Here is a compilation I made of every sample that has been used in the music of Gorillaz from their first to their latest album, and where it came from. Enjoy!
I live in Seattle where he got that toy. The exact store is called Archie McPhee and they're locally known for selling weird toys. They're also the store behind that weird horse mask from like eight years ago.
The Great Sloth Lord you can find the pickle in Seattle at trinket shops and he made the song while in Seattle for the Plastic Beach Tour. So he most likely bought one or saw it and found an audio file online to rip.
It wasn’t Damon the majority of these samples came from dan the Automator who produced (and for demon days its was dangermouse). That’s why none of the other albums sounded as good as the first two. Was also how Damon managed to get people like del and de la soul on the albums
i think the sampled beats and turntable scratching of the first album is what i miss most when i listen to new gorillaz... that first album and G-Sides had such a gritty underground hip hop flavour that i love
As a person who plays violins (soon getting a new one) I wanna learn how to play this song but my violin sucks cuz instead of the strings being metal there plastic so they don’t tune WHY THE FRICK WOULD YOU MAKE A VOILIN IN THE FIRST PLACE IF YOU CANT EVEN PLAY IT!? But idk it’s a mediocre sounding kid anyway looks cool tho.
In terms of the animated band, 2D would pick that. In real life, it's Jamie Hewlett, the band's animator, who chose those samples as he's a big fan of classic horror and animation.
It's worth noting that Long Long Ago, the sample from Left Hand Suzuki Method, is in the second volume of the Suzuki method of teaching beginners string instruments, and the Left Hand of the title refers to the variations on how it's played in the song, normally and short (staccato).
Chris Benson actually, a Left-Hand Suzuki Method is when you hit a bong and play a song without actually knowing how to play it, that's why it has the bong rip at the start
@@tomatosplattersbasscovers371 apparently that sound in the beginning of the song is from russel getting a straw and blowing it through his nose in milk
@@IvanTube0 Daft Punk + Gorillaz would just be 2 real men pretending to be fake men collaborating with four fake people being played by two real people.
Two things you might have missed - In Rhinestone Eyes the "thats electric!" is sampled from a lost gorillaz song called electric shock where it goes "thats electric shock!" Also the main bass of Strobelite seems to be sampled from an old Casio keyboard bassdrum.
What I think is interesting is that there was more sampling being done in the early works because it was just Damon and Jamie, as their band progressed to get larger and larger known they were able to work with musicians and use less samples. That's really cool actually
Isn't it because they were less rules about sample at the Time? Because on 80/90's hip-hop, rap, rnb, everybody used sample all the time. Now it's more complicated to do it because you have to Ask for the rights. This is a supposition, my knowledge about music History isn't perfect
@@delireent.3960 there were sampling rules in 2001. it's more because on the first two albums damon worked with outside hip-hop producers- Dan the Automator and Danger Mouse, respectively- who had really sample-based styles. on Plastic Beach he produced himself, and I think since then he's mostly worked either by himself or with Twilite Tone. Because he's no longer working with old-school sample-based hip-hop producers, that feel isn't in the music anymore. but every artist changes over time, I suppose
@@delireent.3960 the rules were always there, it just wasn’t as common knowledge to the public at the time, since the only people who _needed_ to care were label/copyright owners and producers/engineers. If an artist wanted to poach a sample, it would be on the label to go and contact the rights holders of the original and get it cleared - if not, they just didn’t use it and would tell the artist so, or risked potential lawsuits. Paul’s Boutique by the Beastie Boys, released in 1989, had to spend almost $250k in rights and licensing for the samples used, for example. Many hip hop classics and hits of the era did legitimately have their samples cleared - my guess is that they happened with so much regularity, the impression to the public was that sampling was fair game for free use. But with the advent of online streaming and the ease of creating/distributing music (relative to 20 years ago), much more music is getting released without getting their samples cleared, and everyone - from the artist to their audience - has to be much more aware about proper crediting and clearing.
@@delireent.3960 the album came out in 2001, so i highly doubt that. Also gotye and daft punk sampled all the time throughout their careers so still no.
I think it's cool that on the first 2 albums Russel was grabbing drum samples from RnB, soul, funk etc records and 2D was picking stuff from electronic albums and zombie movies. It really shows their characters through the music
I LOVE when bands title their songs in reference to their samples! Man Research is now my favorite song on that album. I never knew that fun fact about it. Blew my mind!
che or a proper one with Massive Attack :) I wonder if they'll get back some old producers back to do stuff with them again. I'd love to see Gnarles Barkley making their comeback and working with gorillaz. Not sure how Danger Mouse or Damon would feel about that though.
We need more Little Dragon, and I would go to heaven. Even better. Daft Punk and Little Dragon AND Gorillaz on the same track. See that, would be perfection.
2:12 This guy is the true memegod. With a name like *John Dankworth* and an album called *modesty blaise* one could imagine him as a rival to the Dogg himself.
My problem with it was mainly the overwhelming vocal features (which I personally found pretty sub par compared to older features on other albums) and lack of Albarn's vocals on most of the tracks. While they always had a revolving door style of membership, it feels more like he was a "feature" on this album compared to the other artists. It still has Gorillaz style in the music, but the features were pretty hard to bear this time for me.
Personally, the Plastic Beach guests are more difficult to digest for me, because even that 2D sings a bit more (48% vs 43%) In Humanz is more homogeneous (3 songs that doesn't sing vs 6 songs in PB).
I always had a faint thought that Rock the House felt empty and undeveloped, and now I know it's largely because most of the instrumental is a repeated sample. It's still a good enough song, and pretty catchy, but there isn't much to it in comparison to other Gorillaz songs.
*Self-Titled* Tomorrow Comes Today (0:04) - (0:15) New Genius (Brother) (0:24) - (0:35) New Genius (Brother) (0:46) - (1:07) Man Research (Clapper) (1:13) - (1:24) Rock the House (1:33) - (1:56) 19-2000 (2:14) - (2:27) Latin Simone (2:38) - (2:50) Slow Country (3:04) - (3:11) M1 A1 (3:19) - (3:52)
I see a lot of you seem to be confused regarding the nature of sampling in music, so I want to clear up a few things. (sorry in advance for the walls of text) 1. As far as I am aware, every song that I put in this video contains a sample. Sampling can mean many things and cover a wide array of media. For the first album, most of the samples were in the drums. I've seen a lot of commenters say that these are simply drums that sound similar and that I'm 'reaching', and I have to say that you're wrong. Drum breaks are very common in the type of music that was in Gorillaz's first album, and they aren't the only group to sample those songs. It may sound different than the original, but you have to realize that a lot goes into sampling and good producers know how to bend the sound of the original sample to better fit their vision. You can sample something and have it sound the exact same, sure, but a lot of the times you have to listen a bit closer to find the similarities. Most of these drum samples are from the 60s and 70s, trying to integrate them in a dub/hip-hop genre will obvious result in a bit of tampering.That is the wonders of producing and technology. These are ALL sampled. 2. No, there is no 'Oh Yeah Mr. Krabs' sample in Ascension. That's just Damon screaming. Stop spreading misinformation. 3. A guest vocalist or Damon saying the lyric of an older song in their Gorillaz track from a different artist doesn't equate to sampling it. That is interpolation. So something like the 'Push it real' in Kids With Guns isn't a sample of that Salt n Pepa song. There's a lot of cases like this in Gorillaz but unless it's an exact audio clip taken from the song, it doesn't count as sampling.
+Kirima Nagi course they is no "oh yeah mr krabs" that'd be copyright infringement...how ever AHHHHGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! you ever heard the gorillaz say no to the vids on both ends? hmmm??...
+Kirima Nagi I'm sorry dude, I'm sorry. I just heard a comparison vid on the scream and the resemblance is uncanny, it's far to gone to say no...but right at the edge to say "yes it is the yell". like I said tho the Gs are lowkey on this subject *COUGHS* spongy sample before tho
The Altarf honestly, it bothers the hell out of me that people legitimately think they sound identical. they don't at all. they're two very different sounding screams.
The M1A1 sample will forever stay in my mind, its the reason why i got into gorillaz in the first place bc i heard they that they used a sample from one of my fav zombie movies
People ask me why I use sampling so much in my work. I tell them that you write a message with them. That you can create excellent work with them! The endless possibilities for melodies! They tell me that I'm just cheap. That I don't have any real talent. I tell them to listen to Gorillaz. I tell them to listen to Foster the People. To Owl City. To any alternative band. Sampling ain't about being cheap. It's about being creative.
Honestly, the way they sample things is amazing and beautiful. I'm so glad you posted this, my dude. They seem to have so much fun with it, and I like learning which parts are from which places.
When I was a kid I listened to Slow country while riding with my parents in he car and the wishy sound effects was perfectly synced with the front wind shield wipers during a rainy day. I always thought that’s what the sound was lol
The crowd sample from dare wasnt actually FROM revolution 909, it's just that daft punk also used the sample. The actual sample is called medium excited teenage crows
I dunno, done properly samples can do a lot. A good usage of samples can turn something old into something completely different done as a celebration of the original content. Paul's Boutique and 3 Feet High & Rising are considered 2 of the greatest hip hop albums of all time by critics and use a TON of samples. Beastie Boys - Ladies uses an estimated 19 samples in a less than 4 minute song.
ok i thought you mispelled 2-d's name at first and i was supremely offended like dont insult the blue string bean but then i realized you were writing about 1 direction
You forgot Clint Eastwood, which although I don't think is really sample, its instrumental was heavily based off the iconic theme for The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Hence the name of the song, "Clint Eastwood" Stylo and Rhinestone Eyes also contain samples from one of Gorillaz' demos: "Electric Shock". Stylo sampling the beat of the song and Rhinestone Eyes sampling the vocals (Elec-tric-tric-tric-tric-tric)
"Who Put the Chemicals in the Food Chain?" in intro is actually from the song "Soldier Boy" by Martina Topley Bird, which contains samples of a scrapped Gorillaz song "Snakes and Ladders"
Holy shit I'm just now realizing I had the exact same interactive planetarium thing as a kid that they used for the sample in Saturnz Barz. What a time to be alive.
as soon as you showed the "sample" for the "click the button to begin" my brain IMMEDIATELY connected the dots. i remember having one of those as a kid!! I can't believe i didn't think of this before!! you're truly doing god's work, thank you
my fave song is left hand suzuki method because you can literally feel all of the different influences.Now that i know that their samples are so beautiful and different i seem to adore this song even more
Can you imagine being from Seattle, buying The Fall and seeing "hey, there's a music dedicated to my city!" only to find out it's just a sample looped?
I read on Genius that She's My Collar samples Monks by Frank Ocean I was wondering if anyone knows where the sample is cause that's my favourite song by frank
@@stupidwhore8649 it literally says that it samples that song in it's credits on Genius. Don't accuse people of spreading nonsense if you can't click a single button on a website.
That’s what I’ve been saying! It has my favorite atmosphere, art style, etc. Demon Days would be my second favorite, but something about their first album is just special to me
+Jimbo Hardizzle yet the uploader still bought up an easter egg in the Clint Eastwood video, I doubt bending the rules one more time would do too much harm
