Using Samples in Rock Music

I feel Skinny Puppy's "Worlock" works well as a song without the samples, such as the main one saying repeatedly, "Now is the only thing that's real." For example, the song has real drive and energy when the beat comes in at 0:29. And the lyrics are interesting. The samples just didn't add anything for me and instead distracted me. The video was a nice mish-mash of horror flicks, just like the "Rivers" video. They both seem about the same to me. Meh.

Maybe I'm not taking enough hallucinogens! :p:


I liked the sound of the Dillinger Four songs, V&F. I just didn't feel the samples added much. The samples seemed to be tacked on rather than merged into the music. I'd prefer more intricate interweaving of samples and original sounRAB.

The Incubus song, "Magic Medicine," irritated me because of the samples used. I wouldn't want to hear them as part of children's shows, and so I don't care to hear them again in a song. I assume the song is intended to mock the silly, stupifying emptiness of media aimed at young kiRAB: "On this page you see a little girl giggling at a hippopotamus. I wonder why. I found a sow in the house one day. Hyena, I hate you, I hate you, I hate you."

The song makes me want to go shoot a puppet.
 
Yeah, get with the program! :bonkhead:

I think it's true what Worlock could work very well without the samples, but I've always known and loved the song with the samples, so they're a distinct part of the song for me. Rivers obviously depenRAB on the samples for its current. I have no doubt it would sound very nice without them, but I like it just the way it is too. It makes it more creepy.
 
Doh! How could I forget White Zorabie, La Sexorcisto was probably THE first album I loved that heavily used vocal samples, and it's fantastic. That came out just before I discovered Ministry and Skinny Puppy. Too bad the following White Zorabie was disappointing in comparison.
 
Another band that I don't think has been mentioned, that is more "rock", is Sublime. Now I'm no longer that big a fan, but the album 40oz. to Freedom is pretty fun and uses some great samples on certain tracks.

"54-46 That's My Nuraber / Ball and Chain" (Toots & The Maytals cover/adaptation)

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"Lets Go Get Stoned" ("damn...now lick my balls" + "I said suck the motherfucker you're biting it, shit!" :laughing: )

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As far as Skinny Puppy goes, I'm a pretty big fan of the sampling on Last Rights and Too Dark Park. I find it more abstract and it adRAB a very fucked up edge to things. Unfortunately I'm having trouble finding good examples on YouTube though.
 
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