Best instrumental parts to songs?

[Dominic]

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

[TheCroShow]

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

[Taso]

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.

[Runkmud]

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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.

[Pyromaniac]

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

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and the extended outro on this track, too.

[Al6Jets18]

Allman Brothers, In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed
13 minutes of instrumental bliss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3DTcQrkNaU
only an 8 minute video, but amazing nonetheless

[Magisastar]

Nirvana- Aneurysm. Every time I hear this, I wish the whole thing was an instrumental. The lyrics part is awesome too, but the punk guitars and drums at the start is just ridiculous.

[Hollywade]

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

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Yeah, that song is awesome. I've seen them in concert twice, and the intro to that song has always amazed me. I have no idea how somebody could play that. If you can listen to that intro and not get jacked, you might not be human.

The more of these I read make me realize that I usually favor the intro of songs over the solos near the end.

Somebody said One, which is a great intro. Another one by Metallica is Fade to Black. Also, Hero of the Day.

I identify songs a lot more by the way they begin than by their signature solos in the middle or near the end.

[prohornblower]

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

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Yeah, that song is awesome. I've seen them in concert twice, and the intro to that song has always amazed me. I have no idea how somebody could play that.

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lol, so far you've been amazed at the difficulty of the intro to Sweet Child O' Mine, and Thunderstruck. Both of these are easy to play. I can play both and I can't play sh*t on guitar. They sound difficult but are not.

Then there's sstuff that sounds easy to play and you go to look at the tab and it's like "Yeah, I don't have 8 fingers...not playing that one." [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Number7]

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