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

You really need to address what you personaly feel is great drumming.  I grew up on all the great drummers of the rock age 1965 onward, but as my musical taste evolved, I would now have to say the best rock & roll drummers don't stand up against the great Jazz drummers.  

@bigtwin  - I've tried to clarify this in further posts.  I don't mean musicianship but the quality of the recording of the drums.  What are the earliest drum recordings on CD which seemed to get out of both hyper-compression and digital boredom?

The early Sheffield Labs direct-2-disk albums. The CD versions of those albums are of course not direct-2-disk (LP's, vinyl for you youngins' ;-), but recording engineer Doug Sax also captured those in-studio performances on the reel-to-reel machine Sheffield had in their studio. Those recordings were eventually issued on CD.