De la Soul sample. Breakadawn I Can't Help It by Michael Jackson’s. And Sang and Dance by Bar-Kays (1970). And A Quiet Storm by Smokey Robinson (1975)

Hey, srsly, try giving this a look now that' you're talking aboot sampling. How music was made on the Super Nintendo SNES kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNx5raxyzLi7hmQ.html

Hi, Dave! A couple of years ago there was a kind of dance hit taking the bass line from Pink Floyd's "The Happiest Days of Our Lives", can you tell me the title of that song, please?

Hi David, thank you for your great videos. I have a really good suggestion for a video. More and more people are noticing that "Home" by Dream Theater, the bassline and main guitarriff, seems very "borrowed" from Tool's "46 And 2". I would love to see you compare the two. I think many would. Thank you.

Drop it like it’s hot has the same beat as Toto by Africa does

And it's a good God Damn sample

​@Granite Overworld I've started coming around on pop music as I get older but Toxic was still a guilty pleasure when I was a teenager. It's a straight up banger. Well written song.

Insider has a breakdown video of Toxic’s sampling three years ago. It’s quite fascinating. m.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mdBmdqeayL-XfoE.html

Perfect example. I had always thought it was an interpolation but it seems to be an actual sample-or, really, _three_ samples-from “Tere Mere Beech Mein.“ _See_ “Sample Breakdown: Britney Spears - Toxic” on the *Tracklib* channel on KZfaq. _Edit:_ This comment below on “How Bollywood Gave Britney Spears Her Greatest Hit” indicates that that famous hook _was_ an interpolation so the sample breakdown is merely showing how the original was rearranged: “Toxic actually exposes a huge flaw in how non-Western music copyright worked at the time (and how Western artists could exploit it). In many Asian music markets at the time, nobody owned the actual sheet music composition of their songs. They or their record/movie/production companies only owned the sound recording. Since the strings on Toxic are actually a re-recording based on the original Bollywood track played by Stockholm Session Strings, nobody owned the copyright for composition, and no credit was needed or given for the original Bollywood piece.”

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"songs you didnt know sampled other songs" ???

Kanye you sampled others work for your own you're not a real artist. Make those noises from scratch to make beats like real musicians do. 😗

@@brodyquestionmark Yeah, I'm just talking that ish for fun. 😉

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they went so crazy on face to face that they needed to go easy on harder, better, stronger, faster to keep their insanity

Face to face actually has 18 samples

and after harder better faster stronger was made Kanye sampled that song a third time

@@otsu3011 known samples lol, iirc they never stated how many they actually used. 18 is just the number we know of.

@@emray372 there is video with all the samples used lol

Fancy seeing you here Leo!

Thats how the Rolling Stones ended up with all the royalties and rights to bitter sweet symphony by the verve.

There is a video of FatBoySlim doing a breakdown of a few of his tracks. He says a couple of times ''I'll just cover up these 3 beats here, so you can't read them' And goes to play a single sample, stops it and says "I can't play you that, because they haven't asked for money yet' Classic. Seeing people make music like this to me, is pure magic. I know how it's done, but every time it hits me like wizardry.

Until the eighties/nineties hip hop craze

@@matthewweaver1123 Specifically Jagger and Richards, and what makes that even more ludicrous is that the sample used in _Bitter Sweet Symphony_ is a completely original arrangement from a cover version of the Stones song

Cool!

@@DavidBennettPiano The Omnichord delivered also the basic patterns of "Playing God" by Polyphia. That's what Tim Henson told.

An Omnichord rhythm also forms the main backing loop of Brian Eno’s “Deep Blue Day” (best known for its use in Trainspotting). Eno being Eno, of course, he slowed it down to half speed on tape, giving it a dreamy, underwater sound.

It was nice that Damon confirmed it, but the Omnichord preset has been known for several years. Here's a 15-second clip of the Rock 1 pattern from six years ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iK98haWAsJu4eJs.html

Trio's Da da da is a classic example of this. A guy at school had the same mini-keyboard and was always being asked to put that rhythm on.

No offense, but that's pretty transparent indeed. Not a very hidden sample, especially given the Disco tone of the whole album.

Also "On the floor" by J-Lo who took inspiration from "Lambada" of Kaoma

Notably, Madonna is the only artist ever who has been given permission to sample one of ABBA's tracks.

No shit

@@hoodiegal both have been stingy with samples.. Madonna didn't clear any until 2020 when she let the Avalanches use the bassline of "Holiday" for the streaming release of "Since I Left You"

And all of that before modern computing made it almost trivial.

i was shocked at how many he uses and where they came from. there is a great deconstruction vid of voodoo people. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bMCJf9Nm2r6dias.html

Hence the band's name. Howlett's peers often referred to him as a music prodigy, so he went with it. 😊

A true legend! From my hometown too, I used to see the guys driving about town. Early on Liam drove a Lotus Elan and then later Keith drove a lovely bright yellow TVR. They are a little older than me.

I didn't know that! That's really cool!

Same for pretty much most of the Thriller album by the way. Quincy Jones used a solid two bar loop from one of the drum takes to lay the foundation for all the uptempo songs on that album.

And suddenly I realise why my brain keeps automatically mashing those songs together

Along similar lines, "Don't Bring Me Down" by ELO reuses the drum track from "On The Run", a song on the same album "Discovery". The Stone Roses song "Don't Stop" is basically just "Waterfall" played backwards with a new vocal on top!

That is correct and the reason was that their drummer Dennis Bryon had a family emergency back in the UK and therefore could not lay down the drum track. So Karl Richardson and Albhy Galutten came up with the idea to make this Stayin' Alive drumroll out the Night Fever Session.

I have heard that there is about 3000 samples on that album its crazy

Came here to say this. Its a masterpiece

The height of plunderphonics. I’d love to hear David’s take on this album.

They even had the audacity to sample a Madonna bassline, which I don't think was actually credited on the initial release. (It may or may not get officially mentioned these days. See also De La Soul's issues with the re-release of 'Three Feet High & Rising' for another example of plunderphonics creating a brilliant album and a licensing nightmare).

The Avalanches are incredible.

There’s like over 30 iirc

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They are absolute gods at it, them and the Orb.

Can you link me to that video please?

@@karlronan7244 this guy does a number of them. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z5egfsKqv7TZgWg.html

That's Todd Edwards style and and he made the song basically lol daft punk didn't make that magic as far as I'm concerned. Todd might as well be the third member though, he's always been by daft punks side

@@karlronan7244 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oqiDitpot8q-fJ8.html

I caught that straightaway over 20 years ago.

I feel old now i realise how old the len song actually it.

​@@spindriftdrinker nope, the stones didn't care, it was the owner of the Orchestra copywrite that pushed it.

Blame Allen Klein for that - he was a real rat bastard (just ask George Harrison). When Jagger and Richards regained control over the song that was sampled, they gave the credit and royalties for "Bittersweet Symphony" back to the guy who wrote it.

It's not a sample. They stole it

​@@MrGonzonator a musical arranger does not own copyright of an arrangement made of a song. The Stones own the copyright

@@alexnobrasil3062 They licensed it, then Klein finked on them and took the writer's credit.

Yeah, until artists start sampling contemporary hits that came out the week prior

I found so many great jazz songs through music produced by Dr.dre. One of my favourites thst come to mind is I got the.. I think by Labi Sifre

An artist can be contemporary, even mainstream, and still 'unknown' to the listener in that they haven't really checked out their catalogue.

and it was not *until* several years later*

@@johnd5398 hahah, whoops, well, I can edit and fix it but then your assistance would appear to have been you making a mistake instead of me, so I'm just replying instead, haha

Came here to mention this... As a huge Clash fan, I heard it immediately. A friend of mine refused to believe it was a Clash sample until I played him the original.

@@haolekoa737 I was faced with the "prove it!" scenario at least twice after I learned this, though a 3rd person simply thought that was interesting and wanted me to play both songs back to back, at which point he realized he'd heard paper planes as bar background noise many times while having become a clash fan around the time (he's kinda the "purchase a band's entire catalogue in one go and then slowly explore it in Chronological release order" guy so he had also listened to Straight to hell many times by then, but he'd never heard the 2 songs close enough together to catch on. (To be fair, paper planes blew up as a hit and then disappeared faster than, well, a paper plane facing any kind of physical obstacle.) I actually was reminded a few days ago that Tainted Love, the big single for Soft Cell in the 80s (also one of marylin Manson's late 90s or early 00s singles) wasn't even an original in the 80s! It was a 60s Motown or soul recording by a woman who, based on the feel of that version, wasnt taking any more of some man's shit. That's not the impression I got from the nuances of the song when it filtered through the new wave sound of the era. (I heard the song was actually a big hit for manson as a cover, but I don't really remember hearing it-though it could've happened after I abandoned the fm radio as a listening option.)

True!

Yes, they're technically not loops, the tape plays, then rewinds/resets itself but you're picking some nits here though don't you think?

@@frankfrank7921 No, not at all because the limitation has a marked effect on what was possible with a Tron compared to more modern sample-playback machines or samplers

@@QuirqUK exactly, you can't sustain a note on a mellotron for longer than the length of the internal tape. Also, this video is talking about sampling parts of KNOWN songs and using those samples to create other songs. The mellotron was an instrument similar to the Fairlight CMI where it was a keyboard that had samples of instrument sounds and other sounds. Both were intended to be used in the studio for the creation of original music. Sampling a portion or large portions of a completed song bypasses coming up with a unique, beat, melody etc. Some of the biggest selling albums of the late 60s used the mellotron and they are not considered songs that used samples. There's nothing wrong with being inspired by a riff, break, melody etc. But it should be used to inspire. I've heard Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears talk about what inspired him on 2 of their big hits. He used Duran Duran's "Girls on Film" beat to inspire the drum/percussion arrangement of "Mad World". And he used a melody from a Talking Heads song to create the big hit "Shout". But we'd never recognize this because the inspiration was what sparked his creativity to write original music and lyrics. I think using samples of songs is pure laziness.

Ahem, Watcher of the Skies ;-)

Oh, I thought the schizoid man sample was Ozzy

Beat me to it, love 21st century schizoid man

another masterpiece of sampling in my language is Bocanada by Gustavo Cerati, one of My favourite records

While Don't Call Me Baby by Madison Avenue samples Ma Quale Idea which sampled Ain't No Stopping Us Now.

My woman's trumpet hook is sampled in many more songs in last century. Some say the imperial march from star wars is also sampled from that hook.

Also by Kontra K in „Oder nicht“

It would surprise me if Your Women by White Town is made of samples itself.

100% - I remember hearing somewhere about 10 years ago that it just couldn't be done "today" as the cost of all the licenses would far outweigh anything they earned in sales!

De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising came out just prior to Paul's Boutique and was made in the same vein. De La Soul's early catalogue was only made available on streaming services just recently (a few weeks ago, I think?), due in part to having to clear the use of the samples (among other things). And even then, they had to re-record some parts of the album and omit others because not everything was able to be cleared.

And Then The Prodigy sampled the Beastie Boys.

License to Ill has soo many samples as well

@@ROArecords2 and then everyone and their mother sampled the"YEAAAH!!" from The Beastie's Fight For Your Right.

Why fix what isn’t broken? If the new song sounds good without making major changes to the sample, then that’s how it should be. Music isn’t a competition to prove how good you are at composing, it’s about making things that people want to hear. If you think sampling is cheating, then that just proves you care less about the music itself and more about some perceived amount of “effort” you think went into it. If some bozo spent 3 minutes strumming the axis chords on a guitar would you think of that as more original than U Can’t Touch This? At what point does an idea become original when we all draw from the same musical tradition?

None of them are cheating because making music isn’t a game. You can’t cheat there’s no rules, with that said. There’s different levels of sampling

Biz Markie's treatment of *Alone Again (Naturally)* by Gilbert O'Sullivan is extremely low effort. Maybe "cheating" isn't a useful term in music, but some music is better than other music.

Singing new words over am older melody is something that has been standard music practice since forever. See for example Battle Hymn of the Republic being new words to John Brown's Body. The examples you gave as "cheating" (if someone wants to even call it that) are still more creative than a straightforward cover version, and I love cover versions. I still get surprised to learn about iconic songs turning out to be covers, it was only this year I found out Cyndi Lauper's Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun was a cover. And she even went on to release a slowed down reinterpretation of her own cover of a song nobody knows is a cover. It's all good. So long as credit and payment is made, go hog wild. If I cut all the covers and samples and remakes and "strongly influenced inspirations" out of my life there'd not be that much left.

There was a period in the 90s in the US where if you wanted to sample, say, two measures from a song, you had to pay as if you sampled the entire thing. A part of it could be a lack of creativity, but there's also the financial limitation.

The entire back catelog by de la soul is a master class

Vanilla Ice thought he would get away with it, Madonna right from the start gave ABBA half of the song writing credit and showered them with money. In fact the news was that she would use an ABBA sample even before the single was released, working as promotion of the song.

@@Schmidtelpunkt True, the ABBA Guys confirmed in interviews that Madonna asked for permission before (which I think is how it should be :)

Don't forget PM Dawn using a sample of Spandau Ballet's "True" for their song "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss"...

​@@AndrewAMartin and ended up being heaps better than the original drivel.

@@ronwhite8503 wrong and stupid.

It's almost like he planned it like that.

That song is probably played at Guantanamo due to how shitty it is

I did change my number.

Elliot smith wrote a better song called somebody I used to know.

Kimbra was the big historical moment for this song - with the rise of producer-led music that pushed the actual performers into featuring roles (that let to the extreme of the 2018 Christmas number one song 'Rockabye' being credited to 'Clean Bandit' despite him not actually doing anything - every single line on the song was sung by Annemarie or Sean Paul), they decided to give artists listed as 'featuring' full credit for the song when listing single performance in the record books - the first benefactor of this was Kimbra, who in 2011 became the first ever artist to be credited with a number 1 single despite only being listed as 'featuring' on the record.

There's a difference between sampling and like just rehashing the same song, though. I like Maroon 5, but Memories is way too similar to Canon D. To me, rather than being clever or breathing new life into an old song, Memories just comes across as lazy.

Beastie boys are the only we are ones that I don’t have a problem with sampling the rest of them can go to hell.

Clearly didn’t listen to daft punks face to face

Time is really ELOs best album even though was probably their least successful.

your comment is way more interesting than the video. AON was like The Orb in that it felt built on samples - I do know where all Orb samples are from, and there's a database somewhere of all sample sources for the entire psytrance genre ... it is supremely interesting where these noises come from. I presume you laid your paws on a Fairlight CMI, in which case, wow. Write more stuff!

Re: Art Of Noise, you mean Close (to the Edit) not Close to the Edge.

The title says "songs you DIDN'T KNOW sample other songs". Even deaf people know these songs.

That's because it's not the same.

@@acecodemaster1337 😂😂😂

@@acecodemaster1337 I love that line, like Vanilla Ice thought he could get away with it.

@@acecodemaster1337 it literally is though, vanilla ice’s goofy ass excuse was adding an extra note, and he claimed it was a whole different thing because of it. A load of bs if you ask me

ahhhh Frontier Psychiatrist - the song that always seems to come in 2nd place to Chesney Hawkes 'One and Only' in the 'greatest one hit wonders ever' lists and countdowns that always are on TV....

@@Debbiebabe69 This is just FM radio junk, I heard enough of that in my lifetime. No, I like my music quaky.

Alot of Pendulum's earliest tracks, fucking Through the Loop using the unhinged river song from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is genius, and Fasten Your Seatbelt being ripped straight from Spider-Man 2's demonstration of the fusion reactor. I hadn't watched the movie in years by the time I'd heard the song so it was hilarious noticing the sampled part on a rewatch

@@Whiteythereaper I was so fed up with mainstream radio. Then I discovered college radio... holy shite you mean there is other types of music. What an awakening it was for me. Then the internet arrived. Holy Shit.

Came here to mention Jim Pavloff making Smack my B@$#h up out of all the samples in Ableton.

Man, Liams work with sampling with the Prodigy is so underrated unfortunately, they need so much more recognition, as someone else mentioned, the Jim Pavloff videos where he recreates some Prodigy songs just shows you how fucking great Liam is with using samples, especially with the technology he would’ve had at the time

I usually love David’s videos but I’m shocked that he made a video about sampling without even mentioning The Prodigy! It’s like making a video about swing without Sinatra, a video about gypsy jazz without Reinhardt, or a video about heavy metal without Metallica.

The guitar sample of The Breeders used in Firestarter is iconic.

R.I.P. Simon Jeffes

I love Footsteps in the dark!!

Yes, there's a fine line and too many cross it IMO. If you can easily recoginize the sampled song, you're potentially desecrating it.

Freak like me is just a great example of a mash up song. The words from one over the music from another.

NFS Carbob introduced me to Gary Numan. I remember hearing Are Friends Electric and was thinking, "wait this sounds so familiar" not realizing at the time Sugababes had sampled it. I fell in love with his song because of that game

When I think of Are Friends Electric, I'm reminded it inspired the theme to The IT Crowd

WYHA / M.E. even lifts the snare, I never knew that one, cheers!

@@danpreston564 great post - apparently when Numan heard it he generously said that he preferred the Sugababes version. I disagree but I think both of them have much to commend. They’re both excellent records in their own right. Apparently Adina was much less positive and objected strongly to a sample of her work therefore the singers from Sugababes simply resung the original song and paid the appropriate publishing/rights fees. I think their version is far superior to Howard’s original. For more details on the mashup phenomenon of the early 2000s check out Trash Theory’s YT on Richard X who did much of the early innovation in this area. I’ll try and post a link..

Not forgetting that Alessia Cara sampled the Portishead - Glory Box loop on her song 'Here'.

Moby is actually a really interesting discography subject, he has some heavy shit back in the day also... incredible musician (and still uses some old tech, like an Atari)

That wouldn't be considered sampling because they didn't take the voices from another song.

@@purplehaze1274 I only mentioned it because there are a couple of examples in the video that aren't really sampling either.

That's a beautiful song and I was wondering how it was done. ... J

Like Butterfly by a crazy Town. Total rip .

wow...that's incredible. I had no idea.

In 1983. What a legendary song, ey?

or a lesson on how to never write a single note of your own music and still fleece fans for money while touting yourself as a 'musician'

The Chas n' Dave link to Eminem will probably always be the most mindblowing but of sampling history.

my name is young mc, backwards it's mc young, I let em know! I'm in England, I would have never heard of Young MC if it wasn't for Know How being big in the rave scene in the mid 90s.. many a time I've been off my face, dancing away in a few clubs singing along to that haha good times

great example! I love that AnCo song.....and always love how creative they were with the sampling aspect of it. Also an excellent example of a song in an odd meter....that still sounds....natural. It doesn't sound off. It has a groove and flow that just works. You feel it and get it right away.

I like the way there is a tiny snippet of Prince’s synth riff in the Chaka Khan version too.

I love that one!

And two of the musicians on Labi’s track are Chas n Dave, so one of Eminem’s biggest tracks features the cockney duo.

Bass originally played by Dave Peacock, from Chas & Dave fame.

Was Ice Ice Baby a sample or just the same bassline? Although he claimed it wasn’t the same as they added an extra syncopated note, I believe.

Ice ice baby wasn't a sample, it was just a copy

Power had 3 samples

@@danpreston564 they sampled the baseline at the beginning

@@travbofetty it was a sample