What songs would you sample were you a producer?

duran duran "the chauffeur"

so when some of these choices start showing up in popular hip hop songs a year or two from now, what'll you do?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzXCf3mKusc

first 12 seconds

The break in "Spacer" by Sheila B. and Devotion.

Ann Peebles - Can't stand the rain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CCrA5Lq5XU

She - Easy Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC9dOdkFSmE

think timbaland beat you to the ann peebles.
so much good music on this thread. love the Jacqueline Taieb, and yeah that psychfurs would go, sounds like newscast intro sting, real dramatic...

Timbaland sampled that same Ann Peebles song!? When?

pretty sure.
isn't there a track on "so addictive"?

don't know if u guys are joking about Timbo I am down this rabbithole so long. If not then The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) is maybe the greatest single and video ever imo so youtube is worth it in this instance, but you know, maybe yall are being super ironic I CAN'T TELL ANYMORE!

A quick google search tells he used it for Missy's 'Supa Dupa Fly'. Honestly had no idea it had been used, first time I hear the song. Really nice use of the sample, something a tad similar to what I had in mind :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5GXwbzuy0

We should erase the whole thread before Timbaland finds it.

Whoa! it even peaked #3 in the US charts! Why had I never listened to this song before?

Little do ye know that the original poster is a hotshot producer low on inspiration.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-t52zc8Ex4

I've been playing around with Alan Parsons Project's "Games People Play" (just the part after it kicks in, but before it goes to the verse), slowing it down to about 75%. If I could throw a beat on top of what's there, it would sound pretty sweet.

I've done the same, slightly slowed down the beat of Michael Sembello's "Maniac". I actually have a finished track now... that doesn't sound all that different from "Maniac". :/

"Pinball Wizard" with the "How do you think he does it? (I don't know.)" line slowed way down.

my cool and kinda obscure answer for years used to be Frankie Valli's Beggin, but that's kinda obvious now.

my other one was Phil Ochs' Tape From California.

Good question. Random list:

• Al Green, Belle
• Art Pepper, Tin Tin Deo
• Bee Gees, Spirits Having Flown
• Bill Evans, Waltz for Debby (Take 2)
• Blind Willie Johnson, Dark Was The Night/Cold Was The Ground
• The Chantells, Children of Jah
• Duke Ellington, Acht O’Clock Rock
• Johnny Clarke, In The Roots of the Ghetto
• Journey, Girl Can’t Help It
• Low, Silver Rider (the wordless chorus)
• Neil Young, See The Sky About To Rain (the bluesy guitar line)
• Planet P Project, Why Me?
• The Psychedelic Furs, Pretty In Pink (the Talk Talk Talk version)
• Prince Alla, Stone
• R.E.M., Laughing (the jangle-y guitar line or a snippet of the baseline)
• Rachid Taha, Rani
• Sammy Johns, Chevy Van (hard to make this one “cool,” I suppose)
• Steely Dan, Hey 19
• Sugar Minott, So Much Trouble (the vocal chorus or snake-y synth line)
• Sylford Walker, Deuteronomy
• Raul Seixas, Metamorfose Ambulante
• The Boris Gardiner Happening, Ghetto Funk
• Sweet, Fox On The Run
• Universals, New Generation
• George McRae, I Get Lifted (this has probably been sampled 1000 times already)
• Sir Victor Uwaifo & His Melody Maestros, Dododo (Ekassa No. 1) (the rising organ in the chorus)
• The Professionals, A Part Of Being With You
• WEB, The Same Old Me
• Harmonettes, Shame Shame Shame (cover version)
• Olivia Newton-John, Magic

I don't know. Something by Jame Brown.

Little do ye know that the original poster is a hotshot producer low on inspiration.

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― ecuador_with_a_c, domingo 23 de agosto de 2009 02:52 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

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don't think this ann peebles has been used yet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bua_QY1awj8

George McRae, I Get Lifted (this has probably been sampled 1000 times already)

just about:
McCrae, George
Rock Your Baby: (TK 1974)
* "I Get Lifted"
112 - "Only You"
50 Cent ft the Madd Rapper - "How to Rob"
B Fats - "B Fats"
Big Daddy Kane - "Mortal Combat"
Black Rock & Ron - "Act Like You Know"
Blackstreet ft Janet Jackson - "Girlfriend, Boyfriend"
Compton's Most Wanted - "They Still Gafflin'"
Digital Underground - "Doowutchyalike"
DJ Quik - "Diggin U Out"
Geto Boys - "I Get Lifted"
Hi-C - "Skanless Hip-Hop Megamix"
Intelligent Hoodlum - "Back to Reality"
Isis - "Rebel Soul"
Jaz - "Doped Up"
Keith Murray - "Get Lifted"
King T - "E Get Swift"
Kool Moe Dee - "Knowledge is King"
MC Shy D - "Don't Sweat Me"
Montell Jordan ft Slick Rick - "I Like"
Mr. Dalvin - "Get Mine"
Notorious BIG - "Respect"
NWA - "Quiet on tha Set"
Redhead Kingpen - "Do the Right Thing"
Snoop Dogg - "Gin and Juice"
Tim Dog - "Bitch with a Perm"
Zhigge - "Born Black"

oops. THIS ann peebles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp25PHbLPcU

wonder if someone like 9th Wonder has already got to this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCG3JyRRyKQ

I was thinking the other day someone should sample the line in "Silver Dagger" - "my daddy is a handsome devil/he's got a chain 5 miles long"

i'm sure i suggested this the last time we did this, but anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw2yWkgs_Nk

"dont bring me down" - elo

so much sample-loop it-fuck potential in that song.
cant believe it hasn't been done before.
[now i wait for someone to show me it has already !]

Guitar riff from "Down by the River"

Also - and i attempted this one time - opening bar of Dennis Wilson's "Dreamer" slightly sped up.

Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n the Tears

The guitar break at 1.45:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnQTGNcNpI4

Lauren Wood- Wood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3GSPelcy_4

erm, fallen i meant

I'm sure something could be done with the opening 5 seconds of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZANKFxrcKU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy71oHnVrL0

begging to be turned into a glacial cassie/teairra mari track imo

Goddamit! I was going to suggest Menahan Street Band's 'Make the road by walking' because its really sample-worthy but I just found out Jay Z already used it. Argh-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akvf1uc46pY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCDJ85DJJAs&feature=fvw

Tom Ze - Dor e dor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U74Qo9PyKQ8

^ Both the intro and the wicked horn section... tho it might be hard getting a clean sample out of the horn section since he's always singing on top of it.

Hate to do this to you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4evP8wRk3ys

(though it sounds like it's been replayed rather than directly sampled)

fuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's not being replayed, it's a sample lifted from 'Quero Sambal Meu Bem' from Tom Ze as well. He uses the same riff in both songs.

That's it. I'm dropping off of university to pursue my dream of becoming a producer.

Sorry I meant 'Jimmy Renda-Se' not 'Quero samba meu bem'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPDag_8dbOU

So Amerie's sampling Tom Ze and making videos based on "Blow Up"???? Gunnin for that indie love, huh. ;)

Chairmen of the Board's Skin I'm In and Finder's Keepers.

Van Halen - "Everybody Wants Some"

This is a rad thread, btw.

I don't know how there isn't a 20-minute cosmic beats+echo edit of 10cc's "I'm Not In Love" out there. (Maybe there is, but I haven't found it yet.)

Once I thought I was really clever and sampled the drum intro to Amon Duul II's "Archangels Thunderbird" and sped it up to a dnb-ish tempo and it sounded really familiar. Has this break already done the rounds or does it just sound like a bunch of others?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTKBWLlwpn0

The RZA needs to get on the first few seconds of this.

sounds very Hitchcockian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbWTCv1nxBA

Here's a bit of background on that, if you care.

^ I would prob. sample "Wheel And Turn Me" from Blind Blake Vol. II

Also, "Get The Money (Uncle Scrooge's Money)" from Mousercise.

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."