If sampling and doing cover songs were OUTLAWED tomorrow, how many current artist careers would be over? I'd say more that u think.....

Graycap23 said:

Yeah , and a lot , A LOTTA musicshops would have to their inventory .
On the cover-material , let's start with the most ancient copied work in classical,- & jazz-standards .
Tell it through the grapevine who started that soul-gem first and burn the remaining versions .

Happy hunting .

Then the only problem would be...



...where to dump all the remains.


Seriously though, there a quite a few covers that should be left alone.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431

just think what a glorious world it would be. there would be no more crap from talentless fools like frank sinatra, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, charlie parker, al green and aretha franklin. uninventive backward-looking only-out-for-a-buck businessmen like amon tobin, dj shadow and prince paul would be forced to sell their enormous tuscan villas and their merc s-classes. leaving the gateways open for the true talent like maroon 5 and james blunt.

wait....what?

theghostoftonym said:

Old school in no way compares 2 the CRAP we R being fed today. Those people actually have T A L E N T.

right...so the problem is talent. cover tunes and sampling are neither here nor there. thank you. end of thread

theghostoftonym said:

theghostoftonym said:

Disagree. Most of what u here in r&b, hip-hop is one or the other these days and they have no TALENT.

For my taste, I'd be perfectly fine if I NEVER heard another sample or cover tune again in my lifetime. EVER.....

There is however , good R&B talent to be found @ independent places like http://cdbaby.com/style/urban or www.myspace.com

Or explore within an interesting site like http://blog.jazz-not-jazz.com/

Much of this stuff you won't hear on commercial radio , which seems the only & neverending grade-meter to which a lot of current releases are judged for .
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I can't help but think of a few great albums that would have never been made if it were outlawed in the first place


Paul's Boutique


3 feet high and rising


Fear Of A Black Planet

You would think the end of the world was here because you would turn on the radio and all you would hear would be dead air static.

those three albums I posted took samples from different sources to create something original. even sampling was done more creatively at one point. but the sampling laws changed.

vainandy said:

"Darkness , No power" - Snake Plissken

Meloh9 said:

Thank you

On one hand . . . we'd say goodbye to virtually every R&B artist charting today.

On the other hand, we'd lose these jewels from recent days . . .

Meloh9 said:

And don't forget about DJ Shadow's Endroducting. Without sampling, the poor man might have been a store manager at Wendy's!!!