RFI: Instrumentals by bands better-known for being vocal groups

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Examples:

Elastica, "Miami Nice"
Clinic, "DJ Shangri-La"
Mos Def, "May-December"
The Rolling Stones, "Stoned"

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 12:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly, the Draize Train, and Money Changes Everything

Belle & Sebastian - most of Storytelling

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Radiohead - Treefingers, Meeting In The Aisle and Hunting Bears

― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 12:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Foreigner, "Tramontane"
Styx, "Aku-Aku"
Mudhoney, "Magnolia Caboose Babyshit"
Black Sabbath, "FX", "Laguna Sunrise"
AC/DC, "DT"
PiL, "Radio 4", "Hymie's Him"
Van Halen, "Eruption", "Spanish Fly", "Tora Tora", "Sunday Afternoon in the Park", "1984", "Cathedral", "Intruder"
that one on 'Loveless'

― dave q, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 12:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Led Zeppelin - Bron-Yr-Aur, Black Mountainside * Yes - Cans And Brahms, The Clap, Mood For A Day * Deep Purple - Wring That Neck * Beatles - Cry For A Shadow, Flying

― Damian (Damian), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 12:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, Let's Go Away for Awhile
Abba - Intermezzo No. 1
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Queen - Procession
XTC - Frost Circus, Processions Toward Learning Land
ELO - Fire on High

― dleone (dleone), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

My big discovery of the year : Journey of the Sorcerer by The Eagles aka the Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy sig tune.

Brilliant!

― phil jones (interstar), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 13:46 (twenty-three years ago)

o wait,i wanna-wanna-wanna second 'Journey of the Sorcerer'
...and wanna add 'Winged Mammal Theme', 'Fruity Organ' and 'Mandolin Strum' by dem Rapid-Eye-Movement'ers

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 15:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Cure, Carnage Visors.

I've made only one post today not relating to the Cure and I'm not sure how I feel about that. Nah, I'm proud to be a geek.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 15:26 (twenty-three years ago)

JSBX "Greyhound"
Jimi Hendrix Experience "Third Stone from the Sun"
Mr. Bungle "Chemical Marriage"
Beastie Boys "Sabrosa"
Primus "Hamburger Train"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Pretty Little Ditty"*

*I will never, ever, EVER forgive those Crazy Town fools for what they did to this song.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

REM - Zither.
Could I say the instrumental track's on Bowie's "Low"?
Lemonheads - The Jello Fund

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was going to say the ELO one! That track was the theme song to Wide World of Sports way back in the day.

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 16:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Linkin Park - "Cure for the Itch"

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 19:39 (twenty-three years ago)

ted nugent - homebound
ac/dc - d.t.

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Duran Duran "Tel Aviv"

― dek1, Tuesday, 31 December 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

The Low stuff definitely does count, yes. Covers, however, do not.

Adding to my own list:
Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Grandpappy Du Plenty"
Flaming Lips, "Approaching Pavonis Mons By Balloon"
Beck, "Black Balloon"
Beastie Boys, "In 3s"
Funkadelic, "I Wanna Know If It's Good To You (Instrumental)*"
Mudhoney, "Fuzzgun '91"
The Who, "The Ox"
Curtis Mayfield, "Think"

*This was the b-side of the original single, and isn't so much an instrumental of the song as it is a melting guitar nuclear holocaust over a similar rhythm as the a side. The version on Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow sloppily combined the A and B sides to jarring effect.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Wednesday, 1 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Metallica - The Call Of Ktulu (why if half of the album included tracks like this from the mustaine-era did they not put them on kill em all??) and Orion. the one on Justice For All isn't very good.

Gary Numan - Airlane and the piano version of Down In The Park.

― Wyndham Earl, Wednesday, 1 January 2003 04:57 (twenty-three years ago)

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