Songs With Samples
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They Might Be Giants songs utilizing the musical technique of sampling:
| Title | Sample |
| Ampersand | Homemade samples of tambourines, china cymbals and a "half-broken" maraca are used for the instrumental |
| Become A Robot | A portion of the instrumentation uses the Fairlight CMI stock sample "ORCH2" |
| The Biggest One (Demo) | Instrumentation uses the Fairlight CMI stock sample "DOOO1" |
| Boat Of Car | Vocal sample from Johnny Cash's 1969 song "Daddy Sang Bass" |
| Cage & Aquarium | Uses John Flansburgh's guitar as a sample; was the band's "first homemade sample" according to the Then: The Earlier Years booklet |
| Confusing The Mind | Samples "a cassette about satanic backwards masking", according to John Flansburgh |
| Cowtown | Uses the Fairlight CMI stock sample "SCREAM2" |
| Creepy | "Six million ways to die" from Cutty Ranks' 1996 song "A Who Seh Me Dun" |
| Critic Intro | Samples "Murder By Music" and "Megalomania" from the 1971 Southern Library of Recorded Music LP Dramatic, Mystery |
| Dedicated | Vocal sample of Morgan Freeman from the 1972 The Electric Company soundtrack LP |
| Dog | Utilizes a set of piano samples "meticulously retuned" by John Linnell |
| Doris Cunningham (Extended) | Samples "Funebre" from the 1971 Southern Library of Recorded Music LP Martial Mood, Humorous, Novelty, Titles |
| Dr. Kildare (Demo) | Samples They Might Be Giants playing "Ondine" live on April 26, 1993 |
| Even My T-Shirt | Looped sample of the phrase "Yeah that's, that's what I'm saying" spoken by John Flansburgh |
| Everything Right Is Wrong (1984 Demo) | Outro samples audio of the Apollo 11 moon landing, from the 1969 LP Man On The Moon |
| 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 5th Dimension's version of "One Less Bell to Answer" |
| I'll Sink Manhattan | Numerous samples, including a backwards snippet of a Dial-A-Song message from an NYPD police officer |
| I'm Def | Samples an unsolicited phone message from a Dial-A-Song caller |
| I Like Fun | Jack Bruce voice samples |
| I Wouldn't Be Mad | Uses the drum track "5/4 Rock" by David Crigger from DrumDrops Volume 3 |
| Imaginary Friend | Samples handclaps from Jo Anne Worley and Trini Lopez |
| Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Brownsville Mix) | Numerous samples, including Kraftwerk's "The Robots" |
| Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Park Slope Mix) | Numerous samples, mostly the same as the Brownsville mix |
| Kitten Intro | Samples "Ice-Floe", "Danger, Melting Ice" and "Murder By Music" from the 1971 Southern Library of Recorded Music LP Dramatic, Mystery |
| Lady Is A Tramp | Vocal sample from Carla Thomas & Otis Redding's version of "Tramp", also trumpet sounds sampled from LL Cool J's "Going Back to Cali" |
| L M N O | Samples the drum break from Al Green's "I'm Glad You're Mine" |
| Mario Speaks | Intro samples Johnny Mathis' 1959 cover of "You Are Beautiful" |
| Minimum Wage | Based around a sample of Frank Sinatra's 1966 cover of "Downtown" |
| Next Plane To London | "Buh-buh baby!" |
| No Left Turn | "He owes me some of that shit, man" |
| Now That I Have Everything | Uses the drum track "5/4 Rock" by David Crigger from DrumDrops Volume 3 |
| Number Three | Repeating saxophone riff is a sample of Lou Monte's 1958 song "Skinny Lena" |
| Rabid Child | "Lord, please don't take me away" from "Hurricanes Carla & Esther" by Lightnin' Hopkins |
| Rhythm Section Want Ad (Demo) | Bridge uses the Fairlight CMI stock samples "ARROW" and "SITRPLAY" |
| Sammy Intro | Based on the track "Ain't I" from Sammy Davis Jr.'s 1967 live album That's All! |
| See The Constellation | Outro samples the unreleased instrumental "I Miss Side 2", also samples countoffs from the Ramones songs "Commando" and "California Sun" |
| 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 Orson Welles' 1938 The War of The Worlds radio broadcast |
| Snowball In Hell | Dialogue sample from the 1977 cassette How to Master Time Organization by Paul J. Meyer |
| Spider | "Ladies and gentlemen!" samples from "The Preliminaries", from the 1961 Smithsonian Folkways LP Campaign '56: Sounds of an Election Year, and the "Introduction" track on James Brown's 1968 album Live at the Apollo, Volume II |
| The World's Address (Joshua Fried Remix) | Numerous samples, including "Convoy" by C.W. McCall |
| They Might Be Giants & (1985 Demo) | Several vocal samples of Dr. Dave Breese from a currently unidentified cassette of "a kinda fake, budget version of a self-improvement program" |
| They Might Be Giants (1983 Demo) & (1985 Demo) | Uses the drum track "Bluegrass (Country)" by David Crigger from DrumDrops Volume 1 |
| Town To Town | Samples "Straight Outta Compton" by N.W.A, which samples the Amen break |
| Untitled | The Gloria phone call, also "Funebre", an instrumental from the 1971 Southern Library of Recorded Music LP Martial Mood, Humorous, Novelty, Titles |
| What Nut Intro | Trumpet and vocal samples from the song "They Might Be Giants" |
| Withered Hope | Vocal samples from the introduction track on Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings' 2002 album Dap Dippin' with Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings |
| With The Dark | Samples a self-made field recording by John Flansburgh of trucks driving over the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in the song's intro |
| You'll Miss Me (Demo 1) | Contains a looping sample of crowd noise in the intro |
| Your Racist Friend (Instrumental) | "Translation" vocal sample from Lou Monte's 1958 song "Skinny Lena" |
| Your Racist Friend (Sampladelic Remix) | Drums sampled from "Zimba Ku" by Black Heat, also guitar samples from "Tippi-Toes" by The Meters |
