Every song sounds like another song. I’m sure this isn’t the first time someone has claimed their work was ripped off by another band…

Chris Martin stole the name Coldplay from another band at his uni when they got signed, doesnt suprise me that this has come about.

Frank Zappa saya ‘a good artist is a tasteful thief’

unless your chris martin, then your just a tit.

“Viva La Vida” IS a rip off. But not from that indie band.
The melody, chord progression and even beat are those of “If I Could Fly” by Joe Satriani.

listen to the song “If I could fly” from Joe Satriani. That’s where coldplay stole it from I’m sure.

coldplay are so bad i hate them they cant even make good music wooo for pink floyd true musicians

Coldplay is one of the worst bands to rear it’s ugly head in years. A dime store radiohead at best. The same thing occurred when Nirvana (another horrible band) ripped off Killing Joke’s song “eighties” for “Come as You Are”. I think Coldplay is busted.

I think Cold Play purely by luck made this song up and performed it. No one would even try to copy a “well known” piece that everyone knows and try to make it their own. GO COLD PLAY! I LOVE VIVA LA VIDA!

I think Cold Play purely by luck made this song up and performed it. No one would even try to copy a “well known” piece that everyone knows and try to make it their own. GO COLD PLAY! I LOVE VIVA LA VIDA!

I’m a music producer and writer myself, I will say the two songs are very similar. However, in this day and age it is very hard to “steal” a melody. The number of songs that have been created are countless, and I’m sure there are many other songs way before coldplay that sounded similar too.

As a writer, you will find inspiration everywhere. It’s what you do with the melody that makes the song stand out. a producer adding one vocal link, or string track can make the difference between a hit song and a non hit song.

The point is, if a band in New York couldn’t get the song out there in a years time, then there must have been problems with it.

In addition, the topic of the songs are different, the production is different, The arrangements are different, and the melody is different. Thousands of songs have “unique” chord progressions..but they all have been done before..you can’t copywrite that.

In addition to all of that, copy right laws protect you mainly from people literary stealing your song as there own…not the “idea” of the song.

What both bands need to do, is except that there songs sound different, and let it go from there! in the end the better song will win..

its not an even battle. Coldplay will have everything this band will never get…not that thats right..

And I love Coldplay, but every real music major (or player) knows that they can’t play worth crap. There song writing is interesting, and thats why they kick. They have a style that doesnt freak people out like this new york band does! I don’t think it will hold up in court!
They have no case. It’s art!

p.s. Coldplay gets saved in the studio! not on stage!

this andrew is messed up nobody gives a shit about your little gradge band who no one has herd of a will never make it big and i geronte COLDPLAY has neverherd of you eather any way coldplay’s song is sooooooooo mush better then your song about you having no friends in your room the whole day

Wow, coldplay definitely jacked it. There almost the same. Coldplay’s is better but they cheated. Its kind of a big deal, no different then Barry bonds. He cheated and got better too. Yet that seemed to be a bigger deal

dudes i dont wanna be mean n say thier desperetly tryin to get attention…but even if it is true … that song could be enjoied only in coldplays “version”
the’r an awesome band n theres evidence that they can make good music & videos themselfs

you know what.

f*ck both of them.

f*ck people who steal others work.

and again. f*ck both of them.

You can tell who really knows something about music based on the comments. The song is very similar. The chord progression is the same, it’s just that the octave changes between bars are different which is what people are paying attention to more than anything. Rhythmically the songs are the same. Coldplay HAD to switch up certain key elements in regards to the instrumental or it would be direct plagiarism which they don’t want. Now who came up with it first, that’s something only hard evidence can prove.

They just want to be famous and get their band out there. LAME.

Coldplay are douchebags AND are theives. Awesome, at least their music doesn’t suck…OH WAIT

Happens all the time, if it’s true it’s called inspiration if it’s not it’s called coincidence. Either way it’s still a rubbish song from a talentless bands, cold play that is,. The other one, well we’ll never hear them again, I hope.

i heard andrew hoepfner is dating mandy moore.

I think it’s crystal clear- Creaky Boards have a much better sense of humor.

And I can tell ya, they’re way more fun live.

Mind you, Chris Martin is veggie, so he gets points from me for that. =)

Help, I’m having an 80’s flashback…it’s Huey Lewis vs. Ray Parker all over again!…

Oh yeah,beaucoup points for the porn ’stache! Rock on!

hmmm this is really weird…it seems like a lot of people now are copying music these days.

although the “creaky boards” song is good, i think coldplay’s is much better and more my type of music..and the music is a bit similar but not close enough

theres a difference

It’s probably a coincidence.

Viva la Vida sounds more like “Speed of Sound” and “Clocks” than this.

CREAKY BOARDS FTW!

Well they sound really alike.

You know Garett makes a good comparison. This may hold up in court.

I think the Creaky Boards may have have a case

Tough break Coldplay fans. Especially since it’s a good song

Nice publicity stunt. Does it hold any ground? Not really.

I think rather than court, chris martin and andrew should sword fight. Or joust. I propose that Medieval Times start appealing to a new demographic… One that involves Chris Martin and Andrew. Settle it like men. Winner gets the melody. And gwen paltrow.

I think rather than court, chris martin and andrew should sword fight. Or joust. I propose that Medieval Times start appealing to a new demographic… One that involves Chris Martin and Andrew. Settle it like men. Winner gets the melody. And gwen paltrow.

If you look at the notes as steps in a major scale for the first few bars they are pretty damn close:

Creaky -
333 3 2 4 2222 1 >7 1 3

Cold -
333 3 4 2 2222 1 3> 5 6

and that level of similarity continues… I think if the Creaky Boards had an early copywrite and could prove that Chris has heard there song prior to writing his they would have a case in court.

sounds like the colplay fans here are bitter. its not surprising coldplay pretty much has one song that they perform 13 different ways. I’m not surprised Chris MArtin would need to bum melodies off of musicians who are actually talented

sounds like the colplay fans here are bitter. its not surprising coldplay pretty much has one song that they perform 13 different times. I’m not surprised Chris MArtin would need to bum melodies off of musicians who are actually talented

Its a very simple chord progression, its been used hundreds of times. These guys just want more hits on their MySpace.

I thought it sounded vaguely like a new Stereophonics song, already released, lol.

if anything i think that those creaky board guys are trying to be coldplay in the first place…being that viva sounds almost exactly like every other coldplay song in existence.

sweet ’stache

Very similar… I knew they weren’t that good.

I think they sound exactly alike except for maybe 2 notes.

Not even close. What crybabies you are Creaky Boards - someone should call the whaaaambulance and have them bring you a whaaaamburger and some french cries.

And there’s their 15 minutes

That’s a real stretch there “Creaky Beards”. Why don’t you spend more time writing and less time making YouTube videos? Weak.

I hope YouTube takes your video down, so you don’t get any more free press out of this.

Nope, sounds nothing alike.