Best instrumental parts to songs?
 

Just wondering what some others pick as their favorite instrumental parts to songs.

A few of my favorites:

1. Intro to "Where the Streets Have No Name" by U2.
2. Closing instrumental in "Tunnel of Love" by Dire Straits
3. Instrumental/sax solo on "Jungleland" by Springsteen

any other choices?

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Guitar solo in Freebird obv.

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Guitar solo in Freebird obv.

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Molly Hatchet, Dreams I'll Never See (bridge and coda)

Lou Reed, Intro/Sweet Jane (intro)

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1812 Overture after a few minutes (there's some chanting in the beginning).

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piano in layla

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intro to curtis mayfield's trippin out.

oh wait, camp lo already thought it was there favorite and sampled it for luchini.

the intro strings to Marlena Shaw's Califonira Soul.

premier sampled that one.

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Pink Floyd - guitar solos in Comfortably Numb
Steve Miller Band - The guitar in Jungle Love
Ides Of March - Horns - Vehicle
Chicago - Just about any horn part
Tower of Power - Just about any horn part!

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Rush, Intro to "trees" and La Villa Stangiata

any Randy Rhodes Solo

any anthing by Chet Atkins (see album by him and Mark Knopfler - totally blown away)

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Not the original, but...

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Opening sweet child of mine by guns n roses...

Piano solo by Page in Squirming Coil...

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terry kath's solo in 25 or 6 to 4

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I also agree with the Pulp Fiction selections but anoth one I like is
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QFT - see also Vinnie Moore instrumental version..

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I like when the big horn comes in on David Bowie's Major Tom song.

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The horn section in Björk's "I Miss You"

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Drums in Darkness Surrounding- Avenged Sevenfold
Guitars- Pretty much every Avenged or Dragonforce song. If you wanna challenge your friends to an impossible guitar hero quest, look no further. (although Freebird is up there too)

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The entire middle of Easy Money by King Crimson.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=uI1tyxyWp9Y

The first 5 minutes of Floyd's Shine on You Crazy Diamond

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vyqgjCKm9nQ

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My first thought when reading this thread was the guitar break towards the end of "Courage" by Tragically Hip. It is decidedly understated, but fits the song so well, it's my favorite part of the song. It starts at ~3:10 of the video:

Courage

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The entire middle of Easy Money by King Crimson.


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King Crimson! After getting this brain nudge, I have to say the sax/guitar/bass/drum instrumental in "21st Century Schizoid Man" is crazy good. I listen to this and wonder how many takes it took to get it on tape.

It starts at 4:38 and goes to 5:25. Give it a listen if you've never heard it, it's incredible.
21st Century Schizoid Man

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The dual guitar harmony section in the middle of 'Orion' by Metallica. Gives me Goosebumps every time I hear it.

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The middle part of 'My Sharona' by The Knack, and the guitar solo at the end of 'Dani California' by RHCP.

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Ginger Baker Drum Solo

Blind Faith

"Do What You Like"

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piano solo in scenes from an italian restaurant.

seconded on jungleland.

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Intro (piano, then guitar) to Springsteen's New York City Serenade

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The intro to "Time" by Pink Floyd has always been my favorite.
Many of the intros to Ozzy Ozbourne.
80s music is like the king decade for music intros. So many good ones at from that time.

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Guitar solo in Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin.

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The first 30 seconds - one fifth of the song - of Little Wing, by Jimi Hendrix
The intro to Gimme Shelter, by The Rolling Stones
The intro to 2000 Light Years from Home, by The Rolling Stones (especially the live version from the 1990 Madrid concert)
The intro to the Nina Simone version of Summertime
The interlude in Sinnerman, by Nina Simone
The intro to Locomotive Breath, by Jethro Tull (especially live, they do it several ways)
The intro to Money for Nothing, by Dire Straits
The Brian Eno/Phillip Glass/David Bowie version of Heroes
The intro to the extended version of Papa was a Rolling Stone, by The Temptations
Half a dozen Nine Inch Nails songs, like La Mer, Memorabilia, Slipping Away, or Ripe (With Decay)

Does the chanting in O Fortuna make the rest of it count as the instrumental part or a song?

Award for best riff: shared by Rocky Mountain Way, by Joe Walsh, Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin, and No One Knows, by Queens of the Stone Age

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The last five or six minutes of Dire Straits' Telegraph Road are as perfect as rock and roll gets.

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Opening for "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC is amazing, gets me pumped everytime.

I also love the opening for "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by the Rolling Stones.

Free Bird solo obv

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lol, I actually can't stand the Freebird solo. Love the song, and then I always change the station when that solo comes on (the one at the end I mean, the repetetive one that has no variation, not the guitar work earlier in the song, which I think is brilliant)

I'd definitly agree with the coda of Derek and the Dominoes' Layla, thats what I first thought of.

And also agree with whoever said the piano solo (I'd add in the clarinet solo) in Scenes from an Italian restaurant, by Billy Joel.

And,

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gqv_UNZVAmQ

Root Beer Rag, an intstumental by Billy Joel.

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King Crimson! After getting this brain nudge, I have to say the sax/guitar/bass/drum instrumental in "21st Century Schizoid Man" is crazy good. I listen to this and wonder how many takes it took to get it on tape.

It starts at 4:38 and goes to 5:25. Give it a listen if you've never heard it, it's incredible.
21st Century Schizoid Man



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Thanks! Love the song, but it's been quite a while since I've heard it, great stuff.

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Requim for a dream
Most music composed(sp) by Hans Zimmer
Jan Hammer - Crockett`s theme

Instrumental parts of:
Dire straits - Brothers in arms
Animal - The house of the rising sun


Intro of:
Survivor - Eye of the tiger
Phil Collins - In the air tonight
Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of glory
Guns N` Roses - November rain (+slash solo)
Metallica - One
Metallica - Nothing else matters

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The middle of "Fool in the Rain" by Zeppelin.

Also towards the end of "When the Levee breaks" by Zeppelin when it's just a big hodgepodge of music to get lost in.

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keyboards- Deep Purple - Lazy

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Oh and Alvin Lee- Ten Years After- I'm Going Home- Woodstock.

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The first thing that came to my mind was the part about 2/3 through "Light My Fire" by The Doors.

I also really like the intro of Elliott Smith's "Shooting Star." It sounds so chaotic, yet every note fits perfectly.

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and the guitar solo at the end of 'Dani California' by RHCP

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Frusciante also has an awesome guitar solo near the end of "Otherside".

Also, if we're talking purely instrumental tracks, I vote for "Going Home" (Local Hero theme) by Mark Knopfler, and "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams.

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The first 3 movements of beethoven's 9th FTW

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I am a sucker for the Layla instrumental by Derek and the Dominos, but that's likely because it brought together a perfect scene in a great movie.

A personal fav that never gets any love is the guitar finale to Soulshine by The Allman Brothers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3WuSBo-lIE
This song is full of great guitar work by two of the best of all time. Main guitar solo starts at 4:40, and the 2nd guitar joins at 5:30 where it really takes off.

And Tom Morello has too many good instrumentals to list, but one of his best is from Audioslave's "Doesn't Remind Me":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOMSB7s15C8
Starts at 2:55.

If you are a Pearl Jam fan, you have to love Mike McCready's guitar solo in Yellow Ledbetter.

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break/bass solo from 'The Chain' Fleetwood Mac, 3:04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csatmi34YEk

guitar solo, 'Comfortably Numb' - Pink Floyd 2:05 to 2:40 especially 4:31 to ending http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY

really love the music to 'Soul to Squeeze' by RHCP check the intro and solo at 2:37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJeWhtpVek

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I don't think guitar solos should count here since they are a different subject altogether, but I have always thought the outro to Boston's Peace of Mind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaR2JeqxQDY was a masterpiece of multiple guitar harmonizing. It still gives me goose bumps if I haven't heard it in a while.

Funeral for a Friend (kind of the intro to Love Lies Bleeding), by Elton John is also killer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GYI6XJH9Ss