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[Kardos]

I always imagined DF as being a combination of hard core heavy metal music at some points and polka at others. Watching six dwarves wall themselves in when I foolishly designated the walls on a tower to be built before the floor? Polka. Watching Morul go Chuck Norris an entire orc siege with spear? Heavy metal. Dwarves channeling out the roof wrong and dropping a tile through four floors and flooding the fort with magma? Definitely Polka.

Finntroll.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYbc7IJagGs
Heavy Metal Finish Folk Music.

[Enzo]

I always imagined DF as being a combination of hard core heavy metal music at some points and polka at others. Watching six dwarves wall themselves in when I foolishly designated the walls on a tower to be built before the floor? Polka. Watching Morul go Chuck Norris an entire orc siege with spear? Heavy metal. Dwarves channeling out the roof wrong and dropping a tile through four floors and flooding the fort with magma? Definitely Polka.

Finally! Someone else that thinks polkas are as dwarven as metal. Tubas and cymbals are clearly the most dwarven instuments.

[buman]

At least the song they seemingly plagiarized has some spirit to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De3lvudmOAw

Too bad that alot of songs sound the same, you either like the song or you don't. Who cares if it sounds like something one of the other billions of people happened to come up with in the last 200 years.

[LegoLord]

^^The man speaks the truth.  I myself prefer viva la vida.  In fact, it's one of my favorite songs.  And seriously, listening to that Joe Satrini song, the part that Coldplay supposedly ripped off sounds only a tiny, infintessimably small bit like viva la vida.  The number of things I've heard similar to that one small section of "I can fly" cannot even be counted on ten pairs of hands. 

I even have some criticism for it.  Other instruments seem to be used rather minimally in that song (the percussion is almost exactly the same throughout), and not much is done with the lead instrument (guitar I assume).  Plus, the melody just changes to much and there's no real pattern to it.  It will just repeat a few notes of a melody for awhile and then change to a different few notes.

The overall impression I got was of someone trying to do a guitar solo (or two people trying to do one at the same time), but needing some percusionists to help them with the beat.

For you to be able to prove beyond reasonable doubt that a song was ripped off from something else, they have to be a great deal more similar than that.  The only song I know of that could've been busted for that is Ghost Busters (its melody being a direct copy of the original song's).

That out of the way, an ASCII music video of one of my favorite songs would be funny.

[Duke 2.0]

 EVERYBODY RIPS OFF PACHELBEL AN HIS CANON!

 But back to this? There is not nearly enough metal and polka in this thread. Or the theoretical mash-up of both metal AND polka.

[Capntastic]

Yes, while a lot of songs sound similar, I find myself believing the professor of music theory that analyzed the harmony and melody of both songs and concluded that Viva La Vida went out of their way to use chords that sounded similar but not exactly the same; while the tempo and chord progression are the same.   He made a very convincing argument.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEGGFJLpbu4&feature=related 

Watch the entire series.   Music is a lot more complex than people realize.

[LegoLord]

Didn't Joe drop the case?