Movie Samples in Music

[meQal]

2 Live Crew sampled lines from "Full Metal Jacket" including one of the line used in the sample as the title for the song "Me So Horny"

[Foucault]

-The audio from the trailer for Deranged ("This is where the worst begins..") can be heard in it's entirety as an intro to the album '860 Some-Odd Pounds' by Railsplitter, who also used the pig head and chainsaw image from Motel Hell on one of their t-shirts.

-Portions of the Deranged trailer can also be heard as the intro to 'Midnight Murder Mania' by the band Frightmare.

-East Bay powerviolence OG's SPAZZ dropped a huge number of movie soundclips, though my personal favorite is a clip pulled from Style Wars: "The idea of style, and competing for the best style, is the key to all forms of rocking."

-A sample from Midnight Express ("Jesus Christ forgave the bastards, but I can't. I hate. I hate you, I hate your nation, and I hate your people. And I f**k your sons and daughters because they're pigs. You're a pig! You're all pigs..") can be heard as an intro on Severed Head Of State's self-titled one-sided LP.


This could go on for a while, hardcore punk was chock full of this sort of thing from the mid-nineties until just recently, so I'll just stop.

[Mofo Rising]

The titular cry from "You Know What You Are" by Ministry is taken from Eli Wallach in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

[Monster Jungle X-Ray]

The titular cry from "You Know What You Are" by Ministry is taken from Eli Wallach in "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly."

One of the best tracks on that album imo. I can still remember my surprise on listening to The Land of Rape and Honey for the first time on cassette, I was not expecting such harsh noise as I was used to the heavily Adrian Sherwood influenced Twitch and (gasp) With Sympathy.

They also used several things from "Fistful of Dollars" in the Acid Horse track "No Name, No Slogan" a one-off Ministry side project with Cabaret Voltaire. One of my favorite Wax Trax 12 inch singles.

[BUREINPARESU]

On Pink Flyods the Wall album,you can hear Gomer Pyle saying 'Suprise,suprise,suprise!" Not a movie...still...it's film.

Wait, when does Pyle say that in Full Metal Jacket?

"Not a movie...still...it's film."

You lost me I'm afraid.

[Mofo Rising]

Sorry to revive my own old thread.

I was watching NIGHTBREED and was pleasantly surprised to hear a movie sample.

The crazy preacher in the jail cell at a certain point says, "Can you hear me?" and "Are you listening?"

This was sampled in a Revolting Cocks song, "Crackin' Up." Revolting Cocks is a side project of Al Jourgensen of Ministry fame.

I really enjoy finding this stuff. I know it's old hat now, but I really wish bands would go back to sampling crappy movies.

[Monster Jungle X-Ray]

Sorry to revive my own old thread.

I was watching NIGHTBREED and was pleasantly surprised to hear a movie sample.

The crazy preacher in the jail cell at a certain point says, "Can you hear me?" and "Are you listening?"

This was sampled in a Revolting Cocks song, "Crackin' Up." Revolting Cocks is a side project of Al Jourgensen of Ministry fame.

I really enjoy finding this stuff. I know it's old hat now, but I really wish bands would go back to sampling crappy movies.

Me too, but sampling laws have become so strict that most bands no longer take a chance in doing it. If I had made a horror or sci-fi film I would take pride that someone would make the effort to use snippets from my work to enhance their own. Appropriation in art/music has been around for a long time, and while there are some abuses it is not always a bad thing.

I really miss the old days of hearing obscure dialogue in music and trying to figure out where it came from. The '90s brought about a lot of very obvious sampling (Hellraiser films/Event Horizon/ect...) that was just sort of lazy imo. I like it when the choices are not so obvious, it gives you a sort of chill when you do actually hear it in it's original form. I've been making electronic music for over 20 years now for my own entertainment, and I love using stuff from b-movies, lurid trailers, and educational films.

[voltron]

In Skinny Puppy's "Cage", there's a sample from Maniac (1980) where Frank Zito goes "but it's just a little blood....it'll wash out".

[Mofo Rising]

Pop Will Eat Itself in the 80s used this aplenty I'm pretty sure...can definitely remember them sampling from THE WARRIORS and the TV theme from "The Twilight Zone" in particular.

Twilight Zone - Def Con One

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Wm4qXC_j4

The Warriors - Can U Dig It?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPJt-tXgpQ&feature=related

I had to resurrect this thread, because I just recently watched North by Northwest. I know, I should have watched it ages ago.

Imagine my surprise when one of the hitmen says, "It was only last night and still you do not recognize my voice?" I had been hearing that snippet for years on the track "Electrical Soul Wish" by My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult.

Another sample identified!

[dean]

I quite liked the Day of the Dead sample used in M1A1 by Gorillaz.

Great opening scene to a movie, and a great intro to a song too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9lTeW0ZmXM&feature=fvsr

[SaintMort]

When I was a jesus freak in high school I fell in love with this group Calibretto 13. Just as I fell out of religion, so did they. They changed to a random indie label and went from doing surf-rock into doing horror core. They used some random but also clips throughout their songs.

Come See the Meatboy contains an audio clip from Evil Dead 2 where Ash and various items around the house start laughing
American Psycho has a bunch of clips from American Psycho in it
Leader of the Frat contains a clip from Valley Girl of Nicholas Cage screaming "NO ONE TELLS ME WHO I CAN SCORE WITH!"
My TV Affair contains a clip from Suburbia

There was also a local band from my area in the late 90's called Lanemeyer who used clips from Better Off Dead throughout their first album. Their second album used clips from The Wonder Years and Kissing the Fool

[Mofo Rising]

Another sample from the Revolting Cocks.

The bit of dialogue "What's in the bag?" is taken from the movie Dirty Harry, which I just watched tonight, and is in the song "Crackin' Up."

[AndyC]

I recall EMF's "Unbelievable" used some samples from The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.

One of my favourite examples is "Goodnight Mrs. Calabash" by Ian Thomas. The whole song is a tribute to old movies, and contains bits of several classics toward the middle and end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6EwAz1o2UU
This video was nicely done, and even tries to sync the original picture to the sound clips in the song.

[RCMerchant]

On Pink Flyods the Wall album,you can hear Gomer Pyle saying 'Suprise,suprise,suprise!" Not a movie...still...it's film.

Wait, when does Pyle say that in Full Metal Jacket?

"Not a movie...still...it's film."

You lost me I'm afraid.

THIS Gomer Pyle...the old tv show...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6_1Pw1xm9U

[voltron]

Napalm Death also sampled Full Metal Jacket with the quote "I am in a world of s**t" at the beginning of their song "Contemptuous" from the Utopia Banished album.