The Song I Am Enjoying Today...

[CooperD]

A bit of Serge Gainsbourg on a lovely Summer's Day. Sea, Sex and Sun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1MVyenU78w

[telecat]

Completely forgot I had the Album and now humming this a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6VaeFCxta8

[Langweilig]

The music used in the new Peugeot 108 ad. Lykke Li - Gunshot from the album Never Learn.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcvuBGkVAqE

[hdrflow]

Tritonal & Paris Blohm feat. Sterling Fox - Colors (Culture Code Remix)

http://youtu.be/GqrSOhmXtxw

[hdrflow]

Alice in Chains - No Excuses

http://youtu.be/H6H_csNeZeY

[lockhart flawse]

The Enid - Mockingbird. Keyboard player arranged original BJH version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pwWBFKV5VU

[anonymous-user]

Reissued on vinyl at last and as magnificent as ever....

[The Don of Croy]

Seeing all the hype for the next series of BBC 'bake off' contest, wondered why they don't use the Small Faces 'Song of a Baker' -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jYgctXpajs

[DubZeus]

Unknown thought - PJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-Db7U0sicA

[JoeSinc]

Always (Ft. Alana) (Route 94 Radio Edit) - MK absolute bangeeerrr

[Condi]

JoeSinc said:

Always (Ft. Alana) (Route 94 Radio Edit) - MK absolute bangeeerrr

Or everything which is wrong with the EDM scene at the moment....

Its a classic song, taken apart and destroyed with a crap beat designed to appeal to the 'pop music' crowd. I love a good sample, but just repeating that sample over and over is not imaginative, nor musically impressive. Samples should be used as part of the song, inserted for effect and a nod to other artists, not used on repeat instead of writing their own. Maybe I'm old and miserable, but when some of the greats of the scene are saying the same then its not just me.

Anyway, for some reason this is appealing at the moment. Nice flow to it, and note the good use of the sample at the end! ('Out in the streets they call it murther', originally used in 1980's by Ini Kamoze then by Damian Marley in Jamrock)

IcePrice ft French Montana - I Swear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVanTPqKo

[dinkel]

Almost the best music ever made:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGW4nrsZJ3o

[soad]

High Contrast - Twilight's Last Gleaming.

[CooperD]

She's Not Me - Jenny Lewis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9hKp2zm6X4

[TheChampers]

CooperD said:

Forumites from a certain age may remember this as the theme tune to TV series Follyfoot starring Desmond Llewellyn, Q from the James Bond films.

The Settlers - The Lightning Tree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuDEGK-tJbQ

Oh yes indeed; one of the best kids' programme themes

Today, old school Rainbow

http://youtu.be/p9nfVrusSMg

[thismonkeyhere]

'Never Go West' - Seasick Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kRR3xwgLSU

[North West Tom]

Condi said:

Or everything which is wrong with the EDM scene at the moment....

Its a classic song, taken apart and destroyed with a crap beat designed to appeal to the 'pop music' crowd. I love a good sample, but just repeating that sample over and over is not imaginative, nor musically impressive. Samples should be used as part of the song, inserted for effect and a nod to other artists, not used on repeat instead of writing their own. Maybe I'm old and miserable, but when some of the greats of the scene are saying the same then its not just me.

Anyway, for some reason this is appealing at the moment. Nice flow to it, and note the good use of the sample at the end! ('Out in the streets they call it murther', originally used in 1980's by Ini Kamoze then by Damian Marley in Jamrock)

IcePrice ft French Montana - I Swear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVanTPqKo

I find it amusing that you have a go at Route 94 for 'destroying a classic', and then you go on to praise French fking Montana for sampling Ini Kamoze/Damian Marley.

[EskimoArapaho]

North West Tom said:

Condi said:

Or everything which is wrong with the EDM scene at the moment....

Its a classic song, taken apart and destroyed with a crap beat designed to appeal to the 'pop music' crowd. I love a good sample, but just repeating that sample over and over is not imaginative, nor musically impressive. Samples should be used as part of the song, inserted for effect and a nod to other artists, not used on repeat instead of writing their own. Maybe I'm old and miserable, but when some of the greats of the scene are saying the same then its not just me.

Anyway, for some reason this is appealing at the moment. Nice flow to it, and note the good use of the sample at the end! ('Out in the streets they call it murther', originally used in 1980's by Ini Kamoze then by Damian Marley in Jamrock)

IcePrice ft French Montana - I Swear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVanTPqKo

I find it amusing that you have a go at Route 94 for 'destroying a classic', and then you go on to praise French fking Montana for sampling Ini Kamoze/Damian Marley.

Agreed. After what seemed a well-argued point, I was expecting something outstanding as a contrast. But this sounds like any of the thousands of ghetto-cool posturing wannabes that plague the air waves when I'm furiously pressing buttons trying to find something decent to drive to.

And the 'good use of the sample' - yes, I waited right until the end - is musically gratuitous.

[Condi]

North West Tom said:

Condi said:

Or everything which is wrong with the EDM scene at the moment....

Its a classic song, taken apart and destroyed with a crap beat designed to appeal to the 'pop music' crowd. I love a good sample, but just repeating that sample over and over is not imaginative, nor musically impressive. Samples should be used as part of the song, inserted for effect and a nod to other artists, not used on repeat instead of writing their own. Maybe I'm old and miserable, but when some of the greats of the scene are saying the same then its not just me.

Anyway, for some reason this is appealing at the moment. Nice flow to it, and note the good use of the sample at the end! ('Out in the streets they call it murther', originally used in 1980's by Ini Kamoze then by Damian Marley in Jamrock)

IcePrice ft French Montana - I Swear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhqVanTPqKo

I find it amusing that you have a go at Route 94 for 'destroying a classic', and then you go on to praise French fking Montana for sampling Ini Kamoze/Damian Marley.

The point I was making was that Route 94 have just taken the song and sampled it so heavily, its neither a remix of the original nor a new song which samples Alana. Its a mess. IcePrince has at least written his own song, and then used a sample at the end. Its just that, a sample, used once, rather than relied on for the song to work.


'I swear' was just the song which I was enjoying at the time, and it happened to contain a sample, it wasn't supposed to be an example sampling. Good use of a sample? Haylcon on and on features vocals from Its A Fine Day. Loaded by Primal Scream features a sample from a film called The Wild Angels. They spring to mind but Im sure there are plenty better if you thought about it.

Edited by Condi on Sunday 10th August 12:22

[juliethotel]

Selected Poems

From the new Gaslight Anthem album 'Get hurt'

I Adore the Gaslight Anthem. All four of their albums are great.