Which songs have your favourite drum tracks?

[Parasite_Steve]

Love dir en grey, great live band too, but whoever mixes the drums on their records should be tried at The Hague.

When it comes to drum parts I officially worship at the altar of Dale Crover. Hard to boil it down to just a few songs but he writes some really unusual parts with super creative phrasing, that are still catchy as hell:

Here with Coady Willis of Big Business. Their dual drummer album cycle was pure bliss.

I’m a bit partial to the different flavors of Krautrock.
Klaus Dinger of Kraftwerk and Neu! for example was a fantastic drummer. The monotonous so called "Motorik"-beat is deceptively simple but keeping it going for so long that it becomes almost subliminal like a heartbeat or the sound of your car going down the Autobahn at night is no small feat:

Anything by Clyde Stubblefield. That funky mofo is going to be studied for decades to come. The importance of the old James Brown drum breaks to so many genres of music can’t even be measured yet.

Tatsuya Yoshida is incredibly underrated still. Drums and sings using an invented language in a multitude of different bands like Ruins and Koenjihyakkei and the way he plays the drums feels more like speaking a language than playing an instrument to me. Totally sweet dude as well. Saw him live last year with Zu and it was mindblowing.
https://youtu.be/Syp8Zs39r_s?si=ZkwzbQQVrE5djHT2

Can’t go wrong with Josh Freese ever:
https://youtu.be/XtvvzxET1GI?si=jdiO3JrmWlp1fM8B

 

[CaptainToad]

 

[PurpleShoes]

This song has really great high-energy drums that contrast the more mellow, jazzier song so deliciously

Also obligatory DEVO because Alan Myers is truly one of the best

 

[dr grim]

 

[Nidstang]

I don't know why, but I love the drumming on this album. It's honestly nothing crazy, just generic melodeath stuff. But I absolutely love it

 

[jiyuuboyetsvi]

Gotta love Zach Hill

 

[pennydreadfuls]

The drums from Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks play in my brain 24/7. I also like Slint - Good Morning, Captain. Neither are particularly flashy or anything, I just like the pounding grooves.

ahh two classics, love the LRD pfp ;)))

here's another favourite of mine, absolutely pummels through the eardrums

and this, my favourite song from their latter era, the guitars sound like sirensongs

 

[Parasite_Steve]

Deceptively simple but what a kick ass drum part.
Love the music video too. Just a decade later the directors won seven Oscars for everything everywhere all at once

 

[NatalieZaki]

i love drums

 

[cubonion]

Maybe someone has already said it, but Lateralus by Tool
Just look at the amount of things this man added to the drumset, I love the song in general but damn

 

[OmegaPunch's iconOmegaPunch]

 

[BadMrFrostii]

Not the most complex drum track by any means, but it was the first one to come to mind when I read the thread, so it definitely does something right. Sometimes less is more, or something like that.

 

[Antilocal123]