heard it, but beastie boys did an instumental album that was wicked. i don't normally like them too much, but the album is pretty damn good.

i heard that, i like beastie boys and i especially like that i keep trying to order that album but i cant find it in hmv oh well its probably on amazon or something.

[aerodynamic56]

Thrice - Night Diving
Thrice - The Next Day

[Lord Gold]

Nice! I've always thought they're kind of underrated

They definitely are. Especially that song. It's amazing, and shows how they can really play music, not just hardcore. And it's very Southern-esque.

[Akira]

Wow, a lot of great ones have already been mentioned (ex. Acid Rain, Overture 1928, Black Star, stuff by Eric Johnson, Electric tears, etc.).

Steve Vai's Boston Rain Melody and Joe Satriani's Love Thing, Crystal Planet, Train of Angels (and a lot of others) are excellent instrumentals.

Blackstratblues' Nights in Shining Karma and Bombay Rain are great too.
http://www.blackstratblues.com/

[thebassman]

sigur ros sigur ros

[Megadeph]

Winterreise - Shining
Super Good - Boredoms
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
June Bug - The Melvins

[cynicist]

Off the top of my heaad

Ytse jam - Dream theater. This is the first dream theater instumental I heard and and really help get me into them. There are loads of other quality instrumentals by dream theater (Stream of consciousness, Erotmania, Instrumedly, Overture 1928 mThe Dance of Eternity and maybe so others I didn't think of.) that are well worth checking out.

All of the stuff by Liquid tension experiment

Orion - Metallica. My favourite metallica instrumetal

YYZ and LA villa strangiato - Rush. Two brialliant instrumentals

Transylvania - Iron maiden.

Maggot Brain - Parliment aka Funkedelic. I think this demonstrates how underated Eddie Hazel really was.

[Doh616]

Unrestrained Growth- Buckethead

[Solaris]

Instrumental - Katatonia

[RickJamesGhost]

Implements of Destruction: Chimaira

[razorwire61]

Love Instrumental music

I drove through ghosts to get here- 65 days of Static
Britney spears for president- The Samuel Jackson 5

Explosions in the Sky - The only moment we were alone
Explosions in the Sky - Have you passed through this night?

Hope of the States - Black Amnesias


listen to these. amazing.


Explsosions= awesome


Thrice - Night Diving
Thrice - The Next Day


YOU rule THRICE PWNS all others!

sigur ros sigur ros

I agree although there is singing in lots although it Norweigeian? i think i should know this i have all thier albums lol

[flecker]

nocturne by Billy Joel....fairly simple piano melody, but it's beautiful.

Lenny by Stevie Ray Vaughn is another favorite.