Why this rhythmic pattern isn't practically used anymore?

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Well, not that it disappeared from the face of the earth, but it was used a lot in pop music from fifties/sixties and nowadays it is so hard to find it in modern (and not so modern) music. Why? Just because it fell out of fashion? I can tell that I truly loved practically any tune driven by that pattern and just hearing the drums playing it was enough for me to move my head along with the music (here's an example that brings so many fond childhood memories).

The only "modern" example that I can think of in which something similar can be heard is Rush's "The Spirit Of Radio" from 1:52 to 2:05 in the original recording ("all this machinery making modern music..."). Can you name others? Again, it is easy to find it in the oldies catalog, but I can't recall it being used in other context. Don't you think it's still perfectly usable in pop music? Any comments on this subject are welcome.

[Joe Gress]

To me I've heard that variation mostly in faster surf music that just isn't being made that much anymore.


EDIT: Listening to a couple of Punk and Hardcore albums tonight and paying attention has revealed a few more.

[Hoover]

Originally Posted by Joe Gress

To me I've heard that variation mostly in faster surf music

+1, as soon as you add that snare hit on the and of two it instantly connotes "Surf Music"

[JimK]

...I now kinda got "And When I Die" stuck in my head.

"I'm not scared of dying
And I don't really care..."

[Fuff24]

its used in some punk rock/glam songs, and some 90's rock too. it's in Buddy Holly by Weezer

[pklima]

Yeah, that beat is very old-school!

Does anybody really play any waltzes anymore, other than maybe slow country waltzes?

I was gonna say the tango rhythm is never used outside of very retro gigs but you'll get bits of it in songs like Shakira's "Objection", so it's not quite dead yet.

[Pacman]

It's making it's way back on several of the new singers coming out of the UK - I've heard it on Duffy's CD, and possibly on the new Adele, too.

[Munjibunga]

Because if the next measure is an eighth rest and two eighth notes, it sounds like someone knocking.

[onosson]

I know some blues drummers who refer to that kind of beat as a "rhumba" - I'm not sure if it's exactly the same.