Sum 41's "Pieces" = Coldplay's "A Rush of Cold Blood To The Head"
 

I might have messed Coldplay's song name... but you get the point. I enjoy Sum 41's music more than Coldplay (Coldplay blows >_<) but this recording really does make it a bit... you know, belieavable that Sum 41's a big rip-off.

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What do you guys think? I personally think that it's all a coincidence and it's just a similar song structure. It's not ripping off until you recognise it easily like "The Bitter End" and "Battery" right? I mean, who the heck would notice this...?

There are many songs which use similar chord progressions, both intentionally and unintentionally. That one is pretty funny though.

[QUOTE=Paranoidd]There are many songs which use similar chord progressions, both intentionally and unintentionally. That one is pretty funny though.[/QUOTE]

I'm waiting to see if anyone is going to make a fuss over your avatar.

just the same chord progression obviously .......

[QUOTE=munky_magik]I'm waiting to see if anyone is going to make a fuss over your avatar.[/QUOTE]

Meh, I doubt it. It's highly satirical, although I already had to point that out to one person who didn't get it.

that is one funny avatar you got there munky magic

just a fluke.. are only so many chords on the neck.. pretty funny though. lots of songs use the same chords and stuff

well I do have to say that the latest sum41 seems to ripoff a lot of bands

[QUOTE=murray_lindsay]just a fluke.. are only so many chords on the neck.. pretty funny though. lots of songs use the same chords and stuff[/QUOTE]


There [I]are[/I] many chords on the neck. Thousands.

Wow, that's pretty hilarious. They both use the same progressions in the same places, with only that difference at the end of the chorus. Hilarious.

I don't know if it was intentional. Look at how well Oasis' "Wonderwall" and Greenday's "Blvd. of Broken Dreams" go together if you modulate "Wonderwall" down a half step or so.

Sum 41 has a penchin for writing very easy songs. It was only a matter of time until it sounded exactly like another song by another popular artist.

[QUOTE=Evil Clown Liquor]There [I]are[/I] many chords on the neck. Thousands.[/QUOTE]

A lot less for a powerchord band, though. There are almost infinite for a jazz guitarist, and about half that many for Coldplay.

[QUOTE=Paranoidd]There are many songs which use similar chord progressions, both intentionally and unintentionally. That one is pretty funny though.[/QUOTE]



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Dude, how could you say Coldplay blows,they are great imo.

I never said Coldplay blows - I called Sum 41 a powerchord band. I said they play half as many chords as a jazz guitarist, who knows pretty much every inversion of every chord and how to flat-9 anything, as well as throw pretty much any dissonance in any chord and make it work. I love Coldplay. They are a talented group and expert songwriters. Having bought the sheet music for both of their albums, I can attest that they have skill. Saying that Coldplay had about half as many chords as a jazz guitarist was a sort-of compliment.

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[QUOTE=311fan590]No, to the threadstarter Spectrum.[/QUOTE]

Oops. My mistake.

while we're on topic, has anyone else noticed that the main riff from "stacked actors" by foo fighters sounds a lot like the can-can?

seriously, listen to it.

Coldplay is much better than Sum 41. I haven't heard that Sum 41 song yet, and i'm at school so i can't listen...so i can't really make a statement whether they ripped it off or not.

but a lot of bands use very similiar chord progressions. If every band that ever used the twelve bar blues format was called a ripoff, than basically every band to date is a ripoff. some chord progressions are more popular than others, it's when riffs and melodys are the same, then you know they are just ripping the song off.

[QUOTE=thickasabrick]Coldplay is much better than Sum 41[/QUOTE]
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haha thats cute ....
what a nice colaboration of lame music
its preety funny

[QUOTE=Paranoidd]Meh, I doubt it. It's highly satirical, although I already had to point that out to one person who didn't get it.[/QUOTE]

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Whoa, thats identical.




But Coldplay own the crap out of Sum 41 imo

I can't tell the tracks apart on Sum 41's second album. If my memory serves me correctly, every song bar a couple has the same drum pattern and tempo.

Coldplay are good but no really my style.

lol

Haha...wow, that's pretty funny. Pretty reminiscent of Nickelback's "How you remind me of Someday", but at least Nickelback were only ripping off themselves. That's a bit more respectable than ripping off another artist.

And it's not just the chord progressions. The vocal melodies are almost identical too, except for a few slight differences.

It's too bad. We really need some better flagbearers for the Canadian music scene. All we've got are crappy female pop songstresses and radio rock bands that represent much of what is wrong with mainstream Rock music today.

sum 41, i cant see how these could appeal to anyone other than busted fans...(when they were still together that is)

feeder - here in my bubble sound very much alike Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer.
someone check this out to see

[QUOTE=BurtonChancellor]Haha...wow, that's pretty funny. Pretty reminiscent of Nickelback's "How you remind me of Someday", but at least Nickelback were only ripping off themselves. That's a bit more respectable than ripping off another artist.

And it's not just the chord progressions. The vocal melodies are almost identical too, except for a few slight differences.

It's too bad. We really need some better flagbearers for the Canadian music scene. All we've got are crappy female pop songstresses and radio rock bands that represent much of what is wrong with mainstream Rock music today.[/QUOTE]

Billy Talent and Alexisonfire. Enough said.

Although yeah, the Finger Eleven/Three Days Grace duo is getting tiresome. Love them but.. why the **** is every Canadian band now pop-punk or some ****ty *** Nickelback clone? Still.. Theory of a Deadman/Default should die for sullying our name. And Arnold Lanni should die a horrible, horrible death over an open flame.