# Need suggestions for some 'insane' instrumental music

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-some-insane-instrumental-music/712481>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 12, 2015, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-some-insane-instrumental-music/712481 "2015-02-12T16:28:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-some-insane-instrumental-music/712481/61 "2015-02-23T03:55:13Z")

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[Delirium in Hi-Fi](https://www.google.com/search?q=delirium+in+hi-fi&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8). Weird, wild stuff.

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**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-some-insane-instrumental-music/712481/62 "2015-02-23T14:59:13Z")

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Almost everyone is familiar with the “Dawn” segment of “Spake also Zarathustra”, but the portions following it are intended to portray mankind wandering about in search of knowlege and enlightenment.

Depending on your desire, this might be appropriate for insanity of the type exemplified by the Three Stoges quote “I’m tryin’a think … and nuthin’ happens!”

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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-some-insane-instrumental-music/712481/63 "2015-02-23T17:27:03Z")

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Aha! I knew I was forgetting one…[Liszt’s _Totentanz_,](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nVmFlSV1ok) a series of variations on the _Dies Irae_ chant.

Sections of this piece sound appropriately frantic and/or spooky enough, I think.

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**Author:** ![Allthegood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c68b51/32.png) [@Allthegood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Allthegood)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-suggestions-for-some-insane-instrumental-music/712481/64 "2015-02-27T07:02:41Z")

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Charles Ives: Three Quarter Tone Piano Pieces, written 1923–24.

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