Awesome, I Sampled That Pt.2
In 1994, I was thirteen, and I had some pretty big decisions to make. I didn’t know if I should sport Chuck Taylors, a flannel shirt, and Dickies slacks like my idol Snoop Dogg, or rock Chuck Taylors, a flannel shirt, and ripped jeans like my hero Kurt Cobain. Tough decisions, I know.
Around that same time, the Beastie Boys released Ill Communication, and I decided, “Fuck it. I’ll leave Kurt & Snoop out of it, and just rock shelltoes, aloha shirts and JNCOs.” I don’t know why, but that’s what happened.
Regardless of what the Beastie Boys did to my accoutrement, I still believe Ill Communication is one of the group’s best albums, and features the deepest collection of rare samples, aside from Paul’s Boutique.
Beastie Boys - Get It Together
The hook on “Get It Together” is a vocal sample from Eugene McDaniels’s “Headless Heroes”, a song rich with a funk groove, poppin’ military beat, and political poetry that could only be created by African-Americans living in the 60’s.
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes
The key loop is taken from the Moog Machine’s groovy version of “Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In”, which appears on the 1969 moog classic Switched-On Rock. The sample comes in around 1min 26sec, and it vanishes quickly.
Wednesday, July 25th 2007 at 3:14 am
Good post, i like the idea!
Wednesday, July 25th 2007 at 5:03 am
This is the first time I have seen a post on a blog that shows the history and samples that make up a song. I found it very interesting and really agree with alot of what you said.
Wednesday, July 25th 2007 at 6:40 am
I’ll never forget seeing Adrock in the Cheapo on Lake Street…. it was about 10 years ago, and dude was flipping through 7″s at superhuman speed. I went to go look at what he was checking after he left, and it was all punk/hardcore releases
I still think it’s pretty awesome that this big famous guy would kill his free time going through records when he could be like, doing coke or fucking or whatever else it is that famous people do
Wednesday, July 25th 2007 at 6:59 am
Those guys are huge record heads. They have the gems.
Try to find the list of Mike D’s Top 10 Moog-infested records. It was published in Grand Royal magazine #3, and it’s all gold. I don’t remember the list, but I remember having about 5 out of the 10 he listed.
Thursday, November 8th 2007 at 6:22 pm
Please MORE MORE MORE… to echo myself from another Awesome, Part 1, and Konrad.. I love what you are doing here. You could make a whole site dedicated to just the Beasties alone, sampling genuises