Cool website: Whosampled.com

[pinkoos]

http://www.whosampled.com/

Type in any artist or song and see who "borrowed" from whom. Very interesting. For example, Beck's "Jack-ass" has a very mesmerizing track throughout the song. Turns out that was sampled from Them's, "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue."

There's even the ability to hear the sample from the original track.

There's an iOS app as well, $2.99.

[rob banzai]

This is really cool because it finds cover songs.

[michaelb]

Pretty cool. As a sometime fan of Girl Talk, when I listen to his crazy remixes it feels like a music trivia game as I try to keep up, and usually I do badly. So this is a complete cheat, listing all 15-20 samples per song.

[Uncle Wig]

This is a great way of finding out who lacks the talent to write their own damn songs.

[silvarios]

Uncle Wig wrote:
This is a great way of finding out who lacks the talent to write their own damn songs.

Completely disagree.

[decay]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=Uncle Wig]
This is a great way of finding out who lacks the talent to write their own damn songs.

Completely disagree.
another disagreement.

maybe not 'write' in the old sense - but then again, The Beatles started out on covers, didn't they?

[kj]

silvarios wrote:
[quote=Uncle Wig]
This is a great way of finding out who lacks the talent to write their own damn songs.

Completely disagree.
No doubt. Paul's Boutique is one big sample, and brilliant. In a way, isn't playing guitar in a song sort of copying everyone else who has? I mean, come up with your own instrument, you hack ;-) At any rate, everything borrows from something. Except for Captain Beefheart. I don't know what that was. kj.

[decay]

there's lazy sampling, like Can't Touch This, and then there's creative sampling.

[Uncle Wig]

decay wrote:
[quote=silvarios]
[quote=Uncle Wig]
This is a great way of finding out who lacks the talent to write their own damn songs.

Completely disagree.
another disagreement.

maybe not 'write' in the old sense - but then again, The Beatles started out on covers, didn't they?
Learning how to cover a song is a lot different from copying and pasting someone else's song.

Clearly it's the lazy sampling Decay mentions; I perceive all sampling as lazy but maybe one of these days I'll try to seek out the non-lazy kind. Maybe.

[silvarios]

Uncle Wig wrote: Learning how to cover a song is a lot different from copying and pasting someone else's song.

Clearly it's the lazy sampling Decay mentions; I perceive all sampling as lazy but maybe one of these days I'll try to seek out the non-lazy kind. Maybe.

Hope you don't like Lord of the Rings. Tolkien "sampled" quite a bit to make his own story. Human kind's advancements are always built on top the shoulders of giants. This nonsense where only music is held to special accountability is silly.