Best Instrumental Albums/Bands

LackLuster

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#1 Edited By LackLuster

I'm looking for some good instrumental albums or bands to listen to while I study got any suggestions? I've got Holy Fuck and Mogwai covered and have some movie scores from everything Clint Mansell, along with Tron, A Social Network and Inception.

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#2 Edited By Skald

Anamanaguchi.

I listen to their stuff when I'm reading.

13 years ago

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#3 Edited By Animasta

Slagsmalsklubben for super techno happy fun time.

13 years ago

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#4 Edited By Pessh

And So I Watch You From Afar

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#5 Edited By callumbay

Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner. It's electronic but its amazing. :)

13 years ago

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#6 Edited By Example1013

What do you mean by "instrumental"? It's not like that's a genre.

Anyways:

That's what I have off the top of my head (besides Sousa, because I'm guessing you're not looking for marches). Also, SRV did a ton of music with vocals as well, but his instrumental songs are quite excellent (although the quality of that video is fairly poor).

EDIT: oh, and Time Out is one of the best albums of all time. Not even just instrumental albums, but albums in general.

13 years ago

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LackLuster

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#8 Edited By LackLuster

@example1013: By instrumental I mean no vocals

13 years ago

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#10 Edited By StaticFalconar

@LackLuster: If you like the social network, then check out trent reznar's ghost albums, there's like 4 of them total.

13 years ago

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#11 Edited By L4Dplaya19103

Mahavishnu Orchestra is by far my favorite Instrumental band. A little progressive rock can go a long way.

13 years ago

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#13 Edited By BUCK3TM4N

liquid tension

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Example1013

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#14 Edited By Example1013

@LackLuster: OK, I just wasn't sure if you were looking for specific genres. There are classical compositions I could recommend (theoretically, although I mostly just listen to WGBH Classical out of Boston, and I don't really know the names of the songs), and there's literally tons of jazz out there with no vocals. Almost all Big Band groups didn't have vocalists, and many famous jazz groups go without, because that's not their style. Miles Davis, for instance, doesn't really have a lot of vocals from what I can recall.

Also, it's not strictly instrumental, but there's plenty of Celtic music where the vocalists sing in Gaelic, so you'll have no clue what they're saying anyways (except on the extremely small chance you actually understand Gaelic), in addition to tons of Celtic music without vocals at all.

I was asking because I can go off on all kinds music available, but if you're looking for techno or new age, I have no useful information for you.

13 years ago

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#15 Edited By deactivated-58c3985c661d1

Apocalyptica.

That is all.

13 years ago

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#16 Edited By DemiGodRaven

Scale The Summit, Long Distance Calling, Industries Of The Blind, Animals As Leaders, Cloudkicker, Keith Merrow

13 years ago

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#17 Edited By FancySoapsMan

Oh man, so many good ones out there.

Do Make Say Think
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Explosions in the Sky
Youth Movie Soundtrack Strategies
Mono
Yndi Halda
Max Richter
Gregor Samsa
God is an Astronaut
Port Royal
A Silver Mount Zion
65daysofstatic
Boards of Canada
Squarepusher
Meanwhile Back in Communist Russia

13 years ago

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#18 Edited By Everyones_A_Critic

Explosions in the Sky are pretty good from the few songs I've heard by them.

13 years ago

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#19 Edited By nintendoeats

Bruce Cockburn released a compilation of his instrumental stuff. I love it. Its called Speechless. I hate the name.

13 years ago

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#20 Edited By muttjones

Ratatat

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#22 Edited By Chindie

@drag said:

" I'll run off a big list of bands here, obvious ones mostly but never mind. And also nothing particularly new, I do love me some post-rock (this is mostly that) but haven't really bothered to try to track down new stuff for about 5 years. Godspeed You Black Emperor God is An Astronaut Explosions in the Sky Mono Sigur Ros 65DaysofStaticEsmerine Blueneck Stars of the Lid Red Sparrowes Ef Saxon Shore Up C Down C Left C Right C ABC Start Eluvium A Silver Mt Zion pg.lost theseverelydeparted Olafur Arnald maybeshewillFlowers of Hell Rachel’s Isis Oceansize Magyar Posse Russian Circles Boris "

This man is on the ball. I'd particularly second the Sigur Rós, Eluvium, 65Daysofstatic, Mono, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed You! Black Emperor recommendations.

(although at the very least of those, Sigur Rós have vocals, as do GY!BE, but sod it they're a great bands ).

I'll also nominate Sleepmakeswaves. I think they've disbanded now but they released some good music, third album can be freely downloaded on their old label's site IIRC.

Yndi Halda are worth a look too.

As are Rob Dougan's instrumental works. Matrix fans will recognise some of his stuff.

Ludovico Einaudi is worth your time for a more modern classical style.

13 years ago

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#23 Edited By deathstroke75

@arab_prince said:

" Apocalyptica. That is all. "

I second that, seeing them in concert in a week or so, can't wait.

If you like some instrumental guitar, something with a little drive to it, check out Karma to Burn.

13 years ago

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#24 Edited By JasonR86

@LackLuster:

Explosions in the Sky, Tristeza, the majority of the Album Leaf, Andy Mckee (he's an acoustic guitar guy), and John Petrucci's solo stuff.

13 years ago

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#25 Edited By edtwo

it seems people have already mentioned liquid tension and apocalyptica. theres this weird ass swedish guitarist called Mattias Eklundh. his stuff is super unorthodox but i really like it

13 years ago