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Swansman

Swansman

Pro-peace
May 13, 2019
22,320
Sweden
I listen to a shit load of instrumental music and there's so many classics to choose from. Some just fall on the goal line - like The Tornadoes "Telstar" which is a good track but actually very enhanced because of the whole Joe Meek thing. A lot of other surf or surfesque music also comes close, like there's a version of Dick Dale's "Ghostriders in the Sky" that raises my armhair.

If I would pick a top three, the number one choice would be my number one choice at any given point: Kool & the Gang's Summer Madness from 1974 is just a brilliant piece of music. It's a perfect song, from the first few tones... and then the bass just rolling in... there's not a bad second in this song. Its a damn shame there isnt like a 14 minute version of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SFt7JHwJeg

Back in the days I used to have Booker T & The MGs "Melting Pot" as second, however it turned it is possible to wear it out so I've decided to give a ten year break so I can enjoy it again. So I'm going with something that catches my current mood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56yeZtqQTs

This means I found my current top 2 while exploring music that Will Smith sampled back in the days... weeeird.

My third choice, always floating around on my top 10 list, would be Bo Hansson's "Born of the Gentle South", the centerpiece of his album "Music Inspired by Watership Down". The track is sixteen minutes long and there is a segment here and there that I dont fancy too much, but generally its great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b344JgQX5Q8
 


darkwolf666

darkwolf666

Well-known member
Nov 8, 2015
7,657
Sittingbourne, Kent
Swansman said:
I listen to a shit load of instrumental music and there's so many classics to choose from. Some just fall on the goal line - like The Tornadoes "Telstar" which is a good track but actually very enhanced because of the whole Joe Meek thing. A lot of other surf or surfesque music also comes close, like there's a version of Dick Dale's "Ghostriders in the Sky" that raises my armhair.

If I would pick a top three, the number one choice would be my number one choice at any given point: Kool & the Gang's Summer Madness from 1974 is just a brilliant piece of music. It's a perfect song, from the first few tones... and then the bass just rolling in... there's not a bad second in this song. Its a damn shame there isnt like a 14 minute version of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SFt7JHwJeg

Back in the days I used to have Booker T & The MGs "Melting Pot" as second, however it turned it is possible to wear it out so I've decided to give a ten year break so I can enjoy it again. So I'm going with something that catches my current mood:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V56yeZtqQTs

This means I found my current top 2 while exploring music that Will Smith sampled back in the days... weeeird.

My third choice, always floating around on my top 10 list, would be Bo Hansson's "Born of the Gentle South", the centerpiece of his album "Music Inspired by Watership Down". The track is sixteen minutes long and there is a segment here and there that I dont fancy too much, but generally its great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b344JgQX5Q8
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But The Tornados was from 1962, that's pretty mad when you listen to it nearly 50 years later...

I'm calling in VAR, which says it was not only over the line, but in the back of the net...!
 








jakarta

jakarta

Well-known member
May 25, 2007
15,738
Sullington
darkwolf666 said:
Pretty ignorant towards Hawkwind, excepting their Silver Machine, so this was great to hear!
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Just look up on You Tube Space Ritual essentially a live record of their stuff up to 1972, the tour being paid for by the (wholly unexpected) hit that was Silver Machine. One of the finest live albums ever.
 




Swansman

Swansman

Pro-peace
May 13, 2019
22,320
Sweden
darkwolf666 said:
But The Tornados was from 1962, that's pretty mad when you listen to it nearly 50 years later...

I'm calling in VAR, which says it was not only over the line, but in the back of the net...!
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Its actually nearly 60 years... sorry.

Yeah I mean I like the track, I've always liked it since my teacher showed it to me back in 2005 and demanded that my next writing project would about Joe Meek.

Maybe it lost a tiny bit of value to me when I watched the recording from when the Tornadoes performed the song for the first time in many years. The guy looking like the mayor from Spin City is possibly doing the worst piece of guitar play I have ever heard from a professional musician:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENFz2gVItjc

And you know... I cant just call it the best instrumental song ever because of how technologically advanced it sounds despite its age. In that case I would just have to sit around and listen to Stockhausen all day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qi4hgT_d0o
 






hart's shirt

hart's shirt

Well-known member
Jul 8, 2003
11,082
Kitbag in Dubai
You'll have to have 2.

I can never decide between the Beasties bom chicka wah wah and DD with Andy Hamilton's sax transporting the listener to faraway places.



 


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