Insturmentals?

[phee]

What is your favorite music/song/track that has no lyrics? Maybe vocals but not words per-say.

I like:

Yellowstone by Tangerine Dream

Dial Out by Vangelis

Remember it Now by Steve Roach

to name a few of thousands

[Fierce Critter]

To be honest, I don't even know the names of some of my favorite. I like a lot of surf instrumentals from the 60's, as well as:

Classical Gas

Chase - from the movie "Midnight Express" by Giorgio Moroder

Baroque Hoedown - The Disney World Light Parade theme music (all done on a Moog)

Those are the first that come to mind... This doesn't count all sorts of jazz, movie themes, etc.

[phee]

Of course,

I was curious because in the film "High Fidelity" John Cusack states that when making a mix tape for someone that "you are using other peoples poetry to express your feelings..." I make tons of mix CD's for people and usually they are about 70% instrumental, like most of my musical collection, so I was just curios, I guess that line kinda bothered me a little bit because it seemed to exclude expressing feelings through instrumentals...

I am taking it a bit too seriously I am sure.

[The_Dark]

Elegia by New Order is near the top of my list, as are a fair number of Pink floyd tracks.

[Fierce Critter]

I was curious because in the film "High Fidelity" John Cusack states that when making a mix tape for someone that "you are using other peoples poetry to express your feelings..." I make tons of mix CD's for people and usually they are about 70% instrumental, like most of my musical collection, so I was just curios, I guess that line kinda bothered me a little bit because it seemed to exclude expressing feelings through instrumentals...

I am taking it a bit too seriously I am sure.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't know if you're taking it too seriously, only that I find it hard to take anything personally that's stated by a fictional character, whose lines are written by somebody who, most of the time, is not living the life of the character to which s/he's giving voice.

And, technically, you could call instrumental music "poetry" too.

Love that movie, by the way.

[phee]

Yes it's a very good flick... BTW I like a lot of the Pink Floyd insturmentals as well.

[Shade Everdark]

I'd have to say that one of my favorite pieces of instrumental music is Enya's Lothlorien.

[Scary Guy]

Ministry - Happy Dust

Tipsy - Space Golf

Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube

Savatage - Mozart and Madness

Savatage - Prelude to Madness (in the Hall of the Mountain King)

Also the versions of that by The Who and ELO

and just about everything by Yngwie J Malmsteen (who did Aerosmith's "Dream On" better than Aerosmith IMO)

[Black Sunday]

Someone already mentioned Elegia by New Order and they do another gret instrumental called 'Don't Do it' which actually might not be considered instrumental since it has a sample of a robot voice yelling 'Don't put your finger on the button' over and over.

But has anyone ever heard the techno song 'Acperience' by Hardfloor? It was voted best techno song ever in Urb magazine so I went out and bought the CD out of curiousity. At first it did nothing for me, but by about the 5th listen I had thought I touched the face of God. It is in fact the best techno song I have ever heard.

[JaneDead]

chariots of fire

take five

[soothsayer]

Music - my wheel house!!

Fractured mirror by Ace Frehley (fuckin' great song)

.........Oh so many but not enough space to list 'em. The one I mentioned is my all time fav.

[bav]

Doubting Thomas - Father Don't Cry

Wumpscut - Thorns

Haujobb - Haujobb's State