Lyricless music

[KeithP]

Name your favourite artist/band that, as per thread title, does not use lyrics. I understand most classical is going to be lyricless, so if you're going to name Mozart or Bach, at least give a certain composition to listen to.

I'm thinking more current. This Will Destroy You, or Red Sparowes, or 65daysofstatic ... and bless you if you like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, because I just can't get into it.

This Will Destroy You (songs of note) - Reprise, Three Legged Workhorse, The Mighty Rio Grande
Red Sparowes - Hail of Bombs
65daysofstatic - Retreat! Retreat!

I know there's more than three of these bands, but I can only listen to so much at a time and it's mostly just been This Will Destroy You.

[thehammer]

And So I Watch You From Afar - "The Voiceless", "7 Billion People All Alive at Once"
Battles - "Tij"
Brave Timbers - "Hold Onto My Words"
Burial - "Wounder", "Southern Comfort"
Caspian - "Brombie", "Quovis/Further Up/Further In"
Cul de Sac - "Death Kit Train"
Daniel Bjarnason - Processions (the whole album)
Dirty Three - "Sea Above, Sky Below"
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (the whole album)
The Field - "Everday", "Yesterday and Today", "Arpeggiated Love"
Flying Lotus - "Do The Astral Plane"
From Monument to Masses - "Beyond God & Elvis"
Fuck Buttons - "The Lisbon Maru", "Olympians"
Giants - "The Palace Stands In Its Proper Place"
God Is An Astronaut - "Worlds In Collision", "Loss"
Lorn - "Cherry Moon", "Greatest Silence"
Los Straitjackets - "My Heart Will Go On" (wordless surf rock cover)
Lymbyc Systym - "Processed Spirits"
The Mercury Program - "Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta", "Backseat Blackout"
Mogwai - "Mogwai Fear Satan", "New Paths to Helicon, Pt. 1", "How To Be a Werewolf"
Mono - "Moonlight", "The Battle to Heaven"
Not To Reason Why - "Good Afternoon"
Pelican - "Last Day of Winter", "Sirius", "What We All Come to Need"
Rachel's - "Third Self-Portrait Series", "Rhine and Courtesan", "Water From the Same Source"
REDHOOKER - "Friction"
The Samuel Jackson Five - "If You Show Off the Milk, Who's Gonna Buy the Cow?"
Slow Six - "The Night You Left New York"
Sophie Hutchings - "Seventeen"
Sunwrae - "Never Stops to Wait"
Talons - "Manatee", "Peter Pan", "Iris", "Impala"
Teebs - "Double Fifths", "Moments"
Tortoise - "Prepare Your Coffin", "Gigantes"
Tunturia - "Cast Shadows on Clouds", "These Are the Words"
Upcdownc - "Comfort Me, I've Lost My Heart"
Victoire - "I Am Coming For My Things", "A Song For Mick Kelly"
Wires Under Tension - "Electricity Turns Them On", "Wood, Metal, Bone"
World's End Girlfriend - "Les Enfants du Paradis"
Yasushi Yoshida - "Staircase", "Embrace Calm Music", "For Everything Calm Embrace"
Year of No Light - Ausserwelt (album)
Years of Rice and Salt - "Eskimo Kiss", "Carnival"
Yndi Halda - "Dash and Blast"
Zoe Keating - "Escape Artist", "Optimist", "Tetrishead"
80kidz - "Flying Buttress", "Turn Baby Turn", "Miss Mars", "Arab. Hertz Club", "Red Star", "Private Beats"


Not all of those are rock. Some neoclassical, electronica, electro, and hip-hop. And I left off some artists which have lyrics in some of their songs, even though they're primarily instrumental.

[KeithP]

I forgot Sigur Ros, too.

You def listen to way more than I. Thanks for the list, too.

[thehammer]

No problem. It's probably my favorite type of music, even though it's not all the same thing.

[Plastikcat]

Bullet Proof Cupid (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

Placebo - "Swallow" , "HK Farewell" as well.

[jfc]

Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien album

[VF1J]

Two Steps From Hell - United We Stand, Divided We Fall (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[instruMENTAL]

Apocalyptica

[SirJamesIII]

Andy Timmons (The Prayer/the Answer (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
Al Di Meola (The Grande Passion (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
a lot of Allan Holdsworth (Fred (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
Greg Howe (Extraction (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
Guthrie Govan (Waves (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
Jason Becker (Air (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
Ohm (Mr. Brown (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
Paul Gilbert (Radiator (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.))
Shawn Lane (The Way it Has to be (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

This is very guitar-centric. Won't bother listing my classical favorites, that'd take forever.

[Evangelist]

I have been listening to a new music called soaking and most of it does not have words. After that there is Jim Brickman, Vince Guaraldi and Kirk Whalum.

[Silverblitz]

An Endless Sporadic
The Rippingtons

[MrFlaneur]

East Hastings - Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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[Vulture]

second what sir james posted; also a fan of the guitar centric music. i think i've had each of those favorited on my pandora stations over time.

jfc's joe satriani suggestions go without saying for me too. i can't say i have a favorite record of his. i seem to find songs on each one that blows me away. one of my favorites of his tracks:
"time machine" To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. ff to 2:36 if you can't wait through the intro.

also, steve vai has some fun stuff to listen to:
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[VagrantChord]

John McLaughlin - Peace Piece from Extrapolation
Jaco Pastorius - Portrait of Tracy

[UnusualSuspect]

The usual: Nujabes, Kondor, Yanni.
I've recently gotten into Wagner. The Tristan and Isolde Prelude is bloody brilliant. When the world ends, that music will blaring in the minds of us damned.

[Elena]

Another Sigur Ros fan here.

[Within]

I'm thinking more current. This Will Destroy You, or Red Sparowes, or 65daysofstatic ... and bless you if you like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, because I just can't get into it.

Thank you for bringing a thread about this subject into existence, as we are in the eye of the storm at the moment, so to speak. I predict that several more in the "genre" will blossom soon, I am hopeful about the future of music. I'm going to guess that it's post-rock that you're referring to, but as the lines are sketchy to say the least I will probably do a few crossovers in the following.

Like you said Keith, I like all of the four bands that you mentioned. Furthermore I enjoy;

God Is An Astronaut - Suicide By Star (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Mogwai - Batcat (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Emancipator - Greenland (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
El Ten Eleven - 3 Plus 4 (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
If These Trees Could Talk - From Roots To Needles (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Mono - Ashes In The Snow (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Solar Fields - Breeze (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
The Album Leaf - Window (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Underworld - To Heal (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

The songs linked with each consecutive band are one of my favourites.

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This Will Destroy You - Grandfather Clock (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - The Dead Flag Blues (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
65daysofstatic - Retreat! Retreat! (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)
Red Sparowes - A Hail of Bombs (To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.)

[Antares]

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I don't understand German or Latin or Italian so most classical opera are "lyricless" (though I do love the human voice as an instrument) as far as I'm concerned.

So Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2 To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

This is very, very long... But extremely worthwhile. Listen to all of it.

I would also suggest Mahler's 3rd, 1st, and 7th symphonies.

At this rate I could just list all of my favorite classical compositions, but I don't think you can go wrong with Allegretto from Beethoven's 7th To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

A lot of soundtracks are really good too.

Nobuo Uematsu's Final Fantasy music are great. To view links or images in this forum your post count must be 2 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. If you can't get through all of 10 minutes, skip to the last 3 minutes. The ending will blow you away. I can think of many more good soundtracks, but I'll stop.