Songs With Samples

A list of TMBG songs utilizing the electronic technique of sampling:

• Boat Of Car - Daddy Sang Bass/Daddy'll Sing Bass, from a Johnny Cash song
• Cage & Aquarium - "first homemade sample", according to the Then: The Earlier Years booklet
• Confusing The Mind - Flansburgh: "I am almost certain the sample of the guy itself comes from a cassette about satanic backwards masking"
• Cowtown
• Creepy - "Six million ways to die" and its 666s come from Cutty Ranks' song "A Who Seh Me Dun"
• Doris Cunningham (WFMU Demo) - samples "Funebre", an instrumental from the Southern Library of Recorded Music
• Everything Right Is Wrong (1984 Demo) - outro samples audio from the Apollo 11 moon landing
• Hearing Aid - intro samples the Glenn Miller Orchestra's 1942 recording of "Angels of Mercy"
• Hiya Hi - uses the drum track "Fast Disco" by David Crigger from DrumDrops Volume 1
• I'll Remember 3rd Street - intro samples The Fifth Dimension's version of "One Less Bell to Answer"
• I'll Sink Manhattan - contains a backwards snippet of a unsolicited phone message from a police officer
• I'm Def - "features yet another unsolicited phone message"
• I Like Fun - Jack Bruce voice sample
• I Wouldn't Be Mad - uses a drum track similar to the one used on "Now That I Have Everything"
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Brownsville Mix) - numerous samples, including Kraftwerk's The Robots
• Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Park Slope Mix) - contains most of the same samples as the Brownsville mix
• L M N O - samples the drum break from Al Green's "I'm Glad You're Mine"
• Next Plane To London - "Buh-buh baby!"
• No Left Turn - "He owes me some of that shit, man"
• Now That I Have Everything - drum track taken from "5/4 Rock" by David Crigger
• Number Three - samples "Skinny Lena" by Lou Monte
• Rabid Child - "Lord, please don't take me away"
• See The Constellation - samples a countoff from the Ramones song "Commando"
• Selectionist - samples the first few seconds of the 1965 Cher song "Where Do You Go"
• S-E-X-X-Y (Kendal Mintcake Remix) - numerous samples
• She's Actual Size - "We take you to (the Hotel Martinet in) Brooklyn" edited sample from the War of The Worlds broadcast
• Snowball In Hell - the infamous motivational tape Flansburgh received for his birthday
• They Might Be Giants (Song) - several vocal samples featuring Dr. Dave Breese from a currently-unidentified cassette of "a kinda fake, budget version of a self-improvement program"
• They Might Be Giants (Song) (1984 Demo) - drum track taken from "Bluegrass Country" by David Crigger; also present on 1985 demo of the song
• Town To Town - samples "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A, which samples the Amen break
• To Serve Mankind - anonymous vocal samples
• Untitled - the Gloria phone call, and a high-pitched sample of "Funebre", an instrumental from the Southern Library of Recorded Music
• What Nut Intro - includes the same samples featuring in the song "They Might Be Giants"
• Withered Hope - Vocal samples from the introduction of the album Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings.
• Your Racist Friend (Sampladelic Remix) - guitar samples from a song by The Meters