Tournament of Instrumentals (r1): 13 vs 14 + 15 vs 16

Vote for your FAVOURITE instrumental song: 1 vote per battle

  • Total voters
    16
  • Poll closed .
Wuthering Heights: I don't mind speed or aggression, but that (like any number of bands/tracks), to me, seemed unnecessarily fast i.e. joke fast.
Al Dimeola: He's a great guitarist, but I don't find this track particularly interesting. Got better/interesting towards the end.
Vote goes with Al DiMeola (#14).
Difficult to Cure: I'm not sure if it really works (the whole Beethoven thing); the main riff just sounds comical. The improvised parts are good though.
Ktulu: Great track, the best of the four. Doesn't even seem to drag at 8 minutes. The lead work could have been better. Mustaine's songwriting is still pretty easy to hear.
Vote goes with Metallica (#16).
 
Wuthering Heights really takes speed a little too far. There's no feel to the guitar shredding but the short drum intro is very good so it gets my vote.
 
Easily the best group of songs so far. Too bad a couple of these songs will be gone so early.

The Hobbit piece is terrific. Love the Michael Schenker influence in the back half.
Really like the DiMeola too, all kinds of interesting parts and great playing.
But I'll go with Wuthering Heights because its more in my wheelhouse.

I find Difficult to Cure great fun — not campy at all and Blackmore is such a great player.
I was tempted to vote for it because it is getting swamped.
But Cthulu is a contender to win this whole thing.
 
No problem with it winning (if that happens) the match-up, but I'm genuinely surprised at the Wuthering Heights love. Do you guys not feel that it would have sounded far, far better played slower?
 
13 is cool and made me look up the band and say, "I'd listen to their other stuff." 14 is amazingly performed, but so good it's boring, ya know?

15 was...a song...and 16 was F***ING Ktulu!!!! So, easy choice.
 
Al's disco beat in the middle cinched my vote for Wuthering Heights.

MrKnickerbocker said:
15 was...a song...
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Only the most famous melody in the history of Western civilization.

Unfair putting up a good Blackmore instrumental (as opposed some of the uninspired fodder in prior rounds) against the Ktulu juggernaut.
 
You got another thing coming. More juggernauts and more songs you might find good and others fodder and vice versa.

Wow, on a forum with so much antipathy towards power metal, we got 8 votes for a song that is not unrepresentative for the power metal genre. I really don't see what's so different from many other power metal songs. Perhaps the lack of vocals. :--) As if people enjoy power metal more than they've said in the past!
 
The lack of vocals does have an effect, but I think it's mostly because it's going up against a jazz fusion song. 15 would probably beat it if they matched up.
 
Cornfed Hick said:
Only the most famous melody in the history of Western civilization.
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Yeah, but I'm not voting against Beethoven, I'm voting against what Blackmore did to his piece. Using that melody as the basis for a guitar and keyboard solo does not make it better than Call of Ktulu just because it started as a Beethoven piece.
 
Forostar said:
You got another thing coming. More juggernauts and more songs you might find good and others fodder and vice versa.

Wow, on a forum with so much antipathy towards power metal, we got 8 votes for a song that is not unrepresentative for the power metal genre. I really don't see what's so different from many other power metal songs. Perhaps the lack of vocals. :--) As if people enjoy power metal more than they've said in the past!
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So that's Power Metal is it? Interesting.
 
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