'The Queen Is Dead' had to be assembled in a slightly piecemeal fashion, with the snare and bass drum recorded separately from the cymbals and tom-toms.
Sometimes I think I'll never get any good at this stuff. That is the most bizzarre way to record drums I've ever heard of. Point it out to me when you get home.
I always thought Joyce's drumming was a bit mechanical... well, here it turns out it was (drum loop on the toms, manually cut to sound "humanized," ha!).