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i'm in a bad mood and was listening to my iPod on the way to work this morning. I realised that all the songs that made me smile were ones with clapping in them. I want to compile the world's longest list of clapping songs, so I'll be happy all the time!
The following were all on the iPod, but there's a ton more and i wanna try to pull together a CD of great clapping records, at least, so come on show me what you're made of!

1) The Clapping Song - Shirley Ellis
2) Pass That Dutch - Missy Elliott
3) I Thought - Brandy
4) Make It Clap - Busta Rhymes
5) We Will Rock You - Queen
6) Eric B & Rakim - Put Your Hands Together
7) Naughty By Nature - Clap Yo Hands
8) Honey (Clappas Rhythm) - Ce'Cile
9) Hey Ya - Outkast
10) Oh Happy Day - Edwin Hawkins Singers

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

space oddity

― lukey (Lukey G), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

11) Jay-Z - It's Hot (Some Like It Hot)

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Here Comes the Sun
Since You're Gone - The Cars

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

pilot to gunner new album 'get saved' 2 tracks have joyous handclaps. makes me smile a lot.

― mark e (mark e), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:14 (twenty-two years ago)

What's that recent one that goes "Uh ohhhh" a lot?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Close To Me" -- The Cure

― christoff (christoff), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Check out Clapping Music by Steve Reich, you'll be in ecstacy.

― mzui, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

19) Car Wash - Rose Royce

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

20) tortoise "seneca"

21) that one hella song with the handclap breakdown.

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

22)Come out 2nite - Kenickie
23)My valuable hunting knife - Guided by Voices
24)Anything recorded in front of an audience.

― hmmm, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

JC Chasez - 'ADIDAS'?

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Home, "Burden" (also with foot stomping)

― the clap, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That one Faust song from "71 Minutes of." You know, that song.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

there are some good ones on here too:

songs with cool handclaps
The Best Use of Handclaps

― scott seward (scott seward), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-two years ago)

lumidee - oh uh is the recent one

― jinxed, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

oh that's the diwali rhythm, that'll deffo be on the mix but probably sufferer by bounty killer... maybe a medley of about 4/5 tracks... i'm gonna do tis and see if i can make it into a proper dj mix... might be fun...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

30) Lush - Ladykillers

― daavid (daavid), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

31 Ike and Tina Turner - I Can't Believe What You Say

― pete s, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Lush. "I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend."

― janni (janni), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Archie Bell & The Drells: Tighten Up

(The best song ever...I think it has handclaps...but try listening to that without smiling, UNpossible)

― ddb, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:51 (twenty-two years ago)

"Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes.

― desolert (desolate), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

~ Steve Miller Band - "Take the Money and Run"

~ "I'll Be There For You" - 'Friends' Theme song

― Ben Boyer (Ben Boyer), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

2 challenges

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Hand Jive" from Grease ;-)

― Mike Salmo (salmo), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"All the Young Dudes."

My books tell me that the "handclaps" on "Where Did Our Love Go?" are actually guys stomping on 2x4s. Sounds like it to me, though that could be the power of suggestion.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmmm...

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - 'Implosion' (Experimental Remixes version)
Cornelius - 'Perfect Rainbow' (twee as fuck)
The Apples In Stereo - 'Signal In The Sky (Let's Go)' (ditto)
Rae and Christian - 'Catch A Rude Awakening'
NERD - 'Baby Doll'

minna on the other thread:all songs with handclaps are good!

Until Timberlake's McDonald's song proved the exception to the rule.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Captain Sky - Super Sperm

― angel duster, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:23 (twenty-two years ago)

JACK & DIANE - John Cougar Mellencamp

― white boi, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-two years ago)

The Strokes - 12:51
The Hives - Supply & Demand

― Dude (The Yellow Dart), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

whatever that annoying Friends theme song is

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"Lazy Line Painter Jane" and "The Boy With the Arab Strap" by Belle and Sebastian.

You know that way you know songs so well you don't really hear them any more? I couldn't tell you whether there really are handclaps in those songs, or whether my head just puts them there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly how I feel about 'Baby Doll', ailsa.

― Barima (Barima), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Haywood -- The Kids Are Taking Aim.

It's got glorious claps aplenty.

― BlastsOfStatic (BlastsofStatic), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Boston - "Long Time", "More Than a Feeling"

― Gear! (Gear!), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm amazed I get to be the first to mention the Meters' "Hand Clapping Song"

― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Thursday, 26 February 2004 08:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Prince - Play In The Sunshine

― Barima (Barima), Thursday, 26 February 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Robert Plant - Big Log has some clapping but I fear it might not cheer anyone.

― Thea, Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Made one of these for the indiepop list's monthly cdr swap, after browsing previous threads here and sites elsewhere. Here's what I was able to fit on an 80m cdr. In hindsight, might have subbed You Am I's "Trike" in place of "Who Takes Who Home?", but I love the melancholy closer aspect of it.

1. the starlight mints - sugar blaster
2. the new p rnographers - chump change
3. death cab for cutie - the sound of settling
4. beulah - emma blowgun's last stand
5. fountains of wayne - denise
6. outkast - hey ya!
7. bis - i'm a slut
8. the strokes - 12:51
9. the cars - my best friend's girl
10. glide - always fall
11. belle and sebastian - the boy with the arab strap
12. spoon - the way we get by
13. the waxwings - ten o'clock your time
14. the postal service - clark gable
15. the shins - kissing the lipless
16. matt pond pa - shortsighted (demo)
17. the sugarplastic - molly brown
18. broken social scene - stars and sons
19. tommy keene - back to zero now
20. joseph arthur - in the night
21. the weakerthans - our retired explorer (dines with Michel Foucault in Paris, 1961)
22. papas fritas - way you walk
23. you am i - who takes who home?

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Thursday, 26 February 2004 18:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"Upa Neguinho" in all its incarnations

Best version is the Supa Neg Mix of the United Future Organisations cover (mixed by Marco Nelson and Demus) - this combines steel pans with handclaps! Glorious music

― blue, Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Um, that one on London Calling, chorus goes "anything i want, he can get for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!", um, what's it called? Right after "Rudie Can't Fail"? "Hateful"! Handclaps are great. "Up With People" by Lambchop has great handclaps too, otherwise I'll second everythign else here, pretty much.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Spoon, "If You Say So"

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Thursday, 26 February 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Up With People" by Lambchop has great handclaps too

"Come on, progeny!" The Zero 7 remix of that is very nice.

― Chris Hill (Chris Hill), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:09 (twenty-two years ago)

ODB "Got your Money" handclaps rule

― blue, Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead - 'We Suck Young Blood' probably not quite the vibe you're looking for tho.

Er, Prince Paul - 'Booty Clap'

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Thursday, 26 February 2004 22:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Perfect Kiss"-New Order
"House of Jealous Lovers"-The Rapture
"Me and Giuliani Down by the Schoolyard (A True Story)-!!!

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

"the clapper" - Jay Dee

― JaXoN (JasonD), Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the Stooges - Shake Appeal, awesome to clap along to.

― Maciej, Thursday, 26 February 2004 23:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"clap your tits" by bob log

― russignon, Friday, 27 February 2004 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

beatles - im looking through you

― brains (cerybut), Friday, 27 February 2004 00:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Bearsuit: "Itsuko got married"

― brian patrick (brian patrick), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:12 (twenty-two years ago)

TV Party y'all!

"Um, that one on London Calling, chorus goes "anything i want, he can get for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee!", um, what's it called? Right after "Rudie Can't Fail"?"

Hateful?

― Sasha (sgh), Friday, 27 February 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Lots and lots of great old Sparks songs, though I don't know any off hand. Kimono My House sprinkles handclaps on us like manna.

Beggars Opera - Festival
Not the best song on the "Waters of change" album, but the handclap bit is beyond jovial!

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Charles Mingus - Wednesday night pray meeting

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Friday, 27 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

"Quick and to the Pointless" by Queens of the Stone Age

― Tab25, Friday, 27 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

rilo kiley, "with arms outstretched"
stephen malkmus & the jicks, "phantasies"
pretty girls make graves, "something bigger, something brighter"

― cleverclever, Friday, 12 March 2004 18:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd also like to nominate the record that Tom gave a recent glowing review of, Stupid Cupid by Connie Francis. Not only is the hand-clapping great, it just sounds like she's grinning through the whole thing - like she's trying to be sexy, but just ends up having fun, which to our 21st centruy ears sounds even sexier.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Rubinoos, "I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend"
Toulouse, "Every Office Every Weekend"
Danielson, "Withered Skin"

― mike a, Friday, 12 March 2004 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Sloan, "Snowsuit Sound"
Fugazi, "Nightshop" & "Life And Limb" (little handclapping but masterfully deployed)
112, "Dance With Me" (if you're sexy and you know it)

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 12 March 2004 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

All Flamenco Music

― sexyDancer, Friday, 12 March 2004 20:22 (twenty-two years ago)

We need a thread "T/S Cowbells vs. Handclaps"

― LITTLE LAMB [Jon Williams] (ex machina), Friday, 12 March 2004 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

two weeks pass...

My current favourite is "It's Gonna Take an Airplane" by Destroyer.

http://www.sixdifferentways.com

― Charles, Wednesday, 31 March 2004 22:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the tic tac dough theme song owns this.

― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Thursday, 1 April 2004 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The Beatles -- I wanna hold your hand
D-generation -- She stands
Van Halen - So this is Love? (Hand claps at the end)

― Ben St. Jacques (Ben St. Jacques), Thursday, 1 April 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Spoon, "No You're Not" (unless they're simulated--hard to tell. In any case, Spoon love the handclaps!)

Jorge Ben, "Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma)"

― no opinion, Thursday, 1 April 2004 18:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Bjork - 'It's In Our Hands'

Clever meta-Zen title.
um

― lee ward (lee ward), Friday, 2 April 2004 04:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The nauseating "Clap Back" by Ja Rule...

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Friday, 2 April 2004 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)

come on now..."The Authority Song" by Jimmy Eat World (not the little johnny cougar one)...reprazent

― sanchez (mokey), Friday, 2 April 2004 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - "Cinnamon Girl"
Margo Guryan - "Sunday Morning"

― elgoodo, Friday, 2 April 2004 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

"Let's Go" by The Cars.

As for cowbells vs. handclaps, it's apples and oranges. Handclaps go on the upbeat (or at least they should); cowbells go on the downbeat (or all four beats).

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 2 April 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"i punch you." the sailors.

;)

― janni (janni), Friday, 2 April 2004 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Hand Clapping Song - The Meters
What I Like About You - The Romantics
Mickey - Toni Basil
My Boyfriend's Back - some 60's girl group
We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's
Roam - The B-52's
Faith - George Michael
Cecilia - Simon and Garfunkel
Hey Ya - OutKast
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
We Used To Be Friends - The Dandy Warhols
1969 - The Stooges
My Generation - The Who
Bron-Yr-Aur Stomp - Led Zeppelin
Stuck In The Middle With You - Steeler's Wheel
Annie Waits - Ben Folds
I Was Born (a Unicorn) - The Unicorns
Broken Up A Ding Dong - The Beta Band
This Is The Day - The The
Here Comes the Sun - The Beatles

― elena h, Saturday, 3 April 2004 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Fiery Furnaces, "Mason City" (which I was listening to just as I found this thread on new answers) (and thinking "I'm not sure if I like the handclaps in this song")

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 3 April 2004 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Band on the Run, in the prelogue before the main heart of the song

― Business B, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

pj harvey - m-bike
tuscadero - dime a dozen
bree sharp - america
le tigre - deceptacon
longstocking - radio agony
bikini kill - demi rep (at the beginning)
the gossip - fire/sign, dressed in black
spoon - the way we get by
peaches - lovertits, bag it
death cab for cutie - the sound of settling
sean na na - princess and the pony
choppa - choppa style
soophie nun squad - mean streak
the cramps - bikini girls with machine guns
gravy train!!!! - titties bounce
veruca salt - with david bowie
fiona apple - i want you like a drug
scandaliz vandalistz - hey mr. beifuss
jamiroquai - little l
weezer - photograph
liam lynch - SOS, try me

these are maybes.... i can't tell yet.
talking heads - who is it?
pixies - alec eiffel

― alanna, Monday, 12 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i am pretty sure that the handclaps in both "my valuable hunting knife" (gbv) and "clark gable" (postal service) are actually snare drum sounds.

more:
somewhere in the night - smog
shine a light - the constantines
pills - les savy fav

i need more, people, my friend and i are making compilations!

― joanna vaught (joanna vaught), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Ramones, "Judy is a Punk" (second verse, same as the first!)

― no opinion, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet, "Big Beat"

― no opinion, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Here are some suggestions

razzy bailey and the neighbourhood kids - i hate hate
can we start again? - tindersticks
napoleon XIV -they're coming to take me away ha-haa!
r.kelly - the world's greatest
annie - the greatest hit (i think)
buba and the shop asisstants - something to do
the fakes - look-out
smog - cold-blooded old times
die doraus & die marinas - fred vom jupiter (electronic?)
gloria jones - tainted love
distractions - maybe it´s love

powerpop and northern soul has a lot to offer

― heroes + villains, Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Flipper: "Ever"

― no opinion, Tuesday, 20 April 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

in the navy - village people

― deena, Thursday, 20 May 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking Heads: "The Good Thing"

― no opinion, Tuesday, 1 June 2004 15:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Since I just mentioned it on another thread, "Second Summer of Love" by Danny Wilson.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Popundret - "Friendship Love"
From Bubblegum To Sky - "Hello Hello Hi"
Papas Fritas - "Way You Walk"
Martha and the Muffins - "Indecision"
Gary Numan - "I Die:You Die"
Bis - "I'm a Slut"
Adam and the Ants - "Deutscher Girls"
Stooges - "No Fun"
Radio 4 - "Get Set To Fall Out"
Ramones - "I Can't Make It On Time"
L7 - "Fast and Frightening"
Baader Meinhof - "Baader Meinhof" (many of his songs do)
Four Jacks and a Jill - "La La Song"
The Sussed - "I've Got Me Parka"

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 1 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

http://www.zeryab.com/E/Salem_Al_Allan_Bahri.htm

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Monday, 10 January 2005 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Riding in cars with girls by Moi Caprice. (be patient, clapping enters somewhere in the middle of the song)

― johanna. (johanna.), Monday, 10 January 2005 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

The handclaps in the second half of Joy Division's Glass save the song for me.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Cooper Temple Clause do it pretty well in their 10-minute wig-out extravaganza 'Written Apology'.

― Scourage (Haberdager), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:21 (nineteen years ago)

Lo-Fi-Fnk's Unighted!

― Slumpman (Slump Man), Tuesday, 22 August 2006 10:35 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIduL_vrjhE

heard this for first time today.

totally love the clap happy beat.

― mark e, Friday, 13 August 2010 15:58 (fifteen years ago)

― prior, Friday, 13 August 2010 16:15 (fifteen years ago)

Gah sorry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8_J9Eg07Lw

― prior, Friday, 13 August 2010 16:16 (fifteen years ago)

probably my favorite clapping song is this Gilberto Gil song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPSmKr_utPw

― elephant rob, Saturday, 14 August 2010 03:15 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I028WBLgAoI

― andrew m., Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:37 (fifteen years ago)

702. "Clap Clap Clap-Clap-Clap," Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ft. The Chap.
703. Mark David Chapman, "Clap in the Name of Love"
704. Darlene Love, "Chappy Chap Christmas"

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 August 2010 05:52 (fifteen years ago)

Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO-0MwIqE18

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 15 August 2010 01:43 (fifteen years ago)

Think Zinc - T.Rex

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Sunday, 15 August 2010 20:20 (fifteen years ago)

My friend made me a mix CD once of song with this theme called Cacophony Lacking Adequate Praise.

― fear mongrels (Abbott), Sunday, 15 August 2010 21:04 (fifteen years ago)

seven years pass...

Doris Day & Rock Hudson - pillow talk

― meisenfek, Monday, 4 December 2017 23:02 (eight years ago)

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