What are your 3 favorite instrumental songs?

● Time - Pink Floyd

●Journey to the Centre of the Earth - Rick Wakeman

●War of the Worlds - Jeff Lloyd

Def Leppard- "Switch 625"

Joe Satriani- "The Forgotten" (Part Two)

Dokken- "Mr. Scary"

No such thing as an "instrumental song"! Songs require singing!

Silver Wheels by Heart

Hawaii Five O by the Ventures

Sing Sing Sing by Benny Goodman

I'm a big fan of the genre, so I can't name just three. But I will name the three from my early childhood and early teens that cemented my love for songs that were all about the music and had no lyrics.

1. Walk, Don't Run - The Ventures, 1960

2. Love Is Blue - Paul Mauriat and his Orchestra, 1967

3. Classical Gas - Mason Williams, 1968

These days, I listen to my Pandora stations for Focus (Dutch progressive rock 1970s) and The Hellecasters and have been exposed to a tremendous variety of excellent instrumental work, heavy on guitar - and from that Hellecasters station, I've been exposed to the new wave of surf rock that was ignited the first time I heard Walk, Don't Run when I was five years old.

I'll still go to my old files for those first three and listen to them, along with Dave Brubek's 'Take Five' and Paul Desmond's legendary sax solo.

Bron-yr-Aur - Led Zeppelin

Walk Don’t Run - The Ventures

Hoedown - Emerson, Lake, and Palmer

"The Call of Ktulu" - Metallica

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1RTgznup5c

"YYZ" - Rush

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I

"Cliffs of Dover" - Eric Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRn3Zlw3Rw

Long Distance Calling - The Metulsky Curse Revisited

Finch - Reconciling

Canvas Solaris - The Horizon Feasts On Stars

https://youtu.be/XoRlDjnH3-M

https://youtu.be/W2Yhtqy4-Z8

https://youtu.be/IuVAmh5pRTE

Danger Zone by Nash The Slash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcFndgK83Hg

For Stuart by Bill Nelson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzRmamOGWvE

Ship Ahoy by Frank Zappa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lhrhxus2vM

"Green Onions" by Booker T and the MGs (1962)

"Rumble" by Link Wray (mid 1950s)

"Wipe Out" by The Surfaris (1962-1963)

My runner up is "Summer Samba" by Walter Wanderley (1966)