# Some good instrumental rock **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118 "2003-05-28T21:07:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/1 "2003-05-28T21:07:07Z")
Just what the title says: instrumental (or mostly) rock music. My contributions: **Frankenstein** - Edgar Winters Group **Fire on High** - Electric Light Orchestra **Green Onions** - Booker T & The MG’s What else you got? ---
**Author:** ![criminalcatalog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e68b1a/32.png) [@criminalcatalog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/criminalcatalog)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/2 "2003-05-28T21:15:19Z")
**Godspeed, You Black Emperor!** - motherfucker=emperor An ambassador to beautifully amalgamated sound ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/3 "2003-05-28T21:24:33Z")
**Hocus Pocus** - Focus **Rock and Roll Part 2** - Gary Glitter ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/4 "2003-05-28T21:27:47Z")
Anything by **Steve Howe**. The dude is amazing. * * * Fagjunk Theology: Not just for sodomite propagandists anymore. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/5 "2003-05-28T21:32:06Z")
Warning: predictable. 😉 You can’t have this discussion without the Allman Brothers. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed, Hot’Lanta, Mountain Jam, High Falls, True Gravity… the list goes on. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cholo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Cholo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cholo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/6 "2003-05-28T21:35:28Z")
**Tales of the Unexpected** - Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/7 "2003-05-28T21:42:49Z")
looking in my MP3 list – the artists here do only insturmental music (a few small exceptions on a song here and there.) The 5ive Style Aerial M Don Caballero Euphone The Grassy Knoll Heroic Doses Kev Hopper Medeski, Martin & Wood The Mercury Program Pullman Tortoise Trans AM Tristeza Tuatara Of course, the “rock” label may be stretched a bit here. ---
**Author:** ![Husker\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Husker\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Husker_Dude)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/8 "2003-05-28T21:45:22Z")
Fugazi - Arpeggiator The best guitar interplay I have ever heard. Definately my favorite instrumental. ---
**Author:** ![YellowTail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/b5ac83/32.png) [@YellowTail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YellowTail)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/9 "2003-05-28T21:53:46Z")
Little Wing, the Stevie Ray version. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/10 "2003-05-28T22:10:50Z")
[Joe Satriani](http://www.epicrecords.com/joesatriani/) [Eric Johnson](http://www.ericjohnson.com/) [Bond](http://www.bond-music.com/) [Vanessa Mae](http://www.vanessa-mae.com/) ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/11 "2003-05-28T22:45:44Z")
A lot of past and present surf guitar rock is instrumental. Some of the more notable artists include: -Dick Dale -The Ventures -Man… or Astroman? Outside of that, there’s: -Duane Eddy -Junior Walker Jimi Hendrix also did a few instrumentals. For more information, the best place to go is [this page at this site.](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?...281831&sql=C180) ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/12 "2003-05-29T01:40:50Z")
The Champs - T\*q\*\*la (I can’t write the song’s title here. It’d be a violation of the board policy prohibiting posting a song’s complete lyrics.) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@Earl\_of\_the\_CC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_of_the_CC)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/13 "2003-05-29T01:52:22Z")
The Trans Siberian Orchestra’s **Carol of the Bells** ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/14 "2003-05-29T01:56:55Z")
Been talking about this with my roommate recently. Overture from _Tommy_ by **The Who** is, in my opinion, one of the best rock instrumentals out there. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/15 "2003-05-29T02:05:17Z")
Both “Oscillate Wildly” and “Money Changes Everything” by **The Smiths**. ---
**Author:** ![Ms\_Boods](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5e9695/32.png) [@Ms\_Boods](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms_Boods)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/16 "2003-05-29T02:45:22Z")
“Perfidia” – I adore that! Anyone here familiar with the Portsmith Symphonia? Anyone can join up, it doesn’t matter if you can play a lick, and they have performed and recorded at tempo a number of well known tunes – like the Overture to Tommy – and they HAVE to be well known tunes, cos you sure as heck won’t recognise them! I have some of their, er, works on a cd called Dead Parrot Society (which also has Monty Python skits and Peter Cook/Dudley Moore things), but I don’t know if it’s still in print…if I remember the editor’s notes in the booklet, even he said he had to listen to the PS’s selections a few times before he could figure out what they were trying to play… cheers, Ms Boods ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/17 "2003-05-29T02:52:23Z")
:smack: Sorry about the bad link. [Go here](http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&uid=CASS80305282254&sql=C180) to find out more about instrumental rock. ---
**Author:** ![Vanyel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@Vanyel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vanyel)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/18 "2003-05-29T03:12:51Z")
Actually, I do have some stuff by Vanessa-Mae, but I was referring to groups (or individuals) who do _not_ do only instrumental music. Still, great list so far! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/19 "2003-05-29T06:38:58Z")
“Crystals” by Heroic Doses ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118/20 "2003-05-29T06:58:52Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Little Nemo \* > \*\*The Champs - T_q\*\*la > > (I can’t write the song’s title here. It’d be a violation of the board policy prohibiting posting a song’s complete lyrics.) \*\* 😃 😃 I’m a sucker for pretty much any instrumental on any Genesis album, especially the ones in “Firth of Fifth,” and “The Colony of Slippermen.” And, though lowbrow by comparison, I adore Camper Van Beethoven’s instrumentals. I made a mix tape once of just their great instrumentals. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/some-good-instrumental-rock/178118.md?page=2)