"That Was The Night EVERYTHING CHANGED": Best Film Dialogue Samples In Pop

Props to Big Audio Dynamite who probably invented this kind of thing, eh? "I like a bit of a cavort". Oh, and the Smiths 'Take me back to dear old Blighty' from 'The L-Shaped Room', naturally...

At the weekend I was dancin' inna club to a cheesey house track that sampled tha TOFFO advert - 'I've come fer ma boy' - dancefloor almost implodes wif gigglin

Big Audio Dynamite - FIRST ALBUM CLASSIC

"Of course, London's a big place, Mr Shadrak. A very big place. A man could lose himself in London. Lose himself. Lose himself. LOSE HIMSELF IN LONDON!"

and

"Do you think a girl should go to bed with a feller, if he doesn't love her?" - "No. What's his name?"

Dunno where they're from though.

rza samples win hands down in this.

tho the man...or astroman? ones come pretty close. specially the 'eart vs flying saucers' one. great film too

Pop Will Eat Itself were also very big on film samples, notably Gang Czar Cyrus's catchphrase "Can You Dig It?" from "The Warriors," used in, appropriatedly enough "Can You Dig It"

On Seal's first album, the final song features generous dollops of dialogue from some film, and I've never been able to pinpoint which it is.

Tears For Fears sampled bits of Sally Field's pschizophrenia opus, "Cybil" on SONGS FROM THE BIG CHAIR. The album title itself is a reference to the film (as Cybil's psychiatrist sat, purportedly, in a big chair).

The BEST sample dialogue: Revolting Cocks sampling the "Squeal like a Pig" rape scene out of "Deliverance" on their signature hymnn, "BEERS STEERS + QUEERS"

and i can't name any favorites except for tons of rza stuff from kung fu movies i've never seen (i like the intro to odb's 'snakes') and de la's 'patti dooke' is good. speaking of ghostface, anyone know what that sample is on 'wildflower'? uh, yeah, just asking.

For constant use of good samples, I'd say Skinny Puppy's gratuitous use of horror movie snippets. There are plenty of lists of these all over the net, so I'll skip them here.

"Mr Kirk... You have a son named Robert? Robert Kirk aged 17"

"Yes?"

"I'm sorry Mr Kirk. You'd better come down to the station house. Your son is dead."

"D-d-dead? H-h-how?"

"He died of an overdose"

('Mr Kirk's Nightmare' - 4 Hero. Anyone know the film/TV show?)

'Bounty Killers' - Depth Charge (Fistful of Dollars?)

All great.

An early Staurt Murdoch demo has a sample from 'A Bout de Souffle'. The big ponce.

Worst sample: The end of 'Come Together' has Andie MacDowell simpering "That's beautiful... that's really beautiful" from 'Sex, Lies & Videotape'. It's a great film but out of context it just sounds totally yeach.

Not the greatest sample, but memorable none the less. One of the AIM tracks, has a wholesale 3 minute plus sample from Halloween, diologue between Donald Plesance, at his creepiest, and a cop "Yoouu let him ouutttt"

"A small body in the S-K system your Majesty. The inhabitants refer to it as the planet.....EUUUURRRRRRTH."

"How PEACEful it looks."

Which is from Flash Gordon and used by of course the Orb but every time FG is on the TV I always miss the first bit. And then end up watching the rest of the film anyway.

"My god...its full of stars"

Anyone tell me what that track is? Been trying to find out since 91!

Martin Luther said that, originally.

There's also GodSpeedYouBlackEmperor! sampling film-dialogue of course. Not that I know from which film they lifted the dialogue...

Hate to dissappoint but I highly doubt its a film at all if your reffering to the first album.

(All of Aphex's film samples are great. Particularly the ones from "Sound of Music," and the track on We Care with the murky, submerged loop of dialogue that's supposedly from a porno film. "A surprise party isn't my idea of a good time, Fantasia....")

"I'll show you the life of the mind! AAAAAARGH! I'll show you the life of the mind!" from Barton Fink and Plug's "Life Of The Mind"

and

"Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day" from Withnail & I and Orbital's, er, whatever it was, and Ride's "Cool Your Boots".

http://a-brooklyn-mile.com/mp3/downhill.mp3

! I'll have to listen for that more closely next time...

"Only a portion of it."

I think this was Bassomatic, but I'm not sure on the film.

metalheadz - terminator

Also, doesn't Armand Van Helden make it a point to put a tiny snip of film dialogue before, like, every track on his albums?

the wu tang samples are great as well

-lsd"
bit from fear and loathing,as sampled in some acid techno track is quality

another Fear & Loathing sample in a song by Twig (fierce panda drill'n'bass)

I haven't found the original movie yet, but 4Hero got that sample from a 1971 track called "Once you understand" by a group "Think".

people were using sampled dialogue even in 1971..?
how bloody interesting

always imagined it was some kind of anti-drug propaganda film/summat
..."he died of an overdose" ,,,[and then,just before the riff comes in...:] "*oooww*" [a little anguished cry from the unfortunate bob's dad] [ check it out...]
...yes ,i'm not sure where the title of this thread came from ,but the first time i heard mr kirk's nightmare was one of those nights...

"What we've got here is....failure....to communicate. Some men you just can't reach."

(Cool Hand Luke)

The clip's from some 50s biker movie...The Wild Bunch or something similar. :p

"Let me give you a piece of advice.... Be honest. He knows more than you could imagine-imagine-imagine-imagine-imagine....."