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    #26
    Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

    REM - Endgame
    Charlatans - Sunset and Vine
    Art of Noise - Robinson Crusoe

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      #27
      Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

      Elegia by New Order too. If you're making a documentary about the Miners' Strike and you have some footage of a depressed pit village in the winter of 1985 with snow gently falling, that's your soundtrack right there.

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        #28
        Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

        Right.

        - Jaco Pastorius - Soul Intro/The Chicken
        - Weather Report - Black Market
        - Charles Mingus - Moanin'
        - Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man (since Wouter's already taken 'Chameleon')
        - Miles Davis - So What
        - John Coltrane - Blue Train
        - Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
        - Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
        - John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
        - Miles Davis - Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

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          #29
          Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

          How could I forget, complete with Cyriak video, Flying Lotus - Putty Boy Strut?

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            #30
            Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

            Amor de Cosmos wrote: First one to spring to mind:

            Albatross – Fleetwood Mac

            Despite all the massive success of their later stadium-filling '70s and '80s soft-rock incarnation with Buckingham, Nicks, etc., this gorgeous 1968 Peter Green-composed piece from the original Mac with its gently (and appositely to the previous discussion) 'surf'-sounding cymbals and thudding heartbeat of a bassline remains their only UK Number One single, which also returned to No.2 on reissue in 1973.


            I always liked the original Mac better than the coke fuelled California version. Even though they were basically another blues band, at a time when there were already about a thousand too many, they had variety and a kind of panache that most others lacked. Man of the World can still raise a tear, especially given how Peter Green's life worked out.
            Fully agree on all of this - I also have a soft spot for Oh Well

            Another vote here for Rumble by Link Wray.

            Reggatta de Blanc by the Police stands out to me for showcasing Stewart Copeland's talents. Although it does feature a few vocal/spoken elements - but it did win a Grammy for best rock instrumental, as did another of theirs called Behind My Camel.

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              #31
              Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

              Nocturnal Submission wrote: Favourite has to be "Misirlou". I had no idea of it's provenance. Quite fascinating. BTW, wonderful live version of it here, with Dave Grohl on drums.
              Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Good video too, though it's not Dave Grohl.

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                #32
                Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

                SouthdownRebel wrote:
                Originally posted by Nocturnal Submission
                Favourite has to be "Misirlou". I had no idea of it's provenance. Quite fascinating. BTW, wonderful live version of it here, with Dave Grohl on drums.
                Fascinating, thanks for sharing. Good video too, though it's not Dave Grohl.
                Think.

                "T" plays it cool.

                I realise that these may not count though, as they are part of film soundtracks.

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                  #33
                  Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

                  Boris Gardner- Elizabethan Reggae

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                    #34
                    Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

                    Does 'Sylvia' by Focus count?

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                      #35
                      Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

                      Ennio Morricone and Bernard Herrmann on the films front.

                      Soul Limbo and (ahem*) Argentine Melody for the Proustian childhood memory ambience. I also have a regard for Rick Wakeman's White Rock (1976 Olympics documentary soundtrack) but not the ludicrous themed albums of his.

                      Another vote for Magic Fly and a new vote for Yellow Pearl (TOTP theme, Phil Lynott).

                      *with the huge caveat that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote it.

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                        #36
                        Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

                        Time Is Tight by Booker T & the MG’s
                        Grooving with Mr Bloe (by Mr Bloe)
                        Sliced Tomatoes by The Just Brothers
                        Green Door by Wynder K Frog (if you excuse the wee bit of talking)

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                          #37
                          Have we done "Best Instrumentals"?

                          Small Hours - John Martyn

                          Summer Madness - Kool & The Gang

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                            #38
                            Further support for "Rumble" and "Groovin' With Mr. Bloe" And The Shadows.

                            "Nut Rocker" - B. Bumble and the Stingers
                            "Classical Gas" - Mason Williams
                            "Soul Coaxing" - Raymond Lefevre
                            "Tequila" - The Champs

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                              #39
                              Hallogallo by Neu!

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                                #40
                                Mogwai Fear Satan.....

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                                  #41
                                  Once upon a time no English folkie would be taken seriously unless he could play this...

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                                    #42
                                    And then there was boy drummer Sandy Nelson...



                                    ...with Let There Be Drums

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                                      #43
                                      But the the real killer, the best instrumental of all time is Big Noise From Winnetka by The Bobcats.

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