#WhoSampled

[rook2ii]

guys, i think my submission was rejected.

[prettyplzwithacherryontop]

this is gunna kill me. but does ANYONE know the song that a woman sings over this one in a very whispery/breathy voice......

[jestergal]

was messing around in fl studio while bored and made another synthwave-type track

[theinfinitedivides]

y'all......................................... this sample use is insane

[ultrasuede]

has this already been discovered or did i just do something

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Fatboy Slim - Praise You 1999

"Praise You" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim, and was released as the third single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998). It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and in Iceland, number four in Canada, number six in Ireland, and number 36 in the US. A total of six samples are used in the song. The song features a prominent vocal sample from the opening of "Take Yo' Praise" by Camille Yarbrough, as well as a prominent piano sample from the track "Balance and Rehearsal" from a test album entitled Sessions released by audio electronics company JBL in 1973. That recording session was for "Captain America", sung by Hoyt Axton; a snippet of Axton's vocals humming the "Captain America" melody can be heard in the album version of "Praise You." "Praise You" also features a guitar sample from the opening of "It's a Small World" from the Disneyland Records-released album Mickey Mouse Disco, the theme from the cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, the electric piano riff from "Lucky Man" by Steve Miller Band, and the drum beat from "Running Back To Me" by Tom Fogerty. In a 2021 interview with the website WhoSampled, Yarbrough said that she liked "Praise You" and its use of her vocals, feeling that Cook kept the essence of "Take Yo' Praise".

The accompanying video for "Praise You" was directed by Spike Jonze with Roman Coppola. Jonze starred in the film, under the pseudonym Richard Koufey, along with a fictional dance group: The Torrance Community Dance Group. The video intro described it as "A Torrance Public Film Production". The video was shot guerrilla-style – that is, on location without obtaining permission from the owners of the property – in front of puzzled onlookers outside the Fox Bruin Theater in Westwood, Los Angeles, California. In the video, a heavily disguised Jonze and the dance group, acting as a flash mob, dance to "Praise You", much to the chagrin of a theatre employee who turns off their portable stereo.

The video reportedly cost only US$800 to produce. It won three major awards at the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards: Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, and Best Choreography. It was also nominated for, but did not win, Best Dance Video. In 2001, it was voted number one of the 100 best videos of all time, in a poll to mark the 20th anniversary of MTV.

"Praise You" received a total of 80,6% yes votes! Previous Fatboy Slim polls: #12 "Weapon of Choice".

[randomvarious]

Sample hunt 🔎: if anyone out there can identify the looped-up vocal sample that starts to get piped in at the 2:07 mark on this early Chemical Brothers big beat/breakbeat remix of Deeper Throat's "Mouth Organ" from 1993—back when the CBs were calling themselves The Dust Brothers—I will be forever in your debt. Can't figure it out, and it's not on WhoSampled yet 🙏.

[subbykittyboythoughts]

yeah its 3am and im music posting. what of it

you want to steal samples like a real musician? here's my preferred method of finding samples. samplette? gives you the same, low-quality songs over and over. crate digging? you think i have the money or a record store nearby? the real strat: go to whosampled for artists you like. sometimes you see cool trends, like Modjo and Cerrone samples, or Daft Punk and samples from 1979. soulseek a bunch of albums from the sampled artists. flac or 320kb mp3 is up to you. not finding inspiration? spotify search tags. i like the combination of "genre:disco year:1965-1985 tag:hipster" for french house. the hipster tag only shows songs in the <10% of popularity. sometimes you get funny things too like the first song being the sample to a song you like. click on a song and just let it ride. soulseek the album w/ a song you like. currently on a 80s new wave one-hit-wonder streak from Level 42 - You Can't Blame Louis

[become-a-robot]

submitting stuff to whosampled is a lot of fun, but also how tf did they not have Weep Day in their database when Logan Whitehurst covered it AND Open Mike Eagle sampled it 😭

[confesspinkfloyd]

Just learned that Yet Another Movie was sampled in a jungle track while looking for what media was sampled for the, well, sampled sections from a movie on WhoSampled. Pretty epic.

[my-slideshow-wmv]

you probably get this a lot but how do you feel about christtt's album Social Justice Whatever? or at least how did you feel when you first heard it if you already did

surprisingly no you are the first to ask me! ive never sat and listened to any of their music but im aware of it. i used to be twitter mutuals w them briefly like way way back in 2011 before they were going by that name but drifted away. i definitely got a kick outta seeing myself on whosampled

[selectspr1tz]

exo's page on whosampled desperately needs to be updated like what do you mean gravity "sampled" tom's diner? like the melody is similar for exactly two bars? investigative journalism

[beesnutz]

Who would'nt want to be with a girl who has 30 cred on whosampled

[t4t4t]

There's a French House song called "Just a little" I'm pretty sure, that samples Piano in the dark by Brenda Russell, but it's not listed on whosampled. Not sure where else to check

[cptnbeefheart]

i love you whosampled.com but also its sooo satisfying to recall it yourself in the moment... so so fun that was the original heardle.. whosampled is really useful when its right on the tip of your tongue but you just cant put your finger on it