Recommend some instrumental albums...

some I enjoy:
Phil Keaggy - The Master & the Musician
Phil Keaggy - Wind & The Wheat
Phil Keaggy - Beyond Nature
Frank Zappa - Orchestral Favorites
Frank Zappa - Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
Joe Satriani - Not of this Earth
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Lanny Cordola - Electric Warrior Acoustic Saint
Lanny Cordola - Of Riffs & Symphonies
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - s/t
Marty Friedman - Music For Speeding
Marty Friedman - Dragon's Kiss

Like Rock instrumental or metal instrumentals?

cuz i probobly could recommend a few Jazz instrumentals

The only instrumental album I own is "FIEND CLUB LOUNGE" by The Misfits with the Nutley Brass... lounge-version instrumental covers of Misfits songs. It's frickin' hilarious but strictly a novelty item.

My favorite is "The Last Bullfighter" from the Jazz on the Latin Side All Stars. Say that 3 times fast.

Freddy when was this CD released? That sounds hilarous, lounge versions of Misfits classics!!!

Maybe some Vinnie Moore?

manny wrote:

Freddy when was this CD released? That sounds hilarous, lounge versions of Misfits classics!!!

2004, I think (I don't have the disc handy at the moment to check)...

You can get it used and cheap from Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Fiend-Lounge-Misfits-Nutley-Brass/dp/B0009UC7NO/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1224165299&sr=8-1




It's almost worth the album price just for the cover art. (There's a drink coaster packaged inside with the same picture on it!)

The album itself is just as bizarre as you'd expect...Misfits tunes played on saxophone, piano, xylophones, there are weird Lawrence Welk bubble sound effects, breathy "ooh's" and "aaah's" in the backgrounds... when I reviewed the CD for Detritus, I said something like "Imagine if the Misfits went back in time to the late 50s and got a job as the house band in a Las Vegas casino lounge." Seriously, this stuff could be the soundtrack to the next Austin Powers movie...though I really wish it had vocals. It would be 100 times funnier if they had some Dean Martin-style crooner singing stuff like "Skulls" over such syrupy music!!

It's really the kind of thing I only listen to once in a blue moon, either when I've had a few too many or I'm just in the mood for a laugh.

Sounds cool thanks for the info Freddy

Looking for mostly guitar based instrumental albums. Basically, list some of your favorite instruemental or instruMETAL CDs...

manny wrote:

Sounds cool thanks for the info Freddy

No prob, manny. I just dug up my review of the disc that I wrote for Detritus a few years back and PM'd it to ya to check out... I wouldn't recommend paying full price for it but if you can get a cheap used copy it's good for a few laughs.

Sorry Ult, didn't mean to derail your thread.

That sounds like the Richard Cheese albums. Reminds me of the old SNL skits where Bill Murray imitated a lounge singer. "Star W-a-a-a-rs...nuthin' but Star W-a-a-a-a-rs..."

I have the Richard Cheese where he sings NIN's "Closer" (Just hearing F bombs in lounge is hilarious) and Offspring's "Come Out and Play" (he actually yells L'chaim in that one)

Oh, and the only instrumental albums I own are:

A Classic Case - The London Symphony Orchestra Plays The Music Of Jethro Tull

Vangelis - Odyssey

MAYBE SOME VINNIE MOORE???????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ultmetal wrote:

some I enjoy:
Phil Keaggy - The Master & the Musician
Phil Keaggy - Wind & The Wheat
Phil Keaggy - Beyond Nature
Frank Zappa - Orchestral Favorites
Frank Zappa - Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar
Joe Satriani - Not of this Earth
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Joe Satriani - The Extremist
Lanny Cordola - Electric Warrior Acoustic Saint
Lanny Cordola - Of Riffs & Symphonies
Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force - s/t
Marty Friedman - Music For Speeding
Marty Friedman - Dragon's Kiss

The extremist is one of my all time favorites, instrumental or otherwise. Ult, check out Satch's S/T from the late 90's. It's a bit of blues, a bit of Jazz, and very enjoyable. Peace.

ok Kmorg,

Vinnie Moore-Mind's Eye

Frank Zappa - Jazz from Hell

Albums: Sonic Prayer, Rhythms From The Cosmic Sky, Live At Roadburn 2008

All instrumental power trio rock/psychedelic/freakout jam albums, most songs average around 22 minutes. Isiaih Mitchell is a MONSTER guitarist, but he's not a "shredder", it's all about feel and groove.

All available on either CD or Vinyl from Tee Pee Records.

Earthless page on Tee Pee Records

I really like Lanny Cordolas Electric Warrior,Acoustic Saint album.Theres a little bit of everything on that album.The only other instrumental I have that I can think of right now is Jeff Scheetz-Woodpecker Stomp.Jeff is an excellent guitarist.

I cannot get into shredders. Blah! I can dig on the atmospheric instrumental stuff by bands like Autumn Tears and Dead Can Dance, but not traditional shredding type stuff. Years ago, I didn't like any instrumental stuff besides the mellow atmospheric or acoustic stuff. But then I heard Canvas Solaris. I picked the album from a used bin because it was a Sensory Records release, and at that point Ken Golden was batting 1,000 with me (still is).

When I put the album in my CD player I immediately loved it. But I kept waiting for vocals. They didn't come. I looked in the booklet and got sad. Haha. I just quickly assumed that I wasn't going to like it, even though I was actually enjoying it! Weird. Anyway, as it continued to play I continued to love it. And there it was. I really dig instrumental prog-metal or rock. Since then I've picked up some great instrumental discs by Canvas Solaris, Liquid Tension Experiment, A Triggering Myth, Tomas Bodin, Planet X, Indukti, Niacin, and a bunch of others. I love it.

Check out Canvas Solaris:

Eyesore wrote:

Liquid Tension Experiment

Oh yea, I had that disc for a while ... in fact, I traded it to ya didn't I? Didn't do much for me, glad you dig it though.

Fat Freddy wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Liquid Tension Experiment

Oh yea, I had that disc for a while ... in fact, I traded it to ya didn't I? Didn't do much for me, glad you dig it though.

I think you did. They're popular around here. I can't find a thing by them. I just stumbled across a Liquid Trio Experiment the other day in town. I guess it was three of the dudes just doing some improvisational jamming while another had to go home for something or whatever. They recorded it and released it. That damn thing was used...for $18. Pfffft!

Eyesore wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

Liquid Tension Experiment

Oh yea, I had that disc for a while ... in fact, I traded it to ya didn't I? Didn't do much for me, glad you dig it though.

I think you did. They're popular around here. I can't find a thing by them.

I found that L.T.E. disc in a thrift store for a buck, it was in near-mint condition if memory serves (hope it was still that way when it got to you, I've had some Postal Service horror stories, heh heh) and that was the main reason I picked it up. Most times any CDs I find in that store are scratched to sheeeeeit.

I'm not a fan of shredders either, that's why I lean towards either the bluesy, jazzy or "trippy" direction.

Even though it does have some vocals on it, I recommend the first Platypus record - When Pus Comes To Shove. Available on emusic.

Robert Allen Is his name I believe the albums called Midnight Guitars, I pop in on occassion and its all instrumental and just guitars