What songs would you sample were you a producer?

Ok last one for the day, I promise. Mariah - 心臓の扉 (Shinzo No Tobira)

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

Great hooks throughout the song. No idea what kind of genre could find use in a sample like this one but would love to hear it anyways.

Ok I lied, but I promise this is the last one I'll post in months:

Jan Hammer - Don't You Know

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nntLbpBZ4B4

In the same vein as the Captain Beefheart and Dennis Wilson suggestions upthread (which I agree would make great samples).

Phil Cordell - Red Lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7jqLm9rb90

The intro (reggae intros are like a whole separate genre, huh?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0XUmIeuJZ0

^ Kind of sounds like the Goldfinger theme.

Garth Marenghi - I'm A One Track Lover
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH4_mZh-bj8

Whistle - Buggin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pB41vU3ypPU

The Flying Lizards - Her Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JKehKBrDMk

SL2 - On A Ragga Tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXCN1DhHTZA

Sugar Man - Sixto Rodriguez

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_OHry9Nf0Y

Brief horn section starting 30 seconds in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L4Y2e6hgRE

The strings at 1:32.

The Royal Teens - Short Shorts, or Cymande - One More

Something amazing could be done with this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2cBiUP5V6k

Sun Ra "Golden Lady"

i'm sure someone has used this but whosampled's coming up nada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkZ3iQrS9vA

yeh that drum breaks been used by DJ Shadow, Towa Tei etc etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XzGmdXbZmU

Actually that Millenium song has been sampled before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkNYWO2fjCY

But I'd like to hear it in something better.

And on the topic at hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4dxHyhRDlc
at 3:40

i don't dislike the song or anything, but the piano intro here should really be used as a sample, by someone very rich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNY8eYmzdH4

― del griffith

repost from:

Nice intro! Shame about the song......

It's already been sampled a couple of times but still...

A few more:

Jorge Ben - Chove Chuva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSlnTUJ8JCo

Tulipa Ruiz - Efemera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWeOJD3oidg

Update and clean up the choir synth melody off this one
Mecano - :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NA05-A_QtHc

µ Ziq - Phiesope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qje7q_OmPh8

Alhaji K.Frimpong - KyenKyen Bi Adi Mawu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR3_Q8KOdd0

Manu Chao - La Primavera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmiimLf-0j0

Tom Scott - today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYKPc-DooNo&feature=BF&list=PL68295C68866154FA&index=191

The part before the 1st verse with the xylophone bit:

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

first 5 seconds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-TWLSliZ-U

Wulu Bunun & David Darling - Lugu Lugu Kan-Ibi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lAI5QFXEFM

Several parts of the song... actually the whole record is sample-worthy.

Warsaw Village Band - Fishie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZN-5ox29V0

Opening guitar line and bass.

The Cure's "Close to Me" and "Lullaby" would also make great samples but not sure if they've been used properly in the past.

Mmm just checked and "close to me" has been used by seeed, sort of covered by Lady Sovereign and mash-uped with Robyn. Seeed track makes me think if slowed down a bit, and with a few more beats would make a brilliant riddim.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-I9Wdr4js
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp_pGK4eKe4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9E9hHz4WNg

Moka, go to youtube and search for "cure riddim". This is one of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gu90vRQkgo

did anyone plead the case for, 'if I were a producer I wouldn't sample shit, I'll make up my own, thank you... dueces!'

Reminded by another thread where Scott S just bought a copy of this album. Anyway, I'm amazed if nobody has sampled about 1:43 in to this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCJbpQzlDv8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3SJ0RwXTqM

George Hurley drum parts would be a gold mine. Has he been sampled much?

this wouldn't be as good as i'm imagining i'm sure but i've had a recurring thought of kool and the gang's "too hot" sampled by the jacka or something -- kind of his regular synth beat with a chorus sampling that somewhat odd bridge "feeling the pain."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiflayEt7FM

oh yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BWzi_VW3Ew

Maybe this has already been done, but this one seems totally obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgOgEL72isY

Far as I know that Al Stewart song hasn't been sampled and it's a good choice.

Also loving that vivo sonhando version by Luiz Henrique. Never heard it before. Definitely stealing that one if I ever become a producer.

Wiz Khalifa has rapped on top of Chrono Trigger so I guess it wouldn't be that out of place to sample one of the greatest game soundtracks of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73n7HTcmb5g

Overplayed but love how the main riff sounds with strings, not quite different from the original but would still sample... I'm sure the original has been sampled many times before no?:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpSokJGu9Q

I know Soho sampled it for Hippychick and I love that one.

Aquatic Ambience has been sampled a few times in the past year Moka

would make a hard joey beltram style acid house track and sample biggie smalls saying "yo daughters tied up in a brooklyn basement" as the hook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Voog2jxTuzQ

I'd definitely sample Esmeray:

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

I somehow remember this one being sampled (or covered?) already, but I can't seem to find any info on it. Any help finding it?

always wanted to make a beat out of In the City by the Eagles. Apparently some dude named Agallah did it, but the production sucks.

'Devil Woman', Cliff Richard

Ok I'm almost 100% sure that some (american?) disco artist covered that Esmeray track at some point but I can't find any info on it. It seems Turkey doesn't exist in the internets.

It's funny that this topic has cropped up, because I was listening to some music on shuffle play earlier and 'Beggars Farm' by Jethro Tull came on (from the album This Was) and I was so tempted to sample and loop the intro.

The first 22 secs of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiEch8QZ_jE

Turns out that Esmeray song which I was mentioning would make a brilliant sample has in fact been sampled by none other than Public Enemy. Only Shirley Bassey's version titled Jezahel.