Best and Worst Uses of Samples?

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hereforashortime
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What are your favorite and least favorite uses of a sample in a song?
Favorite: I'm coming out by diana ross in Mo Money Mo Problems by Biggie
Least Favorite: Smells like teen spirit in Jay Z's Holy Grail
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Death Grips use samples in some of the most creative ways I've seen. A perfect example of this would be that somehow they managed to use grunts from a Williams Sisters tennis match in their song System Blower.

Lemme just leave this link http://www.whosampled.com/Death-Grips/

Death Grips pull of some magnificent sampling but they can't beat the #1 sample and mashup artists there is, Neil Cicierega:


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Jimmy Dread
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Entroducing has surely got to qualify as the best use of samples, simply as the entire album is made up of samples. Or are we talking one-off samples in specific tracks here?
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Jimmy Dread wrote:
Best?

Entroducing.

All of it.


Wholeheartedly agreed
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LordMark
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To name a few off the top of my head (for BEST):

- "The Sounds of Science" by Beastie Boys (samples "The End" by The Beatles)
- "Rhymin' and Stealin'" by Beastie Boys (samples "When The Levee Breaks" by Led Zeppelin and "Sweet Leaf" by Black Sabbath
- "Glory Box" by Portishead (samples "Ike's Rap II" by Isaac Hayes)
- nearly every track on Massive Attack's Blue Lines, Protection, and Mezzanine albums
- nearly every track on The Avalanches' Since I Left You album


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LordMark
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souplipton wrote:
Jimmy Dread wrote:
Best?

Entroducing.

All of it.


Wholeheartedly agreed


How the hell is this masterpiece not in the BEA top 100?
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RoundTheBend
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Odelay by Beck

Probably has both the best and worst use of samples... hahaha. At least I've heard mixed feelings about his sampling in there. I on the other hand like it... although this was my favorite album of his in the late 90s/early 2000s, I just don't listen to it anymore.
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The best uses of sampling are when you don't hear a sample.

The worst are when you do.

We shall be having a discussion about this in one of our upcoming album discussion parties Mr. Green hint hint.
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We've all heard it a thousand times but "Stan" by Eminem.

He samples in so much of his music, but something about Dido's "Thank You" in "Stan" clicks. Great song.


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