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Instrumental Stylings, 1995, an eclectic album that incorporated bits of his film scores. In fact, a couple of the album cuts were originally written for a 1991 muscle car documentary, Favorite Mopar, and a few others originally appeared in his score to the documentary Wild Girl's Go Go Rama. Sure enough, following the release of the album, he contributed the award-winning theme song to the television series Third Rock from the Sun, and much of the music from Instrumental Stylings was subsequently featured on the show. Vaughn went on to serve as music director for That '70s Show throughout it's 8 year run. Instrumental Stylings is not a soundtrack album, but it certainly tackles its fair share of instrumental touchstones. Vaughn shies away from no genre: bone-crunching surf, spaghetti western, drag-strip stompers, country-blues boogie, Italian soundtrack, breezy bossa nova, Tex-Mex cowboy ballads, noir Indian music, and numerous mix-and-match hybrids thereof. One of the most surprising aspects of the album is his ability to evoke a wildly eclectic array of sources and styles and create a palpable mood and atmosphere with each one using virtually the same basic instrumentation. The constants on the album are Vaughn's crazily reverbed guitar and rock-steady drumming. He also douses many of the songs with simplistic organ runs and a bevy of alien effects. Amazingly -- and it is a testament to his estimable skills -- Vaughn manages to make the album sound like a compilation of t
Aqua Blue
Ben Vaughn
Gumpstumper
Ben Vaughn
Enfermo
Ben Vaughn
Pipe Bomb
Ben Vaughn
Aldente
Ben Vaughn
Battery Acid
Ben Vaughn
Heaven Above
Ben Vaughn
Toestubber
Ben Vaughn
Snake Pit
Ben Vaughn
Dreadnaught
Ben Vaughn
Hydroplane
Ben Vaughn
Tarot Reader
Ben Vaughn
Descafeinado
Ben Vaughn
Constellation Drive
Ben Vaughn
Illusion
Ben Vaughn
Stretch Limo (Dean Ween)
Ben Vaughin