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Wait... the Final Fantasy theme is a Pete Townshend song!?

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Sinatar

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So I'm sitting here, playing some Rising Thunder, listening to some 80's tunes when Pete Townshend's "Let my love open the door" starts playing...

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Exhibit B

Huh.

This is probably a well known fact and I'm super late, but whatev, it kinda blew my mind.

EDIT: Just to make it abundantly clear. I'm not at all suggesting that Nobuo Oematsu ripped off the song, the similarities just surprised me and I found it humourous.
 
Well shit, i did not know this. But thats a great damn song so if you steal might as well be from good shit i guess i dont know
 
Sinatar said:
So I'm sitting here, playing some Rising Thunder, listening to some 80's tunes when Pete Townshend's "Let my love open the door" starts playing...

Exhibit A
Exhibit B

Huh.

This is probably a well known fact and I'm super late, but whatev, it kinda blew my mind.
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The Final Fantasy Prelude was a quick arpeggio that Nobou Uematsu wrote in about 5 minutes. It's not particularly original in any way. Neither Uematsu or Townshend are the originators of the arpeggio.
 
They obviously aren't exact, but if you're claiming they aren't very similar (at least for the short window at the start) then you crazy.
 
I don't get how they are similar at all? Similar instrument sound, I guess? Although that would be like saying all songs played on the flute sound the same.

The notes and tone progression are completely different.

Do you mean the sort of ascending and descending notes? They are extremely common in music. In fact most music students are taught to play things extremely similar to that.

Am I missing something?
 
It's just an arpeggio though. It's not like anyone has a copyright on it. It's just going up and down notes in a chord.

They're also not the same arpeggio.
 
I realized this while driving home from work at around 11 PM while in College.

Yes, I remember the exact time. It was that pivotal.
 
As other people have said, that's the Prelude, not the Final Fantasy Main Theme. The Main Theme is this song. It is usually played at the start of the game as the heroes begin their journey (as in FF1 or FFIV), or in the game's ending.
 
~Kinggi~ said:
Dont worry, us other people that arent music experts also notice a similarity. You are not crazy. But they will MAKE SURE we know we are stupid non-music knowledge peasants :(
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Wow, please tone down the victimization as explained by multiple people....

SkyOdin said:
As other people have said, that's the Prelude, not the Final Fantasy Main Theme. The Main Theme is this song. It is usually played at the start of the game as the heroes begin their journey (as in FF1 or FFIV), or in the game's ending.
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Great OP you openedup a can of worms. You know what happend to Men at works song after they lost te court battle to thr girls guides song and how they plagiarized it and now owe millions.
 
Its just an arpeggio...

If anyone thought this was a rip off,
they'll probably think every song which uses, for example a
C - G/B - Am - Em/G - F - G chord progression arpeggio would be a rip off.

Also, it might be slightly off-topic, but I frequently wonder,
Theres 12 notes/tones in an octave in a scale. Yes there are different keys or different modes,
but if you limit the available tone combinations to what humans feel is natural, good, cool, relaxing,
you'll have a limited amount of combinations.
Music has come a long way, so theres obviously going to be similarities. (I putting aside intentional rip offs here)

Melody isn't the only thing about music, but is an important aspect about it. Wondering if we'll ever run out of new combinations/motifs/melodies.
Maybe at some point, we'll only be seeing people copying each other because theres simply no other combinations.
 
Macrotus said:
Its just an arpeggio...

If anyone thought this was a rip off,
they'll probably think every song which uses, for example a
C - G/B - Am - Em/G - F - G chord progression arpeggio would be a rip off.

Also, it might be slightly off-topic, but I frequently wonder,
Theres 12 notes/tones in an octave in a scale. Yes there are different keys or different modes,
but if you limit the available tone combinations to what humans feel is natural, good, cool, relaxing,
you'll have a limited amount of combinations.
Music has come a long way, so theres obviously going to be similarities. (I putting aside intentional rip offs here)

Melody isn't the only thing about music, but is an important aspect about it. Wondering if we'll ever run out of new combinations/motifs/melodies.
Maybe at some point, we'll only be seeing people copying each other because theres simply no other combinations.
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We'll make new scales. My dad's a special fan of pentatonic music, and he once had me listen to some mathematical endgame of music that had hundreds of notes in an octave.
 
GavinGT said:
I had no idea this was a Pete Townshend song. Weird swing from The Who to this. I guess that's the 80s for you.
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Really? I always thought it sounded a lot like You Better You Bet (which was a Who song that came out from the same time period)
 
Different scales, and the note shift is different as well. Fail. FAIL OP, FAIL

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Sinatar said:
Jesus tapdancing christ.
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It's not. This is the Final Fantasy theme. That is the Prelude.

In any case, 99% of the time a "they totally ripped this theme from this one!" comes up, (which is to say, often) you can easily tell who hasn't got a clue about music. This case was particularly sad, they sound nothing alike unless you think all arpeggios are the same.
 
GavinGT said:
I had no idea this was a Pete Townshend song. Weird swing from The Who to this. I guess that's the 80s for you.
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Who Are You was basically going in that direction. Though I also had no idea that piece of crap was a Pete Townshend song. That's transitioning from being a rich idealist kid in the 60s to being a richer old guy in the 80s it seems.
 
Everything is an inspiration of something else so not surprising to me really. ofcource maybe not copy or intentional but if he heard it once then that's enough to create something similar unknowingly because this is how the brain works.
 
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