10 Amazing Rock Songs With No Lyrics
8. Interstellar Overdrive - Pink Floyd
When it comes to Pink Floyd instrumentals, you're spoilt for choice. There's Atom Heart Mother's title track, One of These Days from the album Meddle, and then there's this beast of a song from the band's very first release.
The opening track on side two of Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Interstellar Overdrive helped establish the genre of space rock; a genre all about sound as alien as possible, usually over an elongated period of time. Case in point, Interstellar Overdrive is a whopping nine minutes 41 seconds long. And that's one of the shorter versions.
Sounding like the theme song to a sci-fi TV show produced by Lucifer, this song is a seemingly unconnected array of pounding drums, chugging guitars, and menacing synths. If you like your music to have a sense of rhythm, then this probably isn't for you, but if you like it to sound weird and put you slightly on edge, you're in luck.
Don't expect to hear this Pink Floyd number on any classic rock station any time soon.