Songs with two drummers

Not like one guy on a normal kit and one on bongos or percussion, but two full drum kits, both going a bit batty. Doesn't matter if it's one drummer playing two overdubs or whatever rather than two actual drummers, as long as it SOUNDS like two kits - i.e. is mixed so you hear it that way, rather than as a wall of percussion.

Reservations by Spoon
Epic Problem by Fugazi

Gotta be loads more, surely?

ornette coleman's prime time had two drummers.

The Fall
Mothers of Invention

Al Green!

the new kylesa album

Neu 75
La Dusseldorf

Adam and the Ants?

dirtbombs

The Glitter Band

dananananaykroyd or however you spell that.

Duh, Grateful Dead

tons of phil spector and motown 60's stuff

oh wait, maybe you meant to exclude "wall of percussion" in your post, sorry

La Dusseldorf <------ band consisting of three drummers!

Yeah, I'm after two distinct kits playing the same or very similar patterns. Also after specific songs by artists with usually only one drummer rather than bands with 2+ drummers / percussionists.

lots of jazz stuff, like that coltrane album w/both elvin jones & rashid ali, kenvandermarks sax/drums/drums trio, etc.

wasn't there a lame hardcore band trend to have two drummers for awhile?

Yeah, I'm after two distinct kits playing the same or very similar patterns

this really annoys me most of the time

3/4s of tortoise's entire discography

FEELIES

though i guess Weckerman is generally on a smaller kit there

Taylor Hawkins and Roger Taylor at the RRHOF inductions for Queen:

Allman Bros.

sigue sigue sputnik did this live (and it was brilliant)
- but i dont think its possible to tell with the records

Tons of post '74 Grateful Dead stuff with both Mickey Hart and Kreutzmann on drums.

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/blakey_art%7E_orgyinrhy_101b.jpg

Tons of post '74 Grateful Dead stuff with both Mickey Hart and Kreutzmann on drums.

Also pre-72 or whenever Hart left the first time.

Yeah, thats true, he left somewhere in '71 I believe. Honestly it isn't til the late 70s/early 80s that I really began to pay attention to the two drummers. I think esp the Pigpen era had me focused on other stuff.

tons of phil spector and motown 60's stuff

After Hart came back, he focused more on unorthodox percussion type stuff while Bill was the traditional timekeeper. You can really hear the delineation between the two on some of the better late 70s shows, Cornell '77 being the obvious choice.

Keith Moon overdubbed himself (full kit both times) on "I Can See For Miles." It's more obvious on the stereo mix -- one Moon in each speaker -- but the effect is heightened on the mono mix.

Also, Charlie Watts overdubbed himself on "Tumbling Dice."

http://www.mattscdsingles.com/acatalog/rialto%20untouchable%20cd%201.jpg

Man, I fucking LOVE twin drums, one for each side of your head - there are times when I wish every band employed 'em. Here's a quick POX as yet unmentioned:

Pink Fairies, Never Never Land
MX-80 Sound, Hard Attack
Pere Ubu, The Tenement Year
Sonny Sharrock, Seize The Rainbow
Captain Beefheart, Lick My Decals Off, Baby
James Blood Ulmer, Are You Glad To Be In America?
Charlie Daniels Band, Honey In The Rock
Hawkwind, Warrior On The Edge of Time
Butthole Surfers, Hairway To Steven
Amon Duul II, Phallus Dei

http://www.jazz.com/assets/2008/1/3/albumcoverJohnColtrane-Meditations.jpg

w/ elvin jones & rashied ali, pretty wild stuff

iirc elvin's in one channel & ali's in the other

One of The Fall's live albums has two drummers, no?

xp Jordan: What about it annoys you?

xp jordan i didn't see you already mentioned coltrane

when i saw modest mouse live, they had two drummers. i'm not a big fan though, so i couldn't tell you if they had two kits going in their recordings or not.

on this subject jazz is kind of cheating though.

xp Jordan: What about it annoys you?

it usually comes across as unnecessary and gimmicky, like if it's just two drummers playing the same rock beat. there's so much potential there, why not take the time to work out some complimentary parts. also i really like music that has the rhythm parts divided up among different drummers, like salsa, samba, new orleans brass band, west african drumming, etc.

I think there's a Jim O'Rourke song like this on Insignificance -- I forget the name, but it's the one with the AC/DC-like beat.

Oh yeah, also ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, but I wouldn't really consider that a good answer.

xp Jordan: I asked because this is generally what annoys me about it (excluding orchestral or marching band type music). There are certain exceptions - such as if the band is so loud only one drummer would sound wimpy.

Every single track on "Union" by Yes.

Do songs with numerous drummers count? In which case, "The Obvious Child" by Paul Simon.

Ha, 'Epic Problem' was what I first thought of when I saw the thread title.

How about: Steely Dan - Parker's Band

king crimson in the '90s

chicago's own killer whales

probably a lot of boredoms & related stuff, right?

Jeez Geir, you've gone and picked a good one (Paul Simon that is, not Yes)

not a good one if one reads the first post in this thread which stipulates two drum kits.

killer whales play with two drummers, sort of

No it doesn't.

Doesn't matter if it's one drummer playing two overdubs or whatever rather than two actual drummers, as long as it SOUNDS like two kits

not really, that paul simon is samba school stuff, not drum kit. i could recommend tons of roots/"world"/etc. stuff with many drummers.

'tis done well, all the same

yeah it's dope

i always thought it was cool/funny that the latter-day american spacemen 3 type band The Warlocks has two drummers. cuz their name is the warlocks. ...and the grateful dead used to be the warlocks.

one of my fave psych bands clear light had two drummers. one of them was dallas taylor.

i've said it before and i'll say it again, one of my top ten singles of the 90's was this:

fucking SWANS

That one Genesis song where Collins and Thompson play on stools with their drumsticks wank wank wank.

John Tropea's Tropea has Rick Marotta in the left channel Steve Gadd in the right channel for the majority of the record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygOd4IacJjM

That one Genesis song where Collins and Thompson play on stools with their drumsticks wank wank wank

This applies to most of Seconds Out, except that it's sometimes Bill Bruford on the second kit. And it's not wank.

nb: when I say "this applies", I mean the thread title applies, not the bit about playing on stools.

iirc there are some tracks on Fleetwood Mac's Tusk where you can hear 2 drum kits slightly out of sync.
It's a nice trick !

I think one of those drummers may be Lindsey. He hits a chair or two on Rumours, too, I want to say.

Most recent King Crimson lineup had 4 drummers, iirc.

sounds to me that Hounds of Love (the song) either features two drummers playing the same beat or just massively double-tracked drums

it might be the Phil Collins trick of close miking the drums but mixing it along with a huge room sound. So it sounds like two drummers.

Astonished that nobody mentioned the double-drummer lineup (aka the BEST lineup) of the Melvins. I got to see them twice in this incarnation, once with Down and once at Isis's final NYC show, and they were amazing both times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q7Q-KjD600

Simon & Garfunkel's 'Fakin' It' has two drummers.

every single track by Rovo

Every New Orleans brass band recording (split up between bass & snare drum).

Lots of jazz records (from Rich/Roach type drum battles to late-period Coltrane and free jazz drum duets).

Two full drumkits on a stereo recording is normally not a great sound imo (esp. two kick drums).

gybe