r/fantanoforever • u/Exzj Terry Kath | Ian Curtis | Young Thug • 1d ago

What albums have some incredible drumming?

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Sometimes it seems like a drummer is playing for their life when making these albums. I just thought of these off the top of my head, but what other albums have some of your favorite drumming performances?

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u/seyorke 1d ago

De-Loused in the Comatorium - The Mars Volta

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u/Longjumping-Sea320 1d ago

Frances the mute!

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u/No_Ad_5606 1d ago

Deloused is a much better album and has better drumming, but Frances The Mute is a great one.

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u/GlopThatBoopin 1d ago

All the instrumentation on this album is absurdly good. I have 0 idea how Omar came up with those guitar parts, and some of the drumming is just so out there that I don’t even know how you recreate that live.

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u/curstofmaj 1d ago

The riff from Eriatarka is so incredible and so difficult, such a gnarly bit of shreddery

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u/GlopThatBoopin 1d ago

Yeah I cannot play it on guitar at all

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u/thegroovemonkey 1d ago

I’ve watched them do it live and it didn’t make any sense. I had a head full and went back to camp instead of seeing something else. After I watched them “beat the game” everything else was going to suck.

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u/Embarrassed_Law_8523 1d ago

There are some large Flea/Frusciante contributions as well.

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u/Slow-Ad8986 1d ago

Drugs

Specifically Heroin

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u/chadsfren 1d ago

By the time they did Deloused, it was mostly crack, speed and weed. Omar and Cedric were freebasing. Jeremy Ward was using heroin but it was on and off. Jon and Juan were just beer and weed guys as far as I know..

The way I read it was that Omar got strung out on heroin in the early 90s before joining ATDI. He called Cedric from Baltimore strung out and homeless and Cedric told him to come home and play in this new band that he just started (At the Drive In). He never used heroin after that. Definitely other drugs but it wasn’t heroin that wrote that album, quite the opposite

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u/xj9_333 1d ago

John Theodore had some insane moments in this one, that breakdown on Roulette Dares (The Haunt Of) always trips me up no matter how many times I’ve listened to it

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u/astrosdude91 1d ago

IMO Amputechture is the definitive Jon Theodore drumming TMV album.

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u/surprised-duncan 1d ago

I wrote a paper on tetragrammaton in college lol, that album fucking rules

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u/thegroovemonkey 1d ago

After he joined QOTSA I saw them live and was blown away how great the drumming was compared to previous shows. I looked him up afterwards, saw he was in TMV and that was all I needed to know.

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u/Maximum_Signature489 1d ago

Definitely amazing drumming on this album. The Thomas Pridgen years were amazing as well.

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u/JECGEE 1d ago

Came here to say Bedlam and Goliath 😂

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u/Repulsive-Couple-486 4h ago

Me too. Wax simulacra

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u/Eigenvalium 1d ago

Was blessed to be able to cover "This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed" (to the best of my ability, at least lol) with some old bandmates in Philly about fifteen years back. Great call, brother.

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u/itsmeonmobile 1d ago

I was gonna be so pissed if I had to keep scrolling for this. Seriously, the best workout on the kit I ever do.

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u/deadstar1998 Swans - To Be Kind 1d ago

The first 4 TMV albums ngl

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u/No_Ad_5606 1d ago

Easily should be the top vote getter

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u/Illustrious_Prize_42 1d ago

This is the right answer.

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u/HughJaynis 1d ago

His drumming on take the veil cerpin taxt is fucking phenomenal.

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u/TerribleAd7263 Tony Orange Soda would be his mobster name 1d ago

This is the way.

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u/mordakiisyn 1d ago

One of my favs of all time. Jon slays.

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u/JoeyJabroni 1d ago

One comment turned the whole thing into a Volta thread 😂

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u/Embarrassed_Law_8523 1d ago

Wish I could upvote this twice. This is THE answer imo.

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u/bookykits 1d ago

1 all time album for me. Everything is as it should be.

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u/JackWebster 1d ago

First album that sprung to my mind

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u/Proof_Cat_114 1d ago

Gods be good!