OT: Good Instrumentals

by Norm Median on Mar 25, 2009 12:58 PM PDT

A lot of people here seem to be very fond of music, so I was hoping I could get some suggestions for good instrumental music. I like to have something on in the backround while I'm studying or doing busy work, and it may sound silly but I find myself getting distracted by lyrics.

If anyone has any suggestions (preferably specific albums or songs) on some good music that is just instrumentals I would really appreciate it. The music genre does not matter, although I don't really need any suggestions for classical (I'm all about the Bach). It doesn't have to be entirely void of vocals, just as few as possible.

I have tried downloading random stuff that looks like it might be good, but most of it turns out to be crap (I'm looking at you, Chris Botti). It would be nice to at least have some kind of direction for my search.

Thanks in advance.

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Have you tried Boards of Canada or Explosions in the Sky? They are both fairly well-liked.

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by groug on Mar 25, 2009 1:01 PM PDT reply actions

I haven’t heard of either, but I will definitely check them out. Thanks.

by Norm Median on Mar 25, 2009 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m a big fan of BOC, love ’em.

Check out DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing album. It’s a classic slice of delicious hip-hop. I listen to a lot of electronic music, which is primarily instrumental I guess, but I’d also recommend to you The Future Sound of London’s Life Forms, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works II, and Proem’s Socially Inept.

Just a few favorites off the top of my head.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:18 PM PDT up reply actions

Also, check out Am-Boy’s Floridian, Godspeed You Black Emperor’s FA, Freescha’s Kids Fill the Floor, What’s Come Inside of You, and Slower Than Church Music.

I just remember, Global Communication’s 76:14 is an ambient classic. Really relaxing and good background music.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:22 PM PDT up reply actions

DJ Shadow FTW

Love some Automator & RJD2, too.

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by SoFa King Mike on Mar 25, 2009 1:29 PM PDT up reply actions

Older RJD2 is great — I’ve got Dead Ringer on my ipod for the gym — but his last album, the folky thing, was pretty terrible. I hope he returns to hip-hop, but I think I’ve read somewhere that he wasn’t going to.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions

RE: Shadow, “Building Steam With a Grain of Salt” is such a badass track. Always one of my favorites.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:33 PM PDT up reply actions

A must on vinyl

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by SoFa King Mike on Mar 25, 2009 1:34 PM PDT up reply actions

Definitely!

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions

BOC

Is Blue Oyster Cult. Dude.

Kids these days…. ;)

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by groug on Mar 25, 2009 5:19 PM PDT up reply actions

It’s a free country.

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by Skaldheim on Mar 28, 2009 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions

No it needs the omelet.

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by WalrusMan on Mar 25, 2009 5:59 PM PDT up reply actions

Explosions

Are great (they are the music from Friday Night Lights if you like that type)

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by gore51 on Mar 25, 2009 3:03 PM PDT up reply actions

Joe Satriani.

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by BaronVonCurrentEvents on Mar 25, 2009 1:03 PM PDT reply actions

He’s a great guitarist but I can’t stand his music. Same thing with Steve Vai and Eric Johnson.

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by Cookyman on Mar 25, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions

Word. Rosterbators of the guitar world.

(Though Vai’s time with Zappa is better than the rest of his work IMO.)

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by bgunn on Mar 25, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions

steve vai in Crossroads for the winz
note: ry cooder played all of macchio’s parts.

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 25, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions

Aye. Although especially since you’re looking for instrumentals you won’t have to worry about his vocals.

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by WalrusMan on Mar 25, 2009 6:01 PM PDT up reply actions

the grassy knoll
tristessa
ENO
low rider bicycle

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 25, 2009 1:23 PM PDT reply actions

dr. octagon
dj spooky
absoprtion

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 25, 2009 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh shit, there’s a horse in the hospital!

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:54 PM PDT up reply actions

paging dr octagon, dr octagon.

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 25, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

steve vai

“for the love of god”

also, eric johnson’s “cliffs of dover”

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by Cynema the Band on Mar 25, 2009 1:37 PM PDT reply actions

I listen to some foreign stuff. Here is a good one (don’t know the name of it): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkEuYijmrrs

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by Natto on Mar 25, 2009 1:46 PM PDT reply actions

From my eMusic history...

Amon Tobin – Supermodified
Aphex Twin – Richard D. James
Arovane – Tides
Battles – Mirrored
Blockhead – Downtown Science
Burial – Untrue
Explosions in the Sky – The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place
Four Tet – Rounds
James Blackshaw – The Cloud of Unknowing
Quiet Village – Silent Movie
Ratatat – LP
The Octopus Project – Hello Avalanche

by Grant Brisbee on Mar 25, 2009 1:54 PM PDT reply actions

+1’s on Burial, Arrovane, Blockhead, and Four Tet.

Have you heard of 310? They remind me a lot of Four Tet. Kinda collage-y, but really beautiful.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions

Oh, and AFX of course, I’m a huge fan of his catalog.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions

I’ll check it out. It’s on eMusic, so I’m always looking for new stuff there.

If you don’t know Quiet Village, get that one. I know you like Blockhead, RJD2, etc…, so I’m sure you’d love it.

by Grant Brisbee on Mar 25, 2009 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions

I’ll give them a look-see. Never heard of ’em. Thanks!

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

After All by 310 is good

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by SoFa King Mike on Mar 25, 2009 2:10 PM PDT up reply actions

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

Is eMusic a good source for music? I’ve been using Zune, but it mostly has mainstream stuff.

by Norm Median on Mar 25, 2009 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions

My personal ethical standards: if I’ve unilaterally decided that the artist doesn’t need anymore money — Metallica, for example — I get torrents. Otherwise, I buy the album. Amazon has a huge selection of MP3s, but it gets expensive. Screw iTunes and its DRM.

So I do eMusic, and it’s awesome. It’s a drag at times when they don’t have an entire label (like Sub Pop, dammit), but it’s totally worth the money. I pay $25 a month for 100 downloads, which is a huge savings for me compared to the $200 CD sprees I used to go on. If you have any interest in metal, eMusic has a great selection. Their jazz and classical is okay, their hip-hop is meh, and their classic rock selection is garbage, but their indie section is well stocked.

by Grant Brisbee on Mar 25, 2009 2:21 PM PDT up reply actions

And I consider a lot of metal to be instrumental even if there are vocals. Like Wolves in the Throne Room or Krallice — sure, there’s a lot of screaming going on, but it isn’t the focal point at all. It’s more like another instrument on top of the pile.

by Grant Brisbee on Mar 25, 2009 3:01 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m a big fan on EuroMetal like Stratovarius.

by Norm Median on Mar 25, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions

*of

by Norm Median on Mar 25, 2009 3:04 PM PDT up reply actions

hell yes on James Blackshaw and Amon Tobin

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by haverecords on Mar 25, 2009 2:56 PM PDT up reply actions

Moby has a lot of good instrumental stuff. The LE version of Hotel comes with a second disc consisting solely of Ambient music. Good stuff.

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by Natto on Mar 25, 2009 2:03 PM PDT reply actions

I’ve always liked Thievery Corp myself

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by SoFa King Mike on Mar 25, 2009 2:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Good call.

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by bgunn on Mar 25, 2009 2:12 PM PDT up reply actions

I like the remixes they did with Bebel Gilberto

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by SoFa King Mike on Mar 25, 2009 2:13 PM PDT up reply actions

I’ve always liked his album ‘I like to Score’ which is basically a compilation of songs Moby did that appeared in movies.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions

His take on the James Bond theme is awesome.

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by Natto on Mar 25, 2009 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions

I work at home and have the stereo playing all day unless the game is on or I’m listening to KFJC. I also prefer instrumentals while working or something I know so well it disappears into the background (Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Neil Young).

Here’s what I dig in various genres:

Traditional Jazz:

Ornette Coleman

John Coletrane

Miles Davis

Dexter Gordon

Horace Silver

Wayne Shorter

McCoy Tynor

Bill Evans

Rock/Avant Jazz/Modern Orchestral:

Frank Zappa – The Grand Wazoo, side 1 of Waka Jawaka

Stars of the Lid – And Their Refinement Of The Decline (2cds of minimal slow motion ambient space)

Earth – Hex; Or Printing in the Infernal Method, and The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull

Pelican – everything

Earthless – Sonic Prayer (psych/garage, very riffy)

Bardo Pond

Acid Mothers Temple

The Necks – Very cool austrailian jazz trio

John Zorn/Masada – Who tore up Yoshis for a week earlier this month!

Non-Instrumental but soft, and easy to work to:

Catpower

Bonnie Prince Billy

Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozalek

Also, the Soul Jazz series of compilations Dub, Funk, etc.

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by bgunn on Mar 25, 2009 2:07 PM PDT reply actions

re: Zorn/Masada

Yeah, one of those nights was the Secret Chiefs doing their version and I totally forgot it was happening. But theirs is a seriously great instrumental album, called Xaphan, if anyone is into somewhat freaky middle eastern style instrumentals. Definitely toned down the Zornish mucky-muck.

by Stoned Slacker on Mar 25, 2009 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions

Wow...

…Ornette has lived long enough to become a “traditional” jazz artist!

Personally I find Ornette – and Coltrane, for the most part – a little too, well, assertive to function as background music. I’d go for a slightly mellower toned saxophonist like Gordon or Sonny Rollins while working. Piano works well too, and I’d add Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell to the pianists in your list.

I haven’t heard recent John Zorn but based on older stuff he, too, is someone I can’t imagine putting on in the background…

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I for one don’t care for that new fangled Jass music. I wish it would have stayed in New Orleans where it belonged… those flappers with their short dresses and loose ways are going to ruin America.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 25, 2009 7:25 PM PDT up reply actions

The Titanic soundtrack.

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by bkrhater on Mar 25, 2009 2:15 PM PDT reply actions

the Trainspotting soundtrack is a good one
as is Natural Born Killers

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 25, 2009 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions

There used to be a band called Pell Mell that put out some great instrumental rock. Try “Interstate” or “Flow”, they’re both really good albums.

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by Kitspool on Mar 25, 2009 2:25 PM PDT reply actions

oh, and also

Japancakes (slowcore band from Georgia…did a lot of dreamy, twang-y stuff with slide guitar)
and
The Dirty Three (Really, really awesome Australian trio led by Warren Ellis on violin)

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by Kitspool on Mar 25, 2009 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions

I’m not sure how much play it gets as a serious piece of art, but the original Batman soundtrack by Danny Elfman has always been one of my favorites. There are some absolutely classic bursts of classical music on there.

Also maybe:
Bozzio Levin Stevens – Situation Dangerous – supermegavirtuosos keeping it in check for some very good tunes.

Ulver – just about everything is amazing for last 10 years, but perhaps Lyckantropen Themes (tripped out symphonic) or Perdition City (if you like straight trip hop)

by Stoned Slacker on Mar 25, 2009 2:29 PM PDT reply actions

Actually....

I think I meant Svidd Neger instead of Lyckantropen……but both really neat albums.

by Stoned Slacker on Mar 25, 2009 2:30 PM PDT up reply actions

I loved Eluvium’s album “Copia” from a couple years ago.

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by jponry on Mar 25, 2009 2:30 PM PDT reply actions

Eluvium is some really nice ambient. I’m a bit of an ambient fan. I love classic Eno, Steve Roach, William Basinski, etc. In fact, I think William Basinski’s ‘Disintegration Loops’ might be one the moust haunting, and beautiful pieces of ambient music ever recorded.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions

Copia is a nice blend of nice piano and ambient stuff. I haven’t listened to his really ambient albums yet though.

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by jponry on Mar 25, 2009 2:35 PM PDT up reply actions

If you like ambient / piano stuff, check out Harold Budd. His album ‘The Room’ is fantastic.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions

There’s a classical piano album of Radiohead songs I used to listen to when I wanted to have music on but needed to focus. I believe the artist is Christopher O’Reilly or somthing like that.

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by SF Pete on Mar 25, 2009 2:39 PM PDT reply actions

there’s lots of nice soundtracky instrumentals on most of Calexico’s earlier catalog.
also check out Friends of Dean Martinez (esp. retrograde)

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by The Gene Hackman on Mar 25, 2009 2:40 PM PDT reply actions

Oh, I can’t believe I forgot this artist. Tor Lundvall does some really great ambient stuff. I highly recommend him.

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by xanthan on Mar 25, 2009 2:41 PM PDT reply actions

The Advantage!

It’s a rock band that plays old 8-bit Nintendo music, and it’s really good. No, seriously, it’s actually really good. I love it for studying because it’s energetic and there are no lyrics. It’s also great in the car because it makes driving around seem like a video game, and consequently, fun.

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This

They’re pretty rad live. If you didn’t know they were Nintendo songs, you’d think they were just a good math rock band.

by briandean on Mar 26, 2009 2:08 AM PDT up reply actions

Anasthesia (Pulling Teeth)

by Metallica (old)

Lots of stuff by Opeth.

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by zenbitz on Mar 25, 2009 2:55 PM PDT reply actions

hiphop/triphop style

Blockhead- Live from New York

Blue Sky Black Death- Anything they produce

RJD2- Deadringer

Thievery Corporation

Kno (from cunninlynguists)- excrementals (although better off with the lynguists)

Nightmares on Wax- Mind Elevation

kool and the gang- greatest hits

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by Maddogg5150 on Mar 25, 2009 3:07 PM PDT reply actions

make that
Blockhead- Live in New York 2004

by Maddogg5150 on Mar 25, 2009 3:19 PM PDT up reply actions

Some of Go Hirano’s work would fit in this category

Kopernik
Svarte Greiner
find some Ennio Morricone compilations
Xela
Eddie Marcone
The Cinematic Orchestra
Les Rallizes Denudes
International Harvester/Harvester/Parson Sound
You might want to try some of these drone/noise musicians

Birchville Cat Motel
Aidan Baker (also, Nadja)
The Dead C
Black To Comm
Pelt
Nurse With Wound

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The overture in "Quadrophenia" by The Who

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by Goofus on Mar 25, 2009 3:41 PM PDT reply actions

Sadao Watanabe is smooth as buttah on the sax.

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and drift away…

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“…buttah on the sax.”

Wasn’t that in “Last Tango In Paris”?

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Beautiful Epic Japanese Electric Guitar Noise

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by Skaldheim on Mar 25, 2009 4:58 PM PDT reply actions

Mogwai
Kinski

A couple instrumental songs:

Mellon Collie And the Infinite Sadness- Smashing Pumpkins
To Russia My Homeland- …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Skateboarding Saves Me Twice- Grandaddy
Three-Way – The Magnetic Fields
Aluminum- The White Stripes
The Fool- Neutral Milk Hotel
The Pixies- Cecilia Ann

If Beulah could make an instrumental version of “Me & Jesus Don’t Talk Anymore”, that would be great.

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by Karlifornia on Mar 25, 2009 5:24 PM PDT reply actions

star wars soundtrack

by shaolinironlion on Mar 25, 2009 5:28 PM PDT reply actions

Ratatat’s “Classics” album.

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by hubert on Mar 25, 2009 5:41 PM PDT reply actions

YES, Loud Pipes=Orgasmic

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by PAWarrior on Mar 26, 2009 12:13 AM PDT up reply actions

I’m a huge film score collector, so I really can’t make a small list. Anything by Patrick Doyle is pretty good for working, though.

by cheno on Mar 25, 2009 6:01 PM PDT reply actions

I’d just say start collecting Led Zeppelin bootlegs and play Moby Dick and White Summer.

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by WalrusMan on Mar 25, 2009 6:06 PM PDT reply actions

A little something different...

French DJ group Birdy Nam Nam
Not your traditional kind of DJ act as there’s 4 of them and the way they weave their own part into the collective song is just fascinating. Self-titled album is great and I strongly suggest Abbesses and Jazz at Home off that one.

Did I miss it, or has anyone went with some traditional jazz along the lines of Miles Davis?
Kind of Blue or Essential Miles Davis (2 disc) are must haves.

Maybe some Wynton Marsalis is your thing if you’re into less of the jazz fusion and more into the modern stuff.

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by PacBellBoozer on Mar 25, 2009 6:53 PM PDT reply actions

The Mermen

Psychedelic instrumental surf jams. ‘Dancing In Her Sleep’ off of ‘Food for Other Fish’ is long and delicious… it’s hard to call them a surf band because the songs are longer, more complicated and melodious than what you’d normally expect, but it’s definitely music inspired by the waves.

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by Johnny Disaster on Mar 25, 2009 7:17 PM PDT reply actions

I second this, the Mermen are a really good listen.

by neurofarm on Mar 25, 2009 10:58 PM PDT up reply actions

Yakkity Sax

by Lars The Wanderer on Mar 25, 2009 8:16 PM PDT reply actions

ha!

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by Karlifornia on Mar 25, 2009 11:25 PM PDT up reply actions

LOL

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by walkoff baltimore chop on Mar 25, 2009 11:32 PM PDT up reply actions

Metal
In Flames – Man Made God
Scorpions – Coast To Coast
Yngwie Malmsteen – Trilogy Suite Op. 5

Oldies
Dave “Baby” Cortez – The Happy Organ
The Tornados – Telstar

Or LimeWire plus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Instrumentals

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by S.F. Giangst on Mar 25, 2009 9:51 PM PDT reply actions

Alias, Sixtoo, and Blockhead are some of my favorites.

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Chili Peppers-Pritty Little Ditty, Salute to Kareem

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by PAWarrior on Mar 26, 2009 12:14 AM PDT reply actions

Mogwai
Godspeed You Black Emperor
From monument to Masses (Bay Area local)
Maserati
Kinski
Slint
Fugazi has some insanely rickin-type intstrumentals
Tortoise

by briandean on Mar 26, 2009 2:06 AM PDT reply actions

rickin=rocking

by briandean on Mar 26, 2009 2:10 AM PDT up reply actions

Clogs and Bell Orchestre

by sularz on Mar 26, 2009 5:46 AM PDT reply actions

A few random picks

Embryonic Journey – Jefferson Airplane
Sandalphon – Jefferson Starship
Classical Gas – Mason Williams
Hocus Pocus – Focus
Popcorn – Hot Butter
Frankenstein – Edgar Winter Group

by Sabertooth on Mar 26, 2009 7:45 AM PDT reply actions

Frankenstein – Edgar Winter Group*

*NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE FRANKENSTEIN GROUP OR ME EITHER.

I’ve been hearing that tune for almost three decades…they get to about the eighth blast of – what is that , a guitar? An organ? WHOMP BOMP BOMP BOMP BA BOMP BOMP BAMMM and I break my finger stabbing another preset.

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by victor frankenstein on Mar 26, 2009 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions

Boards of Canada...

Tycho (very similar to BOC, I personally like tycho more)
M83 is also awesome.

by wanna Ishikawa? on Mar 26, 2009 8:01 AM PDT reply actions

Wow, I have a shit load of downloading to do!

Thanks everybody.

by Norm Median on Mar 26, 2009 8:46 AM PDT reply actions

get on tycho

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by wanna Ishikawa? on Mar 26, 2009 9:42 AM PDT up reply actions

i love this post, so here are the ones on my ipod, in no particular order

inkhay- dolencias, tayta salasaca, el inca atahualpa, fiesta nativa, adios pueblo de ayacucho

mellow- kites are fun

ennio morricone- ecstasy of gold

st. germaine- rose rouge

moby- god moving over the face of the water, everloving

rusted root- drum trip

phil keaggy- passing thought, spend my life with you

eric clapton- classical gas

sepultura- jasco, itsari, kaiowas, valtio

thomas newman- road to perdition- main theme, road to chicago

soundgarden- applebite

corrosion of conformity- without wings

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by Headhunter Rollins on Mar 26, 2009 9:44 AM PDT reply actions

Some guilty pleasures...

Fifth of Beethoven – Walter Murphy
Music Box Dancer – Frank Mills

The first one is Disco Beethoven, and the second is sweet like ice cream. I know I shouldn’t, but I love them both.

by Sabertooth on Mar 26, 2009 2:11 PM PDT reply actions

Walter Murphy

does the Family Guy theme.

OK if I adopt Randy Johnson?
"What kind of a stupid question is that?"

by victor frankenstein on Mar 26, 2009 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions

Heck!

Dueling Banjoes

by Sabertooth on Mar 26, 2009 2:12 PM PDT reply actions

I forgot...

YYZ
La Villa Strangiato
Where’s My Thing?
(drum solo)
Leave that Thing Alone
(another drum solo)

by Grant Brisbee on Mar 26, 2009 10:26 PM PDT reply actions

Malignant Narcissism.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Mar 28, 2009 12:29 AM PDT up reply actions

Hope
The Main Monkey Business

No, really, I have updated my blog this year: http://skaldheim.livejournal.com/tag/baseball

by Skaldheim on Mar 28, 2009 10:45 AM PDT up reply actions

2112 Overture. Probably my favourite of theirs. Besides Der Trommler/O Baterista/YYZ live.

The Basil Fawlty Moderating Strategy:
"We could run a nice blog here if we didn't have all these members getting in the way."

by WalrusMan on Mar 28, 2009 7:21 PM PDT up reply actions

If you are into hip-hop at all check out some J Dilla instrumentals, they are brilliant

Why does Sabean always look constipated?

by TexasRanger on Mar 27, 2009 12:42 AM PDT reply actions

Praxis

the album “Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)”

by StickRat on Mar 27, 2009 1:05 AM PDT reply actions

What kind of drugs do you have to be on to think, “Buckethead’s cool and all…but he needs more P-Funk,” and what kind of drugs did they need to be on to make it work? Awesome album.

by Grant Brisbee on Mar 27, 2009 9:07 AM PDT up reply actions