What songs would you sample were you a producer?

Been sampled by PM Dawn;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0sVfDuHwFI
And Erykah Badu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78FZdyM5-PI

funk/soul grooves have been sampled to death, i would love to hear more loops made out of flashy prog/fusion drumming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CEIvsTb2M8

0:00 and 0:46

The vocals at 02:51

http://youtube.com/watch/BfaodtWhtV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfaodtWhtV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FAS7-DbdFc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DDUlAZSVVw

you could do something cool with the string break at 1:03:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsBNnyvYTo8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbD_c734ju4

Rad drums and beat some cool marimba and brass too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gaq5-t14FE

@ 2:25: "well, I hope he doesn't get hurt, but if he does, I'm sure they'll send up a medical satellite"

would be great at the beginning of a spacey trip-hop track by a band like...I dunno...Laika?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYwS6481oQk

Some spooky trap music, or maybe ambient chillwave, or something else...

From the portion that starts at about 1:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNwR5WcEVEw

Kuch kuch hota hai

http://youtu.be/eJF4DSekiKU

Has this been sampled already? Sounds designed for sampling.

Also Buhrman's cover of Demi Ruossos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PCxTGZynpo

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4UJXgmPqAE4

Both have sample-worthy elements.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvV5vC9NP2E

drums right at the start

That last one:
https://youtu.be/rrb_8g1oCjA?t=20

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

thinking of looping 0:26-0:27, beefing up the drum work, and pitching it to corny rappers who rhyme "freshwater fracking" with "brash auteur rapping"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgyzE7Ok2g0

Main opening riff

I've always wanted to sample this little guitar figure (@ 2:53)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsiy1H5tIoM&feature=youtu.be&t=2m53s

When I was younger I thought "You know, you know" by Mahavishnu Orchestra would be a cool song to sample / loop a section of, but I think it might have been done already. I could imagine MC 901 Ft. Jesus rapping cooly over it.

"the brief transcendent moments of a hundred mediocre indie songs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-Ox8HzWVoA

This is cool beat and groove. There is something about it that really reminds me of Beck, which of course came a couple decades or so later.

has anyone ever sampled the heavy breathing/ticking effect from Beating Around The Bush by Mud? if not, someone should

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEI353JEAM

Here’s several intros I’ve been looping which would make a great sample imho - they’re also great songs:

Melodies:
Omara Portuondo - noche cubana
https://youtu.be/frgbtk8mOhM

John Frusciante - outside space
https://youtu.be/nX4q6r0-TWQ

Montero - BC
https://youtu.be/XzI4EcFFBtY

Beats (this have been sampled already I guess)

Trevor Dandy - is there any love
https://youtu.be/LZ_5NC2ZpwQ

Bernard Estardy - cha tatch ka
https://youtu.be/KPZFJlLcM00

Barbatuques - baiao destemperado
https://youtu.be/zZfN3YaSRNQ

Joe Farrel - upon this rock
https://youtu.be/-0oq763amX0

This one seems ripe to be a deep house song, surprised this hasn’t been taken yet (that I’m aware of):

Ella Jenkins - who’s gonna be your man
https://youtu.be/U8Nw3Asi5ZM

ive sampled shangri-las (which was on my list to do) but i would def. sample montague in blue by scott walker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUgn_FC0sk

cloud rap beat sampling a portion of Sharkboy's lullaby. verses by a forgettable second-tier soundcloud rapper

"Man with the Harmonica" from Once Upon a Time in the West score. WhoSampled lists 24 tracks that sampled it, but none of them did it well imo.

@LeylandKirby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogNCr8CQBX8

https://vocaroo.com/19ZG3j5FXcF1

fucking high owls??

all owls are f*cking high owls iirc

grudging thanks to rym's comment box for that song, because I could have easily gone my entire life without encountering "You're Beautiful (Uncensored Album Version)" in the wild

If I were a dusty boom-bap producer, I would sample the guitar from the beginning of this Sarah Vaughan version of My Favorite Things, and the hits from the bridge around 2:00. Incredible version btw.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dusavln6Cjw

I've been listening to lots of old prog lately and noticed the bass intro to "Time To Dream" by Greenslade. Would be a good loop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCa0ETa0WNc

I would use the first 15 seconds of the season 4 (1977-78) opening credits of the sitcom Rhoda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTQ2dz_xfJo

Great intro! Thanks for that.
Billy Goldenberg also wrote & conducted the score for a Columbo episode 'Ransom For A Dead Man'.

Billy Goldenberg - safe landing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a53MhSou_tE

Nice. Goldenberg also did the original theme song to Kojak

I’m going to make terrible amateur vaporwave out of this stuff

Johann Johannson - two is apocryphal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wnkrh240RGk

Would love to loop the intro into an electronic song.

I have a bunch of these in this playlist

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6Yg3LyIzGFGA0pUe9R9fXg

There’s so many already I don’t even remember which parts specifically made me think “eureka”… might need to really get into learning how to produce and start using them until I get sued.

^ Moka I am really enjoying this mix. Thank you for sharing!

Yeah I like listening to it for inspiration - even though I don’t have a band or know how to use a DAW lol.

any of the first 30 seconds of The Rolling Stones “Monkey Man”

That Rhoda intro is great, I don't remember it ever starting like that. xp

I didn't either bc till now I hadn't watched the show beyond the first three seasons, which lack that intro. It's weird how the intro is all minor and synthy and then the main part of the theme comes in all major and jaunty, with a melody - as I saw someone online point out - quite a bit similar to a 1908 composition called "The Yama Yama Man."