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Anyone know of some good rock instrumentals? I absolutely love them. They don't have to be completely instrumental, but vocals need to take a backseat to instruments.

Limp Bizkit - Everything (my favorite song to fall asleep to....)
Revis - hidden track at end of album

I know I remembered more when I was thinking about making this thread and hour or so ago... forget em now.

Green Day - Last Ride In

Another good one to fall asleep to

if you like piano....unknown road (the 13 minute long one) by pennywise is frigging amazing.

anything and everything off the first Dredg album, Leitmotif.

Good Topic! I love rock instrumentals too... keep the song lists coming if anyone has more, since they seem to be pretty rare in music today

Here are a couple off the top of my head that I really like:

Godspeed You Black Emperor! - "Moya" (lots of stuff going on here -- epic build-up -- really grabs your attention once the drums & electric guitars start goin... very cool instrumental song!)

Joe Satriani - "Summer Song" (mostly just guitar soloing & a basic drum beat, but it's simply amazing what this guy can do)

Moya by Godspeed. Good call.

'the walls get smaller' by the music is a really good one.

Pink Floyd - Meddle

anything from Pink Floyd - Us and Them - Symphonic Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Pink Floyd - Signs Of Life

Pink Floyd - Terminal Frost

Pink Floyd - Marooned

If you don't know this song, you have to check it out. I think it was the first instrumental to go #1 or something, or maybe just the longest song to be a hit. It's old school from the 70's.

Edgar Winter Group: Frankenstein

Although they're really a jazz band, The Bad Plus does covers of a bunch of rock songs and everything they do is instrumental (piano, upright bass, drums). One cover that they are really known for is Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (that should be pretty easy to find on kazaa or the like). They also cover Aphex Twin, Abba, Blondie, even Black Sabbath (although the Black Sabbath one will be hard-if not impossible-to find as it's not on either of their major releases).

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i forgot about this one..everything is alright by four tet. the group only does instrumentals, but this one i really like.

Godspeed You Black Emeperor = sweet. I own all their albums

Swervedriver - Behind the Scenes of the Sounds and the Times
There's some vocals in the middle, but it's still largely instrumental with some sweet sweet riffs.

Tower of Power - Squib Cakes
Yeah, it's really hard Funk, but it's about 6 minutes of straight improv.

Rheostatics - Alomar
It's just under two minutes long, but it's just fun instrumental.

Reel Big Fish - Sayonara Senorita, 241, and Victory Over Peter Bones
RBF is a great Ska band, but they do an instrumental song on every album.

Sayonara Senorita is fun as HELL. Seriously, download it. If you don't like the song, you'll like the funny background dialogue. I was very pleasently surprised the first time I heard it.
241 is just some straight Ska instrumental, but great none the less.
Victory Over Peter Bones is very much a jazz song by them. Personally, I love it 'cause I dig that kind of thing, but I was really impressed by it.

And that's list of recommendations.

Get downloading

Everclear - Distorto de Melodica is freakin awesome


Green Day - Espionage is good, too

slow motion - third eye blind

cor3y wrote:Revis - hidden track at end of album

Anything mogwai, its just about all instrumental.

yo, joe.

how many albums does Black Emporer have? i can only find the cardboard one

slow motion by third eye blind is good..but the version with lyrics is even better

tool85 wrote:Anything mogwai, its just about all instrumental.

I've been thinking about checking this band out. There was a girl who went to my high school who loved them and most of the bands she liked I was a huge fan of as well (OLP for example). Any suggestions as to their better songs?

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