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I really like their use in music. Any genre is welcome, hip-hop, electronic, etc.

Using samples/excerpts is somewhat common in post-rock, a genre that is lyrically mute but sometimes has intros or outros using samples/excerpts from real life, film or TV.

Some examples (all of mine are in the beginning except for Maybeshewill which I timestamped automatically):

The Evpatoria Report - Taijin Kyofusho. Uses communication from CAPCOM to the crew that was aboard the Columbia shuttle mission that ended in disaster when it disintegrated and them trying to re-establish connection. It uses a bit of it in the beginning and up to about 3:14. This is my favourite.

PLT (Willie McCool): OK Houston, we're gonna start APUs 1 and 3 now.
CAPCOM (Charlie Hobaugh): And Willie, we're with you on remaining APU start.
CAPCOM: And Columbia, the Hyd Fluid Thermal Conditioning will not be required today... we'll meet you on the cards
PLT: We copy Houston, Hyd Fluid Thermal Conditioning not required and we copy going to the cards.
CAPCOM: And Rick, don't wanna lead you astray, and don't forget the stuff on page 3-44 .
CDR (Rick Husband): Alright we're checking that, we got the flight controller power on and we're working through the rest of it as well, thanks.
CAPCOM: Sounds good.
CAPCOM: Columbia, Houston, for Rick we'll take another ITEM 27 please
...
CAPCOM: Columbia, Houston, comm check.
CAPCOM: Columbia, Houston, UHF comm check...

Explosions in the Sky - Have You Passed Through This Night? Uses the very well known narration from Private Edward P. Train in the film The Thin Red Line.

This great evil, where's it come from? How'd it steal into the world? What seed, what root did it grow from? Who's doing this? Who's killing us, robbing us of life and light, mocking us with the sight of what we might've known? Does our ruin benefit the earth, does it help the grass to grow, the sun to shine? Is this darkness in you, too? Have you passed through this night?

Maybeshewill - Not For Want Of Trying. Uses the very well known scene from Howard Beale in the film Network.

I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter.

Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.'

Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!'

Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"

Daturah - Ghost Track. Uses a sample from the Photojournalist in Apocalypse Now film.

One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions – what are you going to land on – one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

Daturah - War Machines. Uses a sample from Lope de Aguirre in Aguirre, Wrath of God film. (In German)

Ich bin der große Verräter. Es darf keinen größeren geben. Wer auch nur wagt ans Davonlaufen zu denken wird in 198 Teile zerstückelt und auf ihm wird dann solange herumgetrampelt bis man die Wände mit ihm streichen kann. Wer auch nur ein Korn Mais zu viel isst und einen Tropfen Wasser zu viel trinkt, der wird dafür eingesperrt für 155 Jahre. Wenn ich Aguirre will, dass die Vögel tot von den Bäumen fallen, dann fallen die Vögel tot von den Bäumen herunter. Ich bin der Zorn Gottes. Die Erde über die ich gehe sieht mich und bebt. Wer aber mir und dem Fluss folgt, wird unerhörten Reichtum erlangen.

English translation/version:
I am the great traitor. There must be no other. Anyone who even thinks about deserting this mission will be cut up into 198 pieces. Those pieces will be stamped on until what is left can be used only to paint walls. Whoever takes one grain of corn or one drop of water... more than his ration, will be locked up for 155 years. If I, Aguirre, want the birds to drop dead from the trees... then the birds will drop dead from the trees. I am the wrath of God. The earth I pass will see me and tremble. But whoever follows me and the river, will win untold riches. But whoever deserts...

 

[Maklershed]

Ah perfect, an excuse to bring up Deep Puddle Dynamics. One of my favorite songs, Where the Wild Things Are samples the Jason theme at 2:44

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuwbCBrgZlM


And of course there's Avalanches 'Since I Left You' .. the whole album is samples. A lot from old library recordings / spoken word records.

 

[Already Torn]

I am the Walrus has a few lines from King Lyre at the end.

Uma Thurman rips off the munsters theme

 

[keffri]

Handguns - Self Portrait

Opens with a line from Dwayne from Little Miss Sunshine.

"...Life is one fucking beauty contest after another. School, then college, then work... Fuck that. And fuck the Air Force Academy. If I want to fly, I'll find a way to fly. You do what you love, and fuck the rest."

 

[Kraftwerk]

Biosphere - Kobresia

Biosphere is the main recording name of Geir Jenssen (born 1962), a Norwegian musician who has released a notable catalogue of ambient electronic music. His 1997 album Substrata is generally seen as one of the all-time classic ambient albums.

Track 7: Kobresia - "Это либо металл, либо... Если металл, то крашенный... холодная поверхность... " speech in Russian sampled from a documentary recording about Russian telepathic Karl Nikolaev who's sitting in a room trying to guess which item is lying on a table situated in a room two stages above him. This sample is taken from a Moscow radio broadcast translation. Near translation into English is:

"This is either a metal, or... if it is a metal, then it's painted... cold surface... This is either a metal, painted, or could be a plastic... Colorful, there are... Bright... Seems like... is this a toy, probably? The surface is smooth, but... there are some bumps on it... Even the finger stucks in it... Probably it is... some marks, or is this a letters?... Or just a bumps... Looks like a toy... Colorful metal, or a plastic... painted metal... That's all.. Stop.

 

[teruterubozu]

An old club favorite:

PQM - You Are Sleeping

You pick up this working girl,
who's hooked on smack,
who hustles and scores.
"That's all I do," she says.

She says, "ten bucks for head, fifteen for half and half."
She says, "three hits a day at thirty-five per."
You say, "that's seven tricks a day at least."
"But," she says, "sometimes I get lucky."
"Once this guy gives me a bill and a half just to eat me.
Only time I ever came."

You figure you can save her.

You sell your color TV.
That keeps her off the streets a whole day.
You hock your typewriter for one jolt.
Then your shotgun, your watch.

A week later, you say, "listen, I'm a little short."
But she says, "no scratch, no snatch."
You say, "look, it is better to give."
"But," she says, "beat off, creep."

One night they spot you on the street in your skivvies,
trying to sell your shoes.
You tell them who you are,
but they nail you.

Then she happens by,
and she says, "Christ, you look fucked."
She says, "hang tough."

But you don't say anything.
You just think, what a bum rap for a nice, sensitive guy like me.

Apparently from some spoken word performance, but now a classic.

 

[gdt]

Ni**as in Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG_dA32oH44

 

[Myriadis]

"Last chance to evacuate planet earth before it is recycled" by Porcupine Tree uses a sample of the last speech of the Heavens Gate cult leader before he and his cult committed suicide. It's kinda unnerving and strange that it's used on such a beautiful and positive song.

 

[Jawbreaker]

"Love/Hate" by Dystopia. It's one of the darkest things I have in my collection, but it works fantastically. It's probably more fun listening to it and figuring out where some of the clips are from, but a few are

Spoiler

Grease (film)
River's Edge (film)
The Blues Brothers (film)
Edmund Kemper (serial killer)
Kathleen Hanna (band, Bikini Kill)

Possibly NSFL.

 

[Skyler]

Boards of Canada frequently sample stuff from old 70s and 80s media.

A few examples:

Dandelion
Leslie Nielson's voice over from a National Geographic film about underwater volcanic explosions and capturing a sea dandelion.

Sixtyniner (2:16-2:55)
A monologue, taken from a pornographic film, in which a young man tells of his first sexual experience.

Aquarius
The word "orange", children's laughter, and the same children saying "yeah, that's right" from a vintage Sesame Street episode.

 

[torre_avenue]

The Avalanches - Since I Left You

The Avalanches - Radio

The Avalanches - Frontier Psychiatrist

Actually, you know what? Just listen to the album. The album has the whole wonderfully marries all these different samples from film, television, and music into one gorgeous layered package.

 

[Fritz]

MFG by Fantastische 4 uses the intro of the light show they held for tourists at the pyramids of Giza, which I thought was really neat.

Oh, first vid is slightly nsfw

 

[Super Wario]

DJ Paul - Play My Game. Classic Hardcore/Gabber song with samples from the movie On Deadly Ground starring Steven Seagal. Listen to the song first and then check out the bar fight scene between Steven Seagal and Mike Star, where the samples are taken from.

 

[bennywhatever]

Dream Theater - A Change of Seasons

It has the part from Dead Poet's Society where the guy reads:

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying."

It also has Robin Williams going "Caaaaaarpe Diiiiem. Seiiiiiize the daaaaaaaaay."

 

[likeGdid]

Starfucker - Reptilians uses a lot of Alan Watts throughout the album

which I think is how got into his lectures

 

[HazySaiyan]

Pusha T - What Dreams Are Made Of

Samples what's one of Ric Flair's most famous promos.

 

[ghostjoke]

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks samples Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs.

Aphex Twin - We Are The Music Makers samples Willy Wonka.

65daysofstatic - Retreat! Retreat! samples Singles.

DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing....." also has a fair few on top of the music sampling basis.

Pusha T - What Dreams Are Made Of

Samples what's one of Ric Flair's most famous promos.

The "WOOOO" samples are perfection.

 

[Machine]

This is Your Life from the Fight Club soundtrack

 

[blame space]

I am the Walrus has a few lines from King Lyre at the end.

Uma Thurman rips off the munsters theme

That's a sample.

Love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZurS1L3cV48

 

[Shaffield]

The Books - "A Cold Freezin Night"

 

[Xero]

crystal method had that song that was the beginning to the dark crystal. Also the gorillas had one where it was just the guy from day of the dead saying "heellooo? Is anybody there?"

 

[NinjaCoachZ]

An episode of the Hancock Half Hour uses the phrase "Would you stop playing with that radio of yours? I'm trying to get to sleep!"

This ended up in both Too Funky by George Michael, and Let Mom Sleep by Hideki Naganuma (from Jet Set Radio).

And speaking of Naganuma...

Malcolm X's "too black, too strong" coffee speech --> "Wrapped in Black" from Sonic Rush and "Bring the Noise" by Public Enemy

Stokely Carmichael's "understand the concept of love" from the Free Huey Newton speech --> "The Concept of Love" from Jet Set Radio Future

Of course it's worth noting that these are from sample packs which Naganuma uses to compose his soundtrack, so he didn't take them right from the source.

 

[blame space]

I didn't even know you could sample reality.

 

[Syriel]

Moby's Re-version of the James Bond Theme.

 

[DOBERMAN INC]

Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKbtFljucQ

Charlie Chaplin’s speech from The Great Dictator

“To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. ..... Don’t give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! ….. You are men! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. ….. let us use that power - let us all unite.”

 

[March of the Crabs]

The opening song on my favourite album of last year Transmission.Alpha.Delta by the greatest punk/metal/prog band Strung Out is called Rats in the Walls and it opens with that famous Charlie Chaplin speech from the Great Dictator all distorted and creepy. Amazing way to open an album. Gives me chills.
Whole album is below, but since the song opens the album, the clip is right at the beginning.
https://youtu.be/TMGMKv4iVPY

 

[Frodo]

Madonna's What it Feels Like for a Girl uses a excerpt from the film The Cement Garden. And it's glorious.

Girls can wear jeans
And cut their hair short
Wear shirts and boots
'Cause it's OK to be a boy
But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading
'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading
But secretly you'd love to know what it's like
Wouldn't you
What it feels like for a girl

 

[Creamium]

Pinback - Boo uses samples from Orson Welles' War of the Worlds (if radio counts too)

Also: great song and album

Tool - Third Eye starts with Bill Hicks and bits from that show are used further in

 

[chronic_archaic]

Dream Theater - Space Dye Vest
Kevin Moore really liked this stuff

The first sample in SDV is from the Merchant/Ivory film "A Room With A View". The complete passage says:

"...he's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at, like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real, or to think, or to live. He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms...it's our last chance." These lines are spoken by actor Julian Sands' character, George Emerson. In this pivotal scene, he's trying to convince the woman he loves, Lucy Honeychurch (played by Helena Bonham-Carter), who is engaged to be married to someone else, that she's making a horrible mistake and that she truly belongs with him instead.

Another interesting connection between SDV and A Room With A View is that Kevin based most of the song around a chord progression that's actually from the background music in movie! It only appears a couple of times in very short sections, but it's definitely the same chord progression that Kevin used in SDV.

This sample was taken from TV commentator Jim Hill of KCBS in Los Angeles during the O.J. Simpson police chase:

"Some people gave advice before about facing the facts, about facing reality. And this is, this without a doubt, is his biggest challenge ever. He's going to have to face it. You're gonna have to try, he's gonna have to try and, uh, and, and, and get some help here. I mean, you know, now no one can say they know how he feels..."

The following is from an episode of Late Night with Conan O'Brien (unconfirmed):

"That's what they say that, like that in Houston, or something. They say 'yeah, it's 180 degrees, but it's a dry heat.'"
"In Houston they say that?"
"Oh, maybe not, I'm all mixed up."
"Dry until they hit the swimming pool."

These samples have been identified as being taken from the documentary "The Trouble With Evan," from a Canadian series called "The Fifth Estate":

Evan's stepfather: (unintelligible talking)"...I'll get up with the sun...she doesn't, she doesn't want you to sleep in...I don't care what you do, I don't care what you say, you're grounded... that door gets locked, that door gets locked at night by 9 o'clock. If you're not in this house by 9 o'clock, then you'd better find someplace to sleep...you think you can go to your mom's house and sucker her into it?..."(unintelligible talking)
Evan: "I can move out on my own, uhm, get a job, get my own place... I'll go to the mall whenever I like... they tell me I'm much too young..."

 

[A Fish Aficionado]

Public Service Broadcasting is made just for you.

Public Service Broadcasting - Sputnik

Public Service Broadcasting - Go!

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - GAGARIN

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - London Can Take It

 

[kidtamagotchi]

Gorillaz's M1A1 samples Day of the Dead.

https://youtu.be/HWvPWQCWbsU

 

[Dishwalla]

The original version of The Lawrence Arms' "Quincentuple Your Money" uses a clip from The Simpsons.

 

[TheChaos0]

Public Service Broadcasting is made just for you.

Public Service Broadcasting - Sputnik

Public Service Broadcasting - Go!

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - GAGARIN

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING - London Can Take It

Was just about to post this.

Echolyn's The Fountainhead, which contains the extracts from 1949's movie with the same name. Can't seem to find it anywhere other than Spotify/GPlay/etc.