Can you name one or more instrumental songs that you love and can't possibly imagine having vocals?
I'll start by naming 3 songs that I absolutely adore and vocals would just ruin it for me:
1. Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended As Lovers
2. Jeff Beck - Nadia
3. Al DiMeola - Race with the Devil on a Spanish Highway
There are bands which play mostly or only instrumental stuff, like Planet X, Kenso, LTE and many others. I like what they do/did.
Out of those that use vocals, Magellan and some Trent Gardner's side projects come to mind. One of them is Explorers Club with its 20 minute instrumental track "Gigantiphicus" at the end of the second album.
Genesis - The Brazilian
Tycho - Awake
Passport - Ataraxia
aha! true like for example Brand X and Liquid Tension Experiment, but these two when you listen you know it's explosive great stuff and not made for vocals at all.Originally Posted by selmer
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
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Yeah Tycho is pretty obvious
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Thijs Van Leer, from Focus, often talks about following Debussy's example of writing "songs without words". One of those was Sylvia, which he says was originally written for a girl singer he was in love with, and she turned it down. In the interview I saw, he even sang the lyrics of the song, and its obvious from the way the melody twists and turn, as if emphasizing different aspects of the lyrics, that it was originally composed to be sung... although its great as an instrumental, of course.
After the Ordeal (1973) by Genesis
Red (1974) by King Crimson
Hitopadeza by Smak (1978)
Great thread!
Rush - YYZ
Genesis - Unquiet Slumber/In that Quiet Earth
ELP - When the Apple Blossoms Bloom...
Bill
The original recording of this song did of course have lyrics:
Hurtleturtled Out of Heaven - an electronic music composition, on CD and vinyl
https://michaelpdawson.bandcamp.com
http://www.waysidemusic.com/Music-Pr...MCD-spc-7.aspx
Los Endos (1976) by Genesis
The Sailor's Tale (1971) by King Crimson
Sava (1986) by Smak
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Frank Zappa-Peaches en regalia
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Focus- Sylvia
I was going to mention that one also but there is yodelling on it(just like with "hocus pocus").
Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays....always doors to lock away your dreams (To Be Over)
Hell's Kitchen DT from FII '97
All of them.
NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF STUPID PEOPLE IN LARGE GROUPS!
"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
5% of nothing-YES
Wot Gorilla-Genesis
Fire On High- ELO
Cinema- Yes
Wakeman's Six Wives
Jean-Luc Ponty's Stay With Me, Mirage, Renaissance, Cosmic Messenger and a bunch of others.
I wouldn't be surprised if Zappa at some point had thoughts to put lyrics to it. I would have never imagined songs like Holiday in Berlin, or the tracks from Sleep Dirt with vocals.
I also vote for Sylvia. Brilliant song.
And another no one has mentioned yet is Pilgrimage by Wishbone Ash.
Frankenstein By Edgar Winter. Lyrics would certainly ruin this classic.
To be or not to be? That is the point. - Harry Nilsson.
A lot of vocals have killed great music.
Pink Floyd - On the Run
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