Friday, 29 August 2008

Percussive-rattle-type-thing

A list of songs featuring the strange ball-on-a-springy-stick that is the vibraslap.

Now available as a Spotify collaborative playlist - so you can enjoy spotting those vibraslap deployment moments.

Learn to play one here on
YouTube.


  • 5000 Volts - Dr Kiss Kiss (YouTube). Quick twang wherever there is a suitable gap.
  • Lily Allen - LDN
  • Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper (only once, in the middle eight)
  • Carpenters - This Masquerade
  • The Clash - Revolution Rock (very subtle)
  • The Clash - Last Gang In Town. Quiet one near beginning.
  • Cheap Trick - The Ballad of TV Violence
  • Lou Christie - I'm Gonna Make You Mine (YouTube)
  • Gabriella Cilmi - Nothing Sweet About Me
  • Culture - Stop The Fussing and Fighting. Extensive use in the intro
  • David Essex - Oh What A Circus (tons)
  • Dana - All Kinds of Everything
  • Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno. A big one in the middle, and some other more subtle ones.
  • E.L.O. - Jungle
  • Gloria Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye
  • The Guillemots - Through The Windowpane (faint)
  • Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face (lots, but mixed well back)
  • Kaiser Chiefs - What Did I Ever Give You
  • Kenny - Heart of Stone
  • Joan as Police Woman - Shame
  • John Kongos - Tokoloshe Man (overdone)
  • Bob Marley - Satisfy My Soul (lots)
  • Sugar Minott - Good Thing Going
  • Walter Murphy - A Fifth of Beethoven
  • Mylo - Otto's Journey
  • New Seekers - Neverending Song of Love
  • Noah and The Whale - Five Years' Time (plenty, mostly in the chorus, starting about 1:45 in)
  • Billy Ocean - Red Light Spells Danger
  • Odyssey - Inside Out
  • Santana - She's Not There
  • Stereophonics - I Miss You Now
  • Paul Weller - Empty Ring. Right at the beginning, and several times throughout.
  • The Raconteurs - The Switch & The Spur. Two big ones that serve as parentheses for the middle section.
  • R.E.M. - Orange Crush
  • Roxy Music - The Space Between
  • The Zutons - Harder & Harder (near the end)


Points will not be given for copying from the list at Wikipedia

1 comment:

Unknown said...

I will have to look through the Latino end of my record collection but meanwhile there is one in Roberto Sierra's "Missa Latina" and a quick Myspace search reveals a band called the Vibraslaps - http://vibraslaps.com/ - but whether they play one I don't know