bands that sounded better with a drum machine

I was just thinking about bands that replaced their drum machine with either session drummers or a permanent band member…were they simply better with a drum machine or was it a case of a band losing creative juice so they started adding more members (the way a dying sitcom adds kids, cousins, babies, long-lost relatives, kooky teens, etc.)? Here's some of the bands that I think sounded better with a drum machine.

They Might Be Giants
Cocteau Twins
Jesus and Mary Chain (I guess they always had live drummers though)
Pop Will Eat Itself
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine
Depeche Mode

How about bands whose drummers sound like drum machines?

TRIO
DEVO

Genesis
the Eagles

Of course they would sound even better without their singing drummers in the band.

Soft Cell

Originally posted by bearman:
Jesus and Mary Chain

this was exactly what i thought of when i saw the title of the thread

Originally posted by bearman:

Jesus and Mary Chain (I guess they always had live drummers though)

After Psychocandy, the greatest album every made, J&MC used a drum machine for Darklands and Automatic (and maybe some of the subsequent albums) and those albums suffered mightily for it. I guess it was impossible to think they'd be able to keep Bobby Gillespie in the band, but they should've just replaced him with another drummer.

Big Black was the perfect example of a (non-techno) band that sounded best with a drum machine.

Originally posted by Relaxer:
Big Black was the perfect example of a (non-techno) band that sounded best with a drum machine.

that's who i though of when i saw the thread title

Depeche Mode was THE first thing to pop up in my head when I saw this . . . .