You Really Wish There Was An Instrumental Version Cuz You Really Like The Music And You Really Don't Like The Vocals

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Any genre. Just curious. I'm listening to this album by Headset and there is good stuff on it and I like the music but it starts out with that undie rapping that bugs me with domes and brains and heads flexing and flossing and your earhole receiving mad science, etc. There is, however, a lovely song that features someone named Lady Dragon. She rhymes in Japanese so I don't know if she is trying to expand my inner ear so that I can receive her mightily flexed science. This might be the way to go for future indie beatmakers: More languages, please!

That's just my problem though. (bad indie rapping has ruined more than one futuristic beatscape for me, lemme tellya.) I wanna hear yours.

I searched for a thread like this. Couldn't find one. My apologies if I missed it.

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 19 June 2004 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone on another thread just said this about Timberlake.

Sometimes I feel this way about !!!, other times I don't mind so much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 19 June 2004 20:13 (twenty-two years ago)

That Headset album DOES sound cool. But I probably won't listen to it again just cuzza the dome-expansion stuff. Isn't that sad? (I bought a Lamb cd for a dollar and i liked some of their noises but I couldn't take Breathy McKewpiedoll on vocals. Sorry, Lamb fanz. Vocal tolerance can be a fickle mistress.)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 19 June 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Air/Baricco LP springs to mind.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Saturday, 19 June 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Postal Service

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 19 June 2004 21:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Someone on another thread just said this about Timberlake.

It wasn't me but I enthusiastically agree!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 19 June 2004 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Kanye, "All Falls Down" (prob. is an instrumental, I haven't really looked)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 19 June 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

alexisonfire

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 19 June 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

it's killing me to say this... but.. but... the new Mouse on Mars...?

― caspar (caspar), Saturday, 19 June 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

toxic

― Symplistic (shmuel), Saturday, 19 June 2004 21:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I second that Postal Service emotion, and throw Mum in there, too.

― Hammy (hammy), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ixnay on oxictay..that song is conjoined like Virginian twins to mizz britts honey spew..there are old stereo amps u can get that cancel out vocals..quattravox or sum such thing
dan

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Saturday, 19 June 2004 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Dillinger Escape Plan, and a lot of other metal and hardcore bands.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 19 June 2004 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

some Alanis maybe.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 19 June 2004 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

All heavy metal. Why can't Metallica just do instrumentals?

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:04 (twenty-two years ago)

when roy montgomery sings i usually wish that he didn't.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Kylie Minogue - "Slow"
Pavement - oeuvre
Sonic Youth - oeuvre

― Unknown User, Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

~~most~~ all Bob Dylan

― brg30 (brg30), Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Now see, brg30, there IS a thread for that:

Would you want to listen to a Dylan album if there were no vocals?

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I think Roy Montgomery's vocals suit his music very well, even on "In Our Own Time" and "Kafka was Correct" where he sounds like a Jew's harp (the reviews are right). His delivery's perfect to me...deep, not mournful or theatrical, lending an ominous or queasy energy to the songs.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Junior Boys

― ben welsh (benwelsh), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Although I really enjoy Jamie's vocals, I would love to have instrumental versions of Xiu Xiu records.

― Kevin Erickson, Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

OTM Kevin, also REM in the Monster era.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Literally everything by The Beastie Boys.

― Lo Boob Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 20 June 2004 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you guys would be bored by a lot of these guys if they were just instrumentals.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Sunday, 20 June 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

sloop john b

o wait...

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 20 June 2004 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Streets

― Cardinal Fang (Cardinal Fang), Sunday, 20 June 2004 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

wham's "everything she wants"

(maybe there is an instrumental version... I can't find one, anyway)

― OCP (OCP), Sunday, 20 June 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

a certain ratio

― phunktion, Sunday, 20 June 2004 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Sonic Youth, definitely. I've listened to virtually all their albums in the last week and there's very little of it that wouldn't be improved by wiping the vocal track.

Keith Jarrett!

― Andrew Norman, Sunday, 20 June 2004 15:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Tusk.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

sadly, the Cure.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dillinger Escape Plan, and a lot of other metal and hardcore bands."

Bingo. One of these bands someday is actually going to have a singer that can do a bit more than just gargle and they will make a bunch of cash.

― earlnash, Monday, 21 June 2004 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

808 State feat. MC Tunes - 'Tunes Splits The Atom'

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Led Zep

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Monday, 21 June 2004 00:43 (twenty-two years ago)

"THONG SONG"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 21 June 2004 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i know i said it 3 seconds ago on another thread, but Hugo Largo.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Hahah, that's true about Hugo Largo. She sucked. Sorry, sucky lady trying-to-hard-to-be-creepy with the scissors on stage. But it's true.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 21 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Smacks to anyone who mentions the Fall, however correct you may be.

― Sasha (sgh), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

The (thankfully only) three tracks on Optometry with vocals. "I've got a great idea - we'll get some of the greatest free jazz musicians to play at the top of their game and have a brilliant DJ mix them in real time, pulling out surprising hooks and grooves out of it all. Then we can have Pauline Oliveros guest on some tracks. But that's not enough. To really push it over the top, we need to throw on some random sub-Franti schmucks rapping the most cliche anti-woman-as-sex-object lines and the hokiest beat poetry. "

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 03:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Everything by...

Claw Hammer
Richard Hell's Voidoids
The Troggs - Except for the "OH NO!!" that "I Can't Control Myself" opens with, I absolutely can't stand Reg Presley's voice/singing and never could. Honestly, to me he's always sounded EXACTLY like Squiggy from "Laverne & Shirley"!

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Silver Apples!

Excellent driving, rhythmic backings | Flabby Age Of Aquarius vocals

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 07:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Jamiriqui (sp?) and RHCP to thread.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The Walkmen.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 08:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Medulla

;-)

― zebedee (zebedee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 09:17 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

"Short Shorts" by the Royal Teens

take away the irritating vocals and you got a Link Wray song! that is one TUFF guitar sound

― Rev. Hoodoo, Monday, 4 February 2008 05:04 (eighteen years ago)

The Downward Spiral, hell, any Nine Inch Nails album.

― Mr. Goodman, Monday, 4 February 2008 05:26 (eighteen years ago)

that undie rapping that bugs me with domes and brains and heads flexing and flossing and your earhole receiving mad science

kudos

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 February 2008 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

morrissey - suedehead

― jabba hands, Monday, 4 February 2008 06:50 (eighteen years ago)

I was talking about this on another thread I made 'cuz I didn't find this one:
The Vampire Weekend & Talking Heads 'Remain In Light'.

― Bobbi Peru, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:02 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i was your mother - mott the hoople

― remy bean, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

it's killing me to say this... but.. but... the new Mouse on Mars...?

I would extend this to every Mouse on Mars record after Niun Niggung.

― Tuomas, Monday, 4 February 2008 07:25 (eighteen years ago)

Joy Division

― Nate Carson, Monday, 4 February 2008 09:48 (eighteen years ago)

Catherine Ribeiro

― Snowballing, Monday, 4 February 2008 09:59 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Thompson, Nick Drake. Probably anything else of that ilk - folk guitar playing = yay, folk singing = nay. I love me some John Fahey.

― ledge, Monday, 4 February 2008 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

The entire Twilight Sad album. The singer's accent totally ruins that album for me.

― nate woolls, Monday, 4 February 2008 10:12 (eighteen years ago)

The second Beirut album.

― mike t-diva, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:46 (eighteen years ago)

2 Pac's "All Eyez On Me". Except it would have been better with the chorus vocalists also singing some melodies in the verses (and 2Pac's rapping removed)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

I want an instrumental version of every song I own.

― blueski, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

Closet karaoke singer? ;)

― Geir Hongro, Monday, 4 February 2008 11:59 (eighteen years ago)

dead kennedys - plastic surgery disasters
that witch album

― Edward III, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 06:24 (eighteen years ago)

clap your hands say yeah

despise the vocals. think they're atrocious

don't really care for an 'instrumental version' though. but the music is generally nice

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

justus kohncke's schwabylon, from doppelleben

― lucas pine, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

shitloads of eurythmics tracks

― straight, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

dead kennedys - plastic surgery disasters

Oh sweet christ, EVERYthing by the Dead Kennedys.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 13:11 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i was your mother - mott the hoople

Huh?

― Tom D., Tuesday, 5 February 2008 13:27 (eighteen years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins - "Ava Adore"

― Curt1s Stephens, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Kelley Polar: Love Songs...
This Mortal Coil: anything lisp-guy sings on
Lots of nu-Kompakt stuff
Tim Buckley: Starsailor

― Clarke, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

wow, i love the vocals on 'starsailor'

― Charlie Howard, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Most people do... And I think it's a fascinating album, and a great listen for the most part. I've just always had an aversion to really gymanstic, demonstrative singing, and I would love to hear Starsailor without Buckley's vocals.

― Clarke, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Nutjob

― Tom D., Tuesday, 5 February 2008 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

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