I noticed that some people were talking about instrumentals, so I thought I’d share my thoughts. First of all, instrumentals have kind of been a totally regular thing for me (band geek since 5th grade, orchestra/jazz band in between). Obviously, the large amounts of classical music that I play and hear are, with very few exceptions, instrumentals. Even when going into the area of rock/soul/progressive, I still feel that instrumentals can be very powerful. “Jessica” by The Allman Brothers is truly an epic song, and it would be hard to argue against that. Look at The Who’s masterpiece “Tommy,” and listen to the “Overture” and “Underture” songs, and tell me that those don’t convey all of the feelings of the album. But, maybe that’s just me, I do admittedly have a bias toward instrumentation as opposed to vocalization.
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