There are thousands of songs with riffs that mimic other songs. Ladies and gentlemen, you can only have so many different combinations of chords and progressions before you begin to sound like something already out there. Does this mean plagiarism? HELL NO! If it did, there wouldn't be any more music to make. Even the accusation with Coldplay is absurd... C'mon, let's just leave them alone.
This is a good comparison. This is the first video I've seen with all four songs. I've compared them by watching different videos. Coldplay and Satch have the most similar songs, but there's definitely strong resemblance throughout all of them.
Since the chord progression of Viva la Vida is actually pretty simple, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there are so many videos on YouTube claiming Coldplay ripped of so-and-so and they should be sued, blah blah.
Satriani probably heard it from Stevens but forgot, and came up with a very similar riff but it's not an exact copy.
Coldplay then heard the Satriani song and decided to actually copy, hence the lawsuit and nearly exact similarity between Coldplay's vocal line and Satriani's guitar melody.
Enanitos Verdes is completely unrelated in this, it sounds dissimilar enough to be original.
Coldplay (Viva la vida) vs Satriani (If i could fly) vs Enanitos verdes (Frances limon) vs Cat steven (Foreigner Suite) vs Marty balin (Hearts).... IS ONLY MUSIC MAN!!!!
lol, interesting point about viva la vida, i continously tell the same about Clocks, the piano melody seems to be borrowed from X-tracks - plan 94 (the voyage) but maybe it's just coincidence.
its just four chords that have been used in that arrangement thousands of times by thousands of people over the years. that you could even claim ownership of it is ridiculous.
@heavyspark097 Que no se diga mas ¿Eh? Pues yo digo: ¡OBJECIÓN! Sin duda el que inventó la melodía no es más que la del el buen Cat Stevens. Las demás versiones son respetables pero ¡Incomparables!.
That's not a copy, it's just the same chords with a similar melody... And it's not exactly Dream Theater, it's a fairly easy mistake to make, even if you've never heard the other songs.
I don't know what to think, cat stevens is no equal to others, coldplay has the same melody but with another rythm and idea, but enanitos verdes and satriani has same songs
Excelente explicación. Soy músico clasico, lo que sucede es que en la musica no clasica (popular, no se como llamarla) las melodías y fraseos, (voces, requintos) siempre utilizan las mismas escalas y las mismas armonías, (obviamente por que no tienen eduación formal-musical) y eso inevitablemente hace que muchas canciones se parescan. Muchos requintos de guitarra son "ejercicios" para aprender, (aunque todos los musicos dicen que fue inspiración o improvisación) ,
@yenproject NoO, no es por que no tengan educacion, me parece que estas generalizando que los musicos no clasicos son menos y no es asi. Aqui solo se evidencia a lo que lleva la creacion en masa con fines comerciales y para convencer a grandes masas, como todo va rapido pues se coje de lo que esta hecho para vender, sale mas barato pagar la demanda que no vender discos.
This is stupid. They're similar yes, but not enough. In court, for plagiarism, you have to prove accessibility to the song and SUBSTANTIAL similarities (which is easy to argue, hence the case taking as long as it did) but this is like saying "Well coldplay's is like purple, which is kind of like blue, which is sort of like green, which I guess is pretty close to yellow" Similar but clearly different. Plagiarism is Vanilla Ice's hit song, or Can't Touch this. These are completely different songs
Yeah, even my band (who none of these bands could possibly plagiarize, having never heard of us) had a song with a similar chord progression. We recorded it in 2006 or so, and I went back and listened to it again: the guitar solo has that same melody. And I'd never heard Cat Stevens song before then. It's just one of those freak things - it's a really simple melody to come up with.
well it was a fuckin mistake, i really trust in COLDPLAY's creative power
they just made a GREAT SONG with the same chords that other guys used before, that has happened soooooooo many times... let's not crucifice them it's just a mistake they don't make intentional plagiarisms, i know it :)
@cerecitah: There is more diferences between Coldplay and Satriani (hear vocals and lead guitar) than between Enanos Verdes and Satriani (both lead guitars play exactly the same progression in every single note, and even the rythm is pretty similar) - Cat Stevens has different rythm to Satriani and Enanos Verdes but he's closer to Coldplay when singing. The only sure fact is all that chord progression is just the same, but if any has right to sue any other is Enanos to Satriani's work.
This is so ridiculous. The ONLY reason they sound similar is because it's the same chords. Are you gunna sue everyone that uses the same chords as you? No. So get off your high horse and deal with it. They're even completely different instruments. Coldplay didn't copy anyone. Just deal with it and stop trying to take away their thunder.
whatever, Coldplay is genius. They have a ton of beuatiful songs and are very artistic. LOL ,coldplay does not even sound like that cat stevens guy at all.
@paulf1986 you probably already know, but just in case, he did not lose...in the end coldplay had to pay him. Honestly I wouldn't have paid a cent if I really had not STOLEN the song, but hey.....
enanitos verdes don't have anything to do with this, it doesn't sound anything like the other 3. Bottom line, coldplay stole not just from one artist, but from two.
@guitardrink Coldplay's music is artistic and sophisticated. I swear that ive never heard of joe satriani before until I saw all these videos accusing a Genius band like Coldplay! Viva La Vida!
ok man this is a common riff. im not sticking up for coldplay cause i happen to love satriana, but come on people similar guitar riffs. i can list at least 50 songs with the same c d g progressions
@R0undAboutMidnight yes it does because all of the other ones sound like bad karaoke. and i'm not a huge coldplay or chris martin fan but he does have a professional sounding voice so that might be why it sounds the best.
I am not fanatic (as I don`t go arround doing stupid fanatic stuff)... but I love Joe`s music since I was a kid and I could tell I started to play guitar because of him. During my life I have heard of many conflicts between musicians due to these kind of deals and different ones... so what? we all have problems, why shouldn`t musicians have the too? I think in one hand we have the fact that "it can happen", because I cannot know for sure who copied who and if there was a / continues...
jajajaja, es que en la musica ya no se pude inovar ya se ah creado todo, pero en fin, cat stevens les pondria una pitisa a los tres, si los demanda, jajaja.o ya se murio?
La musica es asi. Todos tocan lo mismo pero cada uno a su manera. El plagio no debería existir en las melodías. Los musicos de hoy estan influenciados por otros pioneros. Ahora si haces un tema igualito igualito con letra identica, bueno, ahi haces un cover y no podes darte el credito de haber puesto tu estilo ni siquiera. Y que hay de los casos que de bandas reggae que hacen versiones de temas de rock??? Los temas no suenan igual. Cada uno le pone su impronta. Igual lo de coldplay es patetico.
Cat Stevens the best, and anyway a very low profile melody, every band which paly melodic rock could surfing on something very close to this very very silly FM melody!
It's a fucking great melody! Honestly this video has changed my point of view completely! Everybody has the right to use that melody! It's so fucking great!!
Thanks for this video and showing that their are plenty of songs that are similar... Joe is a dick, he is an artist and he should know that; I completely disagree with what he did... if you watch 4 chords in 62 songs or w/e is it, you'll see.
i am NOT a coldplay fan, but to their credit (and everyone elses) it is very difficult to think of "new music" eventually every song on the radio will sound like another.
I think if they had just used the same chord progression, you could blow it off, but the same melody too? never new about 2 of 'em, but 1st time i heard Viva, I said, "that's a cat stevens song, but I guess they can use it because he doesn't perform any more".LOL
There are 8 notes and a few in betweens.... over 6 billion people, and thousands of years of music, all that is going to result in people stepping on each other's voices..
The music in question sounds similar to only a few seconds out of an extended instrumental by Satriani. If Satriani thought it was worth anything, he should have made more use of it. I think Coldplay clearly owns it now.
oh you people just gotta find yourself a life!!! Coldplay did certainly NOT steal from anybody for God´s sake. They´re such a great band with amazing music... Of course it can happen that something is similar sometimes, but oh my God, it´s music, and there is a lot of music in this world, so it really just HAS to happen sometimes... don´t say bad things aboud coldplay. They deserve respect!!!
just because they use a similar combination of chords in different keys even, does not make any of them in the wrong for plagiarism ... the riffs aren't even THAT similar.
they are all criminals lol XD They really sound alike... too similar for this to be a coincidence. I think that in the present times there are so many songs that it is very diffcult that some of them don't sound similar. The thing here is that if joe was going to sue ColdPlay he should have checked that he didn't do any plagiarism JA!
Go back and listen to the original songs by the original artists.
Coldplays' version? "BEAUTIFUL" is my answer! However, you can say it until you are blue in the face that Coldplays' version is "still a way better song than any of those other songs", and you will NEVER get me to agree!
Cat Steven's version IS the original and the best! These guys are still young and have a long way to prove if their music will stand the test of time! Cat Steven's already has!
Theres even ANOTHER artist that said this riff was stolen. A New York band called "The Creaky Boards" said Coldplay stole the melody of "Viva La Vida" when the lead singer went to a Creaky Boards concert
yeah. they frikin checked chris martins records, he was in a recording studio in england during the concert. plus, the creaky boards song came out AFTER the music for viva la vida was written.
@FuryoftheSound yeah but that one was obviously fake. chris martin was in london while the concert was in new york and coldplay started recording viva la vida before creaky boards did
C'est vraiment n'importe quoi ! Et au fait, avant que viva la Vida ne sortent, tous ceux qui font aujourd'hui un procès à Coldplay ne se sont pas lancés entre-eux des procès pour plagiats mutuels ??? :-)
Coldplay is a multinational company , surrounded by tons of composers, schedules, session musicians, etc Most of these bands are constantly handed over songs , The Beatles & the Stones did that too. Basically , someone rushed a song to them to finishing the album , something that pleased the Record Company, something for them just to tweak, like most of these major-exhausted bands. Do you think that a bonehead like Keith Richards in 72 wrote a piano song like Angie?or the beatles`sall ?
Obviously none of these are intentional copies. Set aside your opinions about any of these artists, no matter how great a guitarist that guy is, or how money-grubbing those guys are. I think a lot of Satch fans are far too stuck up about their musical taste to look at things clearly. It's a common progression. Get over it.
I dont beleive they purposely copied it, but modern music writers obviously heard the other songs before and was stored in their sub concious and unintentially wrote with out even knowing it like family guy writers writing episoded very simular to simpsons, and which comedy writer these days hasnt seen the simpsons?
If u ask me there are the most similarities between the third version and coldplays version. U know if u like one of these bands stick with them. Personally i like coldplays more because of the rythym and the lyrics. But if u like Joe then go with him or Enanitos Verdes or if u are a little more biased towards Cat Stevens, then go with them so let my comment be the last on this video the controversy is out. Besides Joe did not put charges on coldplay so enough.
If there are so this many bands/artist claiming ownership of this melody, why aren't they turning against each other? They're only targeting Coldplay. Ohhhh, right. Because it only matters if there's great success involved.
actually coldplay has been accused of plagiarism in several other songs aswell, whether it's great success involved or not, anyone'd be suspicious to a "former?" plagiarizer for plagiarism
This is a tipical evidence of melody's singularity. Just that, so great songs won't show up due to a closer way of view or is this hysterical sense of modern art ???
There are thousands of songs with riffs that mimic other songs. Ladies and gentlemen, you can only have so many different combinations of chords and progressions before you begin to sound like something already out there. Does this mean plagiarism? HELL NO! If it did, there wouldn't be any more music to make. Even the accusation with Coldplay is absurd... C'mon, let's just leave them alone.
joermuzik 2 weeks ago
Well, it is way too similar to deny it... but, what's the difference? It's the same riff with lyrics int it. I don't think that's a big deal .___.
MrFortiori 3 weeks ago
This is a good comparison. This is the first video I've seen with all four songs. I've compared them by watching different videos. Coldplay and Satch have the most similar songs, but there's definitely strong resemblance throughout all of them.
SpartanB312 3 weeks ago
great post man
rendyydner 2 months ago
It's called diatonic chord substitution... and Coldplay are GUILTY of it.
- 'nuff said!
loganoneil1 2 months ago
Since the chord progression of Viva la Vida is actually pretty simple, it shouldn't come as a surprise that there are so many videos on YouTube claiming Coldplay ripped of so-and-so and they should be sued, blah blah.
superclaydude 2 months ago
"cuidado, pois se passar mais de 6 acordes terei q pagar direitos autorais" Krusty the clown
cathycothy 3 months ago
cat stevens is the man!
ZanttiGP2 3 months ago
i thing it was just a coincidence and also i believe the zombie invasion will be created by germans to defete the US.
lilperkscafe 4 months ago
what this boils down to is that all the later pop records are plagiarism of Beatles. Yeah.
albuorkka 4 months ago
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I wrote the fucking song, now shut the fuck up all of you!!
Xehen 4 months ago
los enanitos verdes!! q grandes! jaja
mcmrbig1990 4 months ago
who cares
Carmelogrl 4 months ago
Enanitos Verdes > Coldplay
chapisql 5 months ago
Satriani probably heard it from Stevens but forgot, and came up with a very similar riff but it's not an exact copy.
Coldplay then heard the Satriani song and decided to actually copy, hence the lawsuit and nearly exact similarity between Coldplay's vocal line and Satriani's guitar melody.
Enanitos Verdes is completely unrelated in this, it sounds dissimilar enough to be original.
OtherRealmer 5 months ago
omg CAT STEVENS LOOKS LIKE STEVE KARDYNAL!!!
soccerxbabiix808 5 months ago
I think the four of them should play together on stage, that would be soooo epic! :D
Lib3llulae 5 months ago
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7sads 5 months ago
Can't we just agree that Satch's version is the best and stop arguing? :3
Uberado 6 months ago
I think that cakes are delicious
mrkaraokeguy1 6 months ago
You've also forgotten Ocean Color Scene's "Up On The Down Side". Same melody, note for note. Look it up.
AtanvarnoALDA 6 months ago
Coldplay suck ass. I'm glad satch won and gave the money to charity.
123412341234het 6 months ago
Dude im still waiting for the Zombie Invasion.
iwastold 7 months ago
...and what about Alizee's J'en ai merre? they seem so similar
Gianduja89 7 months ago
joe didnt sue for the melody, he did for the chord progression AND the melody
Joey10Thompson10 7 months ago
Coldplay (Viva la vida) vs Satriani (If i could fly) vs Enanitos verdes (Frances limon) vs Cat steven (Foreigner Suite) vs Marty balin (Hearts).... IS ONLY MUSIC MAN!!!!
juegofriochile 7 months ago
@juegofriochile No, its not only music, Its money. Its all about money. YOURE DOING IT WRONG!
iwastold 7 months ago
lol, interesting point about viva la vida, i continously tell the same about Clocks, the piano melody seems to be borrowed from X-tracks - plan 94 (the voyage) but maybe it's just coincidence.
Luver4Trance 8 months ago
Verdes & Stevens songs have totally different chord structure from Satch's.
Chriskkboongg 8 months ago
its just four chords that have been used in that arrangement thousands of times by thousands of people over the years. that you could even claim ownership of it is ridiculous.
Sythofin 8 months ago
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erardosaid 8 months ago
idk, its not that complicated a progression.
pyr666 8 months ago
Shall we sue Satriani and Enanitos Verdes for plagiarising Stevens?
It is simply impossible to keep your three tones unique.
Ojewejoriei 8 months ago
my thorough, technical, unbiased analysis of the situation is... OH MY GOD! WHY IS JUSTIN BIEBER'S SEVERED HEAD IN MY BED!
archBalderas 8 months ago
love the comparison. LETS GIVE PEACE F***ING CHAAAAANCE! !O!
archBalderas 8 months ago
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without mention lady gaga's bad romance...
cefigar 9 months ago
putos chacaleros aqui el mero mero es JOE SATRIANI y no se diga mas... ummm!
heavyspark097 9 months ago
@heavyspark097 Que no se diga mas ¿Eh? Pues yo digo: ¡OBJECIÓN! Sin duda el que inventó la melodía no es más que la del el buen Cat Stevens. Las demás versiones son respetables pero ¡Incomparables!.
cefigar 9 months ago
That's not a copy, it's just the same chords with a similar melody... And it's not exactly Dream Theater, it's a fairly easy mistake to make, even if you've never heard the other songs.
Armagedn12 9 months ago
the other guys songs (besides cat stevens) sound like crappy elevator music. Coldplay has no reason to copy a song from third rate musicians.
nmcvicker03 10 months ago
@nmcvicker03 Satriani is not a "third rate" musician.
SevereGlory 9 months ago
wow that many copies xD
laggy24hOUrs 10 months ago
who cares? coldplay is better
mariozex 10 months ago
satriani was the original. coldplay changed the key and put lyrics.
tomsfilm 10 months ago
I don't know what to think, cat stevens is no equal to others, coldplay has the same melody but with another rythm and idea, but enanitos verdes and satriani has same songs
cefigar 11 months ago
of course they look all the same
these songs are very OBVIOUS... anyone can have
if it was a SYMPHONY (Mozart's, Bethoven's or anyone who had an inteligence to compose a less obvious song) none copy it.
Fact.
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cathycothy 11 months ago
stevens song is very diferent satriani-enanitos verdes and coldplay are similar
satriani and coldplay songs are THE SAME!
McRaims 11 months ago
Creaky boards did it too
AbuBishir 11 months ago
Base it on theory, try listening to mary's prayer, dan wilson,
meowtrox 11 months ago
Liked it, thank you
germansolares 1 year ago
HOLY DRAGONS BALL!!!!!! I don't have wolrds!
felipebrand29 1 year ago
doesn't have to have been stolen, coldplay did their own twist on it. ^~^
bumbleyb33 1 year ago
Shouldnt Satriani technically sue Verdes and Stevens too then???
TheManiacApproach 1 year ago
@TheManiacApproach Verdes and Steven made their first so they should sue him -_-
LongLiveYourLife 1 year ago
Excelente explicación. Soy músico clasico, lo que sucede es que en la musica no clasica (popular, no se como llamarla) las melodías y fraseos, (voces, requintos) siempre utilizan las mismas escalas y las mismas armonías, (obviamente por que no tienen eduación formal-musical) y eso inevitablemente hace que muchas canciones se parescan. Muchos requintos de guitarra son "ejercicios" para aprender, (aunque todos los musicos dicen que fue inspiración o improvisación) ,
yenproject 1 year ago
@yenproject NoO, no es por que no tengan educacion, me parece que estas generalizando que los musicos no clasicos son menos y no es asi. Aqui solo se evidencia a lo que lleva la creacion en masa con fines comerciales y para convencer a grandes masas, como todo va rapido pues se coje de lo que esta hecho para vender, sale mas barato pagar la demanda que no vender discos.
stringkill 7 months ago
I agree zombies will take over.
CHuK1253 1 year ago
add in creaky boards and my brain is blown up... .-.
nimpe88 1 year ago
This would be stupid if justin bieber copied viva la vida.
XgamerXthe2nd 1 year ago
you've said it all... I agree with you
hobbitta 1 year ago
I think that coldplay sucks and cant make any music of their own. Joe Satriani worked hard on thatsong and some wanker band comes and steal it
dartelman 1 year ago
This is stupid. They're similar yes, but not enough. In court, for plagiarism, you have to prove accessibility to the song and SUBSTANTIAL similarities (which is easy to argue, hence the case taking as long as it did) but this is like saying "Well coldplay's is like purple, which is kind of like blue, which is sort of like green, which I guess is pretty close to yellow" Similar but clearly different. Plagiarism is Vanilla Ice's hit song, or Can't Touch this. These are completely different songs
prseds1275 1 year ago 2
Let's not forget about Mireille Mathieu & Patrick Duffy singing Together we're strong 1983 (which, I have to admit, is NOT my personal favorite)
eeeeeeeuh 1 year ago
Yeah, even my band (who none of these bands could possibly plagiarize, having never heard of us) had a song with a similar chord progression. We recorded it in 2006 or so, and I went back and listened to it again: the guitar solo has that same melody. And I'd never heard Cat Stevens song before then. It's just one of those freak things - it's a really simple melody to come up with.
kaidaigoji 1 year ago
imho coldplay ftw
JAPANTUNER100 1 year ago
If it's not a plagiarism song, then nothing is a plagiarism song.
I disappointed to Coldplay.^^
Fuck you.^^
funnylife90 1 year ago
who cares? i mean if its a good song just let it be
megaman616 1 year ago
COLDPLAY?? copy?? satriani?? JÁ!! that guy sucks
well it was a fuckin mistake, i really trust in COLDPLAY's creative power
they just made a GREAT SONG with the same chords that other guys used before, that has happened soooooooo many times... let's not crucifice them it's just a mistake they don't make intentional plagiarisms, i know it :)
77daxter 1 year ago
COCKS AND BALLS!!!! is that vulgar? maybe I'm talking about chickens and tennis balls... how can you tell?
bassboy74 1 year ago 19
@bassboy74 HOLY SH*T! YOU FOUND A LOOPHOLE! :O
Mkvenner8 1 year ago 14
@Mkvenner8 haha, thank you good sir, I try my best :) nice video by the way!
bassboy74 1 year ago
@Mkvenner8
Loopholes ftw.
Mrgyn 1 month ago
god!! the different between verdes and satriani is too big
BUT, COLDPLAY SONG IS EXACTLY THE SAME
I knew coldplay before satriani, and i really like them, some of their songs are some of my favorites. But I can't deny the truth
coldplay is a very goog group, but satriani is a master.
Copy? well maybe they just made a song this way because they heard that song before and they didn't remeber!!
It ocurred to me sometimes when i draw... or when i make a design
i don't know what to belive
cerecitah 1 year ago 9
@cerecitah And that therein, is the point of the video :)
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GaboG85 1 year ago
@cerecitah: There is more diferences between Coldplay and Satriani (hear vocals and lead guitar) than between Enanos Verdes and Satriani (both lead guitars play exactly the same progression in every single note, and even the rythm is pretty similar) - Cat Stevens has different rythm to Satriani and Enanos Verdes but he's closer to Coldplay when singing. The only sure fact is all that chord progression is just the same, but if any has right to sue any other is Enanos to Satriani's work.
uzixnic 1 year ago
& just when you thught you'd seen it all along comes a lambda 4 feet tall!
MELLSBAD 1 year ago
We all nick parts of songs from time-to-time
patgrogan64 1 year ago
FUCK
omnomburgur 1 year ago
This is so ridiculous. The ONLY reason they sound similar is because it's the same chords. Are you gunna sue everyone that uses the same chords as you? No. So get off your high horse and deal with it. They're even completely different instruments. Coldplay didn't copy anyone. Just deal with it and stop trying to take away their thunder.
MsFinnTV 1 year ago
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fitte6 1 year ago
whatever, Coldplay is genius. They have a ton of beuatiful songs and are very artistic. LOL ,coldplay does not even sound like that cat stevens guy at all.
melovetorun 1 year ago
@paulf1986 you probably already know, but just in case, he did not lose...in the end coldplay had to pay him. Honestly I wouldn't have paid a cent if I really had not STOLEN the song, but hey.....
guitardrink 1 year ago
enanitos verdes don't have anything to do with this, it doesn't sound anything like the other 3. Bottom line, coldplay stole not just from one artist, but from two.
And no they do not rock.
guitardrink 1 year ago
@guitardrink Coldplay's music is artistic and sophisticated. I swear that ive never heard of joe satriani before until I saw all these videos accusing a Genius band like Coldplay! Viva La Vida!
melovetorun 1 year ago
@melovetorun of course you haven't heard of satriani. He is not mainstream(thank god for that)
guitardrink 1 year ago
Solo fuè coincidencia asi que dejense de mamadas... A ese Satriani ni lo conocen en su propia casa.
HoBBieMex 1 year ago
very standard pop chord progression indeed, how you ever gonna sue someone for a 3 or 4 chord riff thats been done endelessly, thats just insanity
jazzswing88 1 year ago
ok man this is a common riff. im not sticking up for coldplay cause i happen to love satriana, but come on people similar guitar riffs. i can list at least 50 songs with the same c d g progressions
gerardfan2007 1 year ago
it may sounds similar but COLDPLAY has no comparation they put all together and they made the almost perfect song
nobody as coldplay (ecept for the beatles)
carmimartang 1 year ago
@carmimartang Agree
melovetorun 1 year ago
coldplay's sounds the best anyways.
sumoowns 1 year ago
@sumoowns No it doesn't!
R0undAboutMidnight 1 year ago
@R0undAboutMidnight yes it does because all of the other ones sound like bad karaoke. and i'm not a huge coldplay or chris martin fan but he does have a professional sounding voice so that might be why it sounds the best.
sumoowns 1 year ago
Another Coldplay plagiarism, check this: watch?v=QJsIV4-dw6k
An 1983 NES game.
DeLe1000 1 year ago
I am not fanatic (as I don`t go arround doing stupid fanatic stuff)... but I love Joe`s music since I was a kid and I could tell I started to play guitar because of him. During my life I have heard of many conflicts between musicians due to these kind of deals and different ones... so what? we all have problems, why shouldn`t musicians have the too? I think in one hand we have the fact that "it can happen", because I cannot know for sure who copied who and if there was a / continues...
Carpenocte 1 year ago
Fuck this band !!!! I don't know why the hell Brian Eno produced them !!!!
ramiabadir 1 year ago
Coldplay sucks. Coldplay absolutely copied it.
funnylife90 1 year ago
jajajaja, es que en la musica ya no se pude inovar ya se ah creado todo, pero en fin, cat stevens les pondria una pitisa a los tres, si los demanda, jajaja.o ya se murio?
jackr3r3r3r3 1 year ago
Maybe I should just record a song with this melody.. see how the internet explodes in ignorance and unjust pride in one's own opinion.
MortarMann 1 year ago
I think the middle two are extremely similar but the last and first don't fit in quite as well. However it is a fairly common chord progression
cinamonroll260 1 year ago
plagiarism my ass , if this is plagiarism then there are another 1 million songs plagiarism .. lots of songs have things that sounds similar.
Robinshift 1 year ago
La de Satriani y la de Enanitos suenan muy similar! Y me gusta mas la de enanitos!
Proyectolm 1 year ago
yo creo que se basaron uno del otro y ya
saimsboy 1 year ago
No, no es igual la interpretacion es muy diferente en todos ellos
esalinas74 1 year ago
¡Es lo mismo pero no es igual!
This is the same but not equal!
ParisFenix 1 year ago
La musica es asi. Todos tocan lo mismo pero cada uno a su manera. El plagio no debería existir en las melodías. Los musicos de hoy estan influenciados por otros pioneros. Ahora si haces un tema igualito igualito con letra identica, bueno, ahi haces un cover y no podes darte el credito de haber puesto tu estilo ni siquiera. Y que hay de los casos que de bandas reggae que hacen versiones de temas de rock??? Los temas no suenan igual. Cada uno le pone su impronta. Igual lo de coldplay es patetico.
chojuaniche 1 year ago
it is a common chord progression, but also the melody seems so similar in all of these cases that you have presented!
fabioparatore 1 year ago
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fabioparatore 1 year ago
Cat Stevens the best, and anyway a very low profile melody, every band which paly melodic rock could surfing on something very close to this very very silly FM melody!
alainalidupain 1 year ago
sadly this is lame :(
mau7tr421ix 1 year ago
It's a fucking great melody! Honestly this video has changed my point of view completely! Everybody has the right to use that melody! It's so fucking great!!
JL897139 1 year ago
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ciaobebbo050 1 year ago
@ciaobebbo050 Who are you anyway? Go away troll, go away
JL897139 1 year ago
60,385,961 views don't lie. Viva La Vida!!!!!!!
melovetorun 1 year ago
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guitardrink 1 year ago
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@melovetorun you are right, views don't lie, there are more retards than what I had expected.
guitardrink 1 year ago
It does sound a little bit but that's music for you!
melovetorun 1 year ago
I think that was awesome, and as long as people enjoy it--WHO CARES? 'cause I enjoyed every bit!!
RoadDog8444 1 year ago
Thanks for this video and showing that their are plenty of songs that are similar... Joe is a dick, he is an artist and he should know that; I completely disagree with what he did... if you watch 4 chords in 62 songs or w/e is it, you'll see.
tikarina02 1 year ago
i dont care what people say...coldplay made their music better, if anything they should be kissing coldplay's feet.
polkadot91 1 year ago
@polkadot91 I agree!
melovetorun 1 year ago
i am NOT a coldplay fan, but to their credit (and everyone elses) it is very difficult to think of "new music" eventually every song on the radio will sound like another.
gtirebel86 1 year ago
I'm just wondering how this one band could have managed to steal from everyone of these artists for a simple 12 note melodic progression.
frillybeamer 1 year ago
basically coldplay are cheating thieves as well as being the most boring dullest band on the planet.
dazzzzz89 1 year ago
you are wrong because they rock!
melovetorun 1 year ago
That's right people, those who fail to prepare ... become zombie snacks!
elhijodeloscalzones 1 year ago
I think if they had just used the same chord progression, you could blow it off, but the same melody too? never new about 2 of 'em, but 1st time i heard Viva, I said, "that's a cat stevens song, but I guess they can use it because he doesn't perform any more".LOL
grndlmagic 1 year ago
estoy seguro que esta melodia fue usada antes que stevens. es simple y remanida.pero la actitud de satriani es lamentable
amgk11 1 year ago
There are 8 notes and a few in betweens.... over 6 billion people, and thousands of years of music, all that is going to result in people stepping on each other's voices..
camerrill 1 year ago
They all copied each other. Bastards!
franse12 1 year ago
The music in question sounds similar to only a few seconds out of an extended instrumental by Satriani. If Satriani thought it was worth anything, he should have made more use of it. I think Coldplay clearly owns it now.
mcsew2k 1 year ago
Cat steven should sue satch and enanitos verdes for stealin' most of the instrumental melody and then sue coldplay for stealing the vocal melody
Fere13 1 year ago
Zombies my balls. Fuck your whore mother
enribury 1 year ago 2
oh you people just gotta find yourself a life!!! Coldplay did certainly NOT steal from anybody for God´s sake. They´re such a great band with amazing music... Of course it can happen that something is similar sometimes, but oh my God, it´s music, and there is a lot of music in this world, so it really just HAS to happen sometimes... don´t say bad things aboud coldplay. They deserve respect!!!
adrianmole12345 1 year ago
@adrianmole12345 No.
raibale 1 year ago
Its called sampling lol
Ri1seAgainst 1 year ago
As close as a cashmere codpiece but copied nah all good tunes
oddball8974 1 year ago
just because they use a similar combination of chords in different keys even, does not make any of them in the wrong for plagiarism ... the riffs aren't even THAT similar.
horseapple001 1 year ago
FUCK U DUDE.............
purepker70 1 year ago
Cat Stevens Rules!!!
linkjam 1 year ago
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they are all criminals lol XD They really sound alike... too similar for this to be a coincidence. I think that in the present times there are so many songs that it is very diffcult that some of them don't sound similar. The thing here is that if joe was going to sue ColdPlay he should have checked that he didn't do any plagiarism JA!
Vanna0111 1 year ago
fuck this cunting bullshit. coldplay didn't steal from no fucking body
BoomBoxJakey 1 year ago
your a NOOB!!!
yeaitwasme 1 year ago
1:21 tormeta de facha
santy6j 1 year ago
hahaha holly smoke x'DDDD
Ranitoboy 1 year ago
LOL
Empofarector 1 year ago
Plagio en cadena! Debe ser un caso único en la historia!
Locusta22 1 year ago
well they all "stole" cat stevens' song it sounds like. he's a legend.
gaudiofan 1 year ago
Go back and listen to the original songs by the original artists.
Coldplays' version? "BEAUTIFUL" is my answer! However, you can say it until you are blue in the face that Coldplays' version is "still a way better song than any of those other songs", and you will NEVER get me to agree!
Cat Steven's version IS the original and the best! These guys are still young and have a long way to prove if their music will stand the test of time! Cat Steven's already has!
Slam, DUNK! :0)
rubymyluv 1 year ago
i cant even see how the songs sound alike
ikllerbunny 2 years ago
Use your ears, babe. Not your eyes.
lulz666f 1 year ago 5
its kind of hard to see a song in the first place
k1leadgeetah 1 year ago
i dont car if coldplay copied it, its still a way better song than any of those other songs
muxinjam 2 years ago
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" Did Coldplay copy Cat's Stevens?"
by creativeguitarstudio
The guy in that video points out how Coldplay's song
is different enough from the Cat Steven's song to avoid the label of plagiarism.
He makes the case for Joe Satriani's plagiarism suit against Coldplay in a video on his channel.
Coldplay changed a 'few notes here and there' but not enough to claim Satriani's song as their own.
He points out the differences between the Verdes song and the Satriani song is another video.
oneeightywest 2 years ago
They all stole this riff from me! hahaha
MEX0688 2 years ago 3
i think it was just a coincidence..plus it sounds kool in any form.. :)
289danny 2 years ago
I'm wondering why the riff is common. Honestly since Cat Steven's Love/Heaven is the oldest one, the melody is his.
FuryoftheSound 2 years ago 12
@FuryoftheSound precisely, so Satriani and the Enanitos Verdes should just run and hide. lol
caddielook 2 years ago
Theres even ANOTHER artist that said this riff was stolen. A New York band called "The Creaky Boards" said Coldplay stole the melody of "Viva La Vida" when the lead singer went to a Creaky Boards concert
FuryoftheSound 2 years ago
yeah. they frikin checked chris martins records, he was in a recording studio in england during the concert. plus, the creaky boards song came out AFTER the music for viva la vida was written.
HaloBeagle 2 years ago
@FuryoftheSound yeah but that one was obviously fake. chris martin was in london while the concert was in new york and coldplay started recording viva la vida before creaky boards did
muxinjam 2 years ago
satriani ftw
mxzielol 2 years ago
C'est vraiment n'importe quoi ! Et au fait, avant que viva la Vida ne sortent, tous ceux qui font aujourd'hui un procès à Coldplay ne se sont pas lancés entre-eux des procès pour plagiats mutuels ??? :-)
denevealain08 2 years ago
coincidences pures et simples (et puis perso je préfère la version de Coldplay!)
dirkusive 2 years ago
Not Coldplay's fault, it's their song writers. Unless they wrote the songs.
SpyderT22 2 years ago
@SpyderT22 coldplay does write their own songs
ChiCubs4012 2 years ago 3
@SpyderT22 Hilarious
ImVhOzzi 2 years ago
Rofl! Even music is no match for the inevitable zombie invasion.
bikster 2 years ago 11
now compare coldplay's speed of sound to kraftwerks computer love
ClapsFrancisco 2 years ago
Coldplay is a multinational company , surrounded by tons of composers, schedules, session musicians, etc Most of these bands are constantly handed over songs , The Beatles & the Stones did that too. Basically , someone rushed a song to them to finishing the album , something that pleased the Record Company, something for them just to tweak, like most of these major-exhausted bands. Do you think that a bonehead like Keith Richards in 72 wrote a piano song like Angie?or the beatles`sall ?
jjbarbados 2 years ago
Obviously none of these are intentional copies. Set aside your opinions about any of these artists, no matter how great a guitarist that guy is, or how money-grubbing those guys are. I think a lot of Satch fans are far too stuck up about their musical taste to look at things clearly. It's a common progression. Get over it.
deadpanfool 2 years ago
I dont beleive they purposely copied it, but modern music writers obviously heard the other songs before and was stored in their sub concious and unintentially wrote with out even knowing it like family guy writers writing episoded very simular to simpsons, and which comedy writer these days hasnt seen the simpsons?
bigsam653 2 years ago
If u ask me there are the most similarities between the third version and coldplays version. U know if u like one of these bands stick with them. Personally i like coldplays more because of the rythym and the lyrics. But if u like Joe then go with him or Enanitos Verdes or if u are a little more biased towards Cat Stevens, then go with them so let my comment be the last on this video the controversy is out. Besides Joe did not put charges on coldplay so enough.
:P :D o(^.^)o
OptitronReviews 2 years ago
If there are so this many bands/artist claiming ownership of this melody, why aren't they turning against each other? They're only targeting Coldplay. Ohhhh, right. Because it only matters if there's great success involved.
jmrf829 2 years ago 2
actually coldplay has been accused of plagiarism in several other songs aswell, whether it's great success involved or not, anyone'd be suspicious to a "former?" plagiarizer for plagiarism
Xemnosin 2 years ago
uh yeah..no they havent
HaloBeagle 2 years ago
they all look very similar, so if Coldplay really copied any of them, at least we know they not the first ones who did it.
LukazNT 2 years ago
This is a tipical evidence of melody's singularity. Just that, so great songs won't show up due to a closer way of view or is this hysterical sense of modern art ???
benovox 2 years ago
let the zombies decide. (: