The list - your top instrumental rock songs

[XMan]

1. Joe Satriani - Summer Song
2. Gary Hoey - Hocus Pocus
3. Van Halen - Balucitherium/Doin' Time

I'm bored, and I need some new songs to listen to . . . 😉 Gimme some ideas . . .

 

[Pepsi90919]

Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile

 

[vi edit]

Call of the Ktulu(S&M Version) Metallica

 

[Regine]

Anything by Apocalyptica. Especially their versions of the Metallica songs.
Not really rock since it's Cello, but they cover rock songs...

 

[loup garou]

Not really rock, but mostly instrumental...and it's got spanish guitar in it:

Pistolero by Juno Reactor

One of my favorites! 🙂

 

[hpkeeper]

Cliffs Of Dover - Eric Johnson

anything by Dreamtheatre

 

[UnderScore]

Satriani - Motorcycle Driver
Kenny Wayne Sheppard - Voodo Child
Van Halen - 316 (off the 2 CD 'Right Here, Right Now' live album)

 

[UnderScore]

Mason Williams - Classical Gas
This one doesn't necessarily qualify as rock but it kicks ass.

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

I know i am going incredibly mainstream here, but Santana - Black Magic Woman. Well hell, basically any Santana. 🙂

 

[DefRef]

Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien, Satch Boogie
Dick Dale - Miserlou (Pulp Fiction Theme)
Yes - Cinema (on 90215)
Jeff Beck - Where Were You (Jeff Beck's Guitar Shop)
Steve Vai - Kill The Guy With The Ball (Alien Long Secrets, the WHOLE CD is great)
Juda Preist - The Hellion
The Housemartins - Pirate Aggro
Sugar - Clownmaster
Ramones - Durango 95

 

[dennilfloss]

Flight Of the Phoenix (Grand Funk Railroad)
Joy (Apollo 100)
Hawaii 5-0 (Ventures)
Samba Pa Ti (Santana)

The Forbidden Zone (Misfits)

 

[Sephiroth_IX]

Metallica has some incredible instrumentals also.

 

[Engine]

I do love Metallica's instrumentals. I think Orion off of Master of Puppets and the Anesthesia off of Kill 'Em All are my favorites.

 

[slunk]

Smashing Pumpkins - Tribute to Johnny

 

[brock]

Billy Joel - Nocturne
Ventures - Walk, Don't Run

 

[Zab]

Frank Zappa Watermelon in Easter Hay

Focus Hocus Pocus

 

[snow patrol]

Slint - Good Morning Captain

 

[Chef0083]

Joe Satriani - Always with You Always with me
Pumpkins - Tribute to Johnny

 

[damocles]

A lot of Jean Michelle Jarre Stuff (Oxygene, Zoolook etc, esp the theme from Gallipoli

Also Vanessa May (spelling?) and Nigel Kennedy's Violin pieces

 

[TechieZero]

"Dust In The Wind" --- Kansas

 

[BDawg]

Everything from Liquid Tension Experiment (Dream Theater members) is AWESOME!

And how about anything by Rush? Espescially YYZ!

 

[WilsonCat]

BDawg,

You beat me to it.

Any Liquid Tension Experiment is good, especially When The Water Breaks.

 

[BDawg]

Simply put, LTE may be the most talented band I've ever listened to...and I'm listening to them right now. 😀

 

[azazyel]

TED NUGGET--STRANGLE HOLD

The best ever!

 

[BDawg]

Since when is "strangle hold" an instrumental? I seem to remember the words, "I got you in a strangle hold, baby!"
😉