5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times

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"Everyone steals, there are only 12 notes."

Fun fact: every book ever is a remix of the dictionary

to the people who hate sampling: listen to some old experimental Daft Punk, they use samples in such a way that it becomes something else entirely. its crazy :)

This is the internet I singed up for

the copyright claims on this video must be fantastic.

When I first heard U Can't Touch This I was super freaked. Then I heard Ice Ice Baby and was under pressure to figure out where I'd heard that tune before.

The song you’ve probably never heard, but you have heard in literally thousands of other songs, is Amen Brother by The Winstons. The “Amen Break” is based on a sample of the drum solo from this song and there are entire genres built around this one sample.

So, you don't actually know there isn't some quartet of humpback whales that do satirical covers of popular whalesongs, do you?

Animals: sing a song to alert help Humans: r r r re-re-re-REMIX

Labi siffre is so underrated. He deserves more fans and listens I only found him through Spotify recommending him and now I absolutely love him.

I remember hearing Crazy Town's Butterfly on the radio all the time in the early 2000s, but only later realized that the guitar riff is from RHCP's Pretty Little Ditty. What made it funny was that RHCP has basically always been my favorite band, just had never heard that specific song before.

The Eminem sound happened because Dr. Dre played it for him the first time they met up and he just freestyled on it. There’s a cool documentary somewhere where they both talk about it

Self awareness. What a beautiful thing.

This doesn't just happen in music, it's pretty much what makes art, well, art.

Producers like Madliab and the Alchemist (which I’m sure many of you will be familiar with if you’re avid listeners of hiphop) are the two that really proved sampling songs themselves is a whole art. It isn’t “cheating” or “copying” it takes so much time and effort to make a sample work. It really is a beautiful craft of its own. A sample I’m particularly enjoying right now is Kayne’s “I wonder” which sampled a song named “my song”. Great sample.

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My favorite sample is “wish I was a rich man” from fiddler on the roof and Gwen stefani used it in her song “rich girl”

There’s a Leadbelly song called “Let It Shine on Me” where he talks/plays you through the origin and changes of his music from hymns through gospel to the blues by performing the same song in different styles. It’s an awesome little history lesson

Samples research is increibly fun cause you get the original song of course, but then you also get pretty much most of the songs that use it. Take "Alien Superstar" by Beyonce, you heard that chorus before for sure. It's a different take but the foundation is unchanged. You go back to "I'm Too Sexy" by Right Said Fred. Now you know that "Way 2 Sexy", "Look What You Made Me Do", and "Get Sexy" all used this sample. And then there's more, the original song itself also uses samples to make it. Next thing you know went from Beyonce to The Turtles in 30 minutes 🤣🤣