14 songs you didn’t know sample other songs
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Many famous song have used sampling, some in more obvious ways than others, but often what happens is the song doing the sampling becomes more well-known than the original song that was sampled from! So today we are going to breakdown 14 songs that you may not have known are based on samples.
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0:00 Introduction
0:16 Radiohead
1:16 Steal My Sunshine vs. More, More, More
1:45 Dua Lipa vs. My Woman
2:26 Gorillaz vs. Omnichord
3:39 Elton John
5:30 Kanye West
7:29 Coldplay
9:22 The Clash
11:07 Dub Be Good To Me
12:54 Shirley Bassey vs. Public Enemy
13:36 Patreon
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Kanye sampling 21st Century Schizoid Man was foreshadowing.
White Town's "Your Woman" was a banger in '97, and it still is
You could do an entire video on the samples used to create Frontier Psychiatrist by The Avalanches. Fascinating history and for a long time it wasn't even known where all the samples actually came from.
Absolutely! The avalanches need to be talked about in this series!!! Although I think it would be much more fulfilling to talk about Since I Left You, as most of frontier psychiatrist’s samples are not from songs
I've seen the music video, but I have no idea how that track came about. I'd watch a vid about that.
Absolutely. Shame it's such an appalling song, much like the rest of their output.
@@BrianKeen-oz7swwrong
There's a video on the samples of Frontier Psychiatrist though not sure if any more has been found since.
Your Woman by White Town took me way back man. Haven’t heard that song in years. Great video!
@@ThePhobosAmphitheater thanks 😊
Check the one hit wonderland video on that song, it's great.
@@gfdggdfgdgfYes. On the Todd in the Shadows channel.
That's surprising to me. Here in the USA, I still hear it a few times per month on the syndicated Alternative station.
Naughty Boy & Emeli Sande also sampled Your Woman in Never Be Your Woman
I had no idea Idioteque is based on samples!! That Paul Lansky bit is so beautiful. ❤️ 🤤
Sampling wasn't a popular thing in Spanish-sung music until Charly García's Clics Modernos, released in 1983.
The hit song 'No me dejan salir' (they won't let me go) features at least three different James Brown samples (who had been in jail 'without reason, just because he was black', as he said), added to the rythm chain of the Roland 808 he had. The song, while dance-able and cheerful in its sound, was a protest against the martial law that the dictatorship in his country, Argentina, had held until that year.
The whole album is a masterpiece for Latin culture, with some serious thought provoking songs, even if they don't initially sound like that. It was also a revelation that Charly, who was a very well acclaimed prog and classical-influenced musician in Spanish rock, who often criticized autoritarism, tried doing something different (dance-able music) in such dark times.
Charly García is a musical genius. The musical and cultural impact of “Clics Modernos” can’t be overstated.
Sampling wasn't used much at all anywhere in the world in 1983...Which songs on the album are there any samples?
@@mariobrenes4264 Really nice! Fretless bass is sweet.
Aguante el Charly!!
@@peppepop No me dejan salir. Those vocal noises are from different James Brown's songs
That Dua Lipa's song and My Woman is also The Imperial March or am I insane?
Theres definitely similarities
Todd in the Shadows thinks that John Williams could have been familiar with "My Woman" which was used in an old movie.
@@WayneKitching I'm so glad someone else brought this up, Todd's video on "Your Woman" is fantastic.
Makes more sense that all of them where originally inspired by Chopin's Funeral March, sharing the use of minor scale notes that represents the feeling of grief or sadness within.
@@WayneKitching thanks, I'm gonna look that up
Chaka Khan - Fate --> Stardust - The Music Sounds Better With You
Pointer Sisters - Dare Me --> Junior Jack - Stupidisco
Steve Winwood - Valerie --> Eric Prydz - Call on me
Zombies - Time Of The Season --> Melanie Fiona - Give it to me right
Kernkraft 400 - Zombie Nation is perhaps not a sample but note for note the melody from the old C64 game "Lazy Jones"
It's an interpolation
Andrea True was the first "adult film star" to have a top 40 hit too. Disco was really wild.
Thanks for mentioning my song! :-D
YO no way! Your music is amazing
@@boonz6951 haha ta!
Yo your woman was a cracking track in the 90s, I still listen to it now! I used to hear you were from Foleshill...is that right?
Kanye also sampled a Hungarian song from the late 60ies. It's called Gyöngyhajú lány (roughly translated: Girl with pearl hair) by the Hungarian band Omega. It can be heard in Kanye's song New Slaves. Omega sued Kanye because of copyright violation and they settled out of court
The 'lyric splicing' thing was done for the radio edit of I Took a Pill in Ibiza by Mike Posner; the titular phrase was blended with "I took a plane to my hometown" to form "I took a plane to Ibiza" and remove the drug reference.
is that a biffy clyro pfp?
@@rua0933 yep! Only Revolutions GOATed
I took a plane in Ibiza- would not recommend
I thought I was on top of this and knew Stupid Girl sampled Train in Vain but had no idea that drum fill was from Orange Crush. Mind blown
Really enjoyed hearing the reaction from artists to being sampled - there is a real skill to getting the perfect sample, especially when you are shifting the speed/frequency to fit the new song.
Whenever I hear More More More on the 70s radio station that blares out in my office I’m surprised to hear that bit sampled by Len. Every time. It’s like I never learn.
Perfect timing, was just looking for a vid like this
I’d love to see an analysis of how Avalanches use samples. They’re so insanely detailed and layered, it’s kinda mind-boggling to think they’re entirely made from samples.
I really enjoyed this episode, David! I always knew Stupid Girl sampled Train In Vain but I had no idea it also sampled Orange Crush by REM
Thanks for reminding me of the FANTASTIC "Just Be Good To Me" - I'd completely forgotten about it! I don't know how you do what you do but just keep doing it. 🕺🤣
Vaporwave is an entire genre based on samples of '80s songs tweaked in very creative ways. I think the album Macintosh Plus is probably the first intentional example of this genre.
Ok, but Macintosh Plus wasn't really that creative it's a lazy One here's a good example Replica by Oneohtrix Point Never
@@EnorldSame Thanks. I'll check it out.
@@GabrielVelasco You're welcome
OPN practically invented vaporwave back in 2009
@@TheEpicImpaler yeah along with James Ferraro I'd say
There is an episode of Song Exploder on Netflix about the Dua Lipa song, they explain how they had difficulties getting the My Woman sample into the right key for Dua Lipas track.
You should do a video on best songs sampling The Beatles with number 1 being Chemical Brothers - Let Forever Be. Amazing rearrangement of a sample from a bootleg-only version (at least at the moment of sampling) of Beatles' song
You should do a video on Manu Chao, he's a very creative sampler, music, radio phrases, broadcasts, etc...
I used to have a keychain that had a speaker and 5 buttons on it, each of which activated a different sound effect when pressed. One of those sounds was the "bombs away" descending gliss sound, which is scattered throughout the Clandestino album... I mean the exact same sound, not a similar sound. He either got it from the keychain or from a similar novelty product that featured the same audio chip. It was from the 1990s.
Thank you, Jarred Jermaine, for showing these things and David Bennett for elaboration.
Considering the chord progression and drum pattern of 'love again' is so similar to 'your woman', I'd say 'your woman' is the version they heard first then sought out the original to do the same vein.
More of these. That fact that I could have went to my grave not knowing where the samples were derived blows me away.
Eminem's "My Name Is" is sampled from the end section of Labi Siffre's "I Got The..." (which is a really good song)
And the musicians playing the guitar and bass were none other than the cheeky cockney duo Chas and Dave.
Labi Siffre's "My Song" is also sampled in "I Wonder" By Kanye West
Labi Siffre is one of the most underrated musicians ever. His Tedx Talk is crazy and hilarious as well.
When talking about Norman Cook, the guy that is being shown is actually Garth Jennings.
Indeed! Norman Cook can be seen in the video though, playing bass in the Dub be Good to Me music video, for example @11:14
Love your Channel! Could you do a segment on David Crosby/ Steven Stills guitar tuning for Piano!! Might be of interest!
👏👏👏👏 enjoyed that!
As always I learned something new here David. I had no idea Idioteque uses samples. On Coldplay using dialogue they also used some lyrics/words by Leonard Cohen on their song " Up with the birds". I suppose that's not really sampling though.
Thank you for the amazing lesson
I was straining my ears to make out the sample in the coldplay track, and then you went ahead and played the clip 😂 I really thought you would've had trouble with copyright on that one.
Since you have an interest in sampling, as well as music theory, perhaps you could do a video of the theory explanations of sampling where there are things like, tempo, pitch and even key changes done to the sample.
One that I love is Kanye’s the Glory, sampling Laura Nyro, Save the Country. Both underrated
"Get the cameras rolling, get the action going."
I'm always amazed at how my musical memory works (presumably other peoples' work like this too?) - I haven't seen or heard Dub Be Good To Me in years, probably since it was in the charts, but as soon as I saw the first snippets of the video I was "oh, it's Dub Be Good To Me!" and the song came flooding back :D. I often hear songs from the 80s that I haven't heard since then and I still know all the words...!
"This is Hardcore" by Pulp samples the brass hits from "Bolero on the Moon Rocks" by Peter Thomas.
The most beautiful sampled song contender: Crystal Waters 'Ghetto Day', which samples the Fifth Dimension's cover of Stoned Soul Picnic recorded with the Wrecking Crew, Billboatd No.3 hit in the late 60's. Stoned Soul Picnic was written and originally recorded in 1968 by the Bronx genius Laura Nyro, who has been sampled by Kanye (Glory), Dilla, Madlib, and others.
A video on sampling and no mention of J Dilla
Great video as always!
Speaking of keyboard samples, in Trio's "Da Da Da" (later covered by Elastica, which Damon Albarn was also connected to) an electronic rhythm kicks in that is the Rock-1 preset rhythm from the tiny Casio VL-1 keyboard from 1981.
And later used in the SA-KA-TA ads.
The preset was also used in Have A Nice Life's song Holy F**king Sh*t: 40,000
It’s amazing that people don’t know that it’s 2 “POCK”. Not 2 “PACK”
The opening bars of ‘Just be good to me’ always remind me of ‘Rage hard’ by Frankie Goes To Hollywood which came out 3 years later. Similar chord progression, distorted guitar with background organ.
Xzibit - Paparazzi (1996) sampled Barbra Streisand - Pavane (Vocalise) (1976), which is a cover of Gabriel Fauré - Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50 (1887). Interesting really
I found a few more examples of songs that certainly interpolate or at least are influenced by older songs. The 2015 hit “Downtown” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis has a synthesizer riff between two octaves of the same note, very similar to the longer version of “The Safety Dance” by Men Without Hats. Also, the current US top 40 hit “Please Please Please” by Sabrina Carpenter, seems to have a similar rhythm guitar riff and/or beat in some parts to the Pink Floyd song “Another Brick in the Wall Part II,” though the chord progression and bass line is different. Not sure if either of these have been mentioned yet.
Wow, now I know what "Dub Be Good To Me" is actually titled! I downloaded an mp3 off of file sharing ages ago that was just titled "Late Night Ambient Mix" and attributed (probably wrongly) to Squarepusher (in the tags, while the filename said it was DJ Shadow) that was a megamix of several tracks, and one of them is that. I had long ago figured that it was some obscure '70s artifact dug out of a record crate and I would never know the source.
Five for Fighting used the same rif from Angie Aparo's Seed for their song Superman and Angie Aparo also wrote the song Cry which was covered by faith hill
I was just thinking about you, David. I was listening to a song new to me, and they had an instrumental section that made it seem like there was going to be a key change, but there in fact wasn't. But it almost seemed like there was, like a false key change. It made the song more interesting! I'd be curious to learn how that works and how it tricks the brain.
The song in question was the cover of I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight by Norther Kings, but this effect is also achieved in the song Morning Has Broken by Nana Mouskouri.
On the way into the final chorus (bridge to chorus) of In The End, we get the exact same thing!
@@wyattstevens8574 Oh true! Yeah I wanna learn more about this!
12:40 Call me crazy, but... Guitar Hero 3 guitar battle against Tom Morello?
I knew about the Len sample. Remember them talking it about on MTV back when they played music videos.
I'm not usually into "that" kind of music, but I really like "Hell is Round the Corner", by Tricky, which then I learned that used the same sample as Glory Box, by Portishead, which turned out to be Ike's Rap or something, by Isaac Haye.
Coldplay sampling a line from Back to the Future is a really interesting example of sampling. There's a band called Agalloch, in their album "The White" they took samples from The Wicker Man and used them in three songs, and if I remember correctly, they also introduced a sample from The Seventh Seal in another song in their album "The Mantle". AND now that I remember, also the song Sinners Bleed samples the laughter scene from the film The Mummy from 1932.
There's a few dream theater tracks that contain vocal samples from films, a change of seasons, voices, and honour thy father are some examples.
Ok... how about the first official album “since I left you” by Avalanches that’s FULL OF SAMPLES. Some credited. Some not 😅
The album itself is really cool too! 🎉
I always thought there was something familiar with Steal My Sunshine. Didn't think it was as far back as my Disco Days.
I'm suprised no one ever talks about U can't Touch This by MC Hammer and Super Freak by Rick James
aye, i didn't expect to see someone i know in the skillshare add
Coldplay’s first sample is from 2005, with the song Talk. They sampled Computer Love, by Kraftwerk
They also did the “spoken word sample” with Trouble in Town, when they used the sound from a police unlawful harassment
They're among my favourite Coldplay songs. Coincidence?
In "Talk" it's not a sample, they just play the melody on guitar. At least that's what I thought until now :)
I've heard that Lew Stone sample somewhere else too, but I can't think where.
Speaking of Kanye West's album 'My Beautiful Dark...', I've listened to 'You Showed Me' both by The Turtles and The Byrds (who wrote the song) my fair share, but I still never could have imagined that the guitar in Kanye West's 'Gorgeous' was a sample from that song, but in an instrumental cover of 'You Showed Me' by Enoch Light and The Glittering Guitars.
Just an example when you've heard both the song that was sampled (although not the same version) and the song that sampled it but still don't realize it's a sample because it's done so well.
Thank you.
Does anyone else hear the Imperial March from Star Wars in the Dua Lipa/My Woman song? It jumped out at me immediately.
The Clash was also sampled by Martin Solveig - Hello.
would be delighted if you have a look at some of chord structure, how themes change from scene to scene etc. of Ennio Morricone's work
"L'lumon Dell'armonica" was also, shall we say, paraphrased (as opposed to sampled) on Wall Of Voodoo's "Two Minutes Till Lunch."
9:24 Is that a "sample" from your previous video?
@@zzzaphod8507 😂
David Bennett Piano, What is the editing software that you are using?
I can think of a couple of other examples of hip hop sampling '70s prog besides Kanye using King Crimson. The producer Madlib in particular seems to have been fond of Gentle Giant, because the beat from "Strange Ways" from Madvillainy (with MF Doom) is largely built from a sample of Gentle Giant's "Funny Ways", and he also used a sample from GG's "The Boys in the Band" in his remix of "Get By" by Talib Kweli.
On a completely different end of the spectrum, the beat from "Known For It" by the abrasive experimental hip hop group Death Grips is based around a sample from "De Futura" by the French avant-prog group Magma. Death Grips drummer Zach Hill is on record as a huge fan of Magma drummer/frontman Christian Vander.
Nina Simone's My baby just cares for me is a cover song. Recorded by Eddie Canter, but unsure if Eddie's version is the original.
Skatalites and Tommy McCook recorded "Riding West". Is a cover version originally by Billy Hope and the bad men. This song has ska version, reggae and dub versions.
And finally El pussycat by the Skatalites. Is a cover version, originally recorded by Mongo Santamaria.
Coldplay also used Kraftwerk sample in "Talk"
Cupid’s Chokehold/Breakfast in America by Gym Class Heroes sampling Breakfast in America by Supertramp.
I know it’s in the title but many people might not know who Supertramp are or the original song even though it’s used heavily in the Gym Class Heroes song
Well, the "Steal My Sunshine" one is pretty well-known and I'd almost argue that Dua Lipa's "Love Again" sample was initially from White Town's sample (while both ultimately derived from the Lew Stone single and Nat Gonella's trumpet solo).
i think it’s funny that clint eastwood by gorillaz and ennio morricone are mentioned separately in this video. though it’s not a sample, the melodica melody in clint eastwood is definitely a nod to morricone’s main theme for the classic clint eastwood western, the good, the bad, and the ugly
I _was_ going to mention Britney Spear’s “Toxic” which takes three melodic fragments, rearranging them and reversing part of one, from Bollywood’s “Tere Mere Beech Mein”-it’s sheer genius-but David mentioned it in a previous video (except he said _two_ melodic fragments, not three) - _and,_ in any case, it sounds like an interpolation. (The less-than-a-minute video “Sample Breakdown: Britney Spears - Toxic” over on *Tracklib* shows exactly how it was done.)
How do you make your thumbnails? I remember you had a video about it before but I can't find it.
I'm pretty sure the video you're looking for is on his second channel.
That Omnicord reveal was brilliant… did Gorillaz give it writing credit?😂
Not sure this classifies as a sample but the chorus of “asereje” from “las ketchup” is referencing “Rappers delight” by sugar hill gang
Idris Muhammad's track, "Lorien's Dance" features the funkiest start to a song you'll ever hear. Sampled in Fat Boy Slim's "The weekend starts here", Beastie Boy's, "hey Ladies", and there's another one I remember hearing but have forgotten.
Actually it's To All the Ladies and B-Boy Bouillabaisse by Beastie Boys, the albums opening and closing tracks, and maybe the song you're thinking of is Fluid by Jestofunk?
@@grahamdowney5550 yep, you’re spot on about both those comments.
my woman was also used in the german rap track "oder nicht" by Kontra K whicht went gold
"bet you didnt know this was a sample" plays the most fucking obvious and well known sample oat
Big Audio Dynamite also sampled The Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go" for their song "The Globe", but since BAD II's Mick Jones was in The Clash, does that count?
Another cover that is also sample-based is Being Nobody by Liberty X
Out of all these songs, "Princess of China" and "Paper Plane" were the only ones that I knew that sampled other songs
No Beatles records? Is that a first for this channel?
Even if you don't know the original "my woman" (like I didn't) you had to have known that Dua Lipa was sampling something. That bit from "your woman" is so well known!
"Electronic Music Winners" - great title! ironic? - PS. Always nice to see "early Elton" get some well-earned oxygen here :)
The beastie boys were the best samplers, Paul’s Boutique is amazing
9:30 gorillaz sampled that on Man Research (Clapper) too
"Sampling is a genuine skill, that can be quite difficult to master". Yes indeed. Years and years of hard practice is necessary to hit that record button just at the right time. Incredible talent is required here! 😉
Eminem's new song Houdini samples Abracadabra by Steve Miller Band.
Hypnotize sampling Herb Alpert and mimicking Snoop Dogg.
Now we need another layer of sampling.
I dont think you have done these songs, but "Ice Ice Baby" by Vanilla Ice has the same bass line as Queens "Under pressure". Just thought I should say
Harder than you think aka the theme tune to The Last Leg.!
You didn't mention the Four Tops' "It's All In The Game" (what song sampled that?) or the Avalanches' "Since I Left You" (which sampled hundreds of things). And there's always "Theme from S-Express" which pinches a Rose Royce track. And did the Jam actually sample "Taxman" on "Start" or just copy it? Madonna sampled an Abba track. Jem sampled the Swingle Singers. And Bob Dylan's "Knockin' On Heaven's Door" was the basis for a modern song by Gabrielle. Know any more?
I swear Dub Be Good To Me was a fever dream.
I was waiting for the Eminem connection to labe siffre, or the swollen members sample of melio stasera
11:39-11:48 This sounds very similar to Leningrad's song «Никого не жалко» (RUclips: iZVSjUMqtmY) also featured in GTA IV OST (Radio Vladivostok, RUclips: A_SSHigFolM)
There was an app someone developed where you could search a song and it would tell you what songs it sampled.
"Future Gun" by M.P. Gang also samples "Guns Of Brixton".