Every Rock Top 20 Instrumental Song |
From the first regular weekly rock charts, here's every rock instrumental top 20 song since 1980. Not many rock artists made the top 20. Essentially, there were three big rock instrumentalists, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, and Gary Hoey. |
| Dec 1959 through Jun 1962 | Sep 1962 through Oct 1966 | Oct 1966 through Jun 1973 | Nov 1973 through present | Hit Rock Instrumentals |
Tune Timeline of Rock Instrumentals
| red # = rock chartblue # = pop chart |
| 1 | Run Like Hell | 8 | May 1980 |
| Pink Floyd |
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| 2 | Sirius | 19 | Sep 1982 |
| The Alan Parsons Project |
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| 3 | Satch Boogie | 7 | Mar 1988 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 4 | Surfing With The Alien | 19 | May 1988 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 5 | The Crush Of Love | 4 | Dec 1988 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 6 | Big Bad Moon | 11 | Nov 1989 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 7 | Cliffs Of Dover | 11 | Jan 1991 |
| Eric Johnson |
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| 8 | Righteous | 15 | Feb 1991 |
| Eric Johnson |
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| 9 | Trademark | 10 | May 1991 |
| Eric Johnson |
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| 10 | Little Wing | 11 | May 1992 |
| Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble |
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| 11 | Summer Song | 5 | Aug 1992 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 12 | Friends | 14 | Dec 1992 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 13 | Cryin' | 12 | Apr 1993 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 14 | Hocus Pocus | 4 | Oct 1993 |
| Gary Hoey |
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| 15 | All Alone | 20 | Nov 1993 |
| Joe Satriani |
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| 16 | Low Rider | 9 | Aug 1994 |
| Gary Hoey |
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| 17 | Theme From Mission: Impossible | 7 | 5 | Jun 1996 |
| Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen |
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| 18 | Porcelain | 11 | Sep 2000 |
| Moby |
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