Tunes that sample films

[Some Gump]

As a music geek and film geek, I really seem to enjoy tunes with samples from films (especially if the films are good). Sat listening to U.N.C.L.E's Edit Music for a Film (which is an ace album) and it got me thinking - what other cool movie inspired tunes are out there?
Off the top of my head..
Bruce Lee MC - Quincy
To the Devil a Doughnut - King of Woolworths
Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 - DJ Food and DK (on the solid steel CD)

...But there must be loads and loads of others!

Anyone got any recommendations for Saturday night listening?

[crofty1984]

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Scooby Snacks uses bits of Pulp Fiction and Resevoir Dogs
Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky uses some of the final speech from Charlie Chaplin's the great dictator
Metallica - One, can't remember the film it samples, but that's one
Guns n Roses Madagascar uses samples of Martin Luther King speeches, though that's pushing your definition.

[blearyeyedboy]

Queen: Flash

[Some Gump]

blearyeyedboy said:

Queen: Flash

Haha, that's cheating!

Thanks for the suggestions though =)

[BrabusMog]

Probably not what you're looking for but...

Oxide & Neutrino - Bound 4 Da Reload

Samples Casualty theme tune and also a scene from Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

[blearyeyedboy]

Some Gump said:

Haha, that's cheating!

Thanks for the suggestions though =)

Bah, just cos it was cooler than the other ideas.


Great thread, OP, keep them coming.

[technodup]

Dance music, and in particular hardcore/gabber is absolutely chock full of film samples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWXaWRhdv4A CB4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_EIC_iSbp0 Nightmare on Elm St
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSVfxIA6fc Network

I think you can put film titles into WhoSampled and it'll give you tons of more varied stuff.

[Ozone]

Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Beat Dis - Bomb the Bass

Paid in Full - Eric B and Rakim

Edited by Ozone on Saturday 9th November 17:25

[popegregory]

Some Gump said:

blearyeyedboy said:

Queen: Flash

Haha, that's cheating!

Thanks for the suggestions though =)

Queen: half the A Kind of Magic album

[blearyeyedboy]

popegregory said:

Queen: half the A Kind of Magic album

[Some Gump]

Oh wow been a long, long time since I listened to a bass generator tape! "open the door, sit in the seat, turn the key and go!" Brings me back to my youth thinking I was bad ass because I had a Matsui ghetto blaster from the fabled pages of dreams.

I guess I was after more where the film bits are really a big part of the tune, rather than just a sample - my old D+B collection is chock full of tracks with 1 or 2 samples in (like Alien Girl, Bodyrock, Robocop, Mind Killer, etc etc etc).

^ thanks for that link though. I'm determined to find a track that samples really st bits of bad films I love now. If anyone has a "god damn sexual tyrannosaurus.... just like me" just before the drop then they stole the idea I had in 1998 whilst under the influence and playing with Frooty Loops.
Sadly, the pinnacle of my EDM creation was a remix of the right guard advert (that'll teach him for working late, nice one!) but even my friends had to tell me it was utterly cack =(

[P5BNij]

In the mid '80s Mick Jones of The Clash had a solo project, I forget what it was called but one of the tracks sampled bits of Nick Roeg's 'Performance'.

[Ozone]

Batdance - Prince maybe cheating

[crmcatee]

Public Service Broadcasting; most of their stuff is interspersed with audio tracks from various sources (e.g. films (Spitfire is a good example), propaganda, archive footage (Go from the Kennedy Space Centre moon landing recordings) ).

[droopsnoot]

The Stranglers' "Time to Die" was going to have the speech from Blade Runner in it, but they couldn't get clearance (I forget whether it was at all, or just in time for release) so they went with something similar instead, but different enough to be OK.

[CzechItOut]

Hard house doesn't have much originality when it comes to samples.

Paul Glazby - Beautiful samples Event Horizon
Lee Haslam - Music Is The Drug and BK - P.O.S 51 both sample 51st State
Paul Maddox - New York New York samples Ghostbusters
Mark Grey - 99.9 and DJ Roosta - 414All both sample Pulp Fiction

[rover 623gsi]

Colourbox - Just Give 'Em Whiskey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dm_iq5OicM

uses a range of sci-fi samples including lines from 2001: A Space Odyssey, “The Andromeda Strain, The Prisoner and Westworld

[dudleybloke]

Peshay - On the Firm, samples The spawn of the Slithis.

Noise Factory - Box Opens, samples Hellraiser.

4 Hero - Journey From the Light ep, samples Empire Strikes Back.

Sub Nation - Scottie, sampled Evil Dead.

DJ Hype - Shot in the Dark Qbase remix, samples the twinkly noise used in original Star Trek when showing the Enterprise traveling.

Tango - Can't stop the Rush, samples Aliens (Let's rock!)


Will post more when I get time.

The old hardcore/breakbeat/jungle scene 92-94 ish is full of familiar samples.

There's a tune Bukem played once or twice out that uses Newt from Aliens saying " She doesn't have bad dreams, she's just a piece of plastic." that I've been trying to ID for the last 25 years without success.

https://youtu.be/qqHJreM55jI

Any guesses?

Edited by dudleybloke on Saturday 9th November 22:48

[geezerbutler]

P5BNij said:

In the mid '80s Mick Jones of The Clash had a solo project, I forget what it was called but one of the tracks sampled bits of Nick Roeg's 'Performance'.

Indeed - Big Audio Dynamite on the track E=MC2

[InitialDave]

Primal Scream's Loaded opens with a sample of the church scene from Werewolves On Wheels.

Apollo 440's Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Dub opens with a sample from The Andromeda Strain