List of rock instrumentals

The following is a list of rock instrumentals. Firstly, there are tables of music which has charted; then there are longer lists, organized primarily by artist name, then chronologically through the artist's discography.

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Instrumentals which have charted

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.

1950s and 1960s chartings

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	#24	#1
Ernie Freeman	"Raunchy"	1957	#4	#1 <R&B charts> Joel Whitburn Top R&B Singles 1942-1999>
The Champs	"Tequila"	1958	#1	#5	#1
Duane Eddy	"Moovin' N' Groovin'"	1958	#72
The Champs	"El Rancho Rock"	1958	#30
Link Wray & His Ray Men	"Rumble"	1958	#16		#11
Duane Eddy	"Rebel Rouser"	1958	#6	#8	#19
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		#27
Dave "Baby" Cortez	"The Happy Organ"	1959	#1		#5
Johnny and the Hurricanes	"Crossfire"	1959	#23
The Wailers	"Tall Cool One"	1959	#36		#24
Preston Epps	"Bongo Rock"	1959	#14
Duane Eddy	"Forty Miles of Bad Road"	1959	#9		#17
Johnny and the Hurricanes	"Red River Rock"	1959	#5	#3	#5
The Wailers	"Mau-Mau"	1959	#68
Sandy Nelson	"Teen Beat"	1959	#4	#9	#17	The piano on the recording is by Bruce Johnston.
Santo & Johnny	"Sleep Walk"	1959	#1	#22	#4
Santo & Johnny	"Tear Drop"	1959	#23	#50	#17
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	#1
Bill Black's Combo	"Don't Be Cruel"	1960	#11	#32	#1
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	#6		This was the second charting of the song in 1959.
Floyd Cramer	"Last Date"	1960	#2	#32
The Shadows	"Apache"	1960		#1
The Ventures	"Walk, Don't Run"	1960	#1	#8	#13
Duane Eddy	"Pepe"	1961	#18	#2
B. Bumble and the Stingers	"Bumble Boogie"	1961	#21
The Fireballs	"Quite a Party"	1961	#27	#29
Kokomo	"Asia Minor"	1961	#8		#35	Adopted from the Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor and sub sequentially banned by the BBC.
The Mar-Keys	"Last Night"	1961	#3	#2
Sandy Nelson	"Let There Be Drums"	1961	#7	#3
The String-A-Longs	"Wheels"	1961	#3	#8	#19
Billy Joe and the Checkmates	"Percolator (Twist)"	1962	#10
The Champs	"Limbo Rock"	1962	#40
Jet Harris	"Besame Mucho"	1962		#22
King Curtis	"Soul Twist"	1962	#17		#1
Sandy Nelson	"Drums Are My Beat"	1962	#29	#30
The Tornados	"Telstar"	1962	#1	#1	#5
The Busters	"Bust Out"	1963	#25
The Dakotas	"The Cruel Sea"	1963		#18
Jet Harris and Tony Meehan	"Scarlett O'Hara"	1963		#2
Lonnie Mack	"Memphis"	1963	#5		#4
Lonnie Mack	Wham!	1963	#24			From the album The Wham of that Memphis Man
The Marketts	"Out of Limits"	1963	#3
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
The Rockin’ Rebels aka The Rebels	"Wild Weekend"	1963	#8	#3	#28
The Surfaris	"Wipe Out"	1963	#2	#5	#10
The Pyramids	"Penetration"	1964	#18			Adapted from Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.
The T-Bones	"No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)"	1965	#3
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	#33	#3
Cliff Nobles & Co.	"The Horse"	1968	#2	#2
Fleetwood Mac	"Albatross"	1968		#1		Charted again (#2) in Britain in 1972.
Hugh Masekela	"Grazing in the Grass"	1968	#1		#1
Mason Williams	"Classical Gas"	1968	#2		#9	"orchestrated rock and roll" backed by the Wrecking Crew
Booker T. & the M.G.'s	"Time Is Tight"	1969	#6		#7	from the film Uptight
The Ventures	"Hawaii Five-O"	1969	#4

1970s and 1980s chartings

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	#7	#9
Hot Butter	‘'Popcorn’’	1972	#9	#5
Billy Preston	Outa-Space	1972	#2	#44	#1
Deodato	‘'Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)’’	1973	#2	#7		based on Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra
Edgar Winter Group	‘'Frankenstein’’	1973	#1	#18
The Love Unlimited Orchestra	Love's Theme	1973	#1	#10	#10	orchestra formed and song written by Barry White
Billy Preston	Space Race	1973	#4		#1
Average White Band	Pick Up the Pieces	1974	#1	#6	#5
B. T. Express	Express	1974	#2	#34	#1
The Commodores	Machine Gun	1974	#22	#20	#7
Focus	Hocus Pocus	1974	#9	#20
MFSB	‘'TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)’’	1974	#1	#22	#1
Silver Convention	Fly, Robin, Fly	1975	#1	#28	#1
Van McCoy	The Hustle	1975	#1	#3	#1
Mike Post	The Rockford Files (Theme)	1975	#10
Walter Murphy	A Fifth Of Beethoven	1976	#1	#28	#10	based on the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Rhythm Heritage	Theme from S.W.A.T.	1976	#1		#11
Chuck Mangione	Feels So Good	1977	#4
Herb Alpert	‘'Rise’’	1979	#1	#13	#4

Instrumentals by vocal artists

During the 1960s it became not unusual for groups who typically included vocals in their songs to record instrumentals which were usually released on albums. Some of these include:

Artist	Song title	Album	Date	Miscellaneous
The Allman Brothers Band	In Memory of Elizabeth Reed & Hot 'Lanta	At Fillmore East	1971
The Beach Boys	Let's Go Away for Awhile & Pet Sounds	Pet Sounds	1966
The Beatles	Cry for a Shadow	The b-side of a Tony Sheridan single	1961	included Pete Best on drums
The Beatles	Flying	Magical Mystery Tour	1967	the first Beatles song to include all four members as writers
Jeff Beck	Beck's Bolero	first as B-side of Hi Ho Silver Lining then on Truth (1968)	1967	featured Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, John Paul Jones, and Nicky Hopkins
Chuck Berry	Deep Feeling	B-side of School Days	1957	played on "a steel guitar that he’d bought a few weeks earlier" on which he "whipped up the lights out instrumental"
Chuck Berry	Guitar Boogie	One Dozen Berrys	1958	later covered by The Yardbirds as Jeff's Boogie
The Byrds	John Riley & Captain Soul	Fifth Dimension	1966
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Hair Pie: Bake 1 Hair Pie: Bake 2	Trout Mask Replica	1969
Cream	Cat's Squirrel & Toad	Fresh Cream	1966
Fleetwood Mac	Albatross	The Pious Bird of Good Omen	1969	reached #2 on the British singles charts
Jefferson Airplane	Embryonic Journey	Surrealistic Pillow	1967
Jimi Hendrix	Third Stone from the Sun	Are You Experienced	1967
Jimi Hendrix	Peace in Mississippi	Voodoo Soup	1968
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers	Hide Away & Steppin' Out	Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton	1966	features Eric Clapton on guitar
John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers	The Stumble & The Supernatural	A Hard Road	1967	features Peter Green on guitar
Kaleidoscope	Sefan	Beacon from Mars & Other Psychedelic Side Trips	1970
The Rolling Stones	2120 South Michigan Avenue	Five by Five & 12 X 5	1964
Spencer Davis Group	Goodbye Stevie, Stevie’s Blues, Stevie’s Groove	B-sides and EP tracks	1969	most were, “just knock off B-sides”
Steely Dan	East St. Louis Toodle-Oo	Pretzel Logic	1974	written by Duke Ellington
The Who	The Ox	My Generation	1965
The Yardbirds	Steeled Blues	B-side of Heart Full of Soul	1965
The Yardbirds	Jeff's Boogie	B-side of Over Under Sideways Down	1966	based on Chuck Berry's "Guitar Boogie"
The Zombies	Work ’n’ Play	Begin Here	1963

0-9

10cc

• "How Dare You" (How Dare You!, 1976)

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

A

ABBA

• "Intermezzo No. 1" (ABBA, 1975)
• "Arrival" (Arrival, 1976)

AC/DC

• "Fling Thing" (B-side of "Jailbreak", 1976)
• "Chase the Ace" (Who Made Who, 1986)
• "D.T." (Who Made Who)

Accept

• "Just by My Own" (Objection Overruled, 1993)
• "Drifting Apart" (Death Row, 1994)
• "Pomp and Circumstance" (Death Row)

A.C.T

• "Personalities III. Tinnitus" (Today's Report, 1999)
• "Relationships IV. Second Thought" (Imaginary Friends, 2001)
• "Relationships VI. Gamophobia" (Imaginary Friends)
• "Dance of Mr. Gumble" (Last Epic, 2003)
• "Intro" (Last Epic)
• "Silent Screams" (Silence, 2006)

Aerosmith

Brad Whitford, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith.

• "The Movie" (Permanent Vacation, 1987)
• "Dulcimer Stomp" (Pump, 1989)
• "Circle Jerk" (Pandora's Box box set, 1991)
• "Kra whit ham" (Pandora's Box)
• "Let It Slide" (Pandora's Box)
• "Soulsaver" (Pandora's Box)
• "Boogie Man" (Get a Grip, 1993)

Agent Steel

• "The Day at Guyana" (Unstoppable Force,1987)

Alcatrazz

• "Incubus" (No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll,1983)
• "Lighter Shade Of Green" (Disturbing the Peace,1985)

The Alan Parsons Project

• "A Dream Within a Dream" (Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 1976)
• "The Fall of the House of Usher" (Tales of Mystery and Imagination)
  • "Prelude"
  • "Arrival"
  • "Intermezzo"
  • "Pavane"
  • "Fall"
• "Genesis Ch.1. V.32" (I Robot, 1977)
• "Total Eclipse" (I Robot)
• "Nucleus" (I Robot)
• "I Robot" (I Robot)
• "Voyager" (Pyramid, 1978)
• "In the Lap of the Gods" (Pyramid)
• "Hyper-Gamma-Spaces" (Pyramid)
• "Lucifer" (Eve, 1979)
• "Secret Garden" (Eve)
• "The Gold Bug" (The Turn of a Friendly Card, 1980)
• "The Turn of a Friendly Card" (The Turn of a Friendly Card)
  • "The Ace of Swords"
• "Sirius" (Eye in the Sky, 1982)
• "Mammagamma" (Eye in the Sky)
• "Pipeline" (Ammonia Avenue, 1984)
• "Hawkeye" (Vulture Culture, 1984)
• "Urbania" (Stereotomy, 1985)
• "Where's the Walrus?" (Stereotomy)
• "Chinese Whispers" (Stereotomy)
• "Paseo de Gracia" (Gaudí, 1987)
• "The Nirvana Principle" (Freudiana, 1990)
• "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" (Freudiana)
• "Freudiana" (Freudiana)
• The Sicilian Defence (2014)

Herb Alpert

• "Rise", (1979), No. 1 US, No. 13 UK, No. 4 R&B

Alice in Chains

• "Whale and Wasp" (Jar of Flies, 1994)

Allah-Las

• "Sacred Sands" (Allah-Las, 2012)

The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band with special guest Eric Clapton.

• "Don't Want You No More" (The Allman Brothers Band, 1969)
• "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Idlewild South, 1970)
• "Hot 'Lanta" (At Fillmore East, 1971)
• "Les Brers in A Minor" (Eat a Peach, 1972)
• "Mountain Jam" (Eat a Peach)
• "Little Martha" (Eat a Peach)
• "Jessica" (Brothers and Sisters, 1973)
• "High Falls" (Win, Lose or Draw, 1975)
• "Pegasus" (Enlightened Rogues, 1979)
• "True Gravity" (Seven Turns, 1990)
• "Kind of Bird" (Shades of Two Worlds, 1991)
• "Instrumental Illness" (Hittin' the Note, 2003)

Alux Nahual

• "Cola de Golondrina" (Alux Nahual, 1981)
• "Passacaglia Maestosa" (Conquista, 1982)
• "Bar-Rocko" (Conquista)
• "Lejos de la Ciudad" (Hermanos de Sentimiento, 1983)

The Amboy Dukes

See also: Ted Nugent

• "Scottish Tea" (1968)
• "Migration" (Migration, 1969)
• "Below The Belt" (Call of the Wild, 1974)
• "Hibernation" (Tooth Fang & Claw, 1974)
• "Free Flight" (Tooth Fang & Claw, 1974)

Amon Düül II

• "She Came Through the Chimney" (Yeti, 1970)
• "Cerberus" (Yeti)
• "The Return of Rübezahl" (Yeti)
• "Eye-Shaking King" (Yeti)
• "Pale Gallery" (Yeti)
• "Yeti Talks to Yogi (Improvisation)" (Yeti)

Anathema

• "Destiny Is Dead" (Judgement, 1999)

Anberlin

• "A Heavy Hearted Work of Staggering Genius" (Never Take Friendship Personal, 2005)
• "(Début)" (Cities, 2007)
• "Glass to the Arson" (MIDI Remix) (Lost Songs, 2007)

And So I Watch You from Afar

• And So I Watch You from Afar (2009)

Andromeda

• "Chameleon Carnival" (Extension of the Wish, 2001)
• "Morphing into Nothing" (II=I (Two Is One), 2003)

Angels and Airwaves

• "Star of Bethlehem" (I-Empire, 2007)
• "Jumping Rooftops" (I-Empire)
• "Et Ducit Mundum Per Luce" (Love, 2010)

Ray Anthony

• Peter Gunn (1959), No. 8 US, No. 22 UK, No. 4 R&B song's composer Henry Mancini wrote that it, "actually derives more from rock and roll than from jazz."

Anthrax

• "Across The River" (Fistful of Metal, 1984)
• "13" (State of Euphoria, 1988)
• "Intro to Reality" (Persistence of Time, 1990)
• "Pipeline" (Attack of the Killer B's, 1991)
• "Worship" (Worship Music, 2011)
• "Hymn 1" (Worship Music)
• "Hymn 2" (Worship Music)

Anvil

• "March of the Crabs" (Metal on Metal, 1982)
• "Pussy Poison" (Backwaxed, 1985)
• "Flight of the Bumblebeast" (Strength of Steel, 1987)
• "White Rhino" (Still Going Strong, 2002)

Aphrodite's Child

• "The Lamb" (666, 1972)
• "The Wakening Beast" (666)
• "The Marching Beast" (666)
• "The Battle of the Locusts" (666)
• "Tribulation" (666)
• "The Wedding of the Lamb" (666)
• "The Capture of the Beast" (666)

Apocalyptica

• Plays Metallica by Four Cellos (1996)
• Inquisition Symphony (1998)
• Cult (2000) The Standard Vertion 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)
• "I-III-V Seed of Chaos" (Shadowmaker, 2015)
• "Reign of Fear" (Shadowmaker)
• "Riot Lights" (Shadowmaker)
• "Till Death Do Us Part" (Shadowmaker)

Arch Enemy

• "Demoniality"
• "Vox Stellarum"
• "Snow Bound" (Wages of Sin, 2001)
• "Tear Down the Walls"
• "Marching on a Dead End Road"
• "Anthem"
• "Enter the Machine" (Doomsday Machine, 2005)
• "Hybrids of Steel" (Doomsday Machine, 2005)
• "Intermezzo Liberté" (Rise of the Tyrant, 2007)
• "Khaos Overture" (Khaos Legions, 2011)
• "We Are a Godless Entity" (Khaos Legions, 2011)
• "Turn to Dust" (Khaos Legions, 2011)
• "Tempore nihil sanat" (War Eternal, 2014)
• "Graveyard of Dreams" (War Eternal, 2014)
• "Not Long for This World" (War Eternal, 2014)
• "Set Flame to the Night" (Will to Power, 2017)
• "Saturnine"(Will to Power, 2017)

Ars Nova

• "Zarathustra" (Ars Nova, 1968)

Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu and various artists

• "A Song for Chi" (2009)

Asia

• "The Mariner's Dream" (Archiva Vol. 1, 1996)
• "Ginger" (Archiva Vol. 1)
• "The Smoke That Thunders" (Archiva Vol. 2, 1996)
• "Armenia" (Archiva Vol. 2)
• Rare (2000)

The Associates

• "An Even Whiter Car" (Fourth Drawer Down, 1981)
• "Straw Towels" (Fourth Drawer Down)
• "Kissed" (Fourth Drawer Down)
• "Arrogance Gave Him Up" (Sulk, 1982)
• "nothinginsomethingparticular" (Sulk)
• "Grecian 2000" (Sulk)
• "Perhaps (Instrumental)" (Perhaps, 1985)

At the Gates

• "Into the Dead Sky" (Slaughter of the Soul, 1995)
• "The Flames of the End" (Slaughter of the Soul)

Atomic Rooster

• "Before Tomorrow" (Atomic Roooster, 1970)
• "Decline and Fall" (Atomic Roooster)
• "VUG" (Death Walks Behind You, 1970)
• "Gershatzer" (Death Walks Behind You)
• "The Rock" (In Hearing of Atomic Rooster, 1971)

August Burns Red

• "Carol of the Bells" (online single, 2007)
• "O Come O Come, Emmanuel" (O Come, O Come, Emmanuel 7", 2009)
• "The Little Drummer Boy" (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen 7", 2011)

Autograph

• "Hammerhead" (That's the Stuff, 1985)

Average White Band

• "Pick Up the Pieces", (1974), No. 1 US, No. 6 UK

Axel Rudi Pell

Axel Rudi Pell.

• "Open Doors" (Nasty Reputation, 1991)
• "Dreams of Passion" (Eternal Prisoner, 1992)
• "Desert Fire" (Between the Walls, 1994)
• "Sphinx Revenge" (Black Moon Pyramid, 1996)
• "Serenade of Darkness" (Black Moon Pyramid)
• "Prelude to the Moon (Opus No. 3 Menuetto Prelugio)" (Oceans of Time, 1998)
• "Total Eclipse (Opus No. 2 Allegro E Andante)" (The Wizard's Chosen Few, 2000)
• "Haunted Castle Serenade (Opus No. 4 Grazioso E Agresso)" (Mystica, 2006)
• "Emotional Echoes" (Tales of the Crown, 2008)
• "Noblesse Oblige (Opus 5 Adagio Contabile)" (The Crest, 2010)
• "The Guillotine Suite" (Circle of the Oath, 2012)

B

The B-52's

• "Work that Skirt" (Whammy!, 1983)
• "Follow Your Bliss" (Cosmic Thing, 1989)
• "The World's Green Laughter" (Good Stuff, 1992)

Babe Ruth

• "King Kong" (First Base, 1972)
• "We Are Holding On" (Amar Caballero, 1973)
• "A Fistful of Dollars" (Babe Ruth, 1975)
• "Caught at the Plate" (Stealin' Home, 1975)

Bachman–Turner Overdrive

• "Free Wheelin'" (Not Fragile, 1974)

Badlands

• "Jade's Song" (Badlands, 1989)
• "Joe's Blues" (Voodoo Highway, 1991)

The Bar-Kays

• "Soul Finger", (1967), No. 17 US, No. 33 UK, No. 3 R&B

Syd Barrett

• "Lanky (Part One)" (Opel, 1988)
• "Golden Hair (Instrumental version)" (Opel)
• "Rhamadan" (bonus track on Japanese reissue of The Madcap Laughs, 2015)

Bathory

Note: There is a brief instrumental titled 'Outro' that was originally included on Bathory and several other albums and subsequently found on various re-issues of most of Bathory's back-catalogue. Not every version is identical, though all are very similar (for example, the original is 23 seconds long while the version found on Blood Fire Death is 58 seconds long).

• "Storm of Damnation" (Bathory, 1984)

Baton Rouge

• "The Midge" (Shake Your Soul, 1990)
• "The Midge II" (Lights Out on the Playground, 1991)

Michael Angelo Batio

• No Boundaries (1995)
• Planet Gemini (1997)
• Tradition (1999)
• Lucid Intervals and Moments of Clarity (2000)

B. Bumble and the Stingers

• "Bumble Boogie", (1961), No. 21 US, based on Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumble Bee"
• "Nut Rocker" (1962), The recording is a version of the march from Tchaikovsky's ballet The Nutcracker.

The Beach Boys

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

• "Moon Dawg" (Surfin' Safari, 1962)
• "Misirlou" (Surfin' U.S.A., 1963)
• "Stoked" (Surfin' U.S.A.)
• "Surf Jam" (Surfin' U.S.A.)
• "Let's Go Trippin'" (Surfin' U.S.A.)
• "The Rocking Surfer" (Surfer Girl, 1963)
• "Boogie Woodie" (Surfer Girl)
• "Shut Down, Part II" (Shut Down Volume 2, 1964)
• "Denny's Drums" (Shut Down Volume 2)
• "Carl's Big Chance" (All Summer Long, 1964)
• "Summer Means New Love" (Summer Days, 1965)
• "Let's Go Away for Awhile" (Pet Sounds, 1966)
• "Pet Sounds" (Pet Sounds)
• "Fall Breaks and Back to Winter" (Smiley Smile, 1967)
• "Look" (recorded at sessions for Smiley Smile, later released with vocals)
• "Passing By" (Friends, 1968)
• "Diamond Head" (Friends)
• "The Nearest Faraway Place" (20/20, 1969)
• "I'm the Pied Piper – Instrumental" (Mount Vernon and Fairway (A Fairy Tale), the bonus EP included with Holland, 1973)
• "Trombone Dixie" (The Pet Sounds Sessions, 1997)
• "I Wanna Be Around" / "Workshop" (The Smile Sessions, 2011)
• "Holidays" (The Smile Sessions)
• "The Elements: Fire" (The Smile Sessions)
• "Think About the Days" (That's Why God Made the Radio, 2012)

Beastie Boys

• Sabosa (1994)
• The in Sound from Way Out! (1996)
• The Mix-Up (2007)
• Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament (2011)

The Beatles

• "Cry for a Shadow" (1964)
• "Flying" (Magical Mystery Tour, 1967)
• "Cayenne" (Anthology 1, 1995)
• "12-Bar Original" (Anthology 2, 1996)

Jeff Beck

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

• "Beck's Bolero" (B-side of "Hi Ho Silver Lining", 1967), featuring Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, John Paul Jones, and Nicky Hopkins
• Blow by Blow (1975)
• Wired (1976)
• There & Back (1980)

Jason Becker

• Perpetual Burn (1988)
• Perspective (1995)
• The Raspberry Jams (1999)
• The Blackberry Jams (2003)

Bee Gees

• "Seven Seas Symphony" (Odessa, 1969)
• "With All Nations (International Anthem)" (Odessa)
• "The British Opera" (Odessa)

Drake Bell

• "Intro" (Telegraph, 2005)
• "The Backhouse" (Telegraph)

Chuck Berry

• "Deep Feeling", B-side of School Days, (1957), played on "a steel guitar that he'd bought a few weeks earlier" on which he "whipped up the lights out instrumental"
• "Guitar Boogie", One Dozen Berrys, (1957), later covered by The Yardbirds as Jeff's Boogie

The Beta Band

• "B + A" (The Three E.P.'s, 1998)
• "Rhodondendron" (Heroes to Zeros, 2004)

Big Ass Truck

• "Dog Chases an Iguana Up a Tree and Barks at It All Night (Parts I & II)" (Kent, 1996)

Bill Black's Combo

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

• "White Silver Sands", (1960), No. 9 US, No. 33 UK, No. 1 R&B
• "Don't Be Cruel", (1960), No. 11 US, No. 32 UK, No. 1 R&B

Billy Joe and the Checkmates

• "Percolator (Twist)", (1962), No. 10 US

Black Dub

• "Slow Baby" (Black Dub, 2010)

Black Flag

• "Long Lost Dog of It" (Family Man, 1984)
• "I Won't Stick Any of You Unless and Until I Can Stick All of You!" (Family Man)
• "Account for What?" (Family Man)
• "The Pups Are Doggin' It" (Family Man)
• The Process of Weeding Out EP (1985)

Black Label Society

• "T.A.Z." (Sonic Brew, 1998)
• "A.N.D.R.O.T.A.Z." (Alcohol Fueled Brewtality, 2001)
• "Speedball" (1919 Eternal, 2002)
• "America the Beautiful" (1919 Eternal)
• "Dr. Octavia" (Mafia, 2005)
• "Chupacabra" (Order of the Black, 2010)

Black Sabbath

• "Rat Salad" (Paranoid, 1970)
• "Embryo" (Master of Reality, 1971)
• "Orchid" (Master of Reality)
• "FX" (Vol. 4, 1972)
• "Laguna Sunrise" (Vol. 4)
• "Fluff" (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, 1973)
• "Don't Start (Too Late)" (Sabotage, 1975)
• "Supertzar" (Sabotage)
• "Breakout" (Never Say Die!, 1978)
• "E5150" (Mob Rules, 1981)
• "Stonehenge" (Born Again, 1983)
• "The Dark" (Born Again)
• "Sphinx (The Guardian)" (Seventh Star, 1986)
• "Scarlet Pimpernel" (The Eternal Idol, 1987)
• "The Gates of Hell" (Headless Cross, 1989)
• "The Battle of Tyr" (Tyr, 1990)
• Several intros/outros on early Black Sabbath albums were named separately, but not tracked separately on the album. These tracks are listed below:
  • "The Wasp" (intro to "Behind the Wall of Sleep", Black Sabbath, 1970)
  • "Bassically" (intro to "N.I.B.", Black Sabbath)
  • "A Bit of Finger" (intro to "Sleeping Village", Black Sabbath)
  • "Luke's Wall" (outro to "War Pigs", Paranoid)
  • "Jack the Stripper" (intro to "Fairies Wear Boots", Paranoid)
  • "The Elegy" (intro to "After Forever", Master of Reality)
  • "Haunting" (outro to "Children of the Grave", Master of Reality)
  • "Step Up" (intro to "Lord of This World", Master of Reality)
  • "Deathmask" (intro to "Into the Void", Master of Reality)
  • "The Straightener" (outro to "Wheels of Confusion", Vol. 4)
  • "Every Day Comes and Goes" (outro to "Under the Sun", Vol. 4)

Blackmore's Night

Blackmore's Night.

• "Memmingem" (Shadow of the Moon, 1997)
• "Minstrel Hall" (Shadow of the Moon)
• "Beyond Sunset" (Under a Violet Moon, 1999)
• "Durch dem Wald zum Bach Haus" (Under a Violet Moon)
• "Possum goes to Prague" (Under a Violet Moon)
• "Mr. Peagram's Morris and Sword" (Ghost of a Rose, 2003)
• "Nur Eine Minute" (Ghost of a Rose)
• "Queen for a Day (Part 2)" (Ghost of a Rose)
• "The Messenger" (The Village Lanterne, 2006)
• "Carry on...Jon" (Dancer and the Moon, 2013)

Blaqk Audio

• "Stiff Kittens" (CexCells, 2007)

Blood, Sweat and Tears

• "Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie (1st and 2nd Movements)" (Blood, Sweat & Tears, 1968)
• "Variations on a Theme By Erik Satie (1st Movement)" (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
• "Refugee from Yuhupitz" (bonus track on Child Is Father to the Man reissue, 1994)

Blues Project

• "Flute Thing" (Projections, 1966)
• "Dakota Recollection" (Planned Obsolescence, 1968)
• "Niartaes Hornpipe" (Planned Obsolescence, 1968)

Blur

Blur.

• "Garden Central" (B-side of "Popscene", 1992)
• "Intermission" (Modern Life Is Rubbish, 1993)
• "Commercial Break" (Modern Life Is Rubbish)
• "The Debt Collector" (Parklife, 1994)
• "Enrold Same (Reprise)" (The Great Escape, 1995)
• "Ludwig" (B-side of "Stereotypes", 1996)
• "Interlude" (Blur, 1997)
• "Bustin' + Dronin'" (B-side of "Song 2", 1997)
• "French Song" (B-side of "Tender", 1999)
• "Optigan 1" (13, 1999)

The Bobby Fuller Four

• "The Lonely Dragster" 1964
• "Misirlou", 1964

Tommy Bolin

• "Homeward Strut" (Teaser, 1975)
• "Marching Powder" (Teaser)

Bon Iver

• "Team" (For Emma, Forever Ago, 2008)

Booker T. and the M.G.'s

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

Boston

• "Foreplay" (Boston, 1976)
• "The Journey" (Don't Look Back, 1978)
• "The Launch" (Third Stage, 1986)
  • "Countdown"
  • "Ignition"
  • "Third Stage (Separation)"
• "A New World" (Third Stage, 1986)
• "Walkin' at Night" (Walk On, 1994)
• "The Star-Spangled Banner/4th of July Reprise" (Greatest Hits, 1997)
• "Last Day of School" (Life, Love & Hope, 2013)

The Bouncing Souls

• "Moon Over Asbury" (Maniacal Laughter, 1996)

David Bowie

See also: Tin Machine

David Bowie in 1978.

• "Speed of Life" (Low, 1977)
• "A New Career in a New Town" (Low)
• "Warszawa" (Low)
• "Art Decade" (Low)
• "Weeping Wall" (Low)
• "V-2 Schneider" ("Heroes", 1977)
• "Sense of Doubt" ("Heroes")
• "Moss Garden" ("Heroes")
• "Neuköln" ("Heroes")
• "Crystal Japan" (Japanese single, 1980)
• "All Saints" (bonus track on Rykodisc reissue of Low, 1991)
• "Abdulmajid" (bonus track on Rykodisc reissue of "Heroes", 1991)
• "The Wedding" (Black Tie White Noise, 1993)
• "Looking for Lester" (Black Tie White Noise)
• "South Horizon" (The Buddha of Suburbia, 1993)
• "The Mysteries" (The Buddha of Suburbia)
• "Ian Fish, U.K. Heir" (The Buddha of Suburbia)
• "Brilliant Adventure" (Hours, 1999)
• "1917" ("The Pretty Things Are Going to Hell" single, 1999)
• "Plan" (bonus track on the deluxe edition reissue of The Next Day, 2013)

The Breeders

• "Flipside" (Last Splash, 1993)
• "S.O.S." (Last Splash)

B. T. Express

• "Express", (1974), No. 2 US,#34 UK, No. 1 R&B,

Roy Buchanan

• "Sweet Dreams" (Roy Buchanan, 1972)
• "Cajun" (Roy Buchanan, 1972)
• "John's Blues", (Roy Buchanan, 1972)
• "Pete's Blue," (Roy Buchanan, 1972)
• "The Messiah Will Come Again" (with short spoken introduction), (Roy Buchanan, 1972)

Buckethead

Buckethead performing in Seattle in 2008.

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

• "Big Sur Moon" (Colma, 1998)
• "Nun Chuka Kata" (Monsters and Robots, 1999)
• "Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse" (Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse, 2001)
• "Sketches of Spain (For Miles)" (Electric Tears, 2002)
• "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" (The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell, 2004)
• "Nottingham Lace" (Enter the Chicken, 2005)
• "Soothsayer" (Crime Slunk Scene, 2006)
• "Jordan" (Guitar Hero II, 2006)
• Pepper's Ghost (2007)

Budgie

• "Bottled" (Squawk, 1972)

The Busters

• "Bust Out", (1963), No. 25 US

Buzzcocks

• "Walking Distance" (Love Bites, 1978)
• "Late for the Train" (Love Bites)

The Byrds

• "John Riley" & "Captain Soul", (Fifth Dimension, 1966)
• "Nashville West" (Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde, 1969)
• "Green Apple Quick Step" (Byrdmaniax, 1971)
• "Universal Mind Decoder" (The Notorious Byrd Brothers reissue, 1997)
• "Buckaroo" (Live at the Fillmore - February 1969, 2000)
• "All I Have Are Memories" (Sweetheart of the Rodeo Legacy Edition, 2003)

C

Café Tacuba

• "Perfidia" (Avalancha de Éxitos, 1996)
• Revés (1999)

Cake

• "Arco Arena" (Comfort Eagle, 2001)
• "Conroy" (B-Sides and Rarities, 2007)
• "Teenage Pregnancy" (Showroom of Compassion, 2011)

JJ Cale

• "Durango" (Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology, 1997)
• "Midnight in Memphis" (Anyway the Wind Blows: The Anthology, 1997)

Calexico

• Gipsy's curse (The Black Light) (1998)
• Tool Box (2007)
• Unconditional Waltz (The Thread That Keeps Us, 2018)

Camel

Camel in 2003.

• "Six Ate" (Camel, 1973)
• "Arubaluba" (Camel, 1973)
• "Supertwister" (Mirage, 1974)
• "Earthrise" (Mirage)
• The Snow Goose (1975)
• "Aristillus" (Moonmadness, 1976)
• "Chord Change" (Moonmadness)
• "Lunar Sea" (Moonmadness)
• "The Sleeper" (Breathless, 1978)
• "Ice" (I Can See Your House from Here, 1979)
• "Nude" (Nude, 1981)
• "Docks" (Nude)
• "Beached" (Nude)
• "Landscapes" (Nude)
• "Changing Places" (Nude)
• "Pomp & Circumstance" (Nude)
• "Sasquatch" (The Single Factor, 1982)

Camper Van Beethoven

• "Border Ska," "Yanqui Go Home," "9 of Disks," "Payed Vacation: Greece," "Vladivostock," [sic] "Skinhead Stomp," "Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China," "Balalaika Gap" (Telephone Free Landslide Victory, 1985)
• "ZZ Top Goes to Egypt" (II & III, 1986)
• "Interstellar Overdrive" (Camper Van Beethoven, 1986)
• "Eye of Fatima (Part Two)," "Waka" (Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart, 1988)

Jerry Cantrell

• "Hurts Don't It?" (Degradation Trip Volumes 1 & 2, 2002)

Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band

• "Hair Pie: Bake 1" (Trout Mask Replica, 1969)
• "Dali's Car" (Trout Mask Replica)
• "Hair Pie: Bake 2" (Trout Mask Replica)
• "Peon" (Lick My Decals Off, Baby, 1970)
• "Japan in a Dishpan" (Lick My Decals Off, Baby)
• "One Red Rose That I Mean" (Lick My Decals Off, Baby)
• "Alice in Blunderland" (The Spotlight Kid, 1972)
• "Ice Rose" (Shiny Beast, 1978)
• "Suction Prints" (Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller))
• "A Carrot is As Close as a Rabbit Gets to a Diamond" (Doc at the Radar Station, 1980)
• "Flavor Bud Living" (Doc at the Radar Station)
• "Semi-Multicoloured Caucasian" (Ice Cream for Crow, 1982)
• "Evening Bell" (Ice Cream for Crow)

Caravan

• "L'Auberge du Sanglier/A Hunting We Shall Go/Pengola/Backwards/A Hunting We Shall Go (Reprise)" (For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night, 1973)

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

• "Twin Tub with Guitar" (B-side of "Sheriff Fatman", 1989)
• "Crimestoppers a' Go Go" (101 Damnations, 1990)

Celtic Frost

• "Danse Macabre" (Morbid Tales, 1984)

Gustavo Cerati

• "Torteval" (hidden track on Amor Amarillo, 1993)
• "Y Si el Humo Está en Foco..." (Bocanada, 1999)
• "Aquí y Ahora (Y Después)" (Bocanada)
• "Balsa" (Bocanada)
• +Bien (2001)

The Champs

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

• "Tequila" (1959), No. 1 US, No. 5 UK, No. 1 R&B
• "Limbo Rock" (1962), No. 40 US featured Earl Palmer on drums, Tommy Tedesco on guitar, and Plas Johnson on sax

The Chantays

• "Pipeline" (Pipeline, 1963)

The Charlatans

• "Marauder" (Modern Nature Deluxe Edition Japan, 2015)
• "Honesty - Instrumental Strings Version" (Modern Nature Deluxe Edition Japan, 2015)

Cheap Trick

• "Oh Boy" (B-side of "I Want You to Want Me", 1977)
• "Sabre Dance" (Japanese bonus track on Woke Up with a Monster, 1994)

The Chemical Brothers

• "Song to the Siren" (Exit Planet Dust, 1992)

Chicago

• "Free Form Guitar" (The Chicago Transit Authority, 1969)
• "Prologue, August 29, 1968" (The Chicago Transit Authority, 1969)
• "Liberation" (The Chicago Transit Authority, 1969)
• "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)
• "Memories of Love: Prelude" (Chicago)
• "Memories of Love: A. M. Mourning" (Chicago)
• "Memories of Love: P. M. Mourning" (Chicago)
• "It Better End Soon: 2nd Movement" (Chicago)
• "Travel Suite: Motorboat to Mars" (Chicago III, 1971)
• "Travel Suite: Free Country" (Chicago III)
• "Elegy: Canon" (Chicago III)
• "Elegy: Once Upon a Time..." (Chicago III)
• "Elegy: Progress?" (Chicago III)
• "Elegy: The Approaching Storm" (Chicago III)
• "Elegy: Man vs. Man: The End" (Chicago III)
• "Prelude to Aire" (Chicago VII, 1974)
• "Aire" (Chicago VII)
• "Devil's Sweet" (Chicago VII)
• "Italian from New York" (Chicago VII)
• "Hanky Panky" (Chicago VII)
• "Mongonucleosis" (Chicago VII)

Circus Maximus

• "Biosfear" (The 1st Chapter, 2005)
• "Sane No More" (Isolate, 2007)

Eric Clapton

• "Slunky" (Eric Clapton, 1970)
• "Peaches and Diesel" (Slowhand, 1977)
• "Edge of Darkness" (24 Nights, 1991)
• "Signe" (Unplugged, 1992)
• "Reptile" (Reptile, 2001)

Bruce Cockburn

• "Ting/The Cauldron" (High Winds, White Sky, 1971)
• "Sunwheel Dance" (Sunwheel Dance, 1972)
• "Foxglove" (Night Vision, 1973)
• "Islands in a Black Sky" (Night Vision)
• "Lightstorm" (Night Vision)
• "Salt, Sun and Time" (Salt, Sun and Time, 1974)
• "Rouler sa Bosse ('To Knock About the World')" (Salt, Sun and Time)
• "Seeds on the Wind" (Salt, Sun and Time)
• "Skylarking" (Joy Will Find a Way, 1975)
• "Music For a Lunar Eclipse" (B-side of "Burn", 1975)
• "Water into Wine" (In the Falling Dark, 1976)
• "Giftbearer" (In the Falling Dark)
• "The Pipes. The Pipes." (Circles in the Stream, 1977)
• "Deer Dancing Round a Broken Mirror" (Circles in the Stream)
• "Cader Idris" (Circles in the Stream)
• "Red Ships Take Off in the Distance" (Further Adventures Of, 1978)
• "Radio Shoes" (Inner City Front, 1981)
• "Actions Speak Louder" (Nothing but a Burning Light, 1991)
• "When It's Gone, It's Gone" (Nothing but a Burning Light)
• "Joy to the World" (Christmas, 1993)
• "Train in the Rain" (Dart to the Heart, 1994)
• "Sunrise on the Mississippi" (Dart to the Heart)
• "Mistress of Storms" (The Charity of Night, 1996)
• "Down to the Delta" (Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu, 1999)
• "Deep Lake" (Breakfast in New Orleans, Dinner in Timbuktu)
• "Untitled Guitar" (bonus track on In the Falling Dark reissue, 2002)
• "Mountain Call" (bonus track on Further Adventures Of reissue, 2002)
• "Cala Luna" (bonus track on The Trouble with Normal reissue, 2002)
• "Rise and Fall" (bonus track on Japanese release of Speechless, 2005)
• "Jerusalem Poker" (Life Short Call Now, 2006)
• "Nude Descending a Staircase" (Life Short Call Now)
• "Bohemian 3-Step" (Small Source of Comfort, 2011)
• "Lois on the Autobahn" (Small Source of Comfort)
• "Comets of Kandahar" (Small Source of Comfort)

Cocteau Twins

• "My Hue and Cry" (BBC Sessions,1983)
• "Otterley" (BBC Sessions, 1984)
• "Rococo" (Aikea-Guinea, 1985)
• "Ribbed and Veined" (Tiny Dynamine, 1985)
• "Oomingmak (instrumental version)" (The Box Set, 1991)

Dennis Coffey

• "Scorpio", (1971), No. 6 US, No. 7 UK, No. 9 R&B

Coldplay

• "Life in Technicolor" (Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, 2008)
• "Sunrise" (Everyday Life, 2019)

Phil Collins

• "Droned" (Face Value, 1981)
• "Hand in Hand" (Face Value)
• "The West Side" (Hello, I Must Be Going!, 1982)
• "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" (...But Seriously, 1989)

Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains

• "Elephant Ghost" (The Big Eyeball in the Sky, 2004)
• "Scott Taylor" (The Big Eyeball in the Sky)
• "Jackalope" (The Big Eyeball in the Sky)

Colosseum

• "Debut" (Those Who Are About to Die Salute You, 1969)

The Commodores

• "Machine Gun", (1974), No. 22 US, No. 20 UK, No. 7 R&B

Alice Cooper

• "Titanic Overture" (Pretties for You, 1969)
• "Street Fight" (School's Out, 1972)
• "Grande Finale" (School's Out)
• "The Underture" (Welcome 2 My Nightmare, 2011)

Dave "Baby" Cortez

• "The Happy Organ" (1959), No. 1 US, No. 5 R&B

Cracker

• "Steve's Hornpipe" (B-side on US release of "Low", 1994)

Floyd Cramer

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

• "Last Date", (1960), No. 2 US, No. 32 UK

The Cranberries

• "Intermission" (To the Faithful Departed, 1996)

Cream

• "Toad" (Fresh Cream, 1966)
• "Cat's Squirrel" (Fresh Cream)
• "Steppin' Out" (Live Cream Volume II, 1972)

Creation

• "Spinning Toe-Hold" (Pure Electric Soul, 1977)
• "Spinning Toe-Hold No. 2" (B-side of single, 1977, later included on Super Rock in the Highest Voltage, 1978)

Creedence Clearwater Revival

• "Susie Q. (Part 2)" (B-side of single, 1968, excerpted from longer album track which contained vocals)
• "Poorboy Shuffle" (Willy and the Poor Boys, 1969)
• "Side o' the Road" (Willy and the Poor Boys)
• "Rude Awakening #2" (Pendulum, 1970)
• "Crazy Otto" (bonus track on 40th Anniversary Edition reissue of Bayou Country, 2008)
• "Broken Spoke Shuffle" (bonus track on 40th Anniversary Edition reissue of Green River, 2008)
• "Glory Be" (bonus track on 40th Anniversary Edition of Green River)

The Cure

• "A Reflection" (Seventeen Seconds, 1980)
• "The Final Sound" (Seventeen Seconds)
• "Another Journey By Train" (B-side of A Forest single, 1980)
• "Carnage Visors" (cassette versions of Faith, 1981)

King Curtis

• "Soul Twist", (1962), No. 17 US, No. 1 R&B

D

The Dakotas

• "The Cruel Sea", (1963), No. 18 UK

Dick Dale

Most of Dale's recordings are instrumentals.

• "Let's Go Trippin'" (1961)
• "Misirlou" (1962)
• (with Stevie Ray Vaughan) "Pipeline" (soundtrack to Back to the Beach, 1987)

Dalis Car

• "Artemis", (The Waking Hour, 1984)

Danger Danger

• "Groove or Die" (Down and Dirty Live!, 1990)
• "Ginger Snaps" (Screw It!, 1991)
• "C'est Loupé" (Screw It!)
• "Puppet Show" (Screw It!)

Dark Tranquillity

• "Mine is the Grandeur..." (The Gallery, 1995)
• "The Mind's Eye" (The Mind's I, 1997)
• "Ex Nihilo" (Damage Done, 2002)
• "Silence in the House of Tongues" (Fiction expanded edition, 2007)
• "Winter Triangle" (Fiction expanded edition)

Darkane

• "Relief in Disguise" (Japanese bonus track on Rusted Angel, 1999)

Dave Matthews Band

• "#34" (Under the Table and Dreaming, 1994)
• "Kit Kat Jam" (Busted Stuff, 2002)
• "Anyone Seen the Bridge?" (live-only)

Davie Allan & the Arrows

• "Blues' Theme", (1967)

Death Angel

• "The Ultra-Violence" (The Ultra-Violence, 1987)

Deep Blue Something

• "Gammer Gerten's Needle" (Home, 1994)

Deep Purple

• "And the Address" (Shades of Deep Purple, 1968)
• "Wring That Neck" (The Book of Taliesyn, 1968)
• "Fault Line" (Deep Purple, 1969)
• "A' 200" (Burn, 1974)
• "Owed to 'G'" (Come Taste the Band, 1975)
• "Son of Alerik" (B-side of "Perfect Strangers", 1985)
• "Grabsplatter" (The Anthology, 1985)
• "Jam Stew" (bonus track on Deep Purple in Rock reissue, 1995)
• "Backwards Piano" (bonus track on Fireball reissue, 1996)
• "The Noise Abatement Society Tapes" (bonus track on Fireball reissue)
• "Love Help Me" (Shades 1968–1998 box set, 1999)
• "First Day Jam" (bonus track on Who Do We Think We Are reissue, 2000)
• "Contact Lost" (Bananas, 2003)
• "Coronarias Redig" (bonus track on Burn reissue, 2004)
• "The Well-Dressed Guitar" (Rapture of the Deep Special Tour 2 CD Edition, 2006)
• "Bolin/Paice Jam" (bonus track on 35th Anniversary reissue of Come Taste the Band, 2010)

Def Leppard

• "Switch 625" (High 'n' Dry, 1981)
• "Disintegrate" (Euphoria, 1999)
• "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" (unreleased track)

Deftones

• "U, U, D, D, L, R, L, R, A, B, Select, Start" (Saturday Night Wrist, 2006)

Deodato

• "Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)", (1973), No. 2 US, No. 7 UK, based on Richard Strauss's Also sprach Zarathustra

Derek and the Dominos

• "Jam I" (The Layla Sessions, 1990)
• "Jam II" (The Layla Sessions)
• "Jam III" (The Layla Sessions)
• "Jam IV" (The Layla Sessions)
• "Jam V" (The Layla Sessions)
• "Tell the Truth (Jam No. 1)" (The Layla Sessions)
• "(When Things Go Wrong) It Hurts Me Too" (The Layla Sessions)

The Derek Trucks Band

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.

Destroyalldreamers

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

DGM

• "Flyin' Fantasy" (Change Direction, 1997)
• "Trapped..." (Frame, 2009)

Diabolical Masquerade

• "1st Movement: Nerves in Rush" (Death's Design, 2001)

Dick Diver

• "Resist" (Melbourne, Florida, 2015)

Bo Diddley

• Bo's Bounce

Dio

• "Magica Theme" (Magica, 2000)
• "Annica" (Japanese bonus track on Magica)

Dire Straits

• "Going Home - Theme from 'Local Hero'" (Alchemy, 1984)

Disturbed

• "The Eye of The Storm" (Immortalized [Deluxe Edition])
• "Remnants" (Asylum)

Dixie Dregs

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

Dokken

• "Without Warning" (Tooth and Nail, 1984)
• "Mr. Scary" (Back for the Attack, 1987)

Bill Doggett

• "Honky Tonk (Parts 1 & 2)" (1956) No. 2 US No. 1 R&B
• "Slow Walk" (1956) No. 26 US No. 4 R&B
• "Soft" (1957) No. 35 US

Doves

• "Firesuite" (Lost Souls, 2000)
• "Reprise" (Lost Souls)
• "Where We're Calling From" (The Last Broadcast, 2002)
• "Darker" (Lost Sides, 2003)
• "Meet Me at the Pier" (Lost Sides)
• "Crunch" (Lost Sides)
• "Zither" (Lost Sides)

Dragonforce

• "Reaching Into Infinity" (Reaching Into Infinity, 2017)

Dream Theater

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

• "The Ytse Jam" (When Dream and Day Unite, 1989)
• "Bombay Vindaloo" (Live at the Marquee, 1993)
• "A Mind Beside Itself I: Erotomania" (Awake, 1994)
• "Eve" (B-side of "The Silent Man", 1995)
• "Funeral For a Friend" (A Change of Seasons, 1995)
• "The Rover" (A Change of Seasons)
• "Hell's Kitchen" (Falling into Infinity, 1997)
• "Puppies on Acid" (Once in a LIVEtime, 1998)
• "Derek Sherinian Piano Solo" (Once in a LIVEtime)
• "Mike Portnoy Drum Solo/Ytse Jam (Continued)" (Once in a LIVEtime)
• "John Petrucci Guitar Solo" (Once in a LIVEtime)
• "Overture 1928" (Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, 1999)
• "The Dance of Eternity" (Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory)
• "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: I. Overture" (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, 2002)
• "Stream of Consciousness" (Train of Thought, 2003)
• "Instrumedley" (Live at Budokan, 2004)
• "Odyssey" (Special Edition of Black Clouds & Silver Linings, 2009)
• "Larks' Tongues in Aspic - Part II" (Special Edition of Black Clouds & Silver Linings)
• "Raw Dog" (God of War: Blood & Metal EP, 2010)
• "False Awakening Suite" (Dream Theater, 2013)
• "Enigma Machine" (Dream Theater)
• "Descent of the NOMACs" (The Astonishing, 2016) – NOMAC noises
• "Dystopian Overture" (The Astonishing)
• "The Hovering Sojourn" (The Astonishing) – NOMAC noises
• "Digital Discord" (The Astonishing) – NOMAC noises
• "2285 Entr'acte" (The Astonishing)
• "Machine Chatter" (The Astonishing) – NOMAC noises
• "Power Down" (The Astonishing) – NOMAC noises

Dredg

• "Brushstroke: New Heart Shadow" (El Cielo, 2002)

Dungen

Dungen.

• "Det Du Tänker Idag är Du i Morgon" (Ta det lugnt, 2004)
• "Lejonet & Kulan" (Ta Det Lugnt)
• "Om Du Vore en Vakthund" (Ta Det Lugnt)
• "Målerås Finest" (4, 2008)
• "Samtidigt 1" (4)
• "Fredag" (4)
• "Samtidigt 1" (4)
• "Bandhagen" (4)

Duran Duran

• "Tel Aviv" (Duran Duran, 1981)
• "Tiger Tiger" (Seven and the Ragged Tiger, 1983)
• "Lake Shore Driving" (Big Thing, 1988)
• "Interlude One" (Big Thing)
• "Flute Interlude" (Big Thing)
• "Kiss Goodbye" (Pop Trash, 2000)
• "Fragment" (Pop Trash)
• "Tricked Out" (Red Carpet massacre, 2007)
• "A Diamond in the Mind" (All You Need Is Now, 2010)
• "Return to Now" (All You Need Is Now)

The Durutti Column

Most of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

Bob Dylan

• "Nashville Skyline Rag" (Nashville Skyline, 1969)
• "Woogie Boogie" (Self Portrait, 1970)
• "Main Title Theme (Billy)" (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, 1973)
• "Cantina Theme (Workin' for the Law)" (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
• "Bunkhouse Theme" (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
• "River Theme" (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
• "Turkey Chase" (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)
• "Final Theme" (Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid)

E

Eagles

• "Doolin-Dalton (Instrumental)" (Desperado, 1973)
• "Journey of the Sorcerer" (One of These Nights, 1975)
• "Wasted Time (Reprise)" (Hotel California, 1976)
• "Long Run Leftovers" (Selected Works: 1972–1999, 2000)
• "I Dreamed There Was No War" (Long Road Out of Eden, 2007)

Earthless

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

Duane Eddy

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

• "Rebel Rouser" (1958), No. 6 US, No. 8 UK, No. 19 R&B , saxophone by session musician Gil Bernal, yells and handclaps by doo-wop group the Rivingtons.
• "Peter Gunn" (1959), No. 8 US , No. 6 UK , this was the second charting of the song in 1959

The Edgar Winter Group

• "Frankenstein" (They Only Come Out at Night, 1972)
• "Chainsaw" (The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer, 1975)

Eels

• "Going to Your Funeral Part II" (Electro-Shock Blues, 1998)
• "Theme from Blinking Lights" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, 2005)
• "Marie Floating Over the Backyard" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
• "Theme for a Pretty Girl That Makes You Believe God Exists" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
• "Blinking Lights (For You)" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
• "Bride of Theme from Blinking Lights" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
• "Dusk: A Peach in the Orchard" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
• "God's Silence" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
• "The Last Days of My Bitter Heart" (Blinking Lights and Other Revelations)
• "High and Lonesome" (End Times, 2010)
• "Where I'm At" (The Cautionary Tales of Mark Oliver Everett, 2014)

Electric Light Orchestra

• "First Movement (Jumping Biz)" (The Electric Light Orchestra, 1971)
• "Manhattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre)" (The Electric Light Orchestra)
• "Daybreaker" (On the Third Day, 1973)
• "In the Hall of the Mountain King" (On the Third Day)
• "Fire on High" (Face the Music, 1975)
• "The Whale" (Out of the Blue, 1977)
• "Another Heart Breaks" (Time, 1981)
• "After All" (B-side of "Rock 'n' Roll Is King", 1983)
• "The Quick and the Daft" (Out of the Blue deluxe edition reissue, 2007)
• "Lucky Motel" (bonus track on Japanese reissue of Zoom, 2013)

Eloy

• "Daybreak" (German single, 1973)
• "Floating" (Floating, 1974)
• "Introduction" (Power and the Passion, 1975)
• "Astral Entrance" (Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes, 1979)
• "The Apocalypse" (Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes)
  • "Force Majeure"
• "Sunset" (Colours, 1980)
• "Introduction" (Planets, 1981)
• "At the Gates of Dawn" (Planets)
• "Mirador" (Performance, 1983)
• Codename: Wildgeese soundtrack (1984)
• "Between Future and Past" (Ocean 2: The Answer, 1998)
• "The Ride by Night... Towards the Predestined Fate" (The Vision, the Sword and the Pyre – Part I, 2017)

Emerson, Lake and Palmer

• "The Barbarian" (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1970)
• "The Three Fates" (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• "Tank" (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
• "Infinite Space (Conclusion)" (Tarkus, 1971)
• "Promenade (I)" (Pictures at an Exhibition, 1971)
• "The Gnome" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "The Old Castle" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "Blues Variation" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "Promenade (III)" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "The Hut of Baba Yaga" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "The Curse of Baba Yaga" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "The Hut of Baba Yaga (Part 2)" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "Nut Rocker" (Pictures at an Exhibition)
• "Hoedown" (Trilogy, 1972)
• "Fugue" (Trilogy)
• "Abaddon's Bolero" (Trilogy)
• "Karn Evil 9: Second Impression" (Brain Salad Surgery, 1973)
• "Toccata" (Brain Salad Surgery)
• "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Works Volume 1, 1977)
• "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Works Volume 1)
• "L.A. Nights" (Works Volume 1)
• "New Orleans" (Works Volume 1)
• "Two-part Invention in D Minor" (Works Volume 1)
• "Food For Your Soul" (Works Volume 1)
• "Piano Concerto No.1" (Works Volume 1)
• "When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine" (Works Volume 2, 1977)
• "Canario" (Love Beach, 1978)
• "Peter Gunn" (Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert, 1979)
• "Romeo and Juliet" (Black Moon, 1992)
• "Changing States" (Black Moon, 1992)
• "Close To Home" (Black Moon, 1992)
• "A Blade of Grass" (Black Moon, 1992)

Epica

• "La'petach Chatat Rovetz (The Final Embrace)" (The Divine conspiracy, 2007)
• "The Price of Freedom" (Design Your Universe, 2009)
• "Amina" (Requiem for the Indifferent, 2012)
• "Serenade of Self Destruction" (Requiem for the Indifferent) was mistakenly released as an instrumental version on the first edition of the album
• The Score – An Epic Journey (2005) except for "Trois Vierges", "Solitary Ground" and "Quietus"

Preston Epps

• "Bongo Rock" (1959), No. 14 US

Equilibrium

• "Heiderauche" (Sagas, 2008)
• "Mana" (Sagas)
• "Kurzes Epos" (Rekreatur, 2010)
• "Aufbruch" (Erdentempel, 2014)
• Disc 2 of the Limited Edition of Erdentempel is all instrumental

Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse

• Steppin' Out, ("What's Shakin'", 1966), Eric Clapton guitar, Paul Jones harmonica, Jack Bruce bass, Steve Winwood vocals and Pete York drums.

Europe

• "Boyazont" (Europe, 1983)
• "Aphasia" (Wings of Tomorrow, 1983)

Everclear

• "El Distorto de Melodica" (So Much for the Afterglow, 1997)
• "Halloween Americana" (Songs from an American Movie Vol. Two: Good Time for a Bad Attitude, 2000)

Evergrey

• "Till Dagmar" (Monday Morning Apocalypse, 2006)

Evile

• "Hundred Wrathful Deities" (Infected Nations, 2009)

Explosions in the Sky

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

F

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

• "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" (Butt Rockin', 1981)
• "Down at Antone's" (Tuff Enuff, 1986)

Faces

• "Pineapple and the Monkey" (First Step, 1970)
• "Looking Out the Window" (First Step, 1970)

Failure

• "Segue 1" (Fantastic Planet, 1996)
• "Segue 2" (Fantastic Planet)
• "Segue 3" (Fantastic Planet)

Faith No More

• "Jim" (We Care a Lot, 1985)
• "Pills for Breakfast" (We Care a Lot)
• "Woodpecker from Mars" (The Real Thing, 1989)
• "Midnight Cowboy" (Angel Dust, 1992)

Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens

• "Top Gun Anthem" (soundtrack to Top Gun, 1986)

Family

• "Variation on a theme of Hey Mr. Policeman" (Music in a Doll's House, 1968)
• "Variation on a theme of The Breeze" (Music in a Doll's House)
• "Variation on a theme of Me My Friend" (Music in a Doll's House)
• "Summer '67" (Family Entertainment, 1969)
• "93's O.K. J" (A Song for Me, 1970)
• "Normans" (Anyway, 1970)
• "Crinkley Grin" (Fearless, 1971)
• "Banger" (It's Only a Movie, 1973)

Faraquet

• "The Missing Piece" (The View from This Tower, 2000)

Fates Warning

• "S.E.K." (Night on Bröcken, 1984)
• "Shadowfax" (Night on Bröcken)
• "Time Long Past" (Awaken the Guardian, 1986)
• "At Fates Fingers" (Chasing Time, 1995)

Fear Factory

• "Full Metal Contact" (Digimortal, 2001)
• "Metallic Division" (Mechanize, 2010)
• "Religion Is Flawed Because Man Is Flawed" (The Industrialist, 2012)

The Fireballs

• "Torquay", (1959), No. 39 US
• "Quite a Party", (1961), No. 27 US, No. 29 UK

Firehose

• "Vastopol" (Fromohio, 1989)
• "Let the Drummer Have Some" (Fromohio)
• "'Nuf That Shit, George" (Fromohio)
• "Blaze" (Mr. Machinery Operator, 1993)

FireHouse

• "Season of Change" (FireHouse ,1990)

Five Finger Death Punch

• "Canto 34" (War Is the Answer, 2009)

The Flaming Lips

• "Sleeping on The Roof" (The Soft Bulletin, 1999)
• "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2" (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, 2002)
• "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon (Utopia Planitia)" (Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots)
• "The Wizard Turns On..." (At War with the Mystics, 2006)

Fleetwood Mac

• "Evenin' Boogie" (Mr. Wonderful, 1968)
• "Albatross"/"Jigsaw Puzzle Blues" (1969, included on UK release The Pious Bird of Good Omen/US release English Rose)
• "Oh Well Part 2" (B-side of single, 1969, included on US reissue of Then Play On)
• "My Dream" (all of Then Play On editions, excluding the US reissue, where it was dropped in favor of "Oh Well", 1969)
• "Underway" (all of Then Play On editions, 1969)
• "Searching For Madge"/"Fighting For Madge" (all of Then Play On editions, 1969)
• "World in Harmony" (B-side of "The Green Manalishi (With the Two Prong Crown)", 1970)
• "Blues in B Flat Minor" (The Vaudeville Years, 1998; previously unreleased instrumental which became vocal track "Before The Beginning", included on Then Play On)
• "Earl Grey" (Kiln House, the early version is known as "Farewell", 1970)
• "What A Shame" (Future Games, was written to fulfill the requested 8-song minimum for the album, 1971)
• "Sunny Side of Heaven" (Bare Trees, 1972)
• "Jam #2" (included on 2004 reissue of Fleetwood Mac, 1975)
• "Book of Miracles" (B-side of "Seven Wonders" single, 1987)

A Flock of Seagulls

• "DNA" (A Flock of Seagulls, 1982)
• "2:30" (Listen, 1983)
• "Seven Seas" (The Light at the End of the World, 1995)

Flower Travellin' Band

• "Satori, Pt. 3" (Satori, 1971)

Focus

• "Focus" (instrumental version) (Focus Plays Focus, 1970; there was also a vocal version of the same song on this album)
• "House of the King" (US and German releases of Focus Plays Focus)
• "Hocus Pocus" (Focus II, 1971)
• "Le Clochard" (Focus II)
• "Eruption" (Focus II)
• "Love Remembered" (Focus 3, 1972)
• "Sylvia" (Focus 3, 1972)
• "My Sweetheart" (Mother Focus, 1975)

Foo Fighters

• "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners" (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace, 2007)

Foreigner

• "Tramontane" (Double Vision, 1978)
• "Street Thunder" (The Official Music of the XXIIIrd Olympiad—Los Angeles 1984, 1984)

Lita Ford

• "Outro" (Stiletto, 1990)
• "Little Black Spider" (Dangerous Curves, 1991)

Les Fradkin

• "Lift Off" (One Link Between Them, 2008)
• "Orbiter" (One Link Between Them)
• "Canon in D" (Baroque Rocks!, 2009)
• "Vivaldi's Summer" (Baroque Rocks!)
• "Presto Variationi" (Suite for Ztar and Orchestra in G Minor, 2013')

Frágil

• "Obertura" (Avenida Larco, 1980)
• "Lizzy" (Avenida Larco)
• "Huarmi" (Serranio, 1990)
• "Cholita Linda (Vituchi)" (Cuento Real, 1992)
• "Ceja de Selva" (Cuento Real)

Peter Frampton

• "Nassau" (Frampton, 1975)
• "Penny for Your Thoughts" (Frampton)
• Fingerprints (2006)

Ace Frehley

• "Fractured Mirror" (Ace Frehley, 1978)
• "Fractured Too" (Frehley's Comet, 1987)
• "The Acorn Is Spinning" (Second Sighting, 1988)
• "Fractured III" (Trouble Walkin', 1989)
• "Cherokee Boogie" (Smell the Fuzz: Guitars that Rule the World 2, 1996)
• "Ghengis Khan" (Anomaly, 2009)
• "Space Bear" (Anomaly, 2009)
• "Fractured Quantum" (Anomaly, 2009)
• "Starship" (Space Invader, 2014)
• "Quantum Flux" (Spaceman, 2018)

Marty Friedman

• Dragon's Kiss (1988)
• Scenes (1992)
• Introduction (1994)
• True Obsessions (1996)
• Music For Speeding (2002)
• Loudspeaker (2006)

Robert Fripp

See also: Daryl Hall and King Crimson

Fripp has recorded a number of mostly instrumental works, particularly with Brian Eno and David Sylvian, which are typically regarded as ambient and new-age music.

• "Preface" (Exposure, 1979)
• "Breathless" (Exposure)
• "NY3" (Exposure)
• "Hååden Two" (Exposure)

FromUz

• "13th August" (Overlook, 2008)

Frost*

• "Hyperventilate" (Milliontown, 2006)

Funkadelic

• "Maggot Brain" (Maggot Brain, 1971)

G

Peter Gabriel

• "Start" (Peter Gabriel, 1980)
• Birdy (1985) (portions of the album are instrumental reworkings of previously recorded vocal tracks)
• Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ (1989)
• Long Walk Home: Music from the Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002) (also contains elements from previously recorded vocal tracks)
• The first twelve tracks on Disc 2 of the deluxe edition of New Blood (2011) are instrumental versions of the first twelve tracks on the main album

Galaxie 500

• "Instrumental" (Today, 1988)

Charly García

• "Pubis Angelical" (1982)

Genesis

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Genesis performing "Los Endos" in 2007.

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Chester Thompson and Phil Collins performing a drum duet.

• "Horizons" (Foxtrot, 1972)
• "After the Ordeal" (Selling England by the Pound, 1973)
• "Hairless Heart" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, 1974)
• "The Waiting Room" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
• "Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
• "Ravine" (The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
• "Los Endos" (A Trick of the Tail, 1976)
• "Wot Gorilla?" (Wind & Wuthering, 1976)
• "Unquiet Slumbers for the Sleepers..." (Wind & Wuthering)
• "...in that Quiet Earth" (Wind & Wuthering)
• "Duke's End" (Duke, 1980)
• "Naminanu" (B-side of "Keep It Dark", 1981)
• "Submarine" (B-side of "Man on the Corner", 1982)
• "The Brazilian" (Invisible Touch, 1986)
• "Do the Neurotic" (B-side of "In Too Deep", 1986)
• "Phret" (B-side of "Shipwrecked", 1997)
• "7/8" (B-side of "Shipwrecked")
• Phil Collins and Chester Thompson drum duets released on Genesis albums:
  • "Drum Duet" (The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs, 1993)
  • "Conversations With 2 Stools" (Live over Europe 2007, 2007)

Gentle Giant

• "The Queen" (Gentle Giant, 1970)
• "Acquiring the Taste" (Acquiring the Taste, 1971)
• "The Boys in the Band" (Octopus, 1972)
• "Talybont" (Free Hand, 1975)
• "Spooky Boogie" (Giant for a Day!, 1978)

Paul Gilbert

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Paul Gilbert.

See also: Racer X

• "The Jig" (King of Clubs, 1998)
• "The Jam" (King of Clubs)
• "Gilberto Concerto" (Flying Dog, 1998)
• "Let the Computer Decide" (Alligator Farm, 2000)
• "Whole Lotta Sonata" (Alligator Farm)
• "G.V.R.O." (Burning Organ, 2002)
• "Burning Organ" (Burning Organ)
• "Escalator Music" (Gilbert Hotel, 2003)
• "N.F.R.O." (Gilbert Hotel)
• "W.T.R.O." (Gilbert Hotel)
• "Jackhammer" (Space Ship One, 2005)
• "G9" (Space Ship One)
• Get Out of My Yard (2006)
• Silence Followed by a Deafening Roar (2008)
• Fuzz Universe (2010)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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

Gillan

• "Second Sight" (Mr. Universe, 1979)

David Gilmour

• "Mihalis" (David Gilmour, 1978)
• "Raise My Rent" (David Gilmour)
• "Deafinitely" (David Gilmour)
• "Let's Get Metaphysical" (About Face, 1984)
• "Castellorizon" (On an Island, 2006)
• "Red Sky at Night" (On an Island)
• "Then I Close My Eyes" (On an Island)
• "5 A.M." (Rattle That Lock, 2015)
• "Beauty" (Rattle That Lock)
• "And Then..." (Rattle That Lock)

Udi Glaser

• "Flying" (Love Blue Electric, 2020)
• "Peaking" (Love Blue Electric, 2020)
• "Chords Come to Life" (Love Blue Electric, 2020)
• "Transcending" (Love Blue Electric, 2020)
• "Creating an Avalanche" (Love Blue Electric, 2020)
• "Behind Closed Doors" (Love Blue Electric, 2020)

Gary Glitter

• "Rock and Roll Part 2" (Glitter, 1972)

God Is an Astronaut

• The End of the Beginning (2002)
• All Is Violent, All Is Bright (2005)
• Far from Refuge (2007)
• God Is an Astronaut (2008)
• Age of the Fifth Sun (2010)

Godsmack

• "Someone in London" (Godsmack, 1998)
• "Vampires" (Awake, 2000)
• "The Oracle" (The Oracle, 2010)

Good Rats

• "Klash-Ka-Bob" (Tasty, 1974)

Gorillaz

• "Double Bass" (Gorillaz, 2001)
• "Intro" (Demon Days, 2005)
• "68 State" (D-Sides, 2007)
• "Orchestral Intro" (Plastic Beach, 2010)

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.

• "Trane" (Gov't Mule, 1995)
• "Dolphineus" (Gov't Mule)
• Live version of "Trane" containing interpolations of: "Third Stone from the Sun", "Eternity's Breath" and "St. Stephen" (Live at Roseland Ballroom, 1996)
• "Kind of Bird" (Live at Roseland Ballroom)
• "Thelonius Beck" (Dose, 1998)
• "Birth of the Mule" (Dose)
• "Devil Likes It Slow" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends, 1999)
• "Afro-Blue" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends)
• "Third Stone from the Sun" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends Collector's Edition, 1999)
• "Pygmy Twylyte" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends Collector's Edition)
• "Sco-Mule" (The Deep End, Volume 1, 2001)
• "Sun Dance" (The Deep End, Volume 2, 2002)
• "Babylon Turnpike" (The Deep End, Volume 2)
• "3 String George" (bonus track on High & Mighty, 2006)
• Sco-Mule (2015)

Grails

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

Grand Funk Railroad

• "Flight of the Phoenix" (Phoenix, 1972)
• "Genevieve" (Born to Die, 1976)
• "Mark Say's Alright" (Live Album, 1970)

Grandaddy

• "Egg Hit and Jack Too" (A Pretty Mess by This One Band EP, 1996)
• "Under the Western Freeway" (Under the Western Freeway, 1997)
• "Glassy Dusty" (B-side of "Everything Beautiful is Far Away", 1998)
• "Fentry" (Machines Are Not She EP, 1998)
• "E. Knievel Interlude (The Perils of Keeping It Real)" (The Sophtware Slump, 2000)
• "Spitting Up Blood" (The Windfall Varietal, 2000)

Grateful Dead

• "Weather Report Suite: Prelude" (Wake of the Flood, 1973)
• "Slipknot!" (Blues for Allah, 1975)
• "Sage and Spirit" (Blues for Allah)
• "Serengetti" (Shakedown Street, 1978)
• "Antwerp's Placebo (The Plumber)" (Go to Heaven, 1980)
• "Clementine Jam" (The Golden Road, 2001; later included on Aoxomoxoa reissue, 2003)
• "Nobody's Spoonful Jam" (The Golden Road (1965–1973); later included on Aoxomoxoa reissue)
• "The Eleven Jam" (The Golden Road (1965–1973); later included on Aoxomoxoa reissue)

Green Day

• "Last Ride In" (Nimrod, 1997)
• "Espionage" (Shenanigans, 2002)

The Guess Who

• "969 (The Oldest Man)" (American Woman, 1970)

H

Daryl Hall

• "Urban Landscape" (Sacred Songs, 1980)

Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds

• "Funk-In-Wagnal" (B-side of "Don't Pull Your Love", 1971)

Jan Hammer

• "Miami Vice Theme" (soundtrack to Miami Vice, 1985)
• "Crockett's Theme" (Miami Vice: The Complete Collection, 2002)

HammerFall

• "In Memoriam" (Crimson Thunder, 2002)
• "Raise The Hammer" (Renegade, 2000)
• "Reign of the Hammer" (Threshold, 2006)
• "Something for the Ages" (No Sacrifice, No Victory, 2009)

Hammock

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

Hanoi Rocks

• "Pipeline" (All Those Wasted Years, 1984)
• "Strange Boys Play Weird Openings" (Back to Mystery City, 1983)

Hardline

• "31-91" (Double Eclipse, 1992)

Jet Harris

• "Besame Mucho", (1962), No. 22 UK

Jet Harris and Tony Meehan

See also: The Shadows

• "Diamonds" (1963)
• "Scarlett O'Hara" (1963)
• "Applejack" (1963)

George Harrison

• Wonderwall Music (1968)
• Electronic Sound (1969)
• "Out of the Blue" (All Things Must Pass, 1970)
• "Plug Me In" (All Things Must Pass)
• "I Remember Jeep" (All Things Must Pass)
• "Thanks for the Pepperoni" (All Things Must Pass)
• "Hari's on Tour (Express)" (Dark Horse, 1974)
• "A Bit More of You" (Extra Texture, 1975)
• "Greece" (Gone Troppo, 1982)
• "Marwa Blues" (Brainwashed, 2002)
• "Almost Shankara" (bonus track on Wonderwall Music reissue, 2014)

Haste the Day

• "Epitaph" (That They May Know You EP, 2002)
• "Outro" (Burning Bridges, 2004)
• "Eremus" (Pressure the Hinges, 2007)

The Haunted

• "Dark Intentions" (Made Me Do It, 2000)
• "Demon Eyes" (One Kill Wonder, 2003)
• "Privation of Faith Inc." (One Kill Wonder)
• "The Premonition" (The Dead Eye, 2006)

Hawkwind

• "Wind of Change" (Hall of the Mountain Grill, 1974)
• "Hall of the Mountain Grill" (Hall of the Mountain Grill)
• "Goat Willow" (Hall of the Mountain Grill)
• "City of Lagoons" (Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music, 1976)

Heart

• "Sylvan Song" (Little Queen, 1977)
• "Silver Wheels" (Bebe le Strange, 1980)

Hellecasters

• "Sweet Dreams" (The Return of the Hellecasters, 1993)

Helloween

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Helloween.

• "Walls of Jericho" (Walls of Jericho, 1985)
• "Initiation" (Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 1, 1987)
• "Invitation" (Keeper of the Seven Keys, Pt. 2, 1988)
• "Les Hambourgeois Walkways" (B-side of "Number One", 1992)
• "Irritation (Weik Editude 112 in C)" (Master of the Rings, 1994)
• "Grapowski's Malmsuite 1001" (Japanese bonus track on Master of the Rings)
• "Deliberately Limited Preliminary Prelude Period in Z" (Better Than Raw, 1998)
• "Beyond The Portal" (The Dark Ride, 2000)
• "Crack the Riddle" (Gambling with the Devil, 2007)

Jimi Hendrix

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Jimi Hendrix

• "Third Stone from the Sun" (Are You Experienced, 1967)
• "Hush Now" (Get That Feeling, 1967)
• "Star Spangled Banner" (Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More, 1970)
• "Jam Back at the House" (Woodstock 2, 1971)
• "Pali Gap" (Rainbow Bridge, 1971)
• "Beginnings" (War Heroes, 1972)
• "Tax Free" (War Heroes)
• "Midnight" (War Heroes)
• "Peter Gunn Catastrophe" (War Heroes)
• "Jam 292" (Loose Ends, 1974)
• "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" (Loose Ends)
• "Peace in Mississippi" (Crash Landing, 1975)
• "Captain Coconut" (Crash Landing)
• "Drivin' South" (Radio One, 1988)
• "Villanova Junction" (Woodstock, 1994)
• "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Blues, 1994)
• "New Rising Sun" (Voodoo Soup, 1995)
• "Lullaby for the Summer" (Valleys of Neptune, 2010)
• "Sunshine of Your Love" (Valleys of Neptune)
• "Bolero" (West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology, 2010)

Héroes del Silencio

• "Z" (El Espíritu del Vino, 1993)
• "El Refugio Interior" (El Espíritu del Vino)
• "Derivas" (Avalancha, 1995)
• "Acústica" (Rarezas, 1998)

Gary Hoey

Most of Hoey's recordings are instrumentals.

Allan Holdsworth

• "Three Sheets to the Wind" (Road Games EP, 1983)
• "Water on the Brain Pt. II" (Road Games)
• "Tokyo Dream" (Road Games)

Nicky Hopkins

See also: Quicksilver Messenger Service and The Rolling Stones

• "Edward" (The Tin Man Was A Dreamer, 1973)
• with Ry Cooder, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman:
  • "Edward's Thrump Up" (Jamming with Edward!, 1972)
  • "Highland Fling" (Jamming with Edward!)

Hot Butter

• "Popcorn", (1972), No. 9 US, No. 5 UK

The Housemartins

• "Pirate Aggro" (The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death, 1987)

Huey Lewis and the News

• "Small World Pt. 2" (Small World, 1988)
• "Slammin'" (Small World)

The Human League

• "Get Carter" (Dare, 1981)

Hundreds

• "Separate The Sea" (Aftermath, 2014)

The Huntingtons

• "Pencil Neck" (High School Rock, 1998)

I

If These Trees Could Talk

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

In Flames

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In Flames.

• "Dreamscape" (Lunar Strain, 1994)
• "Hårgalåten" (Lunar Strain)
• "Timeless" (Subterranean EP, 1995)
• "The Jester's Dance" (The Jester Race, 1996)
• "Wayfaerer" (The Jester Race)
• "Dialogue With the Stars" (Whoracle, 1997)
• "Pallar Anders Visa" (Colony, 1999)
• "Man Made God" (bonus track on Colony reissue, 2004)

Incubus

• "Battlestar Scralatchtica" (Make Yourself, 1999)

Indochine

• "Le Péril jaune (Ouverture)" (Le Péril jaune, 1983)
• "Tonkin" (Le Péril jaune)
• "Le Péril jaune (Fermeture)" (Le Péril jaune)
• "Ouverture (La Conquête de l'Ouest)" (Au Zénith, 1986)
• "La Bûddha Affaire" (7000 danses, 1987)
• "Persane Thème" (Le Baiser, 1990)
• "Ouverture (Edward aux mains d'argent)" (Indo Live, 1997)
• "Glory Hole" ("J'ai demandé à la lune" single, 2002)
• "La promesse" (Alice & June limited edition, 2005)
• "Le pacte" (Alice & June limited edition)
• "Republika meteor ouverture" (La République des Meteors, 2009)
• "Trashmen" (bonus track on limited edition of Black City Parade, 2013)

INXS

• "Three Sisters" (Listen Like Thieves, 1985)

Iron Maiden

• "Transylvania" (Iron Maiden, 1980)
• "The Ides of March" (Killers, 1981)
• "Genghis Khan" (Killers)
• "Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)" (Powerslave, 1984)

It's a Beautiful Day

• "Bombay Calling" (It's a Beautiful Day, 1969)
• "Don and Dewey" (Marrying Maiden, 1970)

J

The J. Geils Band

• "Ice Breaker (For The Big M)" (The J. Geils Band, 1970)
• "Sno-cone" (The J. Geils Band)
• "Whammer Jammer" ( The Morning After, 1971)

Jacobs Dream

• "Black Watch" (Jacobs Dream, 2000)
• "De Machina Est Deo" (Theater of War, 2001)
• "Pachelbel's Canon in D" (Drama of the Ages, 2005)

Jade Warrior

• "Sanga" (Eclipse, 1973)
• Floating World (1974) (except "Monkey Chant", track 8)
• Waves (1975)
• Kites (1976)
• Way of the Sun (1978)

James Gang

• "Wrapcity in English" (Yer' Album, 1969)
• "Asshton Park" (James Gang Rides Again, 1970)
• "The Bomber: Boléro" (James Gang Rides Again)
• "The Bomber: Cast Your Fate to the Wind" (James Gang Rides Again)
• "Yadig" (Thirds, 1971)

The Jam

• Circus (The Gift, 1982)

Japan

• "The Tenant" (Obscure Alternatives, 1978)
• "The Width of a Room" (Gentlemen Take Polaroids, 1980)
• "The Experience of Swimming" (Gentlemen Take Polaroids)
• "A Foreign Place" (B-side of "Quiet Life", 1981)
• "Canton" (Tin Drum, 1981)
• "Oil on Canvas" (Oil on Canvas, 1983)
• "Voices Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer" (Oil on Canvas)
• "Temple of Dawn" (Oil on Canvas)

Jazz Is Dead

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

The Jeff Healey Band

• "Hide Away" (See the Light, 1988)
• "Shapes of Things" (Cover to Cover, 1995)

Jefferson Airplane

• "Embryonic Journey" (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967)
• "Spare Chaynge" (After Bathing at Baxter's, 1967)

Jethro Tull

• "Cat's Squirrel" (This Was, 1968)
• "Dharma for One" (This Was)
• "Serenade to a Cuckoo" (This Was)
• "Bourée" (Stand Up, 1969)
• "For Later" (Life Is a Long Song EP, 1971/Living in the Past, 1972)
• "By Kind Permission Of" (Living in the Past)
• "Warm Sporran" (Stormwatch, 1979)
• "Elegy" (Stormwatch)
• "The Pine Marten's Jig" (A, 1980)
• "Pan Dance" (20 Years of Jethro Tull box set, 1988)

Billy Joel

• "Nocturne" (Cold Spring Harbor, 1971)
• "Root Beer Rag" (Streetlife Serenade, 1974)
• "The Mexican Connection" (Streetlife Serenade)

John Butler Trio

• "Ocean" (John Butler, 1998)

John Dummer Band

• "Nine By Nine" (1970)

Elton John

• "71-75 New Oxford Street" (studio outtake recorded in 1968)
• "Hay-Chewed" (Empty Sky, 1969)
• "Variation on Friends" (Friends, 1971)
• "Variation on Michelle's Song (A Day in the Country)" (Friends)
• "Four Moods" (Friends)
• "Seasons Reprise" (Friends)
• "Funeral For a Friend" (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, 1973)
• "Your Starter for..." (Blue Moves, 1976)
• "Out of the Blue" (Blue Moves)
• "Theme from a Non-Existent TV Series" (Blue Moves)
• "Reverie" (A Single Man, 1978)
• "Basque" (studio outtake recorded in 1980)
• "Tactics" (B-side of "Dear God" single, 1980)
• "Carla/Etude" (The Fox, 1981)
• "Fanfare" (The Fox)
• "Choc-Ice Goes Mental" (B-side of "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues" single, 1983)
• "Earn While You Learn" (B-side of "I'm Still Standing" single, 1983)
• "The Man Who Never Died" (B-side of "Nikita" single, 1985)
• "Hognuts Blues" (studio outtake recorded in 1986)
• "Highlander" (B-side of "Heartache All Over the World" single, 1986)
• "The Pacifier" (Disney's for Our Children by Various Artists, 1991)
• "Can You Feel the Love Tonight (Instrumental)" ("Can You Feel the Love Tonight" single, 1994)
• The Muse (1999) except the title track.
• "Sofa Love" (Women Talking Dirty Soundtrack, 2001)
• "Entracte" (recording for the musical Lestat, 2005)
• "Dream #1" (The Diving Board, 2013)
• "Dream #2" (The Diving Board)
• "Dream #3" (The Diving Board)

Johnny and the Hurricanes

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

• "Red River Rock" (1959), No. 5 US, No. 3 UK , No. 5 R&B

Eric Johnson

• "Zap" (Tones, 1986)
• "Ah Via Musicom" (Ah Via Musicom, 1990)
• "Cliffs of Dover" (Ah Via Musicom)
• "Steve's Boogie" (Ah Via Musicom)
• "Trademark" (Ah Via Musicom)
• "Song for George" (Ah Via Musicom)
• "Righteous" (Ah Via Musicom)
• "East Wes" (Ah Via Musicom)
• "SRV" (Venus Isle, 1996)
• "Pavilion" (Venus Isle)

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion

• "Very Rare" (Orange, 1994)

Janis Joplin

• "Buried Alive in the Blues" (Pearl, 1971)

Bradley Joseph

• Hear the Masses (1994)

Joy Division

• "Incubation" (B-side of "Komakino", 1980)

Journey

• "Kohoutek" (Journey, 1975)
• "Topaz" (Journey)
• "Nickel and Dime" (Next, 1977)
• "Majestic" (Evolution, 1979)
• "Departure" (Departure, 1980)
• "Snow Theme" (Dream, After Dream, 1980)
• "A Few Coins" (Dream, After Dream)
• "Moon Theme" (Dream, After Dream)
• "When the Love Has Gone" (Dream, After Dream)
• "Festival Dance" (Dream, After Dream)
• "The Rape" (Dream, After Dream)
• "1990s Theme" (soundtrack to Tron, 1982)
• "Cookie Duster" (Time3 box set, 1992)
• "Into Your Arms" (Time3)
• "With a Tear" (Time3)
• "The Journey (Revelation)" (Revelation, 2008)
• "Venus" (Eclipse, 2011)

Judas Priest

• "Caviar and Meths" (Rocka Rolla, 1974)
• "Prelude" (Sad Wings of Destiny, 1976)
• "The Hellion" (Screaming for Vengeance, 1982)
• "Battle Hymn" (Painkiller, 1990)
• "Dawn of Creation" (Nostradamus, 2008)
• "Solitude" (Nostradamus)
• "Guardians" (Firepower, 2018)

Bill Justis

• "Raunchy" (1957), No. 2 US, No. 24 UK , No. 1 R&B

K

Kaleidoscope

• "Sefan" (Beacon from Mars & Other Psychedelic Side Trips, 1970)

Kansas

• "The Spider" (Point of Know Return, 1977)
• "Excerpt From Lamplight Symphony" (Two for the Show, 1978)
• "Musicatto" (Power, 1986)
• "T.O. Witcher" (In the Spirit of Things, 1988)
• "Preamble" (Always Never The Same, 1998)
• "Prelude & Introduction" (Always Never The Same)
• "Section 60" (The Prelude Implicit, 2016)
• "Oh Shenandoah" (The Prelude Implicit)

Karate

• "Wake Up, Decide" (In Place of Real Insight, 1997)

Karnataka

• "Karnataka" (Delicate Flame of Desire, 2003)

Karnivool

• "Scarabs" (Themata, 2005)
• "Aum" (Asymmetry, 2013)
• "Asymmetry" (Asymmetry)
• "Amusia" (Asymmetry)

Kasabian

• "Ovary Stripe" (Kasabian, 2004)
• "Swarfiga" (West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, 2009)

Katatonia

• "Instrumental" (Discouraged Ones, 1998)

Kiln

• Ampday (2000)

King Crimson

• "Groon" (B-side of "Cat Food", 1970)
• "Peace - A Theme" (In the Wake of Poseidon, 1970)
• "The Devil's Triangle" (In the Wake of Poseidon, 1970)
• "Larks' Tongues in Aspic":
  • Part I (Larks' Tongues in Aspic, 1973)
  • Part II (Larks' Tongues in Aspic)
  • Part III (Three of a Perfect Pair, 1984)
  • Part IV (the construKction of light, 2000)
• "The Talking Drum" (Larks' Tongues in Aspic)
• "Starless and Bible Black" (Starless and Bible Black, 1974)
• "Fracture" (Starless and Bible Black)
• "Trio" (Starless and Bible Black)
• "We'll Let You Know" (Starless and Bible Black)
• "Red" (Red, 1974)
• "Providence" (Red)
• "Asbury Park" (USA, 1975)
• "The Sheltering Sky" (Discipline, 1981)
• "Discipline" (Discipline)
• "Sartori in Tangiers" (Beat, 1982)
• "Requiem" (Beat)
• "Industry" (Three of a Perfect Pair)
• "VROOOM" (Thrak, 1995)
• "B'Boom" (Thrak)
• "THRAK" (Thrak)
• "Radio I" (Thrak)
• "Radio II" (Thrak)
• "VROOOM VROOOM" (Thrak)
• "VROOOM VROOOM: Coda" (Thrak)
• "the construKction of light: Part 1" (the construKction of light)
• "FraKctured" (the construKction of light)
• "Heaven and Earth" (recording by ProjeKct X, bonus track on the construKction of light)
• "Level Five" (The Power to Believe, 2003)
• "Elektrik" (The Power to Believe)
• "Facts of Life: Intro" (The Power to Believe)
• "Dangerous Curves" (The Power to Believe)

King James

• "Sunset in Rio" (King James, 1994)

Kinks

• "Revenge" (Kinks, 1964)

Kiss

• "Love theme from Kiss" (Kiss, 1974)
• "Rock Bottom (Intro)" (Dressed to Kill, 1975)
• "Rock 'N' Roll Party" (Destroyer, 1976)
• "Escape from the Island" (Music from "The Elder", 1981)
• "Fanfare" (Music from "The Elder", 1981)
• "Carr Jam 1981" (Revenge, 1992)
• "The Star-Spangled Banner" (Alive III, 1993)
• "Acrobat (live, 1973)" (The Box Set, 2001)

Mark Knopfler

• Local Hero (1983) except "The Way It Always Starts"
• Cal (1984)
• Comfort and Joy (1984)
• The Princess Bride (1987) except "Storybook Love"
• Last Exit to Brooklyn (1989) except "Tralala"
• Wag the Dog (1998) except "Wag the Dog"
• "Metroland Theme" (Metroland, 1999)
• "Annick" (Metroland)
• "Brats" (Metroland)
• "Down Day" (Metroland)
• "A Walk in Paris" (Metroland)
• "She's Gone" (Metroland)
• "Sons of Scotland" (A Shot at Glory, 2002)
• "Hard Cases" (A Shot at Glory)
• "Training" (A Shot of Glory)
• "New Laird" (A Shot of Glory)
• "Four in a Row" (A Shot of Glory)
• "Sons of Scotland-Quiet Theme" (A Shot of Glory)
• "It's Over" (A Shot of Glory)
• Altamira (2016)

Kokomo

• "Asia Minor", (1961), No. 8 US , No. 35 UKAdopted from the Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minorand sub sequentially banned by the BBC.

Kyuss

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Kyuss.

• "Molten Universe" (Blues for the Red Sun, 1992)
• "Apothecaries' Weight" (Blues for the Red Sun)
• "Caterpillar March" (Blues for the Red Sun)
• "800" (Blues for the Red Sun)
• "Capsized" (Blues for the Red Sun)
• "Asteroid" (Welcome to Sky Valley, 1994)
• "Thee Ol' Boozeroony" (...And the Circus Leaves Town, 1995)
• "Jumbo Blimp Jumbo" (...And the Circus Leaves Town)

L

L.A. Guns

• "Cry No More" (L.A. Guns, 1988)
• "I'm Addicted" (Cocked & Loaded, 1989)
• "Tarantula" (Vicious Circle, 1995)
• "6.9 Earthshaker" (Tales from the Strip, 2005)
• "Amanecer" (Tales from the Strip)

La Ley

• "Instrumental" (Desiertos, 1990)

Lacuna Coil

• "Un Fantasma Tra Noi (A Ghost Between Us)" (Lacuna Coil, 1998)
• "You Create" (Karmacode, 2006)

Laika and the Cosmonauts

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

Lamb of God

• "The Passing" (Wrath, 2009)
• "Barbarosa" (Resolution, 2012)
• "Ashes of the Wake" (Ashes of the Wake, 2004)

Led Zeppelin

• "Black Mountain Side" (Led Zeppelin, 1969)
• "Moby Dick" (Led Zeppelin II, 1969)
• "Bron-Yr-Aur" (Physical Graffiti, 1975)
• "Bonzo's Montreux" (Coda, 1982)
• "White Summer" (Led Zeppelin Boxed Set, 1990)
• "LA Drone" (How the West Was Won, 2003)
• "La La" (Deluxe Edition reissue of Led Zeppelin II, 2014)
• "10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod" (Deluxe Edition reissue of Presence, 2015)
• "St. Tristan's Sword" (Deluxe Edition reissue of Coda, 2015)

John Lennon

• "Beef Jerky" (Walls and Bridges, 1974)

Daniel Lanois

• "Flametop Green" (Belladonna, 2005)

Level 42

• "Sandstorm" (The Early Tapes, 1980)
• "Theme to Margaret" (The Early Tapes)
• "Woman" (The Early Tapes)
• "Mr. Pink" (The Early Tapes)
• "88" (The Early Tapes)
• "43" (Level 42, 1981)
• "Heathrow" (Level 42)
• "Dune Tune" (Level 42)
• "Forty-Two" (Level 42)
• "Breezer One" (Level 42)
• "Foundation & Empire" (Level 42)
• "The Pursuit of Accidents" (The Pursuit of Accidents, 1982)
• "Shapeshifter" (The Pursuit of Accidents)
• "The Return of the Handsome Rugged Man" (The Pursuit of Accidents)
• "Gresham Blues" (Staring at the Sun, 1988)

Tony Levin

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 followup, Stick Man (2007).

Linkin Park

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Linkin Park.

• "Technique (Short)" (Hybrid Theory EP, 1999)
• "Ambient" (Hybrid Theory EP)
• "Cure for the Itch" (Hybrid Theory, 2000)
• "Opening" (Reanimation, 2002)
• "Ntr/Mssion" (Reanimation)
• "Kyur4 th Ich" (Reanimation)
• "A.06" (Underground V2.0, 2002)
• "Foreword" (Meteora, 2003)
• "Session" (Meteora)
• "Sold My Soul To Yo Mama" (Underground 4.0, 2004)
• "Wake" (Minutes to Midnight, 2007)
• "Lockjaw" (fan club single, 2008)
• "Empty Spaces" (A Thousand Suns, 2010)
• "Issho Ni" (Download to Donate: Tsunami Relief, 2011)
• "Tinfoil" (Living Things, 2012)
• "The Summoning" (The Hunting Party, 2014)
• (with Tom Morello) "Drawbar" (The Hunting Party)

Liquid Tension Experiment

• Liquid Tension Experiment (1998)
• Liquid Tension Experiment 2 (1999)

Little Feat

• "Lafayette Railroad" (Dixie Chicken, 1973)
• "Day At The Dog Races" (Time Loves A Hero, 1977)

The Lively Ones

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

Los Lobos

• "Buddy Ebsen Loves the Night Time" (Colossal Head, 1996)
• "Do the Murray" (Tin Can Trust, 2010)

Loudness

• "Drum Solo" (Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo, 1983)
• "Exploder" (Live-Loud-Alive: Loudness in Tokyo)
• "Anthem (Loudness Overture)" (Disillusion, 1984) include only on the English Version of "Disillusion" release.
• "Exploder" (Disillusion) Studio version.
• "Eruption" (Odin, 1985)
• "Flash Out" (Odin (EP))
• "Bass Solo/Drum Solo" (8186 Live, 1987)
• "Guitar Solo" (8186 Live)
• "222" (Heavy Metal Hippies, 1994)
• "222" (Loud 'n' Raw, 1995) Live version.
• "Katmandu Fly" (Ghetto Machine, 1997)
• "Kaisō" (Dragon, 1998)
• "Taj Mahal" (Dragon)
• "Soul Tone" (Engine, 1999)
• "2008 (Candra)" (Engine)
• "Spiritual Canoe" (Spiritual Canoe, 2000)
• "Drum Solo" (The Soldier's Just Came Back, 2001) VHS version
• "Guitar Solo" (The Soldier's Just Came Back) VHS version
• "Fire of Spirit" (Metal Mad, 2008)
• "Requiem" (King of Pain, 2010)
• "A Light in the Dark" (Eve to Dawn, 2011)
• "Kidoairaku" (Eve to Dawn)
• "Spirit from the East" (2.0.1.2., 2012)
• "Nourishment of the Mind" (The Sun Will Rise Again, 2014)

The Love Unlimited Orchestra

• "Love's Theme", (1973), No. 1 US, No. 10 UK, No. 10 R&B orchestra formed and song written by Barry White

The Lovin' Spoonful

• "Lonely (Amy's Theme)" (soundtrack to You're a Big Boy Now, 1967)

Nick Lowe

• "Shake That Rat" (Bowi EP, 1977)

Luca Turilli

• "Zaephyr Skies' Theme" (Prophet of the Last Eclipse, 2002)
• "Caprice in A Minor" (bonus track on Prophet of the Last Eclipse)
• "Autumn's Last Whisper" (bonus track on Prophet of the Last Eclipse)

Steve Lukather

• "Party in Simon's Pants" (Candyman, 1994)
• "Froth" (Candyman)
• "Song for Jeff" (Candyman)
• "The Pump" (Luke, 1997)

George Lynch

• "Memory Jack" (Sacred Groove, 1993)
• "Love Power From the Mama Head" (Sacred Groove)
• "I Will Remember" (Sacred Groove)
• "Tierra Del Fuego" (Sacred Groove)
• "Satan's Shorts" (Sacred Groove - Japanese Release Only)

M

Machine Head

• "Enter the Phoenix" (The Burning Red, 1999)
• "Declaration" (Supercharger, 2001)
• "Brown Acid" (Supercharger)

Lonnie Mack

• "Memphis", (1963), No. 5 US, No. 4 R&B
• "Wham" (The Wham of that Memphis Man, 1964), No. 24 US

Madness

• "The Return of the Los Palmas 7" (Absolutely, 1980)

The Mad's

• "Tumor Bossa" (Molesto, 2013)
• "Electric Jam" (Molesto vinyl edition)
• "Why Not Blues?" (Bonus track on 1969 en Concierto, 2015)

Magazine

• "The Thin Air" (Secondhand Daylight, 1979)

Yngwie Malmsteen

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Yngwie Malmsteen.

• "Black Star" (Rising Force, 1984)
• "Far Beyond the Sun" (Rising Force)
• "Evil Eye" (Rising Force)
• "Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4" (Rising Force)
• "Little Savage" (Rising Force)
• "Farewell" (Rising Force)
• "Overture 1383" (Marching Out, 1985)
• "Marching Out" (Marching Out)
• "Crying" (Trilogy, 1986)
• "Trilogy Suite Op. 5" (Trilogy)
• "Bite the Bullet" (Odyssey, 1988)
• "Krakatau" (Odyssey)
• "Eclipse" (Eclipse, 1990)
• "Perpetual" (Fire and Ice, 1992)
• "Leviathan" (Fire and Ice)
• "Brothers" (The Seventh Sign, 1994)
• "Power and Glory" (I Can't Wait EP, 1994)
• "Overture 1622" (Magnum Opus, 1995)
• "Amberdawn" (Magnum Opus)
• "Air on a Theme " (Facing the Animal, 1997)
• Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar and Orchestra (1998)
• "Blitzkrieg" (Alchemy, 1999)
• "Blue" (Alchemy)
• "Asylum" (Alchemy)
• "Molto Arpeggiosa" (War to End All Wars, 2000)
• "Preludium" (War to End All Wars)
• "Instrumental Institution" (War to End All Wars)
• "Baroque 'n Roll" (Attack!!, 2002)
• "Fuguetta" (Unleash the Fury, 2005)
• "Guardian Angel" (Unleash the Fury)
• "Magic and Mayhem" (Unleash the Fury)
• "Caprici di Diablo" (Perpetual Flame, 2008)
• "Lament" (Perpetual Flame)
• "Heavy Heart" (Perpetual Flame)
• Angels of Love (2009)
• "Overture" (Relentless, 2010)
• "Shot Across the Bow" (Relentless)
• "Relentless" (Relentless)
• "Knight of the Vasa Order" (Relentless)
• "Into Valhalla" (Relentless)
• "Adagio B Flat Minor Variation" (Relentless)
• "Cross to Bear" (Relentless)
• "Arpeggios from Hell" (Relentless)
• Spellbound (2012) except for "Repent", "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie", "Poisoned Minds"

Man

• "The Storm" (2 Ozs of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle, 1969)
• "Parchment and Candles" (2 Ozs of Plastic with a Hole in the Middle)
• "Would The Christians Wait Five Minutes? The Lions Are Having A Draw" (Man, 1971)
• "Keep on Crinting" (Be Good to Yourself at Least Once a Day, 1972)
• "Never say Nups to Nepalese" (Back into the Future, 1973)
• "Intro" (Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics, 1974)
• "Exit" (Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics)

Manfred Mann

• "Sack O' Woe" and "Mr. Anello", (The Five Faces of Manfred Mann, 1964)
• "5-4-3-2-1", (Manfred Mann's Cock-a-Hoop, EP, 1964)
• "The Abominable Snowmann" and "Bare Hugg", (Mann Made, 1965)
• Instrumental Asylum, EP, (1966)
• Instrumental Assassination, EP, (1966)

Manfred Mann Chapter Three

• "Konekuf" (Manfred Mann Chapter Three, 1969)

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

• "Tribute" (Manfred Mann's Earth Band, 1973)
• "Cloudy Eyes" (UK release Messin'/US release Get Your Rocks Off, 1973)
• "Sadjoy" (Messin'/Get Your Rocks Off)
• "Pluto the Dog" (Solar Fire, 1974)
• "Saturn, Lord of the Ring/Mercury, The Winged Messenger" (Solar Fire)
• "Countdown" (Nightingales & Bombers, 1975)
• "As Above, So Below" (Nightingales & Bombers)
• "Waiter, There's a Yawn in My Ear" (The Roaring Silence, 1976)
• "Fritz the Blank" (Chance, 1980)

Manowar

• "William's Tale" (Battle Hymns, 1982)
• "Black Arrows" (Hail to England, 1984)
• "Thunderpick" (Sign of the Hammer, 1984)
• "Sting of the Bumblebee" ("Kings of Metal", 1988)

Phil Manzanera

• "Diamond Head" (Diamond Head, 1975)
• "The Flex" (Diamond Head)
• "East of Echo" (Diamond Head)
• "Lagrima" (Diamond Head)
• "Initial Speed" (Listen Now, 1977)
• "?Que?" (Listen Now)

Man Raze

• "Dog Bite" (PunkFunkRootsRock, 2011)

The Mar-Keys

• "Last Night", (1961), No. 3 US, No. 2 R&B

The Marketts

• "Out of Limits", (1963), No. 3 US

The Marshall Tucker Band

• "Long Hard Ride" (Long Hard Ride, 1976)

Hank Marvin

See also: The Shadows

• Hank Marvin (1969)
• Hank Marvin Guitar Syndicate (1977)
• "All Alone With Friends" (All Alone With Friends, 1983)
• Into the Light (1992)
• Heartbeat (1993)
• Hank Plays Cliff (1995)
• Hank Plays Holly (1996)
• Guitar Player (2002)
• Guitar Man (2007)

Hugh Masekela

• "Grazing in the Grass", (1968), No. 1 US, No. 1 R&B

Mastodon

• "Elephant Man" (Remission, 2002)
• "Joseph Merrick" (Leviathan, 2004)
• "Bladecatcher" (Blood Mountain, 2006]]
• Jonah Hex: Revenge Gets Ugly EP, 2010

Tak Matsumoto

• "Little Wing" (live-only)

Brian May

• "Blues Breaker" (Star Fleet Project, 1983)
• "Son of Star Fleet" (B-side of "Star Fleet" single, 1983)
• "Last Horizon" (Back to the Light, 1992)
• "Driven by You Two" ("Resurrection" single, 1993)
• "FBI" (Japanese bonus track on Another World, 1998)
• Furia (2000) except "Dream of Thee".

May Blitz

• "8 Mad Grim Nits" (2nd of May, 1971)

John Mayall (& the Bluesbreakers)

• "Hideaway" (Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, 1966)
• "Steppin' Out" (Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton)
• "The Supernatural" (A Hard Road, 1967)
• "Driving Sideways" (Crusade, 1967)
• "Curly" (Thru the Years, 1969)
• "Greeny" (Thru the Years)
• "Knockers Step Forward" (Thru the Years)
• "Blues City Shakedown" (Looking Back, 1969)

McAuley Schenker Group

See also: Michael Schenker Group

• "There Has To Be Another Way" (Save Yourself, 1989)
• "Perrier" ("Unplugged" Live, 1992)

Paul McCartney (and Wings)

• The Family Way (1967)
• "Valentine Day" (McCartney, 1970)
• "Hot as Sun/Glasses" (McCartney)
• "Momma Miss America" (McCartney)
• "Singalong Junk" (McCartney)
• "Kreen-Akrore" (McCartney)
• "Give Ireland Back to the Irish (Instrumental Version)" (B-side of "Give Ireland Back to the Irish", 1972)
• "Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)" (Red Rose Speedway, 1973)
• "Zoo Gang" (UK B-side of "Band on the Run", 1974)
• (as "The Country Hams") "Walking in the Park with Eloise"/"Bridge on the River Suite" (1974)
• (as "Percy "Thrills" Thrillington") Thrillington (1977)
• "Reception" (Back to the Egg, 1979)
• "Rockestra Theme" (Back to the Egg, 1979)
• "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reggae" (B-side of "Wonderful Christmastime", 1979)
• "Front Parlour" (McCartney II, 1980)
• "Frozen Jap" (McCartney II, 1980)
• "Lunch Box/Odd Sox" (B-side of "Coming Up", 1980)
• "Good Night Princess" (Give My Regards to Broad Street, 1984)
• "Inner City Madness" (Tripping the Live Fantastic, 1990)
• "Robbie's Bit (Thanks Chet)" (solo performance by guitarist Robbie McIntosh on Paul Is Live, 1993)
• Standing Stone (1997)
• "In Private" (On Disc 2 of the limited edition of Memory Almost Full, 2007)
• Ocean's Kingdom (2011)
• "Don't Cry Baby" (bonus track on McCartney reissue, 2011)
• "Great Cock and Seagull Race" (bonus track on Ram reissue, 2012)
• "Sunshine Sometime" (bonus track on Ram reissue, 2012)
• "Christian Bop" (bonus track on Pipes of Peace reissue, 2015)
• "Opening Station" (Egypt Station, 2018)
• "Station II" (Egypt Station)
• "Jazz Street" (bonus track on Red Rose Speedway reissue, 2018)

Van McCoy

• "The Hustle", (1975), No. 1 US, No. 3 UK, No. 1 R&B

Meat Puppets

• "Aurora Borealis" (Meat Puppets II, 1984)
• "I'm a Mindless Idiot" (Meat Puppets II)

Megadeth

• "Into the Lungs of Hell" (So Far, So Good... So What!, 1988)
• "Duke Nukem Theme" (Japanese bonus track on Risk, 1999)
• "Silent Scorn" (The World Needs a Hero, 2001)
• "Absolution" (bonus track on Youthanasia reissue, 2004)
• "Dialectic Chaos" (Endgame, 2009)
• "Conquer or Die" (Dystopia, 2016)

Christian Meier

• "Intro" (No Me Acuerdo Quien Fui, 1996)

Men at Work

• "F-19" (B-side of "Be Good Johnny", 1982)

Mercyful Fate

• "To One Far Away" (Don't Break the Oath, 1984)
• "Room of Golden Air" (In the Shadows, 1984)

Meshuggah

• "Acrid Placidity" (Destroy Erase Improve, 1995)
• "Unanything" (Japanese bonus track on Chaosphere, 1998)

Metal Church

• "Merciless Onslaught" (Metal Church, 1984)
• "It's a Secret" (Blessing in Disguise, 1989)

Metallica

• "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth" (Kill 'Em All, 1983)
• "The Call of Ktulu" (Ride the Lightning, 1984)
• "Orion" (Master of Puppets, 1986)
• "To Live Is to Die" (...And Justice for All, 1988)
• "The Ecstasy of Gold" (S&M, 1999); (We All Love Ennio Morricone, 2007)
• "Suicide & Redemption" (Death Magnetic, 2008)

The Meters

• Most of the material released under their name is instrumental.
• The Meters (1969)
• Look-Ka Py Py (1969)
• Struttin' (1970)
• Cabbage Alley (1972)
• Rejuvenation (1974)
• Fire on the Bayou (1975)
• Trick Bag (1976)
• New Directions (1977)

MFSB

• "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)", (1974), No. 1 US, No. 22 UK, No. 1 R&B

Michael Schenker Group

See also: McAuley Schenker Group, Scorpions, and UFO

• "Bijou Pleasurette" (The Michael Schenker Group, 1980)
• "Into the Arena" (The Michael Schenker Group)
• "Courvoisier Concerto" (One Night at Budokan, 1982)
• "Ulcer" (Assault Attack, 1982)
• "Captain Nemo" (Built to Destroy, 1983)

Mike Bloomfield / Al Kooper / Steve Stills

• "Albert's Shuffle" (Super Session, 1968)
• "Stop" (Super Session)
• "His Holy Modal Majesty" (Super Session)
• "Really" (Super Session)
• "Harvey's Tune" (Super Session)

Midnight Oil

• "Wedding Cake Island" (Bird Noises, 1980)
• "Bakerman" (Red Sails in the Sunset, 1984)

Moby Grape

• The "Grape Jam" album of the Wow/Grape Jam 2 album set is largely instrumental, featuring guest artists Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper

Mogwai

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

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Mogwai.

• "Summer"/"Ithica 27 ϕ 9" (1996)
• "New Paths to Helicon, Parts 1 and 2" (1997)
• "Superheroes of BMX" (4 Satin EP, 1997)
• "Like Herod" (Mogwai Young Team, 1997)
• "Radar Maker" (Mogwai Young Team)
• "With Portfolio" (Mogwai Young Team)
• "Mogwai Fear Satan" (Mogwai Young Team)
• "Chocky" (Come on Die Young, 1999)
• "Christmas Steps" (Come on Die Young)
• "Hunted by a Freak" (Happy Songs for Happy People, 2003)

Mono

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

Molly Hatchet

• "Both Sides" (No Guts...No Glory, 1983)

Montrose

• "Starliner" (Paper Money, 1974)

Gary Moore

• "The Loner" (Wild Frontier, 1987)

Vinnie Moore

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

Morphine

• "Dawna" (Cure for Pain, 1993)
• "Miles Davis' Funeral" (Cure for Pain)
• "Bo's Veranda" (Get Shorty OST)

Van Morrison

• "Scandinavia" (Beautiful Vision, 1982)

Mötley Crüe

• "God Bless the Children of the Beast" (Shout at the Devil, 1983)

Motörhead

• "Instro" (Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers EP, 1980)

Moody Blues

• "The Voyage" (On the Threshold of a Dream, 1968)
• "Beyond" (To Our Children's Children's Children, 1969)
• "Procession" (Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, 1971)
• "Hole in the World" (The Present, 1983) intro to Under My Feet

Bob Mould

• "Sunspots" (Workbook, 1989)

Mountain

• "Taunta (Sammy's Tune)" (Nantucket Sleighride, 1971)
• "King's Chorale" (Flowers of Evil, 1971)

Walter Murphy

• "A Fifth of Beethoven", (1976), No. 1 US, No. 28 UK, No. 10 R&B, based on the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony

Muse

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Muse.

• "Minimum" (B-side of "Muscle Museum", 1999)
• "Nishe" (B-side of "Unintended", 2000)
• "Bedroom Acoustics" (B-side of "Plug in Baby", 2001)
• "Piano Thing" (B-side of "New Born", 2001)
• "The Gallery" (B-side of "Bliss", 2001)
• "Intro" (Absolution, 2003)
• "Interlude" (Absolution, 2003)
• "Man of Mystery" (The Supermassive Selection, 2007)
• "Popcorn" (B-side to "Resistance", 2009)
• "Prelude" (The 2nd Law, 2012)
• "The 2nd Law - Isolated System" (The 2nd Law)
• The following tracks as originally recorded featured vocals, but were mostly performed live as instrumentals:
  • "Forced In" (B-side of "Uno", 1999)
  • "Execution Commentary" (B-side of "Plug in Baby")
• The following tracks are live bass/drum jams, normally referred to as "Drum & Bass" on the band's setlists:
  • "Helsinki Jam"
  • "MK Jam"
  • "Osaka Jam"
  • " Monty Jam"
  • " Munich Jam"

N

Narnia

• "The Return of Aslan" (Awakening, 1998)
• "Gates of Cair Paravel" (Long Live the King, 1999)
• "Shadowlands" (Long Live the King)
• "The Light at the End of the Tunnel" (Desert Land, 2001)
• "Misty Morning" (Desert Land)
• "Ground Zero" (The Great Fall, 2003)
• "Desert Land" (The Great Fall)
• "Hymn to the North" (Japanese bonus track on Enter the Gate, 2006)

Nazareth

• "Rose in the Heather" (Hair of the Dog, 1975)
• "Vicki" (Close Enough for Rock 'n' Roll, 1976)

Nelson

• "Tracy's Song" (After the Rain, 1990)
• "Interlude" (After the Rain)
• "Remi" (Because They Can, 1995)
• "Joshua Is With Me Now" (Because They Can)
• "On/Off" (Imaginator, 1996)
• "Imaginator" (Imaginator)

Sandy Nelson

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

New Order

• "Ecstasy" (Power, Corruption & Lies, 1983)
• "Elegia" (Low-Life, 1985)

Neutral Milk Hotel

• "Marching Theme" (On Avery Island, 1996)
• "Avery Island/April 1st" (On Avery Island)
• "Pree-Sisters Swallowing a Donkey's Eye" (On Avery Island)
• "The Fool" (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, 1998)
• "Untitled" (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)

The Nice

• "Rondo" (The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, 1967)
• "America" (1968)

Nightwish

• "Moondance" (Oceanborn, 1998)
• "Last of the Wilds" (Dark Passion Play, 2007)
• "Imaginaerum" (Imaginaerum, 2011)

Nine Inch Nails

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Nine Inch Nails.

• "You Know Who You Are" (Head Like A Hole, 1990)
• "Pinion" (Broken EP, 1992)
• "Help Me I Am in Hell" (Broken)
• "A Violet Fluid" (March of the Pigs, 1994)
• "A Warm Place" (The Downward Spiral, 1994)
• "March of the Fuckheads" (Closer to God, 1994)
• "At The Heart of It All" (Further Down the Spiral, 1995)
• "The Beauty of Being Numb" (Further Down the Spiral)
• "Erased, Over, Out" (Further Down the Spiral)
• Quake (soundtrack for video game, 1996)
• "The Frail" (The Fragile, 1999)
• "Just Like You Imagined" (The Fragile)
• "Pilgrimage" (The Fragile)
• "La Mer" (The Fragile)
• "The Mark Has Been Made" (The Fragile)
• "Complication" (The Fragile)
• "Ripe (With Decay)" (The Fragile)
• "Adrift and at Peace" (Still, 2002)
• "Gone, Still" (Still)
• "The Persistence of Loss" (Still)
• "Leaving Hope" (Still)
• "Hyperpower!" (Year zero, 2007)
• "Another Version of the Truth" (Year Zero)
• Ghosts I–IV (2008)
• "999,999" (The Slip, 2008)
• "Corona Radiata" (The Slip)
• "The Four of Us Are Dying" (The Slip)
• "Theme For Tetsuo: The Bullet Man" (Tetsuo: The Bullet Man soundtrack, 2010)
• "The Eater of Dreams" (Hesitation Marks, 2013)
• "Black Noise" (Hesitation Marks)

Nirvana

• "Grey Goose" (With the Lights Out box set, 2004)

Jack Nitzsche

• "The Lonely Surfer", (1963), No. 39 US

Cliff Nobles and Co.

• "The Horse", (1968), No. 2 US, No. 2 UK, No. 2 R&B

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

• "Interlude (Wednesday Part 1)" (Who Built the Moon?, 2017)
• "End Credits (Wednesday Part 2)" (Who Built the Moon?)

NOFX

• "Flossing a Dead Horse" (So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes, 1997)

Ted Nugent

See also: The Amboy Dukes

• "Home Bound" (Cat Scratch Fever, 1977)
• "Hibernation" (Double Live Gonzo!, 1978)
• "Earthtones" (Craveman, 2002)
• "Sunrize" (Hunt Music, 2004)

O

Oasis

• "The Swamp Song" (B-side of "Wonderwall", 1995)
• "All Around the World (Reprise)" (Be Here Now, 1997)
• "A Quick Peep" (Heathen Chemistry, 2002)
• "The Cage" (hidden track on Heathen Chemistry)

Opeth

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Opeth.

• "Silhouette" (Orchid, 1995)
• "Requiem" (Orchid, 1995)
• "Prologue" (My Arms, Your Hearse, 1998)
• "Madrigal" (My Arms, Your Hearse)
• "Epilogue" (My Arms, Your Hearse)
• "Patterns in the Ivy" (Blackwater Park, 2001)
• "For Absent Friends" (Deliverance, 2002)
• "Ending Credits" (Damnation, 2003)
• "Heritage" (Heritage, 2011)
• "Marrow of the Earth" (Heritage)
• "Goblin" (Pale Communion, 2014)
• "Persephone" (Sorceress, 2016)

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

• "Introducing Radios (Live)" (Organisation, 1980)
• "Distance Fades Between Us (Live)" (Organisation, 1980)
• "Progress (Live)" (Organisation, 1980)
• "Once When I Was Six (Live)" (Organisation, 1980)
• "Architecture and Morality" (Architecture & Morality, 1981)
• "Radio Prague" (Dazzle Ships, 1983)
• "ABC Auto-Industry" (Dazzle Ships, 1983)
• "This Is Helena" (Dazzle Ships, 1983)
• "Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III and VII)" (Dazzle Ships, 1983)
• "Time Zones" (Dazzle Ships, 1983)
• "66 and Fading" (B-side of Telegraph, 1983)
• "Swiss Radio International" (1983)

Orphaned Land

• "Takasim" (El Norra Alila, 1996)
• "Joy" (El Norra Alila)
• "The Calm Before the Flood" (Mabool, 2004)
• "Rainbow (The Resurrection)" (Mabool)

Osibisa

• "Music for Gong Gong" (Osibisa, 1971)

Ozzy Osbourne

• "Dee" (Blizzard of Ozz, 1980)
• "RR" (Expanded Edition reissue of Blizzard of Ozz, 2011)

Shuggie Otis

• "The Hawks" (Here Comes Shuggie Otis, 1970)

The Outlaws

• "Waterhole" (Outlaws, 1975)

Ozma

• "Korobeiniki" (The Doubble Donkey Disc, 2001)

Ozric Tentacles

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

P

The Pack A.D.

• "Hardtack Saloon #1" (Tintype, 2007)
• "Hardtack Saloon #3" (Tintype)
• "Hardtack Saloon #2" (Tintype)

Pagan's Mind

• "Prelude to Paganism" (Infinity Divine, 2000)
• "Approaching" (Celestial Entrance, 2002)
• "Back to the Magic of Childhood, Part 1: Conception" (Celestial Entrance)
• "Back to the Magic of Childhood, Part 2: Exploring Life" (Celestial Entrance)
• "Coming Home" (Enigmatic: Calling, 2005)
• "Appearance" (Enigmatic: Calling)
• "The Conception" (God's Equation, 2007)
• "Farewell" (God's Equation)
• "Contact" (Heavenly Ecstasy, 2011)

Jimmy Page

• "Writes of Winter" (Outrider, 1988)
• "Liquid Mercury" (Outrider)
• "Emerald Eyes" (Outrider)

Paradise Lost

• "Languish" (Japanese bonus track on Host, 1999)

Alan Parsons

• "Breakaway" (Try Anything Once, 1993)
• "Jigue" (Try Anything Once)
• "Dreamscape" (Try Anything Once)
• "Re-Jigue" (Try Anything Once)
• "Cloudbreak" (On Air, 1996)
• "Apollo" (On Air)
• "The Time Machine (Part 1)" (The Time Machine, 1999)
• "Temporalia" (The Time Machine)
• "Rubber Universe" (The Time Machine)
• "Far Ago And Long Away" (The Time Machine)
• "The Time Machine (Part 2)" (The Time Machine)
• "Return To Tunguska" (A Valid Path, 2004)
• "Mammagamma 04" (A Valid Path)
• "Tijuaniac" (A Valid Path)
• "L'Arc En Ciel" (A Valid Path)
• "Chomolungma" (A Valid Path)
• "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (The Secret, 2019)

Particle

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

The Paul Butterfield Blues Band

• "Thank You Mr. Poobah" and "Screamin'", (The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, 1965)
• "Work Song" and "East -West", (East-West, 1966)

Pavement

• "5-4=Unity" (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, 1994)

Pearl Jam

• "Master/Slave" (Ten, 1991)
• "Aye Davanita" (Vitalogy, 1994)

Pell Mell

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

The Pete Best Band

• "Beat Street" (Haymans Green, 2008)

Petra

• "Visions (Doxology)" (Not of this World, 1983)
• "John's Solo/Jesus Loves You/The Race" (Captured in Time and Space, 1986)
• "Bob's Solo" (Captured in Time and Space)
• "Louie's Solo" (Captured in Time and Space)

John Petrucci

• Suspended Animation (2005)

Liz Phair

• "Instrumental" (bonus track on Exile in Guyville reissue, 2008)

Pink Floyd

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Pink Floyd in 1973 (top) and 2005 (above).

• "Pow R. Toc H." (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, 1967)
• "Interstellar Overdrive" (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn)
• "A Saucerful of Secrets" (A Saucerful of Secrets, 1968)
• "Up the Khyber" (Soundtrack from the Film More, 1969)
• "Party Sequence" (Soundtrack from the Film More)
• "Main Theme" (Soundtrack from the Film More)
• "More Blues" (Soundtrack from the Film More)
• "Quicksilver" (Soundtrack from the Film More)
• "A Spanish Piece" (Soundtrack from the Film More)
• "Dramatic Theme" (Soundtrack from the Film More)
• "Sysyphus (Parts I-IV)" (Ummagumma, 1969)
• "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" (Ummagumma)
• "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Parts I-III)" (Ummagumma)
• "Heart Beat, Pig Meat" (Zabriskie Point, 1970)
• "Come in Number 51, Your Time Is Up" (Zabriskie Point)
• "Atom Heart Mother" (Atom Heart Mother, 1970)
• "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" (Atom Heart Mother)
• "One of These Days" (Meddle, 1971)
• "Obscured by Clouds" (Obscured by Clouds, 1972)
• "When You're In" (Obscured by Clouds)
• "Mudmen" (Obscured by Clouds)
• "Absolutely Curtains" (Obscured by Clouds)
• "Speak to Me" (The Dark Side of the Moon, 1973)
• "On the Run" (The Dark Side of the Moon)
• "Any Colour You Like" (The Dark Side of the Moon)
• "Shine on You Crazy Diamond pts. I, II, III, V, VI, VIII, IX" (Wish You Were Here, 1975)
• "Signs of Life" (A Momentary Lapse of Reason, 1987)
• "Round and Around" (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
• "Terminal Frost" (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
• "Nick's Boogie" (Tonite Let's All Make Love in London...Plus, 1990)
• "Cluster One" (The Division Bell, 1994)
• "Marooned" (The Division Bell)
• "Soundscape" (Pulse cassette edition, 1995)
• "Unknown Song" (bonus track on Zabriskie Point reissue, 1997)
• "Love Scene (Version 6)" (bonus track on Zabriskie Point reissue)
• "Love Scene (Version 4)" (bonus track on Zabriskie Point reissue)
• "The Last Few Bricks" (Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980–81, 2000)
• "The Hard Way" (Dark Side of the Moon Immersion edition, 2011)
• "The Travel Sequence" (Dark Side of the Moon Immersion edition)
• "Wine Glasses" (Wish You Were Here Experience and Immersion editions, 2011)
• The Endless River (2014) except "Louder than Words"
• The Endless River (2014) (bonus tracks on Deluxe edition DVD/Blu-ray)
• "Blues 1" (The Later Years, 2019)
• "Slippery Guitar" (The Later Years)
• "Rick's Theme" (The Later Years)
• "David's Blues" (The Later Years)
• "Marooned Jam" (The Later Years)

Pivot

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

Pixies

• "Cecilia Ann" (Bossanova, 1990)
• "Velvety (Instrumental Version)" (Dig for Fire, 1990)

Placebo

• "Swallow" (Placebo, 1996)
• "Hong Kong Farewell" (hidden track on selected pressings of original release of Placebo, also bonus track on 2006 reissue)
• "Evil Dildo" (Without You I'm Nothing, 1998)
• "Bulletproof Cupid" (Sleeping with Ghosts, 2003)

Chris Poland

• Return to Metalopolis (1990)

Poison

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Poison live at Holmdel, New Jersey in 2006. Left to right: C.C. DeVille, Rikki Rockett, Bret Michaels and Bobby Dall.

• "Strange Days of Uncle Jack" (Flesh & Blood, 1990)
• "Swampjuice (Soul-O)" (Flesh & Blood)
• "God Save the Queen" (Flesh & Blood, 2010) Sex Pistols cover bonus instrumental track on the 20th anniversary remaster.
• "Drum Solo" (Swallow This Live, 1991)
• "Guitar Solo" ( Swallow This Live)
• "Native Tongue" (Native Tongue, 1993)
• "Richie's Acoustic Thang" (Native Tongue)

The Police

• "Reggatta de Blanc" (Reggatta de Blanc, 1979)
• "Behind My Camel" (Zenyatta Mondatta, 1980)
• "The Other Way of Stopping" (Zenyatta Mondatta)
• "How Stupid Mister Bates" (soundtrack to Brimstone and Treacle, 1982)
• "A Kind of Loving" (Brimstone and Treacle)
• "Shambelle" (Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings box set, 1993)
• "Flexible Strategies" (Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings)

The Polyphonic Spree

• "Hanging Around the Day Part 1" (The Beginning Stages of..., 2002)

Porcupine Tree

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Porcupine Tree.

• "Up the Downstair" (Up the Downstair, 1993)
• "Not Beautiful Anymore" (Up the Downstair)
• "Burning Sky" (Up the Downstair)
• "Tinto Brass" (Stupid Dream, 1999)
• "Wedding Nails" (In Absentia, 2002)
• "Mother and Child Divided" (DVD-Audio release of Deadwing, 2005)
• "Nil Recurring" (Nil Recurring EP, 2007)
• "The Incident: Occam's Razor" (The Incident, 2009)
• "The Incident: The Yellow Windows of the Evening Train" (The Incident)
• "The Incident: Degree Zero of Liberty" (The Incident)
• "The Incident: Circle of Manias" (The Incident)

Premiata Forneria Marconi

• "Generale!" (Per un amico, 1972)
• "Via Lumiere" (L'isola di niente, 1974)

Billy Preston

• "Outa-Space", (1971), No. 2 US, No. 1 UK, No. 44 R&B
• "Space Race", (1973), No. 4 US, No. 1 R&B

Pretenders

• "Space Invader" (Pretenders, 1980)

The Pretty Things

• "Theme For Michelle" (Savage Eye, 1976)

Primal Scream

• "Inner Flight" (Screamadelica, 1991)

Procol Harum

• "Repent Walpurgis" (Procol Harum, 1967)

Public Image Limited

• "Socialist", (Metal Box/Second Edition, 1979)
• "Graveyard", (Metal Box/Second Edition, 1979)
• "Radio 4", (Metal Box/Second Edition, 1979)

The Pyramids

• "Penetration", (1964), No. 18 US, adopted from Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor

Q

Queen

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Queen in 1984.

• "Seven Seas of Rhye" (Queen, 1973)
• "Procession" (Queen II, 1974)
• "God Save the Queen" (A Night at the Opera, 1975)
• "In the Space Capsule (The Love Theme)" (soundtrack to Flash Gordon, 1980)
• "Ming's Theme (In the Court of Ming the Merciless)" (Flash Gordon)
• "The Ring (Hypnotic Seduction of Dale)" (Flash Gordon)
• "Football Fight" (Flash Gordon)
• "In the Death Cell (Love Theme Reprise)" (Flash Gordon)
• "Execution of Flash" (Flash Gordon)
• "The Kiss (Aura Resurrects Flash)" (Flash Gordon)
• "Arboria (Planet of the Tree Men)" (Flash Gordon)
• "Escape from the Swamp" (Flash Gordon)
• "Flash to the Rescue" (Flash Gordon)
• "Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawk Men)" (Flash Gordon)
• "Battle Theme" (Flash Gordon)
• "The Wedding March" ("Bridal Chorus") (Flash Gordon)
• "Marriage of Dale and Ming (And Flash Approaching)" (Flash Gordon)
• "Crash Dive on Mingo City" (Flash Gordon)
• "Flash's Theme Reprise (Victory Celebrations)" (Flash Gordon)
• "A Dozen Red Roses for My Darling" (B-side of "A Kind of Magic", 1986)
• "Forever" (A Kind of Magic)
• "Chinese Torture" (The Miracle, 1989)
• Brian May Guitar Solos released as separate tracks on live Queen albums:
  • "Brighton Rock Solo" (Live at Wembley '86, 1992)
  • "Guitar Solo" (Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl, Return of the Champions (as Queen + Paul Rodgers), Queen Rock Montreal, Live at the Rainbow '74 and A Night at the Odeon)
• Roger Taylor Drum Solos released as separate tracks on live Queen albums:
  • "Drum and Tympani Solo" (Queen Rock Montreal)
  • "Drum Solo" (Live at the Rainbow '74)
  • "Let There Be Drums" (Return of the Champions)
• "Bicycle Race (Instrumental)" (bonus track on Jazz reissue, 2011)
• "20th Century Fox Fanfare" (Bohemian Rhapsody (soundtrack), 2018)

Queens of the Stone Age

• "Spiders and Vinegaroons" (Kyuss/Queens of the Stone Age EP, 1997)
• "These Aren't the Droids You're Looking For" (Queens of the Stone Age (album), 1998)
• "Hispanic Impressions(Queens of the Stone Age (album), 1998)
• "Lightning Song" (Rated R, 2000)

Queensrÿche

• "Anarchy-X" (Operation: Mindcrime, 1988)
• "Waiting For 22" (Operation: Mindcrime)
• "9:28 a.m." (Promised Land, 1994)
• "Freiheit Ouvertüre" (Operation: Mindcrime II, 2006)

Quicksand

• "Baphomet" (Slip, 1993)

Quicksilver Messenger Service

• "Gold and Silver" (Quicksilver Messenger Service, 1968)
• "Maiden of the Cancer Moon" (Happy Trails, 1969)
• "Calvary" (Happy Trails)
• "Edward, the Mad Shirt Grinder" (Shady Grove, 1969)
• "Cobra" (Just for Love, 1970)
• "Local Color" (What About Me, 1970)
• "Spindrifter" (What About Me)

Quiet Riot

• "Battle Axe" (Metal Health, 1983)
• "Bass Case" (QR III, 1986)
• "Lunar Obsseion" (QR, 1989)
• "Laughing Gas" (The Randy Rhoads Years,1993)
• "Wings of a Cloud (Revisited)" (Down to the Bone, 1995)

Quiet Sun

• Mainstream, (1975)

R

Racer X

See also: Paul Gilbert

• "Frenzy" (Street Lethal, 1986)
• "Y.R.O." (Street Lethal)
• "Scarified" (Second Heat, 1987)
• "Technical Difficulties" (Technical Difficulties, 1999)
• "B.R.O." (Technical Difficulties)
• "King of the Monsters" (Superheroes, 2000)
• "Viking Kong" (Superheroes)
• "Catapult to Extinction" (Getting Heavier, 2002)

The Raconteurs

• "The Bane Rendition" (B-side of "Steady, As She Goes", 2006; also bonus track on deluxe edition of Broken Boy Soldiers)

Radiohead

• "Meeting in the Aisle" (Airbag / How Am I Driving? EP, 1997)
• "Treefingers" (Kid A, 2000)
• "Hunting Bears" (Amnesiac, 2001)
• "Feral" (The King of Limbs, 2011)

Rainbow

• "Still I'm Sad" (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, 1975)
• "Weiss Heim" (B-side of "All Night Long", 1980)
• "Vielleicht Das Nachste Mal (Maybe Next Time)" (Difficult to Cure, 1981)
• "Difficult To Cure (Beethoven's Ninth)" (Difficult to Cure)
• "Anybody There" (Bent Out of Shape, 1983)
• "Snowman" (Bent Out of Shape)

Ramones

• "Durango 95" (Too Tough to Die, 1984)

Rare Earth

• "Fresh From the Can" (Greatest Hits & Rare Classics, 1991)

Rata Blanca

• "Preludio Obsesivo" (Rata Blanca, 1989)
• "Otoño Medieval" (Rata Blanca)
• "Por qué es tan difícil amar" (Magos, Espadas y Rosas, 1990)
• "Aria en sol, de la Suite #3" (En vivo En Buenos Aires, 1996)
• "3º Movimiento de la Primavera" (En vivo En Buenos Aires)
• "Capricho Árabe" (En vivo En Buenos Aires)
• "Libranos del Mal" (Rata Blanca, 1997)

Red Hot Chili Peppers

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Red Hot Chili Peppers.

• "Grand Pappy Du Plenty" (The Red Hot Chili Peppers, 1984)
• "Prince of Sadness" (unreleased demo from sessions for Freaky Styley, 1985)
• "Pretty Little Ditty" (Mother's Milk, 1989)
• "Instrumental #1" (B-side of "Scar Tissue", 1999)
• "Instrumental #2" (Australian bonus track on Californication, 1999)
• "Behind the Sun (Instrumental Demo)" (bonus track on The Uplift Mofo Party Plan reissue, 2003)
• "Me & My Friends (Instrumental Demo)" (bonus track on The Uplift Mofo Party Plan reissue)
• "Song That Made Us What We Are Today" (bonus track on Mother's Milk reissue, 2003)
• "Salute to Kareem" (bonus track on Mother's Milk reissue)

Red Sparowes

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

R.E.M.

• "Rotary Ten" (B-side of "Fall on Me", 1986)
• "White Tornado" (B-side of "Superman", 1986)
• "Last Date" (B-side of "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)", 1987)
• "Memphis Train Blues" (B-side of "Stand", 1989)
• "Rotary Eleven" (B-side of "Losing My Religion", 1991)
• "Endgame" (Out of Time, 1991)
• "Winged Mammal Theme" (B-side of "Drive", 1992)
• "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" (Automatic for the People, 1992)
• "New Orleans Instrumental No. 2" (B-side of "Man on the Moon", 1992)
• "Fruity Organ" (B-side of "Man on the Moon")
• "Organ Song" (B-side of "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", 1993)
• "Mandolin Strum" (B-side of "Everybody Hurts", 1993)
• "Zither" (New Adventures in Hi-Fi, 1996)
• "2JN" (B-side of "Imitation of Life", 2001)
• "165 Hillcrest" (B-side of "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)", 2001)

REO Speedwagon

• "Flying Turkey Trot" (REO, 1976)
• "Gary's Guitar Solo" (Live: You Get What You Play For, 1977)
• "The Unidentified Flying Tuna Trot" (You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish, 1978)
• "Shakin' It Loose" (30th Anniversary Edition reissue of Hi Infidelity , 2011)

The Reverend Horton Heat

• "Marijuana" (Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em, 1990)

Rhapsody of Fire

• "Virgin Skies" (Legendary Tales, 1997)
• "Trolls in the Dark" (Dawn of Victory, 2000)
• "Deadly Omen" (Rain of a Thousand Flames, 2001)
• "Elnor's Magic Valley" (Rain of a Thousand Flames)
• "Elgard's Green Valleys" (Symphony of Enchanted Lands II – The Dark Secret, 2004)
• "Labyrinth of Madness" (The Frozen Tears of Angels, 2010)

Rhinoceros

• "Apricot Brandy" (Rhinoceros, 1968)

Rhythm Heritage

• "Theme from S.W.A.T.", (1976), No. 1 US, No. 11 R&B

Ride

• "Grasshopper" (B-side of "Leave Them All Behind", from Going Blank Again, 1992)
• "Rolling Thunder" (Carnival of Light, 1994)

Riot

• "Narita" (Narita, 1979)

Rockin' Rebels, aka The Rebels

• "Wild Weekend", (1963), No. 8 US, No. 3 UK, No. 28 R&B

Rodrigo y Gabriela

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

• Foc (2001)
• Re-Foc (2002)
• Rodrigo y Gabriela (2006)
• 11:11 (2009)
• Area 52 (2012)
• 9 Dead Alive (2014)

The Rolling Stones

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The Rolling Stones in Milwaukee in 2015

• "Stoned" (B-side of "I Wanna Be Your Man" single, 1963)
• "Now I've Got a Witness (Like Uncle Phil and Uncle Gene)" (UK release The Rolling Stones/US release England's Newest Hit Makers, 1964)
• "And Mr. Spector and Mr. Pitney Came Too" (studio outtake recorded in 1964)
• "2120 South Michigan Avenue" (UK release Five by Five EP/US release 12 X 5, 1964)
• "Stewed and Keef" (studio outtake recorded in 1964)
• "Dust My Pyramids" (live-only outtake recorded on BBC radio in 1964)
• "Aftermath" (studio outtake recorded in 1965)
• "Gold Painted Fingernails" (studio outtake recorded in 1967)
• "I'm a Country Boy" (studio outtake recorded in 1968)
• "Potted Shrimp" (studio outtake recorded in 1970)
• "Jah Wonderful" (studio outtake recorded in 1978)
• "Munich Reggae" (studio outtake recorded in 1975 and reworked in 1981)
• "Dance" (B-side of "If I Was A Dancer (Dance Pt. 2)" single, 1981)
• "Well, Well" (unreleased instrumental from Licks Tour rehearsal, 2002)
• "Title 5" (Exile on Main St. expanded edition, 2010)
• "Bluesberry Jam" (bonus track on Ladies and Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones re-release, 2010)

Roxy Music

• "The Numberer" (B-side of "Virginia Plain", 1972)
• "India" (Avalon, 1982)
• "Tara" (Avalon)

Kevin Rudolf

• "Let It Rock (Instrumental)" (B-side of "Let It Rock", 2008)

Rush

Rush.

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Neil Peart drumming.

Main article: List of Rush instrumentals

• "2112 - I: Overture" (2112, 1976)
• "2112 - VII: Grand Finale" (2112)
• "Cygnus X-1, Book I: Prologue" (A Farewell To Kings, 1977)
• "La Villa Strangiato" (Hemispheres, 1978)
• "YYZ" (Moving Pictures, 1981)
• "Broon's Bane" (Exit...Stage Left, 1981)
• "Where's My Thing?" (Roll the Bones, 1991)
• "Leave That Thing Alone" (Counterparts, 1993)
• "Limbo" (Test for Echo, 1996)
• "Cygnus X-1" (Rush in Rio, 2003)
• "R30 Overture" (R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour, 2005)
• "The Main Monkey Business" (Snakes & Arrows, 2007)
• "Hope" (Snakes & Arrows)
• "Malignant Narcissism" (Snakes & Arrows)
• "O'Malley's Break" (Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland, 2011)
• Neil Peart drum solos released as separate tracks on Rush albums:
  • "The Rhythm Method" (A Show of Hands, 1989)
  • "O Baterista" (Rush in Rio)
  • "Der Trommler" (R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour)
  • "De Slagwerker" (Snakes & Arrows Live, 2008)
  • "Moto Perpetuo" (Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland)

S

Saga

• "Conversations" (Worlds Apart, 1981)
• "A Brief Case" (Drum Solo) (In Transit, 1982)
• "Nine Lives of Miss Midi" (Behaviour, 1985)
• "Entracte" (The Security of Illusion, 1993)
• "Viola!" (The Security of Illusion)
• "Generation 13 (Theme #1)" (Generation 13, 1995)
• "Danger Whistle" (Generation 13)
• "Snake Oil" (Generation 13)
• "Generation 13 (Theme #2)" (Generation 13)
• "One Small Step" (Generation 13)
• "In The Hall of the Mountain King William" (Detours, 1998)
• "William's Walkabout" (Detours)
• "Watching The Clock" (House of Cards, 2001)
• "Corkentellis" (10,000 Days, 2007)
• "The Human Condition" (The Human Condition, 2009)
• "Fish Beat" (Drum Solo) (Spin It Again! Live in Munich, 2013)

Sailor

• "Jacaranda" (B-side of "Girls, Girls, Girls", 1975)
• "Music (Instrumental)" (B-side of "Music", 1991)

Sangre Azul

• "Alejandria" (Cuerpo A Cuerpo, 1988)

Santana

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Carlos Santana in 1973.

• "Waiting" (Santana, 1969)
• "Savor" (Santana)
• "Treat" (Santana)
• "Soul Sacrifice" (Santana)
• "Singing Winds, Crying Beasts" (Abraxas, 1970)
• "Gypsy Queen" (Abraxas)
• "Incident at Neshabur" (Abraxas)
• "Samba Pa Ti" (Abraxas)
• "Batuka" (Santana III, 1971)
• "Jungle Strut" (Santana III)
• "In a Silent Way" (Fillmore: The Last Days, 1972)
• "Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation" (Caravanserai, 1972)
• "Waves Within" (Caravanserai)
• "Look Up (To See What's Coming Down)" (Caravanserai)
• "Song of the Wind" (Caravanserai)
• "Future Primitive" (Caravanserai)
• "La Fuente del Ritmo" (Caravanserai)
• "Every Step of the Way" (Caravanserai)
• "Samba de Sausalito" (Welcome, 1973)
• "Yours Is the Light" (Welcome)
• "Free Angela" (Lotus, 1974)
• "Kyoto" (Lotus)
• "Spring Manifestations" (Borboletta, 1974)
• "Canto de los Flores" (Borboletta)
• "Aspirations" (Borboletta)
• "Here and Now" (Borboletta)
• "Flor de Canela" (Borboletta)
• "Promise of a Fisherman" (Borboletta)
• "Europa (Earth's Cry Heaven's Smile)" (Amigos, 1976)
• "Jugando" (Festival, 1977)
• "Verão Vermelho" (Festival)
• "Revelations" (Festival)
• "Life Is A Lady/Holiday" (Inner Secrets, 1978)
• "Wham!" (Inner Secrets)
• "Marathon" (Marathon, 1979)
• "Aqua Marine" (Marathon)
• "Runnin'" (Marathon)
• "Ballin'" (Viva Santana!, 1988)
• "Gypsy/Grajonca" (Milagro, 1992)
• (with Vernon Reid) "Every Now and Then" (Dance of the Rainbow Serpent box set, 1995)
• "Gumbo" (bonus track on Santana III reissue, 1998)

Carlos Santana

• Blues for Salvador (1987)
• (with Jorge Santana) "Luz Amor y Vida" (Santana Brothers, 1994)
• "Reflections" (Santana Brothers)

Santo and Johnny

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

• "Sleep Walk" (Santo & Johnny, 1959), No. 1 US , No. 22 UK, No. 4 R&B
• "Tear Drop", (1959), No. 23 US, No. 50 UK, No. 17 R&B

Joe Satriani

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Joe Satriani.

Albums:

• Not of This Earth (1986)
• Surfing with the Alien (1987)
• Dreaming No. 11 (1988)
• Flying in a Blue Dream (1989)
• The Extremist (1992)
• Time Machine (1993)
• Joe Satriani (1995)
• Crystal Planet (1998)
• Engines of Creation (2000)
• Strange Beautiful Music (2002)
• Is There Love in Space? (2004)
• Super Colossal (2006)
• Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock (2008)
• Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards (2010)
• Unstoppable Momentum (2013)
• Shockwave Supernova (2015)

Savatage

• "Prelude To Madness" (Hall of the Mountain King, 1987)
• "Last Dawn" (Hall of the Mountain King)
• "Temptation Revelation" (Gutter Ballet, 1989)
• "Silk And Steel" (Gutter Ballet)
• "Labyrinths" (Edge of Thorns, 1993)
• "Exit Music" (Edge of Thorns)
• "Visions" (Handful of Rain, 1994)
• "Overture" (Dead Winter Dead, 1995)
• "Mozart and Madness" (Dead Winter Dead)
• "Memory (Dead Winter Dead Intro)" (Dead Winter Dead)
• "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)" (Dead Winter Dead)
• "Post Script" (Final Bell / Ghost in the Ruins, 1995)
• "The Ocean" (The Wake of Magellan, 1997)
• "Underture" (The Wake of Magellan)
• "The Storm" (The Wake of Magellan)
• "Voyage" (B-side of "Commissar", 2001)
• "Island of the Kings" (hidden bonus track on Sirens reissue, 2002)

Scorpions

• "Night Lights" (In Trance, 1975)
• "Coast to Coast" (Lovedrive, 1979)

Seatrain

• "Pudding Street" (Sea Train, 1968)
• "Sweet Creek's Suite" (Sea Train)

Sentenced

• "Mourn" (Frozen, 1998)

Sepultura

• "Inquisition Symphony" (Schizophrenia, 1987)
• "The Abyss" (Schizophrenia)
• "Kaiowas" (Chaos A.D., 1993)
• "Ludwig Van" (A-Lex, 2009)

Seventh Wonder

• "There and Back" (Mercy Falls, 2008)

Shadow Gallery

• "Interlude #1" (Carved in Stone, 1995)
• "Interlude #2" (Carved in Stone)
• "Interlude #3" (Carved in Stone)
• "Celtic Princess" (Carved in Stone)
• "Interlude #4" (Carved in Stone)
• "Interlude #5" (Carved in Stone)
• "Ghost Ship: Voyage" (Carved in Stone)
• "Ghost Ship: Dead Calm" (Carved in Stone)
• "Ghost Ship: Enchantment" (Carved in Stone)
• "TG94" (hidden track on Carved in Stone)
• "Stiletto In The Sand" (Tyranny, 1998)
• "Chased" (Tyranny)
• "Cliffhanger: The Crusher" (Legacy, 2001)
• "Your Scenery" (hidden track on Legacy)
• "Manhunt" (Room V, 2005)
• "Birth of a Daughter" (Room V)
• "Death of a Mother" (Room V)
• "Seven Years" (Room V)
• "Dark" (Room V)

The Shadows

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The Shadows in 2009.

See also: Jet Harris and Tony Meehan and Hank Marvin

A significant number of the band's recordings are instrumentals. See The Shadows discography for more details.

• "Apache" (1960)
• "Man of Mystery"/"The Stranger" (1960)
• The Shadows EP (1961)
• "FBI"/"Midnight" (1961)
• "The Frightened City" (1961)
• "Kon-Tiki" (1961)
• "The Savage"/"Peace Pipe" (1961)
• "Wonderful Land" (1962)
• "Guitar Tango" (1962)
• The Boys EP (1962)
• "Dance On!" (1962)
• "Foot Tapper" (1963)
• "Atlantis" (1963)
• "The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt" (1964)
• "The Warlord" (1965)
• "Maroc 7" (1967)

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

• "While We Cry" (Ledbetter Heights, 1995)
• "Ledbetter Heights" (Ledbetter Heights)
• "Trouble Is..." (Trouble Is..., 1997)
• "Electric Lullaby" (Live On, 1999)
• "A Little Bit More" (The Place You're In, 2004)
• "Strut" (How I Go, 2011)

Derek Sherinian

• Planet X (1999)
• Inertia (2001)
• Black Utopia (2003)
• Mythology (2004)
• Blood of the Snake (2006)
• Molecular Heinosity (2009)

Shocking Blue

• "Whisky Don't Wash My Brains" (Shocking Blue, 1967)
• "Acka Raga" (At Home, 1969)
• "Scorpio's Dance (First Movement)" (Scorpio's Dance, 1970)
• "Scorpio's Dance" (Scorpio's Dance)
• "Simon Lee and the Gang" (Third Album, 1971)
• "Blue Jean" (Inkpot, 1972)
• "Red Leaves I + II" (Inkpot)

Sigur Rós

• "Untitled #3" a.k.a. "Samskeyti" (( ), 2002)
• "Intro" (Takk, 2005)

Silver Convention

• "Fly, Robin, Fly", (1975), No. 1 US, No. 28 UK, No. 1 R&B

Silver Jews

• "Transylvania Blues" (Bright Flight, 2001)

Silverchair

• "Madman" (Frogstomp, 1995)

Simple Minds

• "This Earth That You Walk Upon" (B-side of "Love Song", 1981)
• "Theme for Great Cities" (Canadian release of Sons and Fascination / UK release of Sister Feelings Call, 1981)
• "Sound in 70 Cities" (Sister Feelings Call)
• "Soundtrack for Every Heaven" (Instrumental version of "In Every Heaven", 1982)
• "Somebody Up There Likes You" (New Gold Dream, 1982)
• "#4" (B-side of "Hypnotised", 1995)

Skid Row

• "Tornado" (Skid Row, 1989)

Slade

• "M'Hat M'Coat" (Till Deaf Do Us Part, 1981)
• "Boyz (Instrumental)" (B-side of "You Boyz Make Big Noize", 1987; alternately titled "You Boyz Make Big Noize (Instrumental Boyz Version)" on 12" release)

Slash

• "Obsession Confession" (Curdled soundtrack, 1996)
• "Watch This" (from his self-titled debut solo album, 2010)
• "Safari Inn" (from World on Fire, 2014)

Slaughter

• "Thinking of June" (Stick It to Ya, 1990)
• "Days Gone By (Acoustic Instrumental Version)" (The Wild Life, 1992)
• "Divine Order" (Fear No Evil, 1995)
• "Prelude" (Fear No Evil)
• "Guck" (Revolution, 1997)
• "Ad-Majorem-Dei-Gloriam" (Revolution)
• "Silence of Ba" (Back to Reality, 1997)

Slayer

• "Delusions of Savior" (Repentless, 2015)

Slint

• "For Dinner..." (Spiderland, 1991)
• Their Untitled 1994 EP is composed entirely of instrumentals

Small Faces

• "Own Up Time" (Small Faces, 1966)
• "Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake" (Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, 1968)
• "Wide Eyed Girl on the Wall" (The Autumn Stone, 1969)

The Smiths

• "Oscillate Wildly" (B-side of "How Soon Is Now?" 12", 1985)
• "Money Changes Everything" (B-side of "Bigmouth Strikes Again", 1986)
• "The Draize Train" (B-side of "Panic" 12", 1986)

Soda Stereo

• "X-Playo" (Sueño Stereo, 1995)
• "Sonoman (Banda de Sonido)" (Comfort y Música Para Volar, 1996)

Soft Machine

• "Joy of a Toy" (The Soft Machine, 1968)
• "So Boot If At All" (The Soft Machine)
• "Priscilla" (The Soft Machine)
• "Plus Belle qu'une Poubelle" (The Soft Machine)
• "Box 25/4 Lid" (The Soft Machine)
• "Orange Skin Food/A Door Opens and Closes/10:30 Returns to the Bedroom" (Volume Two, 1969)

Soilwork

• "Entering the Angel Diabolique" (Steelbath Suicide, 1998)
• "Centro de Predominio" (Steelbath Suicide)

Sonata Arctica

• "Revontulet" (Silence, 2001)
• "Reckoning Day, Reckoning Night" (Reckoning Night, 2004)

Sonic Youth

• SYR1: Anagrama EP (1997)
• SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom EP (1997)

Soulfly

• "Soulfly" (Soulfly, 1998)
• "Karmageddon" (Soulfly)
• "Soulfly II" (Primitive, 2000)
• "Soulfly III" (3, 2002)
• "Zumbi" (3)
• "Soulfly IV" (Prophecy, 2004)
• "The Dark Ages" (Dark Ages, 2005)
• "(The) March" (Dark Ages)
• "Soulfly V" (Dark Ages)
• "Soulfly VI" (Conquer, 2008)
• "Soulfly VII" (Omen, 2010)
• "Four Sticks" (bonus track on deluxe edition of Omen)
• "Soulfly VIII" (Enslaved, 2012)
• "Soulfly IX" (Savages, 2013)
• "Soulfly X" (Archangel, 2015)

Soundgarden

• "Twin Tower" (Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path, 2014)
• "Night Surf" (Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path, 2014)
• "Ghostmotorfinger" (Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path)
• "The Telephantasm" (Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Across the Path)

SouthGang

• "Goove Bucket" (Tainted Angel, 1991)
• "The Blue Bird Has Landed (The Uncut Trail Mix)" (Group Therapy, 1992)

Spencer Davis Group

• "Goodbye Stevie", "Stevie's Blues", "Trampoline", "Stevie's Groove", "Blues in F", "On the Green Light" and "Waltz For Lumumba" (B-sides and EP tracks, 1965 and 1966, they were, "just knock off B-sides")

Spheric Universe Experience

• "Burning Box Gala" (Mental Torments, 2005)
• "Halleygretto" (Mental Torments)
• "Stormy Dome" (Anima, 2007)
• "Black Materia" (Anima)
• "Near Death Experience" (Unreal, 2009)
• "O.B.E." (Unreal)

Spirit

• "Taurus" (Spirit, 1968)
• "Ice" (Clear, 1968)
• "Clear" (Clear)
• "Caught" (Clear)
• "Space Child" (Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus, 1970)
• "Veruska" (bonus track on Spirit reissue, 1996)
• "Free Spirit" (bonus track on Spirit reissue)
• "Fog" (bonus track on The Family That Plays Together reissue, 1996)
• "Mellow Fellow" (bonus track on The Family That Plays Together reissue)
• "Space Chile" (bonus track on The Family That Plays Together reissue)
• "Coral" (bonus track on Clear reissue, 1996)

Split Enz

• "Double Happy" (True Colours, 1980)
• "The Choral Sea" (True Colours)
• "Wail" (Waiata, 1981)
• "Albert of India" (Waiata)
• "The Lost Cat" (See Ya 'Round, 1984)

Bruce Springsteen (and the E Street Band)

• "Paradise by the "C"" (Live/1975–85, 1986)

Steely Dan

• "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo", (Pretzel Logic, 1974), written by Duke Ellington

Jim Steinman

• "The Storm" (bonus EP included with Bad for Good, 1981)

The Steve Miller Band

• "Song for Our Ancestors" (Sailor, 1968)
• "Space Intro" (Fly Like an Eagle, 1976)
• "Blue Odyssey" (Fly Like an Eagle)
• "Threshold" (Book of Dreams, 1977)
• "Electro Lux Inbroglio" (Book of Dreams)
• "Babes In the Wood" (Book of Dreams)

Steve Morse Band

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

Steve Stevens

• Atomic Playboys (1989)
• Flamenco a Go-Go (2000)
• Memory Crash (2008)

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

• "Rude Mood" (Texas Flood, 1983)
• "Testify" (Texas Flood)
• "Lenny" (Texas Flood)
• "Hide Away" (Couldn't Stand the Weather, 1984)
• "Scuttle Buttin'" (Couldn't Stand the Weather)
• "Stang's Swang" (Couldn't Stand the Weather)
• "Say What!" (Soul to Soul, 1985)
• "Travis Walk" (In Step, 1989)
• "Riviera Paradise" (In Step)
• "Little Wing" (The Sky Is Crying, 1991)
• "Chitlins con Carne" (The Sky Is Crying)

Rod Stewart

• "Henry" (Every Picture Tells a Story, 1971)
• "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Smiler, 1974)

Sting

• "Brimstone & Treacle" (soundtrack to Brimstone and Treacle, 1982)
• "Dream of the Blue Turtles" (Dream of the Blue Turtles, 1985)
• "Saint Agnes and the Burning Train" (The Soul Cages, 1991)

Stratovarius

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Stratovarius.

• "Fire Dance" (Fright Night, 1989)
• "Goodbye" (Fright Night)
• "Metal Frenzy" (Twilight Time, 1993)
• "Atlantis" (Dreamspace, 1994)
• "Stratovarius" (Fourth Dimension, 1995)
• "Call of the Wilderness" (Fourth Dimension)
• "Episode" (Episode, 1996)
• "Stratosphere" (Episode)
• "Holy Light" (Visions, 1997)
• "Holy Solos" (Visions of Europe, 1998)
• "Stratofortress" (Elements, Pt. 1, 2003)

Stray Dog

• "Pieces" (While You're Down There, 1974)
• "Worldwinds" (While You're Down There)

The String-A-Longs

• "Wheels", (1961), No. 3 US, No. 8 UK, No. 19 R&B

Stryper

• "Abyss (To Hell with the Devil)" (To Hell with the Devil, 1987)
• "Tank" (The Roxx Regime Demos, 2007)

Styx

• "Little Fugue in G" (Styx II, 1973)
• "Prelude 12" (Equinox, 1975)
• "Clair De Lune" (Crystal Ball, 1976)
• "The Message" (Pieces of Eight, 1978)
• "Aku-Aku" (Pieces of Eight)
• "State Street Sadie" (Paradise Theatre, 1981)
• "Overture" (The Mission, 2017)

Pedro Suárez-Vértiz

• "(Untitled)" ((No Existen) Técnicas para Olvidar, 1993)
• "China Wife" (Degeneración Actual, 1999)
• "Endal" (Talk Show, 2006)
• "Viaje al Sol" (Talk Show)
• "Diantinos" (Talk Show)
• "Eloísa" (Talk Show)
• "Revolundar" (Talk Show)
• "Rara Soledad (Incidental)" (bonus track on Talk Show)
• "Olivar" (bonus track on Uncut Edition of Amazonas, 2010)

The Surfaris

• "Wipe Out" b/w Surfer Joe No. 2 US

Sun Kil Moon

• "Si, Paloma" (Ghosts of the Great Highway, 2003)

Supergrass

• "Coffee in the Pot" (Road to Rouen, 2005)

Symphony X

• "Into the Dementia" (Symphony X, 1994)
• "Sonata" (Twilight in Olympus, 1998)
• "Transcendence" (V: The New Mythology Suite, 2000)
• "On the Breath of Poseidon" (V: The New Mythology Suite)
• "The Death of Balance" (V: The New Mythology Suite)
• "Rediscovery (Segue)" (V: The New Mythology Suite)
• "The Odyssey: Odysseus' Theme/Overture" (The Odyssey, 2002)
• "Star Wars Suite" (Rarities and Demos fan club EP, 2005)
• "Oculus ex Inferni" (Paradise Lost, 2007)

T

The T-Bones

• "No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In)", (1965), No. 3 US

Taj Mahal

• "Ain't Gwine to Whistle Dixie (Any Mo')" from The Real Thing album

Tangerine Dream

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

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

Tea Party

• "Winter Solstice" (Splendor Solis, 1993)
• "The Badger" (The Edges of Twilight, 1995)
• "Embryo" (Transmission (The Tea Party album)|Transmission]], 1997)

Tears For Fears

• "The Marauders" (B-side of The Way You Are, 1983)
• "The Big Chair" (B-side of Shout, 1984)
• "Empire Building" (B-side of Mothers Talk (except US release), 1984)

Teenage Fanclub

• "Is This Music?" (Bandwagonesque, 1991)
• "Get Funky" (Thirteen, 1993)
• "Don's Gone Columbia" (Japanese bonus track on Thirteen)

Tex, Don and Charlie

• "Dead Dog Boogie" (1993)

Television

• "The Blow-Up" (The Blow-Up, 1982)
• "Untitled Instrumental" (bonus track on Marquee Moon reissue, 2003)

Testament

• "Hypnosis" (The New Order, 1988)
• "Musical Death (A Dirge)" (The New Order)
• "Confusion Fusion" (Practice What You Preach, 1989)
• "Beginning of the End" (Souls of Black, 1990)
• "Signs of Chaos" (The Ritual, 1992)
• "Urotsukidōji" (Low, 1994)
• "Hammer of the Gods" (The Gathering, 1999)
• "For the Glory Of..." (The Formation of Damnation, 2008)

Thalía

• "Cristal" (Mundo de Cristal, 1990)
• "Blues Jam" (Mundo de Cristal)

Therapy?

• "Big Cave In" (Suicide Pact - You First, 1999)
• "Magic Mountain" (Crooked Timber, 2009)
• "Marlow" (A Brief Crack of Light, 2012)
• "If You're Driving Pull Over" (B-side of "Deathstimate" single, 2015)

They Might Be Giants

• "Space Suit" (Apollo 18, 1992)
• "Empty Bottle Blues" (They Got Lost, 2002)
• "Theme to McSweeney's" (They Got Lost)
• "Mosh Momken Abadon" (They Got Lost)
• "The Other Side of the World" (The Spine Surfs Alone EP, 2004)
• "No Plan B" (Cast Your Pod to the Wind, the bonus disc included with selected pressings of The Else, 2007)

Thin Lizzy

• "Banshee" (Nightlife, 1974)
• "Fool Golds (Instrumental run-through)" (Johnny the Fox, 2011 disc-2 on the remastered edition)
• "Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed (Instrumental run-through - extended version)" (Johnny the Fox disc-2 on the remastered edition)
• "Rocky (Instrumental run-through)" (Johnny the Fox disc-2 on the remastered edition)
• "Massacre (Instrumental take)" (Johnny the Fox disc-2 on the remastered edition)
• "Scott's Tune" (Johnny the Fox disc-2 on the remastered edition)

Three Dog Night

• "Fire Eater" (Naturally, 1971)

Tin Machine

See also: David Bowie

• "Hammerhead" (Tin Machine II, 1991)

Tindersticks

• "Tea Stain" (Tindersticks, 1993)
• "Vertrauen II" (Tindersticks, 1995)
• "Vertrauen III" (Tindersticks)
• "From the Inside" (Simple Pleasure, 1999)
• "What is a Man" (Instrumental) (B-side of "What is a Man", 2000)
• "Introduction" (The Hungry Saw, 2008)
• "E-Type" (The Hungry Saw)
• "The Organist Entertains" (The Hungry Saw)
• "Hubbards Hill" (Falling Down a Mountain, 2010)
• "Piano Music" (Falling Down a Mountain)
• "Goodbye Joe" (The Something Rain, 2012)

Toad

• "Tank" (Toad, 1971)

Timo Tolkki

• Classical Variations and Themes (1994)

Tool

• "Intermission" (Ænima, 1996)
• "Merkaba" (Salival, 2000)
• "Eon Blue Apocalypse" (Lateralus, 2001)
• "Mantra" (Lateralus)
• "Triad" (Lateralus)

The Tornados

Most of the band's recordings are instrumentals.

• "Telstar" (1962) No. 1 US, No. 1 UK, No. 5 R&B

Tortoise

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Tortoise.

Most, if not all, Tortoise recordings are instrumentals.

• Tortoise (1994)
• Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996)
• TNT (1998)
• Standards (2001)
• It's All Around You (2004)
• Beacons of Ancestorship (2009)

Toto

• "Child's Anthem" (Toto, 1978)
• "Don't Stop Me Now" (Fahrenheit, 1986)
• "Jake to the Bone" (Kingdom of Desire, 1992)
• "Dave's Gone Skiing" (Tambu, 1995)
• "Maiden Voyage/Butterfly" (Through the Looking Glass, 2002)
• "The Reeferman" (Falling in Between, 2006)

Tourniquet

• "K517" (Vanishing Lessons, 1994)

Traffic

• "Glad" (John Barleycorn Must Die, 1970)
• "Mozambique" (Far From Home, 1994)
• "Something's Got a Hold of My Toe" (Last Exit, 1969)
• "Tragic Magic" (Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory, 1973)

Trans Am

• Trans Am, 1996
• Surrender to the Night, 1997
• The Surveillance, 1998
• Futureworld, 1999

Trans-Siberian Orchestra

• "O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories, 1996)
• "First Snow" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
• "The Silent Nutcracker" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
• "A Mad Russian's Christmas" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
• "Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
• "The First Noel" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
• "O Holy Night" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
• "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" (Christmas Eve and Other Stories)
• "Overture" (Beethoven's Last Night, 2000)
• "Mozart/Figaro" (Beethoven's Last Night)
• "Requiem (The Fifth)" (Beethoven's Last Night)
• "Für Elise" (Beethoven's Last Night)
• "Beethoven" (Beethoven's Last Night)
• "Faith Noel" (The Lost Christmas Eve, 2004)
• "Wizards in Winter" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "Christmas Concerto" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "Queen of the Winter Night" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "Christmas Jazz" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "Siberian Sleigh Ride" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "The Wisdom of Snow" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "Wish Liszt (Toy Shop Madness)" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "Christmas Bells, Carousels & Time" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "O’ Come All Ye Faithful" (The Lost Christmas Eve)
• "Midnight Clear" (The Lost Christmas Eve)

The Traveling Wilburys

• "New Blue Moon" (B-side of "Wilbury Twist", 1991)

Triumph

• "Moonchild" (Triumph, 1976)
• "The City" (Rock & Roll Machine, 1977)
  • "War March"
  • "El Duende Agonizante"
• "Fantasy Serenade" (Just a Game, 1979)
• "Finger Talkin'" (Progressions of Power, 1980)
• "Air Raid" (Allied Forces, 1981)
• "Petite Etude" (Allied Forces)
• "A Minor Prelude" (Never Surrender, 1983)
• "Epilogue (Resolution)" (Never Surrender)
• "Midsummer's Daydream" (Thunder Seven, 1984)
• "Little Boy Blues" (Thunder Seven)
• "Embujo" ("The Sport of Kings", 1986)
• "Prologue: Into the Forever" ("Surveillance", 1986)
• "Prelude: The Waking Dream" (Surveillance)

Trivium

• "The Crusade" (The Crusade, 2006)

Robin Trower

• "Caravan to Midnight" (Caravan to Midnight, 1978)

U

U2

• "Things to Make and Do" (B-side of "A Day Without Me", 1980)
• "4th of July" (The Unforgettable Fire, 1984)
• "Boomerang I" (B-side of "Pride (In the Name of Love)", 1984)
• "Bass Trap" (B-side of "The Unforgettable Fire", 1985)
• "Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk" (B-side of "The Fly", 1991)
• Original Soundtracks 1, with Brian Eno under the pseudonym Passengers, 1995 (about half of the album is instrumental)

UB40

• "12 Bar" (Signing Off, 1980)
• "Adella" (Signing Off, 1980)
• "25%" (Signing Off, 1980)
• "Signing Off" (Signing Off, 1980)
• "Reefer Madness" (Signing Off, 1980)

UFO

• "Unidentified Flying Object" (UFO 1, 1970)
• "The Coming of Prince Kajuku" (UFO 2: Flying, 1971)
• "Lipstick Traces" (Phenomenon, 1974)

El Último de la Fila

• "Otro Verano" (bonus track on Como la Cabeza al Sombrero, 1988)
• "Vamos" (bonus track on Como la Cabeza al Sombrero)
• "Grünfink o Pinzón Verde" (Nuevo Pequeño Catálogo de Seres y Estares, 1990)
• ""Beatus Ille"" (Nuevo Pequeño Catálogo de Seres y Estares)
• "Cauterización de una Herida" (bonus track on Nuevo Pequeño Catálogo de Seres y Estares)
• ""The Blue Rabbits Machine" Corporation Hymn" (bonus track on Nuevo Pequeño Catálogo de Seres y Estares)
• "Mar Antiguo" (Astronomía Razonable, 1993)
• "Illetes" (La Rebelión de los Hombres Rana, 1995)

U.K.

• "Alaska" (UK, 1978)

V

Steve Vai

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Steve Vai.

• "Viv Woman" (Flex-Able, 1984)
• "Salamanders in the Sun" (Flex-Able)
• "The Attitude Song" (Flex-Able)
• "Call It Sleep" (Flex-Able)
• "There's Something Dead in Here" (Flex-Able)
• Passion and Warfare (1990)
• "Touching Tongues" (Sex & Religion, 1993)
• "Sofa" (Zappa's Universe, 1993)
• Alien Love Secrets EP (1995)
• "There's a Fire in the House" (Fire Garden, 1996)
• "The Crying Machine" (Fire Garden)
• "Dyin' Day" (Fire Garden)
• "Blowfish" (Fire Garden)
• "Hand on Heart" (Fire Garden)
• "Fire Garden Suite" (Fire Garden)
• "Warm Regards" (Fire Garden)
• "Tender Surrender" (Where the Wild Things Are)
• "For The Love Of God" (Passion and Warfare)
• The Ultra Zone (1999)
• Real Illusions: Reflections (2005)

Ritchie Valens

• "Fast Freight" and "Ritchie's Blues" According to Kent Crowley in Surf Beat: Rock ’N’ Roll’s Forgotten Revolution, "Fast Freight" was the first prototype of what was to become Surf music.

Van Halen

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Van Halen in 1976.

• "Eruption" (Van Halen, 1978)
• "Spanish Fly" (Van Halen II, 1979)
• "Tora! Tora!" (Women and Children First, 1980)
• "Sunday Afternoon in the Park" (Fair Warning, 1981)
• "Cathedral" (Diver Down, 1982)
• "Intruder" (Diver Down)
• "Little Guitars (Intro)" (Diver Down)
• "1984" (1984, 1984)
• "316" (For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge, 1991)
• "Strung Out" (Balance, 1995)
• "Doin' Time" (Balance)
• "Baluchitherium" (Balance)
• "Neworld" (Van Halen III, 1998)
• "Primary" (Van Halen III)

Eddie and Alex Van Halen

• "Respect the Wind" (soundtrack to Twister, 1996)

Vanden Plas

• "Fire Blossom" (The God Thing, 1997)
• "Journey to Paris" (Spirit of Live, 2000)
• "Spirit of Life" (Spirit of Live)

Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan

• "D/FW" (Family Style, 1990)

Venom

• "Mayhem with Mercy" (Welcome to Hell, 1981)

The Ventures

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

Tom Verlaine

"Sleepwalkin'"

The Verve

• "(Reprise)" (A Northern Soul, 1995)
• "Deep Freeze" (hidden track on selected pressings of original release of Urban Hymns, 1997; also original track on japanese pressing)

Vida Blue

• "Where's Popeyes" (Vida Blue, 2002)
• "Fresh Tube" (Vida Blue)

The Virtues

• "Guitar Boogie Shuffle", (1963), No. 5 US, No. 27 R&B

Vixen

• "Swatting Flies in Wanker County" (Tangerine, 1998)

Vox Dei

• "Cristo - Nacimiento" (La Biblia, 1971)
• "Apocalípsis" (La Biblia)

W

The Wailers aka The Fabulous Wailers

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

Tom Waits

• "Closing Time" (Closing Time, 1973)
• "Cinny's Waltz" (Foreign Affairs, 1977)
• "In Shades" (Heartattack and Vine, 1980)
• "Dave the Butcher" (Swordfishtrombones, 1983)
• "Just Another Sucker on the Vine" (Swordfishtrombones)
• "Rainbirds" (Swordfishtrombones)
• "Midtown" (Rain Dogs, 1985)
• "Bride of Rain Dogs" (Rain Dogs)
• Night on Earth (1992)
• "Black Box Thene" (The Black Rider, 1993)
• "Flash Pan Hunter/Intro" (The Black Rider)
• "Russian Dance" (The Black Rider)
• "Carnival" (The Black Rider)
• "Knife Chase" (Blood Money, 2002)
• "Calliope" (Blood Money)
• "Fawn" (Alice, 2002)

Rick Wakeman

• The Six Wives of Henry VIII (1973)

Joe Walsh

• "Midnight Moodies" (The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get, 1973)
• "Pavanne for the Sleeping Beauty" (So What, 1974)
• "Inner Tube" (But Seriously, Folks..., 1978)
• "Theme from Boat Weirdos" (But Seriously, Folks...)
• "Theme from Island Weirdos" (You Bought It, You Name It, 1983)
• "Theme from Baroque Weirdos" (Songs for a Dying Planet, 1992)

Warbringer

• "Nightmare Anatomy" (Waking into Nightmares, 2009)

Warhorse

• "Mouthpiece" (Red Sea, 1972)

Warlord

• "MCMLXXXIV" (And the Cannons of Destruction Have Begun..., 1984)

Roger Waters

• "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard" (Amused to Death, 1992)

Mike Watt

• "Maggot Brain" (Ball-Hog or Tugboat?, 1995)

Paul Weller

• "Always There to Fool You" (B-side of "Uh Huh Oh Yeh", 1992)

Ween

• "The HIV Song" (Chocolate and Cheese, 1994)

White Heart

• "Let The Children Play" (Don't Wait for the Movie, 1986)

White Lion

• "Blue Monday" (Mane Attraction, 1991)

James White

• (as James White and the Blacks) "Off Black" (Off White, 1979)
• (as James White's Flaming Demonics) "Caravan/It Don't Mean A Thing/Melt Yourself Down" (James White Presents The Flaming Demonics, 1983)

Whitecross

• "Nagasake" (Whitecross, 1987)
• "The Hammer and the Nail" (Hammer & Nail, 1988)
• "Flashpoint" (Triumphant Return, 1989)
• "The Eternal Fire " (In the Kingdom, 1991)
• "Overdrive" (High Gear, 1992)
• "Groove" (Unveiled, 1994)
• "Re:Animate" (Nineteen Eighty Seven, 2005)

The Who

• "The Ox" (My Generation, 1965)
• "Cobwebs and Strange" (UK release A Quick One, 1966/US release Happy Jack, 1967)
• "Radio London (Instrumental)" (end portion of "Mary Anne with the Shaky Hand", The Who Sell Out, 1967)
• "Track Records (Instrumental)" (end portion of "Rael (1 and 2)", The Who Sell Out)
• "Dogs, Part Two" (B-side of "Pinball Wizard", 1969)
• "Overture" (Tommy, 1969)
• "Sparks" (Tommy)
• "Underture" (Tommy)
• "Quadrophenia" (Quadrophenia, 1973)
• "The Rock" (Quadrophenia)
• "Hall of the Mountain King" (bonus track on The Who Sell Out reissue, 1995)
• "My Generation (Instrumental)" (bonus track on deluxe edition reissue of My Generation, 2002)

Widespread Panic

• "L.A." (Ain't Life Grand, 1994)
• "Action Man" (bonus disc included with Don't Tell the Band, 2001/Live in the Classic City, 2002; also appears on the main album of Don't Tell the Band with vocals)

Mason Williams

• "Classical Gas" (The Mason Williams Phonograph Record, 1968), No. 2 US, No. 9 UK "orchestrated rock and roll" backed by the Wrecking Crew

Brian Wilson

• "Mrs. O'Leary's Cow" (SMiLE, 2004)

Wire

• "The Commercial" (Pink Flag, 1977)

Wishbone Ash

• "The Pilgrim" (Pilgrimage, 1971)
• "Outward Bound" (New England, 1976)
• "714" (Front Page News, 1977)

Within Temptation

• "Blooded" (Enter, 1997)

Eric Woolfson

• "Angel of the Odd" (Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination, 2003)
• "The Pit and the Pendulum: Part II" (Poe: More Tales of Mystery and Imagination)

Link Wray

• "Rumble" (1958), No. 16 US, No. 11 R&B
• "Switchblade" (Bullshot, 1979)

Richard Wright

• "Mediterranean C" (Wet Dream, 1978)
• "Cat Cruise" (Wet Dream)
• "Waves" (Wet Dream)
• "Mad Yannis Dance" (Wet Dream)
• "Drop in from the Top" (Wet Dream)
• "Funky Deux" (Wet Dream)
• "Breaking Water" (Broken China, 1996)
• "Runaway" (Broken China, 1996)
• "Unfair Ground" (Broken China, 1996)
• "Satellite" (Broken China, 1996)
• "Interlude" (Broken China, 1996)
• "Black Cloud" (Broken China, 1996)
• "Drowning" (Broken China, 1996)
• "Sweet July" (Broken China, 1996)

X

X Japan

• "Dear Loser" (Vanishing Vision, 1988)
• "Prologue (~ World Anthem)" (Blue Blood, 1989)
• "Xclamation" (Blue Blood)
• "Es Dur no Piano Sen" (Jealousy, 1991)
• "White Wind From Mr. Martin ~Pata's Nap~" (Jealousy )
• "Wriggle" (Dahlia, 1996)

Y

The Yardbirds

• "Got to Hurry" (B-side of "For Your Love", 1965)
• "Steeled Blues", (B-side of Heart Full of Soul, 1965)
• "Jeff's Boogie" (B-side of Over Under Sideways Down, 1966) a cover of Chuck Berry's "Guitar Boogie"
• "White Summer" (Little Games, 1967)

Yes

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Yes.

• "Clap" (The Yes Album, 1971)
• "Cans and Brahms" (Fragile, 1971)
• "Five Per Cent for Nothing" (Fragile)
• "The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)" (Fragile)
• "Mood for a Day" (Fragile)
• "Opening (Excerpt from Firebird Suite)" (Yessongs, 1973)
• "Excerpts from The Six Wives of Henry VIII" (Yessongs)
• "Cinema" (90125, 1983)
• "Si" (9012Live: The Solos, 1985)
• "Solly's Beard" (9012Live: The Solos)
• "Amazing Grace" (9012Live: The Solos)
• "Whitefish" (9012Live: The Solos)
• "Masquerade" (Union, 1991)
• "Evensong" (Union)
• "Vevey, Part One" (Yesyears, 1991)
• "Montreux's Theme" (Yesyears)
• "Vevey, Part Two" (Yesyears)
• "The Endless Dream: Silent Spring" (Talk, 1994)
• "Sign Language" (Keys to Ascension 2, 1997)
• "Australia" (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection, 2003)
• "New World Symphony" (The Ultimate Yes: 35th Anniversary Collection)
• "Fly from Here: Overture" (Fly from Here, 2011)
• "Solitaire" (Fly from Here)

Yo La Tengo

• "Sleeping Pill" (May I Sing with Me, 1992)
• "Superstar-Watcher" (Painful, 1993)
• "I Heard You Looking" (Painful)
• "False Ending" (Electr-O-Pura, 1995)
• "Return to Hot Chicken" (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One, 1997)
• "Green Arrow" (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
• "Spec Bebop" (I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One)
• "Tired Hippo" (And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out, 2000)
• The Sounds of the Sounds of Science (2002)
• "Georgia Vs. Yo La Tengo" (Summer Sun, 2003)
• "Daphnia" (I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, 2006)

Neil Young

• "The Emperor of Wyoming" (Neil Young, 1968)
• Soundtrack to Dead Man, 1996)

Z

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.

• "Peaches en Regalia" (Hot Rats, 1969)
• "Son of Mr Green Genes" (Hot Rats)
• "Little Umbrellas" (Hot Rats)
• "The Gumbo Variations" (Hot Rats)
• "It Must Be a Camel" (Hot Rats)
• "Transylvania Boogie" (Chunga's Revenge, 1970)
• "Twenty Small Cigars" (Chunga's Revenge)
• "Chunga's Revenge" (Chunga's Revenge)
• "Big Swifty" (Waka/Jawaka, 1972)
• "Waka/Jawaka" (Waka/Jawaka, 1972)
• "Blessed Relief" (The Grand Wazoo, 1972)
• "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" (The Grand Wazoo)
• "Eat That Question" (The Grand Wazoo)
• "The Grand Wazoo" (The Grand Wazoo)
• "Apostrophe" (Apostrophe, 1974)
• "Black Napkins" (Zoot Allures, 1976)
• "Friendly Little Finger" (Zoot Allures)
• "Zoot Allures" (Zoot Allures)
• Sleep Dirt (1979 - reissues of this album featured overdubbed vocals on several tracks)
• "Rat Tomago" (Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)
• "Rubber Shirt" (Sheik Yerbouti)
• "The Sheik Yerbouti Tango" (Sheik Yerbouti)
• "Watermelon in Easter Hay" (Joe's Garage, 1979)
• Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar/Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar Some More/Return of the Son of Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar (1981)
• "Theme from the 3rd Movement of Sinister Footwear" (You Are What You Is, 1981)
• "Envelopes" (Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch, 1982)
• "Tink Walks Amok" (The Man from Utopia, 1983)
• "Mōggio" (The Man from Utopia)
• "Sinister Footwear II" (Them or Us, 1984)
• "Marque-son's Chicken" (Them or Us)
• "Them or Us" (Them or Us)
• "Alien Orifice" (Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention, 1985)
• "What's New in Baltimore?" (Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention)
• Jazz from Hell (1986)
• The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa (1987)
• Guitar (1988)
• Frank Zappa Plays the Music of Frank Zappa: A Memorial Tribute (1996)
• Trance-Fusion (2006)

The Zombies

• "Work 'n’ Play" (Begin Here 1963)

ZZ Top

• "Apologies to Pearly" (Rio Grande Mud, 1972)
• "Asleep in the Desert" (Tejas, 1976)

See also

• Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance
• Heavy metal music
• Instrumental rock
• List of instrumental bands
• Rock and roll
• Surf music

External links

• Every instrumental top 20 hit song from 1960 to the present from Tunecaster.com with a sample of each

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