I'll be honest I adore instrumentals but I'm not keen on backing tracks, especially of Motown stuff, particularly when played out. Anyone agree, or beg to differ?

I'm also a big fan of instrumentals , backing tracks or made as instrumentals.

These are some great examples of backing track instrumentals

Duke Browner- Crying Over You

Luther Ingram - Exus Trek

Donni Burdick- Bari Track

From the Motown releases any early Supremes tracks with Diana Ross removed sound great.

I only like purpose made instrumentals,not so keen on a simple backing track with the vocal removed,equally I prefer i few instrumentals as opposed to the vocal…exus trek…the Patrick Bradley….tough girl

4 hours ago, Rick Cooper said:

I'm also a big fan of instrumentals , backing tracks or made as instrumentals.

These are some great examples of backing track instrumentals

Duke Browner- Crying Over You

Luther Ingram - Exus Trek

Donni Burdick- Bari Track

From the Motown releases any early Supremes tracks with Diana Ross removed sound great.

Not a fan of browner either way, but it certainly had it's place the other two are definitely exceptions to my rule! 😁

They should have left " Festival Time" as an instrumental, the vocal hurts my ears.

12 hours ago, Shinehead said:

They should have left " Festival Time" as an instrumental, the vocal hurts my ears.

Laura Lee does a good job on To Win Your Heart but it sounds like the vocal was just hastily made up to get another release. Ric-Tic/Golden World seemed to do this on a few other tracks, probably due to the way they and others recorded backing tracks with no vocalist and then added the lyrics later. Motown did this a lot but usually left space for the words so the instrumentals can be a bit sparse.

Another vocal that I've never liked is Ronnie and Robyn- As Long As You Love Me, much prefer the backing track , Sidra's Theme. It sounds like it was always meant to be an instrumental until Sidra's co owner decided his children cut a vocal version.

Ede Robin x Soul Symphony, the latter every time , vocal sounds made to fit , was and still is a great instrumental.

5 hours ago, Rick Cooper said:

Laura Lee does a good job on To Win Your Heart but it sounds like the vocal was just hastily made up to get another release. Ric-Tic/Golden World seemed to do this on a few other tracks, probably due to the way they and others recorded backing tracks with no vocalist and then added the lyrics later. Motown did this a lot but usually left space for the words so the instrumentals can be a bit sparse.

Another vocal that I've never liked is Ronnie and Robyn- As Long As You Love Me, much prefer the backing track , Sidra's Theme. It sounds like it was always meant to be an instrumental until Sidra's co owner decided his children cut a vocal version.

Agree with sidra's and liberty on BASF, vocal is dire.