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All we ask from you is a tune we can play TODAY.
This week’s theme: Instrumentals
What lyric-free choon tickles your ear buds?
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‘The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be__________________________________’
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The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be TOKiMONSTA – The Center.
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Closing Time by Tom Waits
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be theme from Local Hero.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pR1cVgk7Is
‘The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be The Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra’s rendition of the Rolling Stones: The Last Time.
Music for a Forgotten Future by Mogwai – 23 minutes of bliss
John Barry’s Midnight Cowboy
Christmas Steps by Mogwai
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be The In Sound From Way Out by the Beastie Boys. The entire album. Take a slice of chill cake and have a listen.
Maggot Brain by Funkadelic
without question, this.
and if not then green onions, or indeed anything by booker t and the mgs
‘I Am Not Lonely with Cricket’ by Papa M, fourteen minutes of lovliness, the Field Day version is a wee bit shorter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YMMQ0YTtlE
The Angelus by Jesus preformed by the RTE concert orchestra
REM New Orleans Instrumental No.1
Currently loving Monochrome Garden from Uyama Hiroto
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90nU13rL9yo
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be
Albatross by Fleetwood Mac.
I have to say that because it’s the first tune I ever heard,
It was playing in the maternity ward.
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be Ocean by John Butler, go ahead and give your ears a treat by giving this a listen – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0 (this is the short version, I don’t want to frighten you away)
love that
It’s amazing.
Albatross by Fleetwood Mac
‘The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be “My Father, My King” by Mogwai, or maybe “Mogwai Fear Satan” by, er, Mogwai.
Or Ennio morricones once upon a time in the west.
Either ‘Albatross’ by Fleetwood Mac, or ‘Set Guitars to Kill’ by And So I Watch You From Afar.
Albatross reminds me of summers working on a boat in Donegal when I was young, bobbing up and down on the flat water with the sun beating down (yes, I may have a selective memory with this!)
Set Guitars to Kill is the first track on the music memory stick in my car, so normally pops on as I leave the car park after work. It’s an exhilarating way to round off a day in the office!
I’m going with Glen Miller, “In The Mood”. Only cos I heard it on Dublin City FM this morning and it made me smile. Even sat in stupid traffic from Foxrock to Stillorgan.
Ah, Golden Discs. Worked for them in Bray for 7 years. Longest time I ever held job, good times.
Some Summers They Drop Like Flies by the Dirty Three, because it’s a mournful beauty and i don’t generally like instrumental but Warren Ellis’ violin is as emotive as any singer.
plus, it was repurposed for my favourite film of all time: The Proposition. it perfectly suited the savage violence and endless dusty landscape of that very atmospheroc film.
jaysus, typo city.
This also
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oag1Dfa1e_E
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Pulsating, sexy homage to NYC.
That opening clarinet swoop gives me the shivers. Brilliant.
I saw it performed live in the Hollywood Bowl a long time ago. I’ll never forget it.*
*untrue. I just remembered that I’d seen it now. Totally forgot about that night.
‘The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be this piece of dark whimsy from Thomas Newman’s score for the film of A Series Of Unfortunate Events.’
https://youtu.be/JoBnHYKcCRU
Memories of Green, Vangelis
Betty et Zorg, from Betty Blue, Gabriel Yared
Windowlicker, Aphex Twin
Lauras Theme from Twin Peaks, Badalamenti
Forbidden Colours, Sakamoto
Cluster One, Pink Floyd
Brothers, Ry Cooder
Pretty much anything from Talk Talk’s last two albums, as Mark Hollis’ lyrics by then were mere accompaniment to the delicious, sparse sounds.
Hollis’ solo album operated in a similar vein.
Very true. Donal Dineen used to play it regularly on his show a long time ago. Great stuff for the small hours.
Amazing that Hollis seemed to vanish completely after that.
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be “Frankenstein” by Edgar Winter Group.
Great song and fitting for the weekend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8f-Qb-bwlU
Morricone’s ‘the Good the Bad and The Ugly’ OR his ‘Gabriel’s Oboe’
‘Elegy for Dunkirk’ by Dario Marianelli
‘Shopping’ by Stereo MCs
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be An Ending by Brian Eno and I’ll tell you why if you care to listen – when you put in your earphones and play this tune on repeat, every single thing you do will turn into a surreal music video in your own mind, from walking to the train station or even going for a pee, shopping in Lidl is a masterpiece in videography, going to pick up the dole doesn’t probably doesn’t seem so bad, wading through the many, many colourful characters on Talbot St is like a moving work of art of the Flemish School, watching the skrotai wheelying up the street on really, really lovely mountain bike fills one with a temporal joy at the nature of movement, strolling past the perennially arguing non self-aware shouties on O’Connell street combined with the gentle warm waft of doughnuts being fried there is like live theater, with the volume turned off and replaced with the goosepimple inducing sounds of The Ending by Brian Eno, all is well in the world.
Dark was the Night-Cold was the Ground by Blind Willie Johnson.
I’m always awestruck by the creativity of the human spirit that someone could encapsulate the emotion of despair so beautifully.
Mark Knopfler- Irish boy (theme music from CAL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_BxMB_QkvM
The Big Ship from Another Green World by the great Brian Eno, the way it builds to the guitar coming in half way through always gets me.
Or else Flim by Aphex Twin from the Come to Daddy EP
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be F**k This S**t by Belle and Sebastian, from the Storytelling soundtrack album. Its harmonica-driven melody and John Barry-esque strings tread a impressively fine line between melancholy and jaunty. It’s also evocative enough to be played at a funeral and – as such – startle everyone who reads the title listed in the Requiem Mass booklet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMcmkaLJRfg
https://youtube.com/watch?v=QPNcDUW9fQM
My finest lyrics free thing would have to be Dracula Mountain by Lightning Bolt
Dat Pan-pie tune from the film about those mad priests in south america – The Mission
Pan-Pipe
Gabriel’s Pan Pipe?
that gabriel Byrne?
I’d suck the pan pipes off of him
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be Time by Hans Zimmer. Not only does it make absolutely everything more dramatic but is a superbly composed work, delivered with incredible passion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA7bI26Y8uU
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be ‘I Love NYE’ by Badly Drawn Boy as it’s just so very pretty.
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be Riverdance! The music is newly composed borrowing from the traditions of Ireland, the Balkans, Middle East and European cultures.
There are so many to choose from. People have already mentioned Mogwai, there are plenty more by them, Boards of Canada, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, KLF, Future Sounds of London, Amiina, The Orb, Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Nitin Sawhney, some classic Miles Davis (Blue in Green maybe) I don’t know.
I’d be torn between so many, but maybe Mylo’s Emtion 98.6 as it’s pure bliss but there are better. So It will have to be Orbital – Belfast. A classic piece of electronic from legends. The Glastonbury rendition is amazing. Seeing them in Belfast playing it twice in 2012 was a truly special moment, after 20 years since their previous show. They did it mid show and got everyone lifted and then again for the encore and it brought everyone together and the house down. A sublime piece of music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIMnUFCy458
Burial & Four Tet – Moth
https://youtu.be/sCzJQRVbWtE
Intro The XX enough said or not in this case
Albatross by Peter green and fleetwood mac. Chill the old fashioned way
mad rush by Philip Glass.
There’s a few recommends on here I look forward to checking out over the weekend :)
Too easy, “five piece chicken dinner” by the beastie boys.
Had it as my ringtone for a while.
Say i http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1yQyfwflE&sns=em
Metamorphosis by Philip Glass…its hypnotic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hMw1C6fPt8
Or a couple of slip jigs from planxty..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyE3Mye-eks
the Necks Drive by
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The Necks – Drive By from Alexander Lobanov on Vimeo.
‘The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be “Everyone’s a VIP to Someone” by The Go! Team’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AORosDGixrY
The finest contemporary musical composition without lyrics or singing would have to be “Da Funk” by Daft Punk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmi60Bd4jSs
Orbital – “The Box – Parts 1 & 2”
Pure Genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWi_7QSTUjE
John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3JpqhpkXg
The Liquidator
https://youtu.be/LmLDf9XKMfk