Instrumentals that move you

[schindlerpiste]

For me, it's all about the ladies...and all about The Allman Bros.:
Little Martha
Jessica
In Memory of Elizabeth Reed.

[jimmy page]

I really like the theme to Endless Summer by the Sandals

[Steven S. Dallas]

"Quantico, VA" by The Grayboy All-Stars
"Bear Witness" Dr. Octagon
"Ghost Writer" by RJD2- now lame-ified by its use in an ESPN commercial. Bummer.
"Samba Pa Ti" by Carlos Santana

I could literally go on all day...

[house]

stranger on the shore -acker bilk

[Endlessseason]

Instrumentals that move? For starters, listen to these and tell me what you think...

1- Pretty much anything from the Gladiator soundtrack

2- Jonathan Livingston Seagull

3- Dances with Wolves, Composer Barry: "Fort Hayes," "Spotting the Herd," "Buffalo Killing Ground," "Buffalo Robe,"

4- "Your Starter For..." from Disk 1 of Blue Moves, Elton, along with the first 2:57 of "Tonight"

5- "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini," Opus 43, Rachmaninoff

[zion zig zag]

Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins
Transcendence - Thievery Corporation
Building Steam With A Grain Of Salt - DJ Shadow


And the majority of Pink Floyd's 'Animals' album.

[biggins]

Mark Mothersbaugh- formerly of Devo.

He did all the scoring for Rushmore, Royal Tannenbaums, and The Life Aquatic.

[PJ2001]

Craig Armstrong has done a lot of good stuff. If you like Massive Attack, he was involved with creating a lot of their sound.

[Plakespear]

"Walk Don't Run" by the Ventures
"Pipeline" SRV and Dick Dale
"Eruption" Van Halen

[Sublime]

Falling Idols - Sublime off Contact Buzz. Live and tweaked out

[dewey]

John Coltrane - "My Favorite Things," especially McCoy Tyner on the keys.

[tuffy109]

eno
curtis mayfield's got some goodies
as mentioned above, craig armstrong's "the space between us" will bring you to tears.
so much great house and techno (ie, fingers inc. "can you feel it") would techincally fall into "instrumentals", but there's too much to list.

[runethechamp]

Top Gun anthem

[Benny Profane]

Dick Dale. except for the one or two he sings.

[belgian]

Most of M. Ward's instrumentals.

and

"Yoga means Union" -- Ambulance LTD.

[A-wreck]

Peaches en regalia

[vinzclortho]

purt near anything by the Meters

[aspenskibum]

explosions in the sky and scene index are sick instrumental bands

[runethechamp]

Cool kids of Death - St. Etienne (used in 1999)

[nesta]

Uprising by Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra sure moves me in an instrumental kind of way....and there's a lot of instruments.

[nesta]

Oh yeah when I saw Peaches en Regalia it reminded me that i had just burned Frank's Black Napkins to disc- wicked guitar!

[aspenskibum]

oh yea, and fela kuti and the africa 70, especially the recordings with ginger baker

[Buster Highmen]

Coltrane - After The Rain.
Zappa - Anything off Hots Rats (except Willie the Pimp since it has vocals) or Burnt Weenie Sandwich.
Miles Davis - Live Evil, Bitches Brew, Jack Johnson, Agharta, etc.

It's weird how Jazz has fallen out of fashion.

[stayhigh]

Treat - Santana
Bouree - Jethro Tull

[Pinner]

Miles Davis "In a Silent Way."

[Huckwheat]

Robert Randolph and the Family Band.

Dont know the name, but Track 1 on live from the wetlands.....maybe most rockin song ever. I have had 2 friends I gave it to say it saved their lives during tired drives.....2!

[funkendrenchman]

Robert Randolph and the Family Band.

Dont know the name, but Track 1 on live from the wetlands.....maybe most rockin song ever. I have had 2 friends I gave it to say it saved their lives during tired drives.....2!

Agreed! ..... Ted's Jam is the name. You need a freakin Valentine One driving with that song on.

[rip]

I have to give a big http://tetongravity.com/ubb/icons/icon14.gif to the allman bros reccomendation.

Another one that I thought of immediately is Little Wing by SRV.

[The Reverend Floater]

YYZ, anyone? I mean COME ON PEOPLE! It's the Canadian Power Trio! :yourock: :yourock:

[trainnvain]

ELO-Fire on High

[Big E]

It's weird how Jazz has fallen out of fashion.

You're living in the wrong area (for jazz, at least).

[Tippster]

Another one that I thought of immediately is Little Wing by SRV.
Seconded. I immediately thought of this.

Endless: The Gladiator Soundtrack is by Hans Zimmer (Bev Hills Cop & Miami Vice themes) and Lisa Gerrard, formerly of Dead Can Dance. Don't know if you can call that truly instrumental, since she's moaning on most of them.... but stunning soundscapes nonetheless.

[mrryde]

Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

[cmsummit]

-First Tube (Phish)
-Little Wing (SRV)

[homerjay]

YYZ, anyone? I mean COME ON PEOPLE! It's the Canadian Power Trio! :yourock: :yourock:

Fuck yeah!

I'll add: (doesn't move me but it sure does rock me)

Frankenstein - Edgar Winter

[Vinman]

YYZ, anyone? I mean COME ON PEOPLE! It's the Canadian Power Trio! :yourock: :yourock:


pretty much any of their instrumentals rock

La villa
where's my thing
leave that thing alone
limbo

[Tippster]

Listening to Led Zep's "Moby Dick" now...

[sea2ski]

YYZ, anyone? I mean COME ON PEOPLE! It's the Canadian Power Trio! :yourock: :yourock:


That was the first thing that poped into my mind.

However, Led Zep's "Bonzo at Montreaux" isn't too shabby.

Also Jeff Beck "Wired" and Billy Cobham "Warning"

[grrrr]

Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor
Mozart's Serenade for Strings in G major
Vivaldi's allegro non molto from Inverno.

[powpig]

Mahavishnu Orchestra
Dixie Dregs
Joe Satriani
Bruford w/Holdsworth
Buckethead

[Benny Profane]

Listening to Led Zep's "Moby Dick" now...

Oh, yeah, drum solos.

I was talking to a workmate that actually paid $350 to see Cream at the Garden a few weeks ago, and he said Ginger Baker actually looked the best of all three, which I found upsetting, because I gave him up for dead when I saw his picture in Life magazine in, like, 1969. And he actually did a really long drum solo during Toad, of which said workmate started to get technical in his description about his technique before my eyes glazed and I wondered what crappy food they had for me in the cafeteria for lunch.

[peterslovo]

2nd Trainvain's suggestion of ELO - Fire on High

holiday mood:
Trans-Siberian Orchestra - O Holy Night and others

On the classical side:

Pachelbel's Kanon
Orff - O Fortuna

..others can't think of now...

[DrRy]

I really like the theme to Endless Summer by the Sandals

Hell yeah.

I have to second this. So fuckin good.

[nhtele]

Orion by Metallica, especially since it's the end track for the Cliff 'Em All documentary, right after the tour bus rolls over.