Favorite Sampled Songs

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I've come across a few bad sampling in songs to hit the charts. Ex: Rock The Casbah used by P. Diddy. Gah.
But what about Beck using Van Morrison's I'll Give You Everything, as the intro to Devil's Haircut? I didn't find that bad really.

And secondly, what's everyone opinions on sampling in general? I'm not sure I have one.

― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:10 (twenty-two years ago)

wasn't 'rock the casbah' used by Will Smith? unless Diddy used it as well...not sorry to be pedantic ;)

sampling saved pop music for me, as in the music it first became synonomous with - hip hop - turned the industry around on its head and kicked it up the arse at the same time...sampling can be an artform in itself (dj shadow etc.) and although its funny how many big hits of the last few years have relied on a sample rather than an 'original' hook, i dont think thats something to lament generally.

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Will Smith, P. Diddy? Whatever, they are pretty much the same in the fact one is riding off his movie career to make horrible songs, and the other one is riding on BIG's casket to make horrible songs.

― mallory bourgeois (painter man), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm quite fond of the rhythm sampled on "Kiss them For Me" by Siouxsie & the Banshees and "Pearl" by Chapterhouse. Did we ever determine its origin?

chapterhouse/siouxsie sample

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny you bring those up Alex - easily my favorite song from both bands, owing probably entirely to the drum sample groove and the impressionable age at which I heard them (final year in high school).

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 January 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I take that back - my favorite Chapterhouse song is "Mesmerized". Still, never noticed those two had the same sample.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 10 January 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I loved the piano line in "Mesmerise", but then I found out it was in fact a John Barry sample (forget which track) and...actually, it didn't make any difference, I still like it!

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Donut Bitch was right in the other thread. It's 'PSK What Does It Mean' - Schooly D.

Drum break I've always wanted to know. It's been used in countless places, but I s'pose the most famous is 'Higher Than The Sun', the single version produced by the Orb, earlier on in the album.

To me, that break's up with the Amen, Apache, Think breaks but I haven't got a clue what it is. Anyone?

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the fact that Rhino's Millenium Disco Collection Vol.2 (the DIVAS!) contains pretty much every pop hook from the last four or five summers on one track or another. Good comp. Now that the Avalanches have ripped off Paperclip People on two or three tracks I suppose I can throw in those tunes too. In fact, fuck it, the whole Paperclip People album has probably been sampled at one point or another, so hey, call it number one.

Also, Bowie's 'Let's Dance' is sampled to good effect by P.Diddy, which reminded me to pick up the original.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:41 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, can't answer - i'm too busy imagining Russell from Chapterhouse thumbing through the early '80s hip-hop section of Oxford's HMV looking for a Schooly D album...

c'mon, i refuse to believe they found that themselves! really?

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Siouxsie's usage of it predate Chapterhouse's, no? It's marginally more believable to think that Siouxsie (or one of her minions) found the sample rather than one of those pale Chapterhouse gents did.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:45 (twenty-two years ago)

That's why they always looked at the floor, they were looking for good spots to dig for beats.

But nah, they probably got it off of any old sample CD, it's a pretty famous break. unless russell mistakenly thought the record was one of his chums' hilarious spoof MC personas about boarding school.

PSK: What Does It Mean?

Playing Soggy KitKats.

― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:53 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty sure Pearl predates KTFM, but that's just the way my memory tells it - am not in the right place to check right now, but Pearl was 91 and KTFM was 92 at a guess.

― Charlie (Charlie), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:55 (twenty-two years ago)

all of them are great

but i'm only going to say a copuple becuawe i am drunken

urban shakedown ~ some justise, using ce ce rogers someday and james brown funky dfurmeer

and

alan braxe and fred falke ~ intro, using the jets crush on you

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 10 January 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Both from `91, as it turns out (according to Allmusic.com)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the two songs are from the same year, but "Pearl" just beat it out by about three months or so. I'm inclined to think both stumbled across of their own accord.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 10 January 2003 02:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I always loved how the jungle brothers used that guitar intro from Junior's "Mama Used To Say" on that song from Done By The Forces Of Nature. Can't remember song title. It's just perfectperfectperfect!!!

― Scott Seward, Friday, 10 January 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that beat is the almighty intro from "When the Levee Breaks" -- albeit sped up a bit in the Chapterhouse song.

― Clarke B., Friday, 10 January 2003 06:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Oops, sorry!...

― Clarke B., Friday, 10 January 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pearl" certainly samples and cuts up "When the Levee Breaks," but it's the middle-eight bit that shares the sample with the intro to Siouxsie's "Kiss them for Me," which sounds vaguely like a bass drum filled with little bits of tin being struck while someone sticks a cymbal into the whirling blades of a propellor. Or something.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 07:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Sort've like: "Boom....thwicka-thwicka-thwicka-thwicka-BOOM...bap...Boom...thwicka-thwicka-thwicka-thwicka-BOOM...bap...Boom..." etc.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 10 January 2003 07:29 (twenty-two years ago)

an unpopular opinion probably, but I prefer that Puff Daddy thing from the Godzilla soundtrack to "Kashmir". Alright, they're both good, but the former's more exciting!

when P.Diddy said "we invented the remix" did he actually mean the mash-up?

― Jeff W, Friday, 10 January 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I second that emotion Scott! That is an amazing use of the Junior intro and a criminally underrated album - Done by the Forces of Nature

― blueskies, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

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