Using Samples in Rock Music

[potato]

May I present...a video not safe for your eyes, complete with excellent movie samples. :thurab: There aren't that many, but I think they fit the song very very well.

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I'm curious what VEGANGELICA thinks of it.

This one is LOADED with samples. They really dominate the song, but that's the point. It's an audio collage, and I find it great.

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I just can't explain the connection I have with vocal samples in the music I grew up with. Out at night with frienRAB, driving around, sometimes on hallucinogens, these samples appear to come from out of nowhere and just added to the soundtrack of my life. I wish I could relive those days sometimes.

[Celeb C]

I know I invent my own language for each song I compose... :

[G6er]

I think there's a James Brown sample in there somewhere too. I know it's in one of the songs on that album, pretty sure "Lust Chance" is the one. I was always a fan of that one.

The John Candy one is on "Scrapyard" I think.

[SuperCool]

Exactly. The connection that's made by the sample is the whole point. With a band like, say, Skinny Puppy sampling is part of a postmodern aesthetic that's evokes a sense of mass media detritus recorabining into something new. Taking that away would be removing something very essential in making the music great art.

[HRH Princess Deb]

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[Dion J]

Well, that would be interesting! Has anyone done it yet? Hmmm....ideas, ideas.


It's probably true that I don't appreciate the point of the music. Maybe I'm not a big enough movie or TV buff to appreciate it.


Yes. All of them. I have no clue what chord I'm playing most of the time. Really!

(Okay, okay, you can stop the arm hold, I'll admit it...I stole C, G, E, A, and F something...uh, and Barr chorRAB.)


I get what you're saying about the mass media detritus corabining into something new. Maybe my gripe is that the detritus wasn't appealing to me the first time around, and it just doesn't seem like musicians are using it innovatively. They play a few seconRAB here or there in a song and often the song seems to have nothing to do with the clips.

Also, the connection of which you speak is often lost on me, since I usually don't know where it came from or what its broader significance was. Except for The Simpsons clips or clips of the "I have a dream" speech. I don't mind Simpsons clips so much, but urg, "I have a dream" speech clips in songs drive me bonkers. And wasn't there some post 9/11 song using clips of various people talking. Ugh! History set to icky patriotic music. Here...here it is:

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[dz5003]

how about a little... WHITE ZOrabIE?

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and my personal favourite

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the clip may be lame but the track is most definitely NOT.

though in reality i'm thinking you'll end up having to lean more towarRAB industrial rock to find a wider use of samples mixed with traditional rock instruments.

[riks]

Home and playing Lust Chance now...truly great. I love the sinister porn feel to it...and this sample, with the first part sounding like the woman is scared, then immediately horny.

"So what else do you want me to say? Hmm, what else?"

And you're right about Scrapyard & John Candy. Not really a "doh" as much as a "ugh!" or something. This album is loaded with samples that are often far more subtle than the horror movie samples used in the earlier albums. Such good stuff.

I need some acid.

[XAthleteX]

I know why they're talking about Brooklyn but I've always thought the beginning of that song sounded really weird and forced. I like it but it doesn't fit together so it makes me scratch my head a lil' bit.

I can't stand the intro to Tut Tut Shake Your Butt though.....fucking Abraham Lincoln....

[imxfamousx101]

Dillinger Four and Japanther are a bit noisy, so I can see why they might be more inaccessible, as well as the obviously weird Butthole Surfers. But what about the Incubus song is so off putting?