Good songs with no vocals
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I’ve never been into Pat Methenys shit at all but “James” I got from YouTuber Rick Beato. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_SCInQ20d2…
George Benson “Breezin” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Je3Pe3gWU0…
David Bowie “Speed of life” https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=luHJqKBfVb…
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Tommy has some great instrumentals as well.
I also love the incredible acoustic guitar on Salamander but Jethro Tull, but that has a couple of lyric lines in it that are kind of afterthoughts
Green Onions - Booker T and the MG’s
Telstar - the Tornadoes
Apache - the Shadows
Walk Don’t Run - the Ventures
Wipe Out - the Surfaris
Pipeline - The Chantay’s
Time is Tight - Booker T
Taste of Honey - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Flotsam & Jetsam - The Jones
One of my all-time faves is "Birdland" by Weather Report from 1977. The fretless bass is just incredible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fm10whc…
Joe Zawinul – Yamaha grand piano, ARP 2600 and Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, melodica, vocals
Wayne Shorter – soprano and tenor saxophones
Jaco Pastorius – fretless bass, mandocello, vocals
Manolo Badrena – tambourine
Alex Acuña – drums
to live is to die-metallica
joe satriani-up in the sky
edgar winter-frankenstein
eric johnson-srv
srv-scuttle buttin
srv-little wing
Orion - Metallica
Classical Gas - Mason Williams
Frankenstein - Edgar Winter Group
Fire on High - Electric Light Orchestra
Hawaii 5-0
Miami Vice
It has some vocalization by Anderson at the end, but no distinct lyrics per say. I saw Chris Squire absolutely burn it up on bass at a live show in the 70's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPC7NEW-…
Freeway Jam - Jeff Beck, live version with Jan Hammer
Anything off of Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck
Surfin with the Alien - Joe Satriani
Lenny - Stevie Ray Vaughan
Discipline - King Crimson
Mr. Scary - Dokken
Apologies to Pearly - ZZ Top
Eruption - Van Halen
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend
Steely Dan - East St. Louis Toodle Oo
I was thinking EXACTLY the same thing! Summer Madness is one of the most sampled R&B tracks.
Great choice!
"Take Five" - Dave Brubeck
"Walk Away" - Thomas Newman (at the end of "Meet Joe Black")
"Romancing The Stone" Alan Silvestri
"Moonlight Serenade" Glenn Miller
theme to the good, the bad and the ugly-ennio morricone
"Europa" - Santana
"Soul Sacrifice" - Santana
"Maggot Brain" - Funkadelic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR9ex2iT…
"Sing, Sing, Sing" - Gene Krupa
https://youtu.be/BbFCAxGqHP4?si=Fj5NgaR5…
On Bach Organ Favorites by E. Power Biggs
Water Music Suite, G.F. Handel
And God Created Great Whales, Alan Hovanhess
- very cool, symphonic accompaniment to recorded humpback whale vocalizations
...and I also like Bolero by Ravel
Foreplay - Boston
Rise - Herb Alpert
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione
All 3 just seem appropriate for the strip club experience.
I got some catching up to do.
I'll toss in " love is blue" by Paul Marriott.
‘What is classified as a song’
A song is a piece of music which contains lyrics and words. Songs may be made by songwriters. Other songs are folk songs, which are songs created by people long ago that have been sung as tradition.
Without lyrics it is called music
take for example van halen's eruption. i always in the back of my mind felt that was never really a song. hell some could even argue that it might not even be music and think of that piece as just merely an excuse to show off technical proficiency.
but then again where is the line drawn between a musical piece and a song? with lyrics one has to be generally able to sing them along the guidelines of a melody. so with such a song if you remove the lyrics but the melody is still intact is it then no longer defined as a song anymore?
Spottieottiedopaliscious (instrumental) by outkast and “Get down (instrumental)” by nas. I saw someone mention hip hop being better as instrumentals…try those two.
1) mentioning “In memory of elizabeth reed” and
2) correctly pointing out that in popular music (define that however you want), versions of musical compositions that do not include singing are called "instrumentals."
There are definitely quite a few outstanding instrumentals posted in this discussion, a few of which actually have lyrics that are sung in some versions.
Luveee Their Songs. Song "Indulgence", "The End", "Twenty 11" + Some Others. We'll See If This YouTube Link Works (Press+Hold+Highlight-Then Open With The Prompt):
https://youtu.be/Cn_Z0vK-DbA?si=--m0O5K0…