List of rock instrumentals

The following is a list of rock instrumentals, including live performances and drum solos. 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.

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.[1][2][3]

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[4] #24[5] #1[6]
Ernie Freeman Raunchy 1957 #4[7] #1 <R&B charts> Joel Whitburn Top R&B Singles 1942-1999>
The Champs Tequila 1958 #1[8] #5[9] #1 [10]
Duane Eddy Moovin' N' Groovin' 1958 #72
The Champs El Rancho Rock 1958 #30
Link Wray & His Ray Men Rumble 1958 #16[11] #11[12]
Duane Eddy Rebel Rouser 1958 #6[13] #8[14] #19 [15] saxophone by session musician Gil Bernal,
yells and handclaps by doo-wop group the Rivingtons.[16][17]
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[18] #27[19]
Dave "Baby" Cortez The Happy Organ 1959 #1[20] #5[21]
Johnny and the Hurricanes Crossfire 1959 #23
The Wailers Tall Cool One 1959 #36[22] #24[23]
Preston Epps Bongo Rock 1959 #14[24]
Duane Eddy Forty Miles of Bad Road 1959 #9 #17
Johnny and the Hurricanes Red River Rock 1959 #5[25] #3[26] #5[27]
The Wailers Mau-Mau 1959 #68
Sandy Nelson Teen Beat 1959 #4[28] #9[29] #17[30] The piano on the recording is by Bruce Johnston.[29]
Santo & Johnny Sleep Walk 1959 #1[31] #22[32] #4[33]
Santo & Johnny Tear Drop 1959 #23[31] #50[32] #17[33]
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[34] #33[35] #1[36]
Bill Black's Combo Don't Be Cruel 1960 #11[34] #32[35] #1[36]
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[37] #6[14] this was the second charting of the song in 1959
Floyd Cramer Last Date 1960 #2[38] #32[35]
The Shadows Apache 1960 #1[39]
The Ventures Walk, Don't Run 1960 #1[40] #8[41] #13[42]
Duane Eddy Pepe 1961 #18 #2
B. Bumble and the Stingers Bumble Boogie 1961 #21[43] the Stingers consisted of Earl Palmer,[44] René Hall,
Plas Johnson, Ernie Freeman[43] Red Callender, and Tommy Tedesco[45]
The Fireballs Quite a Party 1961 #27[46] #29[47]
Kokomo Asia Minor 1961 #8[48] #35[41] Adopted from the Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto in A minor[48]
and sub sequentially banned by the BBC.[49]
The Mar-Keys Last Night 1961 #3[50] #2[51]
Sandy Nelson Let There Be Drums 1961 #7[28] #3[29]
The String-A-Longs Wheels 1961 #3[52] #8[32] #19[53]
Billy Joe and the Checkmates Percolator (Twist) 1962 #10[54]
The Champs Limbo Rock 1962 #40[8] featured Earl Palmer on drums, Tommy Tedesco on guitar, and Plas Johnson on sax[55]
Jet Harris Besame Mucho 1962 #22[56]
King Curtis Soul Twist 1962 #17[57] #1[58]
Sandy Nelson Drums Are My Beat 1962 #29[28] #30[29]
The Tornados Telstar 1962 #1[59] #1[60] #5[61]
The Busters Bust Out 1963 #25[62]
The Dakotas The Cruel Sea 1963 #18[63]
Jet Harris and Tony Meehan Scarlett O'Hara 1963 #2[56]
Lonnie Mack Memphis 1963 #5[64] #4[65]
Lonnie Mack Wham! 1963 #24[64] from the album The Wham of that Memphis Man[66]
The Marketts Out of Limits 1963 #3[50]
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[67]
The Rockin’ Rebels
aka The Rebels
Wild Weekend 1963 #8[68] #3[26] #28[69]
The Surfaris Wipe Out 1963 #2[70] #5[71] #10[72]
The Pyramids Penetration 1964 #18[73] Adopted from Edvard Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor[48]
The T-Bones No Matter What Shape (Your Stomach's In) 1965 #3[74]
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, stalling at #39.
The Bar-Kays Soul Finger 1967 #17[75] #33[76] #3[77]
Cliff Nobles & Co. The Horse 1968 #2[78] #2[79]
Fleetwood Mac Albatross 1968 #1[80] charted again (#2) in Britain in 1972
Hugh Masekela ‘'Grazing in the Grass’’ 1968 #1[81] #1[82]
Mason Williams Classical Gas 1968 #2[83] #9[84] "orchestrated rock and roll" backed by the Wrecking Crew[85]
Booker T. & the M.G.'s Time Is Tight 1969 #6[48] #7[86] from the film Uptight[48]

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[87] #7[88] #9[89]
Hot Butter ‘'Popcorn’’ 1972 #9[90] #5[91]
Billy Preston Outa-Space 1972 #2[92] #44[93] #1[94]
Deodato ‘'Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001)’’ 1973 #2[95] #7[88] based on Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra
Edgar Winter Group ‘'Frankenstein’’ 1973 #1[96] #18[97]
The Love Unlimited Orchestra Love's Theme 1973 #1[98] #10[99] #10[100] orchestra formed and song written by Barry White
Billy Preston Space Race 1973 #4[92] #1[101]
Average White Band Pick Up the Pieces 1974 #1[102] #6[103] #5[104]
B. T. Express Express 1974 #2[105] #34[106] #1[107]
The Commodores Machine Gun 1974 #22[108] #20[109] #7[110]
Focus Hocus Pocus 1974 #9[111] #20[109]
MFSB ‘'TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)’’ 1974 #1[112] #22[113] #1[114]
Silver Convention Fly, Robin, Fly 1975 #1[115] #28[116] #1[117]
Van McCoy The Hustle 1975 #1[102] #3[118] #1[77]
Mike Post The Rockford Files (Theme) 1975 #10
Walter Murphy A Fifth Of Beethoven 1976 #1[119] #28[120] #10[121] based on the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Fifth Symphony
Rhythm Heritage Theme from S.W.A.T. 1976 #1[122] #11[123]
Chuck Mangione Feels So Good 1977 #4
Herb Alpert ‘'Rise’’ 1979 #1[124] #13[125] #4[126]

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[127] 1971
The Beach Boys Let's Go Away for Awhile & Pet Sounds Pet Sounds[128] 1966
The Beatles Cry for a Shadow The b-side of a Tony Sheridan single[129] 1961 included Pete Best on drums[130]
The Beatles Flying Magical Mystery Tour 1967 the first Beatles song to include all four members as writers[131]
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"[132]
Chuck Berry Guitar Boogie One Dozen Berrys 1958 later covered by The Yardbirds as Jeff's Boogie[133]
The Byrds John Riley & Captain Soul Fifth Dimension[134] 1966
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Hair Pie: Bake 1
Hair Pie: Bake 2
Trout Mask Replica[135] 1969
Cream Cat's Squirrel & Toad Fresh Cream 1966
Fleetwood Mac Albatross The Pious Bird of Good Omen[136] 1969 reached #2 on the British singles charts[80]
Jefferson Airplane Embryonic Journey Surrealistic Pillow[137] 1967
Jimi Hendrix Third Stone from the Sun Are You Experienced[138] 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[139] 1967 features Peter Green on guitar
Kaleidoscope Sefan Beacon from Mars & Other Psychedelic Side Trips[140] 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”[141]
Steely Dan East St. Louis Toodle-Oo Pretzel Logic[142] 1974 written by Duke Ellington
The Who The Ox My Generation[143] 1965
The Yardbirds Steeled Blues B-side of Heart Full of Soul[144] 1965
The Yardbirds Jeff's Boogie B-side of Over Under Sideways Down[145] 1966 based on Chuck Berry's "Guitar Boogie"[146]
The Zombies Work ’n’ Play Begin Here[147] 1963


0-9

10cc

35007

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

A

ABBA

AC/DC

Accept

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

Agent Steel

Alcatrazz

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

Alice in Chains

Allah-Las

  • "Sacred Sands" (Allah-Las, 2012)

The Allman Brothers Band

The Allman Brothers Band with special guest Eric Clapton.

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

  • "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

Anberlin

And So I Watch You from Afar

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

Anthrax

Anvil

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

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

Atomic Rooster

August Burns Red

Autograph

Average White Band

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

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

Badlands

The Bar-Kays

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

B. Bumble and the Stingers

The Beach Boys

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

Beastie Boys

The Beatles

Jeff Beck

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

Jason Becker

Bee Gees

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"[153]
  • "Guitar Boogie", One Dozen Berrys, (1957), later covered by The Yardbirds as Jeff's Boogie[154]

The Beta Band

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.

Billy Joe and the Checkmates

  • "Percolator (Twist)", (1962), No. 10 US[54]

Black Dub

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

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.

Blaqk Audio

Blood, Sweat and Tears

Blues Project

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

Blur

Blur.

The Bobby Fuller Four

Tommy Bolin

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

Bon Iver

Booker T. and the M.G.'s

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

Boston

The Bouncing Souls

David Bowie

David Bowie in 1978.

The Breeders

B. T. Express

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.

Budgie

The Busters

  • "Bust Out", (1963), No. 25 US[62]

Buzzcocks

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

The Byrds

C

Café Tacuba

Cake

JJ Cale

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

Calexico

Camel

Camel in 2003.

Camper Van Beethoven

Jerry Cantrell

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

Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine

Celtic Frost

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.

The Chantays

The Charlatans

Cheap Trick

The Chemical Brothers

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

Eric Clapton

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

Dennis Coffey

Coldplay

Phil Collins

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

The Commodores

Alice Cooper

Dave "Baby" Cortez

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.

The Cranberries

Cream

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

D

The Dakotas

Dick Dale

Most of Dale's recordings are instrumentals.

Dalis Car

Danger Danger

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

Death Angel

Deep Blue Something

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

Deep Purple

Def Leppard

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

Deftones

Deodato

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

Dick Diver

  • "Resist" (Melbourne, Florida, 2015)

Bo Diddley

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

Bill Doggett

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.

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

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

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.

The Edgar Winter Group

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

Eloy

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

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

Europe

Everclear

Evergrey

Evile

Explosions in the Sky

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

F

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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

Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens

Family

Faraquet

Fates Warning

Fear Factory

The Fireballs

  • "Torquay", (1959), No. 39 US[46]
  • "Quite a Party", (1961), No. 27 US,[46] No. 29 UK[47]

Firehose

FireHouse

Five Finger Death Punch

The Flaming Lips

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

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

Foreigner

Lita Ford

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

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

Robert Fripp

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*

Funkadelic

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

Genesis performing "Los Endos" in 2007.
Chester Thompson and Phil Collins performing a drum duet.

Gentle Giant

Paul Gilbert

Paul Gilbert.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

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

Gillan

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

God Is an Astronaut

Godsmack

Good Rats

  • "Klash-Ka-Bob" (Tasty, 1974)

Gorillaz

Gov't Mule

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

Grails

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

Grand Funk Railroad

Grandaddy

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

The Guess Who

H

Daryl Hall

Hamilton, Joe Frank and Reynolds

Jan Hammer

HammerFall

Hammock

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

Hanoi Rocks

Hardline

Jet Harris

  • "Besame Mucho", (1962), No. 22 UK[56]

Jet Harris and Tony Meehan

George Harrison

Haste the Day

The Haunted

Hawkwind

Heart

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

Hellecasters

Helloween

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

Jimi Hendrix

Héroes del Silencio

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

Hot Butter

The Housemartins

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

I

If These Trees Could Talk

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

In Flames

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

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

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

J

The J. Geils Band

Jacobs Dream

Jade Warrior

James Gang

The Jam

Japan

Jazz Is Dead

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

The Jeff Healey Band

Jefferson Airplane

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

John Butler Trio

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.

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

Janis Joplin

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

Bradley Joseph

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

Bill Justis

K

Kaleidoscope

  • "Sefan" (Beacon from Mars & Other Psychedelic Side Trips, 1970[165])

Kansas

Karate

Karnataka

Karnivool

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

Kasabian

Katatonia

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":
  • "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

Kiss

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

Kyuss

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

La Ley

Lacuna Coil

Laika and the Cosmonauts

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

Lamb of God

Led Zeppelin

John Lennon

Daniel Lanois

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

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

Little Feat

The Lively Ones

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

Los Lobos

Loudness

The Love Unlimited Orchestra

The Lovin' Spoonful

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

Lonnie Mack

Madness

The Mad's

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

Magazine

Yngwie Malmsteen

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

Manfred Mann

Manfred Mann Chapter Three

Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Manowar

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

The Mar-Keys

The Marketts

The Marshall Tucker Band

Hank Marvin

  • 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

Mastodon

Tak Matsumoto

Brian May

May Blitz

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

John Mayall (& the Bluesbreakers)

McAuley Schenker Group

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

Meat Puppets

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

Megadeth

Christian Meier

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

Men at Work

Mercyful Fate

Meshuggah

Metal Church

Metallica

The Meters

MFSB

Michael Schenker Group

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

Moby Grape

Mogwai

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

Mono

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

Molly Hatchet

Montrose

Gary Moore

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

Mötley Crüe

Motörhead

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

Moody Blues

Bob Mould

Mountain

Walter Murphy

Muse

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

Nazareth

Nelson

Sandy Nelson

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

New Order

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

Nightwish

Nine Inch Nails

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

Jack Nitzsche

  • "The Lonely Surfer", (1963), No. 39 US[67]

Cliff Nobles and Co.

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

Ted Nugent

O

Oasis

Opeth

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 Outlaws

Ozma

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

Pavement

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

Petra

John Petrucci

Liz Phair

Pink Floyd

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

Pivot

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

Pixies

Placebo

Chris Poland

Poison

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

The Polyphonic Spree

Porcupine Tree

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

Billy Preston

Pretenders

The Pretty Things

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

Primal Scream

Procol Harum

Public Image Limited

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

The Pyramids

Q

Queen

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:
  • 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

Queensrÿche

Quicksand

  • "Baphomet" (Slip, 1993)

Quicksilver Messenger Service

Quiet Riot

Quiet Sun

R

Racer X

The Raconteurs

Radiohead

Rainbow

Ramones

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

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.

REO Speedwagon

The Reverend Horton Heat

Rhapsody of Fire

Rhinoceros

  • "Apricot Brandy" (Rhinoceros, 1968)

Rhythm Heritage

Ride

Riot

Rockin' Rebels, aka The Rebels

  • "Wild Weekend", (1963), No. 8 US,[68] No. 3 UK,[26] No. 28 R&B[69]

Rodrigo y Gabriela

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

The Rolling Stones

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

Kevin Rudolf

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

Rush

Rush.
Neil Peart drumming.

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

Carlos Santana

Santo and Johnny

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

Joe Satriani

Joe Satriani.

Albums:

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

Seatrain

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

Sentenced

Sepultura

Seventh Wonder

  • "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

The Shadows in 2009.
A significant number of the band's recordings are instrumentals. See The Shadows discography for more details.

Kenny Wayne Shepherd

Derek Sherinian

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

Silver Jews

Silverchair

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

Slade

Slash

Slaughter

Slayer

Slint

Small Faces

The Smiths

Soda Stereo

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

Sonic Youth

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

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"[170])

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

Bruce Springsteen (and the E Street Band)

Steely Dan

Jim Steinman

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

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

Rod Stewart

Sting

Stratovarius

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

Stryper

Styx

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

Sun Kil Moon

Supergrass

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

Taj Mahal

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

Tears For Fears

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

Thalía

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

Tin Machine

Tindersticks

Toad

Timo Tolkki

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.

Tortoise

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

Toto

Tourniquet

Traffic

Trans Am

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

Trivium

Robin Trower

U

U2

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

U.K.

  • "Alaska" (UK, 1978)


V

Steve Vai

Steve Vai.

Ritchie Valens

  • "Fast Freight" and "Ritchie's Blues"[172] 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.[173]

Van Halen

Van Halen in 1976.

Eddie and Alex Van Halen

Vanden Plas

Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan

Venom

The Ventures

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

Tom Verlaine

"Sleepwalkin'"[174]

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

Vixen

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

W

The Wailers aka The Fabulous Wailers

  • "Tall Cool One", (1959), No. 36 US,[22] No. 24 R&B[23]

Tom Waits

Rick Wakeman

Joe Walsh

Warbringer

Warhorse

  • "Mouthpiece" (Red Sea, 1972)

Warlord

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

Roger Waters

Mike Watt

Paul Weller

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

Ween

White Heart

White Lion

James White

Whitecross

The Who

Widespread Panic

Mason Williams

Brian Wilson

Wire

Wishbone Ash

Within Temptation

Eric Woolfson

  • "Rumble" (1958), No. 16 US,[11] No. 11 R&B[12]
  • "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

Yes

Yes.

Yo La Tengo

Neil Young

Z

Frank Zappa

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.

The Zombies

ZZ Top

See also

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