Songs where the sample sounds better in the original: a compare and contrast YouTube thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcN09gVsiDw
is better than
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZYce-dURmI

Supermen Lovers - Starlight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsio3uDnwm4

is based on:

East Coast - The Rock
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrwmnd7b7yM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbuSIta2gOg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LpgFbWjrZk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5TXolwA7cE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_9MI2ymN6s&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQADXqHKmEQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BVADNUyDZY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjPqubhwCqU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c72Q_xD1d_w

just to be clear about the thread topic (and I'm not saying that the examples in this thread don't fit), this is for songs where the later version rips off one/most/some of the best parts of the original track and does not manage to improve on the original in any way.

Obviously this is objective, but there are cases where it's pretty damn hard to argue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0S4SiLxt1s
is better than
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUTJgk0HFqw

I remember being appalled when I first heard all of Spaceman. Practically everyone I know had been really excited to hear the whole tune for weeks.

I adore the fatboy slim video but music-wise I prefer the original by miles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnrToEgTMK4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ULVQOneeZE

I remember being appalled when I first heard all of Spaceman. Practically everyone I know had been really excited to hear the whole tune for weeks.

I had pretty much the same reaction. After the intro the "real" tune starts, and... it's some boring guitar rock?! Fuck that shit!

A couple of Airto ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irEyzVPlWgc&feature=related

is better than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSmaHtazJ6M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKxposkFaQY

is better than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1iclqbNyM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7AxtNOJXGc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fz9AfrfZYUE

disagree w/ the original post itt -- the shawty lo track is going for a totally diff thing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNTHQm5Y2Dw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1wtx4WTLjw

also Jean Jacques Perrey - EVA

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IIII IIII II recycles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WKen6oWdJ8
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li9XW0Jz8WU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z66wVo7uNw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkwQbuAGLj4&feature=avmsc2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuCYzqiuBk
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DElhKsyFzj4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GlJSU6KecY

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDitUVMMzE0

the other way around obv

I guess we can take "the entire career of Sean Combs" as a given here, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVVfZAZdIUs > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFZjqVnWBhc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U5HpeA_WSo way better than https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn_SRT5scK0

I'll be honest, I almost always prefer the sampled version, but mostly because I value repetition above most other qualities in music.

hippychick is a bad one for this thread bcuz it uses the sample to such a diff effect, its not redundant or something

Forks what happened to your inexplicable youtube thread? Do you still update that?

i do and should more often but I've been working a gig for several months that's been REAL time consuming and I haven't pawed through the internet as much as i normally would

I gotta say I disagree about "Millennium". "You Only Live Twice" is classic obviously, but I think "Millennium" puts the sample to good use, especially considering how underused those lovely strings are in the original, even though they're best thing in it.

Oh man, it makes me so sad to play people Pastime Paradise and all they can think about is Coolio

easy one here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAfrhmIvZ_s&feature=av2e

is better than

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0qO4XbihUs

I gotta say I disagree about "Millennium". "You Only Live Twice" is classic obviously, but I think "Millennium" puts the sample to good use, especially considering how underused those lovely strings are in the original, even though they're best thing in it.

― Tuomas

I read this as a sign that John Barrys' composition (that i also found much more 'deeper' than Millenium) is indestructable - no matter how you use it.

(especially the instrumental version - blocked anyway by youtube)

It's a nice composition, but the melody sounds much prettier done with the strings than with the electric guitar, so it's a shame that the strings are only heard once in the beginning, and once in the end (and on the second time they're buried by that bloody guitar). That's why I think "Millennium" corrects this mistake by letting you hear those lovely strings several times. I agree with Filthy Dylan that repetition is often what makes the sampling tune better - some sounds are so great they deserve to be emphasized, not sandwiched between more boring sounds.