Paper Planes
2008 · From Kala
Gunshots and a cash register over a Clash loop, with Brixton kids singing a hook about immigrant stereotypes.
★ 7.8
The Songs canon
Sourced and sung.
Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Browse all 2,393 songs or filter by genre, subject, artist, and year.
Crazy (Gnarls Barkley)
2005
Cee-Lo cut the vocal in one take over a 1968 spaghetti western sample. Nine weeks at UK number one.
★ 7.6
PyramidsFrank Ocean
Pyramids
2012 · From Channel Orange
Cleopatra dragged into the present, two halves hinged on a midpoint beat switch, and John Mayer's uncredited closing solo.
★ 7.4
Teardrop
1998 · From Mezzanine
Mushroom sent the demo to Madonna, got outvoted, and Elizabeth Fraser sang it over harpsichord and a Les McCann loop.
★ 7.3
My Girls
2009 · From Merriweather Post Pavilion
An arpeggio out of Chicago house, a sample from the Cassini Saturn probe, Lennox wanting only a home.
★ 6.9
Porcelain
2000
Moby nearly left it off Play; a reversed string sample from the Exodus score, cut in his Little Italy apartment.
★ 6.4
Crazy (Seal)
1990
Trevor Horn spent about three months producing it; Seal built the chorus from a world visibly changing.
★ 6.4
Galang
2003 · From Arular
M.I.A.'s second song ever, built on a Roland MC-505 and written for Elastica; dancehall never sounded so homemade.
★ 6.3
Pursuit of Happiness
2010
Ratatat cut the beat before Cudi arrived, MGMT added vocals, and Steve Aoki's remix made a song about intoxication ubiquitous.
★ 6.2
Milkshake
2003
A darbuka drum, finger cymbals, and almost nothing else; the Neptunes' emptiest beat became Kelis's biggest hit.
★ 5.9
Your Woman
1997
Mishra cut it in his bedroom on an Atari ST, sampling a 1932 muted trumpet, and topped the UK chart.
★ 5.5
Lebanese Blond
1998
A sitar, a slow groove and Pam Bricker's voice, carried to a wide audience by the Garden State soundtrack.
★ 5.0
Start the Commotion
1999
A 1966 Ventures instrumental on loop, twice a minor British hit, then a Mitsubishi advert made it inescapable.
★ 2.7
We Be The CrewThe Wiseguys
We Be The Crew
1999
Track three on The Antidote, cut-and-paste funk from the album Theo Keating built alone after his partner left.
★ 1.6
Just Say Yes
2009
Written for Gwen Stefani, who passed, then offered to Nicole Scherzinger before Snow Patrol reclaimed it with Jacknife Lee.
★ 1.4