Best Instrumentals

And the winner is....Booker T & the MG's
Just mentioning rock offers associations with loud singers, but some of rock`s cult bands have fantastic instrumentals which say it all – just with the help of their instruments, without a single word. The Rolling Stone magazine has formed a list of 25 favourite instrumentals, with the help of their readers.
In the very top are Pink Floyd, masters of instrumentals. When instrumentals are in question, Pink Floyd top the charts with One of These Days, taken from the 1971 Meddle album. The only line is: 'One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces'. The song`s trademark are two bass lines, played by Waters and Gilmour. The only line in the song was spoken by Nick Mason and having in mind BBC Radio 2 host at the time, Jimmy Young as Pink Floyd members were not fans of his.
Led Zeppelin’s Moby Dick also found itself among the most famous instrumentals. The song was taken from the 1969 Led Zeppelin II album and was created by only three Zeppelin members – John Bonham, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Page often listened to Bonham`s improvisations in the studio, recorded and edited them. It was allegedly called Moby Dick because Bonham`s son suggested his dad did a song as large as Moby.
In order for master of the industrial sound Trent Reznor not to be omitted, fans made an effort to enlist Just Like You Imagined from 1999. Mike Garson played the piano, who is famous for collaborating with David Bowie and the Smashing Pumpkins. The odd song was appenerly liked by many and it became the unofficial soundtrack to this year`s smash hit film “300”.
All instrumental performances from the list have their stories, while they are good concert breaks for fans, if nothing else, when you can get a beer and it is good material for the record label to complete singles.

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