people who clap along to songs...classic or dud?

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― liz p. (lizjoydiv), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:38 (twenty-three years ago)

if you're happy and you know it

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd rather they clap than sing along, at least.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

"Everyone's smiling, because we're all happy clappy like Christians".

The last freestyle contest I went to had a guy who kicked that line. We didn't clap him.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

If you're in the congregation during the Staple Singers' 1963 performance of "Freedom Highway" I'd say undifuckinsputedly classic.

Or are you talking about while just listening to music at home?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:42 (twenty-three years ago)

totally dud! it always bugs the hell out of me when this happens at gigs, particularly if it's spontaneous, although it's pretty naff if the band initiates it too. saying that, thankfully it doesn't usually happen at the gigs i go to.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd rather they clap than get their lighters out or do the wavey arm thing that Prince makes his audience do during the title track of "Purple Rain" (in the film, I mean).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Stirmonster: What? Have you never been to a funk show? Or a gospel service? Or any really bad heavy metal ones?

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.crownpoint.com/artists/reich/CLAPPING.jpg

― gygax!, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i went to a shitload of heavy metal shows when i was a teenager - i think that's were i got my handclapping trauma from.

i'd love to go to a gospel service but the church of scotland is rather dour so it's not really an option. it didn't upset me as much when the clapping started at femi kuti - in fact it was hilarious as the drummer went off on some really weird time signature and left the clappers floundering.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I like clapping when it accompanies melodramatic Spanish flamenco dancing,.....but nowhere else.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:52 (twenty-three years ago)

a couple of times when i've been dj'ing, the audience have started clapping along. once i stopped the record there and then. the other time it was to rock & roll pt 2 so i let them off.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:54 (twenty-three years ago)

hava nagila

― gygax!, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:55 (twenty-three years ago)

clap clap clap your hands

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:56 (twenty-three years ago)

hmmm, 'handclapping song' by the meters, 'the clapping song' by shirley ellis, 'zorba the greek'. i may have to reappraise my clapping atheism.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 00:58 (twenty-three years ago)

While we're on the subject, when Busta demands "Make it Clap!", is he speaking about something *OTHER* than the sound of two hands hitting each other?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:01 (twenty-three years ago)

haha stirmonster you ARE serious! i can see where you're coming from, but a couple of well-timed punctuation claps at the end of a bar are totally OTM - at least i hope so cause i do that all the time, i can't help myself!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

oh man, if we're talking clapping *in* songs than you've got some SERIOUS reappraisals to do, Mr. DJ Clapping Killjoy.

May I direct your attention to exhibit 1: Parliament "Flashlight"...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:04 (twenty-three years ago)

The disco clap is allowed, ie. the recurring ones on "Got Your Money". Otherwise, no, it's horrible, especially when accompanied by arm-swaying or just general swaying. Urgh.

Clapping as percussion during Lollies songs is of course not only recommended but mandatory in some countries.

― Charlie (Charlie), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:09 (twenty-three years ago)

ok, ok - hey, in the privacy of my own home, i clap along, swing off the chandelier, jump up and down in front of the mirror and all manner of other craaazy activities when listening to music. but, i just get embarassed when audiences clap along at gigs. maybe i'm repressed?

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The claps in Rose Royce's "Car Wash" are pretty damn essential.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

the kind that i hate the most is when people don't just clap at even internals but have some annoying pattern and are all enthusiastic about it (esspecially if they also stomp their foot)

― liz p. (lizjoydiv), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Clapping's not always so bad, especially if the performers are initiating it. What's awful is people who clap on the down beat! You have the whole crowd doing one thing, and then this lone retard somehow remaining completely oblivious to his off-ness.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm with Liz P. in re: people trying to carve out their own v. special clapping niche -- the whole point of clapping along is clapping ALONG, not establishing yr individual voice

I used to have a major attitude problem about people clapping along, now I'm all for it until the moment passes and there's that one guy who's still clapping: that guy is a colossal DUD

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 01:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Clapping in songs is often great but clapping along sucks when people do it on the first beat. It destroys the power of the backbeat.

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 02:00 (twenty-three years ago)

damn silly me I didn't read Dan

― Keith McD (Keith McD), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 02:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I used to have a major attitude problem about people clapping along, now I'm all for it until the moment passes and there's that one guy who's still clapping: that guy is a colossal DUD

That guy is usually me ... sorry ...

actually, no I'm not. FUCK YOU!!! I LIKE clapping when the urge takes me!

― phil jones (interstar), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 03:18 (twenty-three years ago)

some songs demand clapping, or Chris Murphy demands we clap along with Sloan.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 03:33 (twenty-three years ago)

i also am wary of the everybody-clap-now syndrome but how can you hear "no fun" and not clap?? especially on a big system where no one can really hear you anyway! haha now I feel like an a-1 dunce! i am the total epitome of the "creative clapper". oh dear. i don't go on that much though.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 06:07 (twenty-three years ago)

I tend to like doing it, but I can see it being annoying..

I myself prefer the disco clap:
rest clap rest clap rest clap rest clapclap

one time I was DJing and the whole crowd (at a bar, not a dance club) became a rhythm machine, clapping all over the place, some people holding down the beat, some people (probably the self-consciously "I'm musical, see?" types forging their own polyrhythms, and it was a blast.

so stirry, youre WRONG!

― tinobeat (tinobeat), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Some clapping excursions are just plainly illsuited to the songs being performed and are thus pretty scary. I used to be very anti-clapping, but then one time long ago I was trying to finish something off with a half-assed song I didn't have too well put-together, and when I asked for clapping no one would do it. Ever since then I've had mixed feelings, though I'm glad they didn't do it at the time as they would have wound up feeling cheated.

In any case clapping is indisputably classic in that it's made possible drum-machine clapping, which is just about the best thing ever. Snares are just the dull tease you use until it's time to drop the ride cymbal and the New Order claps.

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 07:41 (twenty-three years ago)

the disco double handclap is total classic.

― michael wells (michael w.), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:38 (twenty-three years ago)

One of the worst parts about clapping is that the crowd doesn't know when to stop.. like at a bridge or a chorus - a few people keep clapping....

Otherwise, dud.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 14:51 (twenty-three years ago)

people who headbang along to songs...classic or dud?

(stirmonster don't answer that.)

I clapped along to the Max Weinberg 7 recently at a Conan taping.

― hstencil, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, but headbanging doesn't make any noise.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 15:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It does if you're banging your head against something!

― hstencil, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

If a heavy metal dude headbangs alone in the forest, does it make any noise?

What is the sound of one head banging?

― hstencil, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

The whoosh of his long hair as it flies past.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

(Or her, of course.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

it really help those numbers "motor down" on stars in their eyes. classic tribal british no sense of rythm in full effect that actually does make it... somehow.....

― bob snoom, Wednesday, 22 January 2003 17:17 (twenty-three years ago)

A couple of people clapped at a Yo La Tengo show during "Speeding Motorcycle," which was bad enough, but they couldn't stay on the beat (such as it was). So DUD.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 22 January 2003 21:07 (twenty-three years ago)

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