Favourite instrumentals by bands known for songs - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Originally posted by Heart of the Matter

Heart of the Matter wrote:

Genesis - After The Ordeal
King Crimson - Sailor's Tale
EL&P - Infinite Space
Camel - Ice

Infinite Space is not instrumental. Come to think of it neither is Sailor's Tale.

For ELP I'll say the barbarian and for KC talking drum or maybe Fracture.

Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - August 01 2022 at 19:47

Traffic - Glad

...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology...

Porcupine Tree~Wedding Nails, Nil Recurring

Steven Wilson~Vermillioncore

Riverside~Reality Dream II/III

Spock's Beard - Skeletons at the Feast

dwill123 wrote:

Top choice Dwill

As much as I revel in the Zappa love, I think he has a pretty decent amount of instrumental material to not really fall within the parameters of this premise. Almost half of what he's written is instrumental (which is to say nothing of his general proclivity towards instrumental music).

^ Added the DT to the youtube playlist.

^^ That King Kong is great.

yogev wrote:

Eagles - Journey of the Sorcerer

This one really surprised me.

Me too in a great way. It put a huge smile on my face. I was just listening through the playlist I made for the suggestions, and I must have heard about this, but to hear The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy radio and TV series theme made me really grin. Unexpected.

Edited by Logan - July 31 2022 at 17:18

Duos for fave acts

Logan wrote:

My favourite Zappa (or Mothers of Invention) music is instrumentals with Peaches ena Regalia and Imaginary Diseases. He has lots of instrumental music, methinks.

A Frank Zappa instrumental that I particularly like, this time on a Jean-Luc Ponty album, is King Kong:

I especially love the change in metre at the end.

No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

^^ ^My favourite Zappa (or Mothers of Invention) music is instrumentals with Peaches ena Regalia and Imaginary Diseases. He has lots of instrumental music, methinks.

Anyway, I have made a playlist featuring all of the suggestions made. Will add Imaginary Diseases too as many must not know it and I love it. It's one I have recommended to various people at PA who complained about the lyrics in Zappa.

Here is the youtube playlist for the tracks (not sure how Prog a band Eagles or Toto are, but I will leave to others discretion, and what is Prog is such a thorny issue).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXcp9fYc6K4J-b4VG6aLdAOGqP7daA_Z7

Thanks for your many wonderful suggestions. Some of this might help when people say they don't like a band due to the vocals/ lyrics, and then we can educate them.

Jake: "I don't like [insert band with 300 albums here]."
Me: "Why not?"
Jake: "The vocals I find unpleasant."
Me: "Yeah, but what did you think of "I Haven't the Words?"
Jake: "I haven't a clue."
Me: "It's the bonus track instrumental off their limited edition mega premium box set that came out last week in Japan. No vocals whatsoever."
Jake: "I haven't heard it."
Me: "What, you mean you haven't even heard that two minute instrumental, and yet you have already made up your mind about the band?"
Jake: "Yes, I haven't heard everything."
Me: "Then maybe keep your ignorant comments to yourself next time."

Edited by Logan - July 31 2022 at 16:38

Duos for fave acts