Best drum sound on a specific song?

I am not a drummer, but in my opinion The Police's Walking On The Moon has the coolest drumming ever. Stewart Copeland uses only the bass and snare drums and the hi-hat on the song, but his technical skill, especially playing polyrhythms, creates a really complex drum part that is amazing to listen to in its own right.  The hi-hat work during the fade-out always gives me goosebumps. It seems so simple at first listen, but like an onion the layers start coming off and it turns out to be really exciting drumming! Copeland's playing might be less striking than, say, Neil Peart (who I'm a big fan of, btw) with his huge drum kit, but to me it is no less interesting to listen to. So I guess the hi-hat on Walking On The Moon is my favorite drum sound.

"One word" opening  on Birds of fire. Billy Cobham is awesome.

Edited by pero - June 11 2007 at 06:09

Ulrich, "St Anger"...

Danney Carey on Lateralus, song and album.

The drums in all THE X FACTOR by Iron Maiden sound so fantastic....

Neil Peart's playing on The Main Monkey Business is fantastic!

And I'll agree with the others who said Bonham's playing on When The Levee Breaks is fantastic.

Carl Palmer in early elp albums, or in all elp's albums, i dont know i only have until the trilogy, but int the barbarian he drumming is great, bill bruford its great too, the drummer of the band boomerang for those that had hear boomerang know what i talking about, he is very good. i dont know he's name its really difficult find information about this band in the red, but i have their i think the only album, and its great i highly recommend it, its like prog related, or art rock band

I love MIchael Giles's drum production on KC's early records. My favorite drum song is probably Zeppelin's In My Time of Dying, it's great how Bonham recorded his drums. He had the drums at the bottom of a stairwell and hung microphones from various heights to capture the big sound. And a big sound he gets, jesus christ.

Melomaniac wrote: Porcupine Tree - Anesthetize (Fear of a Blank Planet). Perfect.  From the tom beat in the beginning to the all-out double bass drum attack in the middle part, to the delicate beat in the finale, you get to hear everything and every part fits the song so well.

Agreed, I think the drums in this song are perfect and nothing less.  They are never once out of place. 

Bj-1 wrote: toolis wrote: Ulrich, "St Anger"...     The secret behind it was that he took of the snare on the snare drum to create that sound. Don't ask me why.