New Wave Instrumentals

[Murmur]

Hello, longtime lurker here,

I'm wondering if any of you know of any good New Wave (or not) instrumentals. I'm making a playlist on Rhapsody and these are some of the ones I have already:

[b]Simple Minds [/b] - Film Theme, Somebody Up There Likes You, Shake Off The Ghosts
[b]Love & Rockets[/b] - Saudade
[b]Duran Duran[/b] - Tiger Tiger
[b]The Smiths[/b] - Oscillate Wildly
[b]Kool and the Gang [/b](I know, now NW, but really good song) - Summer Madness

Do you guys have any suggestions for others, especially if they're dreamy sounding?

Thanks!

[spacecircus]

Here are a few:
New Order - Elegia
Simple Minds - E5 5
B-52's - Follow Your Bliss
Erasure - Piano Song

There are lots of songs that had instrumental b-sides. The following are some of my faves:
Dream Academy - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want
Erasure - Don't Say You Love Me
Tears for Fears - Woman in Chains
Hubert Kah - C'est La Vie
Level 42 - Lessons In Love

[plagiarism]

There's a couple of instrumentals on the Police's Zenyatta Mondatta album: "Behind My Camel" and "The Other Way of Stopping".

It's been a long time since I pulled out any Cocteau Twins albums, and I can't remember which songs, if any, are instrumentals. But in general, their music is dreamy. Elizabeth Fraser's vocals are so etherial that they should count as an instrument.

[Murmur]

Thank you for the suggestions! I had forgotten about [b]New Order[/b]'s Elegia - from their Lowlife album, isn't it?

I haven't listened to the Police in so long I forgot they had any instrumentals. I will check out all of these recommendations.

I agree that Liz Fraser's voice is almost an instrument. Cocteau Twins are one of my faves.

I also have a song on the playlist from [b]The Durutti Column[/b] called Otis which is an awesome song but it has a bit of vocals in it (I wish it didn't). Unfortunately Rhapsody only has a live version of Otis, but still, it's a good one.

Thanks! Any others?

[Berserker]

I thought this seemed familiar:

http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.as ... trumentals

http://www.nwoutpost.com/forum/topic.as ... trumentals

[Berserker]

In those other lists, I didn't see mentioned:

Visage - The Dancer
Gary Numan - I Nearly Married A Human, Airlane (there's more)
Midge Ure - Edo, The Chieftain (there's more here too)

[WolverineSyr]

One of my favorites is Siouxsie & the Banshee's Quarter Drawing of a Dog from the Tinderbox cd.

[Murmur]

Thanks again. Berserker, I looked through the three pages of threads to see if I could find this topic, but I didn't think to do a search. Next time I'll know. [:I]