Great Songs With Electronic Drums

[la szum]

That E-Kit Thread that blew up with some great conversation (and a dash of gatekeeping!) got me
to wondering about the history of electronic drums/drum sounds.

Feel free to list great sounding (or rotten sounding, cheesy ass drum sounds ) in great songs.

I'll start. I used to love cranking this one up on the Tape Deck in my Car circa 1986!

 

[la szum]

Alex even used the Simmons E-drums Live. Albeit with Natural Hats and Cymbals.

 

[Blix]

Alex even used the Simmons E-drums Live. Albeit with Natural Hats and Cymbals.

And snare, always a real snare drum.

 

[JiveTurkey]

Listened to "Good Enough" on the way home yesterday for the frst time in a LONG time. I LOVE that album (and that song) but if that song isn't near the top of why I hate Sammy Hagar's lyric "skills" list; I really don't know what else is

Electronic drums are great throughout the 80s and 90s pop music, at the very least.

 

[la szum]

Super cool Hybrid setup from Ilan Rubin... NIN Drummer. To quote Yngwie, "More is more!"

 

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[TSJMajesty]

Listened to "Good Enough" on the way home yesterday for the frst time in a LONG time. I LOVE that album (and that song) but if that song isn't near the top of why I hate Sammy Hagar's lyric "skills" list; I really don't know what else is

Electronic drums are great throughout the 80s and 90s pop music, at the very least.

Sammy ain't winning any "lyric awards" that's for sure. Oofta

 

[TSJMajesty]

Didn't Neil finally play Witchhunt live (they never played it during Moving Pictures because of the overdubs, he had said) once they had the tech available to cover it properly?

 

[Sleezy E]

 

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[MirrorProfiles]

Not sure what this thread is about, is it about drum machines or embellishing real drums with samples? or layering drum machines with real drums? Pretty sure drummers would be laughing at the comments here, messing around with drum sounds for the sake of production is no different to guitarists layering and using pedals and getting creative. Beatles were overdubbing snares and cymbals etc to have more control over things.

Anyway, here's my pick. Glamtastic, killer production

 

[la szum]

Not sure what this thread is about, is it about drum machines or embellishing real drums with samples? or layering drum machines with real drums? Pretty sure drummers would be laughing at the comments here, messing around with drum sounds for the sake of production is no different to guitarists layering and using pedals and getting creative. Beatles were overdubbing snares and cymbals etc to have more control over things.

Anyway, here's my pick. Glamtastic, killer production

That is why I am a bit flummoxed by the pushback about electronic drums, and the gatekeeping around acoustic drums.

For a Forum where modelers and fuzz boxes and delays and all the rest are lauded and applauded why is there such
sanctity about acoustic drums?

Not trying to harsh anyone's buzz. I didn't invent electronic drum sounds and sampling, nor did I destroy acoustic
drums in a rage of fury!! Just commenting on what I see as obvious trends in music production and drum "sounds"
over the decades.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

That is why I am a bit flummoxed by the pushback about electronic drums, and the gatekeeping around acoustic drums.

I don’t think there’s any of that going on at all.

That other thread is talking about replacing acoustic kits live with electronic kits for “ease of mixing” rather than for creative reasons.

 

[la szum]

Certainly nothing worth fighting over, and demeaning anyone because of. It's ALL music. All art. All creativity.

Maybe Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder.

 

[FuzzyAce]

E-drums are always better, especially live.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Certainly nothing worth fighting over, and demeaning anyone because of. It's ALL music. All art. All creativity.

Maybe Beauty is in the Ear of the Beholder.

no one is disagreeing with creative uses of different drum sounds on recorded music, I think you’ve just misinterpreted what that other discussion is about.

Not being a dick, this is just going off on a tangent (which is fine by me!)

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Just skimming some new music.

Tom Morello
Black Veil Brides
Ice Nine Kills
Starset

All mixed by the same person, all have the exact same snare sound. It’s very recognisable on a lot of his other work too. In the grand scheme of things, if the song comes across well and connects with an audience, who gives a shit?

And on the other hand, I can’t imagine being in a band and sending a song off for a mix (for top rate mixer) and getting the same drum sound back as every other band he’s worked with.

 

[DrewJD82]

Just skimming some new music.

Tom Morello
Black Veil Brides
Ice Nine Kills
Starset

All mixed by the same person, all have the exact same snare sound. It’s very recognisable on a lot of his other work too. In the grand scheme of things, if the song comes across well and connects with an audience, who gives a shit?

And on the other hand, I can’t imagine being in a band and sending a song off for a mix (for top rate mixer) and getting the same drum sound back as every other band he’s worked with.

Depends on who it was; say if Andy Wallace mixed an album for me, I most certainly wouldn't end up arguing against any samples he landed on.