Great Instrumental Rock Bands

[Drem]

I dunno if any of you listen to instrumental rock or not, but I listen to a stupid amount of it I guess, and my favorite 5 are

Té
The Samuel Jackson Five
Rovo
I'm Not A Gun
God Is An Astronaut

and no i don't really want you to tell me how much you like or don't like any of those. i want you to post your favorites so i can go find new music to listen to~

[brinstar]

rock:
mogwai
russian circles
mr. 1986 (they are local, but imagine what Explosions in the Sky would sound like if they had enormous elephant testes instead of mincey little wanknuts)

weird:
secret chiefs 3
estradasphere

those are the big ones, though i have found the following on pandora that i like, all very chill:

tristeza
faunts
tortoise (this is not the first i had heard of them but i now like them a lot more)

[Drem]

oh duh, i need to get a bunch of mogwai

i haven't heard of russian circles, tristeza, explosions in the sky, mr 1986, or faunts. i'll check those out, thx. let's trade on msn sometime

[brinstar]

mogwai's new album is pretty strong. russian circles just put out a new one that i have yet to pick up, but their first one is great (check youtube for live performances).

EitS is okay if you like taking naps, personally i am underwhelmed by them-- they never seem to push the music far enough, if that makes any sense. it's too safe, i guess? mr. 1986 pushes the music right off the cliff, jumps after it, and lands on it knees-first. sadly, they just had their final farewell show last month. it sucked to see them hang it up for good, but goddamn what a show!

[Tikker]

I'm not a big lover of pure instrumental stuff, but for extended instrumentals I really like the Kath Era Chicago recordings

[brinstar]

tikker likes chicago

film at eleven

[Tikker]

Kath era Chicago was spectacular

[Nusk]

ozric tentacles (guilty pleasure)


Dick Dale and the deltones (cannot deny the king of the surf guitar)


and the greatest instrumental rock band of all time


btw i checked out those bands you posted... very fun

[brinstar]

hah i've seen dick dale perform twice, great show

[Nusk]

he makes my eardrums bleed he is so fricken loud

[brinstar]

no joke

apparently we have him to thank for all those badass amps Fender has put out over the years-- dale was friends with leo fender back in the day, and said "leo, i keep blowing out these amps. can't you make them more powerful?"

[Drem]

probably just me but i don't get any sound from embedded youtube links on this site

i haven't listened to a lot of that stuff that's posted so this thread is doing me well already. thanks guys.

mostly the instrumental bands i'm getting into are from japan, like euphoria, te, toe, mono, and some really crazy vietnamese stuff from my girlfriend

some other mentions:

wake this day
gifts from enola
my education
part rocket
we're from japan!
red sparowes
sundaysounds
go-neko!
emphasis
general fuzz

and i appreciate the chicago plug but i'm more looking for music recorded in the last decade so i could actually go see them live if i wanted to. when i decided to accept it, i realised there's a hell of a lot of good rock recorded in the last 4 years. mostly all of it instrumental, which is great for me because i think the singer usually is what makes me hate most rock

[Nusk]

im liking these music threads, cant say i like all the bands that i never heard of but at least its something new to me and that is always good

[Drem]

thinking about starting a metal thread.... but i only listen to like 5 metal bands

[Harrison]

I could talk all day about the various stretches of metal over the decades lol

[Foutty]

Pelican

[Evermore]

I could talk all day about the various stretches of metal over the decades lol

lol same here. I'm an old metal head from way back.


btw instramentals = Santana. Europa, Samba Pa Ti, Soul Sacrifice to name a few I have been a huge fan since his 1st album came out.

Who can forget these?

Tubular Bells. - Mike Olfield was 18 and played something like 194 instraments on this.

And a sweedish ( i think ) One hit Wonder. Focus.

Do not forget Pink Floyd or Deep Purple. Specifically, Lazy. Jon Lord/Blackmore own that song

[Evermore]

he makes my eardrums bleed he is so fricken loud

Ever see Ted Nugent live? or Manowar?

[Trielelvan]

he makes my eardrums bleed he is so fricken loud

Ever see Ted Nugent live? or Manowar?

HAHAHA lol man that is no lie. Honorable mention goes to Gwar too for rendering me deaf for near a solid week, but what a show /nostalgia

[Evermore]

Maiden is VERY loud in live also however their sound guy has his shit together. not one note distorted and i swear you could hear a fly fart. awesome sound. hell he even got the audience coming thru clear

[brinstar]

ah shit i forgot about pelican. thumbs up for them

[10sun]

Santana

and a local band Brainbow, something like 4 guitars, 2 bass, drummer, & keyboardist. I've seen them open a few shows and they always remind me of Sunshine's soundtrack by Underworld & John Murphy. Good guys too, got them a round at one of the first shows I saw them at and they got me back last time.

[Soulslicer]

Apocalyptica

[Gypsiyee]

no arcade fire love? /boggle

[recks]

Don't think Arcade Fire are instrumental. Although they do have a shit load of instruments