Instrumentals

[another Mr. Lizard]

Yo La Tengo 'I Heard You Looking' https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hx72I0dTOI

Teenage Fanclub cover version also available. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s5HpS2nQxeo

[Noddy Tomkey]

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

Came here to post that meself, been hammering it this week. A real beauty.

[Noddy Tomkey]

Space - Magic Fly!

[Dewt]

Space - Magic Fly!

If you're ready for me boy
you gotta push the button and let me know
before I get the wrong idea and go

[Noddy Tomkey]

If you're ready for me boy
you gotta push the button and let me know
before I get the wrong idea and go

What's up with you now?

I'd like to add another tune but my mind's gone blank and I'm dying for a wank.

[non capisco]

Cissy Strut - The Meters

I'm going to show off now and say that I saw George Porter Jr. play with his band in New Orleans last month and he's still amazing.

[NoSleep]

I'm going to show off now and say that I saw George Porter Jr. play with his band in New Orleans last month and he's still amazing.

I was sorry to discover (while looking for the track) that Art Neville died six months ago. Art and George were the two original members of the band that still played together (in The Funky Meters).

[Better Midlands]

Die Woodys - Fichtl's Lied

[DrGreggles]

Die Woodys - Fichtl's Lied

Strong vocals throughout, SURELY!

[Better Midlands]

Strong vocals throughout, SURELY!

I copied the wrong URL, It's all about the loop version, you beat me to the edit

[idunnosomename]

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

come on the original Genital Grinder (with the same awesome descending pull-off riff) is the real classic number

[Captain Z]

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

Oops, yeah. As I said I wasn't working to quite the same rules in my list and didn't think to remove that one.

[idunnosomename]

motzart - pachabel's cannon

[buzby]

Dave Brubeck – Take Five

See also Val Bennett - The Russians Are Coming
(used as the theme for The Secret Life Of Machines TV series)

Older classical pieces commonly used in pop culture:

Modest Mussorgsky - Night On The Bare Mountain (Peter Murphy Maxell 'Break The Sound Barrier ads)
J. S. Bach - Toccata & Fugue In D Minor
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Paganini Theme And Variations 1-4 (South Bank Show)
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Variation 19 (The Book Tower)
Clint Mansell - Welcome To Lunar Industries (Three Year Stretch)

New Order - Elegia
The KLF - What Time Is Love? (Pure Trance Original)
Ultravox - Astradyne
Sky - Toccata
Alan Parsons Project  - Sirius
Alan Parson Project - Mammagamma
Booker T & The MGs - Soul Limbo (BBC Cricket)
Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet - Manège (Picture Box)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Bean Bag (It's A Knockout)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass - Spanish Flea
Mick Weaver & Shawn Phillips - Jam For World In Action

Library Section:
Alan Hawkshaw - Studio 69/Blarney's Stoned (Dave Allen At Large)
Alan Hawkshaw - Chicken Man (Grange Hill/Give Us A Clue)
Sam Fonteyn - Pop Looks Bach (Ski Sunday)
Sam Fonteyn - Comedy Capers
Wayne Hill/The Noveltones - Left Bank Two (Vision On Gallery)
Paul Westwood - Born To Run (Strike It Lucky)
Laurie Johnson - Gala Performance (This Is Your Life)
Laurie Johnson Happy Go Lively
King Palmer - Holiday Playtime
Johnny Hawksworth - Up To Date (Man About The House)
Reginald Wake - Fruity Flute (Farmhouse Kitchen)
Syd Dale - Marching There And Back (Screen Test)
Alan Parker - The Free Life(B) (My World)
Simon Park - Eye Level (Van Der Valk)
Pete Moore - Asteroid (Pearl & Dean ) (borderline - has choral singing in it, but no words)

I think that's enough for now - I was going to do a John Barry section as well, but those are really obvious.

[mugwump ji sum]

Bernie Worrell - Atmosphere

Eddie Hazel - What About It

Horny Horns - Four Play

[studpuppet]

One more for the

Library Section:

The Detectives by Alan Tew (Charley Farley & Piggy Malone)

But I thought this was bands doing instrumentals (rather than film and TV themes, or instrumental bands like The Meters or early Kool & The Gang)? There's so many otherwise, Get Carter for instance.

[Dewt]

This has been driving me crazy, what is it? https://voca.ro/aROqV8NQjBT

(slightly tuneless rendition)

[idunnosomename]

the canonical metallica three (ktulu/orion/live is to die) i think hold a special place in post-surf rock guitar instrumentals

ALSO ALBATROSS YEAH FUCK IT.

[buzby]

But I thought this was bands doing instrumentals (rather than film and TV themes, or instrumental bands like The Meters or early Kool & The Gang)?

The distinction I made with the Library tunes I posted was that they were wrtiten and recorded as library tracks and were subsequently taken and used as TV themes, rather than written specifically for a TV show (like the one you posted, rather than Ronnie Hazlehurst's The Two Ronnies theme)

[idunnosomename]

This has been driving me crazy, what is it? https://voca.ro/aROqV8NQjBT

(slightly tuneless rendition)

it's from Tchaikovsky's the Nutcracker Suite as just about every tune you dont know where it's from is

edit the marche
you may know it as the Nutrocker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_Rocker

[buzby]

it's from Tchaikovsky's the Nutcracker Suite as just about every tune you dont know where it's from is

edit the marche
you may know it as the Nutrocker
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nut_Rocker

The one I know it from is B. Bumble & The Stingers' Nut Rocker early 60s rock & roll cover version.

[Dewt]

Thanks both. I forget this all the time because my brain thinks "it's classical... wait no it's rock" and then the source is completely obfuscated and I'm at a loss.

[NoSleep]

But I thought this was bands doing instrumentals (rather than film and TV themes, or instrumental bands like The Meters or early Kool & The Gang)?

Warning, not an instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoBIp817miY

[LORD BAD VIBE]

Joy Division - Incubation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12q03RA0HKY

The Smiths - Oscillate Wildly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfADf-PvhKY

P.I.L - Socialist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCjbImLgv2g

John Foxx - Glimmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7S6BMOCL_0

[DrGreggles]

Commodores - Machine Gun

[Better Midlands]

Are we not mentioning the Glittery elephant in the room?

[studpuppet]

The distinction I made with the Library tunes I posted was that they were wrtiten and recorded as library tracks and were subsequently taken and used as TV themes, rather than written specifically for a TV show (like the one you posted, rather than Ronnie Hazlehurst's The Two Ronnies theme)

Sorry - that probably sounded like I was getting at your post but I didn't mean to! Rather I was bemoaning that the floodgates had already opened before it!

Warning, not an instrumental: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoBIp817miY

Should have clarified:

Instrumental bands ≠ bands who do nothing but instrumentals
Instrumental bands = bands who are known for doing mostly instrumental tracks

Eg. Kool & The Gang did Open Sesame and Jungle Boogie pre-76 and most of their tracks have some sort of chant or lyrical element.

Are we not mentioning the Glittery elephant in the room?

You can have this version but the Gaddster sold his share of the songwriting credit on anyway:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_(Gary_Glitter_song)#Films

[idunnosomename]

i think wipe out counts as an instrumental despite "hahahaha wipeout".

[NoSleep]

Likewise "Pass The Peas".

[studpuppet]

Likewise "Pass The Peas".

Yes, but I'd have The Grunt on my list instead of that.

I'll give you Soul Power though, even though it's got the odd "Parrrty!" sprinkled though it as well as Martin Luther King.