apparently there was some fuckin' Pink Floyd in there?
March 10, 2023 9:41 PM Subscribe
not exactly Pink Floyd's funkiest album
One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
Also that one riffs on, of all things… Doctor Who.
posted by Artw at 10:22 PM on March 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
Also that one riffs on, of all things… Doctor Who.
posted by Artw at 10:22 PM on March 10, 2023 [1 favorite]
Oh yeah [rip that bong]
posted by chavenet at 10:32 PM on March 10, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 10:32 PM on March 10, 2023 [2 favorites]
I'm sure a lot of you have already seen this, but this is a classic of the genre for me (although it's just a single song): Sample Breakdown: Daft Punk - One More Time. Never fails to astonish me.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:32 PM on March 10, 2023 [4 favorites]
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 10:32 PM on March 10, 2023 [4 favorites]
That album is just so dang dense with samples. I have to imagine after all the lawsuits and credits and what not, the accounting trail on it must be nuts
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:11 PM on March 10, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by drewbage1847 at 11:11 PM on March 10, 2023 [2 favorites]
Also worth a listen: Caught In The Middle Of A 3-Way Mix, DJ Food, DJ Format and DJ Moneyshot's:
tribute to the classic Beastie Boys album ‘Paul’s Boutique’. Remixed and re-imagined from all the original samples plus a cappellas, period interviews and the Beasties’ own audio commentary from the reissued release.posted by vincebowdren at 3:10 AM on March 11, 2023 [5 favorites]
Spotify link to a full 8 hours of the original material [cited in the "previously" above but worth reposting]
posted by chavenet at 7:31 AM on March 11, 2023
posted by chavenet at 7:31 AM on March 11, 2023
not exactly Pink Floyd's funkiest album.
... which would be?
posted by Paul Slade at 8:22 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
... which would be?
posted by Paul Slade at 8:22 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Seems like a good place to drop a link to 33% God.
posted by The Card Cheat at 8:26 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by The Card Cheat at 8:26 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
I wish it were possible for there to be a clearer threshold for transformative work to allow things like Paul's Boutique to exist nowadays but not just allow lazy-ass pop producers to strip-mine the music of living musicians without credit or remuneration.
Right now I think the existing rights rules are way over-restrictive, and that's legitimately stifling some cultural innovation, because remix/sampling is a core (though definitely not sole) attribute of all cultural expression. Relevant to my point, I think Adam Neely's video The Grotesque Legacy of Music as Property should be required watching for musicians, rightsholders, lawyers and legislators.
Although it's true that it would be virtually impossible for an album like Paul's Boutique to be commercialized nowadays, sampling/mashup culture has some reasonable protection for non-commercialized works, like what Neil Cicierega has done with his mashup albums.
posted by tclark at 8:30 AM on March 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
Right now I think the existing rights rules are way over-restrictive, and that's legitimately stifling some cultural innovation, because remix/sampling is a core (though definitely not sole) attribute of all cultural expression. Relevant to my point, I think Adam Neely's video The Grotesque Legacy of Music as Property should be required watching for musicians, rightsholders, lawyers and legislators.
Although it's true that it would be virtually impossible for an album like Paul's Boutique to be commercialized nowadays, sampling/mashup culture has some reasonable protection for non-commercialized works, like what Neil Cicierega has done with his mashup albums.
posted by tclark at 8:30 AM on March 11, 2023 [3 favorites]
I remember in 2015 (?) when the anniversary of boutique happened and there was a huge stream with all the samples (KEXP? One of those artsy fartsy stations)
With Trugoy's passing and a commentary on that about how sampling changed and likewise, how Three Feet High and Rising came about, this is definitely an era we'll never get back, which is sad.
Or we do it on the underground yo.
posted by symbioid at 8:58 AM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
With Trugoy's passing and a commentary on that about how sampling changed and likewise, how Three Feet High and Rising came about, this is definitely an era we'll never get back, which is sad.
Or we do it on the underground yo.
posted by symbioid at 8:58 AM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
... which would be?
Piper, I guess? That and Saucerful had a lot of funkiness-as-in-poppy-surreality going on with that original Syd Barrett late-60s brit psychedelia vibe. Though the mid-late 70s albums all had slivers of borderline funk-as-in-Funk scattered around on one track or another I suppose. I could imagine a context where a line on a Paul's Boutique track could have rounded out with a sample of like "by the way, which one's Pink?" as a tagline or something.
posted by cortex at 9:03 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Piper, I guess? That and Saucerful had a lot of funkiness-as-in-poppy-surreality going on with that original Syd Barrett late-60s brit psychedelia vibe. Though the mid-late 70s albums all had slivers of borderline funk-as-in-Funk scattered around on one track or another I suppose. I could imagine a context where a line on a Paul's Boutique track could have rounded out with a sample of like "by the way, which one's Pink?" as a tagline or something.
posted by cortex at 9:03 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
This is great! Such a classic album, and the samples are so artfully woven together.
Although it's probably a lesser work sampling-wise (and definitely rapping-wise), I would love to see a similar video for Pop Will Eat Itself's "This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!". Tons of great samples on that album as well!
posted by ericthegardener at 9:08 AM on March 11, 2023
Although it's probably a lesser work sampling-wise (and definitely rapping-wise), I would love to see a similar video for Pop Will Eat Itself's "This Is the Day...This Is the Hour...This Is This!". Tons of great samples on that album as well!
posted by ericthegardener at 9:08 AM on March 11, 2023
“Haven't you heard it's a battle of words?
The poster bearer CRIED
Listen, son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you INSIDE”
posted by Artw at 9:21 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
The poster bearer CRIED
Listen, son, said the man with the gun
There's room for you INSIDE”
posted by Artw at 9:21 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
IDK about album but Pigs the song has a groove.
posted by symbioid at 9:31 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by symbioid at 9:31 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
The Beastie Boys Beat Lawsuit Over ‘Paul’s Boutique’ Sampling [2015]
posted by chavenet at 9:43 AM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 9:43 AM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
funkiness-as-in-poppy-surreality
Fair enough. I was thinking more of the James Brown/George Clinton/Isaac Hayes definition of funky, so that's what puzzled me.
posted by Paul Slade at 9:54 AM on March 11, 2023
Fair enough. I was thinking more of the James Brown/George Clinton/Isaac Hayes definition of funky, so that's what puzzled me.
posted by Paul Slade at 9:54 AM on March 11, 2023
Someone has done the same for Odelay, aka Beck's Boutique.
posted by credulous at 10:33 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by credulous at 10:33 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
You know who else did a sample-based tribute to Odelay? 😉
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-2462016-hour-1-moneyshot-cheeba
posted by vincebowdren at 11:10 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
https://soundcloud.com/ninja-tune/solid-steel-radio-show-2462016-hour-1-moneyshot-cheeba
posted by vincebowdren at 11:10 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Ninja Tunes and Solid Steel do good work.
posted by Artw at 11:15 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
posted by Artw at 11:15 AM on March 11, 2023 [1 favorite]
Paul's Boutique is a masterpiece!
I wouldn't call any of the Syd Barrett Floyd groove oriented. But Pink Floyd grooves like Pigs and Have a Cigar are thumpingly funked.
posted by Liquidwolf at 1:42 PM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
I wouldn't call any of the Syd Barrett Floyd groove oriented. But Pink Floyd grooves like Pigs and Have a Cigar are thumpingly funked.
posted by Liquidwolf at 1:42 PM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
While I greatly enjoyed the tour, this isn't all the samples on Paul's Boutique. Where's Max Yasgur?
Following the line 'I shot a man in Brooklyn' with Johnny Cash's 'Just to watch him die' is both a wry commentary about how rap artists didn't invent the idea of singing about fictionalized violence and just a master-level sample flip.
(Previously, where I said that Paul's Boutique, Three Feet High and Rising, and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back are the three peaks of the free-sampling era.)
posted by box at 3:10 PM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
Following the line 'I shot a man in Brooklyn' with Johnny Cash's 'Just to watch him die' is both a wry commentary about how rap artists didn't invent the idea of singing about fictionalized violence and just a master-level sample flip.
(Previously, where I said that Paul's Boutique, Three Feet High and Rising, and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back are the three peaks of the free-sampling era.)
posted by box at 3:10 PM on March 11, 2023 [2 favorites]
There’s a a hammond heavy bit in the middle of Atom Heart Mother that would have made perfect fodder for the beasties to loop and rap over.
posted by Artw at 7:42 PM on March 11, 2023
posted by Artw at 7:42 PM on March 11, 2023
... which would be?
Well, I don't know if it counts as funk per se, but both, say, Money and several tracks off of The Wall are certainly a lot funkier to my ears than anything on Meddle. Not Now John from The Final Cut is pretty funky too.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 3:49 AM on March 12, 2023 [1 favorite]
Well, I don't know if it counts as funk per se, but both, say, Money and several tracks off of The Wall are certainly a lot funkier to my ears than anything on Meddle. Not Now John from The Final Cut is pretty funky too.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 3:49 AM on March 12, 2023 [1 favorite]
There’s the funky breakdown in Echoes that comes in before the experiments with sound effects.
posted by awfurby at 5:31 AM on March 12, 2023
posted by awfurby at 5:31 AM on March 12, 2023
You mean the bit that Andrew Lloyd Weber stole for Phantom of the Opera?
posted by symbioid at 8:26 AM on March 12, 2023
posted by symbioid at 8:26 AM on March 12, 2023
Nope, the bit beginning at 7:40: https://youtu.be/PGwPSPIhohk
Also, given how much “Echoes” rips off “Across the Universe” (sing words of the latter over the former), they can’t complain about theft.
posted by argybarg at 8:34 AM on March 12, 2023
Also, given how much “Echoes” rips off “Across the Universe” (sing words of the latter over the former), they can’t complain about theft.
posted by argybarg at 8:34 AM on March 12, 2023
I think you are misjudging levels of “can’t complain” as regards Rogers Waters.
posted by Artw at 8:36 AM on March 12, 2023 [6 favorites]
posted by Artw at 8:36 AM on March 12, 2023 [6 favorites]
Now imagining a like forty second long version of The Wall
posted by cortex at 8:45 AM on March 12, 2023
posted by cortex at 8:45 AM on March 12, 2023
Was recently watching an enjoyable but dumb horror when, for some reason, they just play In The Run over the top of a whole big montage scene. That thing holds up.
posted by Artw at 9:06 AM on March 12, 2023
posted by Artw at 9:06 AM on March 12, 2023
This site which lists all the samples in each song is permanently bookmarked in all my browsers, because it's a great source of reference.
posted by pdb at 3:42 PM on March 12, 2023 [2 favorites]
posted by pdb at 3:42 PM on March 12, 2023 [2 favorites]
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