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Here's the video where I take a look at Fat Boy Slim's "Praise You":
I've made a couple of videos now on tunes based upon sampling. However this video will focus on tunes that sample tunes which themselves were currently based on a sample!
5:57 I mispoke when I said the Robin Thicke song came out in 2012, it actually came out in 2002. Sorry for any confusion triggered.
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0:00 Introduction.
0:11 Jay-Z vs M.I.A vs The Clash.
0:52 Lady Gaga vs Boney M vs Sidi Mansour.
1:32 Jeremiah vs Rhythm Is A Dancer vs Automan.
2:17 Kanye West vs Daft Punk vs Soda Bottle Child.
2:56 David Guetta vs Haddaway vs Zero-G.
3:42 Rihanna vs Michael Jackson vs Soul Makossa.
5:27 Beethoven vs Walter Murphy vs Robin Thicke.
6:13 Issey Cross vs The Vigor vs The Rolling Stones.
9:07 Rita Ora vs Fat Kid Slim vs different tunes.
9:45 Patreon.
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Hey David. Love your teaching.❤
Thank you!@@just_a_guy_.
you really should research some of the incredibly shady practices betterhelp has been doing. there are plenty of videos here on youtube explaining some of their exploitative and deceitful practices
Somewhere on the internet lurks a video (maybe deleted now as I can’t find it) discussing how ‘I Want a New Drug’ by Huey Lewis and the News ‘borrows’ (heavily) from a Michael Jackson song which in turn is a reworking of another song; I forget the songs and the artists, but it was all quite convincing at the time. Maybe someone recalls?
Here’s one and a half more:
First, another “song that samples [a song that samples a song, that reworks yet another]” for any Disney fans: “Evil Boys” from Phineas and Ferb samples “Bad To the Bone” (Delaware Destroyers), which in turn samples “Mannish Boy” by Muddy Waters, which repurposes the hook from his earlier track “Hoochie-Coochie Man.”
Also (here’s the other) you mentioned Poker Face, which Weird Al reworked into a polka track (he’d have at least one/album, and one album was just those) called “Polka Face.”
But seriously- didn’t know “Bittersweet Symphony” sampled anything, but the one that sampled it was blatantly obvious from the title alone!
Hey David, thanks for getting me into composing! I’m gonna start my Composition undergrad degree this year and I wanna thank you for inspiring me to get into it in the first place.
Excellent!!
David Benett in 10 years be like:
Songs (that sample songs ) to the power of 8😂
The dedication is already crazy enough. Love those videos.
Yes! 10 months ago I suggested the Kanye second level sample, and now we have a full video including that! You made my day ❤
Nice! I know that feeling of not being sure if he made the video because of your suggestion or not, but it’s still awesome
I just have the feeling the newer songs forgot the original beauty of sampling. most of them just felt like covers to me (just based on the clips showed in the video)
I’m willing to be the sample of a sample have never heard the original song. I’m in the same boat as you–basing that statement off the clips used in the vid. Many of them feel like covers albeit with different lyrics rather than a song that samples another and then kicks it up a notch in terms of originality by bringing something else unique to the party aside from different lyrics. The newer ones just feel derivative–and I mean that in a bad way.
definitely agree, they dont really feel to be doing anything creative with the samples. just feels like a retread
That’s because lots of these are covers or interpolations not actual samples, but yeah the feeling is completely understandable
E.g. David guetta is garbage
The two approaches (and a spectrum in between) have existed as long as sampling exists, it’s not a new phenomenon. There are producers today that make amazing flips of samples, that cobble together songs from an array of obscure samples just like Fatboy Slim, Daft Punk or The Avalanches did. Quite often you would hardly realize they are samples. On the other hand I know of 90s tracks that are just retreads of Eurhythmics of A-ha songs. You could say Madonna’s Hung Up is also an example of this “lazier” form of sampling.
Those lazy samples work, because they have the recognisability, which gives them great hit potential. Which is annoying, because it means you’re going to hear those tracks a lot, even though most of the time they’re not exactly great (since the source material wasn’t exactly great either, at best it was a bit of silly fun).
Boney M is a bit underrated imho. they are mostly perceived as showy party disco dance act, but they were super influential, brought world tunes to broad audiences and (the studio band and) production was top notch
and so many lasting hits. I mean I don’t listen to them on purpose, but yeah they’re almost the US-German ABBA
Agreed, my personal favourites is their nod to Whitfield and Strong on the album track ‘ He was a Steppenwolf’ ( Night-flight to Venus).
Surprised there’s no: Apache – The Shadows —> Apache – Incredible Bongo Band –> Apache (Jump On It) – Sugarhill Gang. Three songs that share the same name but are each entirely unique in their own way.
The Incredible Bongo Band didn’t sample The Shadows though, it was a cover… having said that, Apache and songs that have sampled it could be an entire video all on its own given how influential it ended up being to multiple genres.
It’s cool to see where tiny samples of songs have ended up.
I listen to Latin radio, and i did notice recently that there was a song that samples the beginning trumpet bit of the Shakira hit “Hips Dont Lie” which i believe is itself a sample of something else. I don’t remember the other songs but if you can manage to find it, i do recommend you check those out.
Amores como el nuestro by Jerry Rivera
I have one: Mario Winans in his 2004 song I Don’t Wanna Know (which features P. Diddy) sampled the Fugees’ 1996 song “Ready or Not”. Unbeknownst to Mario Winans, Ready or Not includes a sample of Enya’s 1987 song Boadicea, so after a lot of back and forths the artist listing for I Don’t Wanna Know now reads: Mario Winans featuring Enya and P. Diddy.
And I am pretty sure that that sample that Robin Thicke used in 2012 was also used a few years earlier. It’s just a vague memory I have but there’s something inside me that screams something from the late 90s or early 00s used it too. Or maybe I am misremembering?
Creepin by Metro Boomin samples Mario Winans song. That’s a long sampling chain
@@dolmadoltche8125 Sampling-ception… sorry, had to do it… I’ll see myself out 😉 But thanks, I didn’t know that. 🙂
It’s because that Robin Thicke song is from 2002, not 2012.
It’s that music video where he’s on a messenger bike in a Manhattan
@@irTaeke Aha… that might explain it then. Thank you!
Another excellent video, thanks.
I felt most illuminated by the Boney M connection. Frank Farian must have really dug around to find that Tunisian piece. Maybe I should check my mum’s old Polish record collection, and fashion out of that a smash disco hit…. Or maybe not.
There’s another one from Boney M that has a similar story. “Gotta Go Home” didn’t use a sample, but the tune was copied from another 70s track, “Hallo Bimmelbahn” by Nighttrain
“Gotta Go Home” was then heavily sampled in 2010 by Duck Sauce, in “Barbra Streisand”
Wasn’t the “Rasputin” melody based on Katibim/Uskudara too?
What’s interesting about the sample of sample of samples is that the latest version sample doesn’t sound like the original ,shows how each sample evolved over each version
3:52 that transition 🔥🔥🔥
i believe a handful of these aren’t actually samples, but interpolations. there are some where melodie’s are used but not the actual audio from the original song, such as the rihanna & michael jackson one. that would be considered interpolation
Correct, and I noticed that, too. I understood the spirit of the video, but it probably would have been good for him to make that clear
Beethoven’s Fifth opener is itself is based on a birdcall of a wood wren, so he sampled nature for the tune!
Can you imagine Beethoven had synthesis and sampling to work with?
@@b00ts4ndc4ts My name is Ludwig van Beethoven, but everyone calls me: Beethoven.
I don’t know if a parody song counts as “sampling” another song but… a rather obvious example is “Amish Paradise” by Al Yankovic, which parodies “Gangsta’s Paradise” by Coolio, which itself samples “Pastime Paradise” by Stevie Wonder.
Parody is its own category so I wouldn’t really say that counts, but amish Paradise goes off! 🔥 😂
Amazing work David! One thing to be mindful of though is that there are lots of videos out there exposing BetterHelp’s questionable practices of not holding certain counsellors accountable for anti-LGBTQ and anti-transgender beliefs and some that have attempted harmful “conversion therapy” through their platform. Just reminding everyone to hold these companies accountable!
That’s good! 🙂
@@jbaranowski1990 are you saying it’s good they’ve been exposed or that it’s good they have been letting those counselors on their site causing harm? Grammar, my dude lol
@@jbaranowski1990 are you saying it’s good they’ve been exposed or that it’s good they have been letting those counselors on their site causing harm? Grammar, my dude lol
Hi Dan. Thanks for your message. I wasn’t aware of this issue with BetterHelp? Can you link me to some information on it and I’ll look into it. Thanks again
@@DavidBennettPiano Hi David there are videos by youtubers Mickey Atkins, Logically Answered, Queer News Tonight, and Isabella Lanter just to name a few. Not saying to drop them or anything, just to be mindful of their past and hopefully they are working to correct things
In the 80s a composer friend of mine Ritchie Close put out a 12 “ disc where he used live musicians but in the inner tracks of the 12” record he copied the idea of putting the individual recordings as sample tracks . About a year later I was filming a young DJ who was raving about this disc and how authentic the tracks sounded . He couldn’t believe it when I explained that it wasn’t synthesised and these were real musicians playing and not a keyboard sample . There were sax riffs , guitar riffs , drum solos , bass baselines and his keyboard list of short chords progressions and sounds .
I used to get paid for recording a 3 hour vocals where I had to do a minimum of 30 mins . When sampling came about I wouldn’t even sing the whole song or god forbid any harmonies . They would just get me to sing sections and maybe a few jazz runs then I’d be done as they would take my vocals and do the harmonies etc afterwards. So many people were lifting bass lines and even the basic background to a song then adding a lot of rhythmic tracks and synth sounds and using the cut buttons on the automated fader mixing desks to create tracks by non musicians.
My favorite house track is “Waterman” by Dutch DJ Olav Basoski. It samples “Bam Bam” by dancehall artist Sister Nancy. But this in turn samples the 1974 song “Stalag 17”, by Ansell Collins – and is also based on a hit by Toots and the Maytals.
You know that you are old when you can immediately recognize those disco tunes from the 90s.