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General Topics => Music => Topic started by: usedbustickets on September 24, 2012, 16:10:17 PM
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Been giving this some thought over the last day or so, what is the greatest pop or rock instrumental ever (no voice at all please) and I got this down to these five:
Atlantis - The shadows (could of been any of a dozen of their hits!!)
Funeral for a friend - Elton John
Groovin with Mr Bloe - Mr Bloe
Stranger on the shore - Acker Bilk
Albatross - Peter green and Fleetwood Mac
what are your nominations? ;)
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Fanfare for the common man -ELP
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Walk dont run. The Ventures.
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Funeral for a Friend is certainly number one for me but how about
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
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Funeral for a Friend is certainly number one for me but how about
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
A musical masterpiece, but unfortunately it contains a voice, so it is not a complete instrumental. Even if that voice is that of the great Vivian Stanshall
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Classical gas - Mason Williams
Superb tar work :)
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Or 'guitar 'work even (keep up keyboard !!!!!!) :(
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You aint lived if you never heard McArthur park by Donna Summer or an even better instrumental version by Maynard Ferguson!
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If we are talking albums then it has to be "The Snow Goose" by Camel :)
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"Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding" is the opening track on the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John. The first part, "Funeral for a Friend", is an instrumental created by John while thinking of what kind of music he would like at his funeral. This first half segues into "Love Lies Bleeding." In the Eagle Vision documentary, "Classic Albums: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", John said the two songs weren't written as one piece, but fit together since "Funeral For A Friend" ends in the key of A, and "Love Lies Bleeding" opens in A, and the two were played as one elongated piece when recorded.
Absolutely fantastic when the two are played together ;D
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It's got to be Tubular Bells for me. When Oldfield first submitted it EMI told him it was a load of "self indulgent tripe" or something similar. It then topped the album charts for ages.
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Or a couple from the continent;
"Oxygene" - Jean Michelle Jarre.
"Sylvia" - Focus.
:)