cool list & topic, dazedcola
i like everyone's selections
in addition to doing a spot-on cover of Interstellar Overdrive (much better than any other band), Camper Van Beethoven have many other original instrumentals that are really fine.
Border Ska, Yanqui Go Home, 9 of Disks, Payed Vacation: Greece, Vladivostock, Skinhead Stomp, Mao Reminisces About His Days in Southern China, Balalaika Gap, Abundance,
Turtlehead, 073003000, S.P. 37597, Cattle (Reversed), Eye Of Fatima (Pt. 2), L'Aguardiente, No Flies On Us, No Krugerrands For David, R'n'R Uzbekistan, The Fool, The Perfect Enigma Machine, The Poppies Of Balmorhea, Waka, ZZ Top Goes To Egypt
SYRs, Peter Gabriel's Passion, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts really doesn't have lyrics really, there's some rather soothing ones on the Twin Peaks soundtrack,
& there's so many Zappa instrumentals that I'll just mention Son of Mr. Green Genes from Hot Rats...