Instrumental music

[Biological-Bum]

Does anyone here listen to many form of instrumental music? (includes older and newer instrumental music). People my age sometimes find it hard to believe that someone my age likes instrumental music. I do enjoy listening to classical music, more modern classical music (late 1800s through early 1900s) new age instrumental music, and new music composed in classical style or with "classical" instruments. It seems like instrumental music is pre-judged by many people these days. When people think of instumental music, they immediately assume classical. There are many more types than that. So any comments?

[mabufo]

I think the term instrumental covers too broad of a genre! I could listen to rock and roll songs with no lyrics and call it instrumental, though I'm pretty sure that'd be a misuse of the term... Would it be?

[p1nkfl0yd1an]

Medeski Martin and Wood

Yes (love their instrumental bits)

Emmerson Lake and Palmer (also love their instrumental bits)

Liquid Tension Experiment

Dream Theater (some of their stuff is instrumental)

[Biological-Bum]

Electrical instruments work too. I just mean with no vocals. Or soemthing like that.

[compy905]

Many metal bands have instrumental tracks. They are usually my favorite songs on an album. Nothing is better than a band just rocking out for 10-15 minutes with no vocals. When I was in our band we would always just rock out with no vocals for at least 20 minutes every practice. We liked doing that so much that we kicked our singer out.

He also sucked as a singer...

[gonchong]

Check out Explosions In The Sky, a band from Austin Texas. Amazing.

http://www.explosionsinthesky.com/home.php

[Woe Kitten]

31 Knots - A half life in two movements
Bert Jansch - Anji (or the Stan Webb version which is also excellent, or even the Simon and Garfunkel version which is not that bad either)

[Hyp-R]

Joe Satriani anyone?

not sure if it counts, but he Rarely sings in any of his songs

[dragonfliet]

Ahh, instrumentals are my fav. Recently, Scotch and Chocolate by Nickle Creek has been spinning playing over and over in my player. God what a great song. I'm a bit of a fan of Blockhead, which is instrumental hip hop. Not what you'd expect at all and you're doing yourself a great disservice if you pass it up.
Classical is also nice and good, but it doesn't always cover waht you need. I could listen to Vivaldi's four seasons for hours on end, but after that, you just need some beautiful beats.

Lastly, as I'm a huge techno fan, instrumental music is essentially all I listen to. Yay me.

~Jason

[Biological-Bum]

I have a feeling that people would like classical music more if they looked at the lesser known composers. It seems like many people think of only 2 people when they think of classical music, Beethoven and Mozart. I like many other composers' music more. Like Maurice Ravel, just to name one.

[Spas12]

blue man group

[Spartan]

I have a feeling that people would like classical music more if they looked at the lesser known composers. It seems like many people think of only 2 people when they think of classical music, Beethoven and Mozart. I like many other composers' music more. Like Maurice Ravel, just to name one.

I prefer the more modern stuff. I have quite a large collection of orchestration music from various movies and games. I have a lot of music from stuff like....

Civ 4
Medal of Honor
Halo
Escaflowne
Wolf's Rain
Saving Private Ryan
Lord of the Rings
Narnia
Age of Chivalry

I'd check out the music from that stuff.

[br fan dan]

one of the best torrents i have ever downloaded, was the entire collection star wars soundtracks by john williams.

[zombie@computer]

dont forget the soundtrack of bravehearth

[Biological-Bum]

I do like soundtrack music. I do not have any colections, though. One person that has an incredible amount of music from various movies and games is my brother. He mostly collects music from rpg games. He also likes to collect Japanese music. One of the Japanese composers he likes is Joe Hisashi.