I know there’s something wrong about putting the Thong Song next to The Beatles and Wes Montgomery but think about it in these terms: two really good producers made a beat thinking about giving it to Michael Jackson, and the violin player on the track was a serious musician.
• The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
• Wes Montgomery – Eleanor Rigby
• Sisqo – Thong Song (produced by Bob Robinson and Tim Kelley)
I think the first time I heard about unauthorized sampling was when the Stones were suing “the fuck out” of The Verve. I didn’t quite understand what the Stones had to do with the song; I expected Jagger, guitars, and drums when I thought about them, so this seemed unrelated …
• The Andrew Oldham Orchestra – The Last Time
• The Verve – Bitter Sweet Symphony
• Evelyn “Champagne” King – The Show Is Over
• Ice Cube – You Know How We Do it
• Alicia Myers – I Want To Thank You
• U.P.I. – Without Love
• Marva Whitney – Unwind Yourself
• The 45 King – The 900 Number
• DJ Kool ft. Biz Markie & Doug E. Fresh – Let Me Clear My Throat
Para Sebastian, que cumplas muchos más!
• Fania – Cha Cha Cha
• Kool G. Rap – My Life
“I wish people back home could see how people went crazy to that song.” — Paul Johnson
• Hamilton Bohannon – Me and the Gang
• Paul Johnson – Get Get Down
MTV once referred to Fatboy Slim’s video as “technically and artistically substandard” and refused to play it. The label gave Fatboy one (or many) of those classic speeches about how nobody’s going to play it and the artist will be ruined … Fatboy Slim refused to change it.
VH1 picked it up at some point, it became a sort of viral hit, before the internet. A few months later, the video won an MTV award, and an MTV Europe award because, of course, MTV recognizes artistry.
Aside from the video, let’s just take a moment to appreciate what a master of sampling Fatboy Slim is.
• Camille Yarbrough – Take Yo’ Praise
• Hoyt Axton – Balance and Rehearsal (documents the recording of the track “Captain America”)
• Steve Miller Band – Lucky Man
• Fatboy Slim — Praise You
• The Lost Generation – This Is The Lost Generation
• Die Fantastischen Vier – Tag am Meer MTV Unplugged
• Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots
• George Michael – Fastlove
• Instant Funk – Got My Mind Made Up (1978 Disco Version)
• De La Soul feat. Q-Tip and Vinia Mojica – A Roller Skating Jam Named “Saturdays”
• Got My Mind Made Up (ft. Dat Nigga Daz, Kurupt, Method Man, Redman)
De La Bonus:
• Mighty Ryeders – Evil Vibrations
• Young Holt Unlimited – Light My Fire
The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) Fortnight, Week 3 (one more nut): all these tunes, most of them House, will throw sex sounds, or sex lyrics—sooner or later.
“Most genius hypnotic loop ever” — DJ Pierre
• Lil’ Louis – French Kiss
The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) Fortnight, Week 2: all these tunes (most of them House) will throw sex sounds or sex lyrics, sooner or later.
• The Castle Beat – Today, Tomorrow and Forever
• Raze – Break 4 Luv
The Not Safe For Work (NSFW) fortnight: all the tunes these next couple of weeks (most of them House) will throw sex sounds or sex lyrics, sooner or later
• Taana Gardner – Heartbeat
• DMX – It’s All Good
• The O’Jays – Help (Somebody Please)
• The Diplomats – More Than Music
2020 Tokyo Olympics Edition (Skateboarding is in the Olympics!)
• James Brown – The Boss
• Floorplan – Baby, Baby
• Skater: Paul Rodriguez
• Video: Yeah Right
2020 Tokyo Olympics Edition (Skateboarding is in the Olympics!)
This has always seemed like an “obvious” sample, so I hadn’t put it on Sample Tuesday. But, when you think about it, the Aerosmith song was long-gone when the Eminem one came out. (Mind you that Steven Tyler hasn’t sounded like this in a long time so even to kids that liked Aerosmith at the time—”Jaded” was their single at the time—it wasn’t obvious that this was the same band.)
These were the times of Limp Bizkit and Christina Aguilera, before streaming and easily accessible downloads. Now we can play the Classic Rock station or whatever and it’s “obvious” that Eminem “just lifted” the sample from the Aerosmith song but in 2003 this really was fresh and strange. True to Rap tradition, this was digging an interesting sound out of the record crate and introducing a new generation to it.
• Aerosmith – Dream On
• Eminem – Sing For The Moment
• Skater: Rodney Mullen
• Video: Second Hand Smoke (Plan B)
2020 Tokyo Olympics Edition (Skateboarding is in the Olympics!)
This month is dedicated to all my homies out there grinding, legally and illegally
• Lupe Fiasco – Kick, Push
• Celeste Legaspi – Bolero Medley
Hey!
• James Brown – Funky President
• Kym Sims – Take My Advice (Hurley’s Extended Mix)
Extra:
• Kym Sims – Too Blind To See It (Hurley’s Dub Mix)
• Roslyn & Charles – Send Me
• Dilated Peoples – You Can’t Hide, You Can’t Run
Massive Tunes 