Favorite Drum Sounds

[Bear]

Alrighty. Let's here 'em. What drums sounds, from a kit, make you gyrate whenever you hear them?

Some of my favorites are:

The Flaming Lips - Slow Nerve Action. I've always loved these drums. So big and ugly and beautiful and busted. The Lips have boatloads of good drum sounds, and this is just one among many, but hey.

Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover. Everytime I hear these drums, I feel really incompetent and ugly. They're just such a good sound. Dammit.

Rachel's - Water from the same source. I love these drums. Love 'em. Not a flashy sound, just an awesome one.

There're many more, but I wanna hear what other people think about this. Nacho squad.

[djgout]

i've said it before and i will again and again and again.

ISIS-OCEANIC....rock, rock on.

justin

[jca83]

john vanderslice's cymbal loops during the breakdown of "up above the sea", second track on his new record. totally insane.

more, i'm sure. but i froget.

[dustdude]

Some drums sounds I like:

ZZ-Top, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Cypress Hill (sampled drums), KISS, R.L. Burnside (played by his grandson Cedric), Beck, Ventures, and many more....

[darnell]

Costello- My Aim Is True.

[Isolation]

Ministry's version of Bob Dylan's 'Lay Lady Lay'...and pretty much any drumbeat that Ministry uses...

[Winslow Leech]

Abbey Road and Watching the Detectives.

[colinandrew12]

---nirvana-in utero / pixies-surfer rosa.....classic albini
---weezer - pinkerton
---pretty much anything the alkaline trio has recorded with matt allison
-- the "bonham sound"

[Shawn Simmons]

"She Said, She Said", "Dear Prudence" - Beatles
"Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Marvin Gaye
"Dear Deadly" - Creeper Lagoon EP (not the album version)

The other obvious ones like Zeppelin, Radiohead, Lips, anything Dave Fridman works on usually has killer drum sounds. A lot of Motown stuff is amazing, Muscle Shoals, Keltner, Chamberlain, Brady Blade, they all rule.

shawn

[evan]

Sergio Mendes' Foursider. The toms slamming the tape on their cover of "Mais Que Nada" gives me shivers.

[Rodgre]

My first memory of a favorite drum sound (as in "I HAVE to figure out how to get drums to sound like that!!!") was back in 1988 in a song called "Open Mind" by the Canadian industrial band Moev. They're certainly samples, but what a killer drum sound.

I love the snare in "Penny Lane"

There are many obvious ones that I'm sure will be mentioned a million times (Flaming Lips, John Bonham, Keith Moon)

When I hear the Soft Bulletin-era Lips drum sound, I love it, but it sounds like Led Zeppelin to me. Am I the only one who hears Yes and Led Zeppelin in that record?

The combo conga/snare sound on Marvin Gaye's What's Going On record.

Anything on Buddy Miller's records either solo or with his wife Julie.

I second the Elvis Costello mentions. "Clubland" and "Watching the Detectives" are great drum sounds to my ears.

Standing next to Josh Freese while he plays. One of the most amazing drummers I've ever seen, let alone worked with. Super heavy when he needs to be. Super dynamic when he doesn't. Great sound just with a couple of sticks and some drums.

Worst drum sound that I grew to LOVE is Red House Painters. Specifically stuff like the bridge EP... "New Jersey"

Roger

[moogplayer]

Danzig - first album. Rick Rubin at his finest
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Christine
America - Tin Man (laugh now but I love the 70s tone)

[nacho459]

Weezer's Pinkerton album

and anything played by Bernard Perdy

[CMayfield]

Man...I can't believe no one has said anything about Dale Crover. The man is god-like behind a kit.

Alex Newport has gotten some great drum sounds on a ton of the stuff he's done.

And of course...anything that Albini has recorded. No one can get that sound like him.