History Main / Instrumentals

* Robert Miles' SignatureSong "Children" is one of the few instrumental {{trance}} singles to reach the Top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100.

* Tomski's "14 Hours to Save The Earth" originally played this trope straight, but the Trouser Enthusiasts remix added a SpokenWordInMusic intro.

* BBE's "Seven Days and One Week" is entirely instrumental apart from the "Oh-oh!" vocal sample.

* If you've ever commented on a Website/{{YouTube}} video asking what song is being used as background music, no matter what the song actually is, [[MemeticMutation someone will probably tell you that it's]] "[[https://youtu.be/y6120QOlsfU Sandstorm]]" by Darude.

* "Rain Forest" by Paul Hardcastle.

* Music/TheHumanLeague's ''The Dignity of Labour'' EP.

* Music/{{Nightwish}} has [[OnceAnEpisode at least one instrumental per album]].

* Music/FrancoDeVita: All of his songs have lyrics (him being a songwriter makes it a given) except for "Otoño" (Autumn), which is the last track of the album ''Voces a mi alrededor''.

* "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/912bf42/misirlou-dick-dale-&-his-del-tones Misirlou]]": Music/DickDale's badass SurfRock version from ''Film/PulpFiction''.
** Not to mention the other equally badass SurfRock instrumentals on the ''Film/PulpFiction'' soundtrack: "Surf Rider" by the Lively Ones, "Bustin' Surfboards" by the Tornados, and "Bullwinkle Part II" by The Centurions.

* Music/IronMaiden's "Losfer Words(Big Orra)".

* Music/DreamTheater sister project Music/LiquidTensionExperiment released two albums, both of which were entirely instrumental.

* Most of Music/JeanMichelJarre's albums are almost all entirely instrumental, including
''Music/{{Oxygene}}''. ''Zoolook'' kind of straddles the line with vocal samples. In fact, ''Revolutions'' from 1988 was Jarre's first album that included ''one'' song with lyrics, albeit vocoded. ''Metamorphoses'' and the two ''Electronica'' albums still include a number of instrumentals in between songs with vocals.

* An interesting case with progressive sludge metal band [[{{Music/TheOcean}} The Ocean]]. Pelagial was originally going to be an entirely instrumental album as Loic's throat was recovering. When he recovered, the band felt that as the frontman, he was needed, and recorded vocals. The album usually includes both a version with vocals and an instrumental version.

* Music/NineInchNails's ''Ghosts'' albums, consisting of ''Ghosts I-IV'' (2008) and ''Ghosts V: Together'' and ''Ghosts VI: Locusts'' (both 2020), are all instrumental. The first is rather experimental and ambient, while the latter two are more [[ConceptAlbum concept albums]]. NIN also released ''The Fragile: Deviations I'' (2017), which removes the lyrics from the already instrumental-heavy ''Music/TheFragile1999'', along with some previously unreleased material.

* Music/{{C418}} has 22 albums on his Bandcamp page. A majority of his tunes are lacking in vocals, with ''148'', the album that compiles some of his less...''refined'' official works into one area. What he's most renowned for is the production of the sounds of VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, from the tracks included in 'Survival' mode in the first album, to the 'Creative' mode tracks in the second album. Minecraft players don't actually consider learning who creates the music by name and only [[{{Leitmotif}} learn the game's name by the music]].

* Music/{{The Microphones}} had several instrumentals entitled "Instrumental".

* "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/bdf9391/fanfare-for-the-common-man-aaron-copland Fanfare for the Common Man]]" by Music/AaronCopland. [[http://www.goear.com/listen/bf0a660/fanfare-for-the-common-man-emerson-lake-and-palmer And by Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer]].

* {{Music/Savatage}} is fond of instrumental tracks:

* ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'' by Music/JeanMichelJarre is an entirely instrumental electronic music album, most famous for the melancholic hit track "Oxygène IV".

* Even older and a masterpiece by Music/JoeMeek: "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/b701d69/telstar-%281962%29-the-tornados Telstar]]" by the Tornados.

* Decoded Feedback generally feature at least one instrumental per album, such as "Pay Storm" from ''Combustion'' and "Dark Odyssey" from ''Diskonnekt''.