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Instrumental Interlude
Friday, January 18th, 2002 07:21 pmThe intro to this entry is rather wordy. If you'd just like to see my Top N List, scroll down. On reflection, the post as a whole seems less valuable now than it did in my head before sitting down. At least it's not a "Which Instrumental Are You?" test.
For staff development purposes, I was recently asked to contribue a song which means something to me of less than six minutes to a CD. The CD will be played at our retreat and folks will guess who included what song. Of course, picking just one song out of even my 3100+ mp3s, to say nothing of the 150 or so CDs to my left, required lots of time and deep thought. Choosing one that's less than six minutes managed to make the choices much easier -- no Echoes, Alice's Resteraunt, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, The End, No Quarter, Stairway to Heaven, Pushit, Eulogy, Bleeding Me, ...
Although I finally selected Colcannon - Kilkelly (6:22, technically, but I included a shorter backup), instrumentals or songs with voice added merely for color make up a striking portion of the songs I considered, or wished I could have considered. Now, the vast majority of songs in my posession have words, and I fully adore a good many of these songs. However, many of them were unfit for consideration in this context. Some, excellent though they are, should be listened to in the context of their home album, to select them to stand on their own does a disservice to their excellence. Thus, most of the corpus of Pink Floyd is inellegible for this particular award. However, my mp3 list is chock full of neat songs that fill my mind on occasion, that I will seek out in a random playlist. Yet most of these songs don't seem strong enough to stand on their own, a statement of my aesthetics, side by side with the surprising selection of wordless tunes.
Thus, I present a list of stellar instrumental singles, in no particular order. If any of these pique your interest, contact me and I'll hook you up with an mp3.
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For staff development purposes, I was recently asked to contribue a song which means something to me of less than six minutes to a CD. The CD will be played at our retreat and folks will guess who included what song. Of course, picking just one song out of even my 3100+ mp3s, to say nothing of the 150 or so CDs to my left, required lots of time and deep thought. Choosing one that's less than six minutes managed to make the choices much easier -- no Echoes, Alice's Resteraunt, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, The End, No Quarter, Stairway to Heaven, Pushit, Eulogy, Bleeding Me, ...
Although I finally selected Colcannon - Kilkelly (6:22, technically, but I included a shorter backup), instrumentals or songs with voice added merely for color make up a striking portion of the songs I considered, or wished I could have considered. Now, the vast majority of songs in my posession have words, and I fully adore a good many of these songs. However, many of them were unfit for consideration in this context. Some, excellent though they are, should be listened to in the context of their home album, to select them to stand on their own does a disservice to their excellence. Thus, most of the corpus of Pink Floyd is inellegible for this particular award. However, my mp3 list is chock full of neat songs that fill my mind on occasion, that I will seek out in a random playlist. Yet most of these songs don't seem strong enough to stand on their own, a statement of my aesthetics, side by side with the surprising selection of wordless tunes.
Thus, I present a list of stellar instrumental singles, in no particular order. If any of these pique your interest, contact me and I'll hook you up with an mp3.
( Read more... )
