Have you ever wondered where the samples used in those classic rap, hip-hop, EDM, and pop songs came from?
Well, a lot of the samples we hear come from earlier songs.
I will be deconstructing tracks to find the samples, and then playing the songs the samples were taken from. I’m hoping we get a feel for where the producers and artists were finding their inspiration in creating the music. And, as a bonus, we also get to hear what they were listening to in their creative period.
We will explore these together, starting from the most heavily sampled of all albums – The Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique . That included over 400 samples. We won’t listen to all 400 songs, but we will get an idea of what the Beasties and the Dust Brothers, who produced the album, were listening to while crafting the album.
We will also look at the most used of all samples – the Amen Break . This 6-second sample of a drum break has appeared in more than 2,200 songs! We won’t listen to all those, but imagine if we did…
Green glitch image by Omni Matryx from Pixabay under Simplified Pixabay License (free for commercial use).
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SMPLD Jingle – Steve / The Winstons
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Pickin’ On Me – Skunk Anansie
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Delicate – Tamsyn
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All My Crushes – Magic Dirt
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Talk Break 1 – Steve
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There’s A DJ In Your Town – Samson & Delilah
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Tears – Giorgio Moroder
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Someone – The New Breed
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Organ Donor – DJ Shadow
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Giorgio By Moroder – Daft Punk
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Talk Break 2 – Steve
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Blinded By The Light – Bruce Springsteen
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Blinded By The Light – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
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Who Are You – The Who
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Who Are You – The Brown Derbies
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Talk Break 3 – Steve
The Good Ones – The Kills
SMPLD Jingle – Steve / The Winstons
I’m Stranded – The Saints
Know Your Product – The Daints
Ghost Ships – Chris Bailey & The General Dog
Think (About It) – Lyn Collins
You Are, I Am – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Can’t Knock The Hustle – Jay-Z
If I Were With Her Now – Spiritualized
Dreams Don’t Come True – Dead Stars
SMPLD Jingle – Steve / The Winstons
Queens Of Noise – The Runaways
Fall Behind Me – The Donnas
Learn To Fly – Foo Fighters
Your Shoes – Taylor Hawkins And The Coattail Riders
White Limo – Foo Fighters
Spirit In The Sky – Norman Greenbaum
The Real Time – The Hoodoo Gurus
Every Day Should Be A Holiday – The Dandy Warhols
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles
Eleanor Rigby – Jimi LaLumia And The Psychotic Frogs
SMPLD Jingle – Steve / The Winstons
Road To Somewhere – Goldfrapp
It’s Not The Spotlight – Beth Orton
Rukkumani Rukkumani – S.P. Balasubrahmanyam & K.S. Chithra
Black Steel In The Hour Of Chaos – Public Enemy
Awake – Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Everything’s On TV – The Hellacopters
Goldrush – Cowboys & Aliens
SMPLD Jingle – Steve / The Winstons
Sexual Revolution – Macy Gray
Cannonball – The Breeders
Miles Away – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Good Old Music – Funkadelic
Looking Back – Johnny "Guitar" Watson
Safe From Harm – Massive Attack
High Class Woman – Blues Pills
I Hate To Say I Told You So – The Hives
Don’t Run Our Hearts Around – Black Mountain
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SMPLD Jingle – Steve / The Winstons
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Hearts Of Palm – Idaho
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Weather Boy – Transister
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Magic Medicine – Deap Vally
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Talk Break 1 – Steve
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You’re No Good For Me – Kelly Charles
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Funky Nassau – The Beginning Of The End
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Peter Piper – Run-DMC
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Young Disciples (Theme) – Young Disciples
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No Good (Start The Dance) – The Prodigy
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Talk Break 3 – Steve
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Just Got Paid – ZZTop
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Just Got Paid – Ministry & Co Conspirators
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Space Lord (Intergalactic 7 Mix) – Monster Magnet
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Talk Break 4 – Steve
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Set Us Free – Black Mountain
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SMPLD Jingle – Steve / The Winstons
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Breathe – Äsgier
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Hope – Cable Ties
02:10:50
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Talk Break 1 – Steve
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Phantasmagoria Blues – Mark Lanegan Band
02:16:34
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Upon Doing Something Wrong – Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood
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All I Know – Scresaming Trees
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Talk Break 2 – Steve
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One Way Glass – Manfred Mann Chapter Three
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Get Out Of My Life, Woman – Lee Dorsey
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Stand Up – The Prodigy
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Talk Break 3 – Steve
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Manic – Wage War
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Swollen And Halo – Baroness
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In A Rut – The Ruts
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Unbroken (Hotel Baby) – Monster Magnet
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Talk Break 4 – Steve
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Let Me Walk You Home – Cowboys & Aliens