Name some rock/pop/whatever other than hip hop songs that have instrumentals versions of the song.

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― upperlip, Monday, 22 August 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)

Symphonic XTC by the Boston Pops.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

New Order to thread

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 22 August 2005 19:53 (twenty years ago)

"Seattle" and "The Body" - PiL

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

"Symphonic XTC by the Boston Pops. "

Not looking for this.

Looking for the songs done by the OG group minus the vocals.

― UPPERLIP, Monday, 22 August 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

"Songs we recorded while Chris was on the phone with Gwynnie" Coldplay EP.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 22 August 2005 19:59 (twenty years ago)

There's a whole album of them by the Beach Boys called "Stack o Tracks". It's ok.

― everything, Monday, 22 August 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

I have a 12 inch of "Billie Jean" the b-side is instrumental.

― Particle Ranger (particle ranger), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:06 (twenty years ago)

The Associates did 18 Carrot Love Affair as an instrumental with a different name that I forget.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

Robot Is Systematic (Instrumental Version) - 'lectric Workers
sharevari (instrumental version) - a number of names
Phaze Me (instrumental) - Alden Tyrell
Breathe On Me (James Holden Dub) - Britney Spears
I Need Love (Instrumental Version) - Capricorn
spacer woman (instrumental) - charlie
October Love Song (Instrumental) - Chris & Cosey
Clear (Instrumental) - Cybotron
Plastic Doll (Remixed Instrumental) - Dharma
LK (full length instrumental version) - DJ Marky & XRS
Gitano (instrumental) - Fockewulf 190
Esplanade '97 (Instrumental) - Francisco
Grammy Winners (instrumental) - Funkstörung
Wonderfull (Instrumental) - Klein & MBO
Criticize (Instrumental) - Marco Passarani
Unfinished Sympathy (instrumental) - Massive Attack
Can You Feel It (Instrumental Version) - Mr Fingers
Hypnotic Tango (Instrumental Version) - My Mine
murderous (instrumental) - Nitzer Ebb
Supersonic (dub) - Zodiac

etfc

― fe7 (FE7), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

let's leave techno out

― hotyuka, Monday, 22 August 2005 20:31 (twenty years ago)

Disco too?

The flip side of most disco 12s is either the instrumental, a short version, a dub or some other mix. Or blank. I have a love/hate thing with blank.

― Confounded (Confounded), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Yeah let's leave disco out as well.

― UPPERLIP, Monday, 22 August 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, let's leave Andrew Loog Oldham out as well.

(But thinking about Jagger, what about his work with Bowie and Bob Clearmountain in 1985?)

Tom Waits' "Midtown" and "Take Me Home".
Claud McLin's "Jambo".
That Will Oldham album with the deserty pic on the sleeve and songs with names like (organ) and (guitar).

Is this for karaoke? Or better still, a quiz?

― A.C.M.E. (A.C.M.E.), Monday, 22 August 2005 20:49 (twenty years ago)

pixies - letter to memphis (instrumental)

― 6335, Monday, 22 August 2005 21:02 (twenty years ago)

The B side of Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently" is an instrumental version of same.

― Joe McCombs, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

Amor Fati's "Rock And Roll" single also features an instrumental version of that bile-soaked classic.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

jamiroquai - deeper underground (instrumental)

what about the beastie boys' flute loop? not your typical hiphop id say.

― aeh (aeh), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:09 (twenty years ago)

House of Jealous Lovers (if it counts)
Scritti Politti with their versions

― BARMS, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:18 (twenty years ago)

The singles of F.T.W by Turbonegro and east Side Story by Bob Seger have instrumnetal versions on the other side.

I'd rather rock bands stuck instrumental versions on their singles than poxy live versions.

― abc, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 10:26 (twenty years ago)

There's a couple Simple Minds tracks that have instro versions (They're all on the "Themes" boxes)

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

>Amor Fati's "Rock And Roll" single also features an instrumental version of that bile-soaked classic. <

Wow, this is the first time I've ever heard anybody but me mention Amor Fati on ILM (and I am sad that I own none of his records anymore -- I even sent him an email last year trying to track some down, but to no avail.)

Anyway, my own personal nomination for this thread is "Grazing in the Grass": A Top 40 hit as an instrumental for Hugh Masekela in 1968, and then a Top 40 hit with words for Friends of Distinction a year later. (Is that the only time -- pre-hip-hop, anyway [maybe even post-hip-hop?] that *that's* happened? Closest other example I can think of is Bill Cosby adding a rap, whatever it was called, to Steve Wonder's not-quite-instrumental "Uptight [Eveything's Alright]" in the late '60s. But the Cosby version never went Top 40. And I stupidly got rid of that single somewhere along the line, too.)

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

Am I the Same Girl (vocal) = Soulful Strut (instrumental)

― pappawheelie II, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I have a friend with a bad leg who says that there was an instrumental version of "Believe" on the b-side of that 1993 Lenny Kravitz release.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

Hundreds (what am I saying, thousands) of reggae tracks... but they probably don't count either...

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Human League - League Unlimited Orchestra EP

― mucho, Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:03 (twenty years ago)

League Unlimited Orchestra is an entire LP.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:07 (twenty years ago)

Does Love Tractor count, since the instrumental versions are kind of the real versions and the versions with vocals are later?

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Savage Republic - lots of tracks

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

VU - I Guess I'm Falling in Love
version on record is instrumental, but they did the lyrics live & on boxset

― autovac (autovac), Tuesday, 23 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

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