Errr, what??? Do I take it that the above mentioned are beat combos? 
I do love being a fogey. 
Let’s go a bit more slightly modern…
(I say ‘modern’, it’s bloody 30.yrs old now.
God I’m getting old.
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Nowt like a bit of KLF on full pelt, while trucking at night…with the ‘disco’ lights on for full effect …keep on truckin (and ravin.
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Try…What time is love
or …Last train to trans central.
Reminds me of beer getting chucked about and fights breaking out on dance floors…happy (and some unhappy ) memories when I hear these…
In another genre here’s a old long time favourite of mine.
A cover of the old T.Rex hit ‘Get it On’, better than the original imo.
I put it on this forum a few times …any excuse.
The sillouhetted blonde girl in the video does it for me, mainly because my Mrs used to replicate the dance to this record on stage first time I saw her…no she was NOT a stripper btw 
It was done by The Power Station, a collaboration of half of Duran Duran and vocals by Robert Palmer.
Enjoy.
I can heartily recommend the entire Power Station album (see link), I loved it and it still kicks derriere. I was particularly keen on Tony Thompson’s drum style - he’d become very hip with us drummers after his work with Bowie (Serious Moonlight era), and of course for his work with Chic: Thompson plus bass player Bernard Edwards were an awesome rhythm section by anyone’s standards
It’s very tempting to go on a trip down 1980’s memory lane and dust off some Shamen, early days INXS, or Sisters of Mercy, but instead here’s three, more-recent, potentially “not heard” offerings from some Scandanavian artists, for those of you like like a bit of metal:
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First the winning song from Eurovision 2007 - I kid you not!
A Finnish outfit called Lordi, who pre-empted Slipknot’s scary stage presentation style of horror-masks, and STILL won the contest!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAh9NRGNhUU -
Another bunch of crazy Finns (aren’t they all a bit mental?) Apocalyptica , who are one drummer and three others who play electric cellos and other stringed instruments.
Their first album Apocalyptica plays Metallica by Four Cellos is definitely something most won’t have heard. Here they are doing Master of Puppets, live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRKXeDGIwYI -
And finally, a little history lesson from Swedish metallers Sabaton, with a head-banging celebration of Swedish King Charles XII, aka Carolus Rex, who assumed command of the the Swedish empire aged just 15, and gave all his neighbours (Denmark, Norway, Saxony, Poland, Lithuania and Russia) a series of nasty surprises in battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1Th2hHU7o4
What I know about drumming I could write on a postage stamp, but I had a mate who was a drummer in a couple of bands.
He would sit in the passenger side of my car air drumming to the radio, and at his desk at work 
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He went on to be a club DJ and you could see him rven mildly and subconciously air drumming behind the decks to the beat on the record.
He always went on about Cozy Powell, (Dance with the Devil was it?) he also pointed out that Stewart Copeland had his own unique style, and he was also a fan of The Move’s and ELO’s Bev Bevan.
Ringo Starr even , afaik he was left handed but played the drums primarily right handed?..or summet like that.
Apparentlly because of that style, other drummers find it hard to drum the sequence in The Beatle’s Come together’…
I’m completely blagging this btw, (not like me ) as I said…I know nowt about drumming.
Ringo is on you tube somewhere explaining all that, I’ll try and find it.
Yes, all of those are drummers of note, and yes, air drumming and thigh drumming are all things we’re guilty of - even now, steering wheel and dashboard drumming are frequently never far away.
I clearly remember seeing Stewart Copeland on TV for the first time and wondering WTF he was doing, then spending a long time in deepest admiration and attempting to copy as much of his style as possible.
Highly ironic really as my drum teacher was in a jazz band, Last Exit, with Sting, and Copeland famously said he watched them play, was blown away by Sting (getting his phone number for later reference) but saying “Fantastic bassist, but the drummer was sheit” So my admiration of Copeland was not something my drum teacher would have approved of.
I went to my weekly drum lesson one day in 1977, after school.
My drum teacher said:
“What do you make of this “punk” thing?”
“Don’t like it” I said - at this point I fantasized about being the next Neil Peart, Ian Paice, or Phil Collins
“Yeah, me neither” he said “Our bassist has dyed his hair orange and gone off to London to be in a punk band”
That was the first time I heard of Sting.
There’s a documentary on the BBC I player.
It’s Sting sat with Dermot O Leary in front of a big tv,.showing him clips of his early years etc.
One of them is a clip on a Tyneside street where they are talking to his late grandmother, which he had never seen…quite touching.
It was actually on tv last night, I didnt watch it as I had seen it, but it was on after ‘Sting (and Police) at the BBC’, if you’re a fan, it’s worth watching.
Great band Police imo, love Every Breath, and that Synchronicity track…dont mean the album,.I mean the ‘Scottish Loch’ track.
I think Sting went a bit up his own arse for a while, when he went solo,.and especially when dragging round that tribal chief from the Rain Forests.
He still did a couple of good tracks though, Fields of gold, and Englishman in NY especially.
As you say, a matter of opinion. 
Just found that You Tube clip of Ringo and his drum technique I was on about.
Like the way he modestly says…
‘People thought I was a genius, but it was that I was only trying to play backwards’
Nah I reckon he was in fact a genius…along with the rest of the band.
Some say that Dance With the Devil is a mix of different lines put together in a studio.I’m no drum expert but could get close enough with a couple of wooden rulers on the old wood school desks to think they might be wrong.
If we’re still talking about drummers, I reckon you have to mention Roger Taylor, Charlie Watts, and especially Keith Moon.
Where do you start with music from the past that young un’s ain’t heard, John Kongos had two huge hits in 1971, He’s gonna step on you again & Tokoloshe man.
Our tune back in 1969/70 when I was courting my missus was Delaney Bonney & friends with George Harrison on guitar playing Comin’ Home.
Ginger Baker, Cozy Powell and Larry Mullen Junior of U2 all masters of their craft.
The latter’s performance on the Live Rattle and Hum version or With or Without You is as good as it gets.
Mods, I think Carryfast’s account has been hacked.
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Can also add that to the list.
Sooooooooo many excellent drummers over the years
Here’s one that is not such a familiar name - Simon Phillips, Jazz-Rock drummer par excellence, but also played on one of Judas Priest’s Sin After Sin album
Or Terry Bozzio
and any other drummer who ever played for Zappa
Carl Palmer, of course
But my personal hero growing up was the late, great Neil Peart
If we’re introducing old bands and their best tracks to younger guys, what about Lindisfarne…who are incidentally playing locally to me soon, but on a night I’ll be away.
Lady Eleanor.
Meet me on the corner.
And my favourite Lindisfarne track…Run for home.
And you cant mention Lindisfarne without …Fog on the Tyne.
Sittin in a sleazy snack bar suckin sickly sausage rolls.
Loving his choice of shirt btw…
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I always preferred Lady Eleanor to Run For Home.
This is also one that reminds me of early better days.
