David Guetta and Usura sample directly from two tracks from the Simple Minds album from 1982: New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84).

In 1976 Max Romeo and Lee “Scratch” Perry write the song I Chase the Devil, which in 1992 is sampled by The Prodigy in Out of Space.

A clone song mimics the original song, without being the same song. Save my Soul by Superglue totally sounds like Radiohead’s Karma Police, but isn’t the same song.

Gloria Jones records a song Tainted love which gets popularized by Soft Cell and eventually gets covered by Marilyn Manson and sampled for a Riihanna track.

The Staple singers get covered by The Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones get covered by Andrew Oldham (and The Who). Andrew Oldham gets sampled by The Verve (who end up getting sued). The Verve gets sampled by Mark van Dalen. Irony?

In this week’s Origin of Samples-post a classic case of who’s stealing from who. In 1991 a relatively unknown Seattle band Pearl Jam released an album entitled ‘Ten‘. One track from that album would go on to be one of the anthems of its generation at the explosion of the grunge hype: ‘Alive‘. Only a […]

Led Zeppelin covers When the Levee Breaks from Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie and a drum loop from the Led Zeppelin version gets sampled in many many tracks.

The track A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails borrows its tune from David Bowie’s Crystal Japan. But that’s not the only connection between the two.

It’s fairly common that the same song gets sampled and used by multiple artists, but there’s one example in which this led to a bit of controversy. To today’s generation Isaac Hayes is best known as Chef from Southpark, but right up to his death in 2008 he was also an accomplished musician. One of […]

An interesting story surrounds the soundtrack of the otherwise rightfully forgotten film The Adventurers (1970). The music for the soundtrack is by Antonio Carlos Jobim and is arranged and conducted by Eumir Deodato (remember this name!).  In the same year famous producer/composer  Quincy Jones decided to re-score the whole thing and produced his own funked […]