While i can't stand Thicke or his song (highly suspect the only one i'll really hear from him)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp7Q1OAzITM

Thats Marvin Gaye's - Got To Give It Up

Some of the same instruments... but to my hear no where near close enough to justify a lawsuit... feels very much like a cash grab to me.

Anyone able to name the opening riff's sample?

Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye -Tamla Records (Mowtown)

Every time a song originally produced by Barry Gordy is sampled James Brown screams, "WATCH ME!" from his grave.

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Marvin Gaye "What's Going On?" You can find your own tracks.

It's Smokey Robinson's favorite album as well, that should be reccommendation enough for anyone.

@residue

Backstory is that karl pilkington has a huge cult following amongst people in the know. He met gervais and merchant working at XFM radio station (small local london station) which gervais did as a favour to someone who gave him a job early in his life.

Since then, gervais has mercilessly taken the piss out of karl. Karl is unique in that he's the only person in the world who's both the stupidest person ever and a complete and utter genius.

They made loads of radio shows and loads of podcasts, then they made an idiot abroad. The format basically goes like this: Karl says something rediculous, gervais and merchant take the piss out of him. They often ask him questions which he has no chance of understanding just to see what stupid things he'll say. He is fascinated by anything different (such as warrick, the elephant man, gay people, siamese twins, ANYTHING different to your average human), he's entranced by monkies and thinks that monkies are basically humans who can't speak properly.

He used to come up with pathetic game shows in which he'd come up with clues that he'd label cryptic (to gervais' chagrin) where he'd give a clue and a pair of initials, and you would have to guess what band or artist name he was referring to, it amounted to this;
"The jamaican fellow is swinging a fish around his head, DS"
-- Detroit Spinners (The trout spinners, in a jamaican accent - de trout spinners)
"I told the gay man that the grape tree was mine, MG"
-- Marvin Gaye (My vine, gay)

The radio show was an absolute shambles, it was barely even a radio show and more a case of 3 blokes having a chat in a pub with a microphone left running. And i will say with certainty that i have never laughed so hard or so much at any kind of comedy. I'd say gervais' BEST work is the podcasts and radio shows he did with pilkington.

During the course of the podcasts, pilkington has dropped MANY clangers and had many more catchphrases - gervais uses a lot of references to karl in his work. For example whenever gervais wants to play his 'arrogant jerk' routine he refers to a gay person he says "little gay fellow", because it's inherently condescending. That's actually something he got off karl who refers to EVERY diversity as "little <x> fellow" - little gay fellows, little chinese fellows, little gay chinese fellows, little disabled fellows and very particularly "little midget fellow".

So.....gervais introduced him to warrick. And they've talked about warrick on the radio show/podcasts before.

Edit:
Might actually post this as a sift talk so people know who the new guy on the sift is.

Well excuse me, take a few minutes, to mellow out
Big Daddy Kane is on the mic and I'ma tell about
a minimum length, of rhymes of strength
and power, so listen to the man of the hour
Flow and go to a slow tempo and you know
sing hoe, swing low, then yo the show
will go on, as I perform
Transformin on stage like a Decepticon
But I'm not animated like a cartoon
I'm for real, shootin lyrics like a harpoon
Across the crowd, the listeners, the spectators
So let's groove with the smooth operator

The B-I-G, D-A-double-D-Y-K-A-N-E
I'm good and plenty, servin many and any
competition, wishin for an expedition
I'm straight up dissin and dismissin, listen
Rappers act so wild, and love to profile
Frontin hard but ain't got no style
I give nightmares to those who compete
Freddy Kreuger, walkin on Kane Street
Confuse and lose abuse and bruise the crews
who choose to use my name wrong, they pay dues
Destruction from the exterminator
But in a calm manner, cause I'm a smooth operator

Now girls step up to this
One simple kiss, and it's over Miss
Sold to nice dreamers, high as the price seem
girlfriend, you been scooped like ice cream
So just swing or fling a gathering try to cling
Cause It's a Big Daddy Thing
And I'm lovin em right word is bond
So just play Marvin Gaye and Let's Get It On
I make it real good like Dr. Feelgood
To make sure that my point is understood
That when it comes to this there's none greater
Sincerely yours... the smooth operator

Now ain't that the pot callin the kettle black
Sayin I'm a new jack, you need to be smacked
The smooth way I say em and the way I display em
to make them sound different in a way that's gifted
and hey I'm, makin sure every lyric is done fine
And I make one line, bright as the sunshine
Attack you like Robatussin on a cough
If you know like I know -- step off!
Competition, I'ma get rid of
You can't get a bit of, so just consider
a break or rest vacation hibernation
And make way for my smooth operation
I'm a smooth operator

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i used my jukebox playlist here.
set to random, first song of each page.
and then * starred the ones i found amusing

SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
** where did you sleep last night?

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
drive

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
mercy, mercy, me

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
heaven is a halfpipe

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
listen to the music

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
** two out of three ain't bad

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
hey ya

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
* bring it on

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
* strawberry fields forever

WHAT IS 2+2?
bell bottom blues

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
how it ends

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
tubthumping

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
** time after time

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
solsbury hill

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
* hard to beat

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
* like a stone

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
*** stupid girl

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
new world

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
drumming

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
cocaine

WHATS THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?
ms jackson

HOW WILL YOU DIE?
creep

WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?
walk away renee

WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?
spem in alium

WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?
island in the sun

WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?
in the mood

WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?
** tiger in your tank

DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?
* hips don't lie

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?
*** mad world

WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?
* gimme' all your lovin'

Good find. Dupe!

In reply to this comment by Deano:
This embed does not appear for me so I can't tell if it's a dupe of the published video http://www.videosift.com/video/Marvin-Gaye-performs-National-Anthem-1983-NBA-All-Star.

This video has been declared a duplicate; transferring votes to the original video and killing this dupe - dupeof declared by ant.

Oops, *dupeof=http://www.videosift.com/video/Marvin-Gaye-performs-National-Anthem-1983-NBA-All-Star

Ant,

re http://www.videosift.com/video/Marvin-Gaye-Sings-National-Anthem-at-1983-NBA-All-Star-Game.
This embed does not appear for me so I can't tell if it's a dupe of the published video http://www.videosift.com/video/Marvin-Gaye-performs-National-Anthem-1983-NBA-All-Star.

This embed does not appear for me so I can't tell if it's a dupe of the published video http://www.videosift.com/video/Marvin-Gaye-performs-National-Anthem-1983-NBA-All-Star.

Should have put Marvin Gaye on instead of metallica.

Depends on the mood - fireside romantic night:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Lets-Get-It-On-Marvin-Gaye
http://www.videosift.com/video/Marvin-Gaye-Sexual-Healing-1

and pretty much every other song on Taj Mahal's "Señor Blues".
(holy crap! this is the only Taj Mahal on the sift?!?!? Not for long.

night of dancing + mdma + humps:

(actually, I'd use the version from "A Plump Night Out" - longer and better, um, climaxes.