Instrumentals: Rules for not knowing the words
July 8, 2008
Love my instrumentals. Where have they gone? Here are some of my faves…
The 50s, Les Baxter:
The 60s, Herb Alpert:
The 70s, Hot Butter:
The 80s, Herbie Hancock:
Am I missing any good ones in the last decade of the last century or in this century?
UPDATE: Blog friend North Dallas Thirty reminded me of this great song from the 90s by Robert Miles:
And I thought maybe this was from the 21st century, but wrong…it came out in 2000:
What does the 21st century have against instrumentals?
UPDATE 2:
Blog friend superdave linked this great song from the 30s:
and while I’m at it, the 40s weren’t so bad either:
July 9, 2008 at 11:36 am
I can’t view videos from work, but I didn’t see anything from ArtofNoise?
July 9, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Never was a big fan. I liked Beat Box. And Kiss is fun(because of Tom Jones)but that’s not an instrumental.
July 9, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Sing,_Sing,_Sing from Benny Goodman and Take_Five by Dave Brubeck need to be on the list, Fa Shizzle.
July 9, 2008 at 9:56 pm
Thanks for the links
. That Benny Goodman tune is smokin’ (it has a cowbell!). Why did I stop at the fifties?
July 9, 2008 at 10:48 pm
and “sing, sing sing” is a crappy name for an instrumental.
July 10, 2008 at 12:02 pm
I agree. Where’s the singing? Irony,perhaps?
July 10, 2008 at 12:04 pm
And In the Mood rocks pretty good, too!
July 12, 2008 at 5:15 pm
am totes gonna steal Herb Alpert for my monday morning dance party.
one of my favorite instrumentals, which my little bro says would be my wedding walk-in song if i ever had one, is pharoahe monch’s “simon says”
July 13, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Okay, John. Enough rest. Back to work.
July 13, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Steal away, col. What’s mine is yours and what’s not mine is still yours.
I’m working on it, Dave. Finding hotness in the world isn’t easy.
July 14, 2008 at 5:25 am
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