what are your favorite rock instrumentals?
 

I find that a lot of the songs that move me the most are instrumentals and was just wondering if anyone else had any favorites. Here are two that I'm listening to a lot at the moment...

Happy Hunting Ground by The Church

http://www.sendspace.com/file/xk68yx

Wipe Me I'm Lucky by The Clean

http://www.sendspace.com/file/u8cpil

Hinterland - Strange Cargo (William Orbit)
Follow Your Bliss - B-52s
Sunny Side of Heaven - Fleetwood Mac

Albatross - FM

Egyptian Reggae - Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers.

Theme From Great Cities - Simple Minds

Peter Gunn - ELP

Teen Beat - FM

Wipe Out - the Ventures (originally by the Surfaris, but this version rocks like h*ll. Look at this incredibly fabulous clip; the frames are all modern graphics..)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYSDYDc8mE


wow.

Funeral For A Friend - Elton John

Just off the top of my head:

"In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" - Allman Brothers Band
"Hot 'Lanta" - Allman Brothers Band
"Les Brers In A Minor" - Allman Brothers Band
"Mountain Jam" - Allman Brothers Band (based on Donovan's tune "There Is A Mountain")
"Little Martha" - Allman Brothers Band
"Jessica" - Allman Brothers Band
"High Falls" - Allman Brothers Band
"Pegasus" - Allman Brothers Band
"Madness Of The West" - Allman Brothers Band
"True Gravity" - Allman Brothers Band
"Kind Of Bird" - Allman Brothers Band
"Instrumental Illness" - Allman Brothers Band

"Long Hard Ride" - The Marshall Tucker Band

"Asleep In The Desert" - ZZ Top

"A Day At The Dog Races" - Little Feat

"Hideaway" - Freddie King (but I like John Mayall's Bluesbreakers w/Eric Clapton's version better)
"The Stumble" - Freddie King (but I like John Mayall's Bluesbreakers w/Peter Green's version better; and the Peter Green Splinter Group's 1996 cover the best)
"San Ho-Zay" - Freddie King (but I like Rick Vito's live cover better)
"The Supernatural" - John Mayall's Bluesbreakers w/Peter Green

"Fleetwood Mac" - Fleetwood Mac
"Albatross" - Fleetwood Mac
"Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" - Fleetwood Mac
"Underway" - Fleetwood Mac
"Searching For Madge" - Fleetwood Mac
"Fighting For Madge" - Fleetwood Mac
"Oh Well, Part 2" - Fleetwood Mac
"Sunny Side Of Heaven" - Fleetwood Mac

"Burnt Foot" - Peter Green
"Apostle" - Peter Green
"Little Dreamer" - Peter Green
"Tribal Dance" - Peter Green Splinter Group
"Man Of The World" - Peter Green Splinter Group
"Hiding In Shadows" - Peter Green Splinter Group

"Midnight In San Juan" - Danny Kirwan

"Walkin' With The Deco Man" - Rick Vito
"Streamliner" - Rick Vito
"Exotica By Night" - Rick Vito
"Rhumba Diablo" - Rick Vito
"A Change Is Gonna Come" - Rick Vito (an instrumental version of a Sam Cooke song)

"Peaches & Diesel" - Eric Clapton

"Cat's Squirrel" - Cream (also done very well by Jethro Tull)
"Toad" - Cream

"Got To Hurry" - The Yardbirds (b-side of the "For Your Love" single)
"Beck's Bolero" - The Yardbirds
"Jeff's Boogie" - The Yardbirds
"White Summer" - The Yardbirds

"Black Mountain Side" - Led Zeppelin
"Moby Dick" - Led Zeppelin

"Star Spangled Banner" - Jimi Hendrix
"Pali Gap" - Jimi Hendrix

"Glad" - Traffic

"Cobwebs & Strange" - The Who

"Little Wing" - Stevie Ray Vaughan

"Sleepwalk" - Santo & Jonny

"Walk Don't Run" - The Ventures
"Hawaii Five-O" - The Ventures
"Sleigh Ride" - The Ventures

"Pipeline" - The Chantays

"Miserlou" - Dick Dale & The Del-Tones

"Mr. Moto" - The Challengers
"Red River Rock" - The Challengers
"Penetration" - The Challengers

"Pet Sounds" - The Beach Boys

"Green Onions" - Booker T & The MG's
"Time Is Tight" - Booker T & The MG's

"Flying" - The Beatles

And a few more I can't think of off the top of my head.

I don't think I have any rock instrumental favorites. But if you stripped the vocals off some of my favorite rock songs, like Rainbow Blues or Mama's Pearl, you'd have excellent rock instrumentals.

More darkwavish type instrumentals than rock, but hauntingly wonderful:
Devils Lake - Patrick O'Hearn
Upon The Wings of the Night - P. O'Hearn
Coba - P. O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn...wasn't he the bass player for Missing Persons? :shrug:

oh hooray ChiliD...I'm glad you put "green onions" coz I was going to do the same earlier, but thought it might not qualify as "rock". It is quite tame, but one of my alltime favs :thumbsup: (oh oh, are we showing our age now??:lol:)

I don't know about you, but I've been showing my age for a heckuva long time. :laugh:

Yes, he was! Go get his CD 'Indigo', it's brilliant!!!!!!:nod:

YYZ by Rush.

Actually, I prefer Dave Edmunds' version of The Stumble. Also by D.E.- Sabre Dance and Bizet's Farandole.

Also-

Astradyne by Ultravox

The Messiah Will Come Again by Gary Moore

God Bird Change by The Tubes

A few more:

"Freeway Jam" - Jeff Beck
"Cause We Ended As Lovers - Jeff Beck
"Blue Wind" - Jeff Beck
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat - Jeff Beck

Well, acutally all of Jeff's Blow By Blow and Wired albums.

Oh, yeah...

"Stephanie" - Lindsey Buckingham
"Django" - Lindsey Buckingham
"This Nearly Was Mine" - Lindsey Buckingham