Madhouse 8. I put this on just for a ride on the funky jazzy kinetic drums. The drums just sound and feel good. Like good sex. Actually all of the instruments sound fantastic, all of them the mixed just right. 8 is one of my all time favorite Prince albums for the drums alone, but really all of the instrumentation, including the awesome Eric Leeds. I know it's been said it's all Prince on the drums on this, but I still say Sheila is in there somewhere on this one. 16 is good too, but not as vibrant as 8

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The Undertaker.

Very raw and simple, with a good ambience mic; then pan the toms a bit, put Michael B in front of the kit and - voilà! - perfect drum sound.

1. TRC

2. The Undertaker

3. Gold

As much as I liked TRC drums, I feel that the NEWS drums are a lot clearer in comparison.
Maybe because there's only 4 or 5 instruments playing at one time and no vocals, everything feels a lot less compressed and more REAL.

Tamborine

Darling Nikki

Mountains

I think The Gold Experience. Particularly tracks like "Shhh", "Endorphinmachine" and "Eye Hate U" etc. The drums are really tasty on that album. The drums on Rainbow Children seem a bit more dampened, which also sounds really nice on that album.

Yeah, it'd have to be TRC, I suppose. The instrumental albums that followed it have a bit too sleek, reverberated sound to my taste. TGE sounds very powerful due to the drums and I like Michael Bland's style, but TRC is still superior in that regard to me.

I also like how the drums sound on his early 80s albums. Totally different from the high-end studio stuff though.

Gold Experience & Rainbow Children CDs

Songs like Tamborine, Release It, Housequake, Irresisteble Bitch, Lady Cab Driver & 777-9311

I think that Michal B's drum sound was great and very powerfull - songs like Shh, great sound...

N.E.W.S., for me.

I always liked Michael Bland's playing. Songs like Daddy Pop are a cacophony of drum sounds that still transport me. However, I'm not sure anything beats the unique sound of Irresistable Bitch. Never heard anything like that (except for Cloreen Bacon Skin, of course).

i really like the drumsounds on prince´s second cd "prince".

and the lotus flower.

lovesymbol has also great drums, way better than D&P and the gold experience.

the drums on shhh may be great, but they sound not good, because of the bad production.

TRC is also not my favourite, i dont like the muffled sound of the snare...

Im also not a big fan of J.B. ... sometimes less is more

The Undertaker

The Rainbow Children

Madhouse 8

misiu said:

i really like the drumsounds on prince´s second cd "prince".

and the lotus flower.

lovesymbol has also great drums, way better than D&P and the gold experience.

the drums on shhh may be great, but they sound not good, because of the bad production.

TRC is also not my favourite, i dont like the muffled sound of the snare...

Im also not a big fan of J.B. ... sometimes less is more

what's bad about Shhh?

John is a very economical player these days

the intro at the beginning and in the middle is good, but i always have to turn down the volume because its sounds so bad, almost destoyed. for my liking to many highs, middles " einfach übersteuert"...

compare the studioversion with the live version which was in the beautiful experience....

Almost th same intro, but the sound is miles better in the liveversion. the same goes for the vocals...weak performance on the record.

well i dont like jb.

I prefer michael b.

thebanishedone said:

misiu said:

i really like the drumsounds on prince´s second cd "prince".

and the lotus flower.

lovesymbol has also great drums, way better than D&P and the gold experience.

the drums on shhh may be great, but they sound not good, because of the bad production.

TRC is also not my favourite, i dont like the muffled sound of the snare...

Im also not a big fan of J.B. ... sometimes less is more

what's bad about Shhh?

John is a very economical player these days