"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Assuming you mean artists that would typically have vocals?
Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
Tommy Bolin - Homeward Strut/Marching Powder from the Teaser lp
Dominic Troiano - Eleanora Fagan - From his The Jokes on Me lp
Dominic Troiano - Ambush/ Victim Of Circumstance/Achilles/The End From Fret Fever lp.
Les Dudek - One to Beam Up/Zorro Rides Again from Say no More lp
Elton John - Funeral for a Friend
Alan Parsons P - I Robot
James Gang - Asshtonpark
Pat Travers Band - Hammerhead
Karmakanic - Do u Tango
Candiria - The Rutherford Experiment
Fleetwood Mac - Sunny Side Of Heaven
Jethro Tull - Conundrum/Elegy
Gino Vannelli - War Suite Prelude To The War /The Battle Cry [Instrumental]from Gist of the Gemini
Gino Vannelli - A Pauper In Paradise 3rd Movement
Kansas - Magnum Opus / The Spider
Journey - Kohoutek/Topaz/Nickel & Dime
Happy The Man - Stumpy Meets The Firecracker.../Knee Bitten Nymphs In Limbo/Ibby It Is/I Forgot To Push It/Barking Spiders
UK - Presto Vivace and Reprise /Alaska
Yes - Endless Dream_ a) Silent Spring (instrumental)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer -The Barbarian/The Three Fates/ Tank - from the self titled 1970
ELP - Toccata/Karn Evil
Camel - Skylines/One of These Days I'll Get An Early Night/Sleeper/Ice / Docks-Beached/ Captured
Frost - Hyperventilate
So many more but no time right now
I am happy that all this music have no vocals! IMO
Sadly missed Grammy winner - Cinema (1983) by Yes
Rush - La Villa Strangiato and YYZ
Yes - Mood for a Day
Yes - The Clap
Tull - Serenade to a Cuckoo
Tull - Bouree
And a great Alice Cooper song:
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
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So I guess you don't like the Exit Stage Left version of La Villa Strangiato? At least the vocals are brief.Originally Posted by JKL2000
The Ox (1965) by The Who
Sparks (1969) by The Who
The Rock (1973) by The Who
Funkadelic (1971) by Maggot Brain
Contusion (1976) by Stevie Wonder
Watermelon on Easter Hay (1979) by Frank Zappa
Men At Work: Anyone For Tennis (there's a short wordless vocal thing at the end, but there's no lyrics...it's kinda like a good surf rock thing, which I always dug) WHY has this never been reissued?!
Eric Johnson Victory
Oh shut up!
Rush -YYZ (no, I don't have a problem with Geddy),
Focus - Sylvia
If I think harder I'll probably find a few more....
La Villa Strangiato
Actually, I could picture easily Red featuring vocals
Yup...
and even worse: stupid lyrics have killed perfectly fine sung-tracks
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
It seems to me that you didn't understand Sonia's idea because she asked for instrumental stuff that we can imagine with the vocals, but that we do not like how these mental pictures sound in our heads.
What I meant are tracks that could be restructured to having a vocalist. Not clever tight moozik, it needs to have tunes and rhythms, instrumentals that easily substitute's any vocalist
The title of the thread is "Instrumental songs that you love and can't possibly imagine having vocals?"
"Instrumental songs....that you....can't.....imagine having vocals." That is what I was going on.
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Yeah, that's how I understood it.
And there's nothing to impede imagining vocals, should one be inclined to do so.
Last edited by seņormoment; 04-03-2016 at 10:55 AM.
Ha!
^^I don't know if that's meant as a response to what I posted, and I might be beating a dead horse here, but "Weasels Ripped My Flesh" is wide open to vocals. One could sing absolutely anything in any key to it.
ELP - Hoedown
Mahavishnu Orchestra at their peak - several albums - Birds of Fire, Inner Mounting Flame, etc.
Certainly. My point, however, was that I hold it dearly as it is and wouldn't want it to have vocals.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
So so many. A few faves:
Genesis - After The Ordeal (one of the most sublime pieces of music ever written, to these ears)
Steve Hackett - Ace of Wands
Ant Phillips - The Geese & The Ghost (parts 1 & 2)
King Crimson - Bolero: The Peacock's Tale
Bo Hansson - well, everything
Arti & Mestieri - Valzer Per Domani
just to name a few
Well, if I can imagine Red with vocals, it's probably because I like the idea (or at least don't detest it)
Yup, that's the way, I read it as well.
Well, I don't know if tioy think the Narada-Ponty-Moran era is not classic, but there is some vocals on Visions Of Emerald Beyond, and metyhinks it's not too successful.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
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