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| 6 | An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. This term is used when referring to popular music rather than to other musical genres such as European classical music. In commercial music, instrumental tracks are sometimes renditions of a corresponding release that features vocals, but may also be compositions originally conceived without vocals. An instrumental version of a song which otherwise features vocals is also known as a −1 (pronounced minus one). |
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| 8 | InstrumentalThemeTune is a subtrope where the opening theme of a show is an instrumental. |
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| 11 | !!Examples: |
| 12 | [[foldercontrol]] |
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| 14 | [[folder:Music Albums]] |
| 15 | * ''Music/TheCompleteHotFiveAndHotSevenRecordings'' by Music/LouisArmstrong is a compilation box set of four CD's with all the recordings of his bands between 1925 and 1928. Historically important as being the progenitor of all jazz and popular music that would follow. Almost all tracks are predominantly instrumental, with some occasional scatting, singing or talking. |
| 16 | * Music/OrnetteColeman: ''Music/TheShapeOfJazzToCome''. |
| 17 | * Music/JohnColtrane: All of his albums were instrumental, including ''Music/BlueTrain'', ''Music/GiantSteps'' and ''Music/MyFavoriteThings''. |
| 18 | * Music/DickDale: On his album ''Music/SurfersChoice'' several tracks are instrumentals, including the iconic "Let's Go Trippin'" and "Misirlou". |
| 19 | * Music/MilesDavis: Most of his albums were jazz instrumentals, including ''Music/KindOfBlue'', ''Music/SketchesOfSpain'' and ''Music/BitchesBrew''. |
| 20 | * Music/DeepPurple's LiveAlbum ''Music/ConcertoForGroupAndOrchestra'' (1969) with the London Symphonic Orchestra is mostly instrumental, save for a few songs. |
| 21 | * Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer's LiveAlbum ''Music/PicturesAtAnExhibition'' (1973) is also mostly a straightforward rock performance of Music/ModestMussorgsky's famous score, though it does feature some singing here and there. |
| 22 | * Music/BrianEno: Many of his albums are instrumental, including ''Music/Ambient1MusicForAirports'' and ''Music/ApolloAtmospheresAndSoundtracks''. Many of his other albums only have vocals on a handful of songs (''Music/AnotherGreenWorld'' is a good example of this). |
| 23 | * Music/{{Gong}}: All but two of Pierre Moerlen's Gong (1976-1982; 1986) albums were all instrumentals, and on the other two, Moerlen provides vocals. |
| 24 | * Music/HerbieHancock: ''Music/HeadHunters'' is entirely instrumental, ''Music/FutureShock'' too, save for two sung tracks. |
| 25 | * Music/{{Lovelyz}}: ''Muse on Music'' is a 33-track long instrumental album. Their other albums also start with an instrumental intro song. |
| 26 | * Music/CharlesMingus: ''Music/MingusAhUm''. |
| 27 | * Music/TheloniousMonk: ''Music/BrilliantCorners''. |
| 28 | * Music/StGermain: ''Music/{{Tourist}}'', save for the tracks "Rose Rouge" and "Sure Thing", which have a few sampled lyrics. |
| 29 | * Music/FrankZappa: Also released a number of albums with predominantly instrumental compositions, including ''Music/HotRats'', ''Music/WakaJawaka'', ''Music/TheGrandWazoo'', ''Music/OrchestralFavorites'', ''Music/ThePerfectStranger'', ''Music/FrancescoZappa'', ''Music/ShutUpNPlayYerGuitar'', ''Music/{{Guitar}}'', ''Music/LondonSymphonyOrchestra'', ''Music/JazzFromHell'' and ''Music/TheYellowShark''. |
| 30 | * ''Music/SwitchedOnBach'' by Music/WendyCarlos features compositions by Music/JohannSebastianBach played on a Moog synthesizer. |
| 31 | * 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. |
| 32 | * Nearly all of Music/JohnZorn's music, including ''Music/{{Radio}}'' with Naked City, is instrumental. |
| 33 | * An interesting case with progressive sludge metal band Music/TheOcean. 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. |
| 34 | * Music/PinkFloyd's last album, ''Music/TheEndlessRiver'' (2014), is entirely instrumental, save for the last track, "Louder Than Words". |
| 35 | * Music/AnEndlessSporadic are ProgressiveRock that ''only'' write instrumentals. |
| 36 | * Music/NateWantsToBattle's ''Instrumentals'' consists of instrumental versions of 16 previously released tracks. |
| 37 | * Music/NineInchNails's ''Ghosts'' albums, consisting of ''Music/GhostsIToIV'' (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 {{concept album}}s. 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. |
| 38 | * Music/RobDougan's ''Furious Angels'' was released in vocal and instrumental versions. He may have got the idea from former collaborator Andrea Parker, who did the same thing with her debut ''Kiss My Arp''. |
| 39 | * 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]]. |
| 40 | * Music/DreamTheater sister project Music/LiquidTensionExperiment, which has released three albums, which are all entirely instrumental. |
| 41 | * The Dutch progressive rock band Focus, while typically having one or two songs with lyrics on each album, primarily does instrumentals. |
| 42 | * Music/{{Noah|Indonesia}}: During the transition between being named Peterpan and Noah, they released ''Suara Lainnya''[[note]]''Other Sounds''[[/note]] which mostly consisted of instrumental arrangement of Peterpan songs. The exception being "Cobalah Mengerti" which has vocals from fellow Musica Studio artist Momo of Geisha and "Dara" which is the vocalist Ariel's solo single. |
| 43 | * Music/TheHumanLeague's ''The Dignity of Labour, Pts. 1-4'' EP. |
| 44 | * The majority of Dutch ItaloDisco duo Laserdance's output is instrumental. When their songs do have vocals, they're mostly vocodered IndecipherableLyrics. |
| 45 | * Anders Enger Jensen's first two albums were entirely instrumental; it wasn't until ''Retro Grooves Vol. 3'' that he began producing songs with lyrics. |
| 46 | * Music/{{BT}}'s debut album ''Ima'' is almost completely instrumental except for "Loving You More"(f/ Vincent Covello) and "Blue Skies"(f/ Music/ToriAmos). |
| 47 | * Music/{{Kraftwerk}}'s first three albums were purely instrumental. Their first song with vocals was the TitleTrack of ''Music/{{Autobahn}}'', the rest of said album still consisting of instrumentals. |
| 48 | * Basically all of Music/BradPaisley albums are bound to have at least one, with a rather more fast-paced approach. Oddly, the one on his Christmas album that should have vocals, Jingle Bells, is instrumental. |
| 49 | * Zanias's ''Ecdysis'' is her first album to completely lack lyrics, the only vocals being wordless {{One Woman Wail}}s. |
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| 52 | [[folder:Music Singles]] |
| 53 | * Most of the music on Music/OverClockedRemix is entirely instrumental. This is a mix of the fact that people who frequent the site prefer it and that singing talent is in short supply compared to what's put into the rest of the remix. |
| 54 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/cca8ba2/Popcorn-(1972)-gershon-kingsley--hot-butter Popcorn]]" - Gershon Kingsley (1969) - Perhaps the most covered instrumental ever with about 72 different versions. |
| 55 | ** "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/97e61e7/Popcorn-(radio-version)-h-&-m-band Popcorn]]" by M&H Band. |
| 56 | ** And of course [[http://www.goear.com/listen/29fad0e/popcorn-hot-butter Hot Butter's hit version]]. |
| 57 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/c7f59e9/Music-Box-Dancer-frank-mills Music Box Dancer]]" - Music/FrankMills (1974, rereleased in 1978) - To many, this is the tune that plays when the ice cream truck passes by their homes. |
| 58 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/39f85c9/The-Hustle-van-mccoy The Hustle]]" - Van [=McCoy=] (1975) |
| 59 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/9077e0a/A-Fifth-Of-Beethoven-walter-murphy A Fifth of Beethoven]]"- Walter Murphy (1976) |
| 60 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/7e423f3/Star-Wars-meco Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band]]"- Meco (1977) |
| 61 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/d768e56/Chariots-Of-Fire---Main-Theme-vangelis Chariots of Fire]]" - Vangelis (1981) |
| 62 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/e6428c2/YYZ-rush YYZ]]" - Music/{{Rush|Band}} (1981) |
| 63 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/5f9e76b/Bad-Horsie-steve-vai Bad Horsie]]" by - Music/SteveVai |
| 64 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/5ec5d99/Surfing-With-The-Alien-joe-satriani Surfing with the Alien]]" and so many others that there are too many to list - Music/JoeSatriani |
| 65 | * " [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7XiJgt0vY Eruption]]" - Music/VanHalen (the band's first albums have plenty of these, such as "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDsa4uDM3zU Spanish Fly]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2WRGVJLZu0 Cathedral]]", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJuv7cI8od4 Intruder]]", and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTs4cmiH2yg 1984]]"; in later days, there's also "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-wwuRJax1o 316]]") |
| 66 | * Music/{{Metallica}} have one of each of the first four albums ("Anesthesia (Pulling Teeth)", "The Call Of Ktulu", "Orion" and "To Live is to Die" - though the first opens with StudioChatter, and the last, has a short spoken part), and ''Death Magnetic'' revived the tradition with "Suicide & Redemption". |
| 67 | * "(Christmas Eve) Sarajevo 12/24" - Music/TransSiberianOrchestra |
| 68 | * Music/{{Queen}}'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbnw-xEN_FQ Procession]]" |
| 69 | * "Jessica" and "In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed" - Music/TheAllmanBrothersBand. |
| 70 | ** A remix of Jessica serves as the theme song to ''Series/TopGear''. |
| 71 | ** Covered by Music/TheyMightBeGiants |
| 72 | * "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" - Jeff Beck (from the instrumental album ''Blow by Blow'') |
| 73 | ** Ditto for any covers of the tune, like those made for ''VideoGame/SpyHunter'' games. |
| 74 | * ''Music/{{Californication}}'' by Music/RedHotChiliPeppers had two singles recorded during its sessions - appropriately titled "Instrumental #1" and "Instrumental #2" - both of which, unfortunately, didn't make it onto the album but were released as B-sides. |
| 75 | * "Frankenstein" by Music/EdgarWinter |
| 76 | * "Foreplay" - Music/{{Boston}} |
| 77 | * Pretty much the output of Music/ArtOfNoise, their best known example being "Moments In Love". |
| 78 | * "D.N.A." by Music/AFlockOfSeagulls. |
| 79 | * Music/TheMicrophones had several instrumentals entitled "Instrumental". |
| 80 | * "Jordan" by Music/{{Buckethead}} |
| 81 | * Music/PinkFloyd has [[Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon "On the Run", "Any Colour You Like"]], "[[Music/TheDivisionBell Marooned]]", "CarefulWithThatAxe Eugene", "Music/AtomHeartMother", and several others. |
| 82 | * "Bron-Yr-Aur" by Music/LedZeppelin |
| 83 | * "Last Ride In" and "Espionage" by Music/GreenDay |
| 84 | * Music/DreamTheater has plenty. ''The Dance of Eternity'' is one of them. |
| 85 | * Irish band And So I Watch You From Afar and Japanese band té are outstanding bands both doing nothing but instrumentals. |
| 86 | * Post-rock bands Music/ExplosionsInTheSky and Music/{{Pelican}} are entirely instrumental. Music/{{Mogwai}} only have a handful of songs with singing. Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor sometimes use SpokenWordInMusic (and in one brief and almost inaudible case {{Scatting}}) but are otherwise entirely instrumental. |
| 87 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzKw1_IR2Og Something for the Ages]]"- Hammerfall |
| 88 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/912bf42/misirlou-dick-dale-&-his-del-tones Misirlou]]": Music/DickDale's badass SurfRock version from ''Film/PulpFiction''. There are also the 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. |
| 89 | * 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''. The entire composition is a wistful melody reminiscent of New Age songs. |
| 90 | * Even older and a masterpiece by Joe Meek: "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/b701d69/telstar-%281962%29-the-tornados Telstar]]" by the Tornados. |
| 91 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/2d69a76/after-the-fire-1980-f 1980-F]]" by After the Fire, [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff at least in Germany]]. |
| 92 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/bb55c8a/oxygene-jean-michel-jarre Oxygène 4]]" from ''Music/{{Oxygene}}'', "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/6d4e533/equinoxe-4-jean-michel-jarre Equinoxe 4]]" [[http://www.goear.com/listen/5012e58/equinoxe-v-jean-michel-jarre and 5]], and "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/e74abff/magnetic-fields-ii-jean-michel-jarre Magnetic Fields 2]]" by Music/JeanMichelJarre. |
| 93 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/a8a55c9/magic-fly-space Magic Fly]]" by Space (no, not ''[[Music/{{Space}} that]]'' Space). |
| 94 | * "[[http://www.goear.com/listen/4fbc485/samba-pa-ti-santana Samba Pa Ti]]" by Music/{{Santana}}. |
| 95 | * "[[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. |
| 96 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqwmK_H0JcI Cinema]]" by Music/{{Yes}}. |
| 97 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bZAErXVSQ4 Behind My Camel]]" by Music/ThePolice. |
| 98 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYfmqvPigTk Un Fantasma Tra Noi (A Ghost Between Us)]]" by Music/LacunaCoil |
| 99 | * Music/{{Savatage}} is fond of instrumental tracks: |
| 100 | ** ''Music/HallOfTheMountainKing'': "Prelude to Madness", a RockMeAmadeus metal arrangement of Music/EdvardGrieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King", and "Last Dawn". |
| 101 | ** ''Music/GutterBallet'': "Temptation Revelation" and "Silk and Steel". |
| 102 | ** ''Music/EdgeOfThorns'': "Exit Music". |
| 103 | ** ''Music/HandfulOfRain'': "Visions". |
| 104 | ** ''Music/DeadWinterDead'' features "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" which was arguably their most popular song and the smash hit of their spin-off project the Music/TransSiberianOrchestra. |
| 105 | ** ''Music/TheWakeOfMagellan'': "Underture" and "the Storm". |
| 106 | * Chimaira's 13-minute [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH513ZwjpZU Implements of Destruction]] mixes this with EpicRocking. |
| 107 | * Music/EmilieAutumn has a double album called ''Laced/Unlaced'', which has both electric violin instrumentals and classical covers and one or two songs she wrote herself on Violin. |
| 108 | * Music/{{Nightwish|Band}} has [[OnceAnEpisode at least one instrumental per album]]. |
| 109 | * Music/{{Apocalyptica}} does almost entirely instrumentals. It helps that they don't actually have a vocalist in their lineup and all of their songs with lyrics are sung by guest vocalists. |
| 110 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mREi_Bb85Sk Classical Gas]]" by Mason Williams. |
| 111 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-44z8NVR050 From Skin to Liquid]]" by Music/CannibalCorpse. |
| 112 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FfCxLvV2nc Theme for Great Cities]]" by Music/SimpleMinds. And that's only their really popular instrumental! |
| 113 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkaitzS4ZDE Patricia's Park]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7GWbkmvLO8 Colours]]" by Alphaville. |
| 114 | * All of Music/{{Celldweller}}'s ''Soundtrack for the Voices in my Head'' and Music/BlueStahli's ''Antisleep'' albums. |
| 115 | * {{Music/Revocation}} has seven instrumentals among its five albums; the Teratogenesis EP is their only release without one. |
| 116 | * Music/ToddRundgren did a lot of instrumental songs, of which the most blatant example is the thirty-five-minute "A Treatise on Cosmic Fire" from ''Initiation''. |
| 117 | * Music/GaMetal mainly does instrumental songs, excluding two. {{Justified|Trope}} because the songs are all remixes of songs from VideoGames, which are for the most part instrumental. |
| 118 | * Music/{{Macabre}}'s [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kf2J5Yn0Jd4 Nostradamus]] from their album "Gloom". |
| 119 | * Music/{{Cormorant}} have "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILPv9fizGrg Voices of the Mountain]]", "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEpvRYJ_3MA Confusion of Tongues]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Az3b4r8EVCQ Eris]]". |
| 120 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB8Tqe5om30 Nenia]]" and "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9hCyYQIEaY Phantoms (Of the Oath)]]" by Music/{{Dismember}}. |
| 121 | * "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWH9iwtl9Q4 Root Beer Rag]]" by Music/BillyJoel. |
| 122 | * 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 Music/{{Darude}}. |
| 123 | * Music/VisionDivine has "Forgotten Worlds" from ''Vision Divine''; "Incipit" and "Nemesis" from ''Send Me An Angel''; "In The Light", "Fool's Garden" and "The Fall of Reason" from ''Stream of Consciousness''; and "Waiting for the Dawn" from ''The 25th. Hour''. |
| 124 | * Music/{{ABBA}}, whose trademark otherwise is their female harmony vocals, had two officially-released instrumentals, "Intermezzo No. 1" from their [[Music/ABBAAlbum self-titled album]], and the TitleTrack from ''Music/{{Arrival|Album}}''. "Gammal Fäbodpsalm", an old public domain tune, was also used to open their live shows. |
| 125 | * Decoded Feedback generally feature at least one instrumental per album, such as "Psy Storm" from ''Combustion'', "Soultaker" from ''Aftermath''(remixed WithLyrics on the following album), and "Dark Odyssey" from ''Diskonnekt''. |
| 126 | * Color Theory has "The Past Yet to Come" on ''The Majesty of Our Broken Past'', and "Lore" on ''Lucky Ago''. |
| 127 | * Music/LaDusseldorf's biggest hit, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9Jejk8UknU Rheinita]]. |
| 128 | * Music/EricJohnson's biggest hit was the MediaNotes/GrammyAward-winning instrument "Cliffs of Dover"; most of his other singles have been instrumental as well. |
| 129 | * Music/{{Blur}} often puts instrumental tracks in as hidden tracks or at the end of an album. |
| 130 | * [[https://youtu.be/pfUGQTgzrk0 Android Hearts]] by The Rain Within. |
| 131 | * Music/IronMaiden's "Transylvania", from their SelfTitledAlbum, and "Losfer Words(Big Orra)", from ''Music/{{Powerslave}}''. |
| 132 | * Vicious Pink's "8:15 to Nowhere", which serves as an EpicInstrumentalOpener to their cover of Music/JerryLeeLewis's "Great Balls of Fire". |
| 133 | * [[Music/GaryNuman Tubeway Army]]'s "I Nearly Married A Human". |
| 134 | * S'Express have "Coma II (A.M./OK), the closer of their debut album ''Original Soundtrack''. |
| 135 | * Music/InformationSociety have "Charientism", recorded in 1982 but not released until the 2014 UpdatedRerelease of the ''Insoc EP'', "Chemistry" from ''Hack'', and "Ozar Midrashim" from ''Don't Be Afraid'', which was used as the RealSongThemeTune of ''VideoGame/LegacyOfKainSoulReaver''. |
| 136 | * Kano (of "I'm Ready" fame) have "[[https://youtu.be/xiGtZ6UVX8Q Cosmic Voyager]]" on their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled debut LP]]. |
| 137 | * Interface has at least one per album, but ''Where All Roads Lead'' takes the cake with four instrumentals; "Message From Dystopia", "Who Watches The Watchers", "We Will Never Be Together", and "Hiraeth". |
| 138 | * "Song For Guy" by Music/EltonJohn. |
| 139 | * "[[https://youtu.be/xJkQhUsIf5Y Rainforest]]" by Paul Hardcastle. |
| 140 | * Vandal Moon's "[[https://youtu.be/Nvw4Y275IQ4 Nevermore]]", from ''Wild Insane''. |
| 141 | * Robert Miles' SignatureSong "[[https://youtu.be/CC5ca6Hsb2Q Children]]" is one of the few instrumental {{trance}} singles to reach the Top 40 of the US Billboard Hot 100. |
| 142 | * Tomski's "[[https://youtu.be/MD8MQzrejIU 14 Hours to Save The Earth]]" originally played this trope straight, but the Trouser Enthusiasts remix added a SpokenWordInMusic intro. |
| 143 | * BBE's "[[https://youtu.be/5XUBYqtTLDM Seven Days and One Week]]" is entirely instrumental apart from the "Oh-oh!" vocal sample. |
| 144 | * Chicane's best known instrumentals include "Offshore"(later reworked WithLyrics), "Sunstroke"(the original mix does have [[{{Scatting}} wordless vocals]], but the Disco Citizens mix is a straight example), and "Halcyon"(no relation to the Music/{{Orbital}} song). |
| 145 | * The title track of The Frozen Autumn's ''Pale Awakening'', and "Winter(Reprise)" from ''Fragments of Memories''. |
| 146 | * Music/{{BT}}'s "Embracing The Sunshine", "Quark", "Nocturnal Transmission", "Flaming June", "Godspeed", "Namaste", "The Rose of Jericho", etc. ''Emotional Technology'' is the only album of his that doesn't feature any instrumentals. |
| 147 | * Music/DaftPunk have "Da Funk", "Phœnix", "Burnin'", "Revolution 909", "Robot Rock", et al. |
| 148 | * Nu Shooz have "[[https://youtu.be/MNo0Sf7OcRU Montecarlo Nite]]", from ''Told U So''. |
| 149 | * Music/TransX's "Digital World", aside from the TitleDrop and the spoken-word line "computer control". |
| 150 | * Music/TheKLF's "What Time Is Love?" was originally an instrumental, but later rearranged WithLyrics. |
| 151 | * Music/{{Underworld|Band}}'s "Born Slippy", the parent single to the [[MorePopularSpinoff much more famous]] vocal BSide "Born Slippy.NUXX". |
| 152 | * Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F", from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''. |
| 153 | * Agnelli & Nelson's "Embrace", "Everyday"(original mix, most remixes are WithLyrics), "Hudson Street", and "Vegas". "El Niño" is a borderline example with spoken-word vocals. |
| 154 | * Music/VNVNation do this at least [[OncePerEpisode once per album]], including: |
| 155 | ** "Saviour" from ''Empires''. |
| 156 | ** "Strata" from ''Matter + Form''. |
| 157 | ** "On Air", "Goodbye 20th Century", and "Photon" from ''Automatic''. |
| 158 | ** "Generator"(an EpicInstrumentalOpener and SiameseTwinSong to "Everything"), "Lost Horizon", and "Aeroscope" from ''Transnational''. |
| 159 | ** "In The Temple" and "Under Sky" from ''Electric Sun''. |
| 160 | * "Nightmare" by Brainbug(the Club 69 remix adds a TitleDrop). |
| 161 | * Music/{{Scooter}}'s "Sunrise (Ratty's Inferno)", which was reworked WithLyrics as "Sunrise (Here I Am)" by their Ratty side project. |
| 162 | * Music/DuranDuran's "Tel Aviv", from their SelfTitledAlbum. |
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| 166 | * ''Series/InterviewWithTheVampire2022'': In "[[Recap/InterviewWithTheVampire2022S1E7TheThingLayStill The Thing Lay Still]]", an [[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8g1z41?playlist=x7nyow instrumental brass rendition]] of Lestat's VillainLoveSong "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PuWm9t5WY8 Come to Me]]" (which was composed by Daniel Hart and sung by Creator/SamReid) plays during Louis and Lestat's dance at the Mardi Gras ball. |
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