This is an update to this post
Submitted by Jim
Any more of these out there??
Jim points out the hook in Survivor’s 1984 hit “I Can’t Hold Back”. I included the beginning of the guitar solo at the end of the sample because it also incorporates the melody. Here’s all of them again!
Survivor – “I Can’t Hold Back” (1984)
Cat Stevens – “Foreigner Suite” (1973)
Joe Satriani – “If I Could Fly” (2004)
Coldplay – “Viva la Vida” (2008)
Creaky Boards – “The Songs I Didn’t Write” (2008)
lets add weezers the good life too please and i believe that came before both
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You can also add Alizée’s “I’m fed up / j’en ai marre” to the list
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSwsEiFoRtE&feature=related
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Keith Reply:
January 20th, 2010 at 11:10 pm
Great find Sanglyon!
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I posted about this recently elsewhere, but the Coldplay song seems to me like a pretty direct rip of The Tear Garden’s “Romulus and Venus”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ8IUl8lVms
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Keith Reply:
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:38 pm
Great find J!
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