Show of Samples 11/16
This was my last week before winter break, so I won’t have any more shows until 2010. This week I had the original songs that had been sampled. At first I wanted to do all Will Smith songs, but that didn’t work out because there wasn’t enough there. Here are the songs listed as original then the song/artist that sampled them.
And the Beat Goes On – The Whispers / Miami – Will Smith
He’s the Greatest Dancer – Sister Sledge / Gettin’ Jiggy With It – Will Smith
Forget Me Nots – Patrice Ruschen / Men In Black – Will Smith
Rock the Casbah – The Clash / Will 2K – Will Smith
I Wish – Stevie Wonder / Wild Wild West – Will Smith
I’m Coming Out – Diana Ross / Mo Money Mo Problems – Notorious B.I.G. feat Puff Daddy and Mase
West Coast Poplock – Ronnie Hudson / California Love – 2Pac
Woman to Woman – Joe Cocker / California Love – 2Pac
Before the Night is Over – Joe Simon / So Fresh So Clean – OutKast
Think (About It) – Lyn Collins / It Takes Two – Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock
Harlem Shuffle – Bob & Earl / Jump Around – House of Pain
Trip to Your Heart – Sly & The Family Stone / Mama Said Knock You Out – LL Cool J
I Will – John Holt / Encore – Jay-Z
Chase the Devil – Max Romeo & The Upsetters / Lucifer – Jay-Z
(You) Got What I Need – Freddie Scott / Just a Friend – Biz Markie
Hard Times – Baby Huey / Buck 50 – Ghostface Killah and Dragon – Biz Markie
Grandma’s Hands – Bill Withers / No Diggity – Blackstreet feat. Dr. Dre
Cola Bottle Baby – Edwin Birdsong / Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger – Daft Punk
One Step Ahead – Aretha Franklin / Miss Fat Booty – Mos Def
Here Comes the Meter Man – The Meters / Long Live the Kane – Big Daddy Kane
Express Yourself – Charles Wright / Express Yourself – N.W.A.
Pastime Paradise – Stevie Wonder / Gangster’s Paradise – Coolio
Bring Down the Birds – Herbie Hancock / Groove Is In The Heart – Dee Lite
Zilch – The Monkees / Mistadobalina – Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Into My Own Thing – Sly & The Family Stone / Weapon of Choice – Fatboy Slim
Holy Thursday – David Axelrod / Dr. Carter – Lil Wayne
Thanks for listening and I’ll be back in January.
DJ Matthias Brown
11/9 Show of Covers
This week I did a show of covers as well as two songs that the covers are the best known versions, so I played the originals.
As a clarification songs will be listed as follows
Title – Original Artist/Origin – Artist Who’s Version I Played
Summertime – Porgy and Bess, Musical – Billy Stewert
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man – Chuck Berry – Buddy Holly & the Crickets
Too Much Monkey Business – Chuck Berry – The Kinks
Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy – The Kinks – Queens of the Stone Age
Lola – The Kinks – The Raincoats
David Watts – The Kinks – The Jam
Surfin’ USA – The Beach Boys – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Hang On To Your Ego (Variation of “I Know There’s An Answer) – The Beach Boys – Frank Black
Mr. Grieves – Pixies – TV On The Radio
Where Is My Mind? – Pixies – The Blue Ribbon Glee Club
Havalina – Pixies – They Might Be Giants
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) – The Four Lads
the best known version is a cover by They Might Be Giants
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
best known version is a cover by Soft Cell
Hey Jude – The Beatles – Wilson Pickett
With A Little Help From My Friends – The Beatles – Joe Cocker
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles – The Four Tops
Across the Universe – The Beatles – David Bowie
House of the Rising Sun – American Folk song, best known for The Animals Version – Gregory Isaacs
My Girl – Temptations – Otis Redding
I Heard It Through The Grape Vine – Marvin Gaye – The Slits
Light My Fire – The Doors – Al Green
Take Me To The River – Al Green – Talking Heads
Naive Melody – Talking Heads – Arcade Fire
Money(That’s What I Want) – Barrett Strong – The Flying Lizards
Say You Will – Kanye West – Mobius Band
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson – The Lost Fingers
Making Plans for Nigel – XTC – Nouvelle Vague
Changes – David Bowie – Los Chicros
Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan – Marie Laforet
Ruby Tuesday – The Rolling Stones – Franco Battiato
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones – Devo
Lithium – Nirvana – The Polyphonic Spree
Next week I am continuing with a similar theme by playing songs that have been sampled. I won’t be playing the songs that sample them in full, but will have short clips from the songs to show where the sample is.
DJ Matthias
Charts 11/2

1 DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN AND TAME ONE Parallel Uni-Verse Gold Dust
2 MONSTERS OF FOLK Monsters Of Folk Shangri-La
3 SEA WOLF White Water, White Bloom Dangerbird
4 A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS Exploding Head Mute
5 VIA TANIA Moon Sweet Moon The Hours Read more
11/2 – The Alphabet Show
This week’s theme was the alphabet, where I had songs where the song title and artist began with the same letter, for every letter of the alphabet, except for Q because I couldn’t find a good song for it that was radio friendly in both sound and content.
Here’s the playlist:
1. (Antichrist Television Blues) – Arcade Fire
2. Biz Is Goin’ Off – Biz Markie
3. Banned in D.C. – Bad Brains
4. Carlos Walter Wendy Stanley – The Chap
5. Clampdown – The Clash
6. Don’t Blame Me – Desmond Dekker
7. English Girl – Eagles of Death Metal
8. Everyday I Write The Book – Elvis Costello
9. Fu Manchu – Frank Black
10. Fish, Chips and Sweat – Funkadelic
11. Guns Before Butter – Gang of Four
12. Howlin’ At The Moon – Hank Williams
13. I’ll Never Need More Than This – Ike and Tina Turner
14. Just Like Honey – The Jesus and Mary Chain
15. Knocked Up – Kings of Leon
16. Knowledge is King – Kool Moe Dee
17. Live and Let Live – Love
18. Manchester et Liverpool – Marie Laforet
19. Movie Finale – Madlib
20. No Ideas Original – Nas and MF DOOM
21. Out There in the Night – The Only Ones
22. Pop Life – Prince
23. Rockin’ All Night – Ritchie Valens
24. Revellion – The Revels
25. Some Girls Are Bigger than Others – The Smiths
26. Stonehenge – Spinal Tap
27. Telegram Same – T. Rex
28. Under the Boardwalk – The Undertones
29. The Ventures Medley – The Ventures
30. Whole Wide World – Wreckless Eric
31. X Wires – XTC
32.Y Control – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
33.Zuton Fever – The Zutons
34. Z Y X – They Might Be Giants
Thanks to those who listened. Next week’s theme branches off of the general concept of ’sharing’ with cover songs, but not only cover songs, oh no. I will also include some of the original versions of songs you had no idea were covers. If your I just blew your mind, then it’s far too easy to surprise you.
My show happens Mondays 8-10 pm eastern standard time.
DJ Matthias
