Songs that 'sample' classical or opera pieces?

[dderidex]

Just found an opera piece I'd forgotten why I picked up, a little digging around found that it was sampled in a pop piece.

David User's "Black, Black Heart" samples the "Flower Duet" from Leo Delibes's 'Lakme'

Alicia Keys's "Piano & I", of course, samples Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata"

Vitamin C's "Graduation" samples Pachelbel's Canon in D.

I'm sure there are buckets of others I'm not thinking of offhands - thoughts?

 

[zugzoog]

An old one... Eric Carmen's "All by myself" used Rachmaninov's third piano concerto.

 

[anxi80]

handsome boy modeling school "rock and roll (could never hip hop like this) part 2" samples vivaldi's "four seasons"

 

[icejunkie]

Rob Dougan - Clubbed to Death

 

[dderidex]

Surely, there are more?

 

[grrl]

Take a Pebble by Emerson, Lake and Palmer lifts a classical piece by an obscure Polish composer. Can't remember his name or the piece.

 

[Farbio]

william orbit does a bunch of sampling of classical stuff...the one that comes to mind immediately is adagio for strings

 

[Nitemare]

I faintly remember a rap song about a year or 2 ago that had a classical song playing in the background

 

[SelArom]

the word is not "sampled" it's "ripped off -- poorly"

i found a new low one time watching mtv2 (back when I used to have cable, what a waste of money) and there was this rap song (or something like rap, it really sucked and I was too busy laughing) and the guy sampled, i mean ripped off, that 70s mix of the first movement of Beethoven's 5th symphony.

do you realize what I'm saying?! he didn't just rip off a song, he ripped off a RIPOFF OF ANOTHER SONG.

-SelArom

 

[Ricochet]

Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

I think it's Air music in the background. Someone correct/confirm me on this.

Edit: Another one came to mind. NAS - I Can definitely made use of Beethoven Fur Elise.

 

[dderidex]

Originally posted by: SelArom
the word is not "sampled" it's "ripped off -- poorly"

No, it's called "sampled" and those who don't mindlessly hate every type of music aside from something they grew up with decades ago appreciate the good use of it.

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