Clap Your Hands 18 years, 4 months ago by Martey Dodoo

From Pitchfork's "The 15 Worst Releases of 2005":

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: "Clap Your Hands!"
Some bands choose their most extreme, difficult, and uncharacteristic track as their album opener as both a paean to anticommercialism and a barrier to keep out...who? The impatient? Old people? It's a classic shitty underground rock pose, but not as shitty as bringing over Big Top Pee-Wee to shout down your listeners through a megaphone. If you never made it past this track, I can't really blame you. By the time it came screaming out my speakers, it was much too late: the wintry dream-pop of free mp3 "In This Home on Ice" had already locked its in my head and refused to come out. As inspiring as the album's actual songs were, this sucker still owes us an apology.

I actually liked this song, and thought it was one of the high points of the album. I mean, look at the lyrics:

Clap your hands!
But I feel so lonely
Clap your hands!
But it won't do nothing
Just clap your hands!
But I have no money
Just clap your hands!

And so on. Even this short snippet should make it clear that such a song does not deserve to be placed on a list under Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps." Incidentally, the Black Eyed Peas also had a song called "Clap Your Hands" on their debut album - here's hoping that CYHSY never release a track as inane as "My Humps."

Another good song from the same album: Over and Over Again (Lost and Found)