The Best Drum Intro Songs Ever

I heard a song recently, ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’ by Electric Light Orchestra, that starts out with a simple but oddly impactful drum part. It turns out that this particular drumming was not actually played but rather taken from the prior album track as a tape loop, slowed down, had the pitch adjusted slightly, and then sped up again. If that doesn’t exactly make sense to you it’s okay, it doesn’t much to me either. But just know that the instantly recognizable drum intro helped make this 1979 song ELO’s highest-ever charting hit in the U.S. (and, coincidentally, having come as the closing track on their 8^th studio album, their first single not to include a string section).

This got me thinking about songs that open with drums – no other instruments, just the elements of the drum kit – and how many others, like ‘Don’t Bring Me Down,’ have that type of signature start. A half dozen or so immediately came to mind, pretty famous ones, however I felt I needed to think a bit deeper. Before too long I’d excavated another 10-15 from my mental archives, some really good ones, too, but still couldn’t escape the feeling that I was missing more. So I set So Much Great Music’s crack research department loose on the subject. And they delivered, big time. Maybe a bit too big. As of this moment – and I’ve really got to stop now – I’ve compiled exactly 184 songs with some type of drum intro. Yes, it’s true. Many I was horrified not to have come up with from memory myself, others were less obvious, and some were even a bit obscure but no less worthy. There are long, complicated ones that go on for a whole introductory sequence, and short ones as simple as a single strike of the snare.

And, I guess you knew this would inevitably lead to a new SMGM Top “10” list, so here it comes: “The Best Drum Intro Songs Ever” – where we’ll identify, eventually, the greatest drum opening song of all time.

But first, as always, a bit of introduction and set-up must be put into place. Firstly, given the two different types of opening drum parts – beats and fills – an explanation on what qualifies. Found among the extensive sleuthing was the following valiant attempt (by another music commentator apparently with too much time on their hands) at discerning the difference:

Starting with a drum fill is different than just starting with a drum beat. A drum beat is a pattern of notes that sets the tempo and groove of a song. A drum fill is an improvisatory group of notes (or note) that propels the music forward usually at the end of a phrase into the beginning of a new phrase. For example, ‘Billie Jean’ by Michael Jackson starts with a drum beat. ‘Superstition’ by Stevie Wonder starts with a drum fill consisting of four snare hits leading into a drum beat.

So, for our use, let me clarify about this very important distinction: we’re not distinguishing. Our list unreservedly includes both; if a song starts with drums, and only drums, it’s eligible.

Okay next, well, this is a lot of songs. It’s possible we went a bit overboard (not a first here at SMGM headquarters), and realistically it’s a bit much to put into one collective and cohesive countdown. Not to worry. We’re going to create certain subdivisions of songs – for reasons, conditions, and trivialities to be identified later – and group them separately along the way. But, of course, the complete tabulation of all 184 will be contained within the new SMGM Spotify playlist, “The Best Drum Intro Songs Ever,” which you also knew was coming and which will follow at the end.

A quick note on that: the full compilation of tunes, if played in their entirety, measures well over 12 hours of listening. Don’t do that. (or, at least don’t do that initially). This is one playlist that will be best enjoyed by rifling through the first few seconds of each song – to quickly nod your head, tap your toes, and admire the uniqueness of each song’s percussion construction while recognizing the insanity inherent in the process of having collected them. At 3-4 seconds per song, doing so in this rapid-fire fashion may then only occupy something like 8 or 9 minutes – maybe multiple sittings even at that, but still. Of course, more so here than ever, and as was also critically the case with our 2023 article, The Greatest Opening Guitar Riffs Ever (our 3^rd most read post ever, I’m sure you were dying to know), by all means be sure to open the playlist in the Spotify app so you’ll hear the songs’ beginnings, not a random middle section that’s played in preview mode.

Finally, and I fear I may have buried the lede here, how are we going to rank the selections on our list? In other words, by what features and characteristics should a drum intro be judged, and by extension, what makes a particular drum intro great, and a certain one best? This, admittedly, is not only implicitly subjective but also pretty tough to pin down. Having it introduce an otherwise great song clearly helps, that’s somewhat inescapable, but is not necessarily the right qualifier. I think it’s more this: in setting up the song, does it create a signature moment, a unique feel, a certain identifiable stamp. Does the drum intro, in fact, have a personality? Yeah, I like that. As we go through the list, and especially as we get up near the top of the countdown, I know you’ll recognize it.

Alright then, I think we’re ready to get started. But we’ll ease into it, literally, with the first of our drum intro sub-groups. You might not think there would be occasions where the drums actually fade-in to begin a song, the volume starting low then gradually increasing to the tune’s regular level, but we found six of them:

Fade-ins

‘Swingtown’ – Steve Miller Band
‘I’m Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band’ – Moody Blues
‘Susie Q.’ – Creedence Clearwater Revival
‘I Fought The Law’ – Clash
‘Samson and Delilah’ – Grateful Dead
‘Tusk’ – Fleetwood Mac

You’d never really thought about those openings, had you? C’mon, this is big stuff!

Another quick aside before formally launching into our list. One drummer emerged as having the most occurrences (3) of a drum part song-starter within the same album. That was Jeff Porcaro, a name with which some of you fellow musos may be familiar…but I bet it’s not from the album (or band) you think. Stay tuned.

Now, on to the list. Here is the “5^th 20”, in other words songs 81-100 – yeah, I decided to make it an official Top 100, what the hell. But consider them as a non-ordered drum intro song block; I can’t be bothered to rank them individually until we get much higher up the list. It’s early, but do you recognize any of these starts?

The 5^th 20

‘In A Big Country’ – Big Country
‘O-o-h Child’ – Five Stairsteps
‘I Can’t Drive 55’ – Sammy Hagar
‘Nowhere To Run’ – Martha Reeves & The Vandellas
‘Another Saturday Night’ – Sam Cooke
‘Careless Whisper’ – George Michael
‘What Can I Say’ – Boz Scaggs
‘Surrender’ – Cheap Trick
‘Sympathy for the Devil’ – Rolling Stones
‘Longview’ – Green Day
‘Need You Tonight’ – INXS
‘(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding’ – Elvis Costello
‘Evil Ways’ – Santana
‘Mean Mr. Mustard’ – Beatles
‘It Ain’t Over Til It’s Over’ – Lenny Kravitz
‘I Got the News’ – Steely Dan
‘Nothing’s Too Good For My Baby’ – Stevie Wonder
‘Life is A Highway’ – Tom Cochrane
‘I Wanna Be With You’ – Raspberries
‘Brick’ – Dazz

Now without further ado, a little more ado. Here are a group of “honorable mentions” – a bunch of 12 more I just couldn’t fit into a top 100 but still didn’t want to leave behind.

Honorable Mentions

‘Good Planets Are Hard to Find’ – Steve Forbert
‘Time Out of Mind’ – Steely Dan
‘Song 2’ – Blur
‘Supersonic’ – Oasis
‘Frankenstein’ – Edgar Winter Group
‘The Stroke’ – Billy Squier
‘Stuck With You’ – Huey Lewis & The News
‘Blame It On The Boogie’ – The Jacksons
‘6^th Avenue Heartache’ – Wallflowers
‘Something’ – The Beatles
‘Buffalo Soldier’ – Bob Marley
‘Sweet Freedom’ – Michael McDonald

A fine group of excess extras, wouldn’t you say? And the second appearance by a bunch of Liverpudlians (that’s the real name for residents of Liverpool, y’know) known as The Beatles. Which seems like a good reason for this next segue: Most occurrences of drum intros within the entirety of our survey by a drummer as part of a band (most of these really should not surprise you*).

Most by Individual (song quantity in parentheses)

John Bonham / Led Zeppelin (5)
Max Weinberg / Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (5)
Ringo Starr / Beatles (4)
John Densmore / Doors (3)
Topper Headon / Clash (3)

*But Ringo did. In fact, my son Max (with whom I consulted on a portion of the research) and I could not think of any Beatles tunes that would qualify from memory. None. Yet after a pretty fair amount of hunting, we actually arrived at 4 – good enough for the individual bronze medal for the eldest Beatle.

On to the next section of our list, the 4^th 20 (also songs number 61-80). Here’s that block:

The 4^th 20

‘Trouble No More’ – Allman Brothers
‘Mystery Achievement’ – Pretenders
‘Snakecharmer’ – Rage Against the Machine
‘Razorblade’ – Strokes
‘Born to Run’ – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
‘Down Under’ – Men at Work
‘The Difference’ – Wallflowers
‘The Letter’ – Box Tops
‘Song For You’ – Outlaws
‘Could It Be I’m Falling In Love’ – Spinners
‘Heart of the City’ – Nick Lowe
‘The Obvious Child’ – Paul Simon
‘High and Dry’ – Radiohead
‘Bad Case of Loving You’ – Robert Palmer
‘Little Miss Lover’ – Jimi Hendrix
‘Do It Again’ – Steely Dan
‘Spiderwebs’ – No Doubt
‘Jamming’ – Bob Marley & The Wailers
‘Come and Get Your Love’ – Redbone
‘He’s the Greatest Dancer’ – Sister Sledge

Whoa, those are some quality tunes, and pretty incredible drum intros, right?. Can you hear ‘em? And we’re only up to #60 for our list. You can probably start to see how hard it was to squeeze all the candidates in. And why I had to create quite a few separate-from-the-list sub-categories to do so. Say, like these: Drum intros that used only snare and kick drum. Simple but so effective. (and see the pattern in parentheses).

Snare/Kick only

‘Material Girl’ – Madonna (kick/snare)
‘Funky Cold Medina’ – Tone-Loc (snare/kick x4)
‘Murder Incorporated’ – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band (kick/snare x4)
‘Up On Cripple Creek’ – The Band (snare x2/kick x2)
‘Next To You’ – Police (snare/kick x6)
‘The Long Run’ – Eagles (snare/kick x2/snare x2)
‘Can’t Get Enough’ – Bad Company (kick/snare)*
‘Life’s Been Good’ – Joe Walsh (snare/kick-kick-kick x4)

*preceded by 7 stick clicks; I made an exception for those

Or this next grouping: pairs of songs with remarkably similar (some I’d even say, identical) drum intro patterns. These are pretty amazing when you listen to them together. (how did we find these matches? After hours poring over so many tunes the patterns became, shall we say, drummed into my head).

Most Similar

‘Take The Money and Run’ – Steve Miller Band AND ‘Sleepwalker’ – Kinks
‘Train in Vain’ – Clash AND ‘Stupid Girl’ – Garbage
‘Rock ‘n’ Roll (Part 2)’ – Gary Glitter AND ‘Howlin’ For You’ – Black Keys
‘Be My Baby’ – Ronettes AND ‘Say Goodbye to Hollywood’ – Billy Joel

Did I miss any? Consider it a challenge, dear readers and listeners, to come up with any other viable pairs.

This seems like a good time to step aside and re-emphasize an important part of our approach and methodology. That is, in conniving ways to include more and more songs within this post that I just couldn’t bear the thought of leaving out, while limiting the list itself to a still reasonably bloated tally of 100. So it should be recognized that some of the side selections – those included within our fabricated fringe categories – could easily have merited being in the Top 100 (but then, you recall, we’d have a top 184 list rather than a make-believe tidy number). ‘Take The Money and Run’ is a prime example, an iconic beginning that’s otherwise easily Top 20 worthy. But I’ve always been intrigued by its similarity to The Kinks’ ‘Sleepwalker,’ probably a lesser-known tune overall. Play that one in front of a room of people and watch them instinctively go “Hoo hoo” where it would have come into the Steve Miller start. You’ll see.

By the way, in calling out these various drum pattern technicalities you might wonder, am I myself a drummer? Hell, no (although my son Max absolutely is). I’m merely a longtime air drummer (humor me, I think that’s a real thing), and as such have, over many years, developed a finely trained ear that qualifies me to chronicle these sorts of details (that’s my story, and I’m drumsticking to it).

Back to the list now, another block of twenty, slotting as numbers 41-60, before we reach official countdown mode. Here goes:

The 3^rd 20

‘Mother and Child Reunion’ – Paul Simon
‘Ballroom Blitz’ – Sweet
‘Burnout’ – Green Day
‘Young Folks’ – Peter Bjorn and John
‘Dreams’ – Fleetwood Mac
‘Hello I Love You’ – Doors
‘Take on Me’ – a-ha
‘Whip It’ – Devo
‘We’re Not Gonna Take It’ – Twisted Sister
‘Addicted to Love’ – Robert Palmer
‘Rock and Roll All Nite’ – Kiss
‘What You Need’ – INXS
‘Whatcha Gonna Do’ – Pablo Cruise
‘Hungry Heart’ – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
‘Semi-Charmed Life’ – Third Eye Blind
‘Refugee’ – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
‘The Thrill is Gone’ – B.B. King
‘What It Takes’ – Aerosmith
‘The Joker’ – Steve Miller
‘Take Me To The River’ – Talking Heads

We’re getting into the meat of the order now. So let’s immediately turn away. Some more side lists, if you please. I mentioned at the top that some extremely memorable, as well as quite famous, drum intros could be “…short ones as simple as a single strike of the snare”, and you may well have thought that to be hyperbole. Could one snare hit really create a catchy song opening? Yes, it could. Here’s 4 quick (obviously) examples:

Shortest (Snare Only)

‘Light My Fire’ – Doors
‘Jesus is Just Alright with Me’ – Doobie Brothers
‘Low’ – Cracker
‘Lido Shuffle’ – Boz Scaggs

And, just to go up the ladder while continuing the theme, these succeeding songs all begin with just, well you’ll see how many hits as specified in the parentheses, all on nothing more than the simple snare drum:

‘Move On Up’ – Curtis Mayfield (2)
‘Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting’ – Elton John (3)
‘Wanna Be Startin’ Something’ – Michael Jackson (3)
‘Rock the Casbah’ – Clash (3)
‘What is Hip’ – Tower of Power (3)
‘Sound and Vision’ – David Bowie (3)
‘Celebration’ – Kool & The Gang (4)
‘Rain’ – Beatles (5)
‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ – Gladys Knight & The Pips (6)

I also mentioned earlier about my son Max being a real-life drummer. And some of Max’s nominations for inclusion here are a bit more, umm, Max-ish than the rest of the list or all its requisite subsidiaries. So, here’s my Max-related sub-genre of drum openings, along with some important notations accompanying this group of songs (that chances are you’ve never heard of):

Max Related

‘Room Temperature Suite’ – Don Caballero
‘It’s Expected I’m Gone’ – Minutemen >> ‘Hurley’ – Pinback >> ‘I Want Cash’ – Stice*
‘Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea of Air)’ – Captain Beyond
‘The Wolf is Loose’ – Mastodon
‘Loose Grasp’ – Landowner
‘Crunch House Bathroom’ – Space Camp
‘Fake Fate’ – Rong#
‘O Translucent Animal’ – Tundrastomper^

*These 3 are connected, whereby the 2^nd and 3^rd bands sample the opening beat recorded by the 1^st (indie-punk warhorses, The Minutemen), and on the 3^rdtrack (by Stice) it’s actually Max drumming.

#Max plays in this band, but as the bassist (the drum opening is by the great Adric Giles)

^That’s Max drumming here, too, with beloved Tundrastomper, and it’s yours truly closing the opening sequence with a resounding hit of the vibraslap, a percussion instrument making that strange, rattling sound you hear at the 3-second mark. No, I’m not kidding.

Another diversion (and with it, more evidence of how many tricks I had to play – on who? on myself – in order to find a way to fit all these dutifully researched songs. Our introduction firmly established the list to be inclusive of both intro beats and fills, as it indisputably is. Still, this group of songs just felt like some of the most straight-up straight beats I found. Different tempos, but straight ahead.

Straight-Up Straight Beats

‘Further On Up The Road’ – Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
‘Dig In’ – Lenny Kravitz
‘Do I Wanna Know’ – Arctic Monkeys
‘Hold On’ – Alabama Shakes
‘What I Got’ – Sublime
‘Steady as She Goes’ – Raconteurs
‘Gimme All Your Lovin’ – ZZ Top
‘Our Lips are Sealed’ – Go-Go’s
‘Do You Wanna Touch Me’ – Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
‘I’m Amazed’ – My Morning Jacket
‘Love Stinks’ – J. Geils Band

Okay, anybody ready to get into the actual countdown portion of the countdown? Have you held out some ideas for killer drum song openers that haven’t come up yet? Some heavies and heartwarmers await (as well as a few surprises). Let’s go.

The 2^nd 20

‘Hurts So Good’ – John Mellencamp
‘Undone (The Sweater Song)’ – Weezer
‘Birthday’ – Beatles
‘Moby Dick’ – Led Zeppelin
‘I Want You to Want Me’ – Cheap Trick
‘Hard to Handle’ – Black Crowes
‘Ain’t Too Proud to Beg’ – Temptations
‘My Hero’ – Foo Fighters
‘I Want Candy’ – Bow Wow Wow
‘Dreaming’ – Blondie
‘Billie Jean’ – Michael Jackson
‘A Little Less Conversation’ – Elvis Presley
‘Lust for Life’ – Iggy Pop
‘Master Blaster (Jammin’)’ – Stevie Wonder
‘Brick House’ – Commodores
‘Watching the Detectives’ – Elvis Costello
‘The Rover’ – Led Zeppelin
‘Bullet The Blue Sky’ – U2
‘Hot For Teacher’ – Van Halen
‘Higher Love’ – Steve Winwood

Oh, those are so great, aren’t they? I love all these starts. Should all songs just begin with only drums? That sounds like a great idea to me. But then there’d be so many more for me to have to fit in; as it is, I’ve still got a whole bunch left to get to. Alright, we’re going to have to rattle through these – before finally bringing forth the true Top 20, and with it, revealing the single Top Drum Intro of All-Time. Some of these are very specific and might be a little weaker as sub-categories…or maybe that really makes them better? I don’t know, I’m getting punchy. Brace yourself.

Old School Cool

‘Take 5’ – Dave Brubeck
‘Sing, Sing, Sing’ – Benny Goodman
‘Wipeout’ – Surfaris
‘Glad All Over’ – Dave Clark Five

Only The Hi-Hat

‘Every Little Thing She Does is Magic’ – Police
‘Mellow Yellow’ – Donovan

Only The Cowbell

‘Mississippi Queen’ – Mountain
‘Honky Tonk Woman’ – Rolling Stones

Best Use of Rim Shots

‘Break on Through (To the Other Side)’ – Doors

Tapping The Hi-Hat Stand

‘Come Out and Play’ – Offspring

Wait, we almost forgot to address our trivia question from earlier:

Most Drum Intros Within One Album

“Silk Degrees” – Boz Scaggs

Shoutout to Jeff Porcaro, session drummer on this album in 1975, then co-founder of Toto in 1977 (where he created an indelible drum intro found in our upcoming Top 20)

We’re almost there, just a few oddballs and a couple personal notes left. Hold on.

Funkiest

‘Squib Cakes’ – Tower of Power

Sexiest

‘I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little More Baby’ – Barry White

Worst ‘80’s Drum Sound

‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ – Rick Astley

Most Overrated

‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover’ – Paul Simon

Steve Gadd is revered for this one, but I say “meh” and can’t believe it’s the same guy who played the otherworldly solos on Steely Dan’s ‘Aja.’

Most Times Heard

‘Accidentally in Love’ – Counting Crows

This song was my daughter Mary’s alarm clock growing up. For many years. And she also hit the snooze button a lot.

Toilet Seat Rhythm

‘Smooth’ – Santana

Max and I always said this opening was exactly like the sound our hall bathroom toilet seat made as it was dropped down (you probably had to be there).

Off the List (even though it’s included)

‘I Don’t Care Anymore’ – Phil Collins

So boring. There may have been a time when I gave a damn about Phil Collins’s drumming but…(insert above song title here).

Drumroll, please. Ladies and gentleman, and drum intro aficionados of all ages, we’ve made it. It’s time, at last, to end the countdown and unveil the Top 20. Here they are, The Best Drum Intro Songs Ever. As it has been directed to every drummer starting a song in music history, “Hit it!”

The Top 20

20. ‘Fortunate Son’ – Creedence Clearwater Revival
19. ‘Two Princes’ – Spin Doctors
18. ‘Love Shack’ – B-52’s
17. ‘Middle of the Road’ – Pretenders
16. ‘Walk This Way’ – Aerosmith
15. ‘No Surrender’ – Bruce Springsteen
14. ‘Lowdown’ – Boz Scaggs
13. ‘Young Americans’ – David Bowie
12. ‘Rosanna’ – Toto
11. ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’ – Electric Light Orchestra
10. ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ – U2
9. ‘Rock with You’ – Michael Jackson
8. ‘Dani California’ – Red Hot Chili Peppers
7. ‘My Sharona’ – Knack
6. ‘D’yer Mak’er’ – Led Zeppelin
5. ‘It’s The End of The World as We Know It’ – R.E.M.
4. ‘Superstition’ – Stevie Wonder
3. ‘We’re an American Band’ – Grand Funk Railroad
1. (tie) ‘When The Levee Breaks’ AND ‘Rock and Roll’ – Led Zeppelin

How about those?! What a collection, huh? The ELO tune that started all this madness, along with some of the most imaginative, ingenious, etched-in-memory opening drum parts which…What’s that? There at the end? Yeah, that’s right, it’s a tie. I couldn’t decide.

Picking Zeppelin’s one-of-a-kind drummer, John Bonham, was the easy part. As you can see, the legendary “Bonzo” not only slots into both of the top 2, but has 3 in the top 20 (and 5 in the top 40). The man was simply a preternatural monster with the sticks, blending instinctive creativity with ferocious power like no one else has in rock history. But choosing between the epic starts of ‘When The Levee Breaks’ and ‘Rock and Roll’? That was just too tough. You’ve heard of a western bolo tie, well, this had to be a Bonzo tie. Here’s a quick look at why.

Much mystique surrounds the booming, echoey, thunderous drum sound Bonham created at the start of ‘When The Levee Breaks’ and no small amount of scholarly research has been done assessing just how he accomplished it. It was recorded in the cavernous entryway of Headley Grange, a damp, heatless former workhouse in Hampshire, England, utilizing microphones suspended above multiple flights of stairs to capture its reverberant acoustics. Or so it’s always been described (including by Jimmy Page, in the 2008 documentary “It Might Get Loud” when he revisits the mythical space). More recently, YouTube musicologist Rick Beato has contradicted the idealized “natural echo” effect, citing an interview with Andy Johns, recording engineer on the song, who also described the use of a delay effects device called a Binson Echorec. My feeling on the faux controversy? I don’t care. Whether achieved entirely via the unique reflective surfaces of a three-story stone structure built in the 18^th century or with the aid of some modern technological wizardry, the unmistakable drum sound Bonham generated to launch this song is timeless, and unlike anything else in popular music history. Except maybe…

Many, if not most, professional level drummers hear the beginning of ‘Rock and Roll’ wrong. It turns out that it actually starts not on beat one but at beat three (play along that you know what that means). I’ve watched numerous videos of legit drummers describing how long it took them to figure that out, and the “eureka” moment when they realized they’d always been processing it incorrectly. The key to understanding it, in fact, is learning that Bonham lovingly lifted the pattern directly from Little Richard’s super-charged 1957 classic ‘Keep A-Knockin’,’ which he was messing around with during a lull in a Led Zeppelin IV recording session. It’s difficult to aptly describe the feeling of combustible anticipation Bonham manufactures in a mere six seconds here, but utilizing his tautly accented snare and filthy loose hi-hat Bonham was able to produce the most distinctive and deliriously raucous drum intro ever.

Or, at least, one of the top two.

John “Bonzo” Bonham, 1948-1980

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Here’s how to find the songs throughout the post on the accompanying Spotify playlist below “The Best Drum Intro Songs Ever” (playlist track placement(s) are in parentheses). And remember to access it in the Spotify app to hear the songs’ starts, not a middle part played in preview mode:

Top 20 (1-20) / 2^nd 20 (21-40) 3^rd 20 (41-60) / 4^th 20 (61-80) / 5^th 20 (81-100) / Fade-ins (100-106) / Snare/Kick only (107-114) / Most Similar (115-122) / Shortest (Snare Only) (123-135) / Straight-Up Straight Beats (136-146) / Old School Cool (147-150) / Max-Related (151-160) / Honorable Mention (161-172) / Only The Hi-Hat (173-174) / Only The Cowbell (175-176) / Best Use of Rim Shots (177) / Tapping The Hi-Hat Stand (178) / Funkiest (179) / Sexiest (180) / Worst ‘80’s Drum Sound (181) / Most Overrated (182) / Most Times Heard (183) / Toilet Seat Rhythm (184) / Off the List (185)