13 songs you didn’t know sample other songs

Sampling might seem almost like cheating... taking an extract from somebody else's song and using it in your own work. However, as long as everyone involved has been credited and reimbursed, sampling can be a really creative and clever way to make new music.

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0:00 Introduction
0:27 Gotye
0:57 Daft Punk
2:48 Red Hot Chili Peppers
3:09 Interpolation vs. Sampling
4:49 The Beatles
6:37 Vampire Weekend & Radiohead
7:02 Moby
7:36 The Moments
7:58 is sampling cheating?
8:35 Patreon

[fabiodavila]

A few days ago, Damon Albarn said in an interview that the main beat from 'Clint Eastwood' was actually taken from the Rock 1 preset on his Suzuki Omnichord.

[drakeburnett]

The iconic string line in Toxic by Britney Spears samples Tere Mere Beech Mein, a 1981 Bollywood song

[DRDINGBOBBLE]

The sample breakdown for Daft Punk's Face to Face is way more than just ELO's Evil Woman. That song is probably one of their most complex songs (before R.A.M.) by far because the the crazy sampling they did.

[leokimvideo]

Some of the OG artists who have good Lawyers can pull 100% of the royalties if the samples are sneaky ones. Gilbert O Sullivan has achieved this when others sampled his music. Once the rogue artists found out that legally a sample can have their royalties stripped and the price to use a sample can sometimes be huge it stamped out lots of people playing games.

[Mitcho]

Madonna’s “Hung Up” uses a direct sample from ABBA’s “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)”, which is looped throughout the majority of the song. Both Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus were credited as songwriters, like how you mentioned with Redbone.

[Beefnhammer]

The Mellotron is so fascinating. It was essentially a completely analog version of MIDI virtual instruments that are now ubiquitous in music production.

[sopranophantomista]

The thing about Face to Face is that it's not just Evil Woman, it's also "Can't Get it out of my Head" by ELO, "Lahahina Luna", "Tell Me to My Face" by Dan Fogelburg & Tim Weisburg, "House at Pooh Corner" by Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina, and, and, and....Like, there's so many rifts that were taken that are just a few notes, but when you speed them up, slow them down, pitch shift them, you hear it. It's bonkers just how much time it took splicing all of it together, making something new with it. I think in notes and interviews past there's been talk of 13 or 14 samples used in the track, and fans are still trying to crack the ones that are used less often in the loops.

I'm surprised the booklet didn't weigh any more than it did in the CD case looking back on it.

[ataco]

The entire Since I Left You album by The Avalanches is constructed of loads and loads of samples, all combined into one gigantic work of music. It's incredible how well put together it sounds

[jacklazarski]

The Bee Gees Stayin’ Alive is an interesting example because the drum beat is a two bar phrase spliced out of their other song Night Fever.

[villevigren]

Could honestly make a whole video about Kraftwerk samples and their influence in an effect based music that we hear a lot nowadays. How they impacted hip hop, how New Order sampled them in Blue Monday and how multiple artists ever since have used their samples in multiple different genres.

[RonnieJamesOsbourne]

For some context,
Daft Punks; Face to Face,
has over "15" (yes, you heard right) 15 samples in total,
which includes band and song titles like;

1)ELO's- Evil Woman, Can't Get It Out Of My Head

2) Dan Fogelberg/Tim Weisberg- Twin Theme, Lahaina Luna

3) Dave Mason- All Along The Watchtower

4) Loggins and Messina- Be Free, House At Pooh Corner

5) Boz Scaggs- You Got Some Imagination

6) The Doobie Brothers- South City Midnight Lady

7) Carrie Lucas- Sometimes A Love Goes Wrong

8) Steppenwolf- Everybody's Next One

9) The Alan Parsons Prjoject- Silence And I, Old And Wise

The fact that this track was created over 20yrs ago,
and new samples are still being found is incredible to me,
and gives me a deeper appreciation of Daft Punk and their keen ear
and imagination when creating their tracks.

Simply; it just blows me away.

[Halfpipesaur]

I've just watched a video on the Daft Punk samples. Face to Face alone samples at least 15 different songs and it's quite amazing how they all fit together.

[canonwright]

The song "Steal my Sunshine" by Len has been taken from a sample of "More More More" by Andrea True Connection.

[davekennedy]

Look into how Liam Howlett created some of The Prodigys biggest hits, literally hundreds of samples reversed, speed up, slowed down etc. It is INSANE how talented Howlett truly was if you go into the INCREDIBLY difficult way he created these superb, groundbreaking tracks!

[Sutable_]

I LOVE when songs sample Canon in D, a whole video to just songs that do that would be amazing.

[jasonremy]

The string loop from The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony" was a sample of an orchestral version of a Rolling Stones song.

[sdmcustoms]

The entire " three feet high and rising" by de la soul is a master class in sampling

[lucasfarias]

One I always think of and really like both songs is Gym Class Heroes' Cupid's Chokehold, that samples Breakfast in America by Supertramp. Both great songs!

[normalaccount]

One of the best cases i know is DJ Shadow's Endtrodoucing, an album made entirely by samples from really unknown music records he found at a record store. As far as I know he used to go there so frequently that the owner even let him go to the storage room where there were a lot more records that didn't sell much in their times and DJ Shadow would always come out of the store with a lot of them.

[wmradar]

"My Woman" by Lew Stone had a horn line that was so catchy it got sampled in two separate songs ("Your Woman" by White Town and "Love Again" by Dua Lipa).