Music Trivia
WEEK 1 SUBJECT: Samples
There's no prize, though the promise of a virtual tongue bath from Yours Truly should be enough. No Googling for answers, please. You're on the honour system here. Extra pretendy-points if you can name both the titles and the artists.
Q01. Which riff is sampled in the Destiny's Child song Bootylicious?
Q02. Which song is sampled in PM Dawn's Downtown Venus?
Q03. Ice Ice Baby - name the sample.
Q04. Which TV theme is used as the foundation for Fergie's latest track Labels or Love?
Q05. Tone Loc's Funky Cold Medina borrowed the guitar riffs from which rock song?
Q06. Kanye West's Stronger is actually a sample of a sample. Name the two tracks that came before it.
Q07. Which punk-rock track's riff was used in Big Audio Dynamite II's The Globe? (Hint: The lead singer of BAD also fronted the other band.)
Q08. 2 Live Crew were involved in a prolonged legal debate; it was claimed that their use of a Roy Orbison song in a controversial track devalued the original. Name the Roy Orbison song used.
Q09. The Verve were also involved in a legal kerfuffle - in their case, the lawsuit was regarding the unauthorized use of a sample. Name The Verve song as well as the offending sample.
Q10. In 2001, rumours circulated that Tommy Mattolla manipulated producers to make tracks by Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez sound as identical as possible, by using the exact same sample. (Mariah Carey found out and changed this sample so the songs no longer sounded similar.) Which was the sample that Jennifer's (and originally Mariah's) songs used?
There's no prize, though the promise of a virtual tongue bath from Yours Truly should be enough. No Googling for answers, please. You're on the honour system here. Extra pretendy-points if you can name both the titles and the artists.
Q01. Which riff is sampled in the Destiny's Child song Bootylicious?
Q02. Which song is sampled in PM Dawn's Downtown Venus?
Q03. Ice Ice Baby - name the sample.
Q04. Which TV theme is used as the foundation for Fergie's latest track Labels or Love?
Q05. Tone Loc's Funky Cold Medina borrowed the guitar riffs from which rock song?
Q06. Kanye West's Stronger is actually a sample of a sample. Name the two tracks that came before it.
Q07. Which punk-rock track's riff was used in Big Audio Dynamite II's The Globe? (Hint: The lead singer of BAD also fronted the other band.)
Q08. 2 Live Crew were involved in a prolonged legal debate; it was claimed that their use of a Roy Orbison song in a controversial track devalued the original. Name the Roy Orbison song used.
Q09. The Verve were also involved in a legal kerfuffle - in their case, the lawsuit was regarding the unauthorized use of a sample. Name The Verve song as well as the offending sample.
Q10. In 2001, rumours circulated that Tommy Mattolla manipulated producers to make tracks by Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez sound as identical as possible, by using the exact same sample. (Mariah Carey found out and changed this sample so the songs no longer sounded similar.) Which was the sample that Jennifer's (and originally Mariah's) songs used?