Songs that are sampling-friendly

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By this, I mean all those songs that have a certain instrumental/vocal passage that really makes you want to sample it and use it as a looptrack on a tune of your own. Examples:

Drums:
- Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
- Nirvana - Scentless Apprentice

Bass:

- Smashing Pumpkins - I Am One
- Pixies - Debaser

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Continuing the Led Zep theme, the riff from "Misty Mountain Hop".

― person#0 (person#0), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Sabbath 'Sweet Leaf'

― schnellschnell, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i don't think anyone has *ever* thought of sampling the When The Levee Breaks drums before, hey?

Beastie Boys' "A Year and a Day"
Beastie Boys' "Rhymin' and Stealin'"
Beastie Boys' "So What'cha Want"
Coldcut's "Beats and Pieces"
Depeche Mode's "Get Right with Me"
Depeche Mode's "Never Let Me Down Again"
Derek B's "Bad Young Brother"
Dr. Dre's "Lyrical Gangbang"
Eminem's "Kim"
Enigma's "Return of Innocence"
Freaks of Desire's "Beast Inside"
Get the Fist Movement's "Get the Fist"
Ice T's "Midnight"
Massive Attack's "Man Next Door"
Penthouse Players Clique's "Nathen'sChanged"
Puff Daddy's "Come with Me"
Raw Fusion's "Live from the Styleetron"
Robert Plant's "Tall Cool One"
Sophie Hawkins's "Damn, I Wish I Was YourLover"
Tekken Tag Tournament's "Unknown"

not being snarky, just saying! thanks.

― pete b. (pete b.), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Free Design's "2002 A Hit Song" - particularly the part that goes "You take a little drums, add a little bass." I can't believe no one sampled that at drum 'n bass' height (or maybe they did?).

― mike a (mike a), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't the prodigy sample that on their first album?

― schnellschnell, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Isaac Hayes - the whole Hot Buttered Soul album
Almost anything by Hall and Oates

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I've always thought the opening bars of Elvis Costello's "Black and White World" slightly sped-up would be a damn funky sample.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete: That's exactly what's it about, tracks that are easy to sample and whose samples can be recognized in other people's music...

― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

the opening to "son of a preacher man" (now that i think of it didn't the geto boys do this?)

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

ha ha yes hot buttered soul theres a secret desperately waiting to be discovered!! also jb - funky drummer

― st (simon_tr), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, the thread said sampling-friendly. It didn't say "tell me something I don't know."

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"the opening to "son of a preacher man" (now that i think of it didn't the geto boys do this?)"

oh man, this totally rings a bell with me too, but I'm blanking on the song...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Hopefully none

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

This whole Mongo'70 album i'm listening to!

― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Teenagers in Trouble (Matt 3EF's Odelay pisstake) sampled the "Son of a Preacher Man" intro. and didn't Beck do it as well?

― summerslastsound (summerslastsound), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

uh, wasn't this just done 4 days ago?

ATTN. HIP-HOPPERS: PLEASE SAMPLE THE FOLLOWING (if you haven't already)

― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I've snagged the snare and kick of Phillipino Box Spring Hog by Tom Waits. Dey rawk hard.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

and son of a preacher man was hits from the bong by cypress, as heard in the opening credits of how high!!

― st (simon_tr), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks st, that's totally what I was thinking of...

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

The Bass from "Cannonball" by the Breeders.
The riff from "The Blackout of Gretely" by Gonn.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:45 (twenty-two years ago)

The little percussion fills at the beginning of like every Bob Marley song ever make GREBT samples!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 18:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"I've always thought the opening bars of Elvis Costello's "Black and White World" slightly sped-up would be a damn funky sample. "

oh hell yeah. one of my favorites from that album, and now that you mention it, that intro would sound awesome pitched up with Just Blaze throwing some crash cymbals over it.

― Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 19:47 (twenty-two years ago)

If I only had an Emu SP-1200!

boards of canada, "roy g biv" intro monsta bassline is just dying to be sampled

beth gibbons & rustin man, "romance" horn stabs are ill, ill, ill.

I would also sample the parts between songs on my MBV's Loveless.

― Cub, Tuesday, 15 April 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i have sampled Unrest and Jandek (not at the same time) with mixed results

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Tuesday, 15 April 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I would sample the rumble from my arse after a curry and a big night on the piss.

- by the way I used to know this Crate Diggers site that had a very indepth searchable database of who was sampled by and who sampled what - well cross referecned etc.
I can no longer find it.

anyone know where that would be?????

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the jam's "start," or the bassline it's gleefully thieving, "taxman."

― notfazed (notfazed), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

the beastie boys track "what you give is what you get" samples "start"

― bham, Wednesday, 16 April 2003 08:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeez, there's tons of them...but it'll be a cold day in hell before I tell all of you!

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

the sampling FAQ, reckon

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 16 April 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

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