# Rock "samples" in rock songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 17, 2015, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560 "2015-09-17T14:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/41 "2015-09-18T01:09:45Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > John Entwistle’s “[I Believe in Everything](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqHHkxr4Hnw)” has a quote from “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” at the end. > > That’s a standard term for including a second (or third) song as part of the performance. Elton John interpolated “My Baby Left Me” and “Get Back” in his live version of “Burn Down the Mission,” for instance. > > Frankie Valli’s “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” includes a second song, “Going Out of My Head.” Per youtube: “The first song was written by Teddy Randazzo and Bobby Weinstein in 1964, and was recorded by Little Anthony, and the second is a 1967 single written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and recorded by Frankie Valli. The Lettermen combined the two” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/42 "2015-09-18T02:19:31Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > Barenaked Ladies lift riffs from Rush’s …“Spirit of Radio” in their song [“Grade 9.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLTZv2NFkLI) …which more or less quotes Simon and Garfunkel’s “Sounds of Silence.” (very similar lyric, and reasonably similar melody, in the quite-phrase). Whoa…meta! ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/43 "2015-09-18T02:26:37Z")
The Pogues musically quote the Beach Boys’ “You Still Believe in Me” in one of the tracks on _Hell’s Ditch_ - I can’t recall which. From the same album, in “Rain Street,” they also lyrically quote Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love?”. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/44 "2015-09-18T04:02:26Z")
These are great, guys! I’ve never heard of most of them! Of course, “Bittersweet Symphony” tho. Duh! ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/45 "2015-09-18T04:06:41Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > These are great, guys! I’ve never heard of most of them! > > Of course, “Bittersweet Symphony” tho. Duh! Who would recognize that anyway?. It bears no relation to the tune. It’s just lawsuits, and no interest to me. Makes me want to reevaluate the Andrew Loog Oldham Orchestra though. Someones getting ripped off and it’s not Mick and Keith, again. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/46 "2015-09-18T14:44:57Z")
The Who sampled themselves on _Quadrophenia,_ placing a snippet of “The Kids are Alright” at the end of “Is It In My Head?”. There are also a number of self-quotes (or re-uses of material) in Who songs… for example, the last line of “The Song Is Over” is the first line of “Pure and Easy”, and there’s an instrumental section in “Rael” that reappears in _Tommy._ And “Glow Girl” ends with “It’s a girl, Mrs. Walker, it’s a girl”. (I also contend that the “Tommy” leitmotif is derived from the instrumental part at the end of “My Generation”.) ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/47 "2015-09-18T15:41:30Z")
Carry On by CSNY ends with a verse from Questions, the Buffalo Springfield number. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/48 "2015-09-18T18:35:46Z")
Be-Bop Deluxe sampled themselves on the title cut of _Modern Music_… the track starts with the sound of someone flipping a radio dial, and snippets of a couple of earlier Be-Bop Deluxe songs, including “Axe Victim”, appear. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/49 "2015-09-18T19:38:15Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > The Who sampled themselves on _Quadrophenia,_ placing a snippet of “The Kids are Alright” at the end of “Is It In My Head?”. Don’t forget the “My-my-my-my-my g-g-g-generation” refrain in “The Punk Meets the Godfather.” ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/50 "2015-09-18T23:24:54Z")
Sugar Loaf plays the guitar riff from The Beatles’ “I Feel Fine” and Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” on their hit “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You”. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/51 "2015-09-18T23:35:38Z")
In Broken Arrow by Buffalo Springfield they have the drummer dewey martin singing a frat rock version of Mr Soul, from the same LP I think. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Richard\_John\_Marcej](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_John_Marcej)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2015, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/52 "2015-09-19T00:16:42Z")
In **Elton John’s** version of _“Pinball Wizard”_ He includes a quick line from **The Who’s** _"I Can’t Explain_. Later, when **The Who** covered **Elton’s** _“Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting”_ they included parts from _“Take Me To The Pilot”_ ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/53 "2015-09-24T19:18:25Z")
Neil Young’s “Long May You Run” quotes the Beach Boys’ “Caroline, No” (vocal harmonies and all). ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/54 "2015-09-24T19:22:35Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > In Broken Arrow by Buffalo Springfield they have the drummer dewey martin singing a frat rock version of Mr Soul, from the same LP I think. Good one. I don’t know the real story, but to me it sounds like a young Neil already wise behind his years, questioning and critiquing the vapid distractions of pop stardom. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/55 "2015-09-24T19:28:18Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > Carry On by CSNY ends with a verse from Questions, the Buffalo Springfield number. I thought this wasn’t so much a quote; rather, Stephen Stills had a half-finished song composed as BF was breaking up, and finished the song a year or two later for CSN. (Rather like Jimmy Page had a few half-composed numbers as the Yardbirds disintegrated, which he finished for Led Zeppelin soon thereafter. BTW, this happened around the same time as the Buffalo Springfield – CSN transition. The Yardbirds and BF inevitably bring to mind the same adjective: _seminal_.) ---
**Author:** ![Sparky812](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Sparky812](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sparky812)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/56 "2015-09-24T19:54:34Z")
> [@Typo\_Negative](#): > > **April Wine** ’s ‘_[I Like to Rock](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CB8QyCkwAGoVChMI3vmP8a3-xwIVS5ANCh0y_AiS&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYlcY_enzwmI&usg=AFQjCNHZ3VYqpCyRR26P7tLKFUrQz2bhcA)_’ has a piece at the end where one guitar plays ‘Daytripper’, another comes in with ‘Jumping Jack Flash’ and the 3rd Guitar plays the ‘I Like to Rock’ riff over the other 2. The second riff is actually “Satisfaction” > [@WordMan](#): > > I assume Kid Rock just paid rights to get Sweet Home Alabama, Werewolves, etc. for All Summer Long. He also sampled Fleetwood Mac’s “Second Hand News” for “Wasting Time” Not technically samples but: Metallica spoofed “Run To The Hills” at the end of their cover of The Misfit’s “Last Caress/Green Hell.” Sammy Hagar opens “Good Enough” with an impression of the Big Bopper’s “Hello Baby” Van Halen’s cover version of The Kinks’ “Where Have All the Good Times Gone” is closer to the guitar riff from “Tired of Waiting for You” rather than the original riff. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/57 "2015-09-24T20:52:38Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > Neil Young’s “Long May You Run” quotes the Beach Boys’ “Caroline, No” (vocal harmonies and all). It’s not a musical quotation, not the chords or notes. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/58 "2015-09-24T20:53:55Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > I thought this wasn’t so much a quote; rather, Stephen Stills had a half-finished song composed as BF was breaking up, and finished the song a year or two later for CSN. > > (Rather like Jimmy Page had a few half-composed numbers as the Yardbirds disintegrated, which he finished for Led Zeppelin soon thereafter. BTW, this happened around the same time as the Buffalo Springfield – CSN transition. The Yardbirds and BF inevitably bring to mind the same adjective: _seminal_.) Questions was a whole Springfield song. He used the verses of it in Carry On. How is that not a quote? ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/59 "2015-09-25T02:50:47Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > It’s not a musical quotation, not the chords or notes. Now you made me go back and listen to it. You’re right… but I could swear I’ve heard a version where they did use the tune. ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rock-samples-in-rock-songs/731560/60 "2015-09-25T21:07:34Z")
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