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    Posted: October 29 2007 at 21:05
Well make a list of your favorite instrumental songs!
I thought about excluding instrumental bands, but I guess we'll keep them.

I'll make one later cause I'm hungry.
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Oh man! Hard!
 
Larks toungues in Aspic part II
Weight
La villa strangiato
March into the sea
Koreilia
YYZ
LTIA I
A delicate sense of balance
Longing
Oorkoona whatever we called it!
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Oorkoona Leurskseinck definately
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Originally posted by Shakespeare Shakespeare wrote:

Oorkoona Leurskseinck definately
 
THAT SONG RAWKS HU SHAKS?
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King Crimson's instrumental work is really great, along with Coltrane Sündïa, and just about every song Pat Metheny's ever written. 
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SOME OF THEM:

RUSSIAN CIRCLES - Micah
PELICAN - Last Day of Winter
ALLMAN BROTHERS - Jessica
PINK FLOYD - Marooned
GENESIS - Horizons
JEFF BECK - Cause Weve Ended As Lovers
KING CRIMSON - Red

I can't go through my music collection right now...but those pop into my head.

I like cheese and I like metal! --Mikael Åkerfeldt
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Red by KC or Invocation and "Ritual Dance of the Young Pumpkin" by Frank Zappa. This is one of his best early career song imho
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Toccata! Hug
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Every Crucis song that doesn't feature Gustavo Montesano's voice Tongue
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This could be different the next day:

 

1.       Camel – End Peace

2.       Massada – Arumbai

3.       Anthony Phillips – Sisters  Of Remindum

4.       Genesis – After The Ordeal

5.       Yes – Vevey

6.       Split Enz - Pioneer

7.       Allman Brothers – High Falls

8.       Steve Hackett – Tristesse

9.       Focus – Janis

10.   Allan Holdsworth – Endomorph

 

 
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One per band, in no order:

Watermelon in Easter Hay - Frank Zappa
Until We Say Goodbye - Joe Satriani
The Awakening - Celtus
No Gravity - Kiko Loureiro
Ice - Camel
Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
Hyperventilate - Frost*
New Years End - God is an Astronaut
Helms Deep - Mostly Autumn
Flight of the Wild Goose - Iona
Sierra Quemada - Steve Hackett
Marooned - Pink Floyd
Soothsayer - Buckethead
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Originally posted by Zargus Zargus wrote:

Toccata! Hug



Micky will love you for that... It's his favourite ELP track!Smile
f I realise it sounds a bit pedantic, but an instrumental can't really be a song... Where is the singing?TongueWinkLOL

OK, back to my own preferences... I do love instrumentals, so I have many preferences. I'll try to mention a few here off the top of my head, in no particular order:

ELP- The Barbarian
High Tide - Death Warmed Up
Rush - La Villa Strangiato/ Leave that Thing Alone/ The Main Monkey Business
Camel - Lunar Sea
Caravan - L'Auberge du Sanglier
Jethro Tull - Living in the Past (instrumental version)
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic I & II/Fracture/Discipline/The Sheltering Sky/Level5
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Limiting this to ten:

1. Gentle Giant - The Boys in the Band
2. Mogwai - Helicon (New Version)
3. Univers Zéro - Dense
4. Aka Moon - In Real Time, Pt. 2: Ursula and the Wind Dance
5. Yes - Five Per Cent for Nothing
6. Crime in Choir - Strong Beautiful Suspicious Horse
7. Art Zoyd - Trio "Lettre d'Automne"
8. Camel - Rhayader
9. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Moya
10. Kvartetten Som Sprängde - Gånglåt från Valhallavägen
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Originally posted by WalterDigsTunes WalterDigsTunes wrote:

Every Crucis song that doesn't feature Gustavo Montesano's voice Tongue

jejeje spot on!
Yeah, Crucis are certainly kings when it comes to instrumentals!

mmm, some of my favorites...

Larks tongue in Aspic I  - King Crimson
Red - King Crimson
Level 5 - King Crimson
Sailor´s tale - King Crimson (such a fanboy)
Aristillus - Camel (probably my favorite Camel song... and its not even two minutes long!)
Jordrök - Anglagard
La coronación del farre - MIA
Freder - Indukti
Terva-Antti ku häihin lähti (that was easy to write..) - Höyry Kone

...and then some more...
"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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When The Water Breaks- LTE
Level 5- King Crimson
Pluvius Aestivus- Pain Of Salvation
Wedding Nails- Porcupine Tree
Interstellar Overdrive- Pink Floyd
YYZ- Rush
Reality Dream III- Riverside
 
They aren't in Order, "Wedding nails" is excellent!
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Theme one - VdGG. Heart 
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In no particular order:

The Alan Parsons Project -- Lucifer
Camel -- Supertwister
Electric Light Orchestra -- Daybreaker
Emerson, Lake and Palmer -- Abbadon's Bolero
Genesis -- After the Ordeal
Gryphon -- Lament
Steve Hackett -- Hammer in the Sand
Steve Howe -- To Be Over (the Natural Timbre version)
King Crimson -- Larks' Tounge in Aspic, part 1
Pink Floyd -- Careful With That Axe, Eugene
PFM -- Il Banchetto
Todd Rundgren -- Breathless
Rush -- YYZ
Rick Wakeman -- Anne Boleyn
Yes -- The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)  Yeah, I know Jon does a bit of singing, but it doesn't count.
Frank Zappa  -- Watermelon in Easter Hay
 
 
 
 
 
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ELP -Toccata
ELP - Hoedown
ELP - Tank
ELP - Fugue
King Crimson - Red
Edgar Winter Band - Frankenstein
Vangelis - Pulstar
Vangelis - Alpha
Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Rush - YYZ
Rick Wakeman - Ann of Cleeves
Rick Wakeman - Catherine Parr
Yes - Cinema
Genesis - Los Endos
Camel - Lunar Sea
Tangerine Dream - White Eagle
Tangerine Dream - Cloudburst Flight
Eddie Jobson - Lakemist
East Of Eden - Jig a Jig
Gordon Gilltrap - Heart Song
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygen Pt 2
Space - Magic Fly
 
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Iron Maiden - Genghis Khan
WOW! I love this song so much, it's like 2 minutes of perfection. Totally awesome.

King Diamond - Insanity
What a beautiful and emotional song. Definitely one of my favorites.

Rush - La Villa Strangiato / YYZ / Malignant Narcissism / The Main Monkey Business
I like all of them so much.

Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
BRILLIANT!

Focus - Hocus Pocus
This song rocks.

And also: Camel - Rhayader..
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and Hoedown by ELP Embarrassed
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
in the tidal destruction the moral melee.
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Focus:Birth
King Crimson Red
Pain of Salvation:Dryad of the Woods
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso:Traccia II
 
Among others.
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