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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

"Alex Chilton"!

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 2 April 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago) link

"The Authority Song" by Jimmy Eat World (not John Cougar Melonball!)

― sanchez (mokey), Friday, 2 April 2004 13:10 (twenty years ago) link

three weeks pass...

"lazy line painter jane" - belle & sebastian

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:56 (twenty years ago) link

"Here Comes The Sun" has syncopated handclaps, a rarity.

― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link

two weeks pass...

The handclaps on Buddy Holly's "You're the One" are also syncopated (and dizzying).

― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link

When the fuck did I write about handclaps? Weird. Stelfox to thread!
Anyway, Feist's "Mushaboom" -- love the faux-Diwali feel.

― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link

mint chicks - anti-tiger

― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:10 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Ensemble Al-Umayri: The Sawt of Kuwait

Clapping used really distinctively throughout the Gulf states. Slightly similar to flamenco or to some things I've heard from Mauritania or from various Saharan groups, but I think this use of clapping is more interesting. Quick, complex, rhythms clapped out, sort of as a chorus after verses. I would like even more of it in each song though.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 30 October 2004 19:06 (nineteen years ago) link

I mean it. The clapping here is unequivocally great.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Saturday, 30 October 2004 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Steely Dan "Show Biz Kids"

― Ian John50n (orion), Sunday, 17 April 2005 23:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Effigy - Caught

― Pistola, Monday, 18 April 2005 03:25 (nineteen years ago) link

That little breakdown in "No Matter What" by Badfinger has some serious handclaps.

― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Laurie Anderson, "Let X=X"
Tortoise, that last song on Standards.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link

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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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