15 Songs you didn't know are based on samples
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📌 I decided to cut out the section of this video about "When The Levee Breaks". It seems that it's not 100% confirmed whether "Army of Me" actually used the original Led Zeppelin beat or instead used a sound-alike, so I decided to cut out the section to avoid the risk of spreading misinformation. Sorry for any confusion caused.
📌📌 Also, sorry for my mispronunciation of "Wyclef Jean" 🫠
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• Songs based on samples
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Tracklib's breakdown of Glory Box: • Sample Breakdown: Port...
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0:00 Sampling
0:21 Gnarls Barkley
0:54 Portishead vs. Issac Hayes
2:15 Doja Cat vs. Burt Bacharach
2:40 Oasis
3:31 Ride On Time
4:40 Hooktheory
5:23 Pussycat Dolls vs. ELO
5:40 Jump Around
7:30 Tupac vs. Joe Cocker
8:00 No Diggity vs. Bill Withers
8:25 Shakira
9:25 Lily Allen
10:25 Patreon
📌 I decided to cut out the section of this video about "When The Levee Breaks". It seems that it's not 100% confirmed whether "Army of Me" actually used the original Led Zeppelin beat or instead used a sound-alike, so I decided to cut out the section to avoid the risk of spreading misinformation. Sorry for any confusion caused.
📌📌 Also, sorry for my mispronunciation of "Wyclef Jean" 🫠
I don't know if you've talked about it before, but Army of Me is also interesting as perhaps the only pop(ish) song that is partially Locrian.
I was just asking this in the comments. Interesting!
Great videos.
@@jockcox Yes - indeed he has gone over it. I forget which video but I remember it.
"When the Levee Breaks" is one of the most sampled beats in music (After the Amen break mentioned in this video, the Funky Drummer break from James Brown, and the intro from "It's a New Day" by Skull Snaps), and I don't see any reason to think that the sound in "Army of Me" isn't sampled from it. It sounds like it's gone through a filter though. But compare "Army of Me" against Rob Dougan's "I'm Not Driving Anymore (Instrumental version)" which definitely uses the sample while also alluding to Bjork's bassline, and I think it's pretty unmistakable.
Dougan also famously used the Skull Snaps beat in his most famous track "Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino variation)" in which he added it over a sample from Edward Elgar's Enigma Variations.
As a native spanish speaker, the prounciation of "Amores como el Nuestro" and "Jerry Rivera " was hurtful as well 😅😂 And speaking of samples, you should definetly check out the wildly amount of samples made form "Los Ángeles Negros" (The Black Angels) most of them in USA HipHop music.
The Bjork and Futurama ones caught me off guard. 😳
70% of the theme is samples. It's an amazing example of using samples to make a brand new song where as the samples are almost unrecognisable.
Pretty sure they sample Rapper's Delight on the Futurama intro too
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I worked a music/art festival that bjork headlined and had something to do with the production. Anyone want to know how Bjork changes a lightbulb?
She hold the bulb while the world revolves around her
Daft Punk uses crazy sampling. Face to Face is like a collage you wouldn't have thought was possible from the originals.
i know this comment was precipated by the mention of evil woman, now when i hear evil woman all i think is daft punk
Digging The Greats had an amazing video about daft punks sampling, properly amazing
you all need to watch the roule / crydamore ones as well. french house sampling is top tier!!
If you think they're crazy, you wouldn't be able to identify the samples The Chemical Bothers use.
justice is up there too. and im sure the avalanches are as well
Ike's rap is also used in "Here" by Alessia Cara
Good, that!
And "Hell Is Round The Corner" by Tricky.
Oasis might not have sampled Johnny Jenkins, but Beck sure did on "Loser".
So did Butthole Surfers song Pepper.
Oasis didn't sample Johnny Jenkins
Butterfly from Crazytown is a few seconds sample from a Red Hot Chili Peppers instrumental song. In the original song, the sample goes almost unnoticed
I had no idea that Gnarls Barkley was a duo. I thought it was the name Ceelo Green called himself before changing it to Ceelo.
Dangermouse is a hell of a producer. His work on The Mouse and the Mask by MF DOOM (under the name DangerDOOM) is fantastic.
Cece-Lo had already had a very successful career with the rap group Goodie Mob before Gnarls Barkley, and his name was already Cee-Lo (without the Green) back then.
Before Wyclef and Shakira used that fanfare intro, it was already used in Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz - Deja vu (uptown baby)
That sax sample in Jump Around reminds me of a similar thing in Cypress Hill songs. Years ago a friend slowed it down and it was a horse neighing.
Would have thought the sax screech was taken from the Bomb Squad. They were notorious for using horns sections and pitching them for added effect.
I always thought they were boiling teacattles, guess I was wrong
That's because the beat to Jump Around was made by one of the guys in Cypress Hill! It's even in the song - "Muggs lifts a funk flow" is the start of the line.
That’s because DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill, produced Jump Around
@@koobs4549 I literally said this a week before you did???
Shout out to Wyclef Gene! Is that Wyclef Jean's cousin? 😂
It’s Gene Luc Picard’s favorite artist.
Thank you, I always heard it pronounced Jean close to the french pronounciation because he's from Haiti so I was thinking is it actually "gene" or he mispronounced it haha
His other cousin is Two-pack
congrats on 1M !!!
Props to David for being so confident in his terrible pronunciations 😂
In Denmark, a very popular Christmas song, used the sleigh bells from a old version Sleigh Ride. Only problem, they forgot to get permission, so the settlement was, that the original artist receives 77% of the royalties from that Christmas song. Only problem (for the Danish group) between 2008-2012 it was the most played Christmas song on public radio.
When I hear a new track sampling a song that's already a hit, my mind has already latched onto that hit and perceives the new track as 'wrong' because it doesn't go the expected way. I much prefer the approach taken by the examples showcased here, where it's a treat to find out that a new track is based on an obscure piece of music, and arguably making it a hit in the process.
A lot of tunes that use the "When the Levee Breaks" sample do it in a slightly different way. In the mid 80s there were companies producing EEPROM chips for drum machines which had famous drum sounds on them, one such package you could get was the Bonham Memorial pack, commonly used to replace individual drum sounds in LinnDrums. Hence you have artists like Howard Jones using them (in the original "No One Is To Blame" for example). Art of Noise was another such artist who made use of them a lot.
Wow! I didn’t realise this. Thanks for sharing this info!
Wyclef Gene 😭
Danger Mouse is an excellent producer and the whole of the first Gnarls Barkley is packed chock full of rare, obscure and unheard of 60s and 70s samples. Literally every thing from TV themes, radio jingles, elevator music and B sides that never got any air play. Amazing work.
I remember when I was 16, I heard St. Elsewhere for the first time and it changed my view of sampling, composing and producing music completely. Great album
Oh, in case you didn’t know David, I just figured this out. In the song here, by Alessia Cara, the second sample you mentioned. The Arctic one? It’s part of that song. If you listen throughout the song in the beginning of the song. You can tell about that part is in the song
04:50 you missed the most iconic (and ironic) samplings of that beat: "Rhymin & Stealin" by the BeastieBoys
Incredible oversight
That’s all I think of when I hear that beat.
@@__mads__ Moi aussi. A rien d'autre.
"if I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page ... "
Saved me some typing =)
Congrats on 1 million David...keep up the good work!!!
Oh god, that pronunciation of "Amores Como El Nuestro"
Bruh for real. Spanish is not that difficult. The vowels only make one sound.
@@marivg8948English vowels don't work the same way though so I don't think it's fair to expect an english speaker to pronounce them correctly without training just as it's not fair to expect a Spanish speaker to figure out the around 20 vowels that exist in most dialects of english.
@@thkarape There is this thing called “Google” where you can type a word and it’ll show you how to pronounce it. Spanish vowels are: A (ah) E (eh) I (ee) O (oh) U (oo). No excuses, just laziness. Same with Wyclef Jean. No excuses. He’s Haitian so the pronunciation would be French.
@@thkarape I live in Sweden but I have also heard people from Germany, France, Spain … and all of us try to pronounce names as in the original language. Only English speakers go their own way.
The Avalanches' whole catalogue. My understanding is that their first album, Since I Left You, was 100% samples remixed into brand new songs with no sounds performed by the band itself. And it's an absolutely brilliant album!
since i left you is a masterpiece
Since I Left You makes me feel things
Hey that was fun. And sure, of course I can think of other songs based on samples.
Oh, you wanted specific examples. Errr...yeah - God Is A Lobster, by DJ Soulslinger, makes an awesome jungle track out of the B-52's song Rock Lobster. I'm not even kidding - check it out!🤣
That was a good drum break
Beck
The beginning drum intro to Funky Cold Medina by Tone Loc is Jamie’s Cryin by Van Halen. Van Halen didn’t know and sued them. I believe they won. Alex Van Halen recognized his drum fill. 😂
They also sampled the riff.
Actually Tone Loc's Funky Cold Medina actually sampled two songs such as:
Kiss - Christine Sixteen
Foreigner - Hot Blooded
additionally, Van Halen's Jamie's Cryin is sampled in a different song by Tone Loc called Wild Thing which would be sampled in My Humps by The Black Eyed Peas which also sampled Sexual Harassment's I Need A Freak
@@RupertMarmalade yeah your right. It was wild thing Thanks
Tricky used "Ike's Rap" in "Hell's Around The Corner" too, the same year as Portishead.
Joe Cocker's "Women To Women" is used as well by Moby on "Honey".
David, Spanish is very easy to pronounce: only 5 vowel sounds, V & B sound always B and all letters are pronounced except the H (except in the case it goes with a C before, then is like in "check").
Yeah, Moby was the first thing that popped into my mind as well, when I heard Woman to Woman.
I usually know a fair amount of these as I was in the thick of audio engineering during the time of early sampling, plus I DJed at the time too. I used to buy a lot of import house records and naturally ended up with Ride on Time before it hit the UK. It was hugely popular when I played it, and of course when it hit our charts, I picked up the British 12" and the remix too. Played them a lot obviously, and yet to this day I never realised the vocals were different.
I'm going to have to go and investigate now....
I know I have several versions of this song. Again the original Italian import, plus it appearing on some other Italian compilation, the original UK 12", the remix and at least one other on a compilation, as well as the Loleatta Hollway 12" with acapella. I did note that at the time, Dan Hartman's writing credits popped up on later UK copies.
Somebody I Used to Know” samples Luiz Bonfá's 1967 instrumental song "Seville",
Clyde Stubblefield's break on James Brown's "Funky Drummer" has been recognized as the most sampled drum break of all time, as well.
I would say the oasis track is the sample but heavily compressed, sonically very similar.
10:18 Those trumpets always remind me most of Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz - Deja Vu (Uptown Baby). Even though I was only 9 years old when that dropped in 1997, it ended up being a middle school and high school staple.
I believe the sample you're looking for is the song "Black Cow", the lead song off the nigh-on legendary Steely Dan album , Aja
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@@nonddd9222 Oh holy shit. So I was actually just referring to the Puerto Rican trumpets that David had literally gone over for us, so I wasn't actually looking for anything. But having said that - this was totally unexpected as I do also dig Steely Dan and had no idea that was the sample used after the trumpets. What a funny clip when he started rapping over his own original sample haha pure gold.
Yes, and before the trumpet intro starts in deja vu, a male voice calls "ladiies and gentlemen..." And i always thought it sounded like Wyclef. Are we coming full circle here?😊
Oh, and Keith didn’t notice David, I just figured it out. The arctic case sample you mentioned, the second one. I just noticed. But in the song here, by Alessia Cara, the rhythm of that song is sampled in the song.
Did you know that?
The drum loop in the Oasis track actually was a direct sample, not a reinterpretation. Wikipedia says so. Plus you can hear the vinyl noise in the background at the beginning of the track, and the live drums come in on top of the loop right around 35 seconds in.
I agree. It's just heavily compressed. I threw both breaks into my daw and did some analysis, and in the beginning you can hear a rising whoosh sound in the background on both tracks. Plus the drums and hi-hats are tunet exactly the same.
There was an old hip hop song from the late 90s (?) that also used that same horn intro that Wyclef and Shakira used. I can't remember what it is called but it had a thumping bass that my friends would use to test out subwoofers in their cars back when that was the cool thing to have in a car.
Lord Tariq and Peter Gunz - Deja Vu (uptown baby)
LEN: Steal my Sunshine is based on the break from Andrea True Connection: More, More, More
the drums in Crazy is a sample of Stop and Check Yourself by Garnet Mimms
Always love the sample videos. Great stuff, thank you
So cool. I didn't realize so many songs were sampled. Thanks David!
I was hoping you'd cover This is Hardcore by Pulp which samples Bolero on the Moon Rocks by Peter Thomas Sound Orchestra.
It's the Raumpatrouille Orion guy, right?
@@timschulz9563 Exactly.
Junior Walker
For years, many people, myself included, believed the "screech" sampled in "Jump Around" was actually the opening scream in Prince's "Gett Off." (There is, however, a version of the song on the 12" single that uses the "Gett Off" scream instead of the "Shoot Your Shot" horn).
Superb analysis as always David. BTW The sampling of James Brown drum breaks formed a sizeable chunk of early hip hop and 90s dance beats i.e Funky drummer used by George Michael and others (waiting for the day)
Speaking of drum-breaks, I'd love to hear someone sample Ringo's drum solo from "Birthday". It's very rare that Ringo ever took a drum solo, and this one is insanely simple. It should be iconic.
So the great thing about Walk On By is that Isaac Hayes did a cover of the song and Hooverphonic sampled it for 2wicky. Really like these videos!!
7:23 when ICP covered Jump Around, they had someone scream the sax part. There are outtakes on the album of them trying to get the right sound and it's pretty funny.
That jump around from house of pain was awesome no clue that was a sax
Some context for "interpolation." When I would submit my remix for an artist to their label, I'd have to fill out a "sample sheet." The publishing lawyers start the process of getting the samples cleared from the original publishers. If they couldn't get it cleared (or find the publisher), we'd head back in to the studio and try and recreate the sample. Even if it was 1.4 seconds of a full band. The engineer would do their best to dirty it up and match the original.
Another trick is to sample the artist's really early, indie label releases. That way, the first label, that believed in them from the start, can get a share in the remix royalties.
It’s also interesting to me how sampling doesn’t have to be from another song. For example: The Prodigy song Breathe uses a sample which is taken from a Wu-Tang Clan song, and that sample was taken from a movie clip!
DAMN!
And here I was thinking the screech from Jump Around was from Mel and Tim - Good Guys Win in the Movies.
Another superb examination of our musical universe. I always bend my ideas of samples like the Rolling Stone's Heartbreaker (with your 44's) sampled in Beyonce's Crazy in Love - it isn't. close but no cigar.
The Man Next Door sample blew my mind lol. I love both of those songs and never made the connection, so thank you for that!
The funny thing about the ELO example is that this very string thing is a played backward sample of another ELO song of the same 1975 record. (Or the other way round, dont remember...)
I love it when David talks about rap
Your Women by White Town and Dua Lipa's Love Again! I think Your Woman was also sampled for another modern track, but I can't remember. And Your Woman was a sampling from the song My Woman by Lew Stone & the Monseigneur Band. Layers!
The Fugees' "Killing Me Softly" samples "Bonita Applebum" by A Tribe Called Quest, & that song samples a riff from "Memory Band" by Rotary Connection.
One-T + Cool-T - The Magic Key is a sample of song called Má Hra by Blue Effect. (That whole album is basically just Blue Effect samples)
The Bomb by The Bucketheads was sampled from Chicago's Street Player.
Another song that used Amen Brother’s drum section is Redial from a game called Bomberman Hero on N64.
WE WALKING ON BY WITH THIS ONE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥
Gil Scott Heron’s, “I Came From a Broken Home”, sampled Kanye West’s “Flashing Lights” & I’m pretty sure Kanye was sampling Curtis Mayfield’s “Little Child Runnin’ Wild” from Superfly
U2’s album Pop had a fair amount of sampling
I never knew of Wyclef’s “Dance With Me.” I thought the Shakira song sampled the horn intro from Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz’s “Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)” (1998). Funny enough, Wyclef costarred in the video for that song also!
I'm still not convinced that the "screech" sample (7:00) isn't actually Prince from the start of "Gett Off." haha
Thats a hell of a great theme for follow-up videos! I highly recommend a research on Arthur Verocai's work. He was an brazilian artist that was significantly sampled in 90's and 00's. And also, his originals are amazing as well
Never noticed Bjork sampling Zeppelin! Also, it's a traumatizing song, but Kim by Eminem is also based on a drum sample of When The Levee Breaks. Had no clue till recently. The snare from WTLB was also the snare in Depeche Mode's Never Let Me Down again.
What you mean "DUM.....DUM.......DUM.......DUM.......DUM.....DUM" is sampling?
My favorite sample of all time is Erikah Badu sampling "Dreamflower" for "Didn't Cha Know". Apparently Dilla said "just pick something out at random" she picked Tarika Blue's album and he grabbed that dample and the rest is history.
Those were some good ek-samples!
I have made a specific point of learning about songs that aren't known to actually covers or samples despite being very famous. And yet right out of the gate,hit me with one that I previously didn't know about. Cuz I had no idea that Crazy by Gnarls Barkley was built around a sample.
For Glory Box, Tricky (from Massive attack) used the same sample the same year for their own Trip Hop track. As far as I'm aware it was a genuine coincidence, although they were both from the same scene in Bristol, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was some shared point of inspiration.
Quite interesting. Thanks a lot
weird video edit on 4:11 that happens in one frame. just wanted to do a shout out cause that kinda caught me off guard
It’s a single frame from approx 14 seconds in to the Straight Outta Compton video 🤓
@@randovids7147 nice~ it must have been a weird edit that got missed, but I'm glad I was able to catch it. also nice to know where it came from
Mere hours after you posted this I was watching one of your videos 😳
9:45 "California Love by Two Pack."
Once again, another great video. Always super educational. I'm curious, do you hear music in the world and go "Hmm... this sounds like XYZ, which of course sounds like UVW... I should do a video on this!"
All in all, real question: I probably haven't perused your channel history enough but do you make music as well as teach the theory?
Wyclef Gene
@luke5100 It's not that important. These are just guys who steal others music.
I hadn't herad about the Isaac Hayes song. I always thought the sample Portishead used was from the Belgian band Wallace Collection, a song called Daydream. i monster used that sample too in the track "Daydream in Blue".
I guess they're just quite similar.
Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang sampled Good Times by Chic. (Is that too obvious to count).
Kanye West sampled King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" on his track "Power", but I guess it will be hard to put an audio excerpt of it into a video without it getting blocked or a copyright strike.
Can you do a video on licensing for samples and TH-cam videos? I tried to understand the ASCAP website and failed where you succeeded!
PS: Hot for Teacher!
Also there was another hip hop song from the 90s or maybe early 00s that used the same sample as Hips Don’t Lie but then somehow swerved into just sampling Steely Dan.
If you haven’t already, I think it would be cool to see a video on songs that purposefully go out of key. (Eg the vocals change key while the instrumental doesn’t) A good example would be “Gonna Make You Sweat” by C&C Music Factory. I don’t know much about music theory, but it sounds to me like the main vocals go off key at some parts and it gives the song a pretty unique sound.
Not sure it's been covered yet, but... "In the Meantime" by Spacehog samples the hook of "Telephone and Rubber Band" by Penguin Cafe Orchestra. Two amazing songs in their own right.
Tone Loc "Funky Cold Medina" samples primarily Foreigner - Hot Blooded + KISS - Christine Sixteen, also Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman + Satisfaction
Amen Brother drum part was used in Firestarter by Prodigy I guess..
It actually sampled the drums from 'Devotion (The Voice of Paradise Mix)' by Ten City, which sampled the drum intro of M.B.P.'s cover of The Doors' 'Light My Fire'.
@@TheSharkAnt Wow
@@TheSharkAntIt also sampled a guitar riff from The Breeder's S.O.S
Really, Walk On By was quite a pop hit in its time, and the sample is very recognizable to many listeners. We even get a bit of the vocal hook.
Dua Lipa's "Love Again" interpolates an old Bing Crosby song from the 1930s, that was also used in "Your Woman" by White Town in the 90s.
I’m not familiar with The Pussycat Dolls music, but I recognize that ELO sample as soon as he played the song
One that sticks out that you didn't touch on is Angie Stone's "I Wish I Didn't Miss You", sampling O'Jays "Backstabbers". Both such great songs, too.
It's very cool to see how artists re-mould one song to be used in another.
Would you be willing to do another list, but of "interpolations"? I am a huge Carly Rae Jepsen fan and her song "Shy Boy" interpolates "MIdas Touch" by Midnight Star. It would be cool to see how many modern songs also borrow from older material.
No comment on Wyclef Gene or Jerry Rivear, I promise.
My entire musical memory is a lie 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 thanks for letting us know who deserves credit where 🙏🏽
Free Soul by The Soul Brothers sound like the riddim behind Uptown Top Rankin and I’m so in Love With You. Can you do a video on riddims?Would be good to get your perspective in riddim culture
Midlife Crisis by Faith No More has a drum beat that is a sample from Cecilia by Simon and Garfunkel.
I've seen that on some stereo recordings the vocals can often be removed due to the way they alias the vocals on both channels. I'm not sure on the exact method, but it's almost like subtracting one from the other leaves behind a mono version of the backing track. It's not always a perfect method though.
Thank you.
Is Bjork's "Army of Me" actually sampled from Levee, or is it just a very similar beat? It sounds like a different kick pattern to me.
It's not Led Zeppelin but Led Zeppelin fans are such sycophantic ass kissers they love to hear Zeppelin everywhere. Which is ironic since Led Zeppelin themselves were no strangers to stealing.
Steps song Stomp sampled Chics 1977 track Everybody Dance
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The Amen, Brother one was used in Not Gonna Gets Us, by t.A.T.u.
Um, David. "Shoot Your Shot" is by JUNIOR Walker and the All Stars; it is credited properly in the video image, as Walker usually used the abbreviation rather than the full spelling. Granted, listening to that sample in "House of Pain" may make you want to reach for, and down, a whole bottle of Johnnie Walker, but . . . . . . . . .
What about steal my sunshine sampling that part in the song More, More, More, where the instrumental section has the part where the key is changed for a few bars. Len lowered the pitch and slowed the tempo slightly and looped it.
You can't mention Ike's Rap without mentioning it was also sampled by Tricky for Hell is Round The Corner the year after Portishead sampled it for Glory Box.
8:20 Lord Tariq - Deja Vu (Uptown Baby)