First post, be gentle, I'm trying to make it interesting!

 

I came across a post today on a music blog called The Pop Cop... it basically suggests that Coldplay ripped off a Scottish band called Grace Emilys for the riff in Life in Technicolor. Anyway, you can hear the two songs side by side. I think it's quite uncanny!

clutching at straws there i think, there is a vague similarity but nothing more than that.

Jon Hopkins produced that riff for them.

 

Could we stop all this 'Coldplay stole this off this band' bullshit? There's a band called The Twilight Sad that has a song with a drum part insanely similar to that of The Yeah Yeah Yeah's 'Maps' but no one cares about that because they're a tiny band and haven't gotten success from ripping people off (Even though I don't think they ripped The Yeah Yeah Yeahs off).

 

And, by the way... no. They're similar, to a degree, but no where near the same thing.

uh... lol i don't think the songs are much alike at all.

maybe i just cant hear it correctly, but that sounds like bs.

Such BS. Considering the millions of bands, and millions more songs existing in the world past and present, I was originally gonna say that the simple melody in LIT has probably occurred dozens of times from sheer coincidence. But this vague scottish band (who I'm sure coldplay have never heard of in their lives) didn't even manage the same riff. The notes and rythm's are completely different, not to mention different chords...If you're going to pretend Coldplay ripped you off to get some publicity, at least make it convincing.

In fact the scot band's riff sounds more lot like something I recorded myself on the piano (no joke), mainly the part at the end where the notes run down.

Yes, the Grace Emily's ripped off Tnspieler1012, the dirty bastards!