| After blogging a lot of tunes for people where I wanted to point out what songs had been sampled from an original, I thought I'd make a complete list of the them, and put up some sounds clips too. I'm not including songs here where are very obvious reworkings of the original, to the point where they credit the original artist song. e.g. Bone Thugs 'n' Harmony "Home" (based on Phil Collins "Take me home") credited Phil Collins, and even had him miming in the video! If you can think of any other good ones that should appear below then let me know and I'll add them in! 2006 Supermode had a hit with "Tell me why", completely based upon the 1984 Bronski Beat hit "Smalltown Boy". Hi_Tack had a hit with "Say say say (Waiting 4U)", which is a stolen lyric and sampled from the Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney hit "Say say say" - a number two hit in 1983.
The second is this one .. in which Madonna has to reportedly send a very nice almost begging style letter asking them if she could use it for her anthemic 2005 dance classic. They eventually agreed, and it's a damn fine song! Thus 'Hung up' samples the fantastic 'Gimme Gimme Gimme' from the ultimate Swedish pop band.
Beatfreaks - Somebody's Watching Me (samples Rockwell song
of same name) 2005
2004
Goldie Lookin' Chains "Your mothers got a penis" samples Eric Claption "Behind the mask"
Marios Winas "I don't wanna know" uses Enya's "Bodaceia", but was not the first song to do so, as the Fugees already used the sample back in 1996 with "Ready or not". 2003 Eminem "Sing for the moment" blantanly rips the Aerosmith song 'Dream On' 2002 The Milky hit "Just the way you are" is a sample from a little know song called "Streets of your town" by the Go Betweens.
2001 MOP's "Cold as ice" nicked a whole bunch of stuff from the less-than-fashionable 1978 Foreginer hit of the same name.
2000
Armand Van Helden "Koochy", is obviously nicked from Gary Numans "Cars". Eminem had a hit with 'Stan' famously stealing a sample from the Dido song "Thank you". Some argue that it thanks to the Eminem single being such a big hit, that it then thrust the Dido album into the spotlight. Dido also (rather cooly) appeared in the video for the 'Stan' single.
1998 Deetah's "Relax" was a pure and simple sample nick from the Dire Straights album track "Why Worry"
1997 It even took me a little while to realise it when it first came out, but the super-summer hit "Sunchyme" by Dario G, nicked a sample - and speeded it up somewhat - from the 1985 Dream Academy hit "Life in a Northern Town"
Kaleef's hit "Golden Brown" re-worked the 1982 classic of the same name by the Stranglers
1995 Elastica's "Waking up" is a direct rip-off of "No more heroes" by The Stranglers.
1994 Warren G & Nate Dog's hit "Regulate", lifted a sample from Michael McDonalds "I keep forgetting"
1993 SWV's "Right here" was completely sampled from the Michael Jackson song "Human Nature" - on the multi-million selling 'Thriller' album.
1991 PM Dawn's "Set adrift on memory bliss" is a sample of the 1983 No.1 song "True" by Spandau Ballet.
A Tribe Called Quest had a hit with "Can I kick it?", which was a sampled nicked from Lou Reeds classic "Walk on the wild side"
Beat International's "Dub be good to me", is a complete lift of the classic "Guns of Brixton" by The Clash. Twenty four Seven's "I can't stand it" steals the bass line from the classic Kraftwerk tune "The Robots". |
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Did
you know that the Abba songwriters - Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson
- have only ever let TWO songs from their entire back catalogue be used
as a sample for a modern day song. The first (not listed below), is the
Fugees song "Rumble in the jungle" which nicked a bit of the
classic 'Name of the game'.
Maddona
- Hung up
Robbie
Williams "Rock DJ" 
