New Mount Rushmore - Rock Instrumentals

[cartman]

Time for another Mount Rushmore, keeping with the musical theme of late. List your top 4 (this is a key component, listing 4) rock instrumentals.

1. The Ventures - Walk Don't Run
2. Dick Dale - Misirlou
3. Allman Brothers Band - Jessica
4. Eric Johnson - Cliffs of Dover

[Buccaneer]

Pink Floyd
Floyd, Pink
Pink F.
P. Floyd

:)

[cuervo72]

Moby Dick was pretty good.

[Shkspr]

Green Onions - Booker T and the MGs
Wipeout - Surfaris
Peter Gunn - Duane Eddy
Rock and Roll Part 2 - Gary Glitter

[Shkspr]

I'll do a seperate one for rock arias:

Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson
La Villa Strangiato - Rush
Eruption - Van Halen
Overture from Tommy - The Who

[wahoomac]

Rush - YYZ
Faith No More - Woodpecker From Mars
Alan Parsons Project - Re-Jigue
Van Halen - Intruder

[Crim]

Rush - La Villa Strangiato (Exit... Stage Left Version is my personal favorite)
Dream Theater - Ytse Jam
Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky (several honorable mentions, but this is prolly the greatest Floyd one)
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Little Wing

[cartman]

Pink Floyd - The Great Gig in the Sky (several honorable mentions, but this is prolly the greatest Floyd one)


I seriously thought about this one, but isn't the chic with her incoherent sighs excluding this song?

[Crim]

I wondered that too, cartman, but I couldn't exclude this masterpiece.

[cartman]

IMHO, any voice addition (coherent or not... I'm looking at you, Tequila) precludes a song from instrumental consideration. I'd be happy to hear other viewpoints.

[rowech]

Rush - La Villia
Metallica - Call of Ktulu
Metallica -- Orion
Booker T and the MGs -- Green Onions

[cartman]

In regards to shkpr's post, I would think arias apply to single instrument performances.

[Groundhog]

King Crimson - Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Part Two
Cake - Arco Arena
Camel - Super Twister
The Flaming Lips - The Observer

Could easily just put 4 King Crimson songs in here, but figured I'd try and branch out a little...

[Shkspr]

In regards to shkpr's post, I would think arias apply to single instrument performances.


It's entirely possible that there's a better terminology to be used, but I wanted to make a distinction between songs that just happened to have no lyrics (which we saw a lot of in the early days of rock and roll) and pieces that were part of larger works or in other ways were more "modern".

As far as the human voice issue goes, "Tequila", "Wipeout", and "Rockit", to take three examples, are all considered instrumentals because the human voice is included as, well, an instrument - selected because of the tonal and rhythmic qualities the vocal selection adds to the melody rather than for lingual meaning. I would sooner argue that Fatboy Slim's work is instrumental before I'd accept that "Tequila" isn't (it's the memory of Pee Wee Herman dancing on a table that forever removes that song from the mountain for me).

As an aside, Mount Rushmores on this board just feel more right than polls. :p

[Axxon]

Eruption - Van Halen
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
Star Spangled Banner - Jimi Hendrix
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict - Pink Floyd

[thesloppy]

Mogwai - Mogwai Fear Satan
King Tubby and the Skatalites - Give Thanks
Earth - Earth 2
The Beatles - Flying

[BishopMVP]

Iron Maiden - Aces High
Enrico Morricone - The Trio (The Good, The Bad, The Ugly)
Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
Huang Sheng Yi (Kung Fu Hustle song)

[path12]

Uncle Tupelo - Sandusky
Spoon - This Book Is a Movie
Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde
Devotchka - Death By Blonde

[Crim]

...Metallica -- Orion...


Strong contender there, I hadn't considered it...

[Greyroofoo]

Pink Floyd
Floyd, Pink
Pink F.
P. Floyd

:)

I like your thinking

[Greyroofoo]

Though I must add The Pink Floyd Sound.

[Fonzie]

Rush - La Villa Strangiato
Faith No More - Woodpeckers from Mars
Yes - Clap (really more bluegrass than rock, I suppose)
Booker T and the MGs - Green Onions

Give me five minutes and I'd probably so change my mind that I'd come up with an entirely new list - except for Strangiato. Gawd but that song rocks.

[Scarecrow]

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter
Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddy
Tijuana Taxi - Herb Albert
Feels So Good - Chuck Mangione

[Draft Dodger]

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter


I can't believe this song made it this far without getting a nod

[Draft Dodger]

Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive


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[Draft Dodger]

mine:

Edgar Winter - Frankenstein
Allman Brothers - Jessica
Steve Ray Vaughan - Riviera Paradise
Surfaris - Wipe Out

There's a bunch of good ones that I don't think have been mentioned yet:
SRV's "Scuttle Buttin'"
Alan Parson's Project "Sirius"
Herbie Hancock "Rock It"
Commodores "Machine Gun"
Steve Vai "Attitude Song"
Satriani "Surfing with the Alien" or "Always With Me, Always With You"
Dokken "Mr Scary"

[CU Tiger]

Allman Bros. - Jessica
Metallica - Orion
Wipeout - Surariss
G'n'R' - Some Time (First release of November Rain was on an import/bootleg tape prior to UYI I/II by about 2 years and it was simply a 14 minute instrumental, presumably while axle was off stage getting high)

[hawk4669]

Iron Maiden - Aces High



:confused: Instrumental?

[BYU 14]

Wipe out - Surfaris
Rose in the Heather - Nazareth
Jessica - Allman Brothers
Brighton Rock - Queen (I know there are some vocals in it, but the long intrumental part is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m69BrvJNfg

[Mr. Wednesday]

For Satriana, I'd prefer Summer Song.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned ELO's Fire on High.

[Qwikshot]

Does the yodeling in Focus "Hocus Pocus" eliminate it?