Favorite Drum Sounds

[trashy]

But then, when you get into more rockin' songs, like "Holland, 1945" hooooooly CRAP.

Hoooooooly CRAP, indeed. I like the way he changes the snare pattern at the end of the phrases. That tape was slammed HARD on that track.

I think I get bored of suggesting Neutral Milk Hotel on this bored. I swear half of my posts are about that record. It is - by far - the best thing released in the last ten years...

[Theron D]

Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)......great drums especially "Third Uncle"


Theron D

[EarlSlick]

The Cars firast album has some great drums sounds. Also I really drum sounds on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, by Wilco. AS of lately i've really been obsessed with the drums sounds on Pulp's album, A Different Class.

[Kyle Motor]

I forgot about how great the drums (and everything else) sound on the first Cars album. That also reminds me of how great the drums (and everything else) sound on Get The Knack.

[bentonevolution]

Chad Sexton from 311 always has the SICKEST drum sounds to me. Everything is perfect. With a drummer like that, there's very little for an engineer to do except place microphones.

[Bear]

For some reason i find it hard to beleive that i am the ONLY ONE thus far to mention Neutral Milk Hotel's In The Aeroplane Over the Sea.

I mean, when you look at the drum sounds alone, you get nice, really weird sounding mellow sound on the song "In the Aeroplane over the sea"

But then, when you get into more rockin' songs, like "Holland, 1945" hooooooly CRAP.

On that same note, the way the drum hits sound at the end of "Ghost" on that album blows my mind EVER SINGLE TIME.

Combine that with the fact that Jeremy Barnes is just such a good drummer, and bingo. You got it.

I like nearly everything about that record. When I heard it in the tenth grade, I put in a bunch of extra hours for about a month, went and bought an acoustic guitar and have hardly played an electric since.

[cities]

off the top of my head

ringo in so so many songs, but especially "a day in the life" when he does those amazing fills in between john's vocal. and i love his playing on george's "wah-wah" (all things must pass) too. oh, and on "flying" (magical mystery tour) too...ok must stop with the ringo...

spoon's "lines in the suit" from girls can tell -- the most recent song to make me go "wow drums sound great on this"

the weird drum sounds all over camper van beethoven's key lime pie, with that sounds-kinda-eighties-except-really-dry thing going

pixies' surfer rosa of course (already mentioned many times), and by association breeders title TK (especially that first song where kim sings over the drums "round up holler girl!" -- so great)

kinks' "we are the village green preservation society"

stewart copeland all over ghost in the machine -- the arrangements on that album are so ridiculously overblown and heavy, but the whole thing manages to stay aloft in no small part because of the way stewart's drums cut through the mix and hold it all together.

i love the sound georgia gets out of her drums on just about every yo la tengo record in the past ten years

"goin' out west" on tom waits' bone machine -- is that brain playing? i can't remember...

[trashy]

spoon's "lines in the suit" from girls can tell -- the most recent song to make me go "wow drums sound great on this"

Oh yeah! I forgot about that one. The drum sounds on that album are a perfect primer for the use of compression.

[Brett Siler]

NEUROSIS- The Sun That Never Sets
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Bane- Give Blood

[Aeroplane Audio]

But then, when you get into more rockin' songs, like "Holland, 1945" hooooooly CRAP.

Hoooooooly CRAP, indeed. I like the way he changes the snare pattern at the end of the phrases. That tape was slammed HARD on that track.

I think I get bored of suggesting Neutral Milk Hotel on this bored. I swear half of my posts are about that record. It is - by far - the best thing released in the last ten years...

You and I are freinds by default then, you see.

That album is one of the very few that kicks my ass every single time i listen to it.

That album is why i was so nervous when i had a conversation with Robert Schneider about recording.

[Seej]

ringo in so so many songs, but especially "a day in the life" when he does those amazing fills in between john's vocal. and i love his playing on george's "wah-wah" (all things must pass) too. oh, and on "flying" (magical mystery tour) too...ok must stop with the ringo...

I dont think Ringo was on the ATMP album. I'm sure it was Alan White.

[theistheman]

InvalidInk-that rules, brah.

[gandhabba]

Ones that occurred to me reading this thread: Lenny White on Romantic Warrior and Billy Cobham on Quadrant 4 (for those really open ringy toms); Bill Stevenson on that blue Descendents record (ALL); the swish cymbal on the Weakerthans (Left and Leaving)...

[Isolation]

someone mentioned Tom Waits earlier, that made me think of the junk yard drum beats in 'Big In Japan'...that makes me love the song on top of the brilliant, ironic lyrics...

[Fuquan]

Another vote for NMH's aeroplane drum sound. In fact everything on that record comes together just about perfectly. I saw Jeremy Barnes play with Broadcast last year; damn fantastic drummer.

I also like the drums on "Rid of Me" and "Spiderland." Those left a particular impression on me. The drum sounds on GoF's "Entertainment" are just perfect for that album. And I alway's liked U2's drum sound when I was growing up (the Lillywhite produced stuff and unforgettable fire).

And...Jeff Lynne's drum sound. I like it despite the loads of crap he helped make.