Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck

"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck"
Single by Prong
from the album Cleansing
Released	1994
Recorded	1993
Genre	Groove metal[1] industrial metal alternative metal
Length	4:11 (album version) 3:57 (single version)
Label	Epic
Songwriter(s)	Prong
Producer(s)	Terry Date Prong
Prong singles chronology
"Unconditional" (1991) "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" (1994) "Whose Fist Is This Anyway?" (1994)
Music video
"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" on YouTube

"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" is a song by the American heavy metal band Prong. It was released in 1994 as the lead single from their fourth studio album Cleansing. It's the band's biggest hit,^[2] peaking at #80 on the UK single chart for two weeks.^[3]

Recording

Metal Hammer writer Stephen Hill states that "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" was built on fat hooks, straight-to-the-point beats and a downtuned, chugging riff that would later become a staple of the emergent nu metal scene. But although Snap... has one of Prong’s most iconic riffs, Tommy admits he can’t remember much about writing it."

“We didn’t want to do thrash or crossover,” Tommy Victor explains. “We didn’t know what to do, but we knew we didn’t want to do that. So we thought, ‘Let’s go back to floor-danceable metal’, the kind of thing that people wanted to listen to in clubs. Regular songs rather than Master of Puppets.”^[4]

Legacy

“That song enabled Prong to have some longevity,” Victor says. “I look at it like this: it contributed to this career that I’ve had for so long. We’ve got something to preserve now, we’ve got our 13th album State Of Emergency coming out, that’s pretty cool. That legacy of Prong, to be able to continue that and still be on a record label, probably because of that song, it’s great. It still gets added to Spotify playlists, the numbers are good, and it doesn’t stop.”

A music video of "Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck" was released in 1994. It saw heavy rotation on MTV. It was also featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head.^[5] The song has been covered by Dry Kill Logic, Demon Hunter, Six Feet Under and Grinspoon.

Track listing

Vinyl single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (Harder Than Hardcore Remix)"	7:48
2.	"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (Extended Version)"	5:19
3.	"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (G 104 Remix)"	4:26
4.	"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (Exit 100 Remix)"	6:10
5.	"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (Album)"	4:10

CD single

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck (Single Version)"	3:57
2.	"Another Worldly Device"	3:23
3.	"Prove You Wrong"	3:29
4.	"Beg To Differ"	4:13

Personnel

Prong

• Tommy Victor — vocals, guitar
• Paul Raven — bass guitar
• Ted Parsons — drums
• John Bechdel — keyboards, programming

Technical credits

• Terry Date — producer, engineer
• Prong — producer
• Ted Jensen — mastering

References

1. "Hidden Gems: Rediscovering The '90s Post-Thrash Groove Metal Scene". VH1. August 12, 2015. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
2. Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (November 26, 2019). "Singer Tommy Victor's Meditation Practice Helps Inspire Prong's New Single 'Age of Defiance': Premiere". Billboard. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
3. "SNAP YOUR FINGERS, SNAP YOUR NECK". Offical Charts. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
4. Hill, Stephen (December 23, 2023). ""Beavis and Butt-Head liked it, that was always a big thing!" How Prong got massive for a minute in the 90s with Snap Your Fingers, Snap Your Neck". Metal Hammer. Retrieved August 14, 2024.
5. "Celebrating 30 Years of Cleansing". Prong. Retrieved August 14, 2024.