Pulled together during a jam session featuring guitarist Steve Cropper, bassist Lewis Steinberg, drummer Al Jackson Jr. and organist Booker T. Jones, who was 17 when he came up with the riff, "Green Onions" is one of the greatest instrumentals of all time. 47. Motorhead, "Ace of Spades"...
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it is one of the most recognizable instrumentals of all time. Summer Madness only reached #35 on the charts, but when it was sampled to produce one of the biggest summertime anthems on the planet. In addition, the song has become one of the most sampled R&B singles of all time...
(Perhaps it’s no surprise that the band spent the entire film shoot in a permanent pot haze.) The American release of the album swapped out the UK version’s seven non-soundtrack songs for instrumentals featured in the film, but it’s the UK release that has become the canonical one,...
Hüsker Dü generally made their point and moved on fast, so this 14-minute instrumental was a real anomaly. It’s also one of the most intense guitar instrumentals we’ve ever heard, with Mould layering heavy, searing sounds that rampage through the subconscious. It ends the only way it ...
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B and Soul genres, featuring artists like The Temptations, Three Dog Night, Aretha Franklin, and many others. It managed to reach a peak rank 17 on the Billboard 200 upon release. Ultimately a deluxe edition came out featuring 16 of the 18 songs used in the film plus three instrumentals....
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Fela Kuti’s iconic songs of the 1970s and 1980s are sprawling orchestral instrumentals, an innovative swirl of African highlife, American soul, and jazz. Through his music, he shared an anti-colonialist, Pan-African vision and challenged Nigeria’s corrupt military government, which routinely su...