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Prince's use of samples
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Graffiti Bridge was the first album using samples as a core element of the song. Specifically, Release It and Tick Tick Bang. | |
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Tell me how U wanna b done is a "whole" song made from just a sample from The Continental. | |
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Lovesexy used samples. Batman really used samples. blah blah blah | |
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- Theres also "Funky" recorded in '89 What's the use in half a story, half a dream | |
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erik319 said: Lovesexy used samples. Batman really used samples. I think the OP pointed out that he's looking for samples lifted from other songs that form the basis of a new song rather than pastiche samples like you see on Batdance or the sound effects you hear on 1999 and beyond. | |
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Revolution81 said:
- Theres also "Funky" recorded in '89 Yup. I love that one, btw. Wish he released it as a b side! | |
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Yes, that's correct. | |
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On the Nude Tour he heavily sampled James Brown's Get On The Good Foot at some of the encores, when he performed Brother With A Purpose and Testin Positive For The Funk
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I think we are going for samples from other artist's songs? This first I remember hearing is the bass line in "7' - I know it's a sample but I cannot remember where it is from.... | |
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Orgasm’s backing guitar solo is sampled from Private Joy. | |
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invinciblehobo said: I think we are going for samples from other artist's songs? This first I remember hearing is the bass line in "7' - I know it's a sample but I cannot remember where it is from.... Not the bass, but the drum loop is sampled from Tramp. He was in a drum sample mood in 1989-1992. | |
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[Edited 8/8/22 9:02am] | |
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From May 1988, “Escape” (a.k.a. “Escape (Free Yo Mind From This Rat Race)”) comes to my mind. It contains samples from the song “Glam Slam” and the introductory lyrics (‘Kick drum pounds on the two and four, all the party people get on the floor’) were from “Rebirth Of The Flesh”. I did also think about Rearrange and Lady Cab Driver, but not really sampling as you put it. Also “Eye No” uses large parts of “The Ball” but again not for me sampling in the truest form. There may or may not be something coming! | |
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Did some people here completely miss the Bad Boy Records era? Famous for basing new songs off the beat of an old song? Why does this seem so tough to parse here? lol. In the US, "sampling" is more often used to describe the process above - taking the beat of one song and writing new lyrics overtop. So, they looped a sample of Diana Ross's "I'm Coming Out" and wrote new lyrics to create "Mo Money Mo Problems". Prince took the beat of Hendrix's "Little Miss Lover" and sang the lyrics to "Tick Tick Bang" over it. "Batdance" is a completely different fucking thing. Both sampling, but not the same execution whatsoever. | |
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Let’s Work (Dance Remix) “contains sampled clips from Private Joy, Annie Christian and Controversy, the first time a Prince song sampled another of his songs.” https://princevault.com/i...t’s_Work Noticed this from a comment by djtunderfunk on this thread: https://prince.org/msg/7/448712 And some more things about Prince sampling himself on here: https://prince.org/msg/7/410395 There may or may not be something coming! | |
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FrankieCoco1 said: Let’s Work (Dance Remix) “contains sampled clips from Private Joy, Annie Christian and Controversy, the first time a Prince song sampled another of his songs.” https://princevault.com/i...t’s_Work Noticed this from a comment by djtunderfunk on this thread: https://prince.org/msg/7/448712 And some more things about Prince sampling himself on here: https://prince.org/msg/7/410395 Let's Work would not fit this context. That, like Batdance and My Name Is Prince, is just a series of samples used to punctuate a single portion of the song. That said, the one song I think might fit the criteria that is also in those threads would be the Shock G remix of Love Sign that samples the hook on DMSR as a permanent aspect of the remix's musical track (which is clearly distinct from samples like Bonnie's The Line #2 shout as a musical expression). | |
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lurker316 said:
[Edited 8/8/22 14:20pm] Oh, I see the difference, but your tone makes it’s difficult to contribute anymore to the discussion. Perhaps look stuff up yourself. There may or may not be something coming! | |
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The synclavier was one of the first sample machines. It is used, amongs other things, for all the samples you mentioned that Prince used to, well, make his songs worse. . It is, amongst many other tracks, used quite prominently on It, to the point where it defines the song. (the orchestra hits) Prince never went quite to the extremes that you saw in some of the earlier hiphop, where they essentially made remixes of songs with some rapping over it and sold it as new songs. (and get of my lawn you kids! ) Paisley Park is in your heart - Love Is Here! | |
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mediumdry said: The synclavier was one of the first sample machines. It is used, amongs other things, for all the samples you mentioned that Prince used to, well, make his songs worse. . It is, amongst many other tracks, used quite prominently on It, to the point where it defines the song. (the orchestra hits) Prince never went quite to the extremes that you saw in some of the earlier hiphop, where they essentially made remixes of songs with some rapping over it and sold it as new songs. (and get of my lawn you kids! ) To your latter point - you don't think Tick Tick Bang is just that? Idk about anyone else here but I almost slip into singing Hendrix in my head when I hear tick tick bang | |
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Some might remember that Chuck Zwicky mentioned in a Facebook post in November 2016 of the use of the Publison to use samples of Debussy’s “Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune” and Stravinsky’s “The Firebird” in “Shall We Dance”, which has vault tape date of 2 January 1989. The use of the the Publison to trigger samples is also mentioned on the unreleased track “Come Back 2 Me”, tracking date of 29 September 1988. As this track on Prince Vault is described in the vein of The Dance Electric and Shall We Dance, let’s hope it gets a release. There’s no firm date (at least not on Prince vault) for the re-recording of “Tick, Tick, Bang” but it appears on the late ‘89 configurations of Graffiti Bridge. So fits into to the autumn/fall/late 1989 period. There may or may not be something coming! | |
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