This came up in the car today and I’d forgotten how it’s built around one monster sample. As is the first one in the comments. So let’s do a ‘songs from samples’ list please. Only two rules:
One sample per song, the more looped the better – no MARRS or Bomb the Bass sample blizzards please.
Mashups is a different thing (we can do those too – pretend its still 2010 – this is the sampladelic list).
Songs built around samples
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Funnily enough, I listened to this one last night for the first time in years, and I’d forgotten the sample (although I’m not sure you’d say the song was built around it). Spare us the cutter.
obviously there are about 75234845984957 hip hop tracks we could put here, but this one is perhaps the most AW friendly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZhMoOo4aJY
Hmmm. More than one sample there. Otis whistling, and I think the drums are from Lee Dorsey.
Yep Public Enemy for example are just a sample hurricane.
Isaac Hayes’ Ike’s Rap 2 was the foundation for two great songs, Glory Box by Portishead and Hell Is Round The Corner by Tricky.
And, for our younger readers (do we have any?), ‘Here’ by Alessia Cara.
‘Here’ is an absolute tune!
Based around a sample of Toots’ 54-46 That’s My Number:
https://youtu.be/SE0hwfCu-m4
That’s if interpolation counts, anyway.
Beyoncé’s Crazy In Love. Can’t be arsed to post a video but sheeesh, you know how it goes.
Mahavishnu Orchestra’s ‘You Know, You Know’ (1971) has been the backbone of several things in recent years. Here’s Mos Def’s ‘Kalifornia’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntCci7RLTcI
Based on Depeche Mode’s Personal Jesus
Holy fuck! I’m piggy backing on your thread .
Canada’s Len, taking a small bit of the Andrea True Connection’s More, More, More and creating Steal My Sunshine from it.
You beat me too it. Just about to post the same thing.
I love this Number 1 smash hit. Features the legend that is James Warren of Korgis/Stackridge fame, who makes a rare appearance on TOTP.
Bootylicious by Destiny’s Child is built atop of Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks. (SN appears in the video apparently.)
My booty’s too cocainelicious for you….
we may have been warned off mash ups, but I laugh in the face of authority.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft_lJiMiDOY
These would be very different tracks without the samples to which they are indebted.
Dreadzones’s ‘Little Britain’ is built around an orchestral sample from a Carl Orff work.
Dario G’s ‘Sunchyme’ is essentially Dream Academy’s ‘Life In a Northern Town’, with all the words removed bar the wordless chorus.
And Mr. Scruff’s charming ‘Get A Move On’ would be very quiet indeed without Moondog’s ‘Bird’s Lament’ and T-Bone Walker’s ‘Hypin’ Woman Blues’.
I like all of them.
Who can ever forget the rush of pale and interesting indiekids to the dance floor, only for the tide to halt, swirl and retreat in confusion as they realize, as one, that the DJ is playing Hippychick by Soho?
Got me many a time!
Ditto Run DMC’s What’s It All About.
“Dish int der fookin Roses”
Ah, happy memories of watching people looking confused when you dropped Credit To The Nation’s “Call It What You Want”…
This can count as something using one looped sample ( of Dead Can Dance, I think)
I’m not sure whether the Sabres Of Paradise version of this (i.e. Smokebelch II) was sample or interpolation, but I do know it took them a while to acknowledge it, cheeky sods.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1lCVmu3xN8
(Dilated Peoples – Worst comes to Worst) – built around a William Bell sample. Have a listen, you’ll be humming it all day.
…was the first one I thought of when I saw this thread (and I’m humming it right now).
So, instead, how about Public Enemy constructing Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos from the piano break of Isaac Hayes’ Hyperboliccsyllabicsesquedalymistic…?
In My Arms by Mylo (can’t post video I’m afraid) is built around ‘Waiting For A Star To Fall’ by Boy Meets Girl. Both absolute stormers IMHO.
An additional bit of trivia. WFASTF was originally written for Belinda Carlisle but she did not like the recording of it. This is easily found on YouTube & you would have to agree. Her version is awful!
Mylo is a good shout for built on samples. Here’s him and (mainly) Judi Tzuke:
Subsitiute Cardiff for Woking and this video is me as a young man. Also substitute danceable housey piano music for downbeat Gloom Synth from Gary Numan or industrial noises from yer Mode or OMD B-sides Also substitute people joining in with nobody joining in.
https://youtu.be/oMLCrzy9TEs
Some marvelous stuff here. If you want a banger do a mash up?
Not sure this qualifies but I love it.
Spandau Ballet’s True rebooted as PM Dawn’s Set adrift on memory bliss.
Are ‘Friends’ Electric? Of course… if you’re a Freak Like Me.
Rogue Traders, “Voodoo Child” which simply seems to take the whole backing track of Pump It Up