Song ID

January 2, 2009 5:30 PM

Help me identify who (if anyone) has sampled "La Femme d'Argent" by Air.

Track 1 off Moon Safari (play "Song Clip" under the videos): Who has sampled/covered this song? I've googled the mess outta this and my husband has been searching through Radiohead and Beastie Boy tracks but we got nothing. He keeps saying he feels like it's at the end of a song. Anybody know? Thank ye kindly.

posted by frances1972 to media & arts (4 comments total)

love that song... positive that radiohead never sampled it.
beastie boys, i don't know.

i HAVE heard the song copied in many ways, many times though.
posted by empty commercial spaces at 7:53 PM on January 2

I don't have sources for this, but I think it gets used sometimes as interlude/buffer music on This American Life. At least one web source says "Playground Love" gets used on TAL, but I feel like I've heard La Femme d'Argent too.
posted by knile at 7:59 PM on January 2

Sure it wasn't the Premieres Symptomes EP? It's basically a rough draft of Moon Safari where you'll hear rough musical phrases that were expanded on later in MS. I also remember TAL using it.
posted by cowbellemoo at 8:45 PM on January 2

Which part of it do you think was used? It's a long song with a lot of different sounds going on. I don't think I've heard it on TAL before, though I've heard some of Air's other stuff there. The beginning reminds me of the beginning of In the Waiting Line by Zero 7.

Some folks here are commenting on where they're heard it used: soap ad, Microsoft XBox support hold music, Ticketmaster hold music, home makeover programmes (?), "ending-song of Veronica Mars is very similar" (?).
posted by Who_Am_I at 1:20 PM on January 6