♪ Samples Puzzle ♪
You will be presented with an audio file and nine images cropped from nine album covers. The audio file consists of eight clips, each of which samples, covers or interpolates elements from a track on one the nine albums (or, for soundtracks, from the film, show or video game). The last clip contains elements from two different tracks.
The puzzle has nine answers, which can be either track titles (the sampled track) or album titles (the sampled track’s album, which will be pictured).
The order of the answers is set by the order of the clips. So, the first answer should be either:
(a) the title of the track sampled in the first clip, or
(b) the title of the album that track is from.
EXAMPLE
| Suppose you saw this picture: | And the first clip was: | Then the first answer is: |
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Walk on the Wild Side OR Transformer [ by Lou Reed sampled by A Tribe Called Quest “Can I Kick It?” ] |
PUZZLE
ANSWERS
Answers in Bold:
1. “Opening” from The Dark Crystal — sampled by The Crystal Method in “Trip Like I Do”
2. Bob Dylan’s “Lay Lady Lay” from Nashville Skyline — sampled by Kid Cudi in “Highs and Lows”
3. John Williams’ “Cantina Band” from Star Wars: A New Hope — sampled by Jesse Rose in “Fatman”
4. Queen’s “We Will Rock You” from News of the World — several bars covered by Aaron Copeland in “Fanfare for the Common Man”
5. Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen” from Bella Donna — sampled by Destiny’s Child in “Bootylicious”
6. Yasunori Mitsuda’s “Secret of the Forest” from Chrono Trigger — sampled by Wiz Khalifa in “Never Been (Part II)”
7. Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell’s “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” from United — sampled by Amy Winehouse in “Tears Dry on Their Own”
8. Elton John’s “Bennie and the Jets” from Goodbye Yellow Brick Road — sampled by Ashanti in “Good Good”
9. Michael Jackson’s “The Girl is Mine” from Thriller — vocal interpolation by Ashanti in “Good Good”