Favorite pop instrumentals?

[James]

This of course can include most "jazz", which is a form of popular music - and deals largely with simple song form as it's basis, but can be more ambitious in scope/structure. Ditto some rock. These are acceptable as well. I think soundtracks can work here too - as they are a result of the popular entertainment industry (Movies, TV). So anything within the bracket of popular music & entertainment would be acceptable. Try to limit your list to about 10 good choices, if you can't come up with 10, then maybe 5 good ones. The more specific you can be the better - as in, exact tune, recording etc.  Thinking of my choices now .. will post later. Have fun.

[Drasko]

Neil Young - Dead Man Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-S9lrnLZ8

Robert Belfour - Hill Stomp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kmk1cBzCfw

Paco de Lucia - Almoraima
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fccZqn5XToE

Lajko Felix - Part I (1998 Budapest Concert)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzmNgxB9_lc

[Sergeant Rock]

"The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" ...Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra
"Love is Blue" ...Paul Mauriat
"Take Five" ... The Dave Brubeck Quartet
"Green Onions" ...Booker T & the M G 's
"Rumble" ...Link Wray and the Wraymen


Sarge

[Mirror Image]

I'm not sure what James is doing with this thread since I believe he's completely disingenuous about everything he's posted about 'pop music' BUT I love Shambelle by The Police:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Wkq_OGOMngs

[NikF]

Carl Kress and Eddie Lang: Pickin' my Way - https://youtu.be/uhcrRuTsPFI

Dave Brubeck Quartet: 40 Days - this live version  https://youtu.be/L7dBplP_PfM

Bernard Herrmann: Taxi Driver soundtrack - http://youtu.be/Bx4aK-YsPeU

Lester Young: They can't Take That Away from Me - http://youtu.be/MWyNbHbNXfU

Jean Wiener: Touchez Pas Au Grisbi soundtrack - http://youtu.be/B76qTUd6_8o

Dick Dale: Misirlou - http://youtu.be/-y3h9p_c5-M

Ellington: Isfahan - http://youtu.be/YFCku__tLM0

Adrian Legg: Waltz for Derroll - http://youtu.be/evU_aNzmFjk (but the version from 'Technopicker')

Artie Shaw & his Gramercy Five: Don't Take Your Love from Me - http://youtu.be/YqPjvu1Ahy4

Ahmad Jamal: Poinciana  - http://youtu.be/Ev-3kIXlEGA 

[Ken B]

I have always preferred instrumental music to all else, and mainly listen to it. I feel lucky to have grown up during a brief time in popular music where instrumental outfits used to fill stadiums and musicians were revered for the ability to play their asses off, and not in a mindless way. Jazz was really happening during my day and it had gone electric. The musicians at the forefront of it were mostly bonafide geniuses. Not flashes in the pan. It was a great period of experimentation that has yet to be matched. Ditto the level of playing & composition. We don't see much of that today in mainstream pop music. I'd be interested in a survey here of the greatest pop artists and albums off all time too, curious to see how much new stuff would make the cut ..

Off the top of my head ..

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, Tribute to Jack Johnson
Weather Report - Birdland, Teen Town, Elegant People, Mysterious Traveller & many others
Mahavishnu Orchestra - A Lotus on Irish Streams, Sanctuary, Power of Love & others
Herbie Hancock - Actual Proof, Chameleon, Watermelon Man & others
Chick Corea - Spain, Tale of Daring & many others
Jeff Beck - Cause We've Ended As Lovers & many others
Jan Hammer - The Last Seven Days, Miami Vice Soundtrack & others
Frank Zappa - Peaches en Regalia, The Black Page, RDNZL, Sofa and many others
Tony Williams Lifetime - Fred, Proto-Cosmos & others
Billy Cobham - Stratus
Jaco Pastorius - Portrait of Tracy, Continuum
Shakti - Natural Elements
George Benson - Soulful Strut, Affirmation & others
Brecker Brothers etc...

What? No Tori Amos? Well aren't you the closed-minded bugger.

[North Star]

Pekka Pohjola - Try To Remember

https://www.youtube.com/v/v085JKKzNRE

[Karl Henning]

Unreconstructably, I'm a huge fan of the Penguin Café Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/v/s7W_hiBK8Os

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[Klaze]

King Crimson - Fracture
King Crimson - Sartori in Tangier
Autechre - Dael
Do Make Say Think - Auberge le Mouton Noir
Zappa - Echnida's Arf
Sonny Sharrock - My Song
Sonny Sharrock - Who does she hope to be?
Coltrane - Alabama
Captain Beefheart - Ice Rose
Led Zeppelin - Bron Yr Aur

[Karl Henning]

King Crimson - Fracture
King Crimson - Sartori in Tangier

Love these.

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[Rinaldo]

Off the top of my head..

David Bowie - Speed Of Life
https://www.youtube.com/v/Hkyp6HCqrs4

Brian Eno - The Big Ship
https://www.youtube.com/v/pE8qrhESTqE

Neu! - Seeland
https://www.youtube.com/v/XENiO6TnteE

The Prodigy - Weather Expericence
https://www.youtube.com/v/6Yinw2zjVm8

Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
https://www.youtube.com/v/A2zKARkpDW4

Pelican - Far From Fields
https://www.youtube.com/v/tMommNkrpEo

Neil Young - Dead Man Theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi-S9lrnLZ8

Yes, yes, yes – one of the greatest main themes AND rock instrumentals of all time.

[James]

Some more faves ..

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Live at the Plugged Nickel
Monk - Pannonica, Trinkle Tinkle & many others
Trane - Coltrane's Sound, A Love Supreme & others
Charlie Parker with Strings
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Brecker/Ogerman - Cityscape
Wayne Shorter - Footprints, Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum, Sightseeing & many others
Ellington - In A Sentimental Mood & others
Joe Zawinul - D-Flat Waltz, The Orphan & others
Carl Stalling - Warner Bros. Cartoons
Hendrix - 3rd Stone from the Sun, Villanova Junction, Born Under A Bad Sign
Jimmy Smith - Off the Top

[vandermolen]

Unreconstructably, I'm a huge fan of the Penguin Café Orchestra:

https://www.youtube.com/v/s7W_hiBK8Os

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Great minds etc.....
I just bought this CD. I associate the LP with the time I was first going out with my wife:
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My daughter is very scathing about my choice in pop music which includes:
Judy Tzuke 'Stay with me till Dawn' - in recent years I have seen her several times in concert and always enjoyed it.
Also Jimi Hendrix and 'Badge' by Cream/Eric Clapton. Chicago Transit Authority, especially the track 'Beginnings'. I was a jazz-rock fan before discovering Vaughan Williams and Miaskovsky.

Judy Tzuke:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Lk-acekQGs

[Madiel]

What? No Tori Amos? Well aren't you the closed-minded bugger.

Personally her instrumentals aren't up to much.

[Florestan]

OTOMH, distant memories of my gone (alas!) youth...

Metallica - The Call of Ktulu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWGOEWdV13M

Metallica - introductory section to One https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSNJ00iAZ7I (00:00 - 01:25)

[Jay F]

Lots of instrumentals baby boomers will be familiar with:

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[snyprrr]

The Munsters
Hawaii 5-0
Perry Mason
Mission Impossible



continue from there....

[snyprrr]

ELO 'Fire On High'



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