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List of rock instrumentals

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The following is a list of rock instrumentals. Only instrumentals that are notable are included.

Instrumentals which have charted

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Instrumental rock is rock music that emphasizes musical instruments and features very little or no singing. An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics, or singing, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting.[1][2][3]

1950s and 1960s chartings

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Artist Song title Date Highest position
on US charts
Highest position
on UK charts
Highest position
on R&B charts
Miscellaneous
Bill Justis "Raunchy" 1957 #3[4] #24[5] #1[6]
Ernie Freeman "Raunchy" 1957 #4[7] #1 [8]
The Champs "Tequila" 1958 #1[9] #5[10] #1 [11]
Duane Eddy "Moovin' N' Groovin'" 1958 #72
The Champs "El Rancho Rock" 1958 #30
Link Wray & His Ray Men "Rumble" 1958 #16[12] #11[13]
Duane Eddy "Rebel Rouser" 1958 #6[14] #8[15] #19 [16]
Duane Eddy "Ramrod" 1958 #28
The Champs "Chariot Rock" 1958 #59
Duane Eddy "Cannonball" 1958 #15 #2 #22
Link Wray & His Ray Men "Raw-Hide" 1959 #23
The Rockin' R's "The Beat" 1959 #57
Duane Eddy "Yep!" 1959 #30 #17
The Virtues "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" 1959 #5[17] #27[18]
Dave "Baby" Cortez "The Happy Organ" 1959 #1[19] #5[20]
Johnny and the Hurricanes "Crossfire" 1959 #23
The Wailers "Tall Cool One" 1959 #36[21] #24[22]
Preston Epps "Bongo Rock" 1959 #14[23]
Duane Eddy "Forty Miles of Bad Road" 1959 #9 #17
Johnny and the Hurricanes "Red River Rock" 1959 #5[24] #3[25] #5[26]
The Wailers "Mau-Mau" 1959 #68
Sandy Nelson "Teen Beat" 1959 #4[27] #9[28] #17[29] The piano on the recording is by Bruce Johnston.[28]
Santo & Johnny "Sleep Walk" 1959 #1[30] #22[31] #4[32]
Santo & Johnny "Tear Drop" 1959 #23[30] #50[31] #17[32]
Duane Eddy "Some Kind-A Earthquake" 1959 #37 #12
Johnny And The Hurricanes "Reveille Rock" 1959 #25 #17
The Fireballs "Bulldog" 1960 #24
The Champs "Too Much Tequila" 1960 #30
Johnny and the Hurricanes "Beatnik Fly" 1960 #15 #8
Bill Black's Combo "White Silver Sands" 1960 #9[33] #33[34] #1[35]
Bill Black's Combo "Don't Be Cruel" 1960 #11[33] #32[34] #1[35]
Duane Eddy "Shazam" 1960 #45 #4
Duane Eddy "Because They're Young" 1960 #4 #2 #17
Johnny and the Hurricanes "Rocking Goose" 1960 #60 #3
Duane Eddy "Peter Gunn" 1960 #8[36] #6[15] This was the second charting of the song in 1959.
Floyd Cramer "Last Date" 1960 #2[37] #32[34]
The Shadows "Apache" 1960 #1[38]
The Shadows "Man of Mystery" 1960 #5[38]
The Ventures "Walk, Don't Run" 1960 #1[39] #8[40] #13[41]
Duane Eddy "Pepe" 1961 #18 #2
B. Bumble and the Stingers "Bumble Boogie" 1961 #21[42]
The Fireballs "Quite a Party" 1961 #27[43] #29[44]
Kokomo "Asia Minor" 1961 #8[45] #35[40] Adopted from the Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor[45] and subsequently banned by the BBC.[46]
The Mar-Keys "Last Night" 1961 #3[47] #2[48]
Sandy Nelson "Let There Be Drums" 1961 #7[27] #3[28]
The Shadows "F.B.I." 1961 #6[5]
The Shadows "The Frightened City" 1961 #3[38]
The Shadows "Kon-Tiki" 1961 #1[38]
The Shadows "The Savage" 1961 #10[38]
The String-A-Longs "Wheels" 1961 #3[49] #8[31] #19[50]
Billy Joe and the Checkmates "Percolator (Twist)" 1962 #10[51]
The Champs "Limbo Rock" 1962 #40[9]
Jet Harris "Besame Mucho" 1962 #22[52]
King Curtis "Soul Twist" 1962 #17[53] #1[54]
Sandy Nelson "Drums Are My Beat" 1962 #29[27] #30[28]
The Shadows "Wonderful Land" 1962 #1[38]
The Shadows "Guitar Tango" 1962 #4[38]
The Shadows "Dance On!" 1962 #1[38]
The Tornados "Telstar" 1962 #1[55] #1[56] #5[57]
Booker T. & the M.G.'s "Green Onions" 1962 #3 #1
The Busters "Bust Out" 1963 #25[58]
The Dakotas "The Cruel Sea" 1963 #18[59]
Jet Harris and Tony Meehan "Scarlett O'Hara" 1963 #2[52]
Lonnie Mack "Memphis" 1963 #5[60] #4[61]
Lonnie Mack Wham! 1963 #24[60] From the album The Wham of that Memphis Man
The Marketts "Out of Limits" 1963 #3[47]
Link Wray & His Ray Men "Jack The Ripper" 1963 #64 Released in 1961, but didn't chart until 1963.
Jack Nitzsche "The Lonely Surfer" 1963 #39[62]
The Rockin’ Rebels
aka The Rebels
"Wild Weekend" 1963 #8[63] #3[25] #28[64]
The Shadows "Foot Tapper" 1963 #1[38]
The Surfaris "Wipe Out" 1963 #2[65] #5[66] #10[67]
The Pyramids "Penetration" 1964 #18[68] Adapted from Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.[45]
The T-Bones "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)" 1965 #3[69]
The Viscounts "Harlem Nocturne" 1966 #39 #17 Originally released in 1960, peaking at #52 on Billboard and #28 on CashBox. A 1965 re-release resulted in the record topping its previous peak, reaching #39.
The Bar-Kays "Soul Finger" 1967 #17[70] #33[71] #3[72]
Cliff Nobles & Co. "The Horse" 1968 #2[73] #2[74]
Fleetwood Mac "Albatross" 1968 #1[75] Charted again (#2) in Britain in 1972.
Hugh Masekela "Grazing in the Grass" 1968 #1[76] #1[77]
Mason Williams "Classical Gas" 1968 #2[78] #9[79] "orchestrated rock and roll" backed by the Wrecking Crew[80]
Booker T. & the M.G.'s "Time Is Tight" 1969 #6[45] #7[81] from the film Uptight[45]
The Ventures "Hawaii Five-O" 1969 #4[82]

1970s and 1980s chartings

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Artist Song title Date Highest position
on US charts
Highest position
on UK charts
Highest position
on R&B charts
Miscellaneous
Dennis Coffey ‘'Scorpio’’ 1971 #6[83] #7[84] #9[85]
Hot Butter ‘'Popcorn’’ 1972 #9[86] #5[87]
Billy Preston Outa-Space 1972 #2[88] #44[89] #1[90]
Deodato ‘'Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)’’ 1973 #2[91] #7[84] based on Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra
Edgar Winter Group ‘'Frankenstein’’ 1973 #1[92] #18[93]
The Love Unlimited Orchestra Love's Theme 1973 #1[94] #10[95] #10[96] orchestra formed and song written by Barry White
Billy Preston Space Race 1973 #4[88] #1[97]
Average White Band Pick Up the Pieces 1974 #1[98] #6[99] #5[100]
B. T. Express Express 1974 #2[101] #34[102] #1[103]
The Commodores Machine Gun 1974 #22[104] #20[105] #7[106]
Focus Hocus Pocus 1974 #9[107] #20[105]
MFSB ‘'TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)’’ 1974 #1[108] #22[109] #1[110]
Silver Convention Fly, Robin, Fly 1975 #1[111] #28[112] #1[113]
Van McCoy The Hustle 1975 #1[98] #3[114] #1[72]
Mike Post The Rockford Files (Theme) 1975 #10
Walter Murphy A Fifth Of Beethoven 1976 #1[115] #28[116] #10[117] based on the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Rhythm Heritage Theme from S.W.A.T. 1976 #1[118] #11[119]
Chuck Mangione Feels So Good 1977 #4
Herb Alpert ‘'Rise’’ 1979 #1[120] #13[121] #4[122]


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The Allman Brothers Band with special guest Eric Clapton.
  • Plays Metallica by Four Cellos (1996)
  • Inquisition Symphony (1998)
  • Cult (2000) The Standard Version it's all instrumental and the Special Edition Disk 2 include: "Path Vol. 2" feat. Sandra Nasić and "Hope Vol. 2" feat. Matthias Sayer on vocals.
  • Reflections (2003) On The Revised, Russian Edition & 2005 US Reissue it's include: "Seemann (Rammstein Cover)" feat. Nina Hagen on vocals.
  • Apocalyptica (2005) Vocals: "Life Burns!" & "Bittersweet" feat. Lauri Ylönen; "En Vie" feat. Manu; On Special Edition Bonus Tracks: "How Far" & "Wie Weit" Marta Jandová.
  • Amplified // A Decade of Reinventing the Cello It consists the band's most notable covers and original songs on 2 CDs, one for the instrumentals tunes and the other for the tunes with vocals.
  • Worlds Collide (2003) Vocals: "I Don't Care" Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace; "I'm Not Jesus" Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Stone Sour; "S.O.S (Anything but Love)" Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil, additionals backing vocals: Mats Levén of Therion, Krux; "Helden" Till Lindemann of Rammstein.
  • 7th Symphony (2003) Vocals: "End of Me" Gavin Rossdale of Bush; "Not Strong Enough (Album Version)" Brent Smith of Shinedown; "Not Strong Enough (US Single Version)" Doug Robb of Hoobastank; "Broken Pieces" Lacey Mosley of Flyleaf; "Bring Them to Light" Joe Duplantier of Gojira.
  • Wagner Reloaded-Live in Leipzig (2013)

Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu and various artists

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August Burns Red

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Average White Band

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The Bar-Kays

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Michael Angelo Batio

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The Beach Boys in 1964. From left: Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, Brian Wilson and Mike Love (drummer Dennis Wilson not shown).

Beastie Boys

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Most of Beck's recordings following the dissolution of The Jeff Beck Group are instrumentals.

Bee Gees

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Bill Black's Combo

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Most, if not all, of the Bill Black Combo's recordings are instrumentals.

Black Flag

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Black Sabbath in 1970.

Blaqk Audio

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Booker T. and the M.G.'s

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.
David Bowie in 1978.

B. T. Express

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Roy Buchanan

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Buckethead

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Buckethead performing in Seattle in 2008.
Most, if not all, of Buckethead's recordings are instrumentals.

B. Bumble and the Stingers

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Most, if not all, of B. Bumble and the Stingers' recordings are instrumentals.

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Cake

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Camel

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Camel in 2003.
  • Supertwister (Mirage, 1974)
  • Earthrise (Mirage)
  • The Snow Goose (1975)
  • Aristillus (Moonmadness, 1976)
  • Chord Change (Moonmadness)
  • Lunar Sea (Moonmadness)
  • First Light (Rain Dances, 1977)
  • One of These Days I'll Get an Early Night (Rain Dances)
  • Elke (Rain Dances)
  • Skylines (Rain Dances)
  • Rain Dances (Rain Dances)
  • The Sleeper (Breathless, 1978)
  • Eye of the Storm (I Can See Your House from Here, 1979)
  • Survival (I Can See Your House from Here)
  • Ice (I Can See Your House from Here)
  • Pressure Points (Stationary Traveller, 1984)
  • Missing(Stationary Traveller)
  • After Words(Stationary Traveller)
  • Dust Bowl (Dust and Dreams, 1991)
  • Dusted Out (Dust and Dreams)
  • Needles (Dust and Dreams)
  • Milk and Honey (Dust and Dreams)
  • Storm Clouds (Dust and Dreams)
  • Cotton Camp (Dust and Dreams)
  • Broken Banks (Dust and Dreams)
  • Sheet Rain (Dust and Dreams)
  • Whispers (Dust and Dreams)
  • Little Rivers and Little Rose (Dust and Dreams)
  • Hopeless Anger (Dust and Dreams)
  • Whispers in the Rain (Dust and Dreams)
  • Irish Air (Instrumental Reprise) (Harbour of Tears, 1996)
  • Cóbh (Harbour of Tears)
  • Under the Moon (Harbour of Tears)
  • Generations (Harbour of Tears)
  • Running from Paradise (Harbour of Tears)
  • Coming of Age (Harbour of Tears)
  • The Hour Candle (A Song for my Father) (Harbour of Tears)
  • Three Wishes (Rajaz, 1999)
  • Sahara (Rajaz)

Camper Van Beethoven

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Gustavo Cerati

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The Champs

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Most, if not all, of the Champs recordings are instrumentals.

The Chemical Brothers

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Chicago

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  • "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Anxiety's Moment" (Chicago, 1970)
  • "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: West Virginia Fantasies" (Chicago)
  • "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: To Be Free" (Chicago)

Eric Clapton

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Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse

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The Dave Clark Five

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  • Instrumental Album (1966)

Bruce Cockburn

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Dennis Coffey

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The Commodores

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Dave "Baby" Cortez

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Floyd Cramer

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Most, if not all, of the Floyd Cramer's recordings are instrumentals.

King Curtis

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The Dakotas

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Dick Dale

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Most of Dale's recordings are instrumentals.
Deep Purple in 1975.

Deodato

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Derek and the Dominos

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Destroyalldreamers

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Dixie Dregs

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Bill Doggett

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Dream Theater performing in Brazil in 2008. Vocalist James LaBrie roams the stage while his bandmates perform an instrumental passage.

The Durutti Column

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Most of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Bob Dylan

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Earthless

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Duane Eddy

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Most, if not all, of the Duane Eddy's recordings are instrumentals.

Electric Light Orchestra

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Emerson, Lake and Palmer

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An Endless Sporadic

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  • "Ameliorate" (EP, 2008)
  • "An Endless Sporadic" (Album, 2009)
  • "Spaceship Factory" (Single, 2014)
  • "Derpulous" (Single, 2014)
  • "The Adventures of Jabubu II" (Single, 2015)
  • "Magic Machine" (Album, 2016)

Preston Epps

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Explosions in the Sky

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

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The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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(Note: Bandstand, from 1972, is the only Family album that does not feature an instrumental track.)

Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens

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A Flock of Seagulls

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Focus

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Most, if not all, of Focus' recordings are instrumentals.

Marty Friedman

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The Bobby Fuller Four

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Peter Frampton

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FromUz

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Funkadelic

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Peter Gabriel

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Paul Gilbert.

Gary Glitter

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

God Is an Astronaut

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Godsmack

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Gorillaz

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Gov't Mule

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The original lineup of Gov't Mule (shown here performing an acoustic set) regularly performed and recorded instrumentals.

Grails

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

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Hammock

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Jet Harris and Tony Meehan

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George Harrison

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Hellecasters

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Jimi Hendrix

Gary Hoey

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Most of Hoey's recordings are instrumentals.

Hot Butter

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If These Trees Could Talk

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.
  • "Transylvania"
  • "The Ides of March"
  • "Genghis Khan"
  • "Losfer Words"

J

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.
  • "Dharma for One" (This Was, 1968)
  • "Bouree" (Stand Up, 1969)
  • "Warm Sporran" (Stormwatch, 1979)
  • "Elegy" (Stormwatch)
  • "The Pine Marten's Jig" (A, 1980)
Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Elton John

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  • "Tones" (1986)
  • "Ah Via Musicom" (1990)
  • "Venus Isle" (1996)
  • "Seven Worlds" (1998)
  • "Souvenir" (2002)
  • "Bloom" (2005)
  • "Up Close" (2010)
  • "Mrs. Robinson" (EJ, 2016)
  • "Once Upon A Time In Texas" (EJ, 2016)
  • "Serinidad" (EJ, 2016)
  • "Fatherly Downs" (EJ, 2016)
  • "The World is Waiting For The Sunrise" (EJ, 2016)
  • "Song For Irene" (EJ, 2016)
  • "Collage", 2017)
  • "Charldron's Boat" (EJ Vol II, 2020)
  • "Lake Travis" (EJ Vol II, 2020)
  • "Black Waterside" (EJ Vol II, 2020)
  • "For The Stars" (EJ Vol II, 2020)

Billy Joel

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Bradley Joseph

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Bill Justis

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Kinks

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  • "Revenge", from the (Kinks album, 1964)

King Crimson

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Kiss performing in Paris on March 21, 1999

Kokomo

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Tony Levin

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Most of Levin's solo recordings are instrumentals. Notable exceptions are "L'Abito della Sposa" from Double Espresso (2002), most of Resonator (2006) and some of its follow-up, Stick Man (2007).

Liquid Trio Experiment

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals in the surf music genre.

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Madness

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Tak Matsumoto

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Yngwie Malmsteen

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Yngwie Malmsteen.

Manfred Mann

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Manfred Mann's Earth Band

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The Mar-Keys

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The Marketts

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Hank Marvin

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Hugh Masekela

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Dave Matthews Band

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Mastodon

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Brian May

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  • Furia (2000) except "Dream of Thee"

Paul McCartney (and Wings)

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Van McCoy

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Meshuggah

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Metallica

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The Meters

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MFSB

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Midnight Oil

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Moby Grape

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Mogwai

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Most, if not all, of Mogwai's recordings are instrumentals.
Mogwai.

Mono

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Vinnie Moore

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Most, if not all, of Moore's recordings are instrumentals.
Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Walter Murphy

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Muse

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Muse.

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  • Most, if not all, of Sandy Nelson's recordings are instrumentals.
  • "Teen Beat" (1959), No. 4 US,[27] No. 9 UK, [28] No. 17 R&B, [29] The piano on the recording is by Bruce Johnston.[28]
  • "Drums Are My Beat" (1962), No. 29 US,[27] No. 30 UK[28]

New Order

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Jack Nietzsche

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Nine Inch Nails

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Nine Inch Nails.

Cliff Nobles and Co.

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Ted Nugent

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The Offspring

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Ozzy Osbourne

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Ozric Tentacles

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Most of if not all of their albums consist of instrumentals.

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Particle

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Pell Mell

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.
Pink Floyd in 1973 (top) and 2005 (above).

Pivot

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Chris Poland

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The Police

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Porcupine Tree

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Billy Preston

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The Pyramids

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Queen

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Queen in 1984.

Quiet Sun

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Rainbow in 1977.

Ramones

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Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Red Sparowes

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Rhythm Heritage

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Rockin' Rebels, aka The Rebels

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  • "Wild Weekend", (1963), No. 8 US,[63] No. 3 UK,[25] No. 28 R&B[64]

Rodrigo y Gabriela

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Gabriela Quintero y Rodrigo Sánchez in Washington State on 30 May 2011

The Rolling Stones

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The Rolling Stones in Milwaukee in 2015

Rush

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Rush.
Neil Peart drumming.

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Carlos Santana in 1973.

Carlos Santana

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Most, if not all, of Santo & Johnny's recordings are instrumentals.
Joe Satriani.

Albums:

  • "Inquisition Symphony" (Schizophrenia, 1987)
  • "The Abyss" (Schizophrenia, 1987)
  • "Kaiowas" (Chaos A.D., 1993)
  • "Jasco" (Roots, 1996)
  • "Itsári" (Roots, 1996)
  • "Canyon Jam" (Roots, 1996)
  • "Tribus" (Against, 1998)
  • "F.O.E." (Against, 1998)
  • "T3rcermillenium" (Against, 1998)
  • "Valtio" (Nation, 2001)
  • "Enter Sandman/Fight Fire with Fire Medley" (Revolusongs, 2002)
  • "Lost" (Dante XXI, 2006)
  • "Limbo" (Dante XXI, 2006)
  • "Eunoé" (Dante XXI, 2006)
  • "Primium Mobile" (Dante XXI, 2006)
  • "A-Lex I" (A-Lex, 2009)
  • "A-Lex II" (A-Lex, 2009)
  • "A-Lex III" (A-Lex, (2009)
  • "Ludwig Van" (A-Lex, 2009)
  • "A-Lex IV" (A-Lex, 2009)
  • "Iceberg Dances" (Machine Messiah, 2017)
  • "The Pentagram" (Quadra, 2020)
  • "Quadra" (Quadra, 2020)
The Shadows in 2009.
A significant number of the band's recordings are instrumentals. See The Shadows discography for more details.

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Tangerine Dream

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Only three albums in this band's extensive discography contain any vocal tracks: Cyclone (1978), Tyger (1987) and Inferno (2002). Also, while the band's music does contain rock elements, it is often categorized within new-age, electronic and other genres instead.

Tarentel

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

The T-Bones

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Therapy?

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Timo Tolkki

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The Tornados

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Most of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Tortoise

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Tortoise.
Most, if not all, Tortoise recordings are instrumentals.

Traffic

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Trans Am

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Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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The Derek Trucks Band

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Most of the band's early recordings, prior to their introduction of vocalist Mike Mattison, are instrumentals. Many of these recordings also veer strongly towards jazz fusion with rock elements.

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Steve Vai
Van Halen in 1976

Eddie and Alex Van Halen

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The Ventures

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Most, if not all, of the band's recordings are instrumentals. See The Ventures discography for more details.

The Virtues

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The Wailers aka The Fabulous Wailers

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  • "Tall Cool One", (1959), No. 36 US,[21] No. 24 R&B[22]

Rick Wakeman

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Mike Watt

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The Who

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Mason Williams

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The Edgar Winter Group

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The Yardbirds

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Yes

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Yes.

Neil Young

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Yowie

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Frank Zappa

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Frank Zappa playing in Oslo in January 1977.
A significant portion of Zappa's discography consists of instrumental works, but many of these could be classified as modern classical or avant-garde music rather than rock.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Whitburn, Joel, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, Billboard Books, New York, 1992
  2. ^ Whitburn, Joel, The Billboard Book of TOP 40 R&B and Hip Hop Hits, Billboard Books, New York 2006
  3. ^ Brown, Tony; Jon Kutner; Neil Warwick (2002). The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums. London: Omnibus Press.
  4. ^ a b Whitburn 1992, p. 254.
  5. ^ a b c Brown 2002, p. 538.
  6. ^ a b Whitburn 2006, p. 306.
  7. ^ Joel Whitburns Top Pop 1955 - 1982
  8. ^ R&B charts Joel Whitburn Top R&B Singles 1942-1999
  9. ^ a b c d Whitburn 1992, p. 88.
  10. ^ a b Brown 2002, p. 201.
  11. ^ a b Whitburn 2006, p. 94.
  12. ^ a b Whitburn 1992, p. 502.
  13. ^ a b Whitburn 2006, p. 639.
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