Well, it's Friday and you know what that means. Yes, my Oriental houseboy Kato and I are off to California for a tour of the upper crust Palm Springs locations used in the steamy yet highly realistic hit summer teen melodrama miniseries Hidden Palms (Wednesday nights on the CW!!!!).
A gay old time is guaranteed for all, if you know what I mean. But as a result, posting by moi will necessarily be a bit sporadic for a day or two.
In the meantime, here's another little project for you fine folks:
Best Ever (Non-Prog) Rock Instrumental!
[arbitrary rule: Joe Satriani, who I otherwise have no problem with, is prog, so don't nominate him]
My reasonably well-considered Top Ten:
1. Rumble -- Link Wray
2. The Man From HUAC -- Laika and the Cosmonauts
3. Beck's Bolero -- Jeff Beck
4. Apricot Brandy -- Rhinosceros
5. The Carlsberg Special -- Wizzard
6. Perfidia -- The Ventures
7. Sabre Dance -- Love Sculpture with Dave Edmunds
8. Theme from Star Wars -- Big Daddy (guitar instrumental a la the Ventures)
9. Like Long Hair -- Paul Revere and the Raiders
10. Cobwebs and Strange -- The Who
Join in, won't you?
Walk Don't Run - The Ventures
ReplyDeleteTall Cool One - The Wailers
Shake That Rat - Nick Lowe
Rebel Rouser - Duane Eddy
Cry For A Shadow - The Beatles
Run Chicken Run - Link Wray
Peaches En Regalia - Frank Zappa
Let's Go Trippin' - Dick Dale & The Del-Tones
The Lonely Surfer - Jack Nitzche
Everything ever by Booker T. & The M.G.'s (cheating)
"Town Without Pity" - Ronnie Montrose
ReplyDelete"Pet Sounds" (aka "Run James Run") - Brian Wilson and the Wrecking Crew
"Sleepwalking" - Santo and Johnny
"Pipeline" - The Miserlous
Respectfully, Satch isn't prog, he's just a guy who doesn't know when to not play too many notes.
ReplyDeleteAnd Dave? It's "Sleepwalk" by S&J, and "Pipeline" was done by the Chantays. I have the single.
On a mem-based blog post many moons ago, I pointed out that Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" might be the greatest instrumental of all time.
Or "Miserlou" by Dick Dale.
Or "Apache" by either The Shadows, or Jörgen Ingman.
And Molly, while "Perfidia" is indeed nice, it's still all about "Walk Don't Run".
Oops, sorry Steve, I just assumed it was Molly's post.
ReplyDeleteAnd nobody mentioned "Peter Gunn" (the version by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates) or Nelson Riddle's "Theme From Route 66"?
ReplyDeleteGet with it, people!!!!
:-)
The Pyramids - Penetration
ReplyDeleteThe Raybeats - Calhoun Surf
The Revels - Intoxica
The Buzzcocks - Walking Distance
"Flying" - the Beatles
ReplyDeleteLove of Life Orchestra EP (an old 12" 45 by a bunch of downtown NY musicians from about 1979)
"Bongo Rock" - Preston Epps
ReplyDelete"Teen Beat" - Sandy Nelson
"Jessica" - Allman Bros.
"The Choral Sea" - Split Enz
"Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" - Pigbag
"Malaguena" - The Trashmen
ReplyDelete"Warszawa" - David Bowie
"Fun to be Happy"- Love Tractor
ReplyDelete"Early Morning Walk"- Laura Watling
"Telephone and Rubber Band"- Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Even though it kinda sucks doesn't "Wipe Out" deserve a mention?
ReplyDelete"Grazing in the Grass" Hugh Masekela
"Good Dog Ska" Bim Skala Bim
"Earschplittenloudenboomer" Steppenwolf
"Space Invader" The Pretenders
also,
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ReplyDeleteshrimplate,
ReplyDeleteI left "Wipeout" off my list as being too obvious.
True Story: My buddy had the single, and I remember that on one long, hot summer day when we had nothing else to do we played it over and over, at least 20 or 30 times.
Suddenly, my buddy's Dad burst into the room looking like something out of a Marvel comic book and he ripped the disc off the record player and smashed it in front of us. It was at that very moment that I realized I was on to something with this rock n' roll stuff!!
Cheers!
It's "Sleepwalk" by S&J, and "Pipeline" was done by the Chantays. I have the single.
ReplyDeleteWow! Talk about embarrassing...
Alright, I'm in...
ReplyDeleteJessica - The Allman Brothers
Hall of the Mountain King - ELO
Telstar - The Tornados
Fluff - Black Sabbath
And the all-time greatest rock instrumental...
Underture - The Who
And the all-time greatest rock instrumental...
ReplyDeleteUnderture - The Who
6/29/2007 11:27 PM
Good lord -- I think I agree with you!!!!
:-)
And the all-time greatest rock instrumental...
ReplyDeleteUnderture - The Who
6/29/2007 11:27 PM
Good lord -- I think I agree with you!!!!
:-)
ReplyDeleteEverything ever by Booker T. & The M.G.'s (cheating)
6/29/2007 12:37 AM
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Yep. Booker T is their own category.
IMHO
OK, this is really blogwhoring, but since you brought up Peter Gunn, here's my post on the Music Meme that I mentioned above.
ReplyDeleteSeveral of us were passing this around 5/05, and I discuss instrumentals, and especially the recording of Peter Gunn by my friend Al Schmitt.
I am deeply ashamed I didn't nominate something by the Raybeats, who were clearly the greatest instro band of all time.
ReplyDeleteSorry.
Star Spangled Banner- Hendrix
ReplyDeleteSoul Finger-The Bar Kays
Deeper Into Movies
or
From a Motel 6
or
any number of others by Yo La Tengo
'Mr. Scary' - Dokken
ReplyDelete'Hall of the Mountain King' intro - Savatage
'Eruption' - Van Halen (I'm not sure that's really long enough to qualify as a song, but it has its own track listing on the album, so...)
'YYZ' - Rush
"Stratosphere Boogie" - Speedy West & Jimmy Bryant
ReplyDelete"Third Man Theme" - The Band
"All World Cowboy Romance" - Mission Of Burma
"In A Silent Way" - Allman Brothers (last time I saw 'em)
- Bill Buckner
the Chase theme from "Midnight Express"- Giorgio Miroder
ReplyDeleteNo one's mentioned "Nutrocker"?
ReplyDeleteQuestion: what's the connection between that and "Theme From Peter Gunn"?
Buellar???
I am deeply ashamed I didn't nominate something by the Raybeats, who were clearly the greatest instro band of all time.
ReplyDeleteYou sicken me.
Re: Nutrocker Didn't Kim Fowley have something to do with B. BUMBLE AND THE STINGERS? Jeez. He had his hand in everything.
I withdraw "Deeper Into Movies" from my comment above. I forgot it has a vocal track.
ReplyDeleteGummo said...
ReplyDelete"Flying" - the Beatles
See, I was gonna vote for that except they sing at the very end. La la la la ladeda....
So it's not an instrumental(:-)
"Apache" by the Incredible Bongo Band
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to nominate "The Bell and the Butterfly" by The Charlatans, unless of course there's some rule that it has to be a (North) American band and/or that anything recorded in the 1990s or later is too recent. Nobody has mentioned "Telstar" by The Tornadoes, either...
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