Favorite Drum Sounds

Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 8:24 am

1.Tommy Lee - Motley Crue
2.Tico Torres - BJ
3.Jeff Porcaro - Toto- RIP!
4.Portnoy - DT
5.Nick Menza - MEgadeth

Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 12:00 pm

Deftones, Digital Bath & Needles and Pins

Chili Peppers - Dani California

Of course, Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks

ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin

A Perfect Circle - The Hollow

Metallica - Black Album, and even though I'll probably catch hell for it - St. Anger

Tool - Aenima Album

and Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 2:14 am

Deftones - white pony!

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 2:36 am

Beatles - Revolver, Rubber soul, Stg.Pepper, White Album etc
The Police - All albums
The Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletine
Tom Waits - All albums

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:33 pm

pearl jam "Black"

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:36 pm

Zeppelin - Wearing and Tearing (Coda).

The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night.

Floyd - 2 Suns in the Sunset (Sadly, not Nick Mason).

Television - Marquee Moon

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 11:11 pm

All of these submissions are ones where I felt the drums, in context, had a combined value of a.) carrying a vibe strong enough so as to be particular to a given album, b.) having an approach that showed vision beyond a prototypical "good drum sound," and c.) evoking a raw, sensual appreciation in me.

Fairweather -- If They Move...Kill Them
Foo Fighters -- The Colour and the Shape
Live -- Secret Samadhi (and anything between Throwing Copper and The Distance to Here, for that matter)
Weezer -- Pinkerton
The Cardigans -- Long Gone Before Daylight
311 -- Transistor
Smashing Pumpkins -- Siamese Dream (and only SD!)
Silverchair -- Neon Ballroom
Fiona Apple -- When the Pawn...
Refused -- The Shape of Punk to Come...
Killswitch Engage -- The End of Heartache, As Daylight Dies
Boston -- Boston
Stone Temple Pilots -- Purple
Saosin -- Translating the Name
Our Lady Peace -- Happiness...Is Not a Fish That You Can Catch, Gravity
Nirvana -- In Utero
Lisa Loeb -- Firecracker
Coheed and Cambria -- In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (I know, I know...)
Helmet -- Aftertaste
Hanson -- Underneath
Pearl Jam -- Vs
Deftones -- Adrenaline
Dave Matthews Band -- Crash
Soundgarden -- Down on the Upside

I was hesitant to participate in this because I KNEW I'd be forgetting something important, but this is a decent sample.

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:05 pm

Some that I can rattle off the top of my head are:

Toy Matinee - Self Titled (definitely one of the best recordings I've ever heard of all instruments.) Side project of Kevin Gilbert.

XTC - Mummer (for dry and earthy), and The Big Express (for lush and reverberated).

Fleetwood Mac - I know, I know, but something about that low tuned dead sound really grew on me over the years.

I also like the snare sound on Jawbreaker's "Dear You" record. And as someone mentioned earlier, The Cure's "Three Imaginary Boys" has a great live drum sound. There are so many!!

I tend to lean more toward the opposite of whatever recording style is being totally abused in the most current music. So in the 80's... I absolutely hated reverb, now I love it. So now that everyone is "smashing the sh*t out of everything" (to quote Slipperman), I'm liking the more unenhanced and less compressed sounding stuff.

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:44 am

from a keyboard players perspective! (So I gues my opinion wont count!)

Anything done by Brendan O'brian and his associates.

Rick Rubin and Audioslaves efforts on the 1st album, sorry I dont know who engineered it!

oh nearly forgot, this is funny, recently my brother (drummer) showed me a relatively new cinderella album and I must say the drums sounded huge, upon 1st listen it reminded me of the drum sound on Dream Theatres "awake". We looked it up later and apparantly the same guy worked on it! Sorry cant remember his name! And I think it may have been Kenny Aranoff on drums.

cheers,

SammyG

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:23 pm

Dave Weckl on Chick Corea's acoustic band album. Also the electric band stuff.

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:01 pm

The White Stripes - Jimmy the Exploder

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:08 pm

Hey PLS, another great reason to like the Boston album:

Sib Hashian's Hair!!!

Posted: Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:03 pm

For straight fo'-shizzle, Bent.

Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2008 1:42 am

id have to say nirvana's in utero entire album is sic. albini rules. as well as mr david grohl.

or the flaming lips always seem to have sweet drum stuff goin on.. like the track "Are You A Hypnotist?" from the yoshimi album or "Waiting for a Superman" from the soft bulletin...

Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:15 am

Diffently "Wating On The World To Change" by John Mayer. Sounds fantastic

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