Brian T on 14/2/2008 at 11:20
Fuck this shit
PigLick on 14/2/2008 at 11:57
Quote Posted by PigLick
You mentioned jimi hendrix, he has a number of instrumental tracks, but if you really want to hear him at his peak, get hold of "Drivin' South", from the BBC Radio One sessions. It was essentially a one off jam, just jimi going for it.
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icemann on 14/2/2008 at 12:20
Yes Piglick did post on that earlier.
Listening to Atlas by Battles as I type this. The indiscipherable speech bits in the track are very bizare but I like the overall feel of the song. I love the militaristic sound to the song also. Its a good long one too which earns it extra points too. Though not as long as Pharoah`s dance which goes for 20 minutes.
The legless eye and psychedelic I could not find no matter how long I searched. Love "The Movie" from Aerosmith. Best part about that one is that its from the older style Aerosmith than the more commercial version of them that evolved later, and so the sound is alot more original. Love it. Took me a good while to track down that one.
Beethoven doesn`t count as he was an orchestra/instrumental person by trade. The ones to post here are from groups who ordinarily dont do instrumental type music (like your everyday commercial bands etc).
I`ve now heard instrumentals from almost all of my fav bands growing up. I know that Gun'n'Roses didn`t do any. Or atleast they didn`t on any of their albums from Appetite for destruction onwards, which is a shame. An instrumental by them would have totally kicked ass. An instrumental by the Beatles would have been excellent as well. The fact that the Beach Boys did one still surprises me.
Ok time for me to post some new ones:
Cubanate - Oxyacetyle (try saying that 5 times in a row :p). Its the instrumental version of this song that you want to listen to. This song is industrial at its absolute finest. This song inparticular made it onto both the first Mortal Kombat movie (words version) and in the ps1 game Gran Turismo, which is where I heard the instrumental version for the first time. If your anything like me on instrumentals then this is a highly recommended one to get. I warn you though, that the instrumental version is extremelly hard to track down.
More to follow as I go through my cd collection.
PigLick on 14/2/2008 at 12:36
Brian T you didnt have to edit your post, i wasnt having a go at you, just that, well yeh i guess i was having a bit of a go.
I am pretty sure the beatles did an instrumental number, well there was a song called "This Boy" which was an early b-side, but they redid it for the Hard Days Night movie as an instrumental, so that counts. Revolution #9 could be classed as an instrumental, though it had vocals in it, it was all a bunch of tape loops ala Philip Glass or something.
icemann on 14/2/2008 at 12:57
See my re-edit of my post 2 posts up of my new recommendations. I`ll be editing this post in a few mins with some more.
And you didn`t need to crack it like that Brian T. You posted some good ones.
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Ok heres another
Sade - Mermaid. I was a HUGE fan of Sade growing up. But until recently (as in a year ago) I had thought she`d completely stopped releasing albums back in the early to mid 90s, which to me was a shame as her music is completely entracing as she has such a beautiful voice + her music has a very unique style to it. Now imagine my surprise when listening to yahoo music, came across some songs of hers I`d never heard before, which were fantastic, from albums some only a few years old. This intrigued me hugely, and thanks to youtube discovered that alot of these albums she had released video singles for. Flick forward to present day and I have all of her albums and totally love her music. Theres nothing else like it on this earth.
Anyways back to topic. Mermaid is an excellent song by Sade. Not a word in it, but it has the whole romantic feel to it, that is quite common in her music. Very good song.
Sade - Siempre Hay Esperanza. Another good one. Very similar style to Mermaid, except with much more of an emphasis on trumpet sounds.
Sade - Punch Drunk. Nice piano and trumpet tune.
Aja on 14/2/2008 at 18:30
Quote Posted by icemann
Listening to Atlas by Battles as I type this. The indiscipherable speech bits in the track are very bizare but I like the overall feel of the song. I love the militaristic sound to the song also. Its a good long one too which earns it extra points too. Though not as long as Pharoah`s dance which goes for 20 minutes.
It's fun to try and figure out what they're really saying (because I've seen them do it live, and it's just a guy singing into a laptop with weird effects).
I hear "sing this hook/singer is cooked/kitchen is cooked/scissors of the barber/water in the garden at the edge of town" :D
If you like that song you might like the album (Mirrored) - it's all instrumental but a bit more technical-sounding.
icemann on 15/2/2008 at 04:10
Aja: To me it sounded like they were saying "the bees are home, the bees are home", though I`m probably way off lol. The more I listen to that track the more I like it.
It sounds ALOT like alot of the music that the band "Mr Bungle" put out, which was one of Mike Patton`s (former lead singer of Faith No More) offshoot bands. The same kindof absolute randomness to their music. The main difference with Mr Bungle though is that you can actually make out the words in the music. If you like that song Aja, go download a few Mr Bungle tracks.
Another reason I like it, is probably for the same reasons that I love industrial music. For it being an amalgamation of heavy metal and techno. Two of my all time favorite music types.
SubJeff on 15/2/2008 at 07:03
God Speed You Black Emperor - East Hastings. Best listened to when walking through derelict industrial areas bordering on large bodies of water.
Gray on 16/2/2008 at 01:38
Depeche Mode: Agent Orange
Delerium: Faith
Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene IV
icemann on 26/2/2008 at 11:26
The Cruel Sea - The Right Time
Not a bad track
