Any of the Brufford era Yes stuff is great. For newer stuff, I Love the drum sounds on Tori Amos' "Scarlett's Walk". Also, someone mentioned Morphine, and I dig the sounds on their "Yes" album. Fat, vintage sounding and ripe for the picking! Andy
Coliseum-No salvation recorded by Kurt Ballou of Converge
Queens of the Stone Age-All albums
Morphine-I know it has been mentioned a million times already ,but still.
Neurosis-A sun that never sets
Botch-We are the Romans
Coheed & Cambria- Good Apollo Im Burning Star Fear Through the Eyes of Madness Volume 1
Converge-No Heroes
Dillinger Escape Plan-Calculating Infinity
Earth-Hex:Or Printing in the Infernal Method
Explosions in the Sky- All of the Sudden I Miss Everyone
Meshuggah-None & Chaosphere
Young Widows- Coliseum/Young Widows split and Settle Down City
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Zepplin/Bonham... pick one... any one.
Kansas - Song for America
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond and Lilas Dance
Billy Cobham - A Funky Thide of Sings
Gino Vanelli - Pauper In Paradise
Rush - Didats and Narpits
Beatles - Northern Song, Blue Jay Way, Sgt Pepper's Reprise
Zappa - Dirty Love
Who - Won't Get Fooled Again, Happy Jack
Pink Floyd - Time, Great Gig In The Sky, Pillow of Winds
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Blood Sweat & Tears - Spinning Wheel, You've Made Me So Very Happy
Blackmore's Rainbow - Stargazer
Moody Blues - Ride My See Saw, I'm Just A Singer, Late Lament
Doobie Brothers - China Grove
Dave Brubeck - Take 5
Jeff Beck - Blue Wind, Constipated Duck
Al DiMiola - ALL of Elegant Gypsy
Stanley Clarke - School Days and Hot Fun
The thing I like about so many of these kit sounds, is because the drums were mixed to be part of the song... not just drums and the rest of the music.
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Abbey Road
Rush – Moving Pictures
Pavement – Terror Twilight
Nirvana - Nevermind
Rage Against the Machine
Pink Floyd – The Wall
Soundgarden – Superunknown
More recent:
The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
Tool – 10,000 days
Radiohead – In Rainbows
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As a bass player for a couple hunnerd years or so, its been my pleasure to have to stand next to the frikin drummer most nights.
So I DO have an opinion.
There have been mentions of different schools of thought about the role of the drums on individual songs. Some songs arent big enough within the structure to contain a great drum part and while the drums might be the only part of the song that really winds up making it, sometimes it overwhelms to the point of "whats the point?"
Then theres the school of 'exactly what I had in mind'................
There are drummers out there that sound perfect on everything they ever lay down. The sound is always stimulating enough to keep the interest in the song but not enough to blow it out....
This is the one thing that I have loved about Zep throughout the years, there are very few songs where you cannot sit down and actually listen to any one part you wish to focus on without any (or very little) interruption from the other parts.
Yes' music wouldnt be what it is without an incredible drummer. I loved Bruford but Allan White was my favorite.
Not one person has mentioned two of the greatest rock drummers ever......Roger Taylor with Queen and Simon Kirke with Bad Co. How about those guys sounds?
I have always been greatly impressed with the drum sounds on ANY Frank Zappa record. As well as the playing.
Two more of my personal favorite drummers with incredible sounds to their many many credits would be Frank Beard with ZZ Top and Richie Hayward with Little Feat.
There hasnt been a whole lot of crappy sounding drums on ANY Rush record.
I love the drum sounds on the Audioslave stuff.
Billy Cobham gets a very nice sound on his little four-piece kit.........
I could go on.....And I probably will................eventually.
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Dayam DD... you're right.... I missed Frank's killer stuff with Rev Billy... My bad. Sometimes the drums were under mixed, sometimes over processed, but the tone and flavor generally always came through.
And Richie absolutely rules with Feet and their production... Always impeccable and sit in the mix just right. Well tuned, well recorded, well mixed...
I always felt like Bad Co's production was over the top and never quite capitalized on the real meat of the band's soul... might have just been too much compression.
Queen never tripped my trigger of sonic nirvana. Always a bit too weak in the strong stuff and too strong in the weak... I hope that don't end up as some sort of napalm on the barn, but they, along with so many bands of that era, were so heavily compressed, chopped, edited and just plain over produced that they all ended up sounding the same... sorry.
Not gonna get into the Bruford/White debate... it's pointless... both good drummers with tuning, performance and heart. Their stuff was generally always believable, with great dynamics and their engineers and producer's were carefull not to push the songs too far past the limit.
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