I didn't copy my friend's homework, I just "interpolated" it.

@ghestenoliveira1686

2 ай бұрын

man, you're sick

@davidsummerville351

2 ай бұрын

Lol, very cool comment! 😂😅

@watersucker5056

2 ай бұрын

But you should still give credit to your friend in the homework

@shawnhughes2036

2 ай бұрын

As long as you’ve got it, right!

@Guilhem74

2 ай бұрын

Just don't sample your friend's homework!

Land down under by Men at Work has a flute interpolation of “Kookaburra sits in the old gum tree” which ended up in a completely nonsensical lawsuit

@DavidBennettPiano

2 ай бұрын

Good example 😊😊

@user-ii5mh9li6l

2 ай бұрын

A sad case of predatory corporate lawyers bullying artists with a tragic end. 😢

@APH1991

2 ай бұрын

@@user-ii5mh9li6l. Which started off as a question on Spicks and Specks.

@johncrisman3400

2 ай бұрын

I'm not so sure if the lawsuit was nonsensical, but when one considers that in the video for that song, the flutist is sitting in a tree as he plays the Kookaburra riff it becomes obvious that the riff being identical (albeit being played over a minor chord instead of a major chord) isn't mere coincidence.

@klaxoncow

2 ай бұрын

@@johncrisman3400 In fairness, "Kookaburra in the old gum tree" is, like, a well-known traditional melody... that just happened to still be in copyright. A bit like if, until recently, you'd included "Happy Birthday" in a song. Like, everyone sings Happy Birthday, it's a well-known traditional melody that you'd be forgiven for not knowing that, until fairly recently, it was actually in copyright. I feel "Kookaburra" is a similar case. It's a modern "traditional song", that folks might not even realise that it is still technically within copyright, particularly with its prevalence. I mean, the law is the law. So there was every right in bringing the lawsuit on a copyrighted track. But, ah, you know, in reality - as with "Happy Birthday", which was sung by everyone everywhere all the time, whilst still in copyright - folks don't realise how new a song actually is and wrongly presume it's centuries old, so well out of copyright by now, surely?

“It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to.” - Jean-Luc Godard

@rdspam

2 ай бұрын

Where you take it from probably cares. As does the copyright office.

@nicodelpino797

2 ай бұрын

British Museum is that you?

@munkymunk

2 ай бұрын

"Tea. Earl Grey. Hot." - Jean-Luc Picard

I remember when Rich Girl came out, and I would sing Fiddler on the Roof and people asked me why I was singing a Gwen Stefani song.

I guess you could just call it "quoting" like jazz musicians do.

@petergivenbless900

2 ай бұрын

Yes, most of the examples used here I would call quotes; an interpolation involves combining one theme with another through counterpoint, or interspersed within another melody, borrowing a bassline but inventing new music upon could also qualify as interpolation.

@johns950

2 ай бұрын

Can I quote you on that?

@quardlepleen

2 ай бұрын

A quote should be a part of the melody, not lifting the entire melody.

@HoraceMash

2 ай бұрын

This is also known as “stealing” by some IP lawyers, I believe

@cjay2

2 ай бұрын

Or 'copying' or 'ripping off'.

David Bowie quoted "I heard the news today, oh boy" from "A Day in the Life" by the Beatles into his song, "Young Americans."

@martinwarne

2 ай бұрын

I heard that on the radio last night a few hours after watching this video.

@tonybates7870

2 ай бұрын

Yep. That's interpolation right there. And both are great songs.

Elvis was famous for interpolation. O Sole Mio became It's Now or Never, Plaisir d'Amour became I Can't Help Falling In Love (WIth You) and Aura Lee became Love Me Tender.

@nathanweiss5174

2 ай бұрын

Elvis didn't write his songs, as most pop artists of the time... Instead record companies had teams of song writers like session musicians, so interpolation makes a lot of sense. As does many of the songs Elvis made hits being done by other artists first... if the song fails with them, Elvis will make it a hit... Luckily for Elvis, he was famous for several other things instead. 😆

@DMSProduktions

2 ай бұрын

@@nathanweiss5174 Such as...

@xoxb2

2 ай бұрын

Those strike me as slightly different, because they come from different traditions. Putting words in your language to a tune from another language is different from recycling a tune that's already sold well in your own tradition. The one strikes me as cosmopolitan, the other as a stale rip-off.

@toddpacker4683

2 ай бұрын

@@DMSProduktionsmost of his hits, can’t help falling in love being one example

@DMSProduktions

2 ай бұрын

@@toddpacker4683 Wasn't what I meant, but E only put his hands into a couple of the songs! He wasn't really a songwriter.

One example has to be "Talk" by Coldplay, interpolated from Kraftwerk's "Computer Love". The iconic keyboard riff is moved to a guitar. Coldplay famously wrote to Kraftwerk to ask permission, and got an envelope back with a piece of paper inside with just the word YES on it. Both are excellent in my view, and I'm not a Coldplay fan at all.

@d.c.8828

2 ай бұрын

Absolutely PERFECT example!

@Nora-di9pw

2 ай бұрын

Jay-Z’s “sunshine” interpolated Kraftwerks “man machine”. Don’t know if he asked for permission tho 😂

@IncredibleGoliath

2 ай бұрын

In fairness Coldplay's question may as well have been "do you want some more money?"

@cakemartyr5794

2 ай бұрын

@@IncredibleGoliath Haha! Well that's the cynical view. Perhaps Coldplay just wanted to get it above board rather than go through legal shenanigans.

@isabeld.paredes4923

Ай бұрын

Speaking of Kraftwerk, the keyboard riff from Trans Europe Express was interpolated on Planet Rock (1982) by the Soul Sonic Force, led by Afrika Bambataa, one of the first hip hop records released during the first wave of breakdance mania which would skyrocket to huge amounts of popularity in 1983

One of the most clever interpolations I’ve come across is in Tori Amos‘ song, In the Springtime of his Voodoo where she says: “standing on a corner in Winslow Arizona / and I’m quite sure I’m in the wrong song,” of course interpolating a line from the Eagles song, Take it Easy

@josephwest124

2 ай бұрын

And that "Eagles song" was initially written by Jackson Browne. The "standing on the corner" line you quote was actually written by Browne but he only finished the song when he got together with Glenn Frey.

@luke5100

2 ай бұрын

@@josephwest124 oh wow! The “Winslow Arizona” line rabbit hole deepens lol

I frickin love this series. Keep it up David.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 ай бұрын

😊😊😊😊

Radiohead 'Creep' and 'The air that I breathe' Comes to mind. It's an interesting one, because they've interpolated from the Hollie's version which isn't the original to begin with; and so ended up settling credits with Albert Hammond for the original, even though they'd ironically probably never even heard that version. Then Lana Del Rey interpolated Creep with 'Get Free' - creating a unique situation of an interpolated song three times removed from the original. Lord knows how they'd decide royalties on that one

@agnieszkaczerwinska6640

2 ай бұрын

very interesting bit of information 👌🏻

@guascamsb8138

2 ай бұрын

I'm guessing this "unique situation" is not that unique... 😅

@bailzzzzzz

2 ай бұрын

@@guascamsb8138 possibly not but Albert Hammond sued Radiohead, and Radiohead sued Lana del Rey - so I don't know of any other examples where both songs have ended up in a lawsuit over credits.

My understanding is Dr. Dre is said to have preferred re-recording “samples” for better control over the sound, but methinks other motives were in play.

@AntonyStrus

2 ай бұрын

I completely agree. But financial "control over the sound" is still the most valuable control!

@klaxoncow

2 ай бұрын

In fairness, it DOES give you better control of the sound within the recording. Like you can control the mix and EQ on the individual parts that you can't do with a sample (actually, with AI isolating tracks, you probably could do that now, but not traditionally so). BUT, sure, the primary "control" he's probably coveting is financial, then the control of the sound comes a healthy second to that.

@BarrackObamna

2 ай бұрын

What else do you do when your entire producer catalogue is remixing a better musicians work? Funkadelic made NWA. Thank George Clinton and Bootsy for 70% of all music made in rap or pop after 1990

@Ytterdahls

10 сағат бұрын

Many motives were in play. But Dr Dre made it his own sound when doing that.

The blue Monday/shut up and drive interpolation blew my mind when I first found out about it-then I couldn’t unhear it. glad you included that one!

@5fold708

Ай бұрын

AFAIK Shut Up And Drive actually samples a Blue Monday cover version by Orgy. kzread.info/dash/bejne/k36OtsilY6fTc7g.html

Excellent video and a real eye opener I'll be happy for 'Another 13 songs that Interpolate other songs..' when you're ready.

Eric Prydz’ “Call On Me” is based on Steve Winwood’s “Valerie” and originally used a sample, but Steve liked it so much re-recorded his vocals for the song

Kid Rock - All Summer Long. Singing about singing "Sweet Home Alabama" and using its riff... while also using the riff from "Werewolves Of London".

@toddpacker4683

2 ай бұрын

Now that songs just lazy

@rickhacook9984

2 ай бұрын

👍🏻

Now, when I try to remember a song and start hearing it in my head, my neural implant recognizes that as an interpolation of a protected song and sends a copyright strike violation report to the holder and also debits my bank account accordingly.

Take Me Home Tonight, Eddie Money “The song's chorus interpolates the Ronettes' 1963 hit "Be My Baby", with original vocalist Ronnie Spector providing uncredited vocals and reprising her role.” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home_Tonight_(song))

@drfsupercenter

2 ай бұрын

I noticed in some of my compilation albums (like the Now That's What I Call Classic Rock and such) it's credited as "Take Me Home Tonight/Be My Baby", I wonder if that was a legal thing done after the fact because he didn't give Ronnie Spector credit originally. I mean, it should have been fairly obvious, he does what Mariah Carey does in David's example and says "Just like Ronnie says" before she sings "be my little baby"

@rdspam

2 ай бұрын

Just like Ronnie says…

@JaredtheRabbit

2 ай бұрын

Thanks KZread, for making the link impossible to use. 😂

@kkfoto

2 ай бұрын

@@JaredtheRabbit It's because the link above has a couple of extra parentheses. Try this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Me_Home_Tonight_(song)

@JaredtheRabbit

2 ай бұрын

That works perfectly! Thank you, @@kkfoto

For anyone interested in musical theatre examples, Michael in the Bathroom from Be More Chill interpolates I Wanna Dance with Somebody by Whitney Houston and I Don’t Need Your Love from Six interpolates Independent Woman by Destiny’s Child

Please more interpolation videos, this was so interesting!

A great interpolation is Sugarbabes “Freak like me” which repurposed Gary Numan’s “Are Friends Electric”. I love the original but the slightly faster tempo and more modern synth sounds in Sugarbabes version are great too.

@jiggyprawn

2 ай бұрын

And is in turn, a cover of the Adina Howard version, which interpolates a Bootsy Collins track!

@stoatystoat174

2 ай бұрын

Numan really rated the sugerbabes interpolation too

@APH1991

2 ай бұрын

@@jiggyprawn. Didn't the Bootsy song sample another song?

@danpreston564

2 ай бұрын

That’s an example of a 'mashup'. It’s like 2 cover versions in 1. The words are a cover of the Adina Howard song and the music is Are Friends Electric. The track started as a mashup using all the original but the producer (Richard X) couldn’t get permission to release it with the sampled vocals, so he got the vocals re-recorded and released it as a Sugababes track.

@jiggyprawn

2 ай бұрын

@@APH1991 I don't know. I'm not very familiar with his work.

Nile Rodgers has said in interview that he was sure Rapper's Delight DID sample the recording of Good Times, in particular compare string motif at 4.19 on Rapper's Delight 12" to 3.47 on Good Times.

Can you tackle "Carry On Wayward Son" by Kansas interpolating/ripping-off "I'm Going to Leave You" by Journey? Journey opened for Kansas in 1975 and played the song as a work in progress. "Look into the Future" came out in January 1976, and "Leftoeverture" came out in October 1976.

I love your videos! I love your explanations of the differences and the similaritys, and almost always there's a new song going into my playlist after watching your videos!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 ай бұрын

Excellent 😀😀

"Rockollection" by Laurent Voulzy, a French number 1 in 1977, is about 4 and a half minutes of this.

As someone with a maths degree, i would call most of these example extrapolation rather than interpolation.

@user-en6tz3iy1z

2 ай бұрын

I don't have a math degree but none of these examples match the mathematical ideas of extrapolation nor interpolation. extrapolation is extending something beyond it's range, and interpolation is completing something within it's range when you dont have all of the data. in music terms, extrapolation would be adding to a song a part that should go before the intro or after the outro, and interpolation would be adding something to the middle of a song.

Great explanation, and insightful examples - top notch content, as always!

Another fantastic video! Thanks so much David 😁

I think we could say “whiter shade of pale” by procol harum is a good interpolation of “air” by Bach. There’s an incredible Ava Max/Bon Jovi mashup on KZread.

All By Myself by Eric Carmen also credits Sergei Rachmaninoff and with very good reason. I actually never know that Rachmaninoff was credited but just looked it up.

Excellent, David, thank you.

Great vid. Answered a bunch of questions I've asked before in my head.

Joni Mitchell's "Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody" interpolates Unchained Melody and Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, in the same way as in the Mariah Carey example- "We'd be Playing, 'You give your love so sweetly,' one more time". But the COOL THING IS Joni sang on the original Carole King recording of WYSLMT

One of my favorite examples is Chinese Cafe / Unchained Melody by Joni Mitchell.

@psychonaut689

2 ай бұрын

Joni Mitchell interpolated, too, Jingle Bells in River (i believe it was called)

@mgbchoralmusic6443

Ай бұрын

Fantastic song!

Excellently researched examples and as always, well presented.

@DavidBennettPiano

2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great video! I had no idea about these melodies being interpelated.

Islands in the Stream was interpolated to Ghetto Superstar. It's the song that taught me about the practice. Also Amish Paradise being a parody of an interpolation is so good. How many layers deep can you go?

Billy Joel used the melody and harmony from the second movement of Beethoven's Sonata 'Pathétique for the chorus of This Night from An Innocent Man album. Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine were successfully (I think) sued by The Rolling Stones for using the words 'Goodbye Ruby Tuesday', not even the melody or the harmony from the song, in their 1991 song 'After the Watershed'. I think the same song also interpolated the bass riff from Satisfaction.

@rdspam

2 ай бұрын

Big difference, of course, is that Beethoven is public domain.

@howtodoitdude1662

2 ай бұрын

@@rdspamand Billy also gave Beethoven credit 😂

@Neli42

Ай бұрын

@howtodoitdude1662 The composers David covered in the video here also gave the original songwriters credit. I don't think that's the differentiation for interpolation.​ [edits: typos]

@Neli42

Ай бұрын

He also used Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" at the beginning of "Goodnight Saigon."

@danpreston564

Ай бұрын

@@Neli42 I have never noticed, and listening now, I can’t hear it. Is it very low in the mix?

This was such an interesting video! My mind has been blown 🤯 subscribed!!

One of my fave: “I’m So Sexy” by Right Said Fred interpolating Hendrix’s “Third Stone from the Sun”…it’s in there. Subtle but there.

@nickrodmusic

2 ай бұрын

Really?

My question is: can the original artist (or his publisher) just say no, you can't use my song?

interpolition is just sampling trying to clean up it's act

@Arycke

2 ай бұрын

Interpolation

Great video! Thank you so much :)

Great episode! Danke

woah! I love Train and specifically love the song "Play that song" The amount of research you put into this is astounding! I've been watching your videos for quite a while now especially the ones where you talk about the Beatles....

The Beatles "All My Loving" begins with a melody from Dave Brubeck Quartet's "Kathy Waltz" (the last piano line before Paul Desmond's first solo)

@prkp7248

2 ай бұрын

Also in "In my life" there is Pachelbel cannon.

@fromchomleystreet

2 ай бұрын

I think it’s a stretch to describe either of these as “interpolation”. The word implies intent - a conscious decision to quote another work within your own. There is a resemblance here for sure. But in the case of “All my Loving”, it’s way too much of a generic melodic movement - just going down the major scale and then up again to resolve on the tonic - to conclude it’s anything more than a coincidence. Why would anybody deliberately “quote” something this non-distinctive and unremarkable? As for “In My Life”, sure the chord sequence is a little reminiscent of Pachebel’s Canon in D, just like a thousand other pop songs are. But it’s not the same. Martin was clearly trying to evoke a generic “baroque” sound in the piano solo, and one of the guys he would be looking to for inspiration would be Pachelbel. But he doesn’t directly quote him, which is what an interpolation is.

@maetzchenmusik

2 ай бұрын

@@prkp7248 No, don't confuse style with a specific opus.

@martifingers

2 ай бұрын

I agree with @@fromchomleystreet . But maybe we could say that the Beatles did employ interpolation in eg the use of La Marseillaise at the beginning of All You Need Is Love and the same song's use of "In The Mood"," Greensleeves" and their own "She Loves You" at the end. Also George Harrison's use of "Sorrow" by the Merseys in All Too Much etc. etc. Like most stuff in popular music The Beatles will have done it somewhere (I am only half joking.)

@fromchomleystreet

2 ай бұрын

@@martifingers Oh, the Beatles used interpolation, for sure. “All you need is love” is a clear example.

Nice video, always gave me new knowledge in music

The Madonna song "Cherish" quotes the opening line of the 60s song "Cherish" by the band The Association.

Thank you, very interesting video!👏

I had an advert before the video and it was this guy on it! Algorithmic man.

Great video! Very entertaining

My favorite interpolation is Gloria (In Excelsis Deo) by Patti Smith, which heavily interpolates the chorus and instrumental backing to Gloria by Them.

On the Dresden Dolls' first album, Amanda Palmer has a couple clever moments of interpolation. The reason I call them "clever" is that they rise organically out of the lyrics. In "Good Day," she sings "I'd like to do more than survive, I'd like to rub it in your face." At the moment she sings this, the music and melody match up with Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive." Similarly, in a later track called "Jeep Song," she is lamenting about frequently seeing cars that remind her of her ex-lover's red Jeep. She sings "I see a red Jeep and I want to paint it black." At that moment, the music matches the verse of "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones. The reason I like these two examples is that neither feels like an arbitrary reference for reference's sake. Both completely fit the story, mood, and harmony of the song. It feels like she was writing lyrics and realized she could incorporate the reference, rather than building her song around the reference the way some of these other examples seem to have originated. It feels closer to the Mariah Carey example than the Train example.

Thank you so much the video was great 🩵

@DavidBennettPiano

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

also the ending of "build god then we'll talk" by panic at the disco interpolates "my favourite things" in very cooool way!

@iantaakalla8180

Ай бұрын

Unfortunately, their usage of “Rock Lobster” in “Don’t Threaten Me With A Good Time” cancels that out

Joe Jackson's Ever After starts with Love Here To Stay. Breaking Us in Two starts with Day by Day. Is She Really Going Out With Him is from Leader of the Pack. He also does answer songs.

These videos have proved instrumental in the noteworthy improvements in my compositions.

boygenius's "Cool About It" interpolates S&G's "The Boxer," and both songs are amazing

You could do a whole video on replayed tracks (and the group that have become to go to ones for it in the UK) - but specifically for when the original samplers wanted more control over a sample. Chemical Brothers - We Got To Try has this exact effect because they wanted to use more of the vocal in the track but couldn't mix it well enough, so the replay meant they could isolate parts they needed.

I actually learned this definition of interpolation from the liner notes of Fall Out Boy’s "Infinity On High" album! They interpolate Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” in their song Hum Hallelujah

A really great, and perhaps unusual, example of interpolation is in Queen's quite brilliant song 'It's a Hard Life' - the intro is based on an aria from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.

A melody from The Lion Sleeps Tonight (which has its own convoluted history) was interpolated into REMs The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight.

@atanvardecunambiel8917

Ай бұрын

“The Guitar” by They Might Be Giants also started as a jam of The Lion Sleeps Tonight

I come from a STEM background, and my initial expectation of "interpolation" was a bit different, heheh. Anyway, great video as always.

Good man David thank you for this informative piece on interpolation ❤😊 Paint the town red is a interpolation on the the song Walk on by dionne warwick 😊

amazing!!

Interestingly, the strings from the „Dernier Domicile Connu“ film were also sampled by both Missy Eliot on „All ´N My Grill“ and Mix Master Mike on „Surprize Packidge“, both released in 1999. Maybe that‘s where Robbie‘s songwriting team got the idea.

Amazing video. Thank you so much to the KZread algorithm for blessing me today lol

I always wondered if the opening melody of the Joe Jackson song Breaking Us in Two, where he sings “Don’t you feeling trying something new” interpolates the opening melody of Badfinger’s song Day After Day, where they sing “I remember finding out about you.”

@isabeld.paredes4923

Ай бұрын

Both songs are good 👍👍👍👍👍👍

Joybringer by Manfred Man is a rock interpolation of Holst's Jupiter with lyrics added, and it's brilliant!

One that I love is Rosalia's interpolation of Archangel by Burial on her song CANDY Such a nice homage to a classic UK Garage song

I think that "Pump It" by the Black Eyed Peas interpolates Dick Dale's "Misirlou", which itself interpolates an older folk song.

@andersjjensen

2 ай бұрын

Dick Dale's Misirlou is either a heavily adapted version of Egyptian Girl, or a separate song that is heavily inspired by it. From a legal standpoint it's different enough to qualify as its own thing, but since Misirlou literally means "Egyptian Girl" many think of it as the former. The point is moot, though, as it is long since out of copyright (in fact, it was written long before anybody had any notion of copyright).

@frtzkng

Ай бұрын

God I feel like such a hipster saying that I prefer the 1920s recording of that folk song

"Tainted Love" by Gloria Jones was covered in the 80's by Soft Cell and its accompaniments were interpolated by Fine Young Cannibals in "Good Things." The chorus from "If You could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot was used in Whitney Houston's "The greatest Love of All."

I'm thinking on M2M "Our song" that quote the entire chorus from "Too much heaven" by Bee Gees. It's not sampling because they sing the song and the instrumental are re-recorded, it's much more than a simple interpolation of a couple of bars and certainly it's not a cover version, the develop an entire new song based on that chorus.

my favorite example is when vampire weekends “step” interpolates both a vocal line as well as the sax melody of “step to my girl” by souls of mischief in the chorus, which itself is a sample of a grover washington jr song “aubrey”

"Are friends electric" by Gary Numan was used by Sugababes in "Freak Like Me" - but that may be a case of sampling.

Thank you.

One of the finest, and best known, interpolations in pop is "One Love/People Get Ready", the second half of the title referring to the Impressions song that it borrows from.

My preference for any form of referencing another work is when it serves a creative artistic purpose, which sampling rarely does. Three examples of this in reference to interpolations are: Metallica "quotes" America from West Side Story in Don't Tread On Me, inviting the listener to think more deeply about the themes of the song. Michael Jackson interpolates and overlays two sounds -- a drum fill and a strings hit -- from Yes's Owner Of A Lonely Heart in his song DS so that when it makes you think of that song title, it leads you to add your own commentary to the personality of the main character of DS. On his new album I/O, Peter Gabriel begins his life-doesn't-last-forever song Playing For Time with Chopin's Funeral March. I like to see artists be clever and trust the intelligence of their listeners when they use these kinds of tools.

These interpolations drive me completely wild. I always hear them when listening to music and repeating the part over and over trying to figure out where the interpolation cones from. The strangest I've found must be the Beat from the song "Alles neu" by german singer Peter Fox in the song "The Phoenix" by Fall Out Boy

The guitar solo from Cream’s Sunshine of your love is an interpolation of the classic song Blue Moon.

I don’t know if this counts as “interpolation”, but another famous rock track, the Doors “Light my fire”, also based on the chord progression of “My Favorite Things”, mostly inspired by John Coltrane’s instrumental recording.

Fascinating stuff. I grew up listening to music from Papua New Guinea. While none of the stuff I listened to regularly did it, it was quite common for some artists to interpolate melodies from famous Western songs. Examples I remember hearing included “Can’t help falling in love with you” by Elvis, “Heart of Glass” by Blondie, “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion, and “Fernando” by ABBA. Needless to say, none of those artists ever got royalties (or even knew the interpolations existed). I’d be curious if this also is common in other third world country music industries.

Chapel club - Surfacing. One of my favourite uses of interpolation.

The climactic ending of "The Small of Your Back the Nape of Your Neck (The Blizzard)" by The Paper Chase quotes the spiritual "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands", while using context to change the meaning completely.

I can't believe no one has mentioned "All Summer Long" and "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama"

The six notes of 'That lady and her jockey said' from Costello's 'Mistook me for a Friend' are interpolated from the Beatles' 'And I Love Her'

First time I read about the term interpolation was when I searched for what the heck Erasure did in their 1991 song "Love to Hate You". A great song that clearly used the strings melody from the disco anthem "I Will Survive", but slightly rearranged and played on a synth.

Comparing Bad Company’s opening lines that are also repeated throughout the song Bad Company to Joni Mitchell’s opening and repeated lines in her original piano version of Woodstock I have always felt as though they were copied and then repurposed.

From Riveside first album (Out of myself) The curtain falls. It’s interpolate from the guitarist’s favourite band Pink Floyd. At 3 minute the guitarist start playing the Another brick in the wall part 1’s guitar riff.

That was great!

@DavidBennettPiano

2 ай бұрын

Thanks!

How about the chorus to "I Really Don't Care" by Demi Lavato vs. "Shadows of the Night" by Pat Benetar? That's one of my favorite examples.

Underworld's "King of Snake" contains an interpolation of the 8-note bassline figure from "I Feel Love" by Donna Summer. Summer, Giorgio Moroder and Peter Bellotte are given songwriting credits for the track. Another famous 8-note bassline, Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme, was interpolated into "Planet Claire" by The B-52's. Mancini initially did not receive songwriting credit on the record; it wasn't until nearly two decades later, when the song was included on a greatest hits collection, that he was added to the credits.

Another simply masterful one is Joni Mitchell's Chinese Cafe/Unchained Melody. It has such a good reason too, it's reminiscing about listening to Unchained Melody in a cafe as a young person. Just perfectly done

Adding on top of it, "If I were a rich man" is also interpolated in Massive Attack's "Daydreaming" (That's actually where I first heard this melody...). It surely is a very catchy melody.

The Soul Sisters' "Wreck a Buddy" is a ribald interpolation of "The Little Drummer Boy/Carol of the Drum."

Music videos always make me think of how Pink Floyd might be able to fit into their purview. For them, I know Syd Barrett had the more likely times of interpolation. "Interstellar Overdrive", for instance, has its main riff, which I know people have compared to a bit of the theme song to the show Steptoe and Son. But looking past his era, "One of These Days" has been pointed out to have a bit of the Doctor Who theme song in it. But there's also instances of what are really more of rewrites, but I wanted to mention them: "Breathe" from Dark Side of the Moon shares a title and opening line with the earlier Roger Waters solo song "Breathe" from Music from the Body (a soundtrack collaboration with Ron Geesin, though the two primarily didn't appear on the others' songs), and there's also an interesting instance of Roger giving Marianne Faithfull a song he'd written called "Incarceration of a Flower Child", which opens with a line that can be found in "Your Possible Pasts" from the Pink Floyd album The Final Cut (which was basically a Roger Waters solo album anyways). I mean, another Floyd song which has involvement with interpolation is "Fearless (Interpolating You'll Never Walk Alone)" from Meddle, but that seems more of a sample, as the "interpolated" bit was recorded from the crowd at a soccer game, and they likely had no idea they were even being recorded, let alone for a Pink Floyd album. Thinking of Roger, though, he did also interpolate during his solo career. Particularly I can think of the song "Folded Flags" (from the When the Wind Blows soundtrack), which interpolated the song "Hey Joe" by Jimi Hendrix.

My favourite is the Queens of the Stone Age song “You’re So Vague” being an interpolation/reimagining of “You’re So Vain” by Carly Simon.

Tiny Little Fireworks by Biffy Clyro uses the same rhythm as Learn to Fly by Foo Fighters, and makes a nod to it with the opening line of the second verse "Looking for a new revolution"

Amen brother has 2 interpolation (and one I think is right next to the break)

Also Outkast's So Fresh So Clean before the Night is over by Joe Simon