Samples you NEVER WANT TO HEAR AGAIN EVER

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"Champ", f'rinstance. Decent enough but way the hell overused.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Go to The Rap Sample FAQ if you need any further reference.

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

God bless "Funky Drummer" and all, but ya know...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I can't be your loverrrr" and "this is a journey into sound" both rank pretty high up there for me`

― M Matos, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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"Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins. The break as well as "It takes two to make a thing go right..."

Any James Brown sample, great as they are, is overused.

― The Supreme Allah, Saviour of Modernist Rock, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"This is a journey into sound..." and any similar po-faced Brit voice turntable instruction voiceover...

― Ben Williams, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

El Debarge's "Stay with Me", George Clinton's "Atomic Dog", Grandmaster Flash's "The Message", ESG's "UFO", Funkadelic's "Knot Just Knee Deep".

― J Blount, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

destroy: the lazy jackson 5 sample as obv path to hit single, and good god, the police's infinite suckage should never be allowed into any song - rap or otherwise - ever again. there oughta be a law.... etc etc

― geeta, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

that really annoying 31 seconds sample used on 100s of early dance rrecords.

Oh, and any samples off Kraftwerk records...

― baxter wingnut, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm all for UNKLE not using that stupid sample of Mike D spelling out their name. On the first record was fine (although the record wasn't), but Lavelle's Fabric Mix CD was pushing it and when I heard the UNKLE remix CD of The Boredoms 'Rebore Vol.1' I was ready to shoot the little fucker.

― Dave M., Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Rappers have used up all the good snippets of James Brown and P-Funk. Try anything...ANYTHING else.

― Lord Custos X, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But... but no one's mentioned the intensely annoying "woo! yeah" sample on, as I recall, every acid house record made and half of late '80s hip hop. I think it was compulsory on every record in the short-lived hip house scene.

― Martin Skidmore, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone above mentioned the "I can't be your loverrrrr" from Slick Rick/Doug E. Fresh's "La Di Da Di", and while that is one of the greatest rap songs of all time (and certainly one of the greatest songs ever recorded with NO INSTRUMENTS) it's got to be the most sampled vocal track in hip hop ever. Great, but I'm sick of it.

Yeah, and Funky Drummer too...

― Shaky Mo Collier, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually that "I can't be your loverrrrr" was pretty funny when used in De La's "Kicked Out The House".

― Nate Patrin, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"This is a journey into sound..." and any similar po-faced Brit voice turntable instruction voiceover...

how about ANY instructional record? just burn them all and hang the idiots who still think it's clever to sample someone saying "and now, back to the break." ick.

― your null fame, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

geeta "What Means the World to You" by Cam'Ron is totally superb. they looped "Roxanne" for it.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nooooooooooo

― geeta, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blues Project's "Flute Thing" has been used twice, but that's too many times for such a distinctive song.

― Colin Beckett, Friday, 14 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I know a few of the samples listed here, but it doesn't really seem like any particular samples are overused anymore--as in the good old days of "Funky Drummer," which must've shown up on hundreds of recordings from '88-'93 or thereabouts. Thing is, I kinda miss that, to tell you the truth...I like these completely endless variations on a theme, like one big call-and-response record that never ends (I got sick of "Funky Drummer" *finally* around '92). I felt the same sensation with all the post-Daft (or post-Armand...still trying to figure that out) filter-disco records of '98-'00. I admit I'm out of the loop with dance trends right now, though--am I missing anything comparable?

― clyde stubblefield's second cousin, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

skull snaps drums

― Ron, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But... but no one's mentioned the intensely annoying "woo! yeah" sample

yeah, they did :) .... "woo! yeah" = Think (About It)" by Lyn Collins. The break as well as "It takes two to make a thing go right..."

Any James Brown sample, great as they are, is overused.

-- The Supreme Allah, Saviour of Modernist Rock (rokken@hotmail.com), June 14, 2002

it's james brown going "woo! yeah". i used to find it annoying...... but i've recently become enamoured of it, i want it to start turning up again!

― minna, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

minna: check tricky disco, in all its remix guises. a fantastic and timeless tune, fully destroyed by a costant wooo: yeah. that should satisfy your need without encouraging anybody else to incorporate the bastard.

― dbini, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anything by The Average White Band, fatastic as they are/were.

― Dan Fell, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ashley's roachclip was hit pretty hard for a while (pun not intended)

― Ron, Saturday, 15 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

2 b fair i haven't heard many of the above in any records for ages, but if i hear the 'hey, hey hey' off 'close to the edit' ever ever agin i shall wrench off ne own head and chuck it out the window.

― piscesboy, Sunday, 16 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mr Skidmore is OTM. Does any know who first used that sample? (or rather, that combination of samples - I'm assuming here that it's two: woo! + yeah)

― Jeff W, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's just the one sample, and in the original song (lyn collins' "think (about it)") it actually goes "yeah, wooh!" (rather than the opther way round). i've been told it was first used in rob base + dj ez rock's "it takes two". which also used the "it takes two" vocal. 'yeah, wooh!' comes from the break.

― minna, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I imagining things or was there another sample which went "uh YEAH" rather than "Wooo! Yeah!"? Turned up on much holiday camp disco pop, I think because it came as a preset somewhere. Bombalurina's "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" for instance.

― Tom, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Possibly, this is the sample I was thinking of, Tom, in my previous post - the "uh" being a sort of James Brown-ish grunt, yes?

― Jeff W, Monday, 17 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

There is this sample that sound like a whale or a dolphin in so many songs thats really anoying.

― Joey Beaver, Friday, 10 January 2003 05:28 (twenty-three years ago)

another one is.. any of the HANDS IN THE AIR samples.
And the use of martin luther king! and the guy preaching about house music trying to sound like the martin luther king one.

― Joey Beaver, Friday, 10 January 2003 05:32 (twenty-three years ago)

"Pure Energy..."

― earlnash, Friday, 10 January 2003 05:44 (twenty-three years ago)

The Fairlight "ORCH HIT" sample and its spawn.

(Although honestly I wouldn't say I never want to hear it again, overrused as it may be...)

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Friday, 10 January 2003 06:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd like to see "cut the midrange, drop the bass" make a bit of a renaissance...

― Jacob (Jacob), Friday, 10 January 2003 10:57 (twenty-three years ago)

"This is a journey into sound..."

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 10 January 2003 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Audio Bullys are using 'cut the midrange, drop the bass' Jacob! well the MC says it a lot anyway...

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 10 January 2003 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone know what the name and artiste of the early 90s hardcore tune that went

"Cut the midrange...drop the bass...why don't you move dammit"

One of those pirate radio tape classics that has eluded me ever since

― blueskies, Friday, 10 January 2003 19:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i have that, i cant think offhand though, ill get back in a bit

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 10 January 2003 20:04 (twenty-three years ago)

"It's a hard knock life! for us!"

― Curtis Stephens, Friday, 10 January 2003 22:02 (twenty-three years ago)

there are lots of different grunts on think. it's a good tune but they all make breakbeats made from it extremely annoying. i'd forgive stealing the drum sounds as long as you cut out all the "uh-uh, yeah WOO! you better" stuff though because they are pretty nice drum sounds. also GOD i hate those orch hits but at least these days everyone else seems to as well. doubtless a revival is underway. (what is with this resurgence in FM synthesis love? NO NO NO WRONG BAD)

cut the midrange, drop the bass, why don't you move, dammit? *SQUINK* (yip, yip-yip) g-go with the flow! = the house crew - "keep the fire burning"

oh, and this is another beg for the kuu aka substance/mono mod which uses the "cut the midrange, drop the bass" sample. i should stop hassling here and hassle the mono messageboard though but that's too scary because the man himself might actually read it :)

― serf, Friday, 10 January 2003 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

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