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 […]
Some great songs lean on samples of even better songs. One example is Labi Siffre’s I got the (blues). It’s a great summer night soul song, you can put on and hang back. Until about halfway through the song there’s a small break and something familiar starts up. And then you realise you’re listening to […]
