songs with cool handclaps

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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

Does anyone remember that episode of The Patty Duke Show where she is present at a recording session and is accidentally recorded clapping or something, and at first it seems like she ruined the take but it turns out it made it better?

― Heidy- Ho, Monday, 18 April 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Pas/Cal - "What Happened to the Sands?"

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't believe that nobody has yet mentioned "Car Wash"!
Also: Boney M's "Rasputin"

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 18 April 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link

the shins - mine's not a high horse

― gem (trisk), Monday, 18 April 2005 07:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Spoon - Metal Detektor

― dmun, Monday, 18 April 2005 08:32 (nineteen years ago) link

q and not u -- A Line In the Sand

― a man what's made out of gas, Monday, 18 April 2005 10:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Kraftwerk - Tanzmusik

― Amon (eman), Monday, 18 April 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Armando - Pleasure Dome

― paul c (paul c), Monday, 18 April 2005 13:46 (nineteen years ago) link

The Beatles excelled at this
I listened to "Roll Over Beethoven" yesterday and the handclaps kind of bugged me.

― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link

'Bargain' by the Who (1971) has a nice use of handclaps - two closely spaced pairs, recurring every 8 bars (I think) during the verses only.

On a more contemporary note, I've noticed that a lot of r&b and hip hop records at the moment seem to have totally dispensed with a snare drum and have a big, fat, crisp 808-style handclap instead (ie in place of the snare, not mixed in with it). I like the sound of that.

― Oak (small items), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Tighten up - Archie Bell and the Drells

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link

I wasn't thinking of "Roll Over Beethoven" (which I don't even like).

― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link

how has THE CLAPPING SONG by SHIRLEY ELLIS not been mentioned yet?!?!

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 24 April 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link

The Sugarhill Gang - "8th Wonder"

― Ian Riese-Moraine has a grenade, that pineapple's not just a toy! (Eastern Mantr, Sunday, 24 April 2005 19:10 (nineteen years ago) link

The Angels - "My Boyfriend's Back" ???

― sleep (sleep), Sunday, 24 April 2005 21:21 (nineteen years ago) link

The Village People - "In the Navy"

― Mr Deeds (Mr Deeds), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

The Strokes - "12:51" (in the chorus)

― Keith C (kcraw916), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

"Jet Boy" by the New York Dolls is a handclap classic, too.

― Keith C (kcraw916), Monday, 25 April 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link

are they hand-claps or rimshots ?

― joe dolce, Monday, 25 April 2005 05:44 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

01. Jets – Are you gonna be my girl (Elektra)
02. Belle & Sebastian - The boy with the arab strap (Jeepster Recordings)
03. ST Thomas - The Railroad (The Songs of Lee Hazelwood] (City Slang)
04. Beta Band – Broken up a ding dong (Regal Recordings)
05. Beck - Go it alone (Geffen/Universal)
06. Relaxed Muscle - Billy Jack (Rough Trade)
07. Electronicat - Dans les bois (Disko B)
08. Mu - Extreme (Manchester's Revenge)
09. Munk & Chloe - ce kul [Francisco Remix] (Gomma)
10. Tarwater - All that [additional handclaps: Hanno Leichtmann] (Morr Music)

― gregor schubert, Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:13 (eighteen years ago) link

The Aztec Mystic 'ascesion' (flipside of Knights of the Jaguar) has a great 909 clap pattern on it. Killer for doubles fuckery too :)

― tylero (tylero), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Primal Scream - Come Together

― tony s, Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link

roxy music "mother of pearl"

("even zaruthrusta CLAP CLAP")

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link

Fugazi: "Nightshop"

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Thursday, 23 June 2005 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Spoon - "They Never Got You"

― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 25 June 2005 01:45 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

Marvin Gaye- "Ain't That Peculiar," which popped onto my playlist while I was bikecommuting, and almost caused a wreck by virtue of its gorgeousness.

― Hunter (Hunter), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:08 (eighteen years ago) link

"Funky Hilife" by C.K. Mann & Carousel 7

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link

Captain Sky - Super Sporm

― mucho, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:19 (eighteen years ago) link

uh, "Take the Money and Run"?

Can't believe nobody's mentioned this yet. Or is Steve Miller unwelcome in these parts?

― Garrett Martin (Garrett Martin), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

programmed ones:

http://s38.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0I8N9TLTHRX310K3EVXCMJD3H1

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 4 November 2005 12:41 (eighteen years ago) link

Porno for Pyros, "Tahitian Moon," especially because they clap on the off-beats IIRC

Jefferson Starship, "Runaway," because they sound so casual, unforced, as if it were an impromptu studio decision.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Snowsuit Sound by Sloan!

― Streatham's Paisley Princess (kate), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link

Since You're Gone - The Cars

** Rounder - Pere Ubu **

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link

"Trouser Press," baby.

― owen moorhead (i heart daniel miller), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Peter Gabriel, "The Family and the Fishing Net" (ritualistic Linn Drum claps)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link

Black Leotard Front - "Casual Friday"
The Chemical Brothers - "Star Guitar"

Should we start a cowbell thread?

― viborgu, Friday, 4 November 2005 16:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I think there's an album on Aquarius that is just segued recordings of applause from concerts. the whole album is clapping. maybe some whooping and whistling too. I think it would make me nauseous.

― MESTEMA (davidcorp), Friday, 4 November 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul de Santa Cruz, download that Kazem el-Saher file I linked too! (Ah, you probably won't like it.) And yes, actually this mp3 is from a rare, if not out-of-print, album. I have it on cassette but haven't had luck finding it on CD.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:01 (eighteen years ago) link

Should we start a cowbell thread?
No. Sanford & Son theme beats all.

― when something smacks of something (dave225.3), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link

ALthough there's nothing notable about the claps qua claps, there's a great claps-guitar-and-vocal breakdown in the middle of Rilo Kiley's "Love and War (11/11/46)."

― monkeybutler, Friday, 4 November 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Songs with cool cowbells

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 4 November 2005 17:34 (eighteen years ago) link

Paul de Santa Cruz, download that Kazem el-Saher file I linked too!

I did, even before I was instructed to do so. I like the rhythm elements, not into the whole track quite as much.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:18 (eighteen years ago) link

I have to admit I find it somewhat draggy toward the middle. I do like the floaty ney sound and the keyboard. It's actually a lot less cheese-pop than most Iraqi pop music I've heard (maybe because it's a pop version of what seems to be an old Arab standard).

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Friday, 4 November 2005 18:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Broken Social Scene: Stars and Sons

― footlog, Friday, 4 November 2005 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link

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