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DT - Dance Of Eternity

Just because 😎
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2022 at 17:15
^ Added the DT to the youtube playlist.

^^ That King Kong is great.

Originally posted by yogev 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.

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Awesoreno Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2022 at 22:00
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).
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2022 at 08:50
^ Thanks, that's very true. I think the "rarely" part might have been missed. I knew that Zappa made lots of instrumental music, and that is my favourite Zappa music, but I still failed to resist in response adding my own, Imaginary Diseases. I do like to be quite open to some bending of the rules.

Originally I had planned to make this topic more rigid, so that not only should instrumentals be very rare in the discography, but also one would not expect people to know them unless one was very familiar with the band.

But I'm fine to things that are well known here like Gentle Giant's The Boys in the Band, which hasn't been mentioned but I thought someone might.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote mellotronwave Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2022 at 10:58
Originally posted by dwill123 dwill123 wrote:




Top choice Dwill
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Grumpyprogfan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 01 2022 at 15:00
Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:

I knew that Zappa made lots of instrumental music, and that is my favourite Zappa music, but I still failed to resist in response adding my own, Imaginary Diseases. I do like to be quite open to some bending of the rules.
Me too, yet Alien Orifice is top of instrumental Zappa for me, so I had to mention it. My bad. Anyway, put Boys in the Band on the list, and here is one from Izz.

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Spock's Beard - Skeletons at the Feast

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One more. Box of Spiders

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Porcupine Tree~Wedding Nails, Nil Recurring
Steven Wilson~Vermillioncore
Riverside~Reality Dream II/III


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love these 2 by Strawbs





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


Lungfish - Interdimensional Seams:


Scardust - Overture for the Estranged [if this one counts as instrumental]:


Melvins - Hung Bunny:


Nightwish - Arabesque:
 

Symphony X - On the Breath of Poseidon:


Orphaned Land - Rainbow (The Resurrection)



Myrkur - Vinter [if this one counts as instrumental]:


Rush - La Villa Strangiato:




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I do love some instrumental music. From not usually instrumental bands, my first thought was The Great Gig in the Sky from Pink Floyd... and of course they have a few others that I really love too.
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Originally posted by essexboyinwales essexboyinwales wrote:

DT - Dance Of Eternity

Just because 😎


From Dream Theater my favourite would be Stream of Consciousness.
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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
Camel is also known for doing instrumentals. That's like half their repertoire.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Lewian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 02 2022 at 02:45
The hard part here is "bands known for songs" - bands such as Camel, King Crimson, also North Sea Radio Orchestra, Novalis do instrumentals fairly regularly, so maybe they're not requested here.

So I let myself be inspired from having dug out this great album for the "favourite seventies prog interactive poll", which also has a cool instrumental on it, which isn't what the band usually does.
 


Edited by Lewian - August 02 2022 at 02:47
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