Nicking Bits From Songs!

Bellycaster

This is nowt new, I know, and there must be 10000000's of examples, but what are your Fave bits of "Sample to Song", or maybe you know some nicked song parts that no one else realized was nicked.

Here's mine.

From this song at 2:19

Inspired this.

A whole song built on the original middle section of Andrea True (yes we know she was porny fnar fnar)

Any more more more good uns.

;-)

Kebabkid

Well, you've got to have Chic's "Good Times" and "Rapper's Delight".

Van Halen's intro to "Jamie's cryin" was used on "Wild thing" by Tone Loc

I understand that Steely Dan songs/parts get used a lot and I recall a Kanye West one (? Champion) and a young US band working "Peg"into their song "Live and learn ".

Phil_aka_Pip

Something in the way she moves (James Taylor) -> Something (George Harrison)

viz

For me the most blatant heist is Rachmaninov's robbery of Eric Carmen's beautiful song "All by myself". I've butted the 2 sections together in this huge oob clip. Forward wind to 0:43 for the Rachmaninov copy. (I left Kissin's one going for a bit longer than necessary because it is quite simply the most tender and beautiful piece of music ever written and Kissin plays it absolutely perfectly - enjoy!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwE2uX2h7Gs

 

not_the_dj

Beatles "Blackbird" 1968

 

"Take these broken wings and learn to fly"

 

Mr Mister "Broken Wings" 1985

 

"Take these broken wings and learn to fly again"

 

See, totally different....the case for the defence rests.

 

 

RocknRollDave

There was that part in If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next that sounded like part of Duchess by the Stranglers, although I should add that I am not implementing anything pacific with this statement.

johnnyurq

Kebabkid;176149" said:

Well, you've got to have Chic's "Good Times" and "Rapper's Delight".

Van Halen's intro to "Jamie's cryin" was used on "Wild thing" by Tone Loc

I understand that Steely Dan songs/parts get used a lot and I recall a Kanye West one (? Champion) and a young US band working "Peg"into their song "Live and learn ".

Don't  forget the Hairy Ford Cortina - Funky Cold Medina.

not_the_dj

What's the ELO song that nicked Paul Weller's Changing Man intro?

(I'm going on the order I heard the songs there, not strict chronological order btw).

FelineGuitars

Kiss  and Led Zep

Black Diamond = Baba I'm gonna leave you

Rardar For Love = Black Dog

Kiss and Slade 

Calling Dr Love = Lay It down

Handsome_Chris

Faith Evans , Love Like This = Chic, Chic Cheer

Modjo, Lady = Chic, Soup For One

mudslide73

There's that bit of Aha's The Sun Always Shines in TV in U2s Beautiful Day.

Bellycaster

@viz

I take it that part is only in Kissin's interpretation? Without listening to the original I wouldn't know, but that would be years before Eric Carmen.

It is basically a direct copy in that performance though. Naughty.

viz

Soz, was being silly - rach 2 was written in 1901 - carmen copied it note for note.

Bellycaster

viz said:

Soz, was being silly - rach 2 was written in 1901 - carmen copied it note for note.

You're Slipstreaming again @viz

;-)

I though you might have been having a Laugh, silly notion imagining a pianist would re-arrange a piece like that just to sound like Eric Carmen.

viz

I was too realistic in my sarcasm - my fault. Actually I quite like the fact the Carmen nicked it for that song, I think it's quite well matched and it is such a gorgeous tune. He stole other rachmaninov stuff too. Hey, listen to the whole piece one day, it's musical perfection.

chrisj1602

Foo Fighters, Wheels = Tom Petty, Learning to Fly.

Kebabkid

I just heard Pink's "Just give me a reason" on the radio and the end of the verse sounds like the "gone gone gone" bit of The Walker Brothers' "You've lost that loving feeling"
Isn't it deemed by musicologists that 5 consecutive same notes in a song constitutes plagiarism?

Bellycaster

chrisj1602 said:

Foo Fighters, Wheels = Tom Petty, Learning to Fly.

Very similar, yes.

imalone

Need an extra verse? Just drop in some of this:

(I think Mulvey is pretty candid about borrowing stuff)

bigdawg

pretty much most of paul wellers back book - and he openly admits it too

RocknRollDave

There are several Texas tunes that reference a lyric or a musical hint to existing songs, in my opinion.

Can't be bothered to post links to them cos, well, who wants to listen to Texas songs on a wet Thursday morning?