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    Posted: June 06 2014 at 08:47
Maybe it is just me.  Actually, it probably is just me, but I tend to listen to instrumental only albums as a whole entity and really can't distinguish one instrumental from another by title.  If I were to hear it on the radio hahahahahaha I might recognize immediately who the band is, but I'd probably have no idea what the song title was or maybe even which album it is from.  Whereas, if the instrumental is included as part of an album with vocals, there is a better chance that I will know the song title and album.  Maybe this a Rush-centric thing for me, where I immediately recognize YYZ or La Villa Strangiato, or just a classic radio history where I recognize Wipeout, Funk #49, and Frankenstein because these are instrumentals that actually got radio play as well as a DJ telling me what the song was.  Anyhow, long story short, list your top 10 instrumentals that you recognize upon hearing and immediately know the title.  And if you feel like it discuss your thoughts on your familiarity with instrumental song titles.

1. Rush - YYZ
2. Rush - La Villa Strangiato
3. Dream Theater - Ytse Jam
4. Van Halen - Eruption
5. Steve Howe - The Clap
6. The Sufaris - Wipeout
7. Johnny Winter - Frankenstein
8. The James Gang - Funk #49 Rush - Where's My Thing: Pt. 4 Gangster of Boats Trilogy. The Allman Brothers - Jessica
9. Metallica - The Call of Ktulu
10. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick

Or something like that.  I am curious to see other people's lists.  I suspect that there will be a number of Genesis and King Crimson instrumentals included that I left off of my list.   A few of them would probably make my list except that I don't know them by name, so that precludes them from doing so. Embarrassed

Damn.  Have to think if I can think of a tenth instrumental I even know by name.  Oh well. Guess I'll replace it with another Rush song. Embarrassed  Changed to Jessica from the Allman Brothers.  Although thinking Frank Zappa's Peaches en Regalia might be a good choice too.


Edited by rushfan4 - June 06 2014 at 10:05
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 09:25
1. Rush - La Villa Strangiato
2. Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
3. Metallica - Orion
4. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
5. Beardfish - Akabotu (may not be able to pronounce it correctly though LOL)
6. Death - Voice of the Soul
7. Devin Townsend  - Down and Under (has vocals and what sound like words, but lyric websites list it as instrumental)
8. Gorguts - Sweet SIlence
9. Intronaut - The Reptilian Brain
10. Jethro Tull - Warm Sporran

I experience the same thing with bands that solely write instrumentals and bands with permanent vocalists--I can name every Rush instrumental including O'Malley's Break, but play a random Animals as Leaders song for me and there's about a 1 in 9 chance I'd get it right.

Also I completely forgot to think of King Crimson instrumentals! I'll leave it to someone else.


Edited by HemispheresOfXanadu - June 06 2014 at 12:47
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 09:30
Wait a minute. Funk #49 isn't an instrumental.  What song are you thinking of?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 09:39
Oh yer right.  Duh!!! Not sure why I was thinking that was an instrumental.  Wacko  Could be the Funk that I'm in.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 09:42
Ah well, it happens :)

Rush YYZ and La Villa Strangiato would definitely be at or near the top of my list, but I'm having trouble thinking of others.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 09:48
Î'm not a RUSH fan, but I'm curious about the omission of Xanadu (used to be my fave from them) and The Camera Eye, although there are also vocals in these tracks.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 09:51
Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

Î'm not a RUSH fan, but I'm curious about the omission of Xanadu (used to be my fave from them) and The Camera Eye, although there are also vocals in these tracks.
They have great instrumental passages, but they most definitely are not instrumental. Smile
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 09:59
Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

Î'm not a RUSH fan, but I'm curious about the omission of Xanadu (used to be my fave from them) and The Camera Eye, although there are also vocals in these tracks.
They have great instrumental passages, but they most definitely are not instrumental. Smile
Yep.  Exactly.  Both are great songs but have vocals so I don't consider them to be instrumentals.  I suppose technically Wipeout isn't a true instrumental since they do say Wipeout, but I think it is considered to be an instrumental by most.  Another surfer one that I think of is Pipeline, but to be honest I had to look up that the band was The Chantay's.  The Hawaii Five-O theme song is another one, but that starts taking this thread in a whole new direction that I think that I'd rather it not go.  I suspect that those with strong classical music backgrounds could whip off ten songs fairly quickly and easily.  Will maybe not so easily, but probably pretty easy to match the pieces to their names.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 10:15
Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

1. Rush - La Villa Strangiato
2. Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
3. Metallica - Orion
4. Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
5. Beardfish - Akabotu (may no be able to pronounce it correctly though LOL)
6. Death - Voice of the Soul
7. Devin Townsend  - Down and Under (has vocals and what sound like words, but lyric websites list it as instrumental)
8. Gorguts - Sweet SIlence
9. Intronaut - The Reptilian Brain
10. Jethro Tull - Warm Sporran

I experience the same thing with bands that solely write instrumentals and bands with permanent vocalists--I can name every Rush instrumental including O'Malley's Break, but play a random Animals as Leaders song for me and there's about a 1 in 9 chance I'd get it right.

Also I completely forgot to think of King Crimson instrumentals! I'll leave it to someone else.
I was listening to the new Animals as Leaders album this morning and that is what led me to ponder this question.  I really like these guys and have all 3 of their albums, but I couldn't tell you one song from another.  Same with The Aristocrats, and many other similar type artists.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 10:35
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

Originally posted by Rick Robson Rick Robson wrote:

Î'm not a RUSH fan, but I'm curious about the omission of Xanadu (used to be my fave from them) and The Camera Eye, although there are also vocals in these tracks.
They have great instrumental passages, but they most definitely are not instrumental. Smile
Yep.  Exactly.  Both are great songs but have vocals so I don't consider them to be instrumentals.  I suppose technically Wipeout isn't a true instrumental since they do say Wipeout, but I think it is considered to be an instrumental by most.  Another surfer one that I think of is Pipeline, but to be honest I had to look up that the band was The Chantay's.  The Hawaii Five-O theme song is another one, but that starts taking this thread in a whole new direction that I think that I'd rather it not go.  I suspect that those with strong classical music backgrounds could whip off ten songs fairly quickly and easily.  Will maybe not so easily, but probably pretty easy to match the pieces to their names.

Yeah I understand that tracks are not instrumental as a whole, I reminded them when read your mention of La Villa Strangiato, which features some Lee's kinda "yellings" & "jingles"(don't find the right word for that). 


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 12:34
Misère - Martin Barre
Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa
Madrigal - Motis
Bangers & Mash - Radiohead
Where's My Thing - Rush
Marooned - Pink Floyd
Bon Débarras - Beau Dommage
After the Ordeal - Genesis
Jacuzzi - Steve Hackett
The Boys in the Band - Gentle Giant

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 12:57
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:


5. Steve Howe - The Clap


It's actually called "Clap".

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 12:58
Just to be obvious - Fleetwood Mac, Albatross.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 13:06
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 13:07
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:


5. Steve Howe - The Clap


It's actually called "Clap".

Captain Picky strikes again.
Kind of. I know that Steve says it is just "Clap", but it is listed as "The Clap" many places.  LOL At any rate, I listed that way intentionally.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 13:13
Rather than a top 10, I had too many, so I went ahead and listed all of my favorites that are instantly recognizable. Not everything here is prog, but that's not what you asked for. Wink

The Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
Camel - Supertwister, Aristillus
Dream Theater - Ytse Jam, Stream of Consciousness
ELO - Fire on High
ELP - The Barbarian, Fanfare for the Common Man
Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover
Focus - Sylvia
Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
Genesis - Horizons, After the Ordeal
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Part II, Red
Led Zeppelin - Moby Dick
Metallica - The Call of Ktulu, Orion
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
Miles Davis - So What
Pink Floyd - One of These Days, The Great Gig in the Sky
Rush - La Villa Strangiato, YYZ
Traffic - Glad
Van Halen - Eruption


Both Rush ones that I listed as well as Jessica by the Allman Bros are easily my favorites from this list. There are other Zappa songs I like better, but Peaches is the on that I remember the name without trouble. Same with Miles Davis, 'So What' is so easy to pick out, but I don't really recall many other names. As for Metallica, those are probably my favorites songs of theirs since there isn't any vocals.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 13:22
1. Santana - "Samba Pa Ti"
2. Hiromi Uehara - "Return Of The Kung-Fu World Champion"
3. Fleetwood Mac - "Sunny Side Of Heaven" (dig this one more than "Albatross" actually)
4. Black Sabbath - "Orchid"
5. Black Sabbath - "Laguna Sunrise"
6. Led Zeppelin - "Bron-Yr-Aur" (although I've probably been pronouncing it wrong..."Brawn Yar!!"
7. Iron Maiden - "Genghis Khan"
8. Venom - "Mayhem With Mercy"
9. Mercyful Fate - "To One Far Away"
10. Mason Williams - "Classical Gas" (I only remember this guy's name because his first name is Nick's last name)
 
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 13:35
Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Just to be obvious - Fleetwood Mac, Albatross.
I don't know think that I know that one offhand.  Will check to see if it is on one of the FMac albums that I have and give it a listen. Yes.  Have that one.  Will have to give it a listen.  I don't have The Sunny Side of Heaven though.  I will have to track that down.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 13:40
Originally posted by Prog Sothoth Prog Sothoth wrote:

1. Santana - "Samba Pa Ti"
2. Hiromi Uehara - "Return Of The Kung-Fu World Champion"
3. Fleetwood Mac - "Sunny Side Of Heaven" (dig this one more than "Albatross" actually)
4. Black Sabbath - "Orchid"
5. Black Sabbath - "Laguna Sunrise"
6. Led Zeppelin - "Bron-Yr-Aur" (although I've probably been pronouncing it wrong..."Brawn Yar!!"
7. Iron Maiden - "Genghis Khan"
8. Venom - "Mayhem With Mercy"
9. Mercyful Fate - "To One Far Away"
10. Mason Williams - "Classical Gas" (I only remember this guy's name because his first name is Nick's last name)
 
 
 
I'm sure I have heard 1, 4, 5, 6, and 7, with 6 and 7 both being good.  I can't place the Sabbath songs, but it did remind me of Fluff, which I know fairly well since Wakeman was on that album.  LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 06 2014 at 13:42
Originally posted by hobocamp hobocamp wrote:

ONE
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Oh yes.  That one should definitely be on my list.  Forgot about that one. 
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