songs with cool handclaps

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'Umbabarauma' by Jorge Ben. The funkiest clappiest song ever

― dancity, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"I've Lost COntrol" by Sleazy D. Loads of lovely, slightly phased 808 claps.

― Microkomputer, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wait a minute - it's been a while, but hasn't CV's 'Sensoria' got these great electronic handclappy noises all the way through ?

― Ray M, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Shake Appeal" -- Iggy & the Stooges.

― Colin Meeder, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Come Out 2 Nite"!

(Kenickie)

― Graham, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

le tigre -- deceptacon

― drake, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

quite a few Boo Radleys songs. Their cover of "There She Goes", for one . . .

― Ess Kay, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

the danielson family loves to clap along quite frequently

― petite verte, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Roller Skating Child", Beach Boys

― dleone, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"My Best Friend's Girl" by the Cars, "We Will Rock You" by Queen.

― Matt Riedl (veal), Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Sensoria"!!!! I was going to say that!

Instead, I'll say "Pacific" by 808 State, "It Must Be Obvious" by Pet Shop Boys and "The Dream" and "La Ment" by The Cure.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Chick Corea knows how to rock the handclaps. Witness "Spain" from Light as a Feather or some of the songs from My Spanish Heart (don't have the titles in front of me).

― o. nate, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Private Eyes" by Hall and Oates is the best all-time hand-clapper. Everyone knows that.

― maria, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

there's gotta be a numan track. ned?

― dyson, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"devotion" ten city.

― Aaron G!, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ms. Lady Evans by Redd Kross gets my vote!

― Manny Parsons, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

So, how long were y'all planning this thread to go on before someone mentioned "Summertime Blues"?

― Jeff W, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's already been suggested, but it needs to be repeated: "The Death of Ferdinand de Saussure" by the Magnetic Fields. The handclaps on that song are devastating.

The Reich piece is great, and there's an odd and small early John Cage piece called (I think) "Chant with Clapping" that I'm overly fond of. But those aren't the delightful "cheezy" handclaps...

― Chris Piuma, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"The Boy with the Arab Strap" by Belle and Sebastian. How could that song not put a grin on your face?

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Lazy:X-Press2 & David Byrne

― dek1, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Don't Bring Me Down - The Pretty Things

Being Boiled (second version) - Human League

― baxter wingnut, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

New I can't believe it's not been mentioned yet answers:

Undertones - Teenage Kicks

Oh, and all electro - evah!

― Bill E, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

HAND CLAPPING MAKES A GOOD SONG... AND THATS FINAL

― sonicred, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

i like the handclaps in Polvo's "tiara fetish"/"watch the nail"... very minimal... only 4 claps in the entire song, but stretched out so far apart...

― gygax!, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Neptunes remix of "Grindin" by the Clipse

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

five months pass...

"Everybody's Gonna Be Happy" Kinks

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link

Meredith Monk, certainly, *must* have a number of hand-claps-accompanied songs - but i can't recall even one of them by name right now (which is a shame)

there's a rather beautiful whistle-and-handclaps passage amidst Jethro Tull's "Pibroch (Cap In Hand)"

(the most un-happening clap-musician? Eric Clap''' ?)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago) link

see

The Best Use of Handclaps

― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Roots "Water"
Medeski Martin and Wood "whatever that song is on Combustication with the hand-clap break"

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

Speaking of the Kinks ... "Rainy Day in June" is also a good'un.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Cure "Close to Me"

― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

How about "songs with cool handjobs?" You know, like "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)"? Sorry. Bedtime for me.

― s woods, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Escape Club - "Wild Wild West"

That was a joke. I think.

I would like to personally congratulate this thread for failing to mention "Jack and Diane". Wait a minute...

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:05 (twenty-one years ago) link

any luke vibert production or remix. he are best at avvin good rivvums an that, like. renegade by pussy galore (with ancillary jewellery jangle too!)

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Glass" by Joy Division, "Let's Go To Bed" by The Cure, "Ankh" by Sun Ra and "Seconds Too Late" by Cabaret Voltaire all have cool handclaps.

― James Annett (jlannett), Monday, 10 February 2003 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Project: Go!" by Straight To Video

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 10 February 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

Busta's "Make It Clap"

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 February 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't remember if "Stairway to the Stars" by Blue Oyster Cult really had handclaps in the middle section or not, but if it doesn't, it's still a cool song with handclaps until someone notices they're not there.

― tom (other one), Monday, 10 February 2003 04:46 (twenty-one years ago) link

Cheap Trick's "Daddy Should've Stayed in High School" has my favorite handclaps. They make the song sound louder.

Also unmentioned is Guided by Voices' "My Valuable Hunting Knife" (7" EP version)

― Mean guy, Monday, 10 February 2003 04:57 (twenty-one years ago) link

there's gotta be a numan track. ned?

Not really handclaps per se, but "I Die: You Die" sure sounds like it has robot handclaps.

SFA, "(Drawing) Rings Around the World" roolz, mang.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 10 February 2003 07:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sleater Kinney "Turn it On"

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 10 February 2003 08:47 (twenty-one years ago) link

"all is loneliness" by moondog

― duane, Monday, 10 February 2003 08:55 (twenty-one years ago) link

"You're the One" by Buddy Holly, best handclaps in the world ever.

― Burr, Monday, 10 February 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link

lil kim - the jump off

― original bgm, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:10 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Midnight Mountain" by Cathedral.

― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

smog - "cold blooded old times"

― ropadop, Thursday, 1 April 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link

"Renegades of Funk" has handclaps, in fact they come in after they say "now handclaps!". It's great.
Oh and that "Hey mickey you're so fine" song has handclaps. Wait a minute-I hate that song!

― Sengai, Thursday, 1 April 2004 19:28 (twenty years ago) link

"Tighten Up" - Archie Bell and the Drells

― ken taylrr, Friday, 2 April 2004 05:00 (twenty years ago) link

1 hipster vote for "We Used to Be Friends" by Dandy Warhols

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 2 April 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link

I'll be there for you by the rembrandts heh heh heh

― sanchez (mokey), Friday, 2 April 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link

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Arabs own cool handclaps, as I've said before. Oh yeah, they just hit it. I love that stuff. Not crazy about the singer. Is this Kuwaiti? The clapping seems Kuwaiti but I'm probably not nearly expert enough to be that specific.

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Monday, 17 March 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link

Here's more:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO77koJKcYA

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Monday, 17 March 2008 21:49 (sixteen years ago) link

Also don't forget this link from before, even though it's one of those corny Arab videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EN-Th_4g5E&mode=related&search=

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Monday, 17 March 2008 21:57 (sixteen years ago) link

Not rhythmically interesting, but the hybrid clap-snaps that run through Soft Cell's ver of "Where Did Our Love Go" are ripe for sampling.

― derelict, Monday, 17 March 2008 22:53 (sixteen years ago) link

Errrrm. Every song that uses a 909.

Also Bubo Pronsato - At Home I'm a Tourist

and the first song off A Chance To Cut is a chance to Cure by Matmos. The actual name has slipped me.

― mehlt, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 00:40 (sixteen years ago) link

eight months pass...

More killer khaleeji clapping:

― _Rockist__Scientist_, Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:08 (fifteen years ago) link

I cannot believe that nobody has posted this song yet:
Maxine Nightingale - "Right Back Where We Started From"
There's almost no other percussion except handclaps. It's FANTASTIC.
― Kate G., Friday, December 30, 2005 4:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark

I think about this post often.

Kate, so OTM

― my name is crap jones (PappaWheelie V), Thursday, 11 December 2008 20:10 (fifteen years ago) link

Nobody mentioned David Bowie "Secret Life Of Arabia"...

― sonnyboy, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:33 (fifteen years ago) link

Some of the coolest handclaps I have heard were in early electro-ish stuff like Madonna's "Holiday" and similar.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link

Jaggerz: The Rapper

― ＴＥＥＮＡＧＥＤＩＡＬＥＣＴＩＣＳ (libcrypt), Thursday, 11 December 2008 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link

Electric Light Orchestra - Summer & Lightning

Doesn't the Santa Esmerelda cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" go handclap crazy in the middle?

― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 11 December 2008 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link

Also Bubo Pronsato

What the hell was I doing when I typed this?

― This time, or I'll perc you later (mehlt), Thursday, 11 December 2008 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

Yeasayer's "Tightrope" on the "Dark Was The Night" compilation adds some terrific handclaps as the song progresses.

Also, Matt and Kim's terrific songs "Spare Change" and "Cutdown" give good clap.

The best I can think of that I haven't seen mentioned here is Nina Simone's "Sinnerman", which has an absolutely the best handclapping section about six minutes into it.

― senorguinn, Sunday, 19 September 2010 16:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Flat Duo Jet's "Go Go Harlem Baby" and the mid section of "Better Get It In Your Soul" by Charles Mingus. Two mighty fine examples of hand-clappery.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 23 September 2010 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link

ten months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJQ5Ox0q77M

― № (am0n), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link

Rapper Dapper Snapper

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:21 (twelve years ago) link

jj + blackhearts - i love r&r

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:36 (twelve years ago) link

B52's: Love Shack

― kokokeho, Thursday, 28 July 2011 11:48 (twelve years ago) link

You gotta wait for them, but they're great when they show up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=182ec49VktQ

― BIG HOOBA aka the stankdriver (Phil D.), Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:36 (twelve years ago) link

Wire, Champs

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Thursday, 28 July 2011 12:40 (twelve years ago) link

seven months pass...

Revive!!

love love love handclaps

Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO (though I think they're synth claps but w/e)
Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood - Santa Esmeralda

― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link

one year passes...

I still love handclaps fyi

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:30 (ten years ago) link

ooh and a vote for Ladies Night - Kool and The Gang for the triple handclap intro

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 May 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link

three years pass...

Tried to start a new thread about this song. Maybe it's just as well that I can't, but I finally found the best song, the Samira Toufic song I've been trying to ID for a couple decades now. I think of it as Samira Toufic doing the Bealtes and XTC. Handclaps at the beginning! Guitar at 1:48!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rU0-CMdkgjk

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link

Samira Toufic is so underrated, seriously.

― _Rudipherous_, Saturday, 25 March 2017 15:42 (seven years ago) link

Denim - The Osmonds, great handclaps near the end. Glam pastiche with exemplary genre signifiers.

― gass mccoombes (qiqing), Monday, 27 March 2017 01:24 (seven years ago) link

"Remember (Walking in the Sand)" - The Shangri-Las (minimal but perfect)

"Subway Joe" - Joe Bataan

― Josefa, Monday, 27 March 2017 04:14 (seven years ago) link

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