Songs with militaristic drumming

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In Europe, there are two very important schools of drumming and they relate to the army. That's the Swiss Army and the Scottish army. It's the Black Watch in Scotland and the Basel Drum School

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"Johnny Was" by the Stiff Little Fingers

it'll be interesting to let the selections accrue for a bit, and then see what percentage of the songs have nothing to do with war/the military or, um, baked beans...

CRASS

I'm sorry...you're right, it was in bad taste for me to bring baked beans into the discuss-

oh, you mean the band!...sorry...

There was some tortured argument in Peter Shapiro's Turn The Beat Around about how it was hypocritical of funk drummers to look down on disco drummers for being mechanical since somehow the logical reductio ad absurdium ideal of such drumming, with its origin in martial, second-line parade beats, was to be as mechanical as possible, but this argument never got off the ground with me.

xpost Hey it happens!

I guess I should cite specific examples. A good chunk of their first album, The Feeding of the 5000 has that militaristic drumming down pat. And Rimbaud has this "rat-tat-a-tat-a" drum fill in almost EVERY Crass song.

second line beats /= military drumming. as i understand it, it's basically what happened to the euro military style after meeting afro-cuban influences in new orleans.

Proceeding from there, The Ex, Dog Faced Hermans, etc.

Tommy gun- the clash
and that new M.I.A track that samples "Straight to Hell", forget title

second line beats /= military drumming. as i understand it, it's basically what happened to the euro military style after meeting afro-cuban influences in new orleans.
Yeah, that's a good point. Earl Palmer and Idris away from thread.

David Holmes - No Man's Land

Grateful Dead-St. Stephen. The version on Live/Dead

Outkast - Morris Brown

U2 to thread.
And I think probably Big Country and The Alarm as well.

Funkadelic "Uncle Jam's Army", "Field Maneuvers"

-- Shakey Mo Collier

...and "March To The Witch's Castle"

Trying to resist posting just anything with a snare drum: Dave Clark Five, "Rain," etc.

But I think this fits:
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Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit"

and there's a song on Mayhem's Grand Declaration of War that has some crazy fast marches...

50 ways to leave your lover - -

The Doodletown Fifers

You Pulled me UP - talking heads

Othar Turner

Vitalic - Fanfares

The Pretty Things - Provate Sorrow

'no closure', piano magic

Does Yello's "Bostich" really have "militaristic drumming"? It heavily features the snare drum, sure, but the beat is actually quite complex, not metronomic/march-like at all.

maybe just the intro, after that it's straight disco, right?

Kyuss-"Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop"

portishead - mysteron

Jack Bruce - "The Clearout"

not the full song, but "Baby Wants To Ride" (Frankie Knuckles/Jamie Principle) has that neat lil' rat-a-tat-tat break...("America!...clap your hands...I thought we loved each other...do you feel free?")

Last night I remembered that story about when Miles Davis wanted Tony Williams to go heavy on the snare he told him "play that 'Rat Patrol' stuff."

To tell the truth, I don't know what exactly Tony was supposed to play to get that "Rat Patrol" sound, but it sure sounds like it should be militaristic.

I always thought the end part of "Hunted" by Pale Saints was kind of militaristic, especially those snare rolls. But it's in 5/4 which makes it a bit of a bummer to dance to.

I was just wondering if any of those twee Sarah bands ever employed militaristic drumming, 'cos wouldn't that be a contrast...Pale Saints come pretty close...