Mine is Powerhouse, by Raymond Scott

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEuwAh3LFvM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHgNqbdBKs

Hard to pick just one...there's so many! This is just one of my faves...

After The Fire - 1980-F

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QREd5C2dXM


Yes, that's the same guys that covered Falco's "Der Kommissar".

Music For A Found Harmonium

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJg1NNyke2E

Red River Rock - Silcone Teens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2omjfzYNDfQ

March Of The Swivel Heads - English Beats

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQFTAFLBdi4&feature=related

Love is blue - Paul Moriat

I also like this one, too....


Please please please let me get what i want - The Dream Academy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17ysGqMocbw&feature=related

Orbital - Halcyon and On and On

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioeutEu1_8s&feature=related

Mutiny On The Bounty by Vangelis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWt0uBN1OYA&feature=related

The Untouchables Theme (Ennio Morricone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r7VXr40fuQ

and finally....

Buckaroo Banzai-End Credits Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MviY4Gl08jc

Alot of good choices.

My all time favourite is that 1975 classic 'The Homecoming' by Hagood Hardy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3-2MVonQqY



Other faves:


William Orbit - Pavane Pour Infante Defunte <Ferry Corsten Remix> (2000)
Alot of people got duped by this one.  The single version, the one that became the hit was the Ferry Corsten remix.  The version that appeared on William's album 'Pieces in A Modern Style' was a strictly classical rendition without the techno beat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jy4pkpC1F-s


Theme for 'Super Password' (1984-1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3-lDcmeQbU


Dario G - Carnaval De Paris (1998)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sohy-MJa6S0


Theme for 'The New Hollywood Squares' (1986-1989)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKH8dfVQb5Q

My top 2 -

Love's Theme - Love Unlimited Orchestra
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaMzjJ7slJg

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Hmmm... I wonder. :-\\

Dick Dale and The Del-Tones - Misirlou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8

I've got shedloads of favourites, but if I've gotta pick one, it'd be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lrRd71Jis&feature=related

...simply because it sounded delightfully weird then and now!



(Sadly, it appears to be a favourite of Margaret Thatcher's as well, which personally lets it down a bit for me!  :-\\)

I've got shedloads of favourites, but if I've gotta pick one, it'd be...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lrRd71Jis&feature=related

...simply because it sounded delightfully weird then and now!



I share your sentiments. Often imitated, never recreated. Good old Joe Meek...whatever was his secret? (Not so sure about the "good" though, come to think of it..)

Good old Joe Meek...whatever was his secret?

Plenty of producers/engineers have asked this question then and now...

Amazing to think that this track (along with many others) was recorded not in a studio (as such), but above a shop!

(Not so sure about the "good" though, come to think of it..)


Certainly a troubled, tormented individual...

Rockit--Herbie Hancock.

Love that song.

And of course, the Miami Vice theme song!  ;D

Not sure about my all-time fave... probably among them are "Dragon Blade" from Kozo Nakamura, Power Quest's "Distant Lands", Sonata Arctica's "Revontulet" and "Draw Me", and the piano instrumental opening theme from Final Fantasy X. Here's Dragon Blade on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axK7PZFkdZA

"When you're younger, you can eat what you like, drink what you like, and still climb into your 26-inch waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age... 24, 25... your muscles give up, they wave a little white flag, and without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard."
  - Arnold Rimmer, Red Dwarf, "Body Swap" (Season 3, Episode 4)

...as sampled in Carter USM's Surfin' USM, from 1991's 30 Something. 

Obligatory "Cool Story, Bro" Content:
I don't condone putting your foot to the floor until you're doing ~mumble~ miles per hour on public roads, even when there's no traffic for miles in either direction.  But if this track were to come up on the shuffle, I would certainly understand it.

Obligatory Sampler Content:
Yes, that's also David Bowie's "Aaw, wham, bam, thank you, ma'am!" from Suffragette City making an already surreal track even more weird.

Obligatory Misheard Lyric:
The crowd is actually chanting "You fat bastard!  You fat bastard!", not "USM!  USM!".  (I just found out tonight I'd been mishearing it for 18 years!  If you've forgotten, try googling the name of the band, the name of the track, the name of the album, and "Box Set Go".  You might like what you find.

For all of these reasons, I humbly submit Carter USM's Surfin' USM as not merely my favorite instrumental of all time, but as the best opening track on any album of all time.

Plenty of producers/engineers have asked this question then and now...

Amazing to think that this track (along with many others) was recorded not in a studio (as such), but above a shop!

Allegedly in the bathroom.

All the instrumental stuff I like comes from video games. I also love alot of different ones, so I have a problem with picking one out of them. So I'll post one that pops into my head at the moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8TtY7xAvuM

Dragon Quest/Warrior 3: Heavenly Flight.

"Repent Walpurgis" by Procol Harum (It's like "A Whiter Shade of Pale", but Darker)....
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"The Voyage" by The Moody Blues (Part of the Segment of "Have you Heard")....
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"Momma Miss America" by Paul McCartney....
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"Let's Go Away For Awhile" by The Beach Boys....
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And as of now..."The Horse" by Cliff Nobles....
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They're will be more to come....

Love theme from St. Elmo's Fire - David Foster

Top 3:

1. Sandstorm - Darude
2. Aftermath - Ed To Shred
3. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson

Top 3:

1. Sandstorm - Darude
2. Aftermath - Ed To Shred
3. Cliffs of Dover - Eric Johnson



Don't know the second one, but 1 and 3 are EPIC INCARNATE!

Don't know the second one, but 1 and 3 are EPIC INCARNATE!


Ed to Shred is my favorite guitarist of all time. I urge you to look 'Ed to Shred Aftermath' up on Youtube, but only when your connection is fast enough to hear the whole song. You have to hear the whole thing to truly love it.

I'm going to the library tomorrow. I'll use keepvid.com to download it.

Love theme from St. Elmo's Fire - David Foster

I agree!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsOL_nYTmA4

MFSB - TSOP (Soul Train Theme)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NgxIsp4hfg

MFSB - K-Jee (from Saturday Night Fever soundtrack)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klIMIyZrkyw

Billy Preston - Outa-Space


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIMnZqa_XR8

Kool & The Gang - Summer Madness


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4nZCnXhxaQ

Allman Brothers - High Falls


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF_irDJUdGI

Ramsey Lewis - Sun Goddess


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5FRpEo1v8

Maynard Ferguson - Gonna Fly Now (from the movie Rocky)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIp5aqa7rXU

Electric Light Orchestra - Fire On High (CBS Sports Spectacular theme song)


Stanley Clarke - Rock 'N' Roll Jelly

http://www.last.fm/music/Stanley+Clarke/_/Rock+%27N%27+Roll+Jelly


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OoihTVlcUY

Focus - Hocus Pocus


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjNrO4OXJPE

Doobie Brothers - Flying Cloud (song starts at 4:20)


Ted Nugent - Homebound

http://www.imeem.com/artists/ted_nugent/music/52qKhtZt/ted-nugent-homebound/



Dan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5FRpEo1v8

Maynard Ferguson - Gonna Fly Now (from the movie Rocky)


I am surprised to see this one mentioned.  Usually, it's the Bill Conti original that gets the recognition.  Maynard Ferguson was from Canada and his version to this day, still somewhat gets lost in the shuffle. 

A Taste of Honey - Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aeQxKdphPc#

Fanfare For the Common Man
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xzf0rvQa4Mc#

Classical Gas - Mason Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeHgNqbdBKs&feature=related#

And yes I am old ;D

I like a lot of the instrumentals here (Rockit, Axel F...) and even the old bagpipe classic 'Scotch on the Rocks' (memories of my grandad indeed) but the song that captivates me is the little known 'Garden Party' by Mezzoforte. It has such an exuberance to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmSDTutGyIw

^ I have the album that one is from and indeed it is a great song. 

As a few people already mentioned: Classical Gas.

Also:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrWQdQmJU7I


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeXyAjj_h2o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZeA0PbjcdI



Cat

Albatross  Fleetwood Mac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHKLQ5IUzi0

I would say this is my number one all time Favorite.  I cannot turn it off, and I close my eyes and when it is on.

Cast Your Fate to the Wind- Sounds Orchestral

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMSPRyfKHKc&feature=related

Soul Serenade - King Curtis

The youtube version doesn't do it justice.  To get an idea go to ITunes.  It is spectacular.

A few more.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmDDOFXSgAs


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpBqcrZ9LQ



Cat

Hi my beyond seas friends !! the Spanish old salt is back to "inthe00s" after a too long time at the sea-bottom.

Sorry, for being out so long,

This is one of my choices, a special guitar playing a very performed composition, I hope you love it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxwceLlaODM&feature=related


And....I'm glad to be here again ;)

Hi my beyond seas friends !! the Spanish old salt is back to "inthe00s" after a too long time at the sea-bottom.

Sorry, for being out so long,

This is one of my choices, a special guitar playing a very performed composition, I hope you love it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxwceLlaODM&feature=related


And....I'm glad to be here again ;)



That is beautiful. And welcome back.



Cat

One of the most aptly titled instrumental songs ever was 'The Happy Song' by Frank Mills from 1981.  It was an A/C hit in both Canada and the United States.  No idea why this person set the music to a video of a toy baby doll lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLeP_lsOr8


Frank Mills' final chart appearance in the US Hot 100 was the wonderful 'Peter Piper' in 1979 which just missed the US Top 40 in early 1980.  It's always been my favourite over 'Music Box Dancer'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oczeE1wJ-8

Some of my faves:

Young-Holt Unlimited - "Soulful Strut"

Bobby Konders - "Nervous Acid"

Moby - "The Rain Falls And The Sky Shutters"

A few of my favorites (but not nearly all of them):

War - City, Country, City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqB1oqP8smg

John Coltrane - Equinox
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2HN2y0yV8

DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmzHRGoKca0

A few more.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McpBqcrZ9LQ



Cat


Vince Guaraldi is the same guy who did my pick  "Cast Your Fate to the Wind"  I found this out only recently even though I loved the song for decades.  Once it was said, though, it is pretty obvious. 

One of the most aptly titled instrumental songs ever was 'The Happy Song' by Frank Mills from 1981.  It was an A/C hit in both Canada and the United States.  No idea why this person set the music to a video of a toy baby doll lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSLeP_lsOr8


Frank Mills' final chart appearance in the US Hot 100 was the wonderful 'Peter Piper' in 1979 which just missed the US Top 40 in early 1980.  It's always been my favourite over 'Music Box Dancer'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oczeE1wJ-8


Yes, the baby doll thing is a little unsettling, lol.

I love both pieces, Jason and do like his famous Music Box Dancer (I think people know this song in the UK but only through adverts). Peter Piper is definitely the best - excellent.