Which hit single was most dependent on a sample?

[ZipperJJ]

The aforementioned “I’ll Be Missing You” and “U Can’t Touch This” are two of the biggest hits that come to mind for me.

And I agree that samples can be wonderful and creative af (I think “Jump Around” is a creative mix), but those two examples strike me as quite lazy.

[RickJay]

@Slash1972

Ice, Ice Baby.

Thread should have been closed right here.

[GargoyleWB]

Tone Loc’s Wild Thing rests heavily on the sampled Alex Van Halen drum roll riff.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

What was the Beastie Boys song that ripped off Zeppelin’s, “The Ocean”?

[Darth_Sensitive]

@The_wind_of_my_soul

Personal opinion #1: I disagree, I think the sampling makes the song.

Personal opinion #2: I’m having so much fun learning new things in this thread that I kinda wish the question asked was not “which hit single was most dependent on a sample?” but simply “which hit single used which sample?”. Maybe the thread will go that way anyways.

Go try out WhoSampled.com

[EinsteinsHund]

@burpo_the_wonder_mutt

What was the Beastie Boys song that ripped off Zeppelin’s, “The Ocean”?

She’s Crafty. The Beasties had a soft spot for Led Zep.

ETA: Not mentioned in the article: The drum lead into What Comes Round is from Moby Dick. Not that Led Zep ever ripped somebody off…

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

@EinsteinsHund

<snip> Not that Led Zep ever ripped somebody off… <snip>

Heaven forfend.

Did the Beasties’ “You Gotta Fight (For Your Right)” or “Girls” have sampling in them?

[RealityChuck]

Winner and still champion even after 60 years: The Flying Saucer. It samples from 17 songs of the time, and reached number 3. Without the sampling, the song does not exist.

Here’s the song.

[burpo_the_wonder_mutt]

^ Oh, no! that’s Dickie Goodman, who had some hits in the early '70s (like “Mr. Jaws”) using the same technique.

You’re a monster, Chuck!

[msmith537]

Symphonies - Dan Black / Kid Cudi samples the soundtrack to the film “Starman”.

[simster]

@RealityChuck

Winner and still champion even after 60 years: The Flying Saucer. It samples from 17 songs of the time, and reached number 3. Without the sampling, the song does not exist.

Here’s the song.

I wouldn’t call that sampling tho - not in the same sense as the aforementioned IceIceBaby and others that try and ‘hide’ the samples as their own -

[Kamino_Neko]

@simster

I wouldn’t call that sampling tho - not in the same sense as the aforementioned IceIceBaby and others that try and ‘hide’ the samples as their own -

1. As mentioned, Ice Ice Baby’s riff is not a sample, it’s a plain ripoff of Under Pressure, but one that was played ‘fresh’.

2. ‘Sample’ does not mean ‘ripoff’.

[DCnDC]

Just FYI: If we’re talking hip-hop, be aware that almost 100% of every hip-hop song ever produced is built on one of just ten major “break beats”: https://www.whosampled.com/news/2010/04/29/the-10-most-sampled-breakbeats-of-all-time/

[Sir_T-Cups]

Pretty much everything from WIll Smith.

Not just the aforementioned MiB, but also Wild Wild West and more.

Does anyone remember that song that was almost a beat-for-beat ripoff of “Ignition”, but didn’t sample it. All it did was mirror the tone almost exactly.

[msmith537]

Sample also doesn’t have to mean “another song”.

Me So Horney - 2 Live Crew

Joker and Rafterman meet a prostitute - Full Metal Jacket

[Hampshire]

I don’t think the EMF song unbelievable would have been much of a song without the Andrew Dice Clay samples.