Results for “nostalgia (soul and funk samples)”

Songs

Souls of Mischief

This is a straightforward braggadocio track built around a single repeated mandate: pursue women, collect cash, and move on…

transactional sexuality financial hustle masculine bravado

Da Funk

Daft Punk

"Da Funk" is an instrumental house track built around a single squelching synth-bass riff that Daft Punk let mutate and rub…

mechanized funk repetition and variation urban grit

Soul Sista

Bilal

A neo-soul love song built almost entirely on a single repeated affirmation, treating physical and spiritual intimacy as…

spiritual intimacy sensual desire authenticity vs. language

All That You Have Is Your Soul

Emmylou Harris

A mother's warning becomes a hard-won personal confession, as the narrator traces her own failures to heed advice about…

inherited wisdom moral compromise self-possession versus loss of self

Soul Meets Body

Death Cab for Cutie

A gentle, folk-inflected love song built around a fantasy of full integration - body and spirit, self and other - as the…

union of body and soul romantic devotion mortality and shared fate

Morse

Nightmares on Wax

"Morse" is an instrumental piece from Nightmares on Wax's Carboot Soul, an album built on warm, sample-heavy downtempo grooves…

communication without language repetition and pulse warmth versus mechanism

Soul Sacrifice

Santana

Soul Sacrifice is a wordless, percussion-driven showcase that became one of Santana's signature pieces largely through its…

ecstatic release ritual and sacrifice collective improvisation

Da Feelin'

Nightmares on Wax

"Da Feelin'" is an instrumental piece from Nightmares on Wax's Thought So... album, operating in the warm, soul-inflected…

mood over message groove and repetition soul/funk heritage

Soothe My Soul

Depeche Mode

A blues-electro stalker's chant built almost entirely around a single fixation: sexual compulsion framed as addiction and…

obsession addiction desire as compulsion

All Souls Day

Unwound

Unwound takes the Catholic feast commemorating the dead and turns it into a refusal of comfort religion offers. The song's…

mortality religious doubt refusal of consolation

Easy on My Soul

Free

A late-period Free track that trades narrative for mantra, circling the questions of what love and life amount to before…

exhaustion self-forgiveness spiritual uncertainty

A Roller Skating Jam Named "Saturdays"

De La Soul

A radio-skit framed jam that turns Saturday roller-rink culture into a loose celebration of release after the work week,…

leisure and release community ritual casual romance and its double standards

Let the Funk Flow

EPMD

A straightforward late-80s boast track in which Erick Sermon and Parrish Smith trade verses establishing their skill,…

braggadocio mic skill as competition self-mythologizing

Cherry-Coloured Funk

Cocteau Twins

This is Elizabeth Fraser's vocal writing at its most sound-driven, using words less for propositional meaning than for texture,…

vulnerability and exposure language breaking down under feeling ambivalence about vulnerability vs self-protection

Batting Practice

Souls of Mischief

A posse cut built around a single extended conceit: rapping as batting practice, with each Souls of Mischief member (plus…

braggadocio competition/skill display crew unity

Medication

Souls of Mischief

A posse cut built around the Hieroglyphics crew's pun on 'medication,' where each of four Souls of Mischief members takes a…

lyrical dexterity as intoxicant meditation/education wordplay Oakland underground identity

Say No Go

De La Soul

De La Soul takes on the crack epidemic of the late 1980s not through gritty street reportage but through wordplay, sampling, and…

addiction and its generational cost complicity versus resistance community warning and moral instruction

Eye Know

De La Soul

"Eye Know" is De La Soul's sunniest love song, built on a Steely Dan sample and playful Daisy Age slang. Both Posdnuos and…

courtship and seduction wordplay as intimacy group identity and self-naming

Dusty Blue

Charles Bradley

"Dusty Blue" is an instrumental piece from Charles Bradley's Victim of Love, functioning as a mood-setting interlude within an…

melancholy nostalgia instrumental interludes as emotional palate cleansers

In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul

The Clean

A deadpan sketch of suburban middle-class malaise, built around a pun that fuses spiritual emptiness with protective numbness.…

suburban conformity spiritual emptiness emotional numbness

93' Till Infinity

Souls of Mischief

This is a live-recording rendition of the Oakland classic that built its reputation on effortless, unhurried braggadocio. The…

hip-hop regionalism crew loyalty hedonism and leisure

Tour Stories

Souls of Mischief

A road-diary rap where four Oakland MCs trade verses about the surreal mundanity of touring the world -- customs hassles,…

travel and displacement hustle and reward disbelief at success

Step to My Girl

Souls of Mischief

A posse-cut brag track built around a single scenario: other men hitting on the narrators' girlfriends, and each rapper…

jealousy and possessiveness masculine status competition hypervigilance/insecurity masked as confidence

Me Myself and I

De La Soul

De La Soul use a mirror-gazing conceit to push back against critics and industry types who wanted to pigeonhole them as hippies…

individuality vs. conformity authenticity in art resistance to stereotyping

The Magic Number

De La Soul

De La Soul turns Schoolhouse Rock's arithmetic lesson into a manifesto for the trio itself, using the number three as a stand-in…

group identity and unity originality vs. imitation in hip-hop numerology/mysticism as playful device

Breakadawn

De La Soul

A loose, free-associative posse-cut style track from De La Soul's most abstract album, built on stream-of-consciousness wordplay…

identity and origin hip-hop lineage and Native Tongues affiliation industry skepticism

Buddy

De La Soul

"Buddy" is a posse-cut party track from De La Soul's debut, built around an extended and deliberately silly sexual code word…

sexual innuendo through wordplay collective male bravado playful group identity

Stakes Is High

De La Soul

A weary state-of-hip-hop address from De La Soul, cataloguing everything the group has grown sick of in mid-90s rap culture…

disillusionment with commercial rap materialism and misplaced love urban survival and violence

Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey)

De La Soul

De La Soul turns their own answering machine into a comic stage set, using its looping outgoing message as a chorus to frame a…

fame and its unwanted attention the hip-hop demo-tape hustle authenticity versus hype

Oooh.

De La Soul

A posse-cut braggadocio track from De La Soul's Art Official Intelligence era, featuring Redman on hooks and ad-libs while Pos…

lyrical supremacy authenticity vs. commercialism hustle and survival

Extended Beat

Eric B. & Rakim

"Extended Beat" is exactly what its title promises: a stretched-out instrumental version of the breakbeats and scratch work that…

DJ craft and turntablism the breakbeat as raw material hip hop's roots in funk and soul sampling

Jimmi Diggin' Cats

Digable Planets

This is Digable Planets riffing on the idea of retro nostalgia as a kind of alternate history, imagining sixties and seventies…

retro-futurism and nostalgia Black cultural lineage funk/jazz as inheritance

I'll Be There for You / You're All I Need to Get By

Method Man

Working only from the title and artist credit, this appears to be a hip-hop love song built around a soul-era chorus hook,…

romantic devotion loyalty amid hardship nostalgia via sampling

Halcyon (Tom Middleton Re-model)

Orbital

This is a remix of Orbital's 1992 ambient-techno landmark "Halcyon," reworked by Tom Middleton for the duo's 20th-anniversary…

nostalgia memory and repetition chemical euphoria

Way Back

TLC

A nostalgia anthem built on the language of enduring friendship or love, TLC's "Way Back" leans on classic soul and R&B…

nostalgia loyalty over time reunion

Born on the Bayou

Betty Davis

Betty Davis takes John Fogerty's swampy CCR title and reworks it into a funk vamp about inherited female wariness of men that…

maternal warning and inherited caution reclaiming a borrowed rock lyric through funk sexual assertion and demand

Honestly?

American Football

A short, understated meditation on the unreliability of memory, specifically the memory of teenage emotion and romance. The…

unreliable memory nostalgia adolescence

We Used to Know

Jethro Tull

A wistful meditation on aging and the passage of time, framed as an address to old companions whose paths are diverging. The…

nostalgia aging and mortality disillusionment

Close Your Eyes and Remember

Minnie Riperton

A gentle, pastoral lullaby that uses nature imagery as a doorway into childhood memory and nostalgia. Riperton's airy, high…

nostalgia nature as memory-trigger innocence

Crocodile Rock

Elton John

A pastiche of early rock and roll nostalgia, built around an invented dance craze and a lost teenage romance. The song uses…

nostalgia lost youth first love