Your quintessential "genre" tracks

WiresDreamDisasters

Can people throw some tracks at me? Namely tracks you think best represent a given genre. I'm mostly interested in stuff with archetypal drum performances.

octatonic

Ticks and Leeches, by Tool. Genre: Prog Metal

Bouncing Around The Room by Phish. Genre: Jam Band

Ballad of Bodacious by Primus. Genre: Primus

2112 Overture / The Temples of Syrinx by Rush. Genre: Classic Prog Rock

Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree. Genre: Modern Prog Rock

ourmaninthenorth

When The Levee Breaks/Achilles Last Stand - Zeppelin. 

One Of These Days  - Pink Floyd. 

Red - KIng Crimson.

Black Night - Deep Purple. 

Supernaut - Sabbath. 

starwarsnosebleed

Mother sky by Can.
Both guitar and drums are great.

Grunfeld

This gets tagged as "post punk; ambient; dream pop; post-rock" -- and I see why but I'm also a bit, "really?"

I like this genre, have been in it for decades, it's not popular though*.  It's what I [aspire to] play when I play to write, when I'm on my own.  It's the sort of music I'd love to play live if I thought anyone would come and see it. 

So this is a live performance and you see how the guitar and the drums work together.  This is totally what I love about what's going on here.  Which is why I bothered posting it. 

It's a bit waffly bollocks at the start so cut to 3:20 as the music starts.  (Which many think is also waffly bollocks but that's just a cheap shot.)

The Durutti Column [Vini Reilly], live 

[EDIT --  the recording is poor so much of what's the drummer is playing on this example isn't getting through YouTube -- I guess I hear the original in my head, but wanted to show how this stuff works live... oh well..]

* E.g. From "24 Hour Party People"

[watching Vini Reilly of Durutti Column performing "You've Heard It Before"]

Ryan Letts: Got to stop him singing, Tony.

Tony Wilson: It's avant-garde, you wouldn't understand it.

Ryan Letts: It's very poor. Very poor.

Tony Wilson: It's provocative.

Ryan Letts: Provocatively poor. Appallingly poor. They're not calling you the new George Epstein, you know.

Tony Wilson: [getting annoyed] ... It's Brian Epstein.

Ryan Letts: George Epstein, The Beatles' manager.

Tony Wilson: That's Brian Epstein, you dickhead. It's fucking Brian Epstein.

Ryan Letts: [overlapping] George Epstein. It's Brian Martin.

Tony Wilson: It's George Martin, you knob.

Ryan Letts: Brian Martin the producer, George Epstein the, er... manager.

Alan Erasmus: Tony, tell him to fuck off.

Lindsay: Come on, let's sit down...

Tony Wilson: [to Letts] You're just fucking wrong!

fandango

Okay .... you like these? Are they 'archetypal' enough?

See You In My Drums - The Shadows (with Tony Meehan)

Opa-Loka - Hawkwind (with two drummers Simon King & Alan Powell)

Chicken Pox or Fuquawi - Booker T & The MGs (Al Jackson Jr)

TTBZ

For metal drums, anything Mastodon. They sound huge on Stargasm.

thecolourbox

I'll go a bit different to those suggested already

300 mph torrential outpour blues - White Stripes. Meg at her most masterful for me. But on the other hand (at the other end of the spectrum) so was "Little Room"

Winny_Pooh

Challenging brief, some examples I can think of, many with simple playing but recorded sounds that are genre specific. 

Acid Jazz,  St Germain - rose rouge, Cinematic Orchestra - channel 1 suite, burn out 

Indie folk songwriter, Laura Viers - Cool water, Laura Marling - Soothing

Post hardcore, mewithoutyou - Tie me up! Untie me!

Post 2000 garage rock, The Hives - walk idiot walk, Yeah Yeah Yeahs - date with the night

Retro Americana, Alison Krauss & Robert Plant - rich woman (calf skin kick!), Calexico - Quattro

Adult indie(?) The National - Brainy (or Squalor Victoria), Alex Ebert - Truth, Grizzly Bear - yet again

Classic pop rock - Huey Lewis and the news - hip to be square or John Mellencamp - serious business
 
Soul/Neo Soul, Sade - no ordinary love, Jill Scott - A long walk (killer bass playing)