10 Amazing Rock Songs With No Lyrics

10. Misirlou - Dick Dale

During a concert by surf rock pioneer Dick Dale, a young fan made a bet with the guitar maestro that he couldn't play a song using just one string.

Dale remembered his Lebanese-American uncle playing a traditional Eastern Mediterranean folk song one day on an instrument called an oud, and quickly adapted the music for his guitar.

That song was Misirlou.

Though it had been around since the 1920s, Dale's 1962 version of Misirlou helped introduce it to Western audiences and it remains one of the most famous rock instrumentals of the period.

A much faster interpretation, Dale's track fit right in with the rock 'n' roll landscape and quickly became a hit. In 1994, its inclusion in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction ensured its place in cultural history.

No song from over 60 years ago should slap this hard, but this one is still as powerful and infectious today as it was back then. You can hear the very early days of heavy metal in Dale's overamplified guitar sounds, making this track one of the most influential in rock history.

Even if The Black Eyed Peas did their best to sully its name.