Sometimes you hear something like a beat or a riff or whatever and think, well that’s nice.
- Wayne’s World - Garth ‘I like to play the drums’
- Steve Gadd - Playing in the pocket sample, youtube
- Harry ‘Haywire’ McClintock - The Big Rock Candy Mountain
- Jimmy Hendrix - And The Gods Made Love / Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
- Thin Lizzy - Return of the Farmer’s Son (drum and guitar intro)
- John R. Searle - Philosophy 132, lecture 7 2010 - comments on heavy metal
- The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (film) “If you look to your left, you’ll see nothing interesting. On your right thought…”
- David Bowie - Station to Station (use the intro, samples and intro name drop / cuts over it)
- Isaac Asimov - Interview with Bill Moyer - sample Asimov on scale
- T Rex - Ripoff
- Style Wars (1983) 45 minutes in, sample dialog re: “It’s all big steel”
- Buzzcocks - Why Can’t I Touch It (obvious cut opportunity: Why Can’t I _____ It)
- Harry Nilsson - Rainmaker - drum intro
- Elvis Costello - Radio Radio (live, from “Get Emotional”, intro “Does anybody listen to the radio? Does anybody like the radio?”)
- Queen - Dragon Attack (loop beat, mash with current popular MC)
- David Bowie - Sound and Vision
- The Cure - 10:15 Saturday Night
- Donald Duck in Math Land - sample!
- XTC - Making Plans for Nigel - just smidgens of “EOooohh!”
- Randy Newman - Short People
- Muddy Waters - Electric Mud - I Just Want To Make Love To You (drum intro)
- They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng - intro guitar, no singing
- Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke And Sassafrass
- Harry Nilsson - Jump Into the Fire - middle drum solo
- Fugazi - Casavettes (intro) #damnit megatrip for already using this
- Tracks from the Big Lebowski Soundtrack
- Stranglers - Nice and SLeazy (break / noise)
- Donovan - Barabajagal (first 45 seconds or so into the hook)
- Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson - Gotta Get Up (lots of parts, add backbeat, let it play)
- Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (entire solo, into the chorus “goes on, and the beat goes on!”)
- DJ Food - More Volts: The Funky Eno
- The Who - Eminence Front
- Tubeway Army - Steel and You (bridge through outtro)
- Harry Nilsson - Ten Little Indians - entire track, break it up, lock the outtro
- The Ghost of a Saber Toot Tiger (Sean Lennon) - Jardin du Luxembourg
- Brian Eno - In Dark Trees
- Brian Eno - Dead Finks Don’t Talk - intro beat, maybe weird “Oh Lord” chorus, and outro madness
- The Abyssinians - Y Mas Gan - Horns!