NWA: "Fuck the Police!" Public Enemy: "Yeah, Fight the Power!" Powerpuff Girls: "Yeah, why do we always have to stop an evil monkey from destroying the city? That's *their* job."
the entirety of Ghosts I-IV by NIN is part of a Creative Commons licence to be used by other artists so it's always nice to see an artist make a big song with one of those tracks
I actually love Ghosts V, and noticed that Reznor gave it away for free and was wondering this exact thing about licensing of that music so I'm glad you brought it up
@@Freakinawesome333 NIN have pulled from a few unlikely sample sources themselves funnily enough, one of their songs includes a snippet from a RU-vid video called "Bioshock Halloween"
One of the most impressive feats of sampling I know of is “Face to Face” by Daft Punk and Todd Edwards. God knows how many songs were incorporated into it; I’ve seen a breakdown that showed 19 different samples, but there could be more. Great song, too.
Yeah, well a lot of other people used sampling, but the only mandatory artist on a sampling video is Fatboy Slim... No one achieved more with the technique than him. He has multiple full albums only made with sampling.
If you want a sampling masterclass, look at the Avalanches first LP. Made entirely of samples and probably numbers between 900 and 2500. There's also an album by Exile called Radio which is made entirely of samples from the Radio.
To be fair, the entirety of Ghosts I-IV was released under a Creative Commons open license with the express intent to allow its use in other works. So Lil Nas X sampling from it is about as fair game as you can get. Heck, even Trent Reznor himself reused parts of Ghosts to create the Academy Award-winning soundtrack for The Social Network.
@@HenritheHorse ah yes homophobia and musical elitism. you sir have brought the level of discourse up several notches single-handedly. great job friend!
@@caseyhamm4292 Why do you defend a devil worshipping degeneracy and propaganda? Thanks, I thought you wouldn't have the guts to say it. Also I'm fine with normal gay people that just live their lives.
Make a video with that music and try to monetize it on youtube, see what happens. 😆 The irony is you'd probably get the copyright strike from little Nas (or whatever his stupid name is) instead of Trent Reznor. Most CC licenses require giving credit as well, which Little Nas did not, he wanted to pass it off as his own because he's a talentless hack. Also, what does Trent Reznor using HIS OWN music for different projects have to do with anything?🤔
I agree with the idea. Chucking samples of older songs into new ones isn't necessarily a lack of creativity, but finding a new way to use an existing thing: Innovation. And I always love hearing an older song for the first time and going, "Oh my god, that's from such and such a song!" Or, in reverse, finding out that a song has a sample in it and then seeking out said old song. It's no different to rehashing old songs into new media (such as movies or video games), there's no reason to deny people of the past, just because they weren't there at the time
Chas n Dave's careers were just extraordinary. Played as touring backing bands and studio musicians for some of the biggest names in rock n roll before taking the pub rock and Tottenham Hotspur cup final songs path. I loved and deeply miss them.
I went to Margate this week and my girlfriend reminded of of their track “Margate” what a tune! Then I started listening to things like Rabbit and Ain’t no pleasing you. Absolute legends.
'I Got The' Labi Siffre song is an awsome musical journey with lots of different parts. Recomended for a listen (the Chaz and Dave connection just makes it better)
@@taliesinllanfair4338 Madness version of 'It must be love' is one of the best covers of all time. When I heard the original song It made Madness' version even more impressive.
I also realise "Breathe" by Sean Paul featuring Blu Cantrell also sampled "What's the Difference" by Dr. Dre as well as sampling Charles Aznavour's 1966 song "Parce Que Tu Crois".
The Fugees' Ready or Not (a huge hit from 1998) uses a sped-down sample from Enya's Boadicea (a song with hummed vocals). I was very much surprised when I found that out.
One song that always slips under the radar is Steal My Sunshine by Len, the whole song is based on a small snippet of More More More by Andrea True Connection, 2.20 into the song if anyone's interested.
I work in a grocery store. More More More comes up often on the muzak. I remember the first time I heard it, I noticed that bit and it was so jarring because it really felt like the song had suddenly turned into Steal My Sunshine, and then went back to More More More a few bars later. It's a real mindf*** heh
Quality? It is the most annoying song ever created. The same simple beat without a single actual instrument and the same line over and over and over and over and over and over and over......and over. You hear 30 seconds, you heard the whole song.
@@Jabber-ig3iw going out of your way to find old obscure tracks/demos, single out instruments or vocals, finding a way to stitch several of them together in a seamless way, and creating an entirely new song out of it arguably takes more effort than just making something new. it's like solving a jigsaw puzzle using pieces from different ones and still ending up with a coherent picture
Over the years I have created a "Salute the Sample" Playlist. It is full of all the original recordings that were sampled to create a new form or expression. This help add a couple of new tracks to the playlist. It's very eclectic but it somehow works as something to put on and listen to. Here's about 1/3 of the list. Amen Brother The Winstons I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near) Michael McDonald Woman To Woman Joe Cocker Ready or Not Here I Come (Can't Hide from Love) The Delfonics Sho' Nuff Sly, Slick & Wicked Apache Incredible Bongo Band I've Got a Woman Ray Charles I Got The... (2006 Remaster) Labi Siffre Upside Down Diana Ross Grandma's Hands Bill Withers Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2 The Isley Brothers The Edge David McCallum Music: A Bit More Of Me Lowdown Boz Scaggs I'm Coming Out Diana Ross Take Yo' Praise Camille Yarbrough Between the Sheets The Isley Brothers Got To Give It Up Marvin Gaye Think (About It) Lyn Collins Parce que tu crois Charles Aznavour Funky Drummer James Brown
I tend to believe that the difference between good sampling and bad sampling is how lazy they were with it. For the good stuff, either new elements are grafted on top, like a lot of the hip-hop and rap songs, or it's 'chopp'd and screwed' like the Fatboy Slim example, samples tweaked to the point where they are unique in of themselves. And we wouldn't have mashups without it. Lazy sampling changes basically nothing. But it's really rare.
Man this video made me re-evaluate my opinions on some of the pop songs I hear “ripping off” older songs. Would love to see a few of Dua Lipa’s songs in some of your future comparison videos, since I feel like every second song she puts out sounds like something else I’ve heard before.
Great breakdown. There's just one point of contention, and that's that the recording artist usually isnt the producer that made/mixed/sampled the beats.
Hands down the best samplers of our time is Daft Punk. They made songs that sounded nothing like the original from only sampling a single song. Their song Face to Face has 19 different samples from several different artists and songs, almost all of them only 1 second or less, arranged in a way that I can only describe as the funky predecessor to dubstep (I'm pretty certain Skrillex got a large amount of inspiration from Daft Punk).
This is pretty much what The Prodigy did, at least for their older stuff. There's a great youtube video by a dude named Jim Pavloff, where he remakes Smack My Bitch Up from original samples. It's crazy how creative the process is.
While I'd definitely put Daft Punk (or The Prodigy) up there, there are definitely others that would be in the same stratosphere, e.g. The Avalanches or DJ Shadow.
DJ Shadow’s album “Endtroducing” was the first album created entirely out of samples. He spent MONTHS scouring record shops and what not collecting a massive number of records, then pulled out what he wanted, plus some samples from a few films as well. I think Fat Boy Slim did something similar.
David McCallum - The edge which the same album you mentioned chronic 2001 uses his sample on the song the next episode by Dr. Dre. He's infamous for going the crates of old songs and turning them into hip hop hits because no one can tell.
sampling can also be found in dance/electronic music (mainly the underground/indie dance scene from the UK during the late 80s to 90s) Art Of Noise, RSW & Bomb The Bass, The KLF, The Orb, Orbital, 808 State, FSOL, & few other techno artist/groups that incorporates sampling techniques are pretty good examples. they have some good & familiar or interesting samples in their tunes
Also “Theme From S-Express” by S-Express in 1988. I know one of the samples as it’s from “If It’s Love You’re After” by Rose Royce, but I would love to know the others.
Glad you said it as a native speaker. I learnt French years ago, and I really had to bend my ears on that one. Ah well, David can't be perfect at everything...
To be fair, only the "que" was really off to my ear. In French, never pronounce the "u" in a "qu" syllable. So you pronounce only the "k" part of the "qu" and something close to "uh" for the final "e".
The fact that Futurama sampled the same beat as NWA's Straight Outta Compton blows my mind. Also the 90's hit Playas Club by Rappin 4Tay used a sample of Judy Clay and William Bell's 1968 hit "Private Number". Also a group called Nightmares on Wax sampled this song for You Wish. There are others that sampled Private Number.
Haha, I never realized Futurama used the Amen Break too. Finding that Praise You piano sample was probably some incredible coincidence, but any musician who had heard it would've said "I gotta make a song out of that".
The list of samples that have been lifted from Lavi Siffre's "I Got The..." would fill a video on their own. I think he's credited on at least 30 songs.
Some great samples here, I hope you do a speacial vid on samplers who make an entire song from samples...The Avalanches are an awesome example of this.
Notorious B.I.G.'s sample of Herb Alpert's "Rise" is masterful. The original song has a killer bassline and really cool effects on guitar, and Biggy Smalls had a blast with them :)
As someone who started experimenting with this in the early 1980's with tape decks, this is a wonderful foray into creative music. Thanks for the insight.
Two samples that are often heard but rarely mentioned are 'UFO' by ESG and 'Close (To The Edge)' by The Art Of Noise. Weirdly enough both were cuts from fun improvised sessions, the former being a random jam the group made when they had a couple of minutes left of studio time and the latter from when one of the members was asked to make random shouts into a mic for sampling in later tracks (found more prevalent in their song 'Beatbox').
Sampling, as you said, if done cleverly, is not just, but another way of composing. Transferring old sound contents into a new context, and many times new background sounds, lift these good old classics into a new living. This also transfers and credits a lot of old music. Time passes by, and cultures change. Life is movement, duration is death.
¡Thank you for introducing me to Labi Siffre! I love your dives into different music not just for your content itself but also for the new songs I discover. And just for the record, I've heard the entire JBL album, but it was years ago and I don't remember much about it.
I'd love to see more videos delving into the topic of sampling, because its such a broad and in my opinion important topic to cover, especially if one was to look into the Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique.
I still think Portishead is the best: writing and recording lounge music and having it pressed to vinyl so they could sample/scratch it into their music, even scratching their own name into one track 🤣
Hip-hop is filled with so many great samples. One of my favorite ones has to be a sample from Bernard Wright - Spinnin'. Skee-Lo took a sample from it for his track I Wish. Btw, Norman Cook aka Fatboy Slim is an absolute genius with all the samples he has used to create his records.
08:57. And this is why Norman Cook is a certified musical genius. Also, to come from the pop group “The House Martins” and then morph into “Beats International” and then to be a world renowned Dance Music artist and incredible DJ..Incredible.
Don't forget Pizzaman and Freak Power... he's been through many guises. He's also responsible for quite a few remixes, like the #1 remix of Cornershop's "Brimful of Asha"
That Parce Que Tu Crois sample also reminds me of the orchestral backing of Indila's Derniere Danse, which also made it to popular radio around the world a decade ago or so, but never picked up on it in What's The Difference.
Loved this one David! The 'sampling is cheating' argument is so lazy, sampling can unlock so much inspiration. I like to find a good sample and then layer my own instruments on top of it, using it as the 'foundation' - it's lots of fun, highly recommend
If the sample remains the most iconic part of a new song, just like in most examples in this video, it IS lazy. For me it's disheartening to realize that the musician I admired for some piece of music isn't actually the one deserving the credits. Creative sampling is art, looping some existing catchy part is just copy-pasting.
What Fatboy Slim did was to genuinely create new music from obscure samples. Puff Daddy's Police sample is a guy singing while his stereo plays a song.
Bit different back then, it was easier to use a sample because it was already there and mastered. If you got a drummer in it would take more time to record and master the drum loop, and more money would have had to be spent.
@@mark314158 it’s always so hard to explain how French words are pronounced when typing. Even the explanation I gave above is unsatisfactory. I could write “paʁs kə ty kʁwa” but the vast majority of people won’t have any idea how to pronounce that. It doesn’t help that que, tu, and crois all have sounds that don’t exist in English.
Love this. My fave example will always be the roger Sanches and toto one. Never knew it was a cover and introduced me to the original which is now one of my favourite songs of all time.
My favorite sample whenever i hear is Herb Alpert - Rise (1979) which has a sound that has been sampled by Biggie in Hypnotize and also other artists through the years.
well yeah pretty much. all music is derivative. It is all made from the same base building blocks and stuff inspires each other and styles and genres and trends become cyclical.
"Praise You" is an original combination of elements, certainly. Elsewhere there's a video on court cases around musical copying, where one side was trying to suggest the chord sequence was novel and so somehow protected... except JS Bach used it a little earlier.
Lots of artists are. Theres some notable exceptions but a lot of artists have a deep love of music and the way it reaches everyone that listens to it. They understand its meant to be shared.
This just serves to reinforce my opinion that the vast majority of these so-called "artists" are incapable of creating anything 100% on their own. I find that I have infinitely more respect for the artists who originally created (you know, actually thought up, and PLAYED) the hooks and drum beats that were cool enough to get used and abused by others.
Dre had the beat sampled before meeting Em, when they finally met he said "I have this beat I'd like you to hear", as soon as Em heard it he started rapping to it "My name is, my name is", Dre then stopped him, got him in the mic booth and My name is was recorded just like that. The video showing them first meeting and Dre putting on the beat is on here (YT).
My all-time favorite sampling must be Pizzicato Five with A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular. They also borrow not from a song, but from an old demo recording, and it adds a lot to that retro-futurism vibe.
The 1996 song “6 Underground” by The Sneaker Pimps samples the horns and harp from John Barry’s “Golden Girl” from the soundtrack to the James Bond movie Goldfinger.
Love these videos great work. The only problem I have with samples is that some "artist" try claim them as there own. As u said not so much these days but 20 odd plus years ago I think people were using samples and hoping people never found out
*_"Pump up the Volume"_* by MARRS has a ton of samples (especially the 7 and 9 minute remixes). An analysis video for that song would be awesome if it does not already exist!
I was listening to Poe, and I was reminded of how hers song Wild includes a sample from her song Hello. That made me wonder what other cases there are of this "self sampling". I can't think of any offhand, but I can think some examples of songs that reference another song by the same musician or band in other ways. Like how the movie version of Pink Floyd's Another Brick In The Wall references the lyrics of Money.
The Parce Que Tu Crois was also (and in my mind it’s the first song that springs up) sampled on Blu Cantrell hit Breathe lol also on the pint of Amen brother REALLY NOT SURE but I’m getting two songs to mind, right here right now by the Fatboy slim (Norman Cook) but also weirdly Brimful of Asha by Corner Shop but maybe it was the Norman cook remix I dunno… just popped into my head. Very interesting video though.
