Instances of whistling and / or clapping in songs where the mood is sad

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The whistling bit in Dock of The Bay is the only thing that comes to mind, and thats really more wistful than sad / morose. Thoughts?

― don, Monday, 12 April 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Lennon's Jealous Guy.

― scotstvo (scotstvo), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Patience by Guns n Roses

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 12 April 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

We Suck Young Blood

― kickitcricket, Monday, 12 April 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The quiet bit in 'Til I Believe In My Soul with the whistling over the violins.

― ferg (Ferg), Monday, 12 April 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Mingus - Freedom

has clapping. And humming.

― djdee2005, Monday, 12 April 2004 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Radiohead - we suck young blood

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 12 April 2004 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

David Bowie - Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Monday, 12 April 2004 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Not so much sad as ominous, but definitely not happy -- the whistling towards the end of Peter Gabriel's "Intruder". Also the whistling in some awful Billy Joel song from the '70's -- which was probably intended to sound "wistful" or "mournful" or some other AMG-style generic adjectival sentiment.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Winds of Change

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

uh... can't smile without you, by barry manilow?

― jds, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 02:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Nom - do you mean "The Stranger?"

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 02:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Andrew Bird's record has some nice sad whistling.

― Kevin Erickson, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Not exactly sad, but in a minor key no less, there's a whistle part in Ween's "Don't Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What was that LiLiPUT song? "Eisiger Wind"?

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Harry Irene" - The Cap'n

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 13:42 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

OneRepublic - Apologize
Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love

I don't really understand the function of the (drum machine?) handclaps in these two songs. is the audience expected to clap along in solidarity with the artists' pain? the handclaps are totally at odds with the tone of the lyrics, but there isn't anything evocative or thought-provoking about the contrast — it seems like a classic example of the producer not knowing what to with the material (or using peppy backing tracks to compensate for depressing lyrics). I feel like this was a common thing in chartpop in the late '00s.

― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:18 (ten years ago)

hmm, it turns out both of those songs were written and/or produced by Ryan Tedder, who was also responsible for Beyonce's inappropriately handclappy "Halo". fuck that guy iirc.

― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:23 (ten years ago)

It's because they're power ballads.

― The Reverend, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:35 (ten years ago)

Thought this revive was gonna be for "The Door".

― The Reverend, Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:35 (ten years ago)

are people supposed to clap along to power ballads? I honestly don't know.

― please login or register if you are (unregistered), Saturday, 10 January 2015 04:42 (ten years ago)

untitled #5 - young prayer by panda bear

― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Saturday, 10 January 2015 06:49 (ten years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8wkZ0jMNQA

― paolo, Saturday, 10 January 2015 16:07 (ten years ago)

TheTeNaO
1 year ago

I masturbated watching this video

― paolo, Saturday, 10 January 2015 16:08 (ten years ago)

Elvis Costello, "A Town Called Big Nothing"

― the magnetic pope has sparked (WilliamC), Saturday, 10 January 2015 16:12 (ten years ago)

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