Instrumental Music

[Gildan Bladeborn]

Spoiler: Escala - Requiem For a Tower

This song and Pallatio, and every song made by Two Steps from Hell, Immediate Music, X-Ray Dog, Audiomachine and most of the music by Akira Yamaoka have the best instrumental music one can heard. Apart from Classical music of course.

Yeah, Clint Mansell is a genius composer, and Escala's take on his theme is a bloody brilliant cover - twas a good day indeed when I came across their work.

 

[the Dept of Science]

I'm of the opinion that a good instrumental song is better than a bad song with lyrics and a good song with lyrics is better than a bad instrumental song. The genres of folk, rap and punk I see mainly as a vehicle for lyrics (although, they can be interesting musically as well). Whereas post-rock, heavy metal and jazz I listen to more for the instrumental side, and even when they do have lyrics, I consider the singing as more like another instrument, rather than listening to what they say. Most of my favourite bands manage to excel in both.

There is a problem that a very large amount of lyricists are pretty damn bad, in the classic rock and metal genres particularly, where they have very little idea of subtelty, humor or storytelling.

Spoiler: I know this is against the topic, but these are some people I can listen to just for the lyrics

 

[no oneder]

Instrumental music actually sounds the opposite of bad-ass. Good-ass? It's just music without any feeling or passion. And being here in The Escapist , I'm predicting accurately everyone'll mention some obscure instrumental metal band

So you're saying there is a requirement of vocals/lyrics for a song to be emotional?

This means you cant feel the notes or emotions within music.

No, 'mine' saying that I don't like it.