I just went to a concert in Port Elliot of a selection of Baroque classics… they played Pachelbel’s Canon which of course got used in Altogether Now by The Farm and Ladies & Gentleman by Spiritualized…
Any other examples of musical appropriation done so well?
Eric Satie’s First Gymnopedie has been nicked for a million things but off the top of my head…
Movement 98 featuring Carroll Thompson - Joy And Heartbreak
Mark Stewart - Stranger Than Love
The Orb Into the Fourth Dimension uses Vivaldi’s Cantabile, although more a wholesale lift than an appropriation!
Someone once told me that The Real Roxanne’s ‘Bang Zoom’ was the genesis for the original Soul II Soul sound… Head to 1:55 to see…
DeeJay Punk-Roc nicked the turntable noises from the beginning of that ^ for the beginning of I hate Everybody (underrated album!)
Most obvious one that springs to mind is Whiter Shade of Pale / Bach
Also Manfred Mann Joybringer uses Holst’s Jupiter
Pachelbel’s Canon in D is used in loads, or elements of it are…‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’, ‘Go West’, ‘See You When I Get Here’, ‘Streets of London’
Also the Beatles loved a bit of Bach
FSOL sampled Pachelbel on here somewhere:
https://www.discogs.com/master/6526-The-Future-Sound-Of-London-Lifeforms
Another one…Clubbed to Death and the first movement of Elgar’s Enigma Variations
Never Ever by All Saints is essentially just Amazing Grace 
Love on the Rocks by Lama is just an Italo version of this
Big one for me is the uses & abuses of Korngold and others by John Williams for “Star Wars”.
Love this one. The violinist was the great Felix Ayo who just passed last year. Sample is from this record, I believe.
https://www.discogs.com/release/4221132-Vivaldi-I-Musici-Concerti-Con-Titoli
Another Orb one - great use of Steve Reich’s “Electric Counterpoint”
I have little fluffy clouds to thank me for getting into Reich and from there Glass at al
cough…Happy Mondays
^ yeah!
Also blatant!
More obscure, but all in good egregious fun from Basso & co
A very adaptable piece of music. Here it’s blended beautifully with America’s “Ventura Highway” for Miss Jackson’s, “Someone to call my lover” pop hit from 2001.
(Employed from 1’07" onward).
