Instrumentals

[TheMonk]

I'd like to do a playlist of good instrumentals that are well known.
Without lyrics to search though, if you don't know who does them they are hard to find.
Can anyone help with a list of great or well known pop/rock instrumentals?
For starters:
Song For The Common Man- ELP
Going Home- Knopfler
Contusion- Stevie Wonder
Hand In Hand- Phil Collins
The Brazilian- Genesis
Love's Theme- Love Unlimited Orchestra
Breezin'- George Benson
Song For Guy- Elton John

[purlieu]

The Shadows - Apache, Wonderful Land, FBI, etc.
The Tornadoes - Telstar
Simple Minds - Theme for Great Cities
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells (if you want side-long), In Dulci Jubilo (if you want Christmas), Portsmouth, Taurus 3
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene IV

[studpuppet]

Left Bank Two by The Noveltones

The Gonk by Herbert Chappell

Flying by The Beatles

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces

Let's Go Away For A While by The Beach Boys

[Dewt]

My Bloody Valentine - Instrumental B

[NoSleep]

Rockit - Herbie Hancock

Miserlou - Dick Dale

Soul Bossa Nova - Quincy Jones

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Hugo Montenegro

Also Spake Zarathustra - Deodato

[NoSleep]

Al Naafiysh (The Soul) - Hashim

Beatbox - The Art of Noise

Shout - Jack Frost & The Circle Jerks

[DrGreggles]

Ogden's Nut Gone Flake by The Small Faces

Also Wide-Eyed Girl On The Wall: https://youtu.be/xphHp700U_4

[NoSleep]

Time is Tight - Booker & The M.G.'s

Green Onions - Booker T & The M.G.'s

Last Night - The Mar-Keys (Stax house band including members of the above)

Pass the Peas - The J.B.'s

Cissy Strut - The Meters

[LORD BAD VIBE]

Man With the Golden Arm - Jet Harris
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBu3zSbvd4I

Albatross - Fleetwood Mac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOJeMv1zNDY

Cobwebs and Strange - The Who
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcpkUNqrjQU

Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold - Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDsCZFimAuE

Speed of Life - Dave Bowie and the Dave Bowie Band (feat. Dave Bowie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkyp6HCqrs4

Fluff - Black Sabbath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-XRI2p4Y-Q

Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o2sA0vpA-4

[Better Midlands]

The Tweets - The Birdie Song

[Shaky]

Carcass - Genital Grinder 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LofrBLPEGcY

Rush - YYZ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I

[jobotic]

Santo & Johnny - Sleep Walk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBRCvVpknvg

[Phil_A]

Turkeys - The Bonzo Dog Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUk-iuzo1DA

Frank Zappa - Peaches En Regalia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQKP3Ehucg

Bowie & Eno - Art Decade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gsPtcQbymc

Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlaTeXX3uH8

The Blur Band have done a few:
The Debt Collector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7epMm3_tOU

Intermission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZCt92zLmLI

Commercial Break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzek85985hY

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Durutti Column - Sketch For Summer

[NoSleep]

Theme For Great Cities - Simple Minds

[NoSleep]

Precious Mountain - Quickspace

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Precious Mountain - Quickspace

Yes!   There's this lovely version from the 'Precious Falling' album as well.

[NoSleep]

Sabre Dance - Love Sculpture (incl. Dave Edmunds on guitar)

[NoSleep]

Hu - Dif Juz

[NoSleep]

Sir B. McKenzie's Daughter's Lament For The 77th Mounted Lancers Retreat From The Straits Of Loch Knombe, In The Year Of Our Lord 1727, On The Occasion Of The Announcement Of Her Marriage To The Laird Of Kinleakie - Fairport Convention (Guinness Book of Records attempt with the title there)

And while we're on jigs:

Jig-A-Jig - East Of Eden

[NoSleep]

Wring That Neck - Deep Purple

Which got "borrowed" by It's A Beautiful Day (the two bands toured together in the States):

Don And Dewey - It's A Beautiful Day (titled after Don 'Sugarcane" Harris' group of the 50's)

So Deep Purple "borrowed" this back in return (see if you recognise what they used from it):

Bombay Calling - It's A Beautiful Day

What gentlemen they were with their actually-creative copyright to-and-fro-ings back in the day.

[NoSleep]

The Sick Rose - David Axelrod

[jobotic]

Yes!   There's this lovely version from the 'Precious Falling' album as well.

Maybe my favourite Quickspace track that. Gorgeous.

Not exactly well known though!

[DrGreggles]

The Blur Band have done a few:
The Debt Collector
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7epMm3_tOU

Intermission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZCt92zLmLI

Commercial Break
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzek85985hY

And Supa Shoppa: https://youtu.be/l1KbMtgHgT8?t=61

[NoSleep]

You Can't Even Walk In The Park - Johnny Pate from the soundtrack of Shaft In Africa.

And Johnny Pate is the musical director on the Superfly soundtrack:

Think - Curtis Mayfield

Two soundtracks that have way outlasted the films they came from.

[NoSleep]

Maybe my favourite Quickspace track that. Gorgeous.

Not exactly well known though!

And yet the most talked about in this thread.

[Bennett Brauer]

Popcorn, obviously.

I think the 1969 original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWbR4kweaFk#t=9m57s would be a better choice than the well known Hot Butter version.

[Captain Z]

I began compiling a you-know-the-song-but-not-the-name list a while ago.

Dave Brubeck – Take Five

Gert Wilden - Crafty Party

Henry Mancini - Baby Elephant Walk

Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces

The Allman Brothers Band – Jessica (Top Gear Theme)

Hot Butter - Popcorn

Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme

Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F

Kaoma - Lambada

Rob Dougan – Clubbed To Death

Tomoyasu Hotei – Battle Without Honour Or Humanity

Royksopp – Eple


Older classical pieces commonly used in pop culture:

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: O Fortuna
Strauss – Blue Danube Waltz
Clint Mansell – Requiem For A Dream
Sergei Prokofiev – Dance of the Knights
Carmille Saint-Saens – The Aquarium

[Captain Z]

Oasis - Fuckin' In The Bushes

Oasis - The Swamp Song

[purlieu]

Carl Orff - Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

Let's be fair, this is a long way from being an instrumental.