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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

"More Than A Feeling" owns this thread.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 4 November 2005 19:37 (eighteen years ago) link

most 80s electro hip hop hop does, in fact. Shep Pettibone et al !
But I vote for James Ingram's "Ya Mo B There"

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 6 November 2005 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Nah nah - it's Sammy Davis Jr., "The Candy Man"!

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Thunderclap Newman "Something In The Air", 1969.

― SoHoLa (SoHoLa), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link

Let's get real here: "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone.

― JT Blah, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 05:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Flipper "Ever"

― amon (eman), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Kelley Polar - Here in the Night

― Fetchboy (Felcher), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 06:20 (eighteen years ago) link

cromagnon - "ritual feast of the libido"
henry cow - "bittern storm over ulm"

― milton parker (Jon L), Tuesday, 15 November 2005 01:23 (eighteen years ago) link

1-Citizen Cope - Bullet & A Target
2-Radiohead - We Suck Young Blood
3-Cat Stevens - Peace Train
4-David Bowie - Space Oddity
5-Ben Folds - Song? on Rockin' the suburbs
6-Counting Crows - Hanging around

Please send more. I love the themed "mixed tapes"

love the cowbell comment

― DT, Wednesday, 23 November 2005 02:25 (eighteen years ago) link

Sly & Fam, "I Want to Take You Higher"

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards knew a thing or two about using syncroniced handclaps in a great way.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 03:17 (eighteen years ago) link

Pas/Cal - "What Happened to the Sands"

― Steve Gertz (sgertz), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 04:02 (eighteen years ago) link

XTC "I'd Like That" (ending)

― Simon H. (Simon H.), Wednesday, 23 November 2005 14:58 (eighteen years ago) link

one month passes...

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.

Also: The Wonders' "That Thing You Do" and "Dance with Me Tonight"

― Kate G., Friday, 30 December 2005 21:43 (eighteen years ago) link

"Discopolis" by the Dambuilders, if memory serves.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Friday, 30 December 2005 22:12 (eighteen years ago) link

no song has handclaps - they're all rimshots.

― retrogurl, Saturday, 31 December 2005 04:36 (eighteen years ago) link

I'd like to third "The Boy with the Arab Strap" as it is my favorite song of all-time.

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Saturday, 31 December 2005 05:05 (eighteen years ago) link

four months pass...

Ooo! This is a brilliant thread! I've been making a hand clapping cd personally, and so far I've turned up:

Pretty Girls Make Graves - Something Bigger, Something Brighter
OK Go - A Good Idea At The Time
OK Go - You're So Damn Hot
The Departure - All Mapped Out
The Postal Service - Clark Gable
The Kills - At The Back Of The Shell
You Say Party! We Say Die! - Cold Hands! Hot Bodies!
Bif Naked - Tango Shoes
The Long Blondes - Giddy Stratospheres
Rilo Kiley - The Frug
Pilot - Magic
Delays - Valentine
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! - Clap Your Hands (tho that could just be the band & song title!)
The Shins - Kissing The Lipless
Gossip - Fire Sign
Charlotte Church - Crazy Chick
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Black Tongue

And yeah... that's about it!

― Daisy, Saturday, 13 May 2006 09:37 (eighteen years ago) link

Monkey Swallows The Universe - 'Jimmy Down The Well'

― boney (b0n3y), Saturday, 13 May 2006 10:56 (eighteen years ago) link

shame on you people, for failing to mention:

Denim, "Middle Of The Road"

― hank (hank s), Saturday, 13 May 2006 13:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments "My Mysterious Death"

― drench, Saturday, 13 May 2006 14:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Old Blue - The Byrds

― timmy tannin (pompous), Saturday, 13 May 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link

Natcha Atlas's "Ezzay", from Gedida

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Saturday, 13 May 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Fugazi: Witness Protection Program

― Ted Harris, Sunday, 21 May 2006 06:12 (eighteen years ago) link

hello kitten - hefner

― bee, Sunday, 21 May 2006 10:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Old 97's - Oppenheimer
OK Go - Get Over It

― bryce, Friday, 26 May 2006 02:22 (eighteen years ago) link

Whats that song Shea DJ samples at Mets games? "Evry-Body Clap Your Hands!" ?? that always moves me.

― Rhett, Friday, 26 May 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link

The Stones' "Shattered"

I remember Jagger once saying that the handclaps and the "Shadoobie"s were as important to the song as the lyrics (some of Jagger's best).

― Taylor, Friday, 26 May 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link

maria mckee's version of "i can't make it alone." reminds me of parliament handclaps, for some reason.

― Lawrence the Looter (Lawrence the Looter), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:47 (eighteen years ago) link

Jose Gonzalez - "Lovestain"

― willem -- (willem), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link

Outkast - 'Behold a Lady'. Andre says 'clap clap' over the claps, for extra cool points.

― chap who would dare to be a nerd, not a geek (chap), Friday, 26 May 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

The Getaway -Some Girls

― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Friday, 26 May 2006 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link

not really a song, but the whole Carl Craig Fabric mix has some and more.

I felt I could do something different, especially by adding claps, sounds and my own vocals. A real party mix.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Friday, 26 May 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link

Pia Zadora did "The Clapping Song" in the early 80's. It may have been a cover but I still remember it. Can't remember how it goes, though.

― Twitchety Twitch Manic Toy System (Bimble...), Saturday, 27 May 2006 07:25 (eighteen years ago) link

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