Gnarls Barkley sample the spaghetti western Viva Django and get covered by a LOT of people. Including people that Gnarls Barley had sampled.
Dutch band City to City clones R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts into The Road Ahead
The sample used in So Much To Do comes from Zoveel te Doen
Professor Green and Lily allen cover Dub be Good to Me as produced by Norman Cook. Norman cook raided The Clash, Once Upon a Time in the West, Johnny Dynell and the original Just be Good to Me by the SOS Band.
The Delfonics make Ready or Not, the Jackson 5 covers it, the Fugees copy it, while sampling enya and that later gets covered by The Score.
What happens when the Sugababes sing Adina Howard’s Freak Like Me over Gary Numan’s Are Friends Electric?
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.
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?
