OMG THAT'S A HEAVY BEAT! What are the most monster beats of all time?

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So come on then, what are the heaviest beats EVAH?
Relatives of "When The Levee Breaks" Need not apply!
Future Sound of London's "We Have Explosive" however is allowed...

― Debord, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Surely something off of Aphex Twin's "Analogue Bubblebath"; perhaps Entrance to Exit?

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:47 (seventeen years ago) link

MOP "Put It In The Air"

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:48 (seventeen years ago) link

dizzee rascal - fix up look sharp

Relatives of "When The Levee Breaks" Need not apply!
what does this mean?

― negotiable, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:50 (seventeen years ago) link

You know, beats that just sample "When The Levee Breaks"...

― Debord, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Entrance to Exit's a great example.

I'm inclined to think of stuff like 65daysofstatic but thats not exactly dancy.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Also tons of Primal Scream:

"Swastika Eyes [Jagz Kooner Mix]" (the first one/track 4),
"Shoot Speed/Kill Light",
and to a lesser extent "Exterminator".

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:04 (seventeen years ago) link

even though i didn't really like the album, i always thought the beat on "sex love and money" was pretty heavy

― river wolf, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh and also lots of KMFDM

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:08 (seventeen years ago) link

sound of da police

― jabba hands, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:10 (seventeen years ago) link

but that seems like cheating, sort of.

Except "Vogue"

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Drumcorps - "Grist"
808 State - "Cubik"

― Stevie D, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:44 (seventeen years ago) link

J Dilla - "Thunder"

― Drooone, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

obvious rock songs:
baby don't you do it - the who
fuckin in the bushes - oasis
lust for life
sleater kinney - entertain

nas - made you look
nin - please

― negotiable, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:23 (seventeen years ago) link

i guess "apache" to an extent too.

― negotiable, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Fuckin in the Bushes? Seriously?

― Z S, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:46 (seventeen years ago) link

God, some of you guys are sleepy as shit.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/61B946QVWCL._SS500_.jpg
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BZ4VD5X6L._SS500_.jpg
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/4175CY3Q4BL._SS500_.jpg

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:53 (seventeen years ago) link

what?
xp

― negotiable, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:57 (seventeen years ago) link

But I'm sure you all know the chords to "Smoke on the Water."

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link

"T. & T.":

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ZK5DJ52WL._SS500_.jpg

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 06:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i realize oasis are anathema here, but...yeah, i heard it today and it has big drums. that's all.

― negotiable, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:00 (seventeen years ago) link

no chemical brothers?

― StanM, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:01 (seventeen years ago) link

We Will Rock You is the king of this thread.

― the Dirt, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Ooh wait I know - "Chaos BC" by Sepultura. The remix of "Chaos AD" with all the huge fuckoff Brazillian drumming. AWESOME to dance to.

― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Billy Squire - The Stroke

― moley, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Boney M, "Nightflight To Venus"
Sir Lord Baltimore, "Kingdom Come"
Power Station, "Some Like It Hot"

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Billy Squire - The Stroke

...and can't forget "The Big Beat"!

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 07:54 (seventeen years ago) link

...and can't forget "The Big Beat"!

dizzee rascal - fix up look sharp

or run-dmc's "here we go"

so which was more "monster"?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, the original "When The Levee Breaks" is heavier than all of these!

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Also also "PSK - What Does It Mean"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 08:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Grace Jones: "Slave to the Rhythm"

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Amen wins

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fd/Amen_break_sample_image.jpg/200px-Amen_break_sample_image.jpg

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

"When The Levee Breaks" is heavier than the world. Heavier than all creation even.

― JN$OT, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Mid 80s noise rock represent!

"Money is Flesh" by the Swans. Still waiting to hear a non-boot use a beat from Greed/Holy Money.
"American Woman" Butthole Surfers.
"Gonna Rob the Spermbank" the Ex

― bendy, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Jay-Z's "99 Problems" is right up there, and maybe Rihanna's "Umbrella." Also Bjork's "Army of Me."

― sw00ds, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I hadn't listened to the Chemical Brothers in years, but I dug it out last night, and on headphones, good god, I had forgotten how they make your eardrums quake. They're one of those bands I filed away at the end of the 90s but maybe I need to take another look.

― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, the drum break in the chemicals remix of bug powder dust is HEAVY. See also the remix of Poison.

Public Enemy, anyone?

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Techno Animal - Cruise Mode 101 y'all!

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Tad - Behemoth

― John Splith, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:57 (seventeen years ago) link

'Block Rockin' Beats does have a great heavy beat (tho it's obv. a chopped up EQ'd lift off another dirty old funk number). the Micronauts remix distorts it to buggery.

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Chemical Brothers Setting Sun, and another vote for Fix Up Look Sharp

― BenTyler, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link

know your samples, people! [end of sample anorak police transmission]

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:37 (seventeen years ago) link

anything off the first two schoolly d records.

dj battery brain - 8 volt.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 11:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Billy Squire - The Stroke

Good lord, I havent heard that song since I was a kid!

― Trayce, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:02 (seventeen years ago) link

2 Bad Mice - "Bombscare"
LFO - "Tied Up"
J-Kwon - "Tipsy"

― henry s, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:34 (seventeen years ago) link

the Micronauts remix distorts it to buggery.

oooh as i've just discovered the Micronauts (their 10 minute epic Bleeper is just a complete monster), i hope this remix is included on the new albums extra disc of remixes.
may have to dig in to find out ..

― mark e, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:43 (seventeen years ago) link

oh, and as for monster beats.
it's got to be Keith Leblanc/Tackhead for me.
some of those Leblanc loops just take it home. There are too many examples, but off the top of my head, i seem to recall Einstein being of particular note.

― mark e, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:44 (seventeen years ago) link

what's the break Westbam used on 'Alarm Clock'? so phat

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:47 (seventeen years ago) link

wot no shadow?

the number song (cut chemist remix) is HYOWGE

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Mutual Slump also

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 12:54 (seventeen years ago) link

aphex twin: "ventolin", "start as you mean to go on", both on i care because you do

― Mark Clemente, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYsyC2PFVBs

― NYCNative, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 13:32 (seventeen years ago) link

omg THE MONKS! who the hell? this is fantastic. not sure how "heavy" it is though, as such...

― CharlieNo4, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Meters 'Cissy Strut'

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:30 (seventeen years ago) link

pop lock and drop it

― daria-g, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Skull Snaps A New Day

― Jamie T Smith, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 14:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Black Sabbath-"NIB"

― Bill Magill, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:05 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.earfuzz.com/images/tlarock/tlarock.jpg

ITS YOURS

― deej, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:07 (seventeen years ago) link

There's this little genre called Hardcore...

― Siegbran, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:25 (seventeen years ago) link

I WILL HAVE THAT POWER!

― Siegbran, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Shitmat 'Tuff Babylon'

― blueski, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 15:30 (seventeen years ago) link

anything by TRS-80

― valoss, Wednesday, 2 May 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Anjali - "Rani of Jhansi"

― Cliftonb, Thursday, 3 May 2007 00:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Trayce, did you really mean Chaos BC? That's the extra track made up of kind of coughing and laughing...

― Debord, Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link

IT'S YOURS

Def OTM (and great pic too!). I was just typing this in when I saw your post.

This record pretty much BLASTS anything else before or since.

― Saxby D. Elder, Thursday, 3 May 2007 04:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Faust v Dalek, 'T-electronique'

― mrlynch, Thursday, 3 May 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link

phil collins - in the air tonight

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 3 May 2007 04:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"Up All Night" El-P

Yeah, it's pretty new jack. So what? The DRUMS! Also that thing from the first RJD2 record. Chicken Circuit maybe?

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 3 May 2007 04:10 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4pAceYRHXI

@ 2:40 when the keys die = extended breakdown

― negotiable, Thursday, 3 May 2007 04:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Get yourself up by KRS-One.

― Rotgutt, Friday, 4 May 2007 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

sucker mcs

― M@tt He1ges0n, Friday, 4 May 2007 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link

"Children of the Grave" has a bigger beat than "NIB".

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 4 May 2007 00:16 (seventeen years ago) link

FIRST TRACK ON
http://www.rosaselvaggia.com/Flowers.jpg

― sexyDancer, Friday, 4 May 2007 00:29 (seventeen years ago) link

i will keep posting others but first one in my mind is:
daze maxim- mathematical breakfast

― the table is the table, Friday, 4 May 2007 01:39 (seventeen years ago) link

And "Chaos B.C. " is the really heavy mix of "Refuse/Resist." Also, awesome.

― Jeff Treppel, Friday, 4 May 2007 01:42 (seventeen years ago) link

Peshay - Piano Tune.

― chap, Friday, 4 May 2007 01:46 (seventeen years ago) link

The first thing that came to my mind was "My Friend Dario".

― aaron d.g., Friday, 4 May 2007 01:55 (seventeen years ago) link

nirvana - "scentless apprentice"

― spastic heritage, Friday, 4 May 2007 01:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The beat between "Discoteca" and "Single" by the Pet Shop Boys

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:04 (seventeen years ago) link

"Alien Jam" by Konk is superb

― van smack, Friday, 4 May 2007 02:48 (seventeen years ago) link

DJ Sushi's Aum Shinri Kyo.

― I eat cannibals, Friday, 4 May 2007 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Amon Duul mk. 1 pwnz this thread -- also "Head" by Dead C.

― Mike McGooney-gal, Friday, 4 May 2007 04:56 (seventeen years ago) link

And "Chaos B.C. " is the really heavy mix of "Refuse/Resist."

Gosh you're right, my mistake.

― Trayce, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:07 (seventeen years ago) link

In fact I just had to put it on, hot damn thats a fuckoff big tribal beat.

― Trayce, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Scientists - This is my Happy Hour

― libcrypt, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Perhaps. . . Speedy J - De-Orbit

― mehlt, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Madvillain's Figaro is heavy, man.

― Drooone, Friday, 4 May 2007 05:58 (seventeen years ago) link

simon and garfunkel - the boxer

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Amon Duul mk. 1 pwnz this thread

totally! also i was listening to "archangels thunderbird" this morning and thought of this thread.

― pretzel walrus, Friday, 4 May 2007 14:13 (seventeen years ago) link

"Boom Boom Mancini" by Warren Zevon.

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

hallelluwah

― cutty, Friday, 4 May 2007 15:34 (seventeen years ago) link

just came here to post sucker mcs

― and what, Friday, 4 May 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Side A of Miles Davis's Tribute to Jack Johnson has some monster drumming on it.

― o. nate, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:22 (seventeen years ago) link

the version of 'learning to fly' on delicate sound of thunder.

fugazi's 'ex-spectator'

― Charlie Howard, Friday, 4 May 2007 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Lots of stuff on the first Tubeway Army album. A goodly portion of the two records that followed it, too. Gary Numan's uncle was the shit!

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 4 May 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The beginning of "Paradise CIty".

― Bud Dickman, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't make me come through the phone, Bud.

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahahahaha. I not know what you mean. Mr. Hall's on line one.

― Bud Dickman, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Phil, you're gonna sing the goddamn theme song or I wanna see your resignation letter on my desk in the morning. [/hendrie]

― Jon Lewis, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Amon Tobin "Sordid"

― nickalicious, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

De Futura, innit

( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN8ncmwAofk )

― Øystein, Friday, 4 May 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.bide-et-musique.com/images/thumb150/1667.jpg

(Just kidding) ;)

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

If I am going to run for more than 15 seconds, I guess Brian Eno would be more sufficient for my running speed.

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm. Wrong thread
Sorry :)

― Geir Hongro, Friday, 4 May 2007 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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