Your Favorite/Recommend an Instrumental Track
 

I'm wondering if anyone can recommend some good instrumental tracks. It looks like we've got 1000 threads talking about them, but no recommendations. I'm making a list to play at work on Spotify and I've got the tracks listed currently.

1. Orion - Rodrigo y Gabriela
2. South of Heaven's Chanting Mermaids - Rodrigo y Gabriela
3. Big Sur Moon - Buckethead
4. Juan Loco - Rodrigo y Gabriela
5. Oogie Boogie's Song - Rodrigo y Gabriela
6. Eastwood - Brad Paisley
7. Wildcat - Ratatat
8. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo - Trans-Siberian Orchestra
9. Ghost of Congo Square - Terence Blanchard
10. Radio Station - Terence Blanchard
11. Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet
12. Soul'd Lang Syne - Los Straightjackets
13. Over the Rainbow - Chet Baker
14. Smells like Teen Spirit - The Bad Plus
15. Rumble - Link Wray
16. Invention in C minor - Billy Joel
17. Leyenda (Albeniz) - Adres Segovia
18. Santo Domingo (feat. C.U.B.A.) - Rodrigo y Gabriela
19. The Call of Ktulu (Live with the SFSO) - Metallica
20. In the Hall of the Mountain King - Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
21. Stairway to Heaven - Rodrigo y Gabriela
22. Freddie Freeloader - Miles Davis
23. Blue in Green - Miles Davis
24. The Wind the Shake the Barley - The Chieftains
25. The Exstacy of Gold (Live with the SFSO) - Metallica
26. Little Wing - Stevie Ray Vaughn

Any additional suggestions are appreciated. I listed these to primarily show that anything counts and what I'm currently working with. No real parameters other than the track needs to be 98% wordless.

It's a bit long, but I love this one from Ice Age....

(listen for the "2001" snippet near the end!)

This SRV shows the soft side, one of my favorite.

My all time favorite instrumental is Apache (1960) by the British band the Shadows. Besides being a Buddy Holly look-alike, lead guitarist Hank Marvin was brilliant player who laid the groundwork for surf guitar.

Dig through some soundtracks for movies that you like and pull your favorite tracks. This one I posted happened to be from the Halo 4 soundtrack but it's my fave.




I know I talk/post a lot about Joe Satriani but I really love his work.

The Mermen, one of the best 3rd wave surf instrumental groups.



Daniel Bachman, appalachian psychedelic

Here is a 1971 instrumental from Focus II (aka Moving Waves), the second album by Dutch rock group Focus. Good one to have in your collection.

Quite a big umbrella term, here's a few I'm fond of:


Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman


Frank Zappa - We Are Not Alone


miRthkon - Daddylonglegz


Earth - The Driver

I could recommend so many tracks but they are in wildly different genres so don't really know where to start.

Cheese (but I like it):

Heavy:

Folk:

Balearic chillout:

Math Rock via Krautrock:

A Punk band does Piano:

The actual song is an instrumental, nice relaxing Saxophone song from 1990.
Soul II Soul - Courtney Blows