"Aha! So That's Where That Sample Comes From!!!"

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Argueing until I was blue in the face with a group of people that a particular sound on some dire trance thing (I think it was by the Minimalistics) was from Talk Talk's 'It's My Life'. They were saying Simple Minds. I ended up buying a Talk Talk album to prove my point. And I was right. [smug grin]

Anna, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

The first time I ever saw Performance, I kept jumping out of my chair cause of all the samples I've heard that have been nicked from it. There was a Big Audio Dynamite song (might be E=MC2, not sure) that quoted the entirety of Gangster dude's speech verbatim. "Apply a bit of... pressure!"

And, erm, Withnail and I, which might actually be the most sampled film ever. (At least in indie circles - Christ, even Ride sampled it.) A cult film that I only saw by accident on holiday last year and every thirty second was a quote I'd heard sampled before.

There was a certain amount of "dude! you're so not original!" but then changed my mind to think that Hrm, OK, actually maybe the people in question had better taste than I gave them credit for.

kate, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was pretty happy when i identified puff daddy's 85 bar sample of sting's 'every breath you take'

ddd, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

at first i thought this was a thread about A-Ha. Damn.

Chris, Monday, 15 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got a real kick on hearing Prefuse 73 sample Squirrelbait's "Hammering So Hard" on the intro to "Smile In Your Face". It seemed to me to be a tip of the hat to that kind of music. I thought it was cool.

Coolio doesn't sample, he covers Lakeside's "Fantastic Voyage". The original is also such a better song.

earlnash, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Let's see...

I picked out the signature drums and "hey's" out of Bow Wow Wow's rendition of "I Want Candy" on Lithium's "Ride a Rocket."

Iron Maiden's "The Prisoner" sampled dialogue from...er..."the Prisoner."

Tricky's "Aftermath" samples a guitar snippet from the Specials' "Dawning of a New Era" rather clumsily.

The tail end of "Mathematics of Chaos" by Killing Joke samples Lt.Uhura from "Star Trek" reading a sequence of repeated numerals.

Pop Will Eat Itself sampled dialogue from "The Warriors" all over THIS IS THE HOUR, THIS IS THE DAY, THIS IS THIS.

Alex in NYC, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Oh, and Tweet's "Oops Oh My" samples the guitar riff from Devo's "Girluwant" (though people patently refuse to believe me on that one.)

Alex in NYC, Thursday, 18 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...
"We're all gonna die!" and Ash says "We're not gonna die, we're gonna get out of here! Scottie!" and I thought: "So Simon Reynolds got it wrong in Energy Flash - Subnation didn't sample Star Trek in 'Scottie' (Sutcliffe is right - he doesn't do his homework!)

Actually, there is a mix of "Scottie" which does sample Star Trek, which might be the one Simes heard...

Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Monday, 19 August 2002 14:59 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm with Alex re: The Warriors.

Also, I was just listening to "Alphabest Street" last month and realized Arrested Development sampled "Tennessee" from it.

Chris Ott, Monday, 19 August 2002 15:07 (twenty-one years ago) link

The beginning of Endtroducing has a little "Hold on Hold on before we get started" which came from a Def Jam single with Rick Rubin I believe stuttering into the mic. "Cold Chillin on the Spot" or something else wacky is the title, can't find it on AMG at the moment though.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 19 August 2002 15:12 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...
Also at the end of Endtroducing is a sample from the cult movie 'Prince of Darkness.' (directed by John Carpenter) Its basically a very creepy, yet stylish, radio transmission. Thats all I will say about it but i highly recommend this movie to anyone with an interest in the sci-fi/horror genre...

karma1, Saturday, 28 September 2002 19:53 (twenty-one years ago) link

The bit in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" when Delmar says to Everett "I'm gonna kiiiill you" made me pause, before realising it's from "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches.

NickH, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Jesus Christ what the fuck is your problem maaaaaaaaaaaaan!" on a Front Line Assembly record. Then I saw RESERVOIR DOGS and recognised it instantly.

Lek Dukagjin, Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:18 (twenty-one years ago) link

Is that a Blondie sample on "Work It"?

Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 19:29 (twenty-one years ago) link

damm I had been working under the assumption that most of the samples were 3 stooges in Frontier Psychiatrist.

Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 8 October 2002 20:23 (twenty-one years ago) link

one month passes...
My most legenday Aha! moment:
Hearing a bit of Pink Floyd's
"Astronomy Domine" at the beginning
of Macy Gray's "Caligula."
RZA sampled ELP in Method Man's
"Tical." El-P sampled a classic
70s Vangelis album in the first
song of the Cannibal Ox album.
The best hip-hop producers are
very eclectic, so it shouldn't
surprise us to hear such odd
goodies.

Squirrel Police, Friday, 22 November 2002 00:03 (twenty-one years ago) link

I was listening to a Frank Zappa album the other day, it might have been Apostrophe, when the song suddenly broke into this cool breakbeat which DJ Shadow had remorselessly pillaged for one of the tracks on Endtroducing. It was a all a bit surreal.

Also, I was with Keith when we saw "Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls", and that sample sure freaked me out.

Andrew (enneff), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:24 (twenty-one years ago) link

On the Future Sound of London album "Dead Cities" there is a bit at the beginning of the title track where a guy's voice says:

"I had killed a man. A man who looked like me."

I never realized this was a sample until I was watching this movie about undercover narcotics agents, I think it was Deep Cover, and the line popped up as a voice-over during one scene. I had to pause the video and throw in FSOL just to make sure, but it was dead on.

webcrack (music=crack), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:50 (twenty-one years ago) link

four months pass...
black steel in the hour of chaos is the best rap song of all time in my opinion. of course the day came when i picked up isaac hayes' hot buttered soul and the piano loop comes from a lengthy piano solo from the song hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic. at first i was disappointed, but then i waited for a year or so and i am able to assign the rights of ownership to public enemy again.

Boss Pooper, Monday, 24 March 2003 07:35 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Placebo" by Meat Beat Manifesto samples the Rod Steiger movie The Illustrated Man... that was pretty cool.

And I was thrilled to find at least four different samples in Idris Mohammed's "Loran's Dance." There are probably more than that.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:42 (twenty-one years ago) link

...at least four different samples...

The one we all know being the background to "To All the Girls" off Paul's Boutique.

Kenan Hebert (kenan), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

recently i've found two - "homecoming" by atmosphere samples a song from the first eno solo album. "whatcha gonna do" by missy elliott samples "colonial mentality" by fela kuti (the bassline - it's pitched up a little).

oh, and the betty davis reissues have revealed a world of previously unknown samples...

your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 24 March 2003 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned, you still haven't answered Keith McD's question! TO WORK WITH YOU!

donut bitch (donut), Monday, 24 March 2003 08:19 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've debating with myself whether "Still DRE" uses a Trans-Europe Express loop (possibly 'Europe endless')...

Fabrice (Fabfunk), Monday, 24 March 2003 09:08 (twenty-one years ago) link

Dmitri from Paris used a sample from Breakfast at Tiffany's when Patricia O'Neal stated 'I am a very stylish girl'.

Samson, Monday, 24 March 2003 10:06 (twenty-one years ago) link

frankie smith, "double dutch bus" on missy's "gossip folks"

andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:41 (twenty-one years ago) link

Ned, you still haven't answered Keith McD's question! TO WORK WITH YOU!

Um er uh. It was Cindy Wilson going "I'm just ASSSSKING!" from "Dance This Mess Around" and it was used on a PE song on Fear of a Black Planet, I remember that much.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

All the American Movie samples on the new Today Is The Day ("Its alright, its okay, Jesus told me so").

-
Alan

Alan Conceicao, Monday, 24 March 2003 17:45 (twenty-one years ago) link

eight years pass...

This seems like a cool idea:
http://s107.net/air.php

My mouth was wiard shut! (admrl), Sunday, 4 March 2012 00:13 (twelve years ago) link

Thank you for that link! Solved some long outstanding questions for me. I'd assumed the "I say parking tickets? you're crazy! I don't... He says well, they have some outstanding warrants left on you, and they want to just solve them you know, whatever it'll be" bit on Endtroducing was Elliott Gould, but I was wrong!

Not only dermatologists hate her (James Morrison), Sunday, 4 March 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link

I realized where a DJ Shadow sample had come from whilst watching THX 1138 a couple weeks ago: the robot saying "Are you now, or have you ever been?"

tanuki, Sunday, 4 March 2012 23:57 (twelve years ago) link

When it first came out, "Missy Queen's Gonna Die" by Tok Tok vs Sophie O sounded very familiar but I could never pinpoint what it was. Until I randomly heard Kim Wilde's "Cambodia" one day and went Hey! They built their song on a sped up sample of this!

Then the exact same thing happened with their song "Day of Mine" which samples Grace Jones' "Do Or Die".

I can't believe I still remember TokTok vs Sophie O.

LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 5 March 2012 00:08 (twelve years ago) link

Watching 1984 with John Hurt "I hate goodness/I hate purity/I want everything corrupt" and it's all ah! Manics Holy Bible! Although I'm ashamed I should really know that quote from the book anyway.

Alexandre Dumbass (dog latin), Monday, 5 March 2012 11:39 (twelve years ago) link

Great site, especially the ID on that Shadow sample - I'd always assumed it was Elliott Gould too. Needs a Saint Etienne section. When I first saw Head I was delighted to recognise samples from St Etienne ("I'm always the dummy"), DJ Shadow ("Quiet, isn't it?") and Meat Beat Manifesto (the voxpops) - feels like one of the set texts, like THX1138 and Dark Star.

Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:00 (twelve years ago) link

LeRooLeRoo I still remember TokTok vs Sophie O because i LOVE that song. I was listening to the Martini Bros "remix" of it just the other day actually. I put quotes around "remix" because they basically recorded an entirely new backing track for it that sounds like the harder side of Stereolab.

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:16 (twelve years ago) link

Amazing version that. Like the Soulwax mix of Ladytron's Seventeen, he says, derailing the thread further.

Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Monday, 5 March 2012 12:33 (twelve years ago) link

i not only remember toktok vs soffy o but i remember how to spell their names

lex pretend, Monday, 5 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link

aaagh another casualty of my dead hard drive though

lex pretend, Monday, 5 March 2012 12:38 (twelve years ago) link

I always assumed that DJ Shadow thing was George Segal. Sounds exactly like him!

andrew m., Monday, 5 March 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link

is that site doing anything whosampled isn't doing better already?

marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Monday, 5 March 2012 17:53 (twelve years ago) link

Haha rumbled on my copy and paste job on toktok and soffy o!

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:35 (twelve years ago) link

is that site doing anything whosampled isn't doing better already?

Doesn't Whosampled only list songs sampled in other songs? That site lists movie dialogue and other voice samples in songs, so it's a totally different thing.

Tuomas, Monday, 5 March 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link

oh ok, fair point

marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Monday, 5 March 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link

Tracer I still love that song and the remix too (and "Seventeen"). Did you know the Kim Wilde song?

LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:01 (twelve years ago) link

Looks very useful, but how do you add to it? I can't see any wiki page or way to submit data.

fun loving and xtremely tolrant (Billy Dods), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link

Yeah, that was my thought too. I wanted to add a track but it doesn't seem obvious at all.

emil.y, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link

s107.net is built on information. Share your knowledge, please.

My mouth was wiard shut! (admrl), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:32 (twelve years ago) link

eight years pass...

Where's Gareth?

does anyone know where the vocal sample for gene farris' this is my religion comes from?
― gareth, Sunday, July 14, 2002 8:00 PM (eighteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wi_SYThgdE&feature=youtu.be&t=74

Andy K, Friday, 25 September 2020 14:28 (three years ago) link

Eh, at 1:15.

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

Andy K, Friday, 25 September 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link


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