Songs you wish were instrumental but never were

[howerd]

'Close To The Edge' lyrics by Jon Anderson simply because they're such a load of bollocks! Look:

A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace,
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace,
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar,
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour

etc. etc. etc...

Originally Posted by Jason-X

Umm, not sure why. It's a good one and Des'ree's Voice isn't bad at all "IMO"

Des'ree has a beautiful voice. I have an ulterior motive for wanting instrumentals of these. I actually DJ and produce beats part time and I'd like to sample these songs with no vocals.

[AmateurEmale]

I have a friend who hates Metallica and claims that they are "possibly the worst band ever" because he dislikes James Hetfield's vocals. I feel this way about Rage Against The Machine, who have a talented guitarist but an annoying Mexican singer.

What would happen if Rage Against The Machine covered one song that had nothing to do with politics, such as traditional Mexican folk music, instead of "People Of The Sun" and other leftism-infused songs about hating capitalism and/or Getting Whitey? Seriously, if Zack played one instrument and Tom did the guitarisma with his instrument, they might be a decent band. My friend thought this about Metallica, when I posted online a YouTube video of Metallica's song "Orion", which is instrumental and about the Greek legend.

But the most obvious candidate for an instrumental song is far and away "You're Gonna Break My Heart Again" by Whitesnake. It is a song that does not appear on American pressings of their CDs in the '80s or early '90s; only in Europe did people hear it then. But it was on their 1994 Whitesnake's Greatest Hits CD, and I have a Canadian version in which it sounds epically great. If David Coverdale was not singing on this track, it would sound like thrash metal, because it's easily the heaviest song Whitesnake ever did. With Dave's lyrics about "Now it's an eye for an eye / I'm gonna get exactly what's coming to me" it might be interpreted as violent against a woman who has broken your heart.

It would sound great in a video game soundtrack, or equally as good in a mosh pit!