Timmy Thomas is a soul and R&B musician who had an unexpected Top 5 Billboard hit with “Why Can’t We Live Together,” a heartfelt plea for peace and tolerance backed only by rhythm-box percussion and organ. Contains sample of "This Wreckage" performed and written by Gary Numan and licensed courtesy of Beggars Banquet Records Ltd. and "M.E." It’s a little of both, and that’s what’s so fun about it. OOMMGG!!! "Where's Your Head At" is a song by British electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. Pitbull's On the Floor sample of Kaoma's Lambada, DJ Snake feat. "Where's Your Head At" by Basement Jaxx sampled Gary Numan's "M.E.". Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and written by the nightclub-singer-turned-minister Tommy Butler. Artists like Edwin Birdsong and Ballin’ Jack aren’t household names, but their music is instantly recognizable as the samples behind hit pop songs. Report wrong information or missing video, Where's Your Head at (Stanton Warriors Remix), Where's Your Head at (Sounds of Da Future Remix), Skrillex's Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Jennifer Lopez feat. The man then meets up with a scientist (played by Czech actor Petr Janiš), who then shows him his idea – monkeys playing music – with the help of several props. (2001) Sampled M.E on Where's Your Head At? Meanwhile, an unconscious guitarist is shown being wheeled away in a hospital gurney, with the song starting when he lifts his head. performed by Gary Numan, "This Wreckage" performed by Gary Numan. (2001), Sampled I Dream Of Wires on Gotta Get Mine (1993), Sampled The Aircrash Bureau on Hold It Down (2008), Sampled Films on Sound of the Zeekers @#ˆ**? Basement Jaxx ‎– The Singles Label: XL Recordings ‎– XLCD187 Format: CD, Compilation Country: UK Released: 2005 ... Track 6 contains credit samples of "M.E." But the best samples collapse music’s past and present into one moment, and light up paths that like-minded listeners can follow backward into music history — to the obscure, the forgotten, the I’ve-heard-it-before-but-not-like-that. The monkey's face then becomes more human in appearance. performed and written by Gary Numan and licensed courtesy of Beggars Banquet Records Ltd. Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B's Taki Taki. But You’ve Heard Them. SO CLOSE TO SIX!! The protagonist seems unconvinced by the presentation. www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/arts/music/pop-hip-hop-samples.html The music video, directed by Traktor,[2] starts out with a man (played by Damien Samuels) entering an undisclosed location ("the armpit of nowhere" as he calls it) to meet up with a man who claims to have "the latest thing in pop music". Basement Jaxx Sampled M.E on Where's Your Head At? Discover all Basement Jaxx's music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download. It turns out the "latest thing in pop music" is actually an experiment where musicians' brains are being transferred to monkeys, and he's planned to be the next victim. Sampled in: Len, “Steal My Sunshine” (1999). Copyright © 2020 WhoSampled.com Limited. Three monkeys are brought into the chamber and start to play the instruments – it's revealed that their faces are actually those of humans (two of the monkeys have the faces of band members Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe). Made on RaveDJ at https://rave.dj/6BcnkXabyzaA9w Make your own Mix or Mashup at https://rave.dj Support RaveDJ on Patreon! The band Basement Jaxx had a huge hit in 2002 with "Where's Your Head At", which relied on a sample of Numan's "M.E. Sampled M.E on Where's Your Head At? Covered Friends on Random Album. You May Not Know These 15 Songs. Discover all Gary Numan's music connections, watch videos, listen to music, discuss and download. All rights reserved. Portishead harnessed its atmosphere for “Sour Times,” one of the most memorable tracks on its debut album “Dummy,” and the band’s Geoff Barrow went on to gather some TV credits of his own, scoring sci-fi shows like “Hanna” and “Devs.”. Selena Gomez, Ozuna and Cardi B's Taki Taki sample of KSHMR's Whistle 01 (Dm) 85bpm. She may not have had a follow-up to rival “More, More, More,” a breathy, glittery disco number alluding to her work as an adult-film actress, but that song’s breakdown was off-kilter funky enough to power two hits: It’s also the backbone of “Steal My Sunshine,” a quintessentially ’90s track by the Canadian group Len. Sampled Are "Friends" Electric on Freak Like Me (2002), Covered Stormtrooper In Drag on Random Album, Gary Numan Songs That Have Been Covered Or Sampled. 1979. Pop Will Eat Itself Covered Friends on Random Album. The third or fourth time, it’s “How was this not a hit?”, Sampled in: Portishead, “Sour Times” (1994), The pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin is best known for TV’s “Mission: Impossible” theme, and “Danube Incident,” created for one of the show’s episodes, is slinkier music to spy to. 6: 6. The funk and disco musician Edwin Birdsong, who died in 2019, left a lasting legacy both on his own records and the next generation’s. The guitar riff running through “Devil’s Haircut” was actually replayed in the studio, not sampled. “Sampling Is (a) Creative or (b) Theft,” read a New York Times headline in 1997, summarizing a debate that has raged ever since songs started incorporating parts of other songs. Sampled in: Dr. Dre featuring Snoop Dogg, “Nuthin’ but a ‘G’ Thang” (1992). Covered We Have A Technical with Matt Sharp on Random Album. Pop Will Eat Itself Covered Friends on Random Album. Covered Friends on Random Album. and "This Wreckage". The protagonist, now horrified, sees a diagram on the wall showcasing pictures of a human brain pointing towards several monkey brains. Sampled in: Public Enemy, “Show ’Em Whatcha Got” (1988); Wreckx-N-Effect, “Rump Shaker” (1992), The Long Island funk group formerly known as the Bobby Boyd Congress met the musician and producer Pierre Jaubert in Paris and became the Lafayette Afro Rock Band, recording a saxophone intro for the ages on “Darkest Light.” Depending on your taste in hip-hop, those five notes are best known as a Public Enemy “Nation of Millions” interlude or for providing the boom to Wreckx-N-Effect’s “zoom-a-zoom-a-zoom-zoom.” (Bonus fact: A young Pharrell Williams is credited on “Rump Shaker” for writing Teddy Riley’s rap. The laboratory secretary then suggests that the scientist should demonstrate the idea instead. But we’re going to list it despite the asterisk, first off because “I Can Only Give You Everything” absolutely rips, and second because Beck and his collaborators on “Odelay” were clearly deep into Them, the ’60s garage band fronted by Van Morrison. It was released as the third single from their second album, Rooty, in 2001. The song was recorded in early 2001 and is based on samples from Gary Numan's songs "M.E." Stream: “What the Constitution Means to Me”, musician and producer Pierre Jaubert in Paris. Some artists are ambivalent about sampling, but Thomas seemed over the moon about his song’s second life as a rhythm track for Drake’s viral smash. In between, in 1999, the producer Ayatollah repurposed multiple sections from Aretha Franklin’s gorgeous “One Step Ahead” to create the lead single from Mos Def’s “Black on Both Sides,” where the M.C. Marc Costanzo, half of that brother-sister duo, told The Guardian he chose the sample the morning after he heard Brendan Canning of Broken Social Scene put on “More, More, More” at a house party. (2001) Sampled M.E on Where's Your Head At? “Devil’s Haircut” samples a bit of a second Them song, a cover of James Brown’s “Out of Sight,” and the chiming tones on Beck’s “Jack-Ass” are from the group’s version of Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue.”, Sampled in: Basement Jaxx, “Where’s Your Head At” (2001). 5: 5. Basement Jaxx's video is one of the best ever! The video won two awards at the 11th Annual Music Video Production Awards for Best Electronica Video and Best Directorial Debut. The video ends with him escaping down a laundry chute to a room with men who have monkey-like faces, only to be cornered by the scientist and a dog, who also has the face of the scientist. Daft Punk's Contact sample of The Sherbs's We Ride Tonight, Sirenal's Wasteland sample of Quest (2)'s Mind Games, Jennifer Lopez feat. "Where's Your Head At" is a song by British electronic music duo Basement Jaxx. After playing for a while, another monkey appears and all the monkeys suddenly start destroying the equipment, a behavior which inexplicably carries over into the scientist observing the performance. and "This Wreckage". It was released as the third single from their second album, Rooty, in 2001. The original is a driving, up-tempo boogie by a group that had its biggest hits with slow-burning ballads (“Oh Girl,” “Have You Seen Her”). NEW PB! Here are 15 songs that you might not know by name, but whose sounds and samples were the building blocks for pop, dance music and hip-hop hits. More horns — Rich Harrison turned roughly five seconds of a Chi-Lites fanfare into a smash for Beyoncé and set off on a run of red-hot R&B productions, including the should-have-been-bigger “1 Thing” by Amerie. Track 13 contains credit samples of "You Can't Do It Alone" performed by Chic. Prince Paul got there first, melding Birdsong’s “Rapper Dapper Snapper” with a George Clinton groove to create De La Soul’s 1989 hit “Me, Myself, and I,” but it was Daft Punk’s “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” that sounded 20 years ahead of its time despite being built on a (quirky, wildly funky) 22-year-old framework. (2001) 4: 4. The song was recorded in early 2001 and is based on samples from Gary Numan's songs "M.E." ), Sampled in: Mos Def, “Ms. Sampled in: Wu-Tang Clan, “C.R.E.A.M.” (1993), It’s surprising that the Charmels’ “As Long as I’ve Got You” is as obscure as it is, given that it was written by Isaac Hayes and David Porter and released on Memphis’s Volt label, a Stax subsidiary. The song peaked at number nine in Canada and the United Kingdom, number 16 in Australia, and number 39 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart, the band's only charting single on a non-dance music chart in the United States. "—from The Pleasure Principle—for its hook. It started as a relatively rare Columbia single in 1965 and was heard on the jukebox at Kevin’s diner in “Moonlight,” the 2016 best picture winner. Fat Booty” (1999). Pitbull's On the Floor, DJ Snake feat. Sampled in: Drake, “Hotline Bling” (2015). There’s one reason “Mask Off” stood out on rap radio and in Future’s vast catalog, and it’s this flute-heavy sample taken from the cast album for “Selma,” a musical dedicated to the Rev.