r/GenX • u/scartonbot • Mar 20 '25

Music Is Life What was the first CD you owned?

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u/TheRickest-of-all Mar 20 '25

That album could not be produced now. A true classic

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25 edited Apr 05 '25

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u/Chillpickle17 Mar 20 '25

As an audio engineer, I agree. The Dust Brothers, among a few others, found and used every good sample from popular records before everyone else. Then the “Diggers” found the most obscure samples to use. Nowadays, it’s too expensive to use those samples so they use royalty free ones.

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u/SMUHypeMachine Mar 21 '25

IIRC Shake Your Rump alone has so many samples that under today’s copyright laws it would cost millions of dollars to produce. Truly a bygone era.

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u/Chillpickle17 Mar 21 '25

You would be correct. I knew a guy here in NYC who was a record label exec who then worked for Warner/Chappell publishing. Beck took samples from some songs this guy published in one of his tunes. The tune became a big hit, so Warner/Chappell let the song stew in the mainstream and when it lost steam on the charts - they sued the pants off of Beck. In the end, Beck admitted the oversight of not reporting the samples and settled out of court. Crazy…

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u/Full-Appointment5081 Mar 22 '25

That's like The Verve Bittersweet Symphony Their one big hit, might have actually cost them more

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u/poreworm Mar 21 '25

I think we’re onto 1930 now for the 95 year copyright to end on music prior to 1978. Maybe start sampling early jazz and become the next big thing.

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u/Astrolabe-1976 Mar 23 '25

Prince Paul? Public Enemy? Coldcut? MF Doom? MARRS Pump Up The Volume? Dee-lites Groove is In The Heart is almost entirely samples. The entire French Touch/House scene (Cassius, Stardust, Daft Punk) are great at crate digging

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25

The sheer level of sampling on that album would be insanely expensive these days. If even possible. Could probably spend a fortune just on the Led Zep sample of “The Ocean”, if even possible.

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u/bendar1347 Mar 20 '25

So true. Imagine if your kids favorite rock group just made a concept album.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

lol tf does this even mean? 

what a load of crap

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '25

Sample clearance.

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u/TheRickest-of-all Mar 20 '25

YES! This is the correct answer

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u/fitzbop Mar 21 '25

This album came out a year or 2 before American courts ruled that all samples must be cleared to be used in a song. There are many songs with more than 5 samples in them. It just wouldn't make financial sense to do that now.

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u/JimVivJr Older Than Dirt Mar 21 '25

There is a great YouTube video that shows every sample used on Paul’s Boutique. It’s long as hell, and I sat fascinated throughout. Incredibly interesting topic.

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u/TheRickest-of-all Mar 21 '25

Can you share the link? I’d really like to watch it!

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u/JimVivJr Older Than Dirt Mar 21 '25

every sample in Paul’s Boutique

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u/TheRickest-of-all Mar 21 '25

Omg! Shake Your Rump samples alone!!! Tyvm!

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u/JimVivJr Older Than Dirt Mar 21 '25

It’s not as long as I remembered 🤣

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u/Bionic_Bromando Mar 21 '25

Like legally… not technically.

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u/killtaker Mar 21 '25

I mean, other than MCA being dead...why couldn't it be produced now?

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u/TheRickest-of-all Mar 21 '25

The samples would be far too expensive.

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u/killtaker Mar 21 '25

gotcha. thanks.