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
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― 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
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― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 10 February 2003 01:57 (twenty-one years ago) link
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― 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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― philip sherburne (philip sherburne), Thursday, 13 May 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Friday, 14 May 2004 03:10 (nineteen 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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― Ken L (Ken L), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:16 (nineteen years ago) link
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
― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― RS_LaRue (RSLaRue), Sunday, 24 April 2005 15:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 24 April 2005 17:53 (nineteen years ago) link
"Remember (Walking in the Sand)" - The Shangri-Las (minimal but perfect)
"Subway Joe" - Joe Bataan
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