The sampling in these Ministry songs always stood out:
Hizzbolah
You Know What You Are
Thieves
So What
Cannibal Song (love that mind is a labyrinth followed by the lil pitch down, breathing noises, then into just into the kick/bass)
I can’t think of a Skinny Puppy song that was fucked up by samples. Some stand outs in somewhat chronological order:
Church, Love, Glass Houses, Shadow Cast, Stairs and Flowers, Rodent, Hexonxonx, Worlock, Tin Omen, Convulsion, Natures Revenge, VX Gas Attack, Scrapyard, Left Hand Shake
I think Wumpscut has fucked up a song or two with some shitty samples. Du Neger? Really?
I love the “It is not safe to hope for the best” sample in Front Line Assembly’s “Provision” also “Gun” with the “Front Line” sample is fucking rad.
It’s funny you mentioned that X Marks sample because it’s pretty obscure, but truly a great example of a bad sample. Cat Rapes Dog had some terrible sampling too. I feel like some of the European industrial bands don’t know English well enough to always get if the samples work or not, which can cause unintentional hilarity.
It’s funny you mentioned that X Marks sample because it’s pretty obscure, but truly a great example of a bad sample. Cat Rapes Dog had some terrible sampling too. I feel like some of the European industrial bands don’t know English well enough to always get if the samples work or not, which can cause unintentional hilarity.
I think we were on the Cleopatra promo list when I was at Invisible, so we got all the European hardbeat / EBM stuff that they licensed from the Zoth Ommog label…yeah, there were some real “huh? what?” samples in that bunch. But when your band is named “X Marks The Pedwalk” and one of your core members is “Brain Nerves” spelled backward, you’re already pushing the envelope for verbal randomness.
I should have already mentioned the ‘Belgian New Beat’ scene that Lords of Acid, A Split Second etc. came out of…whew there were some triumphantly cheesy samples in there.
For example try on Agaric’s [url hhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPVUUMVKNQQ]“I’m Gonna Beat Dis” for size…great filthy bass line but very much derailed by the silly repetition of the title phrase, and a sample of some woman ‘spookily’ intoning “Then he ran into her house, and someone shut the doahh!” Damn, I can only hope she had the ability to “beat dis” to defend herself.
101’s [url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN-u2eJUVpc]Rock To The Beat is another great (bad) example of sampling one vocal phrase and looping it to the point where you want to tear your hair out. This song actually succeeds in making me NOT want Acid In The House.
Yea, that song. To me it sounded like some hick calling a pig.
HAHA!!! I think that might have been intentional too. It seemed almost like a carry-over from the Revolting Cocks’ “Squeal like a pig!!! EEEEEEEEEEEE!!!” samples from “Deliverance”.
My favorite sample (not sure if this counts since there’s no music during the intro) of all time might still be that whole silly voicemail recording about going to see “The Revolting Cock . . . I think it’s a strip show, male strippers” . . . .
My favorite sample (not sure if this counts since there’s no music during the intro) of all time might still be that whole silly voicemail recording about going to see “The Revolting Cock . . . I think it’s a strip show, male strippers” . . . .
“. . . cause the Village People are popular”
Yeah I love that one because of the good-natured innocence / naivete of the guy and gal who are chatting…they have absolutely no idea what they’re getting into, but seem up for anything…“well if y’all get a chance, come out!”
Also in the ‘bands sampling other people talking about them’ category…I have spent a few posts here mocking the Electric Hellfire Club, but their sample collage which opens their song ‘Black Bus’ is pretty infectious. You get sarcastic snippets of ‘Hotel California,’ Scott McKenzie’s ‘San Francisco,’ an exploitation film quip about “Psychedelphia” AND! to top it all off, conman ‘exoricst’ Bob Larson who foolishly invites people to call and hijack his show:
“If you don’t see anything WRONG with these KINDS of bands glorifying the devil, like the Electric Hellfire Club, I want you to to give me a ring at 1-800-821-TALK!”
It was compiled over ten years ago, but I bet the top 10 hasn’t changed much, and won’t be much of a surprise to industrial or EBM fans (Hellraiser, Videodrome, Aliens…). After reading the long version, I’m convinced that any future band using the “I want more life…” quote from Blade Runner should have the GOLDEN SEAL OF UN-ORIGINALITY stamped onto all their future albums.
Given my previous comments on Charlie, though, it’s surprising to see him only at #22 overall.
My most hated sample comes from houses and i dont know what song it is but its they guy on the phone to a radio station saying he cant take it anymore and hes going to kill himself or some shit. Yeah, don’t care for that one.
I do like the one on houses that has the old guy telling about how an old husband and wife are fighting and he says hes gonna kill her she says you dont have the guts and he blasts her in the bath tub. “Fine way to end married life…”
My most hated sample comes from houses and i dont know what song it is but its they guy on the phone to a radio station saying he cant take it anymore and hes going to kill himself or some shit. Yeah, don’t care for that one.
I kind of like that one. It’s so bleak and unsettling that I think it works for its purpose. “Do it, Man. Just blow your brains out.”
I do like the one on houses that has the old guy telling about how an old husband and wife are fighting and he says hes gonna kill her she says you dont have the guts and he blasts her in the bath tub. “Fine way to end married life…”
Yeah, that one’s wonderful.
On “Houses” I also really love “Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the fried chicken you want?”
Yeah, that one’s wonderful.
On “Houses” I also really love “Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the fried chicken you want?”
Ha Ha I forgot about that one. Yeah that one always makes me laugh. I also like the same guy telling you not to send “dead chickens back because the post office…”
Yeah, that one’s wonderful.
On “Houses” I also really love “Wouldn’t it be nice to have all the fried chicken you want?”
Reminds me a bit of an extended commercial that was broadcast through the Chicago area at the time that Atkins was with Killing Joke, which begins with “when was the last time you had a tender, juicy steak?”.
[url https://youtu.be/dCs0D6AJUuM]Almost the full commercial was used on the KJ track ‘Age of Greed’, and I nearly rolled out of my seat laughing when I first heard it…my brother and I had committed that stupid commercial to memory before that track was released, and based whole in-jokey comic routines off of it.
“A total of 360 pounds, for only $15.57 per week, for 26 weeks!”
It’s actually really good, very creepy. Brad Dourif turns up in it, playing a nutcase as usual. Gn’R sampled a George C Scott speech from Exorcist III on their track Madagascar, from Chinese Democracy.
I don’t even remember what song it was from or if I even liked it much (something from VIVIsectVI), but I liked when the one song ends with Jack Torrance’s “That’s okay. He saw it on the television” from The Shining.