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Points: 14980 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 19 2014 at 02:00
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

There is a also a great version on the Live In Poland album which I prefer more than the performance on Then And Now. The band considered it a bootleg though and wouldn't recognise it as an official release outside of Poland (licencing issues).


That's a really cool live album. Nice versions of "Touch and Go," "From the Beginning" and "Knife Edge" on it. Sanctuary did reissue it a couple years after Metal Mind, but for whatever reason they left off the piano solo. I got the MM version when it was new, and I prefer its cover to the (white) Sanctuary/Castle editions:

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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

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.

Strangely enough, I have that problem with songs, not instrumentals.  With instrumentals: I hear a recognizable melody, a theme, a motif, some remarkable passage that speaks for itself, and I'll remember the name of the piece. With songs, however: if I heard a bunch of songs that were written and produced in the same style by the same band, and I'm listening to the instrumental intro of the song, I probably won't recognize it until the lyrics kick in. E.g., I heard a familiar Steely Dan song and thought: "Could it be 'Home At Last' or 'I Got The News' ?" Nope. I was wrong. When the chorus kicked in, turns out it was ... "Bad Sneakers". Shame on me. Again, like I said, I have this problem with songs, not with instrumentals.

I think it all really depends on how boring or how overdone the music is.

There are tons of instrumentals I remember by name. I mean, we are talking all eight tracks off of Inner Mounting Flame, "La Villa ... ", "Ice", "After The Ordeal", "Wedding Nails", "Supertwister", "YYZ" ... the list is endless, really. Why bother sorting/ranking?
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Si, sigńor. Even "Andacht" I can remember clearly.


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Talybont - Gentle Giant
Soft Eyed Woman - Alquin
My Baby Treats Me Right 'Cos I'm Her Hard Loving Man All Night Long - IQ
A Sprinkling of Clouds - Gong
Obscured by Clouds - Pink Floyd
Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats - Genesis
The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus) - Yes
Coltrane Sündia - Magma
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part II - King Crimson
Histoire Sans Paroles - Harmonium
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Theme One-Van Der Graaf Generator
Lark' Tongues In Aspic part 2-King Crimson
Red-King Crimson
After The Ordeal-Genesis
Horizons-Genesis
Mood For A Day-Yes
Talybont-Gentle Giant
The Boys In The Band-Gentle Giant
Peaches En Regalia-Frank Zappa
The Grand Wazoo-Frank Zappa
Rhayader/Rhayader goes to Town-Camel
Friendship-Camel
Histoire sans Paroles-Harmonium
Fanfare For The Common Man-ELP
Les Porches de Notre-Dame-Maneige
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Local hero going home - Dire Straits

Moby Dick -- Led Zeppelin 

River Flows in You -- Yiruma 
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Ok, first ten that come to mind:
 
Smilin' Jack Casey - Tony Banks (I said no order other than the order that they came to mind)
Wot Gorilla - Genesis
The Brazillian - Genesis
La Villa Strangiato - Rush
Erotomania - Dream Theater
Revolution Industrialle: Overature - Jean-Micheal Jarre (yes, I could fill the whole list with Jarre tunes)
Agent Orange - Depeche Mode
Elgia - New Order
You, The Night and the Music - Tones on Tail
Valley of the Kings - Steve Hackett
 
Ok, I went beyond ten
 
Saudade - Love and Rockets
Where's the Walrus - The Alan Parson's Project
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See, I've been a fan of instrumentals since as far back as 85, I was in a big jazz phase, followed shortly thereafter by a love of just about everything that Jean-Michael Jarre did.  Ironically enough, the only thing that I didn't really like from him as a kid was Zoolook which is one of my favorites by him as an adult.  Anyways, for a while a lot of the alternative bands (and this was back when alternative meant different) would throw an instrumental on their albums that was really good.  Saudade and elgia in particular are both really good.
 
Now, of course, there's the Genesis and related artists collection, but yeah, I'm pretty good with instrumentals.
 
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Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Smilin' Jack Casey - Tony Banks (I said no order other than the order that they came to mind)


Nice call on a relatively obscure track by Tony, found only on his long-OOP Soundtracks. That CD (was also released on cassette!) has some very cool music.
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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Smilin' Jack Casey - Tony Banks (I said no order other than the order that they came to mind)


Nice call on a relatively obscure track by Tony, found only on his long-OOP Soundtracks. That CD (was also released on cassette!) has some very cool music.
 
Thanks, I had the casette for years but never found a reasonably priced CD version of it.  I went on a tear about ten years ago and hoooked my tape deck up to the computer with some recording software and made a digital version of it.  I may still have the original casette in a box somewhere.
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In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed - Allman Bros Band
Cause We've Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck
Time Is Tight - The Clash
Soul Sacrifice - Santana
Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
 
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Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

See, I've been a fan of instrumentals since as far back as 85


Same here (same year, too!). For quite a while I listened exclusively to lyric-free music after I discovered Tangerine Dream, Goblin and everything thereafter.

Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Roland113 Roland113 wrote:

Smilin' Jack Casey - Tony Banks (I said no order other than the order that they came to mind)
Nice call on a relatively obscure track by Tony, found only on his long-OOP Soundtracks. That CD (was also released on cassette!) has some very cool music.



Thanks, I had the casette for years but never found a reasonably priced CD version of it. I went on a tear about ten years ago and hoooked my tape deck up to the computer with some recording software and made a digital version of it. I may still have the original casette in a box somewhere.


Like Jan Hammer's definitive 2CD of Miami Vice music, it's outrageously priced. I had it on cassette first, and then luckily I found a CD when the price hadn't yet bloated to that of an iced kidney on the black market.
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Most of what I can think of have already been listed, but Ephemeral Sun's album Harvest Aorta with Spring Song, Prism and the title track are worthy of mentioning.
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me faves:

Rush: YYZ, La Villa Strangiatto
Anekdoten: Karelia
Camel: Lunar Sea, Ice
Tangerine Dream: Cloudburst Flight
Anglagard: Jordrok
Schicke Fuhrs & Frohling: Tao
The Enid: The Tower of Babel
PFM: Generale
Novalis: Aufbruch
Porcupine Tree: Moonloop (Coda)
Jean-Luc Ponty: Mirage, Cosmic Messenger
Bill Bruford: Fainting in Coils
Larry Coryell: Spaces (Infinite)
Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Dance of Maya, Sanctuary
Return to Forever: Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy (the track, but the whole album's at this same level)
Jeff Beck: Diamond Dust
Kool & the Gang: Summer Madness
Commodores: Cebu


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Bočekova Balada by Miša Blam (RIP)

Tegoba by Smak


Balet by Smak

Nebo nad Beogradom by Laza Ristovski

Sinteza by Tako

Okean by Kornelije Kovač

Lapis Lazuli by Zerkman Big Bang

Vang by Tripcycle

Unreachable by Gis Maj Es

Kiša u lice by Hipnagoga Slike

In The Last Moment II by Dušan Jevtović

Sprockets by Alek Darson

To Live For by Ana Never




15 instrumentals by the acts from Serbia (ex-Yugoslavia)






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