Bands/Artists That Won't Clear Samples

far as i know Paul'n'Ringo haven't caught up with him yet.

also i think there was some sort of landmark sampling related court case in the wake of three foot high and rising,paul's boutique came out before that as far as i know so possibly wasn't affected
i'm sure loads of people here know more about all this than me...

Though they get partial redemption for denying all profits for "Bittersweet Symphony" from the Verve :)

Did the Chemical Brother's mix album have that cut of Sargeant Peppers that they always do, then?

And C.J. Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter" makes good use of a sample from "I Am The Walrus".

1. I've sampled him in stuff I've made before, actually. It's so good.
2. Why not? It'd just be another forum to get his message across.

Elvis Costello's tried a couple of times to use it but always got a no...damn you Prince!

Mr. Lif's "Madness in a Cup" samples the Stones' "Monkey Man". Eat that, Glimmer TwinX0rz.

Exactly! It's a lenthy mutha of a track too, some 7 or 8 minutes at least, IIRC. All of it spinnnin' & spinnin' & spinnin' that one, very easily recognisable orchestral sample.
A very fine piece of music; WackoJack should be made to listen to it every hotdamn night, is what I think.

...And another artist who was extremely reluctant to clear a sample was of course Scanner! As Björk and her record label probably very well remember.

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Do Kraftwerk still refuse to license samples?

??? Then how did "Planet Rock" ever see the light of day?

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The Beatles. Who else?

Strange. Are the Beatles notorious for doing this? The only thing I remember is the Beastie Boys not being allowed to release their cover of "I'm Down," but, like others have said already, there's been officially-released Beatles-sampling records ("The Masses Against the Classes," "Setting Sun," and "Criminal Minded" come immediately to mind)

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Aaaanyway:

Stock Aitken Waterman (sued M|A|R|R|S for the "Roadblock"-sampling original version of "Pump Up the Volume" (which, by the way, I can't seem to find on S---S--- ANYWHERE, so if any M|A|R|R|S fans out there could help a guy out it'd be greatly appreciated!))

Snoop Dogg/Snoop Doggy Dogg (Promo copies of the Beastie Boys' Hello Nasty album contain uncleared Snoop samples. I don't remember which songs the samples appeared on though. "The Negotiation Limerick File" maybe?)

Phil Collins

The Bee Gees (I seem to remember Wyclef having a HELL of a time releasing the Stayin' Alive song.)

Casey Kasem (the whole Snuggles/Negativland thing...)

any Disney song (unsurprisingly)

any Irving Berlin song

AC/DC (refused to grant The Beastie Boys permission to put "Rock Hard" on The Sounds of Science)

??? Then how did "Planet Rock" ever see the light of day?

Done without permission and before they had that policy.

(I invoked Paul's Boutique in a "no way this could be done today" sort of manner.)

this was before the '89 De La/Turtles case

interesting...there's a Love Unlimited Orchestra sample on Joe Budden's album. I wonder how much that set them back.

do you think that, in the 2010's or 2020's, that 90s artists that are popular sample fodder will feel as violated about being sampled as our current dinosaurs do by our current sampling artists?

and while michael jackson does own a piece of the beatles' song publishing, they don't need his help to not license their music to others. while there have been exceptions over the years, as a general rule the beatles don't license anything to anyone, period. not to television, not to movies, not to rappers, not to compilation records. you want beatles music or film, you've gotta go buy their records or see their tv shows. it's proved to be a quite successful business model.

Which is ironic given how much he effectively 'sampled' other peoples music and styles.

It wasn't that EC wanted to sample the song as much as he wanted to cover it it with some new lyrics for a bait track on his Warners best of (Extreme Honey). Prince barred him from releasing it, altough I'm figuring it will be eventually released when the Costello catelog receives its umpteenth relaunch for the DVD/Super Audio/Mega Bucks format.

-- Tom (freakytrigge...), July 30th, 2003."

yeah, but he said that the Sinatra estate was asking too much for the "My Way" sample he wanted, so they used Paula Anka's version instead. I felt so disillusioned when I heard that.

B-b-b-but what about that Nike commercial?

(and he's since given up at least half of the company to sony.) and if i've got my music biz facts right, that still only gives him the power to license the composition; he doesn't control, and can't license, the actual beatles recording, which would be owned by emi and/or apple. which is to say michael and sony can license, for example, gomez's cover of a beatles song, as long as they have gomez's label's permission. but they can't license the beatles version without emi's blessing.

Supposedly the Chemical Brothers were able to demonstrate to the EMI/Apple lawyers that they weren't sampling Beatles material.

According to an interview I read, that really pissed Paul off something fierce. By the way, I also distinctly remember "Getting Better" and "Come Together" and "Instant Karma" all were used in TV commercials.

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