What's with the clapping in the background?

Hugo Reyes

I hear ya. I hope you didn't take that comment maliciously. I've just been wondering that about some people on here lately.[/quote]


not at all. I understand. I'm not here to pile on. As I've said many times to friends, they could recite the alphabet and not only would I defend their right to release that as a single, I'd download it, buy the vinyl copy and see then in concert on the off chance that they recite the alphabet while playing acoustic. They've payed me back 1,000 times over at this point. Anything they do I'm ultimately going to be happy with.

All that being said, they just seem to be trying a little to hard with Fixer and the clapping struck me the wrong way. Silly/stupid I know. But that's also what keeps me coming back. If they weren't such a meaningful part of who I am, I just wouldn't care.

The Champ

Why do you mothers have to keep posting shit like this? I had no clue about this clapping bullshit prior..thanks a lot for informing me..

LikeAnOcean

Pam Jearl wrote:

LikeAnOcean wrote:

Evacuation Rules wrote:

"Get Right" has handclaps. Maybe it's a Matt thing.

I was trying to put my finger on what other song has clapping! Thats it!

But seriously, what's wrong with clapping? Why is it associated with pop music, and what is bad about pop music? Pearl Jam has had many pop hits. "pop" is just short for popular... Plenty of good, respectable artists out there that write pop music.

Should Pearl Jam get rid of their guitars because guitars can be found in pop music?

Seriously.

It just sounds forced to me, that's all. The guitar comment is just silly, c'mon. And as I've said, I'm WAY HYPER CRITICAL to a fault with this song. At the end of the day, it's probably a stupid post. It just happened to cross my mind so I threw it on the board. Lesson learned: next time, take my time and don't rush. That's what she said.

Maybe the album version won't have the clapping?.. maybe it sounds oddly placed for the band, but its catchy! I think it just makes the song more fun.. I know people around here don't favor fun songs by the band.

OlDiamondback

The Champ wrote:

Why do you mothers have to keep posting shit like this? I had no clue about this clapping bullshit prior..thanks a lot for informing me..

I this thread.

mattosborne

It wasn't my intention to come across the way I did lol. There's just so many complaints on the forum these days, I lose my patience! It's not as if hand claps are a new thing in music. PJ has used them before!