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Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Roberto Cardenas — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:48:34 -0000

The song is "Let's not talk about it" not "The real thing", it is in the same album, I don't know if abraham laboriel is the composer

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Hayman68 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 22:07:43 -0000

dude, nintendo stole the song and just removed the "funkiness"...how dare they

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Anjel — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:57:09 -0000

I call coincidence on this one. The only similarity is the first six notes repeating, then both songs go in complete different directions. Besides...a lot of songs have similar parts. There's only so many notes you can use.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Matt — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:49:08 -0000

You do realize that is a common progression, right? It's just a I, vi vii, walkup using octaves. A lot of disco songs use that same pattern. I really doubt Nintendo stole it.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Chris — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:34:25 -0000

They probably just asked the group if they could sample it.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

dee — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:24:41 -0000

Nintendo killed your link dude.
They are on to you.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

agustin — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:13:16 -0000

can't listen it. it says: "error opening file". can anybody help me? what should i do?
no puedo escucharlo. me dice: error al abrir el archivo. puede ayudarme alguien? que puedo hacer?

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

jesse arost — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:43:12 -0000

i just recently noticed a similarity between a song from final fantasy vii and kashmir by led zeppelin. i made a comparison-type mp3 like you did for these too, also:

http://plaza.ufl.edu/bjornw...

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

RebeL — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:19:11 -0000

Can anybody give me the notes to the mario theme? Not sheet music but notes like ABCDEFG.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Kid Kimball — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:06:33 -0000

more than coincidental for sure, but itd be interesting if someone knows for sure if Kondo knowingly or purposely jacked it.

fresh stuff though, im a vinyl junkie and mario enthusiast so thats pretty awesome. i'll watch for that name .

have you ever came across this record?
http://www.videogamemm.com/...

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

noodles — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 03:57:16 -0000

WOW! im only 13 and ive played my share of games (mostly nintendo!!) and it does sound alike
a caring gamer: noodles

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

raul — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 10:54:41 -0000

THIS IS CRAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!! bASED ON YOUR EVIDENCE I BELIEVE THAT NINTENDO RIPPED THIS OFF. AS SOMEONE SAID DONT YOU THINK THEY WOULD HAVE MENTIONED THIS IF THEY ASKED PERMISSION TO COPY THAT RIFT. ALL THE PEOPLE WHO RIGHTS ITS NOT SIMMILAR ARE JUST TRYING TO DEFEND NINTENDO. DONT GET ME WRONG,I LOVE NINTENDO!!!

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Paul — Thu, 31 May 2007 07:33:35 -0000

anything happen with this?

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Stephen — Mon, 21 May 2007 18:27:09 -0000

Im a professional composer and the idea is C C A A B flat B flat jumping in octaves...the keeps repeating... Because the Mario's Theme develops the material much much more... The first "original" piece does not move down in sequence .. and that its just three different notes... This is meaningless...even if Nintendo "took" that idea on purpose... it doesn't matter... there are millions of songs with the same EXACT progession ... and plenty with the same rhythm... its all about context... Nice catch though....
SH

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

I hate Jack47 — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 05:15:43 -0000

Jack47 go to hell, that goes to anyone else craping on this thread.

Nice find mate.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Mariomfg — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 12:32:59 -0000

the notes and key signature are exactly the same in both songs. The melody is very common but paired with the exact time signature makes me wonder...

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

lb — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 00:11:34 -0000

Whoa!! that's totally weird. Do I hear "copyright infringement". Some greasy lawyer somewhere is going to get a fat paycheck off of this one.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Motor — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:02:19 -0000

It is like they say:

The good musicians emulate
The great musicians steal
The best musicians get away with it.

To be honest, he could've easily (Koji) heard this guy somewhere randomly, thought it was a great tune, and the riff might of got stuck in his head when he prepared the work. I hear a lot of music everyday and can sometimes catch myself taking stuff from other people. I go see so many bands and listen to so much music that I wouldn't be surprised if I stole a decent portion of a riff from someone else. But its only been recent that people have noticed that musicians have been doing this for a millenia now. Goddamn Musicologists!

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Leo Espinoza — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:35:44 -0000

It's probally a coincedance. But SHigeru Miyamoto did like American music and he also love Fitgeralds Books. He kinda kept him alive by using his wifes name in his famous game:
ZELDA

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

rudy roivira — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 14:57:07 -0000

who is it by

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Bing — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 06:25:03 -0000

It's remarkable. Either someone high up in Nintendo was a fan, or it's a coincidence. It seems more likely the first one but who's to say?

I will definately be hunting down a copy of that.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Johan Groenen — Sat, 18 Nov 2006 19:59:20 -0000

I think it is very much alike, especially because of the measure (6/8) and timing in combination with the octavation. I think that whoever composed the Mario theme at least heard this other number once, and then, maybe unaware of doing so, copied it.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

nicolas — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:08:30 -0000

hola hermanos norteamericanos,bueno pues la verdad es que me decepciona terriblemente por parte de nintendo el que alla plagiado de esa forma la cancion,y pensar que nintendo siempre a sido un simbolo de honestidad y originalidad en cuanto a entretencion,pero aun asi sigo siendo fiel fan de nintendo y aqui estoy esperando a que salga super smash bros.brawl.desde chile ...SALUDOS.

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Rambukk — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:41:35 -0000

I just found a great video of Laboriel and Koinonia and posted it on my blog. Frankly, I don´t care who stole what from who...

Re: Nintendo Stole a Super Mario Theme from 6 years ealier?

Beatfox — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 01:55:53 -0000

Yes, the 6-note lick is the same in both tunes. However, it's entirely possible for the similarity to be coincidental.

They're in the same key... but that key is C, which is quite probably the most commonly used key in any musical genre. Secondly, that sort of octave-jumping bass line (along with the tempo) is VERY characteristic of disco music of the late 70s / early 80s. Heck, the same lick can be heard in 1981's "The Great Muppet Caper" when the band is playing on the bus (and I think that may also be in the key of C, if memory serves me well). Songs that are created within the same rough time period are bound to contain similarities, simply due to the collective sense of style at the time.

Could Koji Kondo have heard the Friendship album at some point? Perhaps. But even if he was inspired by it, I doubt he meant such a short lick to be some kind of "tribute" to a little-known jazz album. And considering the amount of completely original music he came up with and the high work ethic he's shown over the years, I find it laughable that he would stoop to intentionally "ripping" from someone else's work.