What's Your Favourite Instrumental Album or Single.

Talking Timbuktu

As Graham, has taken the Shadows album:-

Best of the Ventures.  From Tacoma, Washington.  Epitomized the 60's surf sound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-evJ0J08Jw

Popular:

Albatross - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac - Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac

Barbarian - ELP

Aphrodites Child - 666

Jazz - Too many but among my favourites;

John Coltrane - Blue Train

Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

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Remember being captivated by this the first time I heard it on BBC 2 in the 70's. Still a wonderful record

A very close second

Got to be this one.

My Rock and Soul Review has vocals on it so you might have yourself a rare instrumental version there Quad 33. 

Whoops

Not keen on instrumentals as it is far too difficult to sing along ...

however, two instrumental albums i do like are Electrosonic by Delia Derbyshire and Music from the Snow Goose by Camel. Soft Machine and Barbara Thompson have both made listenable records with no songs. 

Jimmy Smith's "The Cat".

As always, difficult to pick only one, but this comes to mind:

Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell, Radioaxiom

(With vocals by GiGi on a couple of tracks.)

I'll exclude classical and jazz from my deliberations for obvious reasons.

For Rock/pop/blues I'd go with something by Jeff Beck, I think. "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" probably.

Betty Blue

Instrumental single would be Theme One - Van Der Graaf;

Album would by Rising - Lustmord

'The Walls Get Smaller' by The Music

..so I guess the post is not about classical, jazz and Mike Oldfield :-)

One of the nice film options:

..another more rough option..