I don't believe it! Haven't heard it though-- I'll check it out. Seems hard to top.

Zither-REM

There are just way too many that I like to even try and come up with a favorite.

Well, Saturnine proved that we can't see the forest for the trees.

Since you're mentioning R.E.M., krastian...

White Tornado
that little outro coda on Reckoning
New Orleans Symphony No. 1
Emphysema
Surfing The Ganges
2JN
165 Hillcrest (this is the address of John Keane's home studio in Athens right around the corner from Michael's Grady St. house)
Hastings and Main
Take Seven

Endgame (contains some la la las, so it's not an instrumental exactly...i'm mentioning it because it's so horrible actually.)

Ha....that is on the Daysleeper single, right? I bought that for like 2 bucks I think and I've listened to it probably once. I was pretty pissed it was not a track with vocals! I might have to dig that out.

anything black dice does
and sonic youth - stil

Mozart.

Most everything by Explosions in the Sky, Mono and Do Make Say Think.
Eno's 'Apollo' is great.
Mahler's 5th and Siegfrieds Funeral March by Wagner.
The Orb's first album and Lifeforms by FSOL
Life Jam by Terry Brooks & Strange
Any live version of Expressway to Yr Skull