100 Songs that should have been sampled by now but haven't been...

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Hi all. I'm new to this site, so apologies if this thread has been done before... So, you are playing sample Deep Throat for the Neptunes, or Dr. Dre or whichever hot-shit production team/persona/Svengali-figure you wish, and you have to call to inform them about that magic four second snippet that's gonna make Billboard Chart gold for the next (insert artist here) single. Bonus points if you also list the artist whose song the sample would appear in.

100) Wha-ha-ha "Nojari" a slow jam, maybe R Kelly?
99) Meredith Monk "Procession" Aceyalone

― Matt Sussman, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 08:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Or,

Tell me a sample and I'll make the money...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 08:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone sampled "Yes Sir I Can Boogie" yet?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Groovin' with Mr Bloe; it's funny - I seem to have included that song in loadds cof threads (almost as many threads as The Flamingoes' I Only Have Eyes ... which, coincidentally, has just redently been sampled).

― Jez (Jez), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

98) Sample source: "Moonlight on Vermont" by Captain Beefheart

Used by: Ideally, Missy Elliott, but more likely Beck

― Dr Benway (dr benway), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:34 (twenty-one years ago)

97. Hot Chocolate - pretty much anything by them

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

power ballads seem to be a rich seem at the moment
I was toying with the idea of making a jungle tune with the theme to The holy grail in it.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 10:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fugees sampled the Flamingos way back there.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Cyndi Lauper - "She Bop"
Mark Hollis - "The Gift"
The Beatles - "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey" (this one's kinda understandable since Beatles samples are expensive as hell.)

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone sampled duran duran ?

― simon bon rhodes, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, Shut Up & Dance did on 'Dance Before The Police Come' back in 1991

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

and again on 'Save It Til The Morning After' in 1995

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Halen, "Dirty Movies"

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Rise above by Black Flag.

I can see all the hipsters now throwing down wicked shapes to a banging dance tune using the first four bars.

― Lairy Hair (hullcity), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 13:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Other than Scooby Snacks, I can't think of any sampling of those bass-heavy bauhaus tracks .. "Of Lillies & Remains" maybe.

― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

98) Sample source: "Moonlight on Vermont" by Captain Beefheart
Used by: Ideally, Missy Elliott, but more likely Beck

-- Dr Benway

HOLY FUCKING SHIT that's what I was gonna say!! That's unbelievable! We're both thinking of the drum intro, right?

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Kraftwerk 'Airwaves' - i have a Futureheads 'Late At Night' style club stormer in mind

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Has the bassline to "54-46 Was My Number" by Toots ever been sampled? I say shove a superfast breakbeat on top of that and take it back to the Old Skool.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i think Thievery Corporation used that

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

also by Futureheads i meant Futureshock ha

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the breakdown in the italian disco version of "get it on (bang a gong)" by Witch Queen
the "i think it's so groovy now... that people are finally getting together" intro in "reach out of the darkness" by friend and lover

"where evil grows" by the poppy family; actually everything by the poppy family

lots of billy joel breaks

"free for all" by ted nugent

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The drum intro to Faith No More's "Midlife Crisis".

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The first track on Kenny Burrell's "Sky Streets" is begging to be sampled.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

- the opening drums and bass intro of "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop
- the guitar from "(I'm)Stranded" by the Saints
- The bassline from "Peaches" by the Stranglers

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Willie the Pimp comes to mind (won't leave my mind)

― nattering nabob, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

>100) Wha-ha-ha "Nojari" a slow jam, maybe R Kelly?

brilliant

― (Jon L), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

thanks guys

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

cam'ron and juelz santana kill billy joel's 'movin' out' on 'you oughta know'. they couldn't get it cleared. it's awesome.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The beginning to "Why Can't I Touch It" by Buzzcocks.

― Talent Explosion (Talent Explosion), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Van Halen, "Dirty Movies"

Hrm... fuck that... The opening riff from "Mean Streets" is more sampleworthy IMO.

― martin m. (mushrush), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

"Rain on the Scarecrow," John Cougar Mellencamp (drum beat)
"Hair of the Dog," Nazareth

wait, has Steve Miller "Take the Money and Run" ever been sampled?

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking of Billy Joel, how about that keyboard riff on the chorus of "Pressure"? For an electroclash tune, maybe...

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone used "Unbelievable" by EMF? Specifically, the music that plays during the lyrics "the things you say / your purple prose just gives you away" ?

― King Kobra (King Kobra), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

The lead-in riff for Genesis' "Return Of The Giant Hogweed". Preferably on some jiggy Master P. style 808 shit with hi-hats going all buckwild and every last motherfucker in a three-mile radius shouting the hooks.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

ha ha he says "purple prose" there? I always thought it was "perfect pose".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

If it were 1997 I would have said "(Keep Feelin') Fascination" for Puff Daddy.

How about Duran Duran's "The Chauffeur"?

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Zep, "Good Times, Bad Times"

― Dominique (dleone), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

N.W.A. used the "Take The Money & Run" drums somewhere on Straight Outta Compton, Chuck. Can't remember which song at present...

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

- the opening drums and bass intro of "Lust for Life" by Iggy Pop

Alex in NYC, see Disco Inferno's "It's a Kid's World". There's another song that samples it, too, but I can't think of it offhand.

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - "Wawa"

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah? Must check that out. Cheers!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, this ALEX punk once made fun of me saying he preferred DI to Disco Inferno, and now suddenly he comes around! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone used the intro bassline for Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire"?

― LSTD (answer) (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, this ALEX punk once made fun of me saying he preferred DI to Disco Inferno, and now suddenly he comes around! ;-)

I still do, but if the Igster is being used, I'd like to hear it. Disco Inferno can otherwise go jump in a massive pile of dung.

Has anyone used the intro bassline for Nilsson's "Jump into the Fire"?

Good one!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

spencer davis group, "i'm a man"
pretty much ANY early zz top riff --"just got paid," maybe?
"expressway to your heart," soul survivors
"children of the grave," black sabbath
"two princes," spin doctors
"mississippi queen," mountain
"hot rod," black oak arkansas
"free for all," ted nugent

i mean, when you get down to it, there are TONS of unbelievably funky '70s rock that nobody has thought to touch, as far as I can see. I've never really understood why...

― chuck, Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anybody ever sample the riff from "You Can Leave Your Hat On"?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 23 November 2004 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Kerosene", Big Black

― jack est moi, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Shangri-La's-"The Sweet Sounds of Summer" (The crazy drum/organ breakdown)

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:31 (twenty-one years ago)

"two princes," spin doctors

Seconded. And an enjoyable song in its own right, despite being placed in a jillion lame-ass "comedy" flicks.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

"oh well," the rockets (and maybe the fleetwood mac version too)
and "tusk," for that matter (esp now that marching bands are so popular on ying yang twins and destinys child records)

& has anybody ever sampled "me amd julio down by the schoolyard"??

― chuck, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

& has anybody ever sampled "me amd julio down by the schoolyard"??

No, but Paul Simon made a video for the song in '89 or so with an incredible acapella rap intro by Big Daddy Kane.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

the guitar into to Martha and the Muffins' Echo Beach - just because it's so superior to the rest of the song and deserves it's own moment in the sun.

― Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 03:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Zep, "Good Times, Bad Times"

-- Dominique (d_leon...) (webmail), November 23rd, 2004 3:57 PM. (dleone) (later) (link)

A little shred of it was used as a sort of between-sample bumper in the Beastie Boys' "Shake Your Rump", and I'm fairly sure a more substantial bit was used for Cornelius' "Heavy Metal Thunder".

And c'mon, there's like 10 different Van Halen tracks that need to be sampled rite now; no need for that-fuckery. (Oh, hey, how about the first several seconds of their version of "Dancing in the Streets"?)

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 04:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mississippi Queen" was sampled in "Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun"

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:26 (twenty-one years ago)

lots of billy joel breaks
wait, has Steve Miller "Take the Money and Run" ever been sampled?

I've got a self-produced song containing both of these (the Billy Joel break is from "Don't Ask Me Why".) The reason I've never uploaded that one is because, well, it contains samples of Billy Joel and Steve Miller. Not the coolest dudes to sample in the world.

I would also add:
"Wounded Kite" by Pavement
"Trying to Live My Life Without You" by Bob Seger
"Murder" by Eleventh Dream Day
And this one, written by Stevie Wonder and performed by Ms. Carole Kaye

(God bless whoever showed me that Carole Kaye site on the bass thread!)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Edgar Winter Group's "Free Ride"--there's an incredibly funky breakdown about 2/3 of the way into the song. Nobody's taken advantage of it, to my knowledge.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone used the break in "Magic Man"?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 05:54 (twenty-one years ago)

'Singapore' by Tom Waits (the bass outro)
'Blank Generation' Richard Hell/Voidoids (guitar intro)
something by John Martyn - 'Big Muff' or 'Smiling Stranger'

apols if any of these done already

― bham, Wednesday, 24 November 2004 09:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I was going to say "Groovin With Mr Bloe", but Jez beat me to it upthread. So how about "Hide Out" by The Hideaways? It's very rare. (But I have a copy. And no, you can't.) Sounds a bit like The Mohawks "Champ" meets "Smokey Joe's La La".

Then there's The Upsetters "Bucky Skank" - especially that ascending glissando bassline.

I also long to hear the spoken intro to X-Ray Spex "I Am A Cliche" dropped into the middle of a hard house track.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 10:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Rise above by Black Flag.
I can see all the hipsters now throwing down wicked shapes to a banging dance tune using the first four bars.

-- Lairy Hair (paulhcf...), November 23rd, 2004.

i sampled "thirsty and miserable" for a song i recorded once. the results were mediocre, through no fault of Black Flag's of course.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 11:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The bassline from "Peaches" by the Stranglers

Ms. Dynamite has used this, I think...

― OCP (OCP), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The slowed-down/reverbed drum beat from The Pop Group's "Blood Money".

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Warda: EHDOUNOUL AYAM, composed by Baligh Hamdi (one of whose melodic fragments was appropriated for "Big Pimpin'"). Crazy Arab psychedelic electric organ intro.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have thought this about so many songs at one time or another, but I can't think of them at the moment.

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(The intro. to that Warda song is the only good part though.)

― LaRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"children of the grave," black sabbath

ur, someone sampled that.. but I'm not at liberty to say who yet. *cough*

― donut christ (donut), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I mentioned this a long time ago in a different thread ... but the horn riff on Jay & the Techniques' "Keep the Ball Rollin'." Someone could use that to a similar effect as that of the Chi-Lites track on "Crazy in Love."

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Pleasant Plains wrote:

would also add:
"Wounded Kite" by Pavement

the slack album!

And this one, written by Stevie Wonder and performed by Ms. Carole Kaye (God bless whoever showed me that Carole Kaye site on the bass thread!)
(God bless whoever showed me that Carole Kaye site on the bass thread!)

you're welcome! ;-D

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 24 November 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Willie the Pimp comes to mind (won't leave my mind)

if indeed it hasn't been, then it must be b/c mr. zappa was VERY much anti-sampling. as are the executors of his estate, apparently.

notwithstanding that little snag -- the intro to "inca roads" would also be great to use as a sample.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

the cars, "candy-o"
many more gary numan songs (other than "cars," "m.e.," "are 'friends' electric?," and "down in the park")

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

neu!

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

can!

― chris andrews (fraew), Thursday, 25 November 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

duran duran were sampled on biggie's "notorious" from born again.

and i think can were sampled on ll cool j's 'rub my back', but im not sure.

― adam west (adamwest), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:01 (twenty-one years ago)

anything by the durutti column. this will change soon....

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:18 (twenty-one years ago)

blancmange, "living on the ceiling"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:21 (twenty-one years ago)

altered images

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

(i'd like to do something with the solo gtr intro to 'happy birthday')

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Thursday, 25 November 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

japan -- "gentlemen take polaroids" and "quiet life"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

And "Adolescent Sex"!

Another nominee: Eno's "No One Receiving". That break is fire. (And it's PHIL COLLINS)

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Thursday, 25 November 2004 06:23 (twenty-one years ago)

can!
-- chris andrews (frae...), November 25th, 2004.

I'm sure there's loads of stuff that samples Can. At the moment all I can think of is 'Kowalski' by Primal Scream, which has drums from 'Halleluwah'

― bham, Thursday, 25 November 2004 08:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Can's "Vitamin C" has been sampled by at least a few people, but damn if I can think of them now.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 25 November 2004 21:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Anybody say that opening drumbeat from Bob Seger's "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man"? It makes me wanna learn how to sample!

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Monday, 29 November 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

twelve years pass...

I heard 'Think' by Lyn Collins for the first time ever today, and I was thinking about a minute in, 'damn, how is it that I've never heard anyone sample a song this funky?' And then another minute lapsed and I LOLed at my naiveté.

― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Friday, 11 August 2017 19:02 (eight years ago)

montague terrace (in blue) for a hiphop beat

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Friday, 11 August 2017 19:15 (eight years ago)

I'm surprised that Danny Taylor of the Silver Apples was never sampled

― frogbs, Friday, 11 August 2017 19:18 (eight years ago)

Kind of surprised that there hasn't been much sampling of Scott Walker in general.

― MarkoP, Friday, 11 August 2017 20:18 (eight years ago)

nine months pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NKhzNH7j6M

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 14 May 2018 14:58 (eight years ago)

Has anybody ever sampled...?

Steppenwolf "Magic Carpet Ride"

Perrey & Kingsley - The intro to "One Note Sample/Spanish Flea"

― Hideous Lump, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 03:01 (eight years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miUKotWJSd8

― MaresNest, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 13:17 (eight years ago)

Nadia Cattouse - B. C. People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-Pnpg90Z0

I made a loop of the intro and it sounds pretty sick

― the yolk sustains us, we eat whites for days (unregistered), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 14:27 (eight years ago)

I feel like this could be chopped up into something good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPiKxEpJUs4

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 14:44 (eight years ago)

Rise above by Black Flag.

I can see all the hipsters now throwing down wicked shapes to a banging dance tune using the first four bars.

― Lairy Hair (hullcity), Tuesday, November 23, 2004 8:04 AM (thirteen years ago) Bookmark

and it happend with Death Grips "Klink"

― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 15:21 (eight years ago)

Has the intro to "Fascination" by Human League ever been sampled? I tried to do something with it years ago and failed to make anything interesting but I feel like it has potential

― Vinnie, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 16:31 (eight years ago)

I once tried making a mashup of an instrumental of Fascination with the vocals of White Zombie's Thunderkiss 65.

It was very silly.

― MarkoP, Tuesday, 15 May 2018 16:39 (eight years ago)

always wanted to do something with the opening instrumental of Disney Jungle Book but inevitably it wouldn't be allowed.

― Hire Planes (dog latin), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 18:08 (eight years ago)

Banzai by Vladimir Cosma could be sampled:remixed into a nudisco house track

https://youtu.be/srRmoTQYzHs

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 15 May 2018 19:14 (eight years ago)

one year passes...

Science Fiction Double Feature has that line "Michael Rennie was ill". Surprised no one ever looped that one.

― ☮ (peace, man), Wednesday, 11 December 2019 13:01 (six years ago)

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