Top 10 Most Audacious Samples
Ten daylight samples that still made new hits.
The Smashing Pumpkins – Chicago noise to arena scale
Billy Corgan formed the Smashing Pumpkins in Chicago in 1988 with a clear idea: stack melody on top of aggression, trust the arrangement over the raw take. From Gish to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the band placed craft and ambition on equal footing.
Jamiroquai – Cosmic Girl
Cosmic Girl is the second single from Jamiroquai's third studio album Travelling Without Moving (Sony Soho Square, 1996), the record that later entered Guinness territory as a land…
Afterlife Interview with Nick Drake
At English dawn in hedgerow mist, Riffs and Beats finds Nick Drake with an acoustic guitar, back turned.
All The Best – Forty tracks from Being Boiled onward
In November 2012, Virgin issued All The Best: a 40-track, two-CD survey of The Human League from Being Boiled to the Dare hits and the later chart years.
Bill Withers – Lovely Day
Bill Withers’s Lovely Day (1977, Menagerie): Skip Scarborough co-write, held-note hook, daylight soul.
Kate Bush – Theatre in the upper register
In January 1978 a nineteen-year-old from Bexleyheath put a self-written ghost story at number one in Britain.
Justice – Neverender
On 26 April 2024, Justice opened Hyperdrama with Neverender, sung by Kevin Parker of Tame Impala.
As You Were – Liam walks back into the charts
In October 2017, As You Were walked Liam Gallagher back into the charts with Greg Kurstin and Dan Grech-Marguerat on the desk.
Supergrass – Richard III
Supergrass hit UK number 2 in March 1997 with Richard III: Sawmills sessions with John Cornfield, In It for the Money, menace after the Alright grin.