Who has the best handclaps on a record

the velour fog · Post by **the velour fog** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:46 am

metaphormixer wrote:i can't say i'm a fan of spoon's handclaps. i mean, YEAH they're technically pretty awesome and crisp, but i think the whole point of handclaps is the nonchalance and looseness that they can bring to a song. i second t. rex, especially on 20th century boy.

i <3 complicated hand claps. i think they are spectacular. and spoon makes great use of them. i always feel that if someone just adds a simple. loose handclap in a song, it's just so the fans will have something to do when they see them live.

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:36 am

Not that they are necessarily recorded so well, but that 80's dance tune "Hey Mickey" from Tony Basil sure had catchy claps.

Remember the cheerleader video?

Probably rather forget it!

lee · Post by **lee** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:44 am

"we suck young blood" by radiohead, off the album, hail to the thief.

they sound so authetic.

MoreSpaceEcho · Post by **MoreSpaceEcho** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:24 am

i think there's a tune or two on mary timony's 'mountains' that has some awesome sounding handclaps recorded in the stairwell at the much missed kingston st loft. mega reverb.

i admit to clapping my hands in the stairwells here at work pretty much every day. ya gotta make your own fun at the day job.

BandyLou · Post by **BandyLou** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 2:31 pm

Here Comes the Sun - has some cool syncopated claps, tight and fierce sounding, esp. where they come out of the bridge back into the verse. Today, that is my vote for the best, although it's a tight race btwn those and the 'who are you' claps as performed in 'the Kids Are Alright' movie as mentioned above.

??????? · Post by **???????** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:28 pm

thegunshyboy wrote:
metaphormixer wrote:i can't say i'm a fan of spoon's handclaps. i mean, YEAH they're technically pretty awesome and crisp, but i think the whole point of handclaps is the nonchalance and looseness that they can bring to a song. i second t. rex, especially on 20th century boy.
i <3 complicated hand claps. i think they are spectacular. and spoon makes great use of them. i always feel that if someone just adds a simple. loose handclap in a song, it's just so the fans will have something to do when they see them live.

What's more complex than a quasi-random scattering on beats two and four? Call me crazy but that's more complex to my ear than the most tightly rehearsed second-and-fourth-of-a-five-note-quintuplet or what-have-you handclap could ever be.

jjbohn · Post by **jjbohn** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:54 pm

Didn't the song "Some Kind of Wonderful" have handclaps in it?

workshed · Post by **workshed** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 9:26 pm

I'm going with the first Q & Not U album. They aren't your typical handclaps, but come in out of nowhere and they sound so awesome. Even better is the fact that the band pulled the claps off live when I saw them, as well.

-Bret

agauchede · Post by **agauchede** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 1:19 pm

I seem to recall Instant Karma having some slapback drenched handclaps on it - but I might be hallucinating.

-Chris

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:16 pm

The new Johnny Cash song thats out Gods Gonna Cut You Down has some pretty good ones on it

T-rex · Post by **T-rex** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 8:38 pm

Death Cab for Cutie's, "The Sound of Settling". Those are so great! Syncopated and crazy processesing etc. That's definitely my favorite right now.

Theron D · Post by **Theron D** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:32 pm

When Doves Cry....the Linn-1 Drum Machine clap....IMO

metaphormixer · Post by **metaphormixer** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 9:40 pm

Theron D wrote:When Doves Cry....the Linn-1 Drum Machine clap....IMO

amen!

joeysimms · Post by **joeysimms** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 10:11 pm

Dave Clark Five 'I Like it Like That' and 'Bits and Pieces'. STOMP!

surrealist · Post by **surrealist** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:43 pm

lee wrote:"we suck young blood" by radiohead, off the album, hail to the thief.

they sound so authetic.

Finally! I was afraid nobody would bring this up. These are, by far, my favorite hand claps. But I do also have to agree with the Jack and Diane comment.

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