What was the first CD with great drums??


U2 - War, Stop Making Sense, right out.  Phil Collins? Forget about it.

Brother's in Arms?  Almost starts to get there...

erik_squires

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You might have to go a bit further with what defines good sounding recorded drums to you, though.

Do you mean, the sound of drums the way they tend to be recorded on the vast majority of studio rock, pop, etc., recordings? I.e., every drum with its own separate mic, multiple mics on cymbals, multi tracked. Where the end result is, kick drum that you feel in your chest, but the image of drum kit seems to be way to large, ss if drums are spread across the entire width of the soundstage. 

Or, do you mean more natural sounding drums, where they are more localized in the soundstage among the other musicians? Where it seems an actual normal sized human could be playing them.

If you mean the former, the drums on the Return to Forever album, "Romanti Warrior"  as played by Billy Cobham fit the bill. They translated very well from the original analog, to CD.

If you mean the latter, drums on the vast majority of acoustic jazz recordings will do. I especially like the way drums are tecorded on most recordings on the ECM label. Very natural, very detailed, well defined within the soundstage, attack and decay is better tecorded.