Best straight-ahead Rock and Roll drum line.... I vote for

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

Cheap Trick's I Want You To Want Me.

Discuss.

[warrens]

1. The Stooges

Gimme Some Skin. Although the drum part in Lust for Life is pretty awesome. But Gimme Some Skin has the best snare/hi-hat thing ever. You feets gotta move.

Some of the Ramones songs have incredible drumming, and Clampdown by the Clash is unreal.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

5. yeah, the punks re-invented drumming, saving it from

crap like Phil Collins

[HEyHEY]

2. American WOman

[Elidor]

3. No Quarter

[the Princess]

4. Anything by Moonie

Keith Moon - such as:

Happy Jack
Magic Bus
My Generation
Won't Get Fooled Again
etc.,etc.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

6. definately a good choice

[XNASA]

9. I think we all agree that Moon was fantastic.

There's never been anyone like him.

But he was anything but 'straight-ahead'.

Doncha think? :shrug:

[BigMcLargehuge]

10. YES YES YES

and Cobwebs and Strange!

[jpgray]

7. Can's "Oh Yeah"

So simple, yet so great. I could listen to that boom-chik-boom-boom-chik all day. Of course the bass line is pretty important as well.

[BigMcLargehuge]

8. The Who: The Real Me

[tsakshaug]

11. Driving the other day

some cheap trick came on and I thought that Bun E Carlos was an underrated drummer.
Then I thought about something else

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. LOLLLL... that is when I thought of it too... then later, I said

damn... that is some good drumming... how come I never noticed that before?

Thus the thread.

[XNASA]

12. Kashmir.

If the drums were any more 'straight-ahead' they'd be a freight train.

[CO Liberal]

13. I Nominate Two

1 - Ringo Starr's drumming on "Day Tripper", generally considered his best effort.

2 - The unnamed drummer who did Steam's 1969 hit, "Na Na, Hey Hey, Kiss Him Goodbye".

[WilliamPitt]

14. Moby Dick

[BigMcLargehuge]

16. ah, she blows

with a hump like a snow hill! If my heart had been a cannon I'd have fired it upon her.

sorry, don't get many Moby Dick references in the lounge these days :)

[Arwennick]

17. Iron Butterfly

In-a-godda-di-vida
was the best drum solo ever on any song.

[Zuni]

18. it is the best drum solo ever, but not a straight ahead rock beat