The album version of the song combines "Stem" with "Long Stem".
Samples used
Like all other tracks on the album, "Stem"/"Long Stem" makes heavy use of sampling. Below are among the samples used for the track:
The first
sample used in the track is sampled from the beginning of the 1969 song "Love Suite" by English rock band
Nirvana.
The "...uicide...uicide..." vocal sample is taken from "Moshitup" by American hip-hop artist
Just-Ice featuring fellow American hip-hop artist
KRS-One.
The high-pitched string samples are sampled from "Variazione III" by Italian
progressive rock band
Osanna.
The recurring guitar and violin parts are sampled from "Linde Manor" by American singer-songwriter
Dennis Linde.
The organ sample that starts "Long Stem" is taken from "Tears" by Italian musician
Giorgio Moroder; the same sample is used on another track on Endtroducing...., "Organ Donor".
The "I could just lay right down..." vocal sample is taken from "Blues So Bad" by American funk/soul group The Mystic Number National Bank.
The "parking tickets" monologue which appears midway in the song is sampled from "Freedom" by American comedian
Murray Roman.
In Chris Morris' TV series, Jam, and in its radio predecessor, Blue Jam which aired on
Channel 4 in 2000 and
BBC Radio 1 from 1997-99 respectively.
An advert for a
BBC television programme that aired in November 2006 called, Lock Them Up or Let Them Out.
Used in the background of the
ITV programme, The X Factor in series 3.
A
BBCWorld War II documentary about
Saint-Nazaire that aired on 18 March 2007 called, Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time. The show was repeated on the
BBC on 29 June 2008.
The album version of the song combines "Stem" with "Long Stem".
Samples used
Like all other tracks on the album, "Stem"/"Long Stem" makes heavy use of sampling. Below are among the samples used for the track:
The first
sample used in the track is sampled from the beginning of the 1969 song "Love Suite" by English rock band
Nirvana.
The "...uicide...uicide..." vocal sample is taken from "Moshitup" by American hip-hop artist
Just-Ice featuring fellow American hip-hop artist
KRS-One.
The high-pitched string samples are sampled from "Variazione III" by Italian
progressive rock band
Osanna.
The recurring guitar and violin parts are sampled from "Linde Manor" by American singer-songwriter
Dennis Linde.
The organ sample that starts "Long Stem" is taken from "Tears" by Italian musician
Giorgio Moroder; the same sample is used on another track on Endtroducing...., "Organ Donor".
The "I could just lay right down..." vocal sample is taken from "Blues So Bad" by American funk/soul group The Mystic Number National Bank.
The "parking tickets" monologue which appears midway in the song is sampled from "Freedom" by American comedian
Murray Roman.
In Chris Morris' TV series, Jam, and in its radio predecessor, Blue Jam which aired on
Channel 4 in 2000 and
BBC Radio 1 from 1997-99 respectively.
An advert for a
BBC television programme that aired in November 2006 called, Lock Them Up or Let Them Out.
Used in the background of the
ITV programme, The X Factor in series 3.
A
BBCWorld War II documentary about
Saint-Nazaire that aired on 18 March 2007 called, Jeremy Clarkson: Greatest Raid of All Time. The show was repeated on the
BBC on 29 June 2008.