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Hi, Dave! A couple of years ago there was a kind of dance hit taking the bass line from Pink Floyd's "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", can you tell me the title of that song, please?
Hi David, thank you for your great videos. I have a really good suggestion for a video. More and more people are noticing that "Home" by Dream Theater, the bassline and main guitarriff, seems very "borrowed" from Tool's "46 And 2". I would love to see you compare the two. I think many would. Thank you.
@Granite Overworld I've started coming around on pop music as I get older but Toxic was still a guilty pleasure when I was a teenager. It's a straight up banger. Well written song.
Perfect example. I had always thought it was an interpolation but it seems to be an actual sample-or, really, _three_ samples-from “Tere Mere Beech Mein.“ _See_ “Sample Breakdown: Britney Spears - Toxic” on the *Tracklib* channel on UA-cam. _Edit:_ This comment below on “How Bollywood Gave Britney Spears Her Greatest Hit” indicates that that famous hook _was_ an interpolation so the sample breakdown is merely showing how the original was rearranged: “Toxic actually exposes a huge flaw in how non-Western music copyright worked at the time (and how Western artists could exploit it). In many Asian music markets at the time, nobody owned the actual sheet music composition of their songs. They or their record/movie/production companies only owned the sound recording. Since the strings on Toxic are actually a re-recording based on the original Bollywood track played by Stockholm Session Strings, nobody owned the copyright for composition, and no credit was needed or given for the original Bollywood piece.”
A few days ago, Damon Albarn said in an interview that the main beat from 'Clint Eastwood' was actually taken from the Rock 1 preset on his Suzuki Omnichord.
An Omnichord rhythm also forms the main backing loop of Brian Eno’s “Deep Blue Day” (best known for its use in Trainspotting). Eno being Eno, of course, he slowed it down to half speed on tape, giving it a dreamy, underwater sound.
It was nice that Damon confirmed it, but the Omnichord preset has been known for several years. Here's a 15-second clip of the Rock 1 pattern from six years ago: ua-cam.com/video/RILRBOK5THg/v-deo.html
Some of the OG artists who have good Lawyers can pull 100% of the royalties if the samples are sneaky ones. Gilbert O Sullivan has achieved this when others sampled his music. Once the rogue artists found out that legally a sample can have their royalties stripped and the price to use a sample can sometimes be huge it stamped out lots of people playing games.
There is a video of FatBoySlim doing a breakdown of a few of his tracks. He says a couple of times ''I'll just cover up these 3 beats here, so you can't read them' And goes to play a single sample, stops it and says "I can't play you that, because they haven't asked for money yet' Classic. Seeing people make music like this to me, is pure magic. I know how it's done, but every time it hits me like wizardry.
@@matthewweaver1123 Specifically Jagger and Richards, and what makes that even more ludicrous is that the sample used in _Bitter Sweet Symphony_ is a completely original arrangement from a cover version of the Stones song
The sample breakdown for Daft Punk's Face to Face is way more than just ELO's Evil Woman. That song is probably one of their most complex songs (before R.A.M.) by far because the the crazy sampling they did.
The Mellotron is so fascinating. It was essentially a completely analog version of MIDI virtual instruments that are now ubiquitous in music production.
Madonna’s “Hung Up” uses a direct sample from ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”, which is looped throughout the majority of the song. Both Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus were credited as songwriters, like how you mentioned with Redbone.
@@hoodiegal both have been stingy with samples.. Madonna didn't clear any until 2020 when she let the Avalanches use the bassline of "Holiday" for the streaming release of "Since I Left You"
Same for pretty much most of the Thriller album by the way. Quincy Jones used a solid two bar loop from one of the drum takes to lay the foundation for all the uptempo songs on that album.
Along similar lines, "Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO reuses the drum track from "On The Run", a song on the same album "Discovery". The Stone Roses song "Don't Stop" is basically just "Waterfall" played backwards with a new vocal on top!
That is correct and the reason was that their drummer Dennis Bryon had a family emergency back in the UK and therefore could not lay down the drum track. So Karl Richardson and Albhy Galutten came up with the idea to make this Stayin' Alive drumroll out the Night Fever Session.
One I always think of and really like both songs is Gym Class Heroes' Cupid's Chokehold, that samples Breakfast in America by Supertramp. Both great songs!
The thing about Face to Face is that it's not just Evil Woman, it's also "Can't Get it out of my Head" by ELO, "Lahahina Luna", "Tell Me to My Face" by Dan Fogelburg & Tim Weisburg, "House at Pooh Corner" by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, and, and, and....Like, there's so many rifts that were taken that are just a few notes, but when you speed them up, slow them down, pitch shift them, you hear it. It's bonkers just how much time it took splicing all of it together, making something new with it. I think in notes and interviews past there's been talk of 13 or 14 samples used in the track, and fans are still trying to crack the ones that are used less often in the loops. I'm surprised the booklet didn't weigh any more than it did in the CD case looking back on it.
Could honestly make a whole video about Kraftwerk samples and their influence in an effect based music that we hear a lot nowadays. How they impacted hip hop, how New Order sampled them in Blue Monday and how multiple artists ever since have used their samples in multiple different genres.
The entire Since I Left You album by The Avalanches is constructed of loads and loads of samples, all combined into one gigantic work of music. It's incredible how well put together it sounds
They even had the audacity to sample a Madonna bassline, which I don't think was actually credited on the initial release. (It may or may not get officially mentioned these days. See also De La Soul's issues with the re-release of 'Three Feet High & Rising' for another example of plunderphonics creating a brilliant album and a licensing nightmare).
For some context, Daft Punks; Face to Face, has over "15" (yes, you heard right) 15 samples in total, which includes band and song titles like; 1)ELO's- Evil Woman, Can't Get It Out Of My Head 2) Dan Fogelberg/Tim Weisberg- Twin Theme, Lahaina Luna 3) Dave Mason- All Along The Watchtower 4) Loggins and Messina- Be Free, House At Pooh Corner 5) Boz Scaggs- You Got Some Imagination 6) The Doobie Brothers- South City Midnight Lady 7) Carrie Lucas- Sometimes A Love Goes Wrong 8) Steppenwolf- Everybody's Next One 9) The Alan Parsons Prjoject- Silence And I, Old And Wise The fact that this track was created over 20yrs ago, and new samples are still being found is incredible to me, and gives me a deeper appreciation of Daft Punk and their keen ear and imagination when creating their tracks. Simply; it just blows me away.
Look into how Liam Howlett created some of The Prodigys biggest hits, literally hundreds of samples reversed, speed up, slowed down etc. It is INSANE how talented Howlett truly was if you go into the INCREDIBLY difficult way he created these superb, groundbreaking tracks!
i was shocked at how many he uses and where they came from. there is a great deconstruction vid of voodoo people. ua-cam.com/video/6ZYLp5uX9Yw/v-deo.html
A true legend! From my hometown too, I used to see the guys driving about town. Early on Liam drove a Lotus Elan and then later Keith drove a lovely bright yellow TVR. They are a little older than me.
There's a difference between sampling and like just rehashing the same song, though. I like Maroon 5, but Memories is way too similar to Canon D. To me, rather than being clever or breathing new life into an old song, Memories just comes across as lazy.
Two faves for me... Kanye's "Power" samples "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson. And "Jack-Ass" by Beck samples a performance of "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" by Them feat. Van Morrison-which is itself a cover of the Bob Dylan original. Sampling inception, indeed.
Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique is a masterclass in the various ways you can use samples, as well as how EVERYTHING changed in the industry in terms of legalities. Please do a video on that.
100% - I remember hearing somewhere about 10 years ago that it just couldn't be done "today" as the cost of all the licenses would far outweigh anything they earned in sales!
De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising came out just prior to Paul's Boutique and was made in the same vein. De La Soul's early catalogue was only made available on streaming services just recently (a few weeks ago, I think?), due in part to having to clear the use of the samples (among other things). And even then, they had to re-record some parts of the album and omit others because not everything was able to be cleared.
One of the things I love about sampling (and one of the reasons I fell in love with Hip Hop) is that it shines a light on music and artists that may otherwise have been forgotten about. I likely wouldn't have heard of such amazing artists as Labi Siffre and Bobby Caldwell if producers hadn't gone out crate digging, specifically to find new material worth sampling. Phenomenal art.
One of the craziest samples/interpolations that i found out myself was Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay which i first traced back to Ritmo de la Noche - MYSTIC which on it's own has sampled I Got To Rio - Peter Allen.
As a fan of Otis Redding, “Gone” by Kanye is one of the cool examples. Ice Cube’s sample from “Footsteps in the Dark” for “It Was a Good Day” is also great
"My Woman" by Lew Stone had a horn line that was so catchy it got sampled in two separate songs ("Your Woman" by White Town and "Love Again" by Dua Lipa).
I think that the greatest use of sampling was the Beastie Boys' aptly titled song "Rhymin and Stealin" which samples and combines the main riff of Black Sabbath's Sweet Leaf, and the legendary drum beat from Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks What makes is so special for me is that there are apparently lost jam sessions between Zeppelin and Sabbath from the 70s, and this song feels like the closest to that which we'll ever hearing them
The band AJR sampled a part of Peter, Paul, & Mary’s Cruel War in their song The Good Part in their “The Click” album. They mention it in one of their videos when they take you behind the scenes on how they make some of their songs, there are other ones they do, but The Good Part is the most interesting to me.
this video has illustrated so many examples ive already known and some more and just gives my reasoning for why i prefer most older music from todays. especially 80s disco, funk, groove, soul, has been sampled so much and people dont realise. i dont mind samples as long as its barely recogniseable but i dont feel like the orginal creators get enough recognition as they should.
One of the best cases i know is DJ Shadow's Endtrodoucing, an album made entirely by samples from really unknown music records he found at a record store. As far as I know he used to go there so frequently that the owner even let him go to the storage room where there were a lot more records that didn't sell much in their times and DJ Shadow would always come out of the store with a lot of them.
minor correction, Stardust is not Daft Punk's side project, Guy-Man had nothing to do with it, it was just Bangalter, Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond. Bangalter did a lot of stuff outside Daft Punk, he was well known in the french clubs, doing stuff like making the original version of Call On Me and making Together with DJ Falcon
3:23 in "Rise" by Herp Alpert was sampled by Biggie Smalls in "Hypnotize" 2:10 in "I Got The" by Labi Siffre was sampled for Eminem's "My Name Is" Both originals are great tracks by the way👌 Apologies if either of these have already been mentioned... there's so many good shout outs here though!
Whether or not sampling is "cheating" depends largely on just how much of the prior song is sampled. For example, M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" basically used the entirety of Rick James's "Super Freak," with only the title and lyrics changed. Similarly, when P. Diddy repurposed the Police's "Every Breath You Take" it was another instance of just plopping his own lyrics over their melody. In contrast, Skee-Lo's "I Wish" incorporated samples from several songs, woven together to create a new melody.
Why fix what isn’t broken? If the new song sounds good without making major changes to the sample, then that’s how it should be. Music isn’t a competition to prove how good you are at composing, it’s about making things that people want to hear. If you think sampling is cheating, then that just proves you care less about the music itself and more about some perceived amount of “effort” you think went into it. If some bozo spent 3 minutes strumming the axis chords on a guitar would you think of that as more original than U Can’t Touch This? At what point does an idea become original when we all draw from the same musical tradition?
Biz Markie's treatment of *Alone Again (Naturally)* by Gilbert O'Sullivan is extremely low effort. Maybe "cheating" isn't a useful term in music, but some music is better than other music.
Singing new words over am older melody is something that has been standard music practice since forever. See for example Battle Hymn of the Republic being new words to John Brown's Body. The examples you gave as "cheating" (if someone wants to even call it that) are still more creative than a straightforward cover version, and I love cover versions. I still get surprised to learn about iconic songs turning out to be covers, it was only this year I found out Cyndi Lauper's Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun was a cover. And she even went on to release a slowed down reinterpretation of her own cover of a song nobody knows is a cover. It's all good. So long as credit and payment is made, go hog wild. If I cut all the covers and samples and remakes and "strongly influenced inspirations" out of my life there'd not be that much left.
There was a period in the 90s in the US where if you wanted to sample, say, two measures from a song, you had to pay as if you sampled the entire thing. A part of it could be a lack of creativity, but there's also the financial limitation.
what's crazy too is I knew of Moby from his song that was always at the end of the Bourne movies. Didn't know of the song Porcelain but I could hear another song in it and I found out that was also used in ASAP Forever from ASAP Rocky and features Moby. But I had no idea that was why it feature him, because it sampled Porcelain! Crazy music world
I was gonna say, a better example of clever and absolutely outstanding sampling techniques is the Face to Face Daft Punk track you mention. It has the ELO sample, but SO many more beyond, including other ELO samples. Moonwalker did a video of them putting together the 20 different samples that Daft Punk used for Face to Face, and it's astounding to see it put together from so many small bits of others music
Blame Allen Klein for that - he was a real rat bastard (just ask George Harrison). When Jagger and Richards regained control over the song that was sampled, they gave the credit and royalties for "Bittersweet Symphony" back to the guy who wrote it.
George Martin made extensive use of sampling and one of the innovative ones was for the “benefit of mr kite” Originally he was going to try and program a steam organ himself but when he realised the time implications he took several existing recordings of fairground organ excerpts and cut them, looped them and edited them into position. This is one of the first instances of pre-daw cutting, and placing etc rather than simply replaying the “whole” of an existing piece. I like the idea of George travelling around trying to find fairground organs to use 😂😂 The result is amazing. 🎉❤
Probably two of the most famous examples of sampling: - Vainilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" sampling from Queen's "Under Pressure" - Madonna's "Hang up" sampling from ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Vanilla Ice thought he would get away with it, Madonna right from the start gave ABBA half of the song writing credit and showered them with money. In fact the news was that she would use an ABBA sample even before the single was released, working as promotion of the song.
I gave a friend a two hour lesson in producing in 2011 when I still had a studio. He was a serious detractor against sampling until I showed him microsampling, slicing hits and stabs, and the lengthy process most producers or musicians go through to make the samples fit into a track. He was floored as he thought we'd have a finished track quickly and we barely had the basics (drum loop and three or four changeups, pads and some lead instrument choices, but almost no lead or bass tracked to speak of). He took to producing after that though and still does. He's a firm believer in sampling now and has learned the ins and outs of legally getting release contracts.
Great video! Enya's "Boadicea" is a heavily sampled song. Most notably in The Fuggee's "Ready or Not" and Mario Winans/P.Diddy's "I Don't Want To Know" - Kinda cool how such a wide range of artists have likely gotten way more people listening to Enya.
I remember that song Paper Planes by M.I.A. being huge, and it was not into several years later that I was shocked to realize it was sampling a song that had evaded me by The Clash (whom I'd listened to for over a decade that point) called Straight to Hell. I remember that I was also surprised that I hadn't heard anyone mention the sample as it played such a crucial support role in that hit song.
@@johnd5398 hahah, whoops, well, I can edit and fix it but then your assistance would appear to have been you making a mistake instead of me, so I'm just replying instead, haha
Came here to mention this... As a huge Clash fan, I heard it immediately. A friend of mine refused to believe it was a Clash sample until I played him the original.
@@haolekoa737 I was faced with the "prove it!" scenario at least twice after I learned this, though a 3rd person simply thought that was interesting and wanted me to play both songs back to back, at which point he realized he'd heard paper planes as bar background noise many times while having become a clash fan around the time (he's kinda the "purchase a band's entire catalogue in one go and then slowly explore it in Chronological release order" guy so he had also listened to Straight to hell many times by then, but he'd never heard the 2 songs close enough together to catch on. (To be fair, paper planes blew up as a hit and then disappeared faster than, well, a paper plane facing any kind of physical obstacle.) I actually was reminded a few days ago that Tainted Love, the big single for Soft Cell in the 80s (also one of marylin Manson's late 90s or early 00s singles) wasn't even an original in the 80s! It was a 60s Motown or soul recording by a woman who, based on the feel of that version, wasnt taking any more of some man's shit. That's not the impression I got from the nuances of the song when it filtered through the new wave sound of the era. (I heard the song was actually a big hit for manson as a cover, but I don't really remember hearing it-though it could've happened after I abandoned the fm radio as a listening option.)
I love everyone adding their own examples..... Since you mentioned Moby, I've always loved his song "Go" and how it samples the Laura Palmer theme from Twin Peaks. If I remember, it was one of Moby's very first singles. It has a really cool vibe to it.....
Moby is actually a really interesting discography subject, he has some heavy shit back in the day also... incredible musician (and still uses some old tech, like an Atari)
A really interesting one is the song 'Daydream in Blue'. It was written by the Belgian band Wallace Collection, immediately covered by Claude Francois as 'Reveries', covered again by the German group Gunter Kallman Choir, then Isaac Hayes covered just the loop for 'Ike's Rap', then Portishead sampled that version for 'Glory Box', then Tricky sampled _that_ version for 'Hell is Around the Corner'. Then the band I Monster covered 'Daydream in Blue' and used a sample from the Gunter Kallman Choir version. The whole journey of that sample is fascinating.
The sample used in What's the Difference/Breathe makes my head explode. Who listens to a 60s French crooner and thinks "this is gonna be awesome slowed down with extra bass". Genius.
It always amuses me that all the members of Art of Noise got songwriting credits on Firestarter because Liam sampled the “Hey!” snippet from Close to the Edge. I’d always assumed that it was Anne Dudley’s voice, but apparently they recorded a schoolgirl singing in a chapel, and the “hey!” bit was all they ended up using. I’m always fascinated by the stories behind sample libraries and presets, along the lines of your Beatles Spanish guitar Mellotron example. My favourite is thinking about the choir recorded for an Orchestron disc (a device similar to a Mellotron), which Kraftwerk used on Radioactivity, which in turn got sampled by New Order for Blue Monday. Then there’s the recording of Stravinsky’s Firebird which became the ORCH5 preset on the Fairlight CMI back when digital sampling was new, and ended up on pretty much every other record in the 80s, and has been resampled many times since.
your comment is way more interesting than the video. AON was like The Orb in that it felt built on samples - I do know where all Orb samples are from, and there's a database somewhere of all sample sources for the entire psytrance genre ... it is supremely interesting where these noises come from. I presume you laid your paws on a Fairlight CMI, in which case, wow. Write more stuff!
One of the most interesting cases of sampling I’ve ever heard was that the piano intro to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” was sampled (or interpolated) from a song called “Song for my Father” by the Horace Silver Quintet. Blew my mind that sampling (or interpolation) was a thing even back then.
New Order's "Blue monday" has a Kraftwerk sample in it ("Uranium") in a different key, and then repurposes elements from other 4 tracks: Donna Summer's "Our Love" (bass drum), Ennio Morricone's "La Resa Dei Conti" (bass riff), Klein & M.B.O.'s "Dirty Talk" (base keyboard line and some of the bass) and Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (main beat).
Its amazing how all the original work from the earlier times seem to drive so much of the new music ..i usually love the 70’s string arrangements song, themes etc...i often think theres a portion of one arrangement or another that could work on its own..
I enjoy Nujabes sample work a ton. lots of cool ones in there from "The shade of the mango tree" by luiz bonfa and "Make Love 2" being a couple cool ones. I also enjoy the small tidbit that both mac demarco and travis scott sampled the same song by Shigeo Sekito. Enjoy! thanks for the fun samples.
@@frankfrank7921 No, not at all because the limitation has a marked effect on what was possible with a Tron compared to more modern sample-playback machines or samplers
@@QuirqUK exactly, you can't sustain a note on a mellotron for longer than the length of the internal tape. Also, this video is talking about sampling parts of KNOWN songs and using those samples to create other songs. The mellotron was an instrument similar to the Fairlight CMI where it was a keyboard that had samples of instrument sounds and other sounds. Both were intended to be used in the studio for the creation of original music. Sampling a portion or large portions of a completed song bypasses coming up with a unique, beat, melody etc. Some of the biggest selling albums of the late 60s used the mellotron and they are not considered songs that used samples. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by a riff, break, melody etc. But it should be used to inspire. I've heard Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears talk about what inspired him on 2 of their big hits. He used Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" beat to inspire the drum/percussion arrangement of "Mad World". And he used a melody from a Talking Heads song to create the big hit "Shout". But we'd never recognize this because the inspiration was what sparked his creativity to write original music and lyrics. I think using samples of songs is pure laziness.
Another sample that's been made more prevalent in popular consciousness is "Telephone and Rubber Band" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It already samples a dialtone to form the basis of its melody, but then this melody was turned into the opening riff of "In the Meantime" by Spacehog, recently used to promote the upcoming Marvel movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"
The most interesting one I know is the fact that “Why Don’t You Get A Job” by the Offspring is essentially a pop punk reharmonization of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
One of my favorite samples from from "The Edge" by David McCallum (Ducky from "NCIS" and Illya Kuryakin from "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."), who was sampled to make up much of the memorable parts of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode", and a few other tracks.
The line, "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful?" from The Beatles "Baby, you're a rich man" is heavily sampled in PM Dawn's "The Beautiful." As far as I know, they didn't give the Beatles credit, but that line is heavily used in their song. (In fact it is one of my favorite parts of the PM Dawn song. I love The Beatles, and had no idea PM Dawn sampled them until I heard, "Baby, I'm a rich man.") I guess, based on your video, they didn't technically sample The Beatles, but interpolated them.
My favourite example of something other than a song being sampled is Public Enemy’s War At Thirty Three And A Third. The main beat features a prominent sample of a dot matrix printer.
The song “Bust A Move” by Young MC is built on a sample of "Found a Child" by the group Ballin' Jack. The drums, produced by a LinnDrum, are sampled from the song "Radio-Activity" by RoyalCash. ~ The breakdown segment contains a combination of beats sampled from the songs "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band, and "Daytime Hustler" by Bette Midler. "Bust a Move" also featured guest vocals by Crystal Blake and bass guitar by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, both of whom also appeared in the video.
my name is young mc, backwards it's mc young, I let em know! I'm in England, I would have never heard of Young MC if it wasn't for Know How being big in the rave scene in the mid 90s.. many a time I've been off my face, dancing away in a few clubs singing along to that haha good times
I love stuff like this. So much so I’ve even compiled an exhaustive Spotify playlist called ‘Spot The Sample’, so here’s a few of my well-known and not-so-well-known favourites: ‘Far Beyond’ by Locksmith sampled by Basement Jaxx on ‘Red Alert’ ‘I Got The…’ by Labi Siffre sampled by Eminem on ‘My Name Is’ (bonus fact: Cockney songsters Chas and Dave were session musicians on that!) ‘Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)’ by The Chi-Lites sampled on Beyoncé’s ‘Crazy In Love’ ‘Street Player’ by Chicago used on ‘The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) by The Bucketheads ‘You Did It’ by Ann Robinson used on ‘Gangster Trippin’ by Fatboy Slim
Kimbra was the big historical moment for this song - with the rise of producer-led music that pushed the actual performers into featuring roles (that let to the extreme of the 2018 Christmas number one song 'Rockabye' being credited to 'Clean Bandit' despite him not actually doing anything - every single line on the song was sung by Annemarie or Sean Paul), they decided to give artists listed as 'featuring' full credit for the song when listing single performance in the record books - the first benefactor of this was Kimbra, who in 2011 became the first ever artist to be credited with a number 1 single despite only being listed as 'featuring' on the record.
I would never have guessed that the Bungalow Bill opening was a mellotron sample. This is an interesting new topic and one I was only aware of in cases of literally sampling a snatch of a song, not repurposing.
I was happy that you included ELO and Vampire Weekend on here because they are my 2 favorite bands other than Animal Collective and I never hear about them enough it was just really cool!!
According to Gary Numan's autobiography, he was sampled in two songs in 2000s, "Where's Your Head At" by Basement Jaxx ("M.E.") and "Freak Like Me" by The Sugababes ("Are 'Friends' Electric?"), which is also a cover of Adina Howard's song from 1995. The royalties from Jaxx's song actually helped him get out of financial struggles at that time.
NFS Carbob introduced me to Gary Numan. I remember hearing Are Friends Electric and was thinking, "wait this sounds so familiar" not realizing at the time Sugababes had sampled it. I fell in love with his song because of that game
@@danpreston564 great post - apparently when Numan heard it he generously said that he preferred the Sugababes version. I disagree but I think both of them have much to commend. They’re both excellent records in their own right. Apparently Adina was much less positive and objected strongly to a sample of her work therefore the singers from Sugababes simply resung the original song and paid the appropriate publishing/rights fees. I think their version is far superior to Howard’s original. For more details on the mashup phenomenon of the early 2000s check out Trash Theory’s YT on Richard X who did much of the early innovation in this area. I’ll try and post a link..
Chaka Khan's cover of Prince's I Feel For You contains a vocal sample of Stevie Wonder's Fingertips from 1963 (he also plays harmonica on the track). Trent Rezner sampled Prince's Alphabet St. on Ringfinger from Pretty Hate Machine.
The song "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches is made almost entirely of samples from old tapes the group found. It's a really interesting use of sampling.
1:32 “Face to Face” isn’t the only song to sample “Evil Woman”. The Pussycat Dolls’ “Beep” does too, specifically the violin motif played in the middle of the ELO song
I always liked how the sax part of Queen Latifah's U.N.I.T.Y. was such a tiny part of the source song, A Message From The Inner City, by The Crusaders, yet it makes up the whole foundation of the new song.
I agree that sampling breathes new life into old songs. My favorite sample is the gospel in Kanye West's On Sight. It is extremely contrasting to the actual song and if it wasn't there nobody would know of the song.
GREAT VIDEO!! Fall Out Boy’s music since their hiatus has included some sampling, “Uma Thurman” and “Centuries” come to mind but I think there’s more. “Old Town Road” is one you’re probably already aware of sampling Nine Inch Nails. “The Wire” by Haim samples “Heartache Tonight” I believe…
Man, Liams work with sampling with the Prodigy is so underrated unfortunately, they need so much more recognition, as someone else mentioned, the Jim Pavloff videos where he recreates some Prodigy songs just shows you how fucking great Liam is with using samples, especially with the technology he would’ve had at the time
I usually love David’s videos but I’m shocked that he made a video about sampling without even mentioning The Prodigy! It’s like making a video about swing without Sinatra, a video about gypsy jazz without Reinhardt, or a video about heavy metal without Metallica.
I have no problems with CREATIVE use of sampling, taking a tiny section and transforming it into something new and exciting. It's when you hear a track and think the best thing about is the entirely lifted riff or bassline that it becomes just a glorified cover, even if the lyrics have been changed.
Animal Collective's "What Would I Want? Sky" is a really creative use of a sample from Grateful Dead's "Unbroken Chain". They begin their sample at the end of a phrase from the original song, and "mishear" the original lyrics so that ""Willow sky/ Whoa, I walk and wonder why" becomes "Sky / what would I want?". They also chop half a beat off the loop, so the new song becomes 7/8 despite the original being in 4/4.
great example! I love that AnCo song.....and always love how creative they were with the sampling aspect of it. Also an excellent example of a song in an odd meter....that still sounds....natural. It doesn't sound off. It has a groove and flow that just works. You feel it and get it right away.
Going though an artist's samples usually gives a good indicator of their musical knowledge and can really help you connect with them. Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, and DJ Shadow taught a lot of 90's kids about bygone music just by listing the samples in the album sleeve. Other times, it can feel lifeless and like a money grab, especially in today's world of streaming giants. Soundcloud mixers will dig through crates and make something out of a track they lovingly sampled, only for the idea to be pinched by someone hired to sift through Soundcloud for a big label, then it arrives on a producers lap who hands it to a pop star. It's not like Spotify has a sleeve to thumb through when you don't know the words or want to see the weird "thank you's".
10CC's "I'm Not in Love" was an amazing achievement in sampling. They recorded their own voices onto a 16 track tape, and then played it back on a mixing desk, using the faders as a kind of Mellotron keyboard.
Once the musical backing had been completed, Eric Stewart recorded the lead vocal and Godley and Creme the backing vocals, but even though the song was finished Godley felt it was still lacking something. Stewart said, "Lol remembered he had said something into the grand piano mics when he was laying down the solos. He'd said 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry' - heaven knows why, but I soloed it and we all agreed that the idea sounded very interesting if we could just find the right voice to speak the words. Just at that point the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy Redfern looked in and whispered 'Eric, sorry to bother you. There's a telephone call for you.' Lol jumped up and said 'That's the voice, her voice is perfect!'." The group agreed that Redfern was the ideal person, but Redfern was unconvinced and had to be coaxed into recording her vocal contribution, using the same whispered voice that she had used when entering the control room. These whispered lyrics would later serve as the inspiration for the name of the 1980s band Boys Don't Cry.
Totally uncool example, but Jessica Simpson's "I think I'm in love" samples John (Cougar) Melancamp's "Jack and Diane" and presents it to a whole new audience. Judge all you like .. I LOVED it!
I've just watched a video on the Daft Punk samples. Face to Face alone samples at least 15 different songs and it's quite amazing how they all fit together.
That's Todd Edwards style and and he made the song basically lol daft punk didn't make that magic as far as I'm concerned. Todd might as well be the third member though, he's always been by daft punks side
Might be worth mentioning "Ike's rap II" by Isaac Hayes. It's sampled in two masterpieces like "Hell Is Round the Corner" by Tricky and "Glory Box" by Portishead, among others.
You should talk about how inventive the Wu Tang Clan were with how they reworked their samples. In particular, look at the song CREAM (sampling Charmels' "As Long As I've Got You").
De la soul's eye know is a great example of creative and eclectic sampling including steely dan, lee Dorsey, Otis Redding, the mad lads and sly and the family stone
I'm surprised Vanilla Ice wasn't mentioned with his use of the bass riff from Queen/David Bowie song, Under Pressure. That is pretty notorious since no attribution was originally given when the song was originally released.
@@acecodemaster1337 it literally is though, vanilla ice’s goofy ass excuse was adding an extra note, and he claimed it was a whole different thing because of it. A load of bs if you ask me
Porcelain was my first true music love, I felt like I'd discovered something exciting and too beautiful for words, and it wasn't someone else's tastes, it was my own. It still has a profound effect on my mood, a painful melancholia mixed with euphoria, a sense that paradise exists.
That Crazy Town track also uses the opening drums of "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps, this is a staple hip hop and electronica drum loop, probably most recognisable from Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death".
My life in the Bush of Ghosts, by Brian Eno and David Byrne, is a good example of the early use of sampling which a number of later artists have quoted as being a massive influence. However the album is pretty upfront about its sampling so it probably doesn't count as songs you might not have known where samples.
I remembered that the vocal sample from "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk was slowed down by Kanye West by 1 and a half steps for the song "Stronger" by Kanye West. Phats & Small were also a side project for Daft Punk on their Debut hit "Turn Around".
Just a small correction: It's "Luiz Bonfá", not "Luiz Bonfás". I was confused myself for a little while, until I realized that the artist name on the record is actually part of the title ("Luiz Bonfá's Brazilian Guitar"). Also, "Bonfá" is pronounced with stress on the last syllable (dictated by the accent "á").
I love when a sample is not given its origins then you watch a movie or TV show and suddenly you hear it and it feels like you discovered a treasure. The 100% sampled song: The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
ahhhh Frontier Psychiatrist - the song that always seems to come in 2nd place to Chesney Hawkes 'One and Only' in the 'greatest one hit wonders ever' lists and countdowns that always are on TV....
Alot of Pendulum's earliest tracks, fucking Through the Loop using the unhinged river song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is genius, and Fasten Your Seatbelt being ripped straight from Spider-Man 2's demonstration of the fusion reactor. I hadn't watched the movie in years by the time I'd heard the song so it was hilarious noticing the sampled part on a rewatch
@@Whiteythereaper I was so fed up with mainstream radio. Then I discovered college radio... holy shite you mean there is other types of music. What an awakening it was for me. Then the internet arrived. Holy Shit.
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De la Soul sample. Breakadawn I Can't Help It
by Michael Jackson’s. And Sang and Dance
by Bar-Kays (1970). And A Quiet Storm
by Smokey Robinson (1975)
Hey, srsly, try giving this a look now that' you're talking aboot sampling. How music was made on the Super Nintendo SNES
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Hi, Dave! A couple of years ago there was a kind of dance hit taking the bass line from Pink Floyd's "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", can you tell me the title of that song, please?
Hi David, thank you for your great videos. I have a really good suggestion for a video. More and more people are noticing that "Home" by Dream Theater, the bassline and main guitarriff, seems very "borrowed" from Tool's "46 And 2". I would love to see you compare the two. I think many would. Thank you.
Drop it like it’s hot has the same beat as Toto by Africa does
The iconic string line in Toxic by Britney Spears samples Tere Mere Beech Mein, a 1981 Bollywood song
And it's a good God Damn sample
@Granite Overworld I've started coming around on pop music as I get older but Toxic was still a guilty pleasure when I was a teenager. It's a straight up banger. Well written song.
Insider has a breakdown video of Toxic’s sampling three years ago. It’s quite fascinating. m.ua-cam.com/video/cj6CDicY3NM/v-deo.html
Perfect example. I had always thought it was an interpolation but it seems to be an actual sample-or, really, _three_ samples-from “Tere Mere Beech Mein.“ _See_ “Sample Breakdown: Britney Spears - Toxic” on the *Tracklib* channel on UA-cam.
_Edit:_ This comment below on “How Bollywood Gave Britney Spears Her Greatest Hit” indicates that that famous hook _was_ an interpolation so the sample breakdown is merely showing how the original was rearranged:
“Toxic actually exposes a huge flaw in how non-Western music copyright worked at the time (and how Western artists could exploit it). In many Asian music markets at the time, nobody owned the actual sheet music composition of their songs. They or their record/movie/production companies only owned the sound recording. Since the strings on Toxic are actually a re-recording based on the original Bollywood track played by Stockholm Session Strings, nobody owned the copyright for composition, and no credit was needed or given for the original Bollywood piece.”
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A few days ago, Damon Albarn said in an interview that the main beat from 'Clint Eastwood' was actually taken from the Rock 1 preset on his Suzuki Omnichord.
Cool!
@@DavidBennettPiano The Omnichord delivered also the basic patterns of "Playing God" by Polyphia. That's what Tim Henson told.
An Omnichord rhythm also forms the main backing loop of Brian Eno’s “Deep Blue Day” (best known for its use in Trainspotting). Eno being Eno, of course, he slowed it down to half speed on tape, giving it a dreamy, underwater sound.
It was nice that Damon confirmed it, but the Omnichord preset has been known for several years. Here's a 15-second clip of the Rock 1 pattern from six years ago: ua-cam.com/video/RILRBOK5THg/v-deo.html
Trio's Da da da is a classic example of this. A guy at school had the same mini-keyboard and was always being asked to put that rhythm on.
Some of the OG artists who have good Lawyers can pull 100% of the royalties if the samples are sneaky ones. Gilbert O Sullivan has achieved this when others sampled his music. Once the rogue artists found out that legally a sample can have their royalties stripped and the price to use a sample can sometimes be huge it stamped out lots of people playing games.
Fancy seeing you here Leo!
Thats how the Rolling Stones ended up with all the royalties and rights to bitter sweet symphony by the verve.
There is a video of FatBoySlim doing a breakdown of a few of his tracks.
He says a couple of times
''I'll just cover up these 3 beats here, so you can't read them'
And goes to play a single sample, stops it and says
"I can't play you that, because they haven't asked for money yet'
Classic.
Seeing people make music like this to me, is pure magic.
I know how it's done, but every time it hits me like wizardry.
Until the eighties/nineties hip hop craze
@@matthewweaver1123 Specifically Jagger and Richards, and what makes that even more ludicrous is that the sample used in _Bitter Sweet Symphony_ is a completely original arrangement from a cover version of the Stones song
The sample breakdown for Daft Punk's Face to Face is way more than just ELO's Evil Woman. That song is probably one of their most complex songs (before R.A.M.) by far because the the crazy sampling they did.
they went so crazy on face to face that they needed to go easy on harder, better, stronger, faster to keep their insanity
Face to face actually has 18 samples
and after harder better faster stronger was made Kanye sampled that song a third time
@@otsu3011 known samples lol, iirc they never stated how many they actually used. 18 is just the number we know of.
@@emray372 there is video with all the samples used lol
The Mellotron is so fascinating. It was essentially a completely analog version of MIDI virtual instruments that are now ubiquitous in music production.
Madonna’s “Hung Up” uses a direct sample from ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”, which is looped throughout the majority of the song. Both Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus were credited as songwriters, like how you mentioned with Redbone.
No offense, but that's pretty transparent indeed. Not a very hidden sample, especially given the Disco tone of the whole album.
Also "On the floor" by J-Lo who took inspiration from "Lambada" of Kaoma
Notably, Madonna is the only artist ever who has been given permission to sample one of ABBA's tracks.
No shit
@@hoodiegal both have been stingy with samples.. Madonna didn't clear any until 2020 when she let the Avalanches use the bassline of "Holiday" for the streaming release of "Since I Left You"
The Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive is an interesting example because the drum beat is a two bar phrase spliced out of their other song Night Fever.
I didn't know that! That's really cool!
Same for pretty much most of the Thriller album by the way. Quincy Jones used a solid two bar loop from one of the drum takes to lay the foundation for all the uptempo songs on that album.
And suddenly I realise why my brain keeps automatically mashing those songs together
Along similar lines, "Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO reuses the drum track from "On The Run", a song on the same album "Discovery".
The Stone Roses song "Don't Stop" is basically just "Waterfall" played backwards with a new vocal on top!
That is correct and the reason was that their drummer Dennis Bryon had a family emergency back in the UK and therefore could not lay down the drum track. So Karl Richardson and Albhy Galutten came up with the idea to make this Stayin' Alive drumroll out the Night Fever Session.
The song "Steal my Sunshine" by Len has been taken from a sample of "More More More" by Andrea True Connection.
I caught that straightaway over 20 years ago.
I feel old now i realise how old the len song actually it.
One I always think of and really like both songs is Gym Class Heroes' Cupid's Chokehold, that samples Breakfast in America by Supertramp. Both great songs!
The thing about Face to Face is that it's not just Evil Woman, it's also "Can't Get it out of my Head" by ELO, "Lahahina Luna", "Tell Me to My Face" by Dan Fogelburg & Tim Weisburg, "House at Pooh Corner" by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, and, and, and....Like, there's so many rifts that were taken that are just a few notes, but when you speed them up, slow them down, pitch shift them, you hear it. It's bonkers just how much time it took splicing all of it together, making something new with it. I think in notes and interviews past there's been talk of 13 or 14 samples used in the track, and fans are still trying to crack the ones that are used less often in the loops.
I'm surprised the booklet didn't weigh any more than it did in the CD case looking back on it.
There’s like over 30 iirc
TWENTY@@gameznthingz
Could honestly make a whole video about Kraftwerk samples and their influence in an effect based music that we hear a lot nowadays. How they impacted hip hop, how New Order sampled them in Blue Monday and how multiple artists ever since have used their samples in multiple different genres.
The entire Since I Left You album by The Avalanches is constructed of loads and loads of samples, all combined into one gigantic work of music. It's incredible how well put together it sounds
I have heard that there is about 3000 samples on that album its crazy
Came here to say this. Its a masterpiece
The height of plunderphonics. I’d love to hear David’s take on this album.
They even had the audacity to sample a Madonna bassline, which I don't think was actually credited on the initial release. (It may or may not get officially mentioned these days. See also De La Soul's issues with the re-release of 'Three Feet High & Rising' for another example of plunderphonics creating a brilliant album and a licensing nightmare).
The Avalanches are incredible.
For some context,
Daft Punks; Face to Face,
has over "15" (yes, you heard right) 15 samples in total,
which includes band and song titles like;
1)ELO's- Evil Woman, Can't Get It Out Of My Head
2) Dan Fogelberg/Tim Weisberg- Twin Theme, Lahaina Luna
3) Dave Mason- All Along The Watchtower
4) Loggins and Messina- Be Free, House At Pooh Corner
5) Boz Scaggs- You Got Some Imagination
6) The Doobie Brothers- South City Midnight Lady
7) Carrie Lucas- Sometimes A Love Goes Wrong
8) Steppenwolf- Everybody's Next One
9) The Alan Parsons Prjoject- Silence And I, Old And Wise
The fact that this track was created over 20yrs ago,
and new samples are still being found is incredible to me,
and gives me a deeper appreciation of Daft Punk and their keen ear
and imagination when creating their tracks.
Simply; it just blows me away.
Look into how Liam Howlett created some of The Prodigys biggest hits, literally hundreds of samples reversed, speed up, slowed down etc. It is INSANE how talented Howlett truly was if you go into the INCREDIBLY difficult way he created these superb, groundbreaking tracks!
And all of that before modern computing made it almost trivial.
i was shocked at how many he uses and where they came from. there is a great deconstruction vid of voodoo people. ua-cam.com/video/6ZYLp5uX9Yw/v-deo.html
Hence the band's name. Howlett's peers often referred to him as a music prodigy, so he went with it. 😊
A true legend! From my hometown too, I used to see the guys driving about town. Early on Liam drove a Lotus Elan and then later Keith drove a lovely bright yellow TVR. They are a little older than me.
@@CleoS-vx5pdUmm no... It was because he used a Moog Prodigy in his first demo tapes
I LOVE when songs sample Canon in D, a whole video to just songs that do that would be amazing.
There's a difference between sampling and like just rehashing the same song, though. I like Maroon 5, but Memories is way too similar to Canon D. To me, rather than being clever or breathing new life into an old song, Memories just comes across as lazy.
Two faves for me... Kanye's "Power" samples "21st Century Schizoid Man" by King Crimson. And "Jack-Ass" by Beck samples a performance of "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" by Them feat. Van Morrison-which is itself a cover of the Bob Dylan original. Sampling inception, indeed.
Oh, I thought the schizoid man sample was Ozzy
Beat me to it, love 21st century schizoid man
Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique is a masterclass in the various ways you can use samples, as well as how EVERYTHING changed in the industry in terms of legalities. Please do a video on that.
100% - I remember hearing somewhere about 10 years ago that it just couldn't be done "today" as the cost of all the licenses would far outweigh anything they earned in sales!
De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising came out just prior to Paul's Boutique and was made in the same vein. De La Soul's early catalogue was only made available on streaming services just recently (a few weeks ago, I think?), due in part to having to clear the use of the samples (among other things). And even then, they had to re-record some parts of the album and omit others because not everything was able to be cleared.
And Then The Prodigy sampled the Beastie Boys.
License to Ill has soo many samples as well
@@ROArecords2 and then everyone and their mother sampled the"YEAAAH!!" from The Beastie's Fight For Your Right.
One of the things I love about sampling (and one of the reasons I fell in love with Hip Hop) is that it shines a light on music and artists that may otherwise have been forgotten about.
I likely wouldn't have heard of such amazing artists as Labi Siffre and Bobby Caldwell if producers hadn't gone out crate digging, specifically to find new material worth sampling.
Phenomenal art.
Yeah, until artists start sampling contemporary hits that came out the week prior
I found so many great jazz songs through music produced by Dr.dre. One of my favourites thst come to mind is I got the.. I think by Labi Sifre
An artist can be contemporary, even mainstream, and still 'unknown' to the listener in that they haven't really checked out their catalogue.
One of the craziest samples/interpolations that i found out myself was Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall - Coldplay which i first traced back to Ritmo de la Noche - MYSTIC which on it's own has sampled I Got To Rio - Peter Allen.
As a fan of Otis Redding, “Gone” by Kanye is one of the cool examples. Ice Cube’s sample from “Footsteps in the Dark” for “It Was a Good Day” is also great
I love Footsteps in the dark!!
"My Woman" by Lew Stone had a horn line that was so catchy it got sampled in two separate songs ("Your Woman" by White Town and "Love Again" by Dua Lipa).
While Don't Call Me Baby by Madison Avenue samples Ma Quale Idea which sampled Ain't No Stopping Us Now.
My woman's trumpet hook is sampled in many more songs in last century. Some say the imperial march from star wars is also sampled from that hook.
Also by Kontra K in „Oder nicht“
It would surprise me if Your Women by White Town is made of samples itself.
I think that the greatest use of sampling was the Beastie Boys' aptly titled song "Rhymin and Stealin" which samples and combines the main riff of Black Sabbath's Sweet Leaf, and the legendary drum beat from Led Zeppelin's When the Levee Breaks
What makes is so special for me is that there are apparently lost jam sessions between Zeppelin and Sabbath from the 70s, and this song feels like the closest to that which we'll ever hearing them
Beastie boys are the only we are ones that I don’t have a problem with sampling the rest of them can go to hell.
Clearly didn’t listen to daft punks face to face
The band AJR sampled a part of Peter, Paul, & Mary’s Cruel War in their song The Good Part in their “The Click” album. They mention it in one of their videos when they take you behind the scenes on how they make some of their songs, there are other ones they do, but The Good Part is the most interesting to me.
The entire " three feet high and rising" by de la soul is a master class in sampling
The entire back catelog by de la soul is a master class
this video has illustrated so many examples ive already known and some more and just gives my reasoning for why i prefer most older music from todays. especially 80s disco, funk, groove, soul, has been sampled so much and people dont realise. i dont mind samples as long as its barely recogniseable but i dont feel like the orginal creators get enough recognition as they should.
Yes, there's a fine line and too many cross it IMO. If you can easily recoginize the sampled song, you're potentially desecrating it.
One of the best cases i know is DJ Shadow's Endtrodoucing, an album made entirely by samples from really unknown music records he found at a record store. As far as I know he used to go there so frequently that the owner even let him go to the storage room where there were a lot more records that didn't sell much in their times and DJ Shadow would always come out of the store with a lot of them.
another masterpiece of sampling in my language is Bocanada by Gustavo Cerati, one of My favourite records
minor correction, Stardust is not Daft Punk's side project, Guy-Man had nothing to do with it, it was just Bangalter, Alan Braxe and Benjamin Diamond. Bangalter did a lot of stuff outside Daft Punk, he was well known in the french clubs, doing stuff like making the original version of Call On Me and making Together with DJ Falcon
3:23 in "Rise" by Herp Alpert was sampled by Biggie Smalls in "Hypnotize"
2:10 in "I Got The" by Labi Siffre was sampled for Eminem's "My Name Is"
Both originals are great tracks by the way👌
Apologies if either of these have already been mentioned... there's so many good shout outs here though!
Whether or not sampling is "cheating" depends largely on just how much of the prior song is sampled. For example, M.C. Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" basically used the entirety of Rick James's "Super Freak," with only the title and lyrics changed. Similarly, when P. Diddy repurposed the Police's "Every Breath You Take" it was another instance of just plopping his own lyrics over their melody.
In contrast, Skee-Lo's "I Wish" incorporated samples from several songs, woven together to create a new melody.
Why fix what isn’t broken? If the new song sounds good without making major changes to the sample, then that’s how it should be. Music isn’t a competition to prove how good you are at composing, it’s about making things that people want to hear. If you think sampling is cheating, then that just proves you care less about the music itself and more about some perceived amount of “effort” you think went into it.
If some bozo spent 3 minutes strumming the axis chords on a guitar would you think of that as more original than U Can’t Touch This? At what point does an idea become original when we all draw from the same musical tradition?
None of them are cheating because making music isn’t a game. You can’t cheat there’s no rules, with that said. There’s different levels of sampling
Biz Markie's treatment of *Alone Again (Naturally)* by Gilbert O'Sullivan is extremely low effort.
Maybe "cheating" isn't a useful term in music, but some music is better than other music.
Singing new words over am older melody is something that has been standard music practice since forever. See for example Battle Hymn of the Republic being new words to John Brown's Body.
The examples you gave as "cheating" (if someone wants to even call it that) are still more creative than a straightforward cover version, and I love cover versions. I still get surprised to learn about iconic songs turning out to be covers, it was only this year I found out Cyndi Lauper's Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun was a cover. And she even went on to release a slowed down reinterpretation of her own cover of a song nobody knows is a cover.
It's all good. So long as credit and payment is made, go hog wild. If I cut all the covers and samples and remakes and "strongly influenced inspirations" out of my life there'd not be that much left.
There was a period in the 90s in the US where if you wanted to sample, say, two measures from a song, you had to pay as if you sampled the entire thing. A part of it could be a lack of creativity, but there's also the financial limitation.
The whole Avalanches' Since I Left You album. This is sampling at its most inventive and creative!
I agree
I mean you could just use millions of songs for this LOL
what's crazy too is I knew of Moby from his song that was always at the end of the Bourne movies. Didn't know of the song Porcelain but I could hear another song in it and I found out that was also used in ASAP Forever from ASAP Rocky and features Moby. But I had no idea that was why it feature him, because it sampled Porcelain! Crazy music world
I was gonna say, a better example of clever and absolutely outstanding sampling techniques is the Face to Face Daft Punk track you mention. It has the ELO sample, but SO many more beyond, including other ELO samples. Moonwalker did a video of them putting together the 20 different samples that Daft Punk used for Face to Face, and it's astounding to see it put together from so many small bits of others music
The string loop from The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" was a sample of an orchestral version of a Rolling Stones song.
@@spindriftdrinker nope, the stones didn't care, it was the owner of the Orchestra copywrite that pushed it.
Blame Allen Klein for that - he was a real rat bastard (just ask George Harrison). When Jagger and Richards regained control over the song that was sampled, they gave the credit and royalties for "Bittersweet Symphony" back to the guy who wrote it.
It's not a sample. They stole it
@@MrGonzonator a musical arranger does not own copyright of an arrangement made of a song. The Stones own the copyright
@@alexnobrasil3062 They licensed it, then Klein finked on them and took the writer's credit.
George Martin made extensive use of sampling and one of the innovative ones was for the “benefit of mr kite”
Originally he was going to try and program a steam organ himself but when he realised the time implications he took several existing recordings of fairground organ excerpts and cut them, looped them and edited them into position.
This is one of the first instances of pre-daw cutting, and placing etc rather than simply replaying the “whole” of an existing piece.
I like the idea of George travelling around trying to find fairground organs to use 😂😂
The result is amazing. 🎉❤
Probably two of the most famous examples of sampling:
- Vainilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" sampling from Queen's "Under Pressure"
- Madonna's "Hang up" sampling from ABBA's "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)"
Vanilla Ice thought he would get away with it, Madonna right from the start gave ABBA half of the song writing credit and showered them with money. In fact the news was that she would use an ABBA sample even before the single was released, working as promotion of the song.
@@Schmidtelpunkt True, the ABBA Guys confirmed in interviews that Madonna asked for permission before (which I think is how it should be :)
Don't forget PM Dawn using a sample of Spandau Ballet's "True" for their song "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"...
@@AndrewAMartin and ended up being heaps better than the original drivel.
@@ronwhite8503 wrong and stupid.
I gave a friend a two hour lesson in producing in 2011 when I still had a studio. He was a serious detractor against sampling until I showed him microsampling, slicing hits and stabs, and the lengthy process most producers or musicians go through to make the samples fit into a track. He was floored as he thought we'd have a finished track quickly and we barely had the basics (drum loop and three or four changeups, pads and some lead instrument choices, but almost no lead or bass tracked to speak of). He took to producing after that though and still does. He's a firm believer in sampling now and has learned the ins and outs of legally getting release contracts.
The triphop scene was heavily using samples in amazing ways. Also I am happy that you mentioned Kraftwerk. This video is great!
Great video! Enya's "Boadicea" is a heavily sampled song. Most notably in The Fuggee's "Ready or Not" and Mario Winans/P.Diddy's "I Don't Want To Know" - Kinda cool how such a wide range of artists have likely gotten way more people listening to Enya.
I remember that song Paper Planes by M.I.A. being huge, and it was not into several years later that I was shocked to realize it was sampling a song that had evaded me by The Clash (whom I'd listened to for over a decade that point) called Straight to Hell. I remember that I was also surprised that I hadn't heard anyone mention the sample as it played such a crucial support role in that hit song.
and it was not *until* several years later*
@@johnd5398 hahah, whoops, well, I can edit and fix it but then your assistance would appear to have been you making a mistake instead of me, so I'm just replying instead, haha
Came here to mention this... As a huge Clash fan, I heard it immediately. A friend of mine refused to believe it was a Clash sample until I played him the original.
@@haolekoa737 I was faced with the "prove it!" scenario at least twice after I learned this, though a 3rd person simply thought that was interesting and wanted me to play both songs back to back, at which point he realized he'd heard paper planes as bar background noise many times while having become a clash fan around the time (he's kinda the "purchase a band's entire catalogue in one go and then slowly explore it in Chronological release order" guy so he had also listened to Straight to hell many times by then, but he'd never heard the 2 songs close enough together to catch on. (To be fair, paper planes blew up as a hit and then disappeared faster than, well, a paper plane facing any kind of physical obstacle.)
I actually was reminded a few days ago that Tainted Love, the big single for Soft Cell in the 80s (also one of marylin Manson's late 90s or early 00s singles) wasn't even an original in the 80s! It was a 60s Motown or soul recording by a woman who, based on the feel of that version, wasnt taking any more of some man's shit. That's not the impression I got from the nuances of the song when it filtered through the new wave sound of the era.
(I heard the song was actually a big hit for manson as a cover, but I don't really remember hearing it-though it could've happened after I abandoned the fm radio as a listening option.)
I love everyone adding their own examples.....
Since you mentioned Moby, I've always loved his song "Go" and how it samples the Laura Palmer theme from Twin Peaks. If I remember, it was one of Moby's very first singles. It has a really cool vibe to it.....
Moby is actually a really interesting discography subject, he has some heavy shit back in the day also... incredible musician (and still uses some old tech, like an Atari)
Moby has used several samples, best one I can think of is his song Honey which samples Sometimes by Bessie Jones
A really interesting one is the song 'Daydream in Blue'. It was written by the Belgian band Wallace Collection, immediately covered by Claude Francois as 'Reveries', covered again by the German group Gunter Kallman Choir, then Isaac Hayes covered just the loop for 'Ike's Rap', then Portishead sampled that version for 'Glory Box', then Tricky sampled _that_ version for 'Hell is Around the Corner'. Then the band I Monster covered 'Daydream in Blue' and used a sample from the Gunter Kallman Choir version. The whole journey of that sample is fascinating.
Not forgetting that Alessia Cara sampled the Portishead - Glory Box loop on her song 'Here'.
The sample used in What's the Difference/Breathe makes my head explode. Who listens to a 60s French crooner and thinks "this is gonna be awesome slowed down with extra bass". Genius.
It always amuses me that all the members of Art of Noise got songwriting credits on Firestarter because Liam sampled the “Hey!” snippet from Close to the Edge. I’d always assumed that it was Anne Dudley’s voice, but apparently they recorded a schoolgirl singing in a chapel, and the “hey!” bit was all they ended up using. I’m always fascinated by the stories behind sample libraries and presets, along the lines of your Beatles Spanish guitar Mellotron example. My favourite is thinking about the choir recorded for an Orchestron disc (a device similar to a Mellotron), which Kraftwerk used on Radioactivity, which in turn got sampled by New Order for Blue Monday. Then there’s the recording of Stravinsky’s Firebird which became the ORCH5 preset on the Fairlight CMI back when digital sampling was new, and ended up on pretty much every other record in the 80s, and has been resampled many times since.
your comment is way more interesting than the video. AON was like The Orb in that it felt built on samples - I do know where all Orb samples are from, and there's a database somewhere of all sample sources for the entire psytrance genre ... it is supremely interesting where these noises come from. I presume you laid your paws on a Fairlight CMI, in which case, wow. Write more stuff!
Re: Art Of Noise, you mean Close (to the Edit) not Close to the Edge.
One of the most interesting cases of sampling I’ve ever heard was that the piano intro to “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” was sampled (or interpolated) from a song called “Song for my Father” by the Horace Silver Quintet. Blew my mind that sampling (or interpolation) was a thing even back then.
New Order's "Blue monday" has a Kraftwerk sample in it ("Uranium") in a different key, and then repurposes elements from other 4 tracks: Donna Summer's "Our Love" (bass drum), Ennio Morricone's "La Resa Dei Conti" (bass riff), Klein & M.B.O.'s "Dirty Talk" (base keyboard line and some of the bass) and Sylvester's "You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)" (main beat).
wow...that's incredible. I had no idea.
In 1983. What a legendary song, ey?
Its amazing how all the original work from the earlier times seem to drive so much of the new music ..i usually love the 70’s string arrangements song, themes etc...i often think theres a portion of one arrangement or another that could work on its own..
I enjoy Nujabes sample work a ton. lots of cool ones in there from "The shade of the mango tree" by luiz bonfa and "Make Love 2" being a couple cool ones. I also enjoy the small tidbit that both mac demarco and travis scott sampled the same song by Shigeo Sekito. Enjoy! thanks for the fun samples.
Mellotrons don't use tape loops, they're just lengths of tape, which is why notes are limited to about 8 seconds
True!
Yes, they're technically not loops, the tape plays, then rewinds/resets itself but you're picking some nits here though don't you think?
@@frankfrank7921 No, not at all because the limitation has a marked effect on what was possible with a Tron compared to more modern sample-playback machines or samplers
@@QuirqUK exactly, you can't sustain a note on a mellotron for longer than the length of the internal tape. Also, this video is talking about sampling parts of KNOWN songs and using those samples to create other songs. The mellotron was an instrument similar to the Fairlight CMI where it was a keyboard that had samples of instrument sounds and other sounds. Both were intended to be used in the studio for the creation of original music. Sampling a portion or large portions of a completed song bypasses coming up with a unique, beat, melody etc. Some of the biggest selling albums of the late 60s used the mellotron and they are not considered songs that used samples. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by a riff, break, melody etc. But it should be used to inspire. I've heard Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears talk about what inspired him on 2 of their big hits. He used Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" beat to inspire the drum/percussion arrangement of "Mad World". And he used a melody from a Talking Heads song to create the big hit "Shout". But we'd never recognize this because the inspiration was what sparked his creativity to write original music and lyrics. I think using samples of songs is pure laziness.
Ahem, Watcher of the Skies ;-)
Another sample that's been made more prevalent in popular consciousness is "Telephone and Rubber Band" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. It already samples a dialtone to form the basis of its melody, but then this melody was turned into the opening riff of "In the Meantime" by Spacehog, recently used to promote the upcoming Marvel movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"
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I love finding samples.
That moby one blew me away.
One of the best use of samples I think.
The most interesting one I know is the fact that “Why Don’t You Get A Job” by the Offspring is essentially a pop punk reharmonization of “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da”
One of my favorite samples from from "The Edge" by David McCallum (Ducky from "NCIS" and Illya Kuryakin from "The Man From U.N.C.L.E."), who was sampled to make up much of the memorable parts of Dr. Dre's "The Next Episode", and a few other tracks.
The line, "How does it feel to be one of the beautiful?" from The Beatles "Baby, you're a rich man" is heavily sampled in PM Dawn's "The Beautiful." As far as I know, they didn't give the Beatles credit, but that line is heavily used in their song. (In fact it is one of my favorite parts of the PM Dawn song. I love The Beatles, and had no idea PM Dawn sampled them until I heard, "Baby, I'm a rich man.") I guess, based on your video, they didn't technically sample The Beatles, but interpolated them.
My favourite example of something other than a song being sampled is Public Enemy’s War At Thirty Three And A Third. The main beat features a prominent sample of a dot matrix printer.
My favorite sample is "Modesty Blaise" sampled by The Gorillaz in "Rock the House"
Just the rhythm, the brass...everything.
The song “Bust A Move” by Young MC is built on a sample of "Found a Child" by the group Ballin' Jack. The drums, produced by a LinnDrum, are sampled from the song "Radio-Activity" by RoyalCash. ~ The breakdown segment contains a combination of beats sampled from the songs "Scorpio" by Dennis Coffey and the Detroit Guitar Band, and "Daytime Hustler" by Bette Midler. "Bust a Move" also featured guest vocals by Crystal Blake and bass guitar by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea, both of whom also appeared in the video.
my name is young mc, backwards it's mc young, I let em know!
I'm in England, I would have never heard of Young MC if it wasn't for Know How being big in the rave scene in the mid 90s.. many a time I've been off my face, dancing away in a few clubs singing along to that haha good times
love the video, had a lot of great songs and samples but I like how it wasn’t formatted as a boring list video
My favorite is still “Crying At The Discoteque” which samples the accompaniment off Sheila B Devotion’s “Spacer” and recomposes the melody entirely.
I love stuff like this. So much so I’ve even compiled an exhaustive Spotify playlist called ‘Spot The Sample’, so here’s a few of my well-known and not-so-well-known favourites:
‘Far Beyond’ by Locksmith sampled by Basement Jaxx on ‘Red Alert’
‘I Got The…’ by Labi Siffre sampled by Eminem on ‘My Name Is’ (bonus fact: Cockney songsters Chas and Dave were session musicians on that!)
‘Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)’ by The Chi-Lites sampled on Beyoncé’s ‘Crazy In Love’
‘Street Player’ by Chicago used on ‘The Bomb! (These Sounds Fall Into My Mind) by The Bucketheads
‘You Did It’ by Ann Robinson used on ‘Gangster Trippin’ by Fatboy Slim
The Chas n' Dave link to Eminem will probably always be the most mindblowing but of sampling history.
Gotye really jinxed himself. He's now quite literally just somebody that I used to know.
It's almost like he planned it like that.
That song is probably played at Guantanamo due to how shitty it is
I did change my number.
Elliot smith wrote a better song called somebody I used to know.
Kimbra was the big historical moment for this song - with the rise of producer-led music that pushed the actual performers into featuring roles (that let to the extreme of the 2018 Christmas number one song 'Rockabye' being credited to 'Clean Bandit' despite him not actually doing anything - every single line on the song was sung by Annemarie or Sean Paul), they decided to give artists listed as 'featuring' full credit for the song when listing single performance in the record books - the first benefactor of this was Kimbra, who in 2011 became the first ever artist to be credited with a number 1 single despite only being listed as 'featuring' on the record.
I would never have guessed that the Bungalow Bill opening was a mellotron sample. This is an interesting new topic and one I was only aware of in cases of literally sampling a snatch of a song, not repurposing.
I was happy that you included ELO and Vampire Weekend on here because they are my 2 favorite bands other than Animal Collective and I never hear about them enough it was just really cool!!
I was sad that ELO is not the most popular band today, because it must be so
@@elolistenerthey have so many songs that break different genre barriers- surprised more people aren’t obsessed with
I love that Pretty Little Ditty was then also sampled by Headie One in 'Ain't It Different' and it sounds awesome in all three songs.
According to Gary Numan's autobiography, he was sampled in two songs in 2000s, "Where's Your Head At" by Basement Jaxx ("M.E.") and "Freak Like Me" by The Sugababes ("Are 'Friends' Electric?"), which is also a cover of Adina Howard's song from 1995. The royalties from Jaxx's song actually helped him get out of financial struggles at that time.
Freak like me is just a great example of a mash up song. The words from one over the music from another.
NFS Carbob introduced me to Gary Numan. I remember hearing Are Friends Electric and was thinking, "wait this sounds so familiar" not realizing at the time Sugababes had sampled it. I fell in love with his song because of that game
When I think of Are Friends Electric, I'm reminded it inspired the theme to The IT Crowd
WYHA / M.E. even lifts the snare, I never knew that one, cheers!
@@danpreston564 great post - apparently when Numan heard it he generously said that he preferred the Sugababes version. I disagree but I think both of them have much to commend. They’re both excellent records in their own right. Apparently Adina was much less positive and objected strongly to a sample of her work therefore the singers from Sugababes simply resung the original song and paid the appropriate publishing/rights fees. I think their version is far superior to Howard’s original.
For more details on the mashup phenomenon of the early 2000s check out Trash Theory’s YT on Richard X who did much of the early innovation in this area. I’ll try and post a link..
Chaka Khan's cover of Prince's I Feel For You contains a vocal sample of Stevie Wonder's Fingertips from 1963 (he also plays harmonica on the track). Trent Rezner sampled Prince's Alphabet St. on Ringfinger from Pretty Hate Machine.
I like the way there is a tiny snippet of Prince’s synth riff in the Chaka Khan version too.
The song "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches is made almost entirely of samples from old tapes the group found. It's a really interesting use of sampling.
its so much fun to go and listen to the original tracks. Some of which i find even better that the sampled songs.
Man, you have literally taught me something about half of my everyday playlist in just one video. From now you have a new subscriver!
Daft punk introduce me to sampling, I love their creativity and the way they create something totally new from a song or sound. Thanks for this video!
I see what you did! You sampled tracklisb's video 1:58 in a video about samples! Genius!!!
1:32 “Face to Face” isn’t the only song to sample “Evil Woman”. The Pussycat Dolls’ “Beep” does too, specifically the violin motif played in the middle of the ELO song
I always liked how the sax part of Queen Latifah's U.N.I.T.Y. was such a tiny part of the source song, A Message From The Inner City, by The Crusaders, yet it makes up the whole foundation of the new song.
I agree that sampling breathes new life into old songs. My favorite sample is the gospel in Kanye West's On Sight. It is extremely contrasting to the actual song and if it wasn't there nobody would know of the song.
GREAT VIDEO!! Fall Out Boy’s music since their hiatus has included some sampling, “Uma Thurman” and “Centuries” come to mind but I think there’s more. “Old Town Road” is one you’re probably already aware of sampling Nine Inch Nails. “The Wire” by Haim samples “Heartache Tonight” I believe…
The whole Prodigy discography is an interesting material of various samples.
Came here to mention Jim Pavloff making Smack my B@$#h up out of all the samples in Ableton.
Man, Liams work with sampling with the Prodigy is so underrated unfortunately, they need so much more recognition, as someone else mentioned, the Jim Pavloff videos where he recreates some Prodigy songs just shows you how fucking great Liam is with using samples, especially with the technology he would’ve had at the time
I usually love David’s videos but I’m shocked that he made a video about sampling without even mentioning The Prodigy! It’s like making a video about swing without Sinatra, a video about gypsy jazz without Reinhardt, or a video about heavy metal without Metallica.
The guitar sample of The Breeders used in Firestarter is iconic.
I have no problems with CREATIVE use of sampling, taking a tiny section and transforming it into something new and exciting. It's when you hear a track and think the best thing about is the entirely lifted riff or bassline that it becomes just a glorified cover, even if the lyrics have been changed.
Like Butterfly by a crazy Town. Total rip .
Love theae vids! I always get goosebumos and an A-HA feeling when recognizing a sample in a new track!
3:53 CVS in the USA plays this song and I had no Idea they sampled that which is awesome.
Animal Collective's "What Would I Want? Sky" is a really creative use of a sample from Grateful Dead's "Unbroken Chain". They begin their sample at the end of a phrase from the original song, and "mishear" the original lyrics so that ""Willow sky/ Whoa, I walk and wonder why" becomes "Sky / what would I want?". They also chop half a beat off the loop, so the new song becomes 7/8 despite the original being in 4/4.
great example!
I love that AnCo song.....and always love how creative they were with the sampling aspect of it.
Also an excellent example of a song in an odd meter....that still sounds....natural. It doesn't sound off. It has a groove and flow that just works. You feel it and get it right away.
Going though an artist's samples usually gives a good indicator of their musical knowledge and can really help you connect with them. Daft Punk, Fatboy Slim, and DJ Shadow taught a lot of 90's kids about bygone music just by listing the samples in the album sleeve.
Other times, it can feel lifeless and like a money grab, especially in today's world of streaming giants. Soundcloud mixers will dig through crates and make something out of a track they lovingly sampled, only for the idea to be pinched by someone hired to sift through Soundcloud for a big label, then it arrives on a producers lap who hands it to a pop star. It's not like Spotify has a sleeve to thumb through when you don't know the words or want to see the weird "thank you's".
10CC's "I'm Not in Love" was an amazing achievement in sampling. They recorded their own voices onto a 16 track tape, and then played it back on a mixing desk, using the faders as a kind of Mellotron keyboard.
That wouldn't be considered sampling because they didn't take the voices from another song.
@@purplehaze1274 I only mentioned it because there are a couple of examples in the video that aren't really sampling either.
That's a beautiful song and I was wondering how it was done. ... J
Once the musical backing had been completed, Eric Stewart recorded the lead vocal and Godley and Creme the backing vocals, but even though the song was finished Godley felt it was still lacking something. Stewart said, "Lol remembered he had said something into the grand piano mics when he was laying down the solos. He'd said 'Be quiet, big boys don't cry' - heaven knows why, but I soloed it and we all agreed that the idea sounded very interesting if we could just find the right voice to speak the words. Just at that point the door to the control room opened and our secretary Kathy Redfern looked in and whispered 'Eric, sorry to bother you. There's a telephone call for you.' Lol jumped up and said 'That's the voice, her voice is perfect!'." The group agreed that Redfern was the ideal person, but Redfern was unconvinced and had to be coaxed into recording her vocal contribution, using the same whispered voice that she had used when entering the control room. These whispered lyrics would later serve as the inspiration for the name of the 1980s band Boys Don't Cry.
Totally uncool example, but Jessica Simpson's "I think I'm in love" samples John (Cougar) Melancamp's "Jack and Diane" and presents it to a whole new audience. Judge all you like .. I LOVED it!
I've just watched a video on the Daft Punk samples. Face to Face alone samples at least 15 different songs and it's quite amazing how they all fit together.
They are absolute gods at it, them and the Orb.
Can you link me to that video please?
@@karlronan7244 this guy does a number of them. ua-cam.com/video/11pK_yZNuQ4/v-deo.html
That's Todd Edwards style and and he made the song basically lol daft punk didn't make that magic as far as I'm concerned. Todd might as well be the third member though, he's always been by daft punks side
@@karlronan7244 ua-cam.com/video/lBSWw7RdZLk/v-deo.html
Might be worth mentioning "Ike's rap II" by Isaac Hayes.
It's sampled in two masterpieces like "Hell Is Round the Corner" by Tricky and "Glory Box" by Portishead, among others.
You should talk about how inventive the Wu Tang Clan were with how they reworked their samples. In particular, look at the song CREAM (sampling Charmels' "As Long As I've Got You").
De la soul's eye know is a great example of creative and eclectic sampling including steely dan, lee Dorsey, Otis Redding, the mad lads and sly and the family stone
I'm surprised Vanilla Ice wasn't mentioned with his use of the bass riff from Queen/David Bowie song, Under Pressure. That is pretty notorious since no attribution was originally given when the song was originally released.
The title says "songs you DIDN'T KNOW sample other songs". Even deaf people know these songs.
That's because it's not the same.
@@acecodemaster1337 😂😂😂
@@acecodemaster1337 I love that line, like Vanilla Ice thought he could get away with it.
@@acecodemaster1337 it literally is though, vanilla ice’s goofy ass excuse was adding an extra note, and he claimed it was a whole different thing because of it. A load of bs if you ask me
Porcelain was my first true music love, I felt like I'd discovered something exciting and too beautiful for words, and it wasn't someone else's tastes, it was my own. It still has a profound effect on my mood, a painful melancholia mixed with euphoria, a sense that paradise exists.
That Crazy Town track also uses the opening drums of "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps, this is a staple hip hop and electronica drum loop, probably most recognisable from Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death".
I’m surprised no one mentioned Koop, the Swedish band. A masterpiece work of samples.
My life in the Bush of Ghosts, by Brian Eno and David Byrne, is a good example of the early use of sampling which a number of later artists have quoted as being a massive influence. However the album is pretty upfront about its sampling so it probably doesn't count as songs you might not have known where samples.
I remembered that the vocal sample from "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" by Daft Punk was slowed down by Kanye West by 1 and a half steps for the song "Stronger" by Kanye West. Phats & Small were also a side project for Daft Punk on their Debut hit "Turn Around".
The One More Time sampling is really clever. I love that Moby one. A classic.
Every Kanye West song
"songs you didnt know sampled other songs" ???
Kanye you sampled others work for your own you're not a real artist. Make those noises from scratch to make beats like real musicians do. 😗
@@brodyquestionmark Yeah, I'm just talking that ish for fun. 😉
@@Tyradiustheres always time to delete your comment
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Just a small correction: It's "Luiz Bonfá", not "Luiz Bonfás". I was confused myself for a little while, until I realized that the artist name on the record is actually part of the title ("Luiz Bonfá's Brazilian Guitar"). Also, "Bonfá" is pronounced with stress on the last syllable (dictated by the accent "á").
I love when a sample is not given its origins then you watch a movie or TV show and suddenly you hear it and it feels like you discovered a treasure. The 100% sampled song: The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist
ahhhh Frontier Psychiatrist - the song that always seems to come in 2nd place to Chesney Hawkes 'One and Only' in the 'greatest one hit wonders ever' lists and countdowns that always are on TV....
@@Debbiebabe69 This is just FM radio junk, I heard enough of that in my lifetime. No, I like my music quaky.
Alot of Pendulum's earliest tracks, fucking Through the Loop using the unhinged river song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is genius, and Fasten Your Seatbelt being ripped straight from Spider-Man 2's demonstration of the fusion reactor. I hadn't watched the movie in years by the time I'd heard the song so it was hilarious noticing the sampled part on a rewatch
@@Whiteythereaper I was so fed up with mainstream radio. Then I discovered college radio... holy shite you mean there is other types of music. What an awakening it was for me. Then the internet arrived. Holy Shit.
The opening drum beat in Mountain’s “Young Red” Live at Woodstock is the one of the most sampled songs in Hip-Hop
I love these compilations. I knew most of them, but some still surprised me a lot