Best Instrumental Album
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Topic: Best Instrumental Album
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Subject: Best Instrumental Album
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 06:49
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Here's a list of "classic" instrumental albums. Take your pick or add more............ ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
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Posted By: Quinino
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 07:05
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Soft's (one of my all-time greatest) |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 08:09
| Camel gets my vote. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 08:27
| The Goose. |
Posted By: HosiannaMantra
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 08:46
| "Third" is actually 1/4 vocal album. Can't vote at the moment since I like them all. From Zappa's instrumental catalogue I prefer "The Grand Wazoo". |
Posted By: twosteves
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 09:04
Focus---love this album---but there is some singing.
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Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 09:17
| The Snow Goose for me. But I'm surprised Tubular Bells hasn't got any votes so far. |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 09:28
First vote for Tubular Bells :) Hamburger Concerto would be next for me ------------- Prog On! |
AlanB wrote:Posted By: O666
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 09:31
| "The Snow Goose" today. |
Posted By: mechanicalflattery
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 09:35
| Third has lyrics. I'll join the crowd and say The Snow Goose. Replace The Inner Mounting Flame with Birds of Fire, and I'd vote Mahavishnu Orchestra, although incorporating jazz fusion entails bringing in Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis... Obviously lots of other great instrumental prog albums in general, a number of them better than The Snow Goose. |
Posted By: TerLJack
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 10:12
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Return To Forever - Romantic Warrior or Jean Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger
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Posted By: presdoug
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 10:45
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Dzyan-Electric Silence Soft Machine-Seven |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 12:02
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The Snow Goose closely followed by Tubular Bells. ------------- 
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Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 12:07
Knowing that I still voted for it. ------------- 
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 13:02
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Camel. -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 13:20
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Went with Soft Machine ......but that MO album kicks butt. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 13:26
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The Snow Goose is THE best album of all time, not just the best instrumental album. Hamburger Concerto is also excellent, but not strictly totally instrumental (La Cathedrale de Strasbourg has a few lyrics). ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 13:27
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It's Camel! Not only a great instrumental album but a milestone of prog. Sorry, Mick. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 13:57
| ZAP |
Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 14:13
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lol ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 14:41
I like Camel......have all the early albums , but I have always thought that the Snow Goose was a bit too laid back and boring at times.  ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Lewian
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 14:56
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Voted Tubular Bells but of course this will not stop Camel from winning yet another poll. (Actually I'm surprised this time but I really shouldn't.) |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 15:03
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"On a dilemma between what I need and what I just want Between your thighs I feel a sensation How long can I resist the temptation? I've got my bird, you've got your man So who else do we need, really?" Since there's no song I like more than Moon in June, and the lyrics are a part of me, it's very hard for me to think of Third as an instrumental album. But... as it is a mostly instrumental album, and it has enough pure instrumentals to cover one and a half LPs, or three sides of a double LP album, and aside from the other instrumental tracks I love the instrumental in Moon and June, and furthermore I rather dislike pedantry (especially when it comes from me slightly all the time), I will vote the same way, ticky tacky ticky, that eight other out-out-bloody-rageous people voted, and give it to Third. I adore that album, and over, up, over, up, down, if we want to be really nit-picky, the question would be better phrased as favourite rather than best album, but that would be a bit much. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 15:41
True, alot of "instrumental Albums" have sections or a tune or town with lyrics/ spoken word so is hard to find albums entirely instrumental- Zappa's are a case in point with most of his instrumental albums having excerpts of some sort except maybe shutupandplayyourguitar............. and some of his his classical stuff.... The Grand Wazoo - first track is a vocal but I would call it instrumental too and a fav......... ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 16:02
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There are ton of purely instrumental albums in PA The majority of albums in my collection have no vocals, and I have a large number that are mostly instrumental, and the vast majority of my collection with or without any vocalizing don't have lyrics, but the impurest in me would also happily consider albums as instrumental that have some talking, some inarticulate vocals, or some chanting. Right now playing a fave of mine: Bobby Beausoleil's Lucifer Rising, which is not to call it a classic of Prog album. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: Pastmaster
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 16:09
| Oldfield easily, although it might have been a bit harder had the Mahavishnu album been Birds of Fire. |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 16:27
But are they any good that is the question.....? ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: The Dark Elf
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 16:29
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Mahavishnu from the list, although Santana's Caravanserai is great as well. ------------- ...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined to take the place of the mud shark in your mythology... |
Posted By: A_Flower
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 16:46
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Tubular Bells, Snow Goose, Hamburger Concerto, and Sleep Dirt ------------- User Banned for this Post |
Posted By: Logan
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 16:51
Good? To be or not to be, that is the subjective question. The ones in my collection are great according to my tastes, but some people have called some of the music I like crap, though I think that they would be hard pressed to make a valid argument for most of them not being accomplished efforts, particularly since so many that use such grossly reductive terminology do not have great knowledge of music. But different strokes for different folks. ------------- Just a fanboy passin' through. |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 17:05
| "The Inner Mounting Flame", closely followed by Weather Report's "Sweetnighter'. |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 17:08
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Tubular Bells!! ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 17:11
I Gotta nice new copy of Weather Report's Black Market on 180g vinyl very nice great Album- Weather Report a great band..... ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 18:56
| I give my vote to CAMEL "The Snow Goose" followed by Focus "Hamburger Concerto". But, I want cite other albuns as for instance FINCH "The Glory of Inner Force" and "Beyond Expression" and RETURN TO FOREVER "The Romantic Warrior" !!! |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 19:22
| About third, any recommendation of the best sounding on vinyl ? |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 19:36
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Oldfield > SM > Zappa ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: September 29 2016 at 23:39
Yessiree Bob all these three. From those listed I went with Focus. If the 2013 Snow Goose re-recording was specified instead of the original, I would have picked that one, though. Some other instrumental albums I would have consider voting for had they been included are: Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow Herbie Hancock - Crossings Alas - Pinta Tu Aldea Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three Rick Wakeman - Six Wives of Henry VIII Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Libor10
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 00:57
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Mike's Tubular Bells with Focus and Camel next... ------------- 
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Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 04:04
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Jeff Beck - Wired. Univers Zero - everything but Clivages will do for now. Art Zoyd - Metropolis - more darkness and paranoia than any mere mortal can handle. Djam Karet - everything but I'll default to the Devouring For now Could be Camels Goose but I'll go for the Live Record version. Zappa / Mothers - Shut Up AN' Play yer Guitar or Orchestral Favorites (the demos for this album are even more exquisite btw, watch out for them) John Paul Jones - Zooma (does for the bass what Hendrix did for guitar). Tortoise - It's All Around You - more fine melodies balanced against intense rhythm. |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 05:26
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The Snow Goose, with Tubular Bells a close 2nd. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: AZF
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 06:29
| "The Endless River" was quite good as well! It was! It is! |
Posted By: uduwudu
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 07:22
Was thinking of mentioning that, except it's committed the cardinal sin of having vocals on it. Unless this is just one song with one of the longest introductions ever.  |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 12:35
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Bells ------------- |
Posted By: EddieRUKiddingVarese
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 16:08
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A good mix of votes, thought Soft Machine - Third would do better.... ------------- "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes" and I need the knits, the double knits! |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 16:23
| Mahavishnu |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 21:16
More important, the title song has even more lyrics. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 30 2016 at 21:29
| I find it difficult between Tubular Bells and Hamburger Concerto. Also, I would have included 6 Wives of Henry the VIII by Rick Wakeman, but even though it is quintesential prog, I feel it wouldn't have gotten much votes. |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: October 02 2016 at 09:52
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other great instrumental albums that I forgot: Jeff Beck - Wired, There and Back Jean-Luc Ponty - Cosmic Messenger, A Taste for Passion, Imaginary Voyage Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire Praxis - Same Gordon Giltrap - The Peacock Party Steve Howe - Natural Timbre Steve Hackett - Bay of Kings |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: March 05 2018 at 03:03
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A plethora of Zappa instrumentals. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 05 2018 at 03:10
| ...and the last Tubular Bells! |
Posted By: Saperlipopette!
Date Posted: March 05 2018 at 04:39
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Posted By: DeadSouls
Date Posted: March 18 2018 at 12:54
| Third |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: March 18 2018 at 17:54
Camel edges out Mike....just. Doesn't Vivian's announcements rule it out as an instrumental album, anyway?  ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: March 18 2018 at 19:47
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Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 08:38
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Those are all great!!! But I had to go with the king of instrumental Prog: Mike Oldfield.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 08:48
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If I live to be a hundred I still won't get the 'Oldfield thing'........and I can't believe that he got more votes than MO, Focus, and Zappa....three far more talented bands. And it amazes me that Camel is winning....imho probably the most boring of the early albums. Not sure who should win this but certainly nor them or Oldfield. ;)
------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: MortSahlFan
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 09:51
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I liked "Endless River" - except the ONE single vocal track... What awful lyrics.. "Momentary Lapse" and "Division Bell" was garbage, and they're my favorite band! No one tops their 70s stuff, though. "We bitch and we fight, Diss each other on sight, It's what we do" |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 10:21
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Didn't vote because I'm not familiar with all the albums. I heard Third, Snow Goose, and Inner Mounting Flame. Of those I would pick Mahavishnu ------------- We all live in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 10:26
| There is only two instrumental albums on your list (Flame and Goose)... Third, Hamburger, and River all have at least one song that's sung or has vocals. |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 10:28
| um, Snow Goose has vocals too, wordless though they may be |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 11:02
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Tubular Bells > Third > Zappa > Snow Goose ------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 15:01
Hello my name is dr wu, I repeat myself alot and I don't even notice it. ------------- |
Posted By: kenethlevine
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 20:32
 il parle pour rien dire ce pauvre medecin |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 01:47
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Yes...repeating yourself is a problem when one gets old but then hearing loss for some others must be a bitch when it comes to some crappy musicians. ;) ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: felonafan
Date Posted: March 20 2018 at 06:29
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The Snow Goose! |