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
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dek1, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Being Boiled (second version) - Human League
― baxter wingnut, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Undertones - Teenage Kicks
Oh, and all electro - evah!
― Bill E, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― sonicred, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gygax!, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 15:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
The Best Use of Handclaps
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Tuesday, 28 January 2003 19:37 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J-rock (Julien Sandiford), Wednesday, 29 January 2003 03:59 (twenty-one years ago) link
― s woods, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 04:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
― bob snoom, Wednesday, 29 January 2003 13:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― James Annett (jlannett), Monday, 10 February 2003 01:31 (twenty-one years ago) link
― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 10 February 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 10 February 2003 04:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― tom (other one), Monday, 10 February 2003 04:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
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
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― duane, Monday, 10 February 2003 08:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Burr, Monday, 10 February 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago) link
― original bgm, Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:10 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Tuesday, 11 February 2003 03:20 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ropadop, Thursday, 1 April 2004 18:56 (twenty years ago) link
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― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 2 April 2004 05:02 (twenty years ago) link
― sanchez (mokey), Friday, 2 April 2004 09:05 (twenty years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Friday, 2 April 2004 09:36 (twenty years ago) link
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― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Wednesday, 28 April 2004 21:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Burr (Burr), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:24 (twenty years ago) link
― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:35 (twenty years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:10 (twenty years ago) link
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
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― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 April 2005 03:32 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Monday, 18 April 2005 04:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 18 April 2005 07:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― gem (trisk), Monday, 18 April 2005 07:13 (nineteen 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
Revive!!
love love love handclaps
Cecilia - Simon & GarfunkelDon'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
I still love handclaps fyi
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 May 2013 22:30 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
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