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readyeddy?
10/01/2007, 18:16
Let's talk about the Instrumental songs you like. You know the songs the bands put out so the lead singer can rest his/her vocal chords (assuming they're not lip synching anyway). There've been some good ones in the past. I've mentioned a few good ones for the One Hit Wonders thread. (Hocus Pocus, Popcorn and Autobahn.) "Frankenstein" by Edgar Winter was mentioned though I don't think that qualifies as a OHW.
Other instrumentals I really like are:

Albatross by Fleetwood Mac
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSZHT2XvoLM

Pat Metheny Band (This is Jazz but it's Jazz that is friendly toward the mainstream.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g6nPYyIS_I

I was hoping to include "Asleep in the Desert" from the "Tejas" album by ZZ Top but I couldn't find any links (yet).
EmperorNorton
10/01/2007, 18:27
I don't think 'Autobahn' is a one hit wonder.

Anyway, favourites of mine include Chariots of Fire (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYJzcUvS_NU), Axel F (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2L-3ocw1QI&mode=related&search=) and apart from the synthie stuff, Nightwish's Crimson Tide / Deep Blue Sea (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv3PHI0QwQ4).
Pashmina
10/01/2007, 18:29
Ice Bandits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_m4n9Ha8hg)

It's a Garbage B-side, but it's really just a James Bond theme.
JKLantern
10/01/2007, 19:22
There's no Youtube Link for it, but if you go to Deezer.com and search carefully enough, you can find a music link for one of my favorites:

The Rock-The Who, Quadrophenia Album

Quadrophenia-The Who, Quadrophenia Album is also pretty good.
charlesx
10/01/2007, 19:24
"Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Band. :)
JKLantern
10/01/2007, 19:33
"Frankenstein" by the Edgar Winter Band. :)

I must spread it around before repping Charlesx again.
andrewtarius
10/01/2007, 19:37
Cobwebs and Strange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VvhJfRiNZo#) - The Who

Soul Sacrifice (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnamP4-M9ko#) - Santana

Bassically (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh0jbbh4d3c#) - Black Sabbath (Well, it's a bass solo introduction into NIB, but I count it :p )
AlienFlanders
10/01/2007, 20:58
Battles - Clannad (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYD1xy7zKR8) You have to hear this on a real system, the bass is devastating.

Tubular Bells pt1a - Mike Oldfield (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEt5OTR6Vc) Tubular Bells pt1b (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk_rtkMr3e0) Tubular Bells pt2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4EZTLCtZ-g)
VelvetGuru9
10/01/2007, 21:55
I'm gonna throw out a couple jazz pieces here. Just about everyone with a radio or television has heard Take Five. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOgYw5-pNs) And you can't go wrong with Weather Report featuring a young Jaco Pastorius playing that old Fender Jazz bass of his...Birdland (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqashW66D7o)
T'Chaka
10/01/2007, 22:10
No one mentioned Chuck Mangione's 'Feels So Good?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92RvI3Q

My number one 'station wagon song!'
T'Chaka
10/01/2007, 22:11
Just about everyone with a radio or television has heard Take Five. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDOgYw5-pNs)

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to VelvetGuru9 again.
spacedye
10/01/2007, 22:26
Acid Rain - Liquid Tension Experiment (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmo1VW_wA_o)
Red_Skull_XIII
10/02/2007, 00:06
Probably "Hibernation (live)" by Ted Nugent. He talks a bit in the track, but that's not part of the song.

Of course there's also "Jessica" and "Pegasus" by The Allman Brothers Band, "Black Mountain Side" by Led Zeppelin, and "Eagle Brother" by Ted Nugent.

;)
JKLantern
10/02/2007, 00:08
Probably "Hibernation (live)" by Ted Nugent. He talks a bit in the track, but that's not part of the song.

Of course there's also "Jessica" and "Pegasus" by The Allman Brothers Band, "Black Mountain Side" by Led Zeppelin, and "Eagle Brother" by Ted Nugent.

;)

Allmans have several excellent ones.

2/3s of Ted Nugent's Stranglehold is an excellent instrumental.
adamkomar
10/02/2007, 02:04
Seizure of Power by Marilyn Manson.
Stuart_Rex
10/02/2007, 05:45
Anything off DJ Shadow's Entroducing.
AlienFlanders
10/02/2007, 08:14
Neil Young - King of Kings, off Journey Through the Past

And Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjw4nd0-Ajg) - Pink Floyd
Red_Skull_XIII
10/02/2007, 12:30
I forgot another chunk of Allman joy: "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed"
DTM
10/02/2007, 13:35
Ill throw out The Brazilian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZRajWVmM0A), from Genesis.
Stuart_Rex
10/02/2007, 13:38
As far as Zappa goes there are a lot of instrumentals to choose from.
I'll have to go for Eat that question as my favourite though.
hail_eris
10/02/2007, 13:56
No one mentioned Chuck Mangione's 'Feels So Good?'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T92RvI3Q

My number one 'station wagon song!'
You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to T'Chaka again.

I was riding my bike and I heard someone blasting this from his car a couple weeks ago. I hauled to catch up with him at the next light, just so I could flash him the "big metal" sign to indicate how much I appreciated his addition to the audio landscape.

Oh, and let me add "The Feeling Begins," (http://www.twango.com/media/benitezja.public/benitezja.10317?sort=3) the opening track from Peter Gabriel's soundtrack to The Last Temptation of Christ.
VelvetGuru9
10/02/2007, 14:24
Stuart Rex Reminded me of a favorite Zappa piece, Black Napkins.
Red_Skull_XIII
10/02/2007, 14:26
As I'm listening to all 34 minutes of it:

"Mountain Jam" - Allman Brothers
BudPalmer
10/02/2007, 14:29
Fire On High - ELO (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3Ufx7SmZ5E)
readyeddy?
10/02/2007, 15:16
I don't think 'Autobahn' is a one hit wonder.

Well, perhaps not in Germany, but I have trouble finding references to any other hits that they had and definitely don't recall any.

a couple of songs I'd love to find but can't seem to are "Worldwinds" by a band called Tucky Buzzard and the Elf Song. The Elf Song artist is unknown to me but it was on a Warner Brothers collection designed as a sampler for various music acts signed to their label. The one that had this song was a three disc collection called "Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies".

The Tucky Buzzard song was the final track from an album I own who's name escapes me at the moment, but it was my favorite song on the LP. I found a CD of the album available a few years back but I was so annoyed that this song was left out I decided not to buy it.

Here's a link to another German group who are Kraftwerk's contemporaries.

Phaedra by Tangerine Dream
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4vP5uRz1lw

Apparently; according to a quote I saw on Wikipedia, members of Kraftwerk resented the idea of Tangerine Dream anglicising their identity by using the name Tangerine Dream.
hail_eris
10/02/2007, 16:31
Kronos Quartet's signature track from Requiem for a Dream. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zE-rD8vcY4U)
Red_Skull_XIII
10/02/2007, 16:58
"KLSTRBK" - Ted Nugent

The name alone makes it awesome. ;)
BudPalmer
10/02/2007, 17:09
The Three of Us - Ben Harper (http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+Harper/_/The+Three+Of+Us) (always makes me think of an early morning drive on a cool summer day).
readyeddy?
10/04/2007, 04:22
Is anybody familiar with Jean Michel Jarre? I was introduced to him when I lived in England in the Eighties. He's very difficult to find here in the States and I'm never sure where the stores would stock him. I'd put links up but I need to reaquaint myself with him to remember which tracks I would prefer to share.