Who has the best handclaps on a record

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:48 pm

I heard that the Flaming Lips had a hour long discussion on what album had the best handclaps. I vote T-Rex, anybody know what the first handclaps on a record was.

lyman · Post by **lyman** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:58 pm

i don't like steve miller too much, but "Take the money and run" has those signature bursts of hand claps.

tommy · Post by **tommy** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 2:59 pm

I like the handclaps on David Bowie's Golden Years. The Who's Who Are You is also great especially if you see them do it in the studio on the Kids are Alright.

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:00 pm

lyman wrote:i don't like steve miller too much, but "Take the money and run" has those signature bursts of hand claps.

Yeah I forgot about those Steve Miller ones and they really jump out at you

JohnDavisNYC · Post by **JohnDavisNYC** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:10 pm

Visconti gets the best hand clap sounds... all the T-rex stuff, bowie stuff... the hand claps are always rocking. I got this rad little compressor that makes claps explode. Ilike it.

john

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:55 pm

does anybody know who had the first handclaps on a record, I just figured it was some old motown soul or something

tonewoods · Post by **tonewoods** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 4:38 pm

There's a track on Colossal Head by Los Lobos that has one guy doing a single hand-clap on one of the tunes....

Brings a smile to my face every time I hear it....

antonlamont45 · Post by **antonlamont45** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:06 pm

queen--we will rock you

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:14 pm

What's with handclaps lately? I did some last week and the band coming in this weekend was wondering what songs I thought claps would be good on.

As another cool example "Bombaleo" by the Gypsy Kings is super cool. Its two groups one group doing3 and & the other doing E and As.

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:15 pm

there the new cowbell!

yardleyone · Post by **yardleyone** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:32 pm

clearly the best handclaps belong to The Coug' as recorded in 'Jack and Diane" or "Small Town" or some shit like that. The quintessential handclap.

jckinnick · Post by **jckinnick** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:35 pm

You mean the John Melloncamp song

vsr600 · Post by **vsr600** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:15 pm

Oddly enough last week I recorded a country artist that insisted I use the hand claps from my Electribe R drum machine instead of recording real hand claps on his album. He even brought in the new Cash album where they used drum machine claps on one of the songs to show me what he wanted.

UXB · Post by **UXB** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:14 pm

I'm partial to the diminutive claps on Steelers Wheel's "Stuck in the middle with you". Just something about that groove. Small claps, so perfectly hidden in the mix (Hear Orson Welles' voice speaking of peas...).

Best,
H

??????? · Post by **???????** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:24 pm

"Harvest For THe World" by isley brothers

clap tracks that are the sloppiest are the coolest. The more "diffuse" the claps. the better they sound when you're stoned.

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