Land down under by Men at Work has a flute interpolation of “Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree” which ended up in a completely nonsensical lawsuit
@DavidBennettPiano6 ай бұрын
Good example 😊😊
@user-ii5mh9li6l6 ай бұрын
A sad case of predatory corporate lawyers bullying artists with a tragic end. 😢
@APH19916 ай бұрын
@@user-ii5mh9li6l. Which started off as a question on Spicks and Specks.
@johncrisman34006 ай бұрын
I'm not so sure if the lawsuit was nonsensical, but when one considers that in the video for that song, the flutist is sitting in a tree as he plays the Kookaburra riff it becomes obvious that the riff being identical (albeit being played over a minor chord instead of a major chord) isn't mere coincidence.
@klaxoncow6 ай бұрын
@@johncrisman3400 In fairness, "Kookaburra in the old gum tree" is, like, a well-known traditional melody... that just happened to still be in copyright. A bit like if, until recently, you'd included "Happy Birthday" in a song. Like, everyone sings Happy Birthday, it's a well-known traditional melody that you'd be forgiven for not knowing that, until fairly recently, it was actually in copyright. I feel "Kookaburra" is a similar case. It's a modern "traditional song", that folks might not even realise that it is still technically within copyright, particularly with its prevalence. I mean, the law is the law. So there was every right in bringing the lawsuit on a copyrighted track. But, ah, you know, in reality - as with "Happy Birthday", which was sung by everyone everywhere all the time, whilst still in copyright - folks don't realise how new a song actually is and wrongly presume it's centuries old, so well out of copyright by now, surely?
@Snommelp6 ай бұрын
I remember when Rich Girl came out, and I would sing Fiddler on the Roof and people asked me why I was singing a Gwen Stefani song.
@pvanukoff6 ай бұрын
I didn't copy my friend's homework, I just "interpolated" it.
@ghestenoliveira16866 ай бұрын
man, you're sick
@davidsummerville3516 ай бұрын
Lol, very cool comment! 😂😅
@watersucker50566 ай бұрын
But you should still give credit to your friend in the homework
@shawnhughes20366 ай бұрын
As long as you’ve got it, right!
@Guilhem746 ай бұрын
Just don't sample your friend's homework!
@EdgarRoock6 ай бұрын
“It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.” - Jean-Luc Godard
@rdspam6 ай бұрын
Where you take it from probably cares. As does the copyright office.
@nicodelpino7976 ай бұрын
British Museum is that you?
@munkymunk6 ай бұрын
"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." - Jean-Luc Picard
@MikeDial6 ай бұрын
Elvis was famous for interpolation. O Sole Mio became It's Now or Never, Plaisir d'Amour became I Can't Help Falling In Love (WIth You) and Aura Lee became Love Me Tender.
@nathanweiss51746 ай бұрын
Elvis didn't write his songs, as most pop artists of the time... Instead record companies had teams of song writers like session musicians, so interpolation makes a lot of sense. As does many of the songs Elvis made hits being done by other artists first... if the song fails with them, Elvis will make it a hit... Luckily for Elvis, he was famous for several other things instead. 😆
@DMSProduktions6 ай бұрын
@@nathanweiss5174 Such as...
@xoxb26 ай бұрын
Those strike me as slightly different, because they come from different traditions. Putting words in your language to a tune from another language is different from recycling a tune that's already sold well in your own tradition. The one strikes me as cosmopolitan, the other as a stale rip-off.
@toddpacker46835 ай бұрын
@@DMSProduktionsmost of his hits, can’t help falling in love being one example
@DMSProduktions5 ай бұрын
@@toddpacker4683 Wasn't what I meant, but E only put his hands into a couple of the songs! He wasn't really a songwriter.
@JMaxfield096 ай бұрын
David Bowie quoted "I heard the news today, oh boy" from "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles into his song, "Young Americans."
@martinwarne6 ай бұрын
I heard that on the radio last night a few hours after watching this video.
@tonybates78705 ай бұрын
Yep. That's interpolation right there. And both are great songs.
@Bladavia6 ай бұрын
I guess you could just call it "quoting" like jazz musicians do.
@petergivenbless9006 ай бұрын
Yes, most of the examples used here I would call quotes; an interpolation involves combining one theme with another through counterpoint, or interspersed within another melody, borrowing a bassline but inventing new music upon could also qualify as interpolation.
@johns9506 ай бұрын
Can I quote you on that?
@quardlepleen6 ай бұрын
A quote should be a part of the melody, not lifting the entire melody.
@HoraceMash6 ай бұрын
This is also known as “stealing” by some IP lawyers, I believe
@cjay26 ай бұрын
Or 'copying' or 'ripping off'.
@cakemartyr57946 ай бұрын
One example has to be "Talk" by Coldplay, interpolated from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love". The iconic keyboard riff is moved to a guitar. Coldplay famously wrote to Kraftwerk to ask permission, and got an envelope back with a piece of paper inside with just the word YES on it. Both are excellent in my view, and I'm not a Coldplay fan at all.
@d.c.88286 ай бұрын
Absolutely PERFECT example!
@Nora-di9pw6 ай бұрын
Jay-Z’s “sunshine” interpolated Kraftwerks “man machine”. Don’t know if he asked for permission tho 😂
@IncredibleGoliath6 ай бұрын
In fairness Coldplay's question may as well have been "do you want some more money?"
@cakemartyr57946 ай бұрын
@@IncredibleGoliath Haha! Well that's the cynical view. Perhaps Coldplay just wanted to get it above board rather than go through legal shenanigans.
@isabeld.paredes49235 ай бұрын
Speaking of Kraftwerk, the keyboard riff from Trans Europe Express was interpolated on Planet Rock (1982) by the Soul Sonic Force, led by Afrika Bambataa, one of the first hip hop records released during the first wave of breakdance mania which would skyrocket to huge amounts of popularity in 1983
@thealextrifier6 ай бұрын
I frickin love this series. Keep it up David.
@DavidBennettPiano6 ай бұрын
😊😊😊😊
@ziggystardog6 ай бұрын
My understanding is Dr. Dre is said to have preferred re-recording “samples” for better control over the sound, but methinks other motives were in play.
@AntonyStrus6 ай бұрын
I completely agree. But financial "control over the sound" is still the most valuable control!
@klaxoncow6 ай бұрын
In fairness, it DOES give you better control of the sound within the recording. Like you can control the mix and EQ on the individual parts that you can't do with a sample (actually, with AI isolating tracks, you probably could do that now, but not traditionally so). BUT, sure, the primary "control" he's probably coveting is financial, then the control of the sound comes a healthy second to that.
@BarrackObamna6 ай бұрын
What else do you do when your entire producer catalogue is remixing a better musicians work? Funkadelic made NWA. Thank George Clinton and Bootsy for 70% of all music made in rap or pop after 1990
@Ytterdahls3 ай бұрын
Many motives were in play. But Dr Dre made it his own sound when doing that.
@deejaysilver96 ай бұрын
Eric Prydz’ “Call On Me” is based on Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” and originally used a sample, but Steve liked it so much re-recorded his vocals for the song
@bailzzzzzz6 ай бұрын
Radiohead 'Creep' and 'The air that I breathe' Comes to mind. It's an interesting one, because they've interpolated from the Hollie's version which isn't the original to begin with; and so ended up settling credits with Albert Hammond for the original, even though they'd ironically probably never even heard that version. Then Lana Del Rey interpolated Creep with 'Get Free' - creating a unique situation of an interpolated song three times removed from the original. Lord knows how they'd decide royalties on that one
@agnieszkaczerwinska66406 ай бұрын
very interesting bit of information 👌🏻
@guascamsb81386 ай бұрын
I'm guessing this "unique situation" is not that unique... 😅
@bailzzzzzz6 ай бұрын
@@guascamsb8138 possibly not but Albert Hammond sued Radiohead, and Radiohead sued Lana del Rey - so I don't know of any other examples where both songs have ended up in a lawsuit over credits.
@Conhill20016 ай бұрын
Excellent video and a real eye opener I'll be happy for 'Another 13 songs that Interpolate other songs..' when you're ready.
@26acorn346 ай бұрын
The blue Monday/shut up and drive interpolation blew my mind when I first found out about it-then I couldn’t unhear it. glad you included that one!
@5fold7084 ай бұрын
AFAIK Shut Up And Drive actually samples a Blue Monday cover version by Orgy. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l7CKh8mdmKrRc4k.html
@sabrinar12416 ай бұрын
For anyone interested in musical theatre examples, Michael in the Bathroom from Be More Chill interpolates I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston and I Don’t Need Your Love from Six interpolates Independent Woman by Destiny’s Child
@stanadams54645 ай бұрын
I can't believe no one has mentioned "All Summer Long" and "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama"
@DilieMC6 ай бұрын
Please more interpolation videos, this was so interesting!
@rickhacook99846 ай бұрын
Kid Rock - All Summer Long. Singing about singing "Sweet Home Alabama" and using its riff... while also using the riff from "Werewolves Of London".
@toddpacker46835 ай бұрын
Now that songs just lazy
@rickhacook99845 ай бұрын
👍🏻
@michelfouche45996 ай бұрын
As someone with a maths degree, i would call most of these example extrapolation rather than interpolation.
@user-en6tz3iy1z6 ай бұрын
I don't have a math degree but none of these examples match the mathematical ideas of extrapolation nor interpolation. extrapolation is extending something beyond it's range, and interpolation is completing something within it's range when you dont have all of the data. in music terms, extrapolation would be adding to a song a part that should go before the intro or after the outro, and interpolation would be adding something to the middle of a song.
@yesspazsmith98956 ай бұрын
Can you tackle "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas interpolating/ripping-off "I'm Going to Leave You" by Journey? Journey opened for Kansas in 1975 and played the song as a work in progress. "Look into the Future" came out in January 1976, and "Leftoeverture" came out in October 1976.
@jmurray9116 ай бұрын
A great interpolation is Sugarbabes “Freak like me” which repurposed Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric”. I love the original but the slightly faster tempo and more modern synth sounds in Sugarbabes version are great too.
@jiggyprawn6 ай бұрын
And is in turn, a cover of the Adina Howard version, which interpolates a Bootsy Collins track!
@stoatystoat1746 ай бұрын
Numan really rated the sugerbabes interpolation too
@APH19916 ай бұрын
@@jiggyprawn. Didn't the Bootsy song sample another song?
@danpreston5646 ай бұрын
That’s an example of a 'mashup'. It’s like 2 cover versions in 1. The words are a cover of the Adina Howard song and the music is Are Friends Electric. The track started as a mashup using all the original but the producer (Richard X) couldn’t get permission to release it with the sampled vocals, so he got the vocals re-recorded and released it as a Sugababes track.
@jiggyprawn6 ай бұрын
@@APH1991 I don't know. I'm not very familiar with his work.
@mihali96556 ай бұрын
One of my fave: “I’m So Sexy” by Right Said Fred interpolating Hendrix’s “Third Stone from the Sun”…it’s in there. Subtle but there.
@nickrodmusic5 ай бұрын
Really?
@DeeDee-fi4kq6 ай бұрын
Now, when I try to remember a song and start hearing it in my head, my neural implant recognizes that as an interpolation of a protected song and sends a copyright strike violation report to the holder and also debits my bank account accordingly.
@Baa9752 ай бұрын
Haha this is perfect.
@aahansel6 ай бұрын
Take Me Home Tonight, Eddie Money “The song's chorus interpolates the Ronettes' 1963 hit "Be My Baby", with original vocalist Ronnie Spector providing uncredited vocals and reprising her role.” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home_Tonight_(song))
@drfsupercenter6 ай бұрын
I noticed in some of my compilation albums (like the Now That's What I Call Classic Rock and such) it's credited as "Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby", I wonder if that was a legal thing done after the fact because he didn't give Ronnie Spector credit originally. I mean, it should have been fairly obvious, he does what Mariah Carey does in David's example and says "Just like Ronnie says" before she sings "be my little baby"
@rdspam6 ай бұрын
Just like Ronnie says…
@JaredtheRabbit6 ай бұрын
Thanks KZfaq, for making the link impossible to use. 😂
@kkfoto6 ай бұрын
@@JaredtheRabbit It's because the link above has a couple of extra parentheses. Try this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home_Tonight_(song)
@JaredtheRabbit6 ай бұрын
That works perfectly! Thank you, @@kkfoto
@rome81806 ай бұрын
On the Dresden Dolls' first album, Amanda Palmer has a couple clever moments of interpolation. The reason I call them "clever" is that they rise organically out of the lyrics. In "Good Day," she sings "I'd like to do more than survive, I'd like to rub it in your face." At the moment she sings this, the music and melody match up with Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." Similarly, in a later track called "Jeep Song," she is lamenting about frequently seeing cars that remind her of her ex-lover's red Jeep. She sings "I see a red Jeep and I want to paint it black." At that moment, the music matches the verse of "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones. The reason I like these two examples is that neither feels like an arbitrary reference for reference's sake. Both completely fit the story, mood, and harmony of the song. It feels like she was writing lyrics and realized she could incorporate the reference, rather than building her song around the reference the way some of these other examples seem to have originated. It feels closer to the Mariah Carey example than the Train example.
@WayneKitching6 ай бұрын
The Madonna song "Cherish" quotes the opening line of the 60s song "Cherish" by the band The Association.
@RhymesWithCarbon6 ай бұрын
I think we could say “whiter shade of pale” by procol harum is a good interpolation of “air” by Bach. There’s an incredible Ava Max/Bon Jovi mashup on KZfaq.
@wasteghost6 ай бұрын
also the ending of "build god then we'll talk" by panic at the disco interpolates "my favourite things" in very cooool way!
@iantaakalla81805 ай бұрын
Unfortunately, their usage of “Rock Lobster” in “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” cancels that out
@Symphonicrockfran6 ай бұрын
The Beatles "All My Loving" begins with a melody from Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Kathy Waltz" (the last piano line before Paul Desmond's first solo)
@prkp72486 ай бұрын
Also in "In my life" there is Pachelbel cannon.
@fromchomleystreet6 ай бұрын
I think it’s a stretch to describe either of these as “interpolation”. The word implies intent - a conscious decision to quote another work within your own. There is a resemblance here for sure. But in the case of “All my Loving”, it’s way too much of a generic melodic movement - just going down the major scale and then up again to resolve on the tonic - to conclude it’s anything more than a coincidence. Why would anybody deliberately “quote” something this non-distinctive and unremarkable? As for “In My Life”, sure the chord sequence is a little reminiscent of Pachebel’s Canon in D, just like a thousand other pop songs are. But it’s not the same. Martin was clearly trying to evoke a generic “baroque” sound in the piano solo, and one of the guys he would be looking to for inspiration would be Pachelbel. But he doesn’t directly quote him, which is what an interpolation is.
@maetzchenmusik6 ай бұрын
@@prkp7248 No, don't confuse style with a specific opus.
@martifingers6 ай бұрын
I agree with @@fromchomleystreet . But maybe we could say that the Beatles did employ interpolation in eg the use of La Marseillaise at the beginning of All You Need Is Love and the same song's use of "In The Mood"," Greensleeves" and their own "She Loves You" at the end. Also George Harrison's use of "Sorrow" by the Merseys in All Too Much etc. etc. Like most stuff in popular music The Beatles will have done it somewhere (I am only half joking.)
@fromchomleystreet6 ай бұрын
@@martifingers Oh, the Beatles used interpolation, for sure. “All you need is love” is a clear example.
@konstkaras6 ай бұрын
I would call it just "quoting". Interpolating in mathematics is composing a function (basically, a polynomial) based on several values (in several points) of some original function. Solution of similar musical task would be rather interesting.
@WogerWaaabbit6 ай бұрын
Excellently researched examples and as always, well presented.
@DavidBennettPiano6 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it!
@jschof916 ай бұрын
"Rockollection" by Laurent Voulzy, a French number 1 in 1977, is about 4 and a half minutes of this.
@jimroland28606 ай бұрын
Nile Rodgers has said in interview that he was sure Rapper's Delight DID sample the recording of Good Times, in particular compare string motif at 4.19 on Rapper's Delight 12" to 3.47 on Good Times.
@nataliesiagkris-seymour69246 ай бұрын
Joni Mitchell's "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody" interpolates Unchained Melody and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, in the same way as in the Mariah Carey example- "We'd be Playing, 'You give your love so sweetly,' one more time". But the COOL THING IS Joni sang on the original Carole King recording of WYSLMT
@plasticpalace6 ай бұрын
One of my favorite examples is Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody by Joni Mitchell.
@psychonaut6896 ай бұрын
Joni Mitchell interpolated, too, Jingle Bells in River (i believe it was called)
@mgbchoralmusic64435 ай бұрын
Fantastic song!
@the_stefo6 ай бұрын
I love your videos! I love your explanations of the differences and the similaritys, and almost always there's a new song going into my playlist after watching your videos!
@DavidBennettPiano6 ай бұрын
Excellent 😀😀
@CameronRPowell6 ай бұрын
I actually learned this definition of interpolation from the liner notes of Fall Out Boy’s "Infinity On High" album! They interpolate Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in their song Hum Hallelujah
@XanBcoo6 ай бұрын
Islands in the Stream was interpolated to Ghetto Superstar. It's the song that taught me about the practice. Also Amish Paradise being a parody of an interpolation is so good. How many layers deep can you go?
@danpreston5646 ай бұрын
Billy Joel used the melody and harmony from the second movement of Beethoven's Sonata 'Pathétique for the chorus of This Night from An Innocent Man album. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine were successfully (I think) sued by The Rolling Stones for using the words 'Goodbye Ruby Tuesday', not even the melody or the harmony from the song, in their 1991 song 'After the Watershed'. I think the same song also interpolated the bass riff from Satisfaction.
@rdspam6 ай бұрын
Big difference, of course, is that Beethoven is public domain.
@howtodoitdude16626 ай бұрын
@@rdspamand Billy also gave Beethoven credit 😂
@Neli425 ай бұрын
@howtodoitdude1662 The composers David covered in the video here also gave the original songwriters credit. I don't think that's the differentiation for interpolation. [edits: typos]
@Neli425 ай бұрын
He also used Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" at the beginning of "Goodnight Saigon."
@danpreston5645 ай бұрын
@@Neli42 I have never noticed, and listening now, I can’t hear it. Is it very low in the mix?
@davetissue6 ай бұрын
another example i thought of is the 2017 hit Feel It Still by Portugal. The Man, which interpolated the 1961 hit Please Mr. Postman by The Marvelettes ^
@directamplification6 ай бұрын
My favorite interpolation is Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) by Patti Smith, which heavily interpolates the chorus and instrumental backing to Gloria by Them.
@whycantiremainanonymous80916 ай бұрын
A melody from The Lion Sleeps Tonight (which has its own convoluted history) was interpolated into REMs The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.
@atanvardecunambiel89175 ай бұрын
“The Guitar” by They Might Be Giants also started as a jam of The Lion Sleeps Tonight
@ix830Ай бұрын
So well done. I enjoy the use of sheet music to make the comparison
@faustbos6 ай бұрын
All By Myself by Eric Carmen also credits Sergei Rachmaninoff and with very good reason. I actually never know that Rachmaninoff was credited but just looked it up.
@driesvanoosten44176 ай бұрын
I don't think it is a coincidence that I hate most of the examples that you use. I respect the practice of sampling, I also respect covering a song (as long as you give it a clear new feel). In most of the examples though, the use of a well known piece of music is not meant as an homage, but feels more like a cheap way to score some recognition.
@XanBcoo6 ай бұрын
He explained why it's literally not cheap. They still have to pay for the composition,and they still transform the work. I wish people would stop thinking of music as a competition. Though you're allowed to dislike what you want.
@DjVortex-w6 ай бұрын
I think that "Pump It" by the Black Eyed Peas interpolates Dick Dale's "Misirlou", which itself interpolates an older folk song.
@andersjjensen6 ай бұрын
Dick Dale's Misirlou is either a heavily adapted version of Egyptian Girl, or a separate song that is heavily inspired by it. From a legal standpoint it's different enough to qualify as its own thing, but since Misirlou literally means "Egyptian Girl" many think of it as the former. The point is moot, though, as it is long since out of copyright (in fact, it was written long before anybody had any notion of copyright).
@frtzkng5 ай бұрын
God I feel like such a hipster saying that I prefer the 1920s recording of that folk song
@Xerxes20055 ай бұрын
"Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones was covered in the 80's by Soft Cell and its accompaniments were interpolated by Fine Young Cannibals in "Good Things." The chorus from "If You could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot was used in Whitney Houston's "The greatest Love of All."
@i.setyawan6 ай бұрын
I come from a STEM background, and my initial expectation of "interpolation" was a bit different, heheh. Anyway, great video as always.
@ellaser936 ай бұрын
How about the chorus to "I Really Don't Care" by Demi Lavato vs. "Shadows of the Night" by Pat Benetar? That's one of my favorite examples.
@jrpipik6 ай бұрын
My question is: can the original artist (or his publisher) just say no, you can't use my song?
@Baa9752 ай бұрын
Absolutely
@jrpipik2 ай бұрын
@@Baa975 Good. I'm surprised some of these artists allow their work to be used this way.
@jsizemo6 ай бұрын
I don’t know if this counts as “interpolation”, but another famous rock track, the Doors “Light my fire”, also based on the chord progression of “My Favorite Things”, mostly inspired by John Coltrane’s instrumental recording.
@ralelunar6 ай бұрын
boygenius's "Cool About It" interpolates S&G's "The Boxer," and both songs are amazing
@adamfogel57186 ай бұрын
interpolition is just sampling trying to clean up it's act
@Arycke6 ай бұрын
Interpolation
@hihihihihihi0525 күн бұрын
More like plagiarising
@mackermaldrill26566 ай бұрын
Does anyone write original material anymore?
@musicophileph5 ай бұрын
woah! I love Train and specifically love the song "Play that song" The amount of research you put into this is astounding! I've been watching your videos for quite a while now especially the ones where you talk about the Beatles....
@horstborscht74016 ай бұрын
Interestingly, the strings from the „Dernier Domicile Connu“ film were also sampled by both Missy Eliot on „All ´N My Grill“ and Mix Master Mike on „Surprize Packidge“, both released in 1999. Maybe that‘s where Robbie‘s songwriting team got the idea.
@TheJohtunnBandit5 ай бұрын
These videos have proved instrumental in the noteworthy improvements in my compositions.
@stevenmayoff60436 ай бұрын
I always wondered if the opening melody of the Joe Jackson song Breaking Us in Two, where he sings “Don’t you feeling trying something new” interpolates the opening melody of Badfinger’s song Day After Day, where they sing “I remember finding out about you.”
@isabeld.paredes49235 ай бұрын
Both songs are good 👍👍👍👍👍👍
@tanggod6 ай бұрын
So the difference interpolation and plagiarism is whether the original writers and composers got credit in the new version?
@MrXyzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz5 ай бұрын
More or less. Plagiarism is where the later artist passes the work off as his own, rather than acknowledging the earlier work.
@Whitestripe716 ай бұрын
A really great, and perhaps unusual, example of interpolation is in Queen's quite brilliant song 'It's a Hard Life' - the intro is based on an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.
@ludvikhusek6 ай бұрын
Great video! I had no idea about these melodies being interpelated.
@IsaHeinrichs5 ай бұрын
These interpolations drive me completely wild. I always hear them when listening to music and repeating the part over and over trying to figure out where the interpolation cones from. The strangest I've found must be the Beat from the song "Alles neu" by german singer Peter Fox in the song "The Phoenix" by Fall Out Boy
@lawrencetaylor41016 ай бұрын
Wouldn't Ave Maria be an interpolation of Prélude in C by Bach?
@drumming_cat6 ай бұрын
Like the Ave Maria by Bach/Gounod?
@jcarty1236 ай бұрын
Not if you mean Schubert's ;)
@drumming_cat6 ай бұрын
@@jcarty123 i mean there are a million other ave marias that don't use bach
@chaseshaw91305 ай бұрын
Great vid. Answered a bunch of questions I've asked before in my head.
@paullackey88136 ай бұрын
Fascinating stuff. I grew up listening to music from Papua New Guinea. While none of the stuff I listened to regularly did it, it was quite common for some artists to interpolate melodies from famous Western songs. Examples I remember hearing included “Can’t help falling in love with you” by Elvis, “Heart of Glass” by Blondie, “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, and “Fernando” by ABBA. Needless to say, none of those artists ever got royalties (or even knew the interpolations existed). I’d be curious if this also is common in other third world country music industries.
@eyesofchild3 ай бұрын
What a great video! Thank you David!!
@svivian5 ай бұрын
My favourite is the Queens of the Stone Age song “You’re So Vague” being an interpolation/reimagining of “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon.
@allenshively63746 ай бұрын
Comparing Bad Company’s opening lines that are also repeated throughout the song Bad Company to Joni Mitchell’s opening and repeated lines in her original piano version of Woodstock I have always felt as though they were copied and then repurposed.
@Simbosan6 ай бұрын
Another simply masterful one is Joni Mitchell's Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody. It has such a good reason too, it's reminiscing about listening to Unchained Melody in a cafe as a young person. Just perfectly done
@mikeprice256 ай бұрын
You could do a whole video on replayed tracks (and the group that have become to go to ones for it in the UK) - but specifically for when the original samplers wanted more control over a sample. Chemical Brothers - We Got To Try has this exact effect because they wanted to use more of the vocal in the track but couldn't mix it well enough, so the replay meant they could isolate parts they needed.
@gavinkaufmanworld6 ай бұрын
Another fantastic video! Thanks so much David 😁
@anthonyrodriguez79506 ай бұрын
Great explanation, and insightful examples - top notch content, as always!
@karabearcomics5 ай бұрын
Music videos always make me think of how Pink Floyd might be able to fit into their purview. For them, I know Syd Barrett had the more likely times of interpolation. "Interstellar Overdrive", for instance, has its main riff, which I know people have compared to a bit of the theme song to the show Steptoe and Son. But looking past his era, "One of These Days" has been pointed out to have a bit of the Doctor Who theme song in it. But there's also instances of what are really more of rewrites, but I wanted to mention them: "Breathe" from Dark Side of the Moon shares a title and opening line with the earlier Roger Waters solo song "Breathe" from Music from the Body (a soundtrack collaboration with Ron Geesin, though the two primarily didn't appear on the others' songs), and there's also an interesting instance of Roger giving Marianne Faithfull a song he'd written called "Incarceration of a Flower Child", which opens with a line that can be found in "Your Possible Pasts" from the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut (which was basically a Roger Waters solo album anyways). I mean, another Floyd song which has involvement with interpolation is "Fearless (Interpolating You'll Never Walk Alone)" from Meddle, but that seems more of a sample, as the "interpolated" bit was recorded from the crowd at a soccer game, and they likely had no idea they were even being recorded, let alone for a Pink Floyd album. Thinking of Roger, though, he did also interpolate during his solo career. Particularly I can think of the song "Folded Flags" (from the When the Wind Blows soundtrack), which interpolated the song "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix.
@Mourour6 ай бұрын
"Are friends electric" by Gary Numan was used by Sugababes in "Freak Like Me" - but that may be a case of sampling.
@marcosolari60383 ай бұрын
My favourite song that includes two interpolations is Push It by Garbage - Obviously, Push It by Salt n Pepa and Don’t Worry Baby by the Beach Boys. Shirley Manson recorded the Beach Boys line after they were going to use a sample of Brian Wilson. When they have performed it live they often use the sample in the background to accompany Shirley
@composer73255 ай бұрын
Excellent, David, thank you.
@_what._.5 ай бұрын
Amazing video. Thank you so much to the KZfaq algorithm for blessing me today lol
@andreytsyganov73214 ай бұрын
Are there combinations of notes, note values, and rhythms that have not yet been discovered that can make a melody? What percentage of mathematically possible melodies have already been touched throughout the history of music?
@Phobero6 ай бұрын
The song The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis interpolates On Broadway by the Drifters near the end
@aaronclift6 ай бұрын
That’s right, and on the same album, Genesis interpolated “It’s Only Rock and Roll” by The Rolling Stones (on the closing song, “It”).
@sallybradshaw457629 күн бұрын
I absolutely flipped in high school when I realized Skee-Lo's "I Wish" interpolates "For What It's Worth"
@pablov19736 ай бұрын
I'm thinking on M2M "Our song" that quote the entire chorus from "Too much heaven" by Bee Gees. It's not sampling because they sing the song and the instrumental are re-recorded, it's much more than a simple interpolation of a couple of bars and certainly it's not a cover version, the develop an entire new song based on that chorus.
@Frahamen6 ай бұрын
It just proofs how underpayed session musicians are if it's so much cheaper to replay it.
@gredangeo6 ай бұрын
Session musicians are also only a 1-time fee I think. That's why they're cheaper. Writing the music and owning the recording of the music is how to make money. The studio doesn't really care who they hire for a random name to record stuff. Any monkey that can keep tempo will do.
@psifiusc6 ай бұрын
My preference for any form of referencing another work is when it serves a creative artistic purpose, which sampling rarely does. Three examples of this in reference to interpolations are: Metallica "quotes" America from West Side Story in Don't Tread On Me, inviting the listener to think more deeply about the themes of the song. Michael Jackson interpolates and overlays two sounds -- a drum fill and a strings hit -- from Yes's Owner Of A Lonely Heart in his song DS so that when it makes you think of that song title, it leads you to add your own commentary to the personality of the main character of DS. On his new album I/O, Peter Gabriel begins his life-doesn't-last-forever song Playing For Time with Chopin's Funeral March. I like to see artists be clever and trust the intelligence of their listeners when they use these kinds of tools.
@J3ff_K1ng6 ай бұрын
Amen brother has 2 interpolation (and one I think is right next to the break)
@MrVox178296 ай бұрын
another song that interpolates a song is Alice Chater's "Hourglass" which has a bass interpolation from a song by The Human League called "Don't You Want Me"
@MrAyla6 ай бұрын
Also known as the folk process. We are all borrowing, right? Interpolation is what we all do. We hear a thing and reconnect the parts and make something new. Sampling, folk music, rock n roll, hip hop? It’s what we have always done. Take something old and make it new
@markbowman28904 ай бұрын
The Moody Blues had a hit song titled 'Tuesday Afternoon' from which a section sounded a lot like a small part in one of the songs used in 'West Side Story'. I may be wrong but I am sure I heard some similarities.
@d3ltabrav05 ай бұрын
I'd love to see you go down the rabbit hole with all the times the incredible bongo band Apache and the Lion Sleep tonight were used or interpolated.
@musicappreciate6 ай бұрын
Sugarloaf “Don’t Call Us, We’ll call You.” Super oldie. They play the main riff from “I Feel Fine” and even lyrically tip the hat to 3 of the Beatles
@musicappreciate6 ай бұрын
But “I feel fine” also used sequence. Thanks David.
@johncrisman34006 ай бұрын
There also a tip of the hat to Stevie Wonder's "Superstition" clavinet riff at about 2:40 into the song.
@musicappreciate6 ай бұрын
@@johncrisman3400 I forgot that one
@rozzgrey8016 ай бұрын
Joybringer by Manfred Man is a rock interpolation of Holst's Jupiter with lyrics added, and it's brilliant!
@CarlSmithNZ6 ай бұрын
Another classic is "Doin' Time" by Sublime (1997) which interpolates George Gershwin's "Summertime" in a really nice way. Then "Doin' Time"' was itself covered by Lana Del Rey, but that's more of a straight cover than an additional interpolation.
@grimtapestry55856 ай бұрын
So, interpolation is basically at the heart of the intellectual property theft vs musical motifs & chord progressions being common.
@spameranne6 ай бұрын
this. so much. I'm sorry but no one owns the rights to the key of C. no one owns the rights to the feeling engendered by a progression from Am to Dm suiting a song better than Am to G.
@MariUSukulele6 ай бұрын
Great episode! Danke
@HouseOod6 ай бұрын
Joe Jackson's Ever After starts with Love Here To Stay. Breaking Us in Two starts with Day by Day. Is She Really Going Out With Him is from Leader of the Pack. He also does answer songs.
@ZER0--6 ай бұрын
I had an advert before the video and it was this guy on it! Algorithmic man.
@annoschreier18606 ай бұрын
'Lazyitis' by the Happy Mondays interpolates melodic and lyric elements from 'Ticket To Ride' and 'Two Of Us' (the "on our way home" bit).
@johns9506 ай бұрын
And quotes David Essex, "we're - gon-na make you - a star-ar-ar-ah".
@janekalbinsky6 ай бұрын
So, a moral question then: is interpolation laziness, creative bankruptcy, paying homage, trying to make a quick buck, or a totally valid form of artistic expression?
@toddhoustein5 ай бұрын
Yes 😂
@arekkrolak63204 ай бұрын
good, clear explanation of sampling vs interpretation! - next time you could explain the difference between a building and an airplane
@wideangle072 ай бұрын
You Raise Me Up by Westlife has elements of Wind Beneath My Wings and Lean On Me in it.
@j-brain6 ай бұрын
great research. i think it's important to expose this. i personally feel that when there is copying, interpolating, covering, it should be required to release with song with the original source creators credited in the title.
@Zveebo6 ай бұрын
Nah, that’s way too extreme. A songwriting credit is perfectly sufficient (and in cases like the Mariah Carey example, arguably /more/ than generous)
@antomcmanus17756 ай бұрын
I don't know the original composers sold the rights . Composer's don't get credit every album of a celebrity....finus (Billie's brother) is the only composer openly flaunted by the singer who says nah it's all his brain .. personally I think composer's overall need more worship...in all circumstances v the performer
@j-brain6 ай бұрын
@@antomcmanus1775 i agree and would go further with this even. as a person who has written songs and recorded them by myself on occasion and with others on occasion, I recognize the impact someone else's input has. someone else's bass line can make an ok song, great. i could never image taking all the credit and naming a group effort after one person like: taylor swift, harry styles, or even Billie Eilish. At least finneas' contribution is promoted but i still think it should not be under the name billie eilish or any of those "solo" pop stars, unless they are actually doing all of the writing and performing all by themselves. the front person automatically gets too much credit. Even if they are the main songwriter, how good would that melody and lyric be without that amazing drum part, or guitar solo etc.