Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)

Australian comedy group 'Axis Of Awesome' perform a sketch from the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Footage courtesy of Network Ten Australia.

See http://www.axisofawesome.net/ for more details of the comedy trio including Jordan Raskopoulos, Lee Naimo, & Benny Davis.


Journey - Don't Stop Believing

James Blunt - You're Beautiful

Alphaville - Forever Young

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours

Mika - Happy Ending

Alex Lloyd - Amazing

The Calling - Wherever You WIll Go

Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight

Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved

The Last Goodnight - Pictures Of You

U2 - With Or Without You

Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet

Kasey Chambers - Not Pretty Enough

The Beatles - Let it Be

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge

Daryl Braithwaite - The Horses

Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry

Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy

Men At Work - Land Down Under

Banjo Patterson's Waltzing Matilda

A Ha - Take On Me

Green Day - When I Come Around

Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight

Toto - Africa

Beyonce - If I Were A Boy

The Offspring - Self Esteem

The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far Kid

Pink - You and Your Hand

Lady Gaga - Poker Face

Aqua - Barbie Girl

The Fray - You Found Me

30h!3 - Don't Trust Me

MGMT - Kids

Tim Minchin - Canvas Bags

Natalie Imbruglia - Torn

Five For Fighting - Superman

Axis Of Awesome - Birdplane

Missy Higgins - Scar

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  Comedy

[Tanus Carney]

Says they never wrote a Four chord song "BirdPlane"

[Luka Dale]

The actual notes ar irrelevant, cause their different in every song. It's the intervals between the notes that makes it sound the same

[Rylan Coglaiti]

so i can mash any notes in a certain cadence and it will be a pop song? good to know.

[Natalie V]

watched that video in school its amazing!

[HeHeHe969696]

kids - MGMT

[FederalPolice620]

They didn't write it, just change the words to make it funny as hell

[Brilliant Writer]

haha funnny

[FlyingAce1016]

What song does he play on the kazoo?

[Son0fHobs]

Pachabel's Rant did this a long while back, just not as awesome: watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

And yes. Radio works purely out of repetition. If it wasn't smashed into people's heads, they'd never have been obsessed with it, and the quality musicians would get more exposure.

[UrbanNinja747]

That would be the point

[MrTriggerBlade]

It is scary how these lyrics merged so well into a coherent song...