Axis of Awesome - 4 Four Chord Song (with song titles)
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- Australian comedy group 'Axis Of Awesome' perform a sketch from the 2009 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Footage courtesy of Network Ten Australia.
See www.axisofawesome.net/ for more details of the comedy trio including Jordan Raskopoulos, Lee Naimo, & Benny Davis.
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
James Blunt - You're Beautiful
Alphaville - Forever Young
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours
Mika - Happy Ending
Alex Lloyd - Amazing
The Calling - Wherever You WIll Go
Elton John - Can You Feel The Love Tonight
Maroon 5 - She Will Be Loved
The Last Goodnight - Pictures Of You
U2 - With Or Without You
Crowded House - Fall At Your Feet
Kasey Chambers - Not Pretty Enough
The Beatles - Let it Be
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under the Bridge
Daryl Braithwaite - The Horses
Bob Marley - No Woman No Cry
Marcy Playground - Sex and Candy
Men At Work - Land Down Under
Banjo Patterson's Waltzing Matilda
A Ha - Take On Me
Green Day - When I Come Around
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight
Toto - Africa
Beyonce - If I Were A Boy
The Offspring - Self Esteem
The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far Kid
Pink - You and Your Hand
Lady Gaga - Poker Face
Aqua - Barbie Girl
The Fray - You Found Me
30h!3 - Don't Trust Me
MGMT - Kids
Tim Minchin - Canvas Bags
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn
Five For Fighting - Superman
Axis Of Awesome - Birdplane
Missy Higgins - Scar - Komedie
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Ah yes, who could forget the classic Australian comedy trio Will Arnett, Jack Black and Edward Snowden.
Gredddfe edward snowden🤣🤣🤣
*Chicken Little*
Half of Edward Snowden
Look up Tristan Russcher...sorta similar for me
Benny snowden
How many Copyright strikes can you get in 5min Speedrun
[Its joke.] But covers are allowed and the four chords aren't copyright obviously.
This have a potential for a like rocket
@@BaldMancTwat cover versions of songs aren't fair use, legally speaking you need a approval of the copyright holder to do a cover performance.
Parodies are also not excepted.
I think the performance in the video could be considered fair use since it's a form of critique.
@@jakx2ob parodies are fair use,
This is criticism of the works it uses, and only as much as needed to make the point
There is no clearer example of fair use than this
13 years later and I still think this is the best mash-up ever
13 years later and I hear this for the first time. Awesome.
I was reading on the Ed Sheeran law suit and how those songs in it are similar. Someone directed me to this song. And, I have got to say that, Ed's song is a different song. As are all these songs in this remix. I hope that the judge has viewed this video before coming to a conclusion on Ed's case.
Amen.
Good luck Ed.
I understand that it got played in the courtroom as evidence
It's called a MIX.....white people stole it and called it a MASH UP....
@@anrdrewleggett5521 That's great. I hear Ed won too.
13 years later and this videos helps Ed's sheeran case
I am so glad that Ed Sheeran used this video in court to show just how many songs use the same 4 chord progression.
he copied the tempo too
And he played songs himself. Such a ridiculous lawsuit
@@ANDY1985UK2011 the idea that you can copy a tempo is probably stupider than the idea that you can copy a chord progression
@@ace-smithyes it is tempo is literally a number/rate
@@ace-smith 👍👍
How to make drunken 90’s kids cry in the bathroom, part one:
Land Down Under especially.
Down under is an 80s song lol
Yep....yep.
@@breathyy5963 Yeah but 90s kids were born in the 80s, otherwise they'd be too small to remember the music.
@@paulkerrigan9857 just no lol i was born in 90 i remember all of these songs mostly coz the got spammed on the radio and TotP constantly over the decade
Their biggest hit was just them pissing on the music industry for 5 mins straight.
Whatever it is, it's perfect
You mean like the Blues Traveler song The Hook?
They used the four chords of a pop song afterall
obviously an easily-piss-on-able industry then? mmm
And that is a good thing.
This video is 14 years old (in 2024) and i still come back to it at least yearly. Love it! Many have done this since, but the Axis of Awesome was the first time I'd ever heard it.
same
The audience isn't freaking out enough. This is the most genius song ever written
They were too busy listening and didn't want to miss anything!
@@markhill474 ikr, i''m just enjoying the music and losing the original point
I'm sure they were just in awww of the brilliance of this performance.
I was 15 years old and taped the show at the time on vcr so can let you know I absolutely did freak out when I saw it and got my dad to transfer the tape to digital to transfer it to my Aldi ipod dupe.
Several of them, in fact, LOL
Ironically enough this did end up as their biggest hit
i dont really they that fits the definition of "irony". it is a genius idea and they prefaced the fact that they are intending to create comedic music.
@@edmasterson4588 The irony comes from the fact that the guy in the middle was skeptical that writing that chord progression would result in a hit.
@@edmasterson4588 are you having a stroke?
@@FBarbarian probably... seizures are funnier. george clinton is the president!
Because it is a 4 chord song. It’s a hit by default.
The middle guy is like you mixed Jack Black with Matt Damon
Just what I thought :-)
+KissyLipRaptor Lmfao oh my god that's so accurate.
+KissyLipRaptor A very stupid laugh came out of my mouth after I read this XD
+KissyLipRaptor ...MATT DAMON!
😁
Bet they never thought this would be used as evidence in a copyright lawsuit against one of the most famous singers in the world
Wait they used that in Ed Sheeran's trial?
@@sickojoseph9377 yeah lol. They used it to show how similar songs are, because there are only 12 different notes on a piano so obviously songs will sound similar - this video proves it lol
How'd you figure out this was in the lawsuit? Were you a juror or something?
@@benholbrook3161 It was mentioned on the news during the trial: czcams.com/video/8TJjbdrsYAE/video.html
@@charliesalter3744 12 notes on a piano, but other instruments have more, right?
My now husband showed me this video on our second date. He created a monster and has endured five years of me singing the wrong lyrics over other songs. 😂❤️
The only one that gets me is "Come on Barbie let's go party" over the top of Poker Face. It's so intrusive.
you´re not alone with that@@Aerowind
You got yourself a keeper
@@Aerowind That's my favourite bit!
He sounds like a very patient and understanding man.
Me: can we get jack black?
Mom: we have Jack Black at home
Jack Black at home:
Omg 😂😂
And now aussie Jack Black is a woman
@@on1117 ok? and
@@schantist hell yeah
What a comment hahahah *click*noice
The middle guy looks like a bootleg Jack Black
@Jonathan Loh how fast time changes
I was thinking "Meatloaf with a big nose".
That was the exact thought that crossed my mind
@Jonathan Loh just put a sticker on her that says 'was a male, now a female'
I've got my eye on you.
@Jonathan Loh just a joke I wasn't sure anyone was going to get. Before she transitioned she did skits as Paulie on the Ronnie Johns half hour. Just type those words into a search and you'll get the joke.
I come back and watch this every few months for over a decade now. Nothing else scratches this exact itch.
For those who want to know, the four chords at the I, V, vi, and IV chords of any key. The Roman numerals representing the note in the key’s scale (key of C Major would be C Major Scale). The lower case means a minor chord. So, in the key of C major, it would be C, G, Am, F. In the key of G major, it would be G, D, Em, C. In D major it would be D, A, Bm, G. It’s all in that order. It was the successor to the “turnaround” chord progression (same chords, different order of progression) of the “doowop” music of 1940’s and 50’s R&B. Just about any R&B (and most rock and roll) song from that era can be played using that progression (I, vi, IV, V). Unchained Melody uses that progression.
You are an amazing human being 😢
Learning songs in Cmajor scale now on guitar. FChord is a hand cramping nightmare but I am actually starting to get it. My instructor sent me this link and would approve of your comment.
Yeah, i know.
Thank you, you are a quality human :)
been playing guitar for years and didnt realize i was making these progressions naturally on my own for years (i tend to gravitate to the turnaround progression given i listened to oldies growing up)
Chicken Little, Jack Black and Sheldon Cooper in a band
Wayyyyyy better pipes than jack black , definitely the son of meatloaf
Benny looks a bit like Neil Patrick Harris too
@@duke_hugo a short NPH lol
pretty sure jack black is already in a band XD
Actually its Chicken Little, Jack Black and Eddie Murphy, check their video " yes i know" out
I see the CZcams algorithm has brought us back together friends.
Edit: Thanks for all the likes and love, 20,000 is unbelievable!
Demonitized!
Nope, I searched for this song all by myself!
I haven’t watched this in ages and then boom recommend is like here have this one
It is good to see everyone again! I hope everyone is well!
It's my first time here, but do expect me to come back
Remember back when this still had CZcams annotations naming the various songs
I still remember PCFights and CZcams coming along..
I have that extension turned on, so for me it was today... (I'm not sure if the "click here"s used to go places though)
It's 2024 and I'm still bumpin this classic!
I no longer sing poker face without adding come on barbie lets go party
haha! so true
I thought I was the only one lol
I always did, which is wierd becaude i dont remember watching this video before
Same
I can't listen to Poker Face without picturing Kristen Stewart's palate of expressionless emotional faces.
See you all in another ten years.
I swear ill reply to that comment in 2030
@@jackx2737 I'll be waiting
lol
Jack Crutchfield I’ll be waiting :) see you in ten years
Cant wait to see the world in ashes mate :D
How the dude sang "am I not pretty enough" had me in stitches 😂😂😂
This was 13 years ago too. Imagine them doing it again with all the songs till the present!
Most of the hit songs nowadays have only 2 chords at most. Utterly terrible stuff.
@@thecrankedamps i think u could sing bad habit by steve lacy over this maybe. or dark red
The music industry has only made it easier over the last 13 years. You don't even need to be a musician or know how to say anymore. As long as you got some tits and ass, we'll put you on stage and fix the rest in the studio
Right and the only are using a tiny subsection of the songs they could have chosen. Like a prayer has the same chord progression.... My name is Jonas when I come around, damn it by blink.... I mean there are probably thousands of songs released every year with this chord progression.
Probably a dozen hits every year at least
Irony is that a four chord song is their greatest hit.
Coincidence? 🤔
Well, this song just has such a catchy tune 😉
This sucks,bnut is funny a.h :D
Why change a winning formula 😂
Birdplane?
Ironically this was their hit.
Evan Leo my music teacher actually shared this and that's how I know these sons of guns
I'm a music teacher and I share this EVERY SINGLE YEAR when I'm going over basic pop song construction. Then I just play the chords over and over and the kids improvise any pop songs they can think of. Always a good time!
grumpyshoegirl Witch 4 Chords are this ?
I guess it is E B C#m A. But you can do this with every chord arrangement, circle of fifths is the keyword.
In any key, I, V, vi, IV. In other words, the home key, one fifth up, the relative minor (minor 6th), and the fourth. When I vamp with my mixed chorus at work, I usually do D, A, Bm, and G.
Between this version and the updated version on their channel, I love this one more. The energy behind this performance is just on another level and elevates this one far above the studio recording
Same
Yeah totally this performance is like lightning in a bottle.
The vocals and the harmonies on this version just blow the other one out of the water
My family loved comedy music like this, and this is the last one we all watched together. My brother and I are grown up and have gone our separate ways, our mother is gone, and our father isn’t well. None of us talk anymore really, but I still come back here to feel that comfort. ❤
Whenever I can't settle on something to listen to...
Fr
So true hahaha!
Rofl xD
Yup
My best friend showed me this video for the first time yesterday. I decided WTF I'm just going to make a playlist with all of these songs.
"We've never had a hit because we've never written a 4 chords song"
*Proceeds to have a massive hit comprised of literally all of the other 4 chords songs*
chord
But one that features one of their own (birdplane)
Genius
Soo far from being all 4-chord songs... Me and my mates did a version of this like 7 years ago and found about 15 different songs that we mixed in :)
I thought this was about 3 chord songs.
13 years later and STILL gold
I like the keyboard player hits that impossible high note and the lead singer steps back and pumps his fist with emphasis. My favorite part of teams or groups is seeing someone who isn't in the spotlight enjoying the moment just as much as man or woman who is
Middle guy looks like he’s about to ask Shrek to do the roar
The fuck you doing here
@@lugertelevisioncompany what you doing here
@@Snpe-vy6ji what you doing here
What are we all doing here
@@benbriddon8323 What are you doing here
Even 12 years later this just has me grinning from ear-to-ear for every moment every second of that 5 1/2 minutes
haha same
2022 - still laughing
I agree entirely
Right here with you 😁
2022 and still one of my favorites. great to share with friends and fam who are feeling down.
If Ed Sheeran needs to be a Piggy bank for anyone , it's these guys!!
PS. are you here after the whole Ed Sheeran 4 chord progression case?
Yea I am.
@@dikephilip yes
Ditto 😂
Yup, me too! The case vs. him was ridiculous for this reason. There are so many 4 chord songs.
After seeing Ed Sheeran go to court over 4 chords I had to come back here 😂
"How many copyright strikes do you want?"
"Yes"
well, if all those songs have the same chords, then every artist is infringing.
All of them
@@BobRooney290 chords aren't copyrightable.
Not even one. Cover 😎
Found him again guys
When the teacher, the bully and the silent kid found a band
Lmao
Hahaha that's pretty funny!
Teacher bully and bullys nerdy target.
Accurate
Lol
I read through some comments and saw no mention of the actual chords. This is the 1-5-6-4 chord progression. Basically ... the musical notes go A-G. If you're in the key of A then 1 is A, 2 is B, 3 is C etc etc.-- So in this example 1 is A, 5 is E, 6 is F and 4 is D. That's it. That's the secret sauce.
I was thinking the same thing and am glad you explained it lol
Isn't 1, 5, 6m, 4?
Fm, not F lol
@@Pingoping Which is why I said "musical notes." The average person that reads the comment probably doesn't know the difference between a major and minor chord, but they can likely wrap their head around a simple note progression. But yes, in this specific case (A Major) it would be an F#m chord.
@@waurbenyeger yep not a single clue what any of that means but thanks for trying to simplified anyway. Now I'm off to CZcams University to learn to read music and play guitar 😂
I love how they make a 4 chord song talking about 4 chord songs and it is a hit
"Four Chords" by Axis of Awesome
00:52 - Don't Stop Believing, Journey
00:59 - You're Beautiful, James Blunt
01:09 - Forever Young, Alphaville
01:16 - I'm Yours, Jason Mraz
01:25 - Happy Ending, Mika
01:33 - Amazing, Alex Lloyd
01:42 - Wherever You Will Go, The Calling
01:49 - Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Sir Elton John
01:56 - She Will Be Loved, Maroon 5
02:04 - Pictures of You, The Last Goodnight
02:11 - With or Without You, U2
02:19 - Fall at Your Feet, Crowded House
02:29 - Not Pretty Enough, Kasey Chambers
02:38 - Let it Be, The Beatles
02:42 - Under the Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers
02:46 - Horses, Daryl Braithwaite
02:54 - No Woman No Cry, Bob Marley
02:56 - Sex and Candy, Marcy Playground
02:58 - Land Down Under, Men at Work
03:01 - Waltzing Matilda, Banjo Patterson
03:06 - Take on Me / When I Come Around, A-Ha / Green Day
03:21 - Save Tonight / Africa, Eagle Eye Cherry / Toto
03:29 - If I Were a Boy / Self Esteem, Beyonce / The Offspring
03:37 - You're Gonna Go Far Kid, The Offspring
03:45 - You and Your Hand, P!nk
03:53 - Poker Face, Lady Gaga
03:58 - Barbie Girl, Aqua
04:00 - You Found Me, The Fray
04:08 - Don't Trust Me, 30h!3
04:15 - Kids, MGMT
04:23 - Canvas Bags, Tim Minchin
04:33 - Torn, Natalie Imbrugila
04:48 - Superman, Five for Fighting
04:52 - Birdplane, Axis of Awesome
05:02 - Scar, Missy Higgins
Best band ever: Rick Santorum, Jack Black, and Chicken Little
@Michael Estwik Haha thought the exact same. Feckin hell, well on time. GG OP
The hero we needed and wanted
Not the hero we deserved, but the one we needed
Note Torn is a cover, originally written and recorded by Ednaswap, even though Natalie Imbruglia made it most famous.
What a saint. You put in work to make these time stamps, and we appreciate you.
This was a four chord song and it did end up being their biggest hit.
Is that Morn off DS9?
@@joelcasey230 I am him.
Okay then, say something Morn would say.
@@joelcasey230 .
@@ethanrichmond3992 ?
I come back every year to have a nice little trip down memory lane. This video brings back so many memories. And then I realize I am getting closer and closer to the old AF status...
Just a note of clarity for people wondering about the Ed Sheeran trial: these 4 chords * aren't * the four chords in Thinking Out Loud. It does, however, demonstrate the argument Ed Sheeran was trying to make, which is that hundreds of pop songs use the same chord progressions as each other, and there are only so many chord progressions you can use.
Weird how nobody laughed at the "close to 40 years now" joke, or at Benny getting interrupted and having to introduce himself a second time, but guffawed heartily at both "Chicken Little" remarks.
Exactly 😂😂
Comedy is subjectice.... And the chicken little responses had perfect timing. ;)
Sounds like the crowd is bad at math lol
Keep in mind it's over a speaker system. It's easy to miss words like that, and when you can't rewind, your brain will fill in details to make it make sense. Even if you do hear it properly, without cuing, most people will assume they misheard.
The first time I watched this, I thought they said "twenty", which made me assume they were older than they looked. There's also the common phrasing of a "collective" amount of time doing things (eg. "we have 200 years of computer programming experience in our team, all 10 of us have done this for 20 years").
at "40 years", the audience hadn't really been primed. By "Chicken Little", they had a bit of an idea of the dynamic that was being portrayed.
I watch this video like.. 20 times everyday.
me too :D
+Louis Balkon :D
I still do XD
+JoesephGaming I watched this video 3 times already!
+Ireana I've memorized it xD
I think I've now watched this video close to, if not 1,000 times over the last decade plus. It still brings me to tears more often that not. It's just a little too perfect. It hits that part of your brain that makes you feel the comfort of nostalgia mixed with the excitement of understanding something that seems like it should be obvious, but is never so charming as it is when presented this way.
These guys could have done this and nothing else and I would still say their debt is paid. What a service to humanity. Just pure beauty.
Thanks guys.
Holy s***, you just received every copyright strike ever from everyone forever
It doesn't "sound" like any of those songs. The AI will get better but it has to sound like the original recording as the system currently works.
@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 there are people that work for the record companies, whose job it is to go through CZcams videos and manually copyright strike stuff. It has been getting verybad lately, some people have received copyright strikes and lost the monetization on their videos just for mentioning a thing
Most of the songs are sung within the allowed time limit to be used without any need of prior approval.
@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 Gus Johnson got striked for this czcams.com/video/9EIiiyX791U/video.html so yeah they can get striked for these covers. Hell some CZcamsrs get their videos striked for much less too
@@0ooTheMAXXoo0 r/wooosh
This was 10 years ago. Imagine if they did another one in 2020 with updated songs. 😂
Sadly they won’t because they broke up a couple years ago
It would sound a lot worse. New music is hot garbage
fam look up roomieofficial he just did one and it's awesome
Roomie just did
Ssup it's here
😂 czcams.com/video/9oCgSE-Le0c/video.html
Ed Sheeran played this video as his testimony in court. He won the case
I accidentally used this chord progession recently, not realising it is one of the most common chord progressions ever 😂
People don't notice that when Jordan says we've been a comedy rock band for over 40 years, that he is only 33
+GAMLAB Games I think he was meant to say 4 years cuz they were formed in 2006 and this was in 2009 and he says close to 40 so I think he was supposed to say close to 4 years.
Lollipop 596 makes sense
I think. After all they are a comedy rock group maybe it was supposed to be a joke I dunno:/
It's a joke in another vid he says 70
+Tomas Alegria no he just has a time machine
The lack of comments here praising the piano player for hitting the high note in Take On Me. Legendary.
If it were a pure tone, probably there would be much more comments about it.
czcams.com/video/zvTu5OPwx7A/video.html
⬆️
I read that while he was doing it, nice timing
That's because he didn't.
Had to comment just cause of that!
Love how "Chicken Little" is not phased by any of it and just keeps hitting the keys
I watched this many years ago and then again many times over the years. It's never ever boring and always brings a smile to my face. Even when I don't know whatever supermarket you need to bring your bags to
Came here after Ed Sheeran's trial and this is HILARIOUS!
“We’ve never wrote a 4chord song”
The last song they play, Birdplane, is a 4chord song written by them.....
Birdplane is technically theirs, but it is a spoof of "superman" by Five for Fighting. The lines "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane" are directly taken from that.
I was coming here to mention that! Either a) they DO have a hit four chord song, or b) they included a song that isn’t a hit.
Still amazing though!
Must be fun at parties
They follow Birdplane with 'doesn't that sound familiar? Doesn't that hit too close to home?'
I think they'r''e keenly aware that they have a 4 chord song and that it isn't in the same league as the other 4 chord songs
A joke from a comedy band! Well I never!
Well it goes like this, the forth, the fifth
The minor fall, and the major lift
The baffled king composing every pop song.
Nice
Ahahaha, yesss!
cept in this case it goes like this
the first the fifth the sixth the forth.
i think that's a 5 chord song
THAT IS A AWESOME song
12 years later i still come back to this song, listen to it so much while i was younger, playing games. For those of you that also listened to this many years ago, think about where you were all those years ago and then think about now. Time flies...
*CZcams mashups:* look I can fit 3 songs into one!
*These guys:* anyway here's the last half century of pop songs performed in less than 5 minutes
That got a genuine laugh out of me
Only because they forgot to include Pachelbel's Canon in D ... which also uses those chords.
"Mom, can we go see Jack Black?"
"We have Jack black at home"
at home:
Yes officer, this person's mother kidnapped Jack Black.
More like Jackie Black now...
Greatest comment ever
Well im happy we have Jack at home
I’d be fine with this jack black anyway xD
From the future . ❤ It will be played.
2023 and this is the first time I've ever heard this... is it weird that its giving me happy tears?
Dude on the left is just vibing for 90% of this, and it's premium
He’s waiting the whole time to say “come one barbie let’s go party”
Stone Monk imagine if he had missed his line
@@stonemonk549 what ? Is he not pretty enough ? 😂
@@thichinhphan4010 is his heart too broken? 😂
This progression has been used by western composers since the 1700s. It's amusing to me that Beethoven's Ode To Joy shares the same chord progression as the chorus to Taylor Swift's Love Story.
Did this Beethoven guy steal more from Taylor's phenomenal genius?
It’s all frequency and that’s a warm pleasing frequency for sure. Funny how we think we’ve changed so much…
@@gildedpeahen876 sadly humans are and will remain forever be nothing more then monkeys in caves. We've just built better caves and learned to destroy just that little bit better then we did originally. Inherently we all still have the exact same impulses. Fight, fuck and eat. No human is immune to all of those impulses and usually the first and second are only dug out by force through trauma.
@@mars7612 yh, there's like endless ways to combine sounds, but most are just unpleasent noise to our ears.
Classical music doesn't have chord "progressions".
2023 and I still love it
We're coming to the end of 2022 and I still find myself returning to this video every time I need a pick-me-up
this video will inevitably force you to be happy
You underestimate my power.
You were the Chosen One!
I don't like sand
The Australian Bacon I like snot.
+The Australian Bacon
_It's rough and coarse and it gets everywhere..._
00:52 - Don't Stop Believing, Journey
00:59 - You're Beautiful, James Blunt
01:09 - Forever Young, Alphaville
01:16 - I'm Yours, Jason Mraz
01:25 - Happy Ending, Mika
01:33 - Amazing, Alex Lloyd
01:42 - Wherever You Will Go, The Calling
01:49 - Can You Feel The Love Tonight, Sir Elton John
01:56 - She Will Be Loved, Maroon 5
02:04 - Pictures of You, The Last Goodnight
02:11 - With or Without You, U2
02:19 - Fall at Your Feet, Crowded House
02:29 - Not Pretty Enough, Kasey Chambers
02:38 - Let it Be, The Beatles
02:42 - Under the Bridge, Red Hot Chili Peppers
02:46 - Horses, Daryl Braithwaite
02:54 - No Woman No Cry, Bob Marley
02:56 - Sex and Candy, Marcy Playground
02:58 - Land Down Under, Men at Work
03:01 - Waltzing Matilda, Banjo Patterson
03:06 - Take on Me / When I Come Around, A-Ha / Green Day
03:21 - Save Tonight / Africa, Eagle Eye Cherry / Toto
03:29 - If I Were a Boy / Self Esteem, Beyonce / The Offspring
03:37 - You're Gonna Go Far Kid, The Offspring
03:45 - You and Your Hand, P!nk
03:53 - Poker Face, Lady Gaga
03:58 - Barbie Girl, Aqua
04:00 - You Found Me, The Fray
04:08 - Don't Trust Me, 30h!3
04:15 - Kids, MGMT
04:23 - Canvas Bags, Tim Minchin
04:33 - Torn, Natalie Imbrugila
04:48 - Superman, Five for Fighting
04:52 - Birdplane, Axis of Awesome
05:02 - Scar, Missy Higgins
big big big thanks for the list !
How long did it take you to make this? also thx
wow thanks
Thanks!
13 years I've been coming back to this video over and over and finally! Finally, somebody has put a list of these together. Sincerely, thank you!
I know this video for so many years. Glad it's been used for Ed Sheeran's trial
Ed Sheeran won his court case because of this video ... Thank you axis of awesome
Lyrics:
My life is brilliant
My love is pure
I saw an angel
Of that im sure
Were forever young
I wanna be forever young
I won't hesitate no more
No more it cannot wait
Im your's
This is the way you left me
Im not pretending
No love no hope no glory
No happy ending
Cause you were amazing
And we did amazing things
If i could
Then i would
I'd go where ever you will go
And can you feel the love tonight
And she will be loved
yeah she will be loved
The pictures of you
The pictures of me
Hung upon your wall
For the world to see
Cause i can't live
With or without you
Whenever i fall At your feet
you let your tears rain on me
Am i not pretty enough
When i find myself in times of trouble
Mother mary comes to me
Sometimes i feel like i don't have a partner
Thats the way it's gonna be little darling
We'll be riding on the horses yeah yeah
No woman no cry
Yeah momma it surely is a dream
I come from a land down under
Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong
Take on me
When i come around
Take me home
Oh when i come around
I'll be gone
With a day or too
Save tonight
Gonna take alot to drag me away from you
Fight the break of dawn
Come tomorrow
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
Tomorrow i'll be gone
If i were a boy
I dunno know she's playing with me
I think i would understand
Well thats okay cause i've got no self esteem
With a thousand lies
And a good disguise
Hit 'em right between the eyes
Hit 'em right between the eyes
Cause i'm not here for your entertainment
You don't really wanna mess with me tonight
Can't read my
Can't read my
No you can't read my poker face
Come on barbie
Lets go party
Lost and insecure
You found me
You found me
She want's to touch me woo-hoo
She want's to love me woo-hoo
She'll never leave me woo-hoo
Enjoy yourself
Take only what you need from here
Take your canvas bags
Take your canvas bags
Take your canvas bags to the supermarket
Take your canvas bags
Nothings right im torn
I'm all out of faith
This is how i feel
I'm cold and i am shamed
Lying naked on the floor
Illusion never changed
Into something real
I'm wide awake and i can see
I'm more than a bird
I'm more than a plane
I'm a birdplane
I'm a birdplane
I'ma motherfucking birdplane
Doesn't that sound familiar
Doesn't that hit too close to home
Doesn't that make you shiver
The way thing's could've gone
And doesnt it seem peculiar
when everyone want's a little more
And so that i remember
To never go this far
That's all it takes to be a star
That's all it takes to be a star.
You deserve FAR more likes for typing all that out!
What profound and beautiful lyrics.
It’s actually “a mother-fu-in’ birdplane”
Not all heroes wear capes
This should be shown to the judges of the Ed Sheeran lawsuit. It's honestly ridiculous trying to copyright chord progressions and BPM.
Yup
thank you !!! i said the same thing
true, but he stole parts of the melody from those songs he’s being sued for. when you play them side by side you can literally tell he took the original and just fucked with it until it was “different enough”
@@fuzzylumpkinns but that's literally all music. you can't copyright something different. there are only so many different combinations. if you take a phrase that has the same chord progression behind it and change the notes around, it will still sound similar bc its in the same key and has same chords and therefore some notes are forced to be in place for harmony. it's different music.
Arya Khonsari just let them do they’re thing fgs
This is the most epic mashup I've ever heard. Truly a masterpiece
14 years later, still the best thing I've ever seen
Love that no crowd has ever laughed at the 40 years in the business joke. Epic song tho. Axis rock.
I also just noticed how they introduced Benny after they said the band name
I'm srry but wht is the joke. is it tht there's no way they could be over 40?
The 70 year one seems to work better.
***** thanks!!
I did.
Moments like that kind of make me lose some faith in humanity. I miss it when people got subtlety, and sometimes didn't need to be bashed over the head with a punchline.
There are two kinds of people: those who haven't seen this video, and those who have watched it 20+ times.
I've seen it once and it will stay that way. I much prefer listening to the audio recording in my car over and over lol.
The first time I watched this video was 11 years ago. I was 8 years old.
Then a third type of people...
Who play it
@@BaldMancTwat Damn
I ve Seen it half.
This is the best performance of this IMO
This medley was played at the Ed Sheeran court case!
How did nobody die at “and I’m Benny” getting cutoff😂
That's not a good place to put that joke there. It was at the intro the audience is starting to know them still
I'm sure they reacted but it was a but late because they did not know the i guess wave if their jokes yet
let me tell you. singing along with this sounds like the most insane nonsense to anyone not wearing your headphones
If they ask, just show them the video. Spread the madness.
I love singing along with this they sing just in the notes I'm able to reach....
I haven't heard of most of these songs so sometimes when one's on the radio I'm surprised bc the line I thought followed was actually a different song :')
My sister and I sing and perform this song all the time.
same by me hahah
Ed Sheeran defence is just this song 😂
Some time in the 90s I noticed that the "alternative" songs on MTV kept using the same chords (including, yes, Green Day and RHCP. Also "Glycerine" by Bush). Mystery solved, 30 years later.
Funny how the song names dont show up anymore because on screen text boxes got disabled many years ago
I remember watching this around 2011 and it's so sad to see the boxes gone. Also, I'm getting older...
@@HOBIXpl yeah lol i was about 10 when i first watched this. now turning 20 haha
i was wondering where they were lmao
@@Gondamar Yeah i cant actually remember the name of it its so old but they got disabled wayyy back lol
@@ruinfox4108 annotations.
Are these guys technically a one hit wonder?
@@jesternario I Think he was referencing the fact that most of the songs they did were mainstream singles that did extremely well lol
@@jesternario you dont need to argue semantics, you need a sense of humor
How to write a love song is really good too
Nope. They’re a 36 hit and 2 parody wonder, just in this one song.
@@jesternario plenty of bands with a following and multiple albums are still one-hit wonders because only one song has had mainstream success. Mainstream popularity means nothing in terms of talent, but it is a major part of defining what constitutes a one-hit wonder. Also it was a joke.
All i need to learn in life is to play these cords so i can entertaine ppl with most songs.
84 million views and 83 million of them are just from me.
Six years later and this is still one of my favourite music videos on CZcams.
Same here!
same :))))
sounds great
same here, they're awsome!
A young me memorized this and now that I'm adult I find it difficult listening to the songs without singing this one in succession.
Yes! Every time I hear "No women no cry" My brain always finishes with "Yeah baby this surely is a dream, I come from a land down under..."
Same for me lol
They went from never having a hit song to having that chord progression named after them... Good times.
13 years
The guy on the left, he doesn't open his mouth alot... but when he does it's gold.
Nah I'm pretty sure it's white.
same as my gf
Today I learned my spirit animal is an Australian bloke saying "fack awff"
So, pretty much every Australian bloke, then. Source: am an Australian bloke.
@@davidcleary9510 Absolutely.
You should hear some British/Kiwi/South African's say it too then because it's pretty damn similar.
@@BaldMancTwat how fucking dare you compare us aussies to those shitholes
@@BaldMancTwat just like how every American and Canadian sounds alike, right?
Makes me happy that all these songs are still on radio
So within formal music theory, this chord progression is now generally referred to as "The Axis Progression" (as a result of this video, obvously)
As a young music student, I learned about progressions known as "The Andalusian Cadence" and the "tierce de Picardie", despite not really knowing where the name came from. The fact that music students in 200 years will be similarly learning about the "Axis Progression" is something that pleases me greatly.
At the time this was current pop songs, but now every one is nostalgic. Each line is a whole different memory
Exactly
They weren’t all current, not in the least. Take On Me is 80s
A small fraction were current. Maybe like 4 of them?
No thats not right
@@nebulousisgod They may not have been current releases, but all of these songs were played heavily on the radio at the time. Which actually meant something because generally most people still listened to the radio at this time because pretty much no one had a smartphone. Also, yeah I used to love this video when it came out, but honestly, I don't even remember half the songs now.
CZcams didn't even recommend this to me. Forwhatever reason I just felt like looking up again here during the C-vid times. Wonder how many more of us there are lol
I only found it bc of my dumb ass teacher told us to listen to it for music
Yeah just popped into my head again
it did me. bo burhaman gave this to me
Same
I looked them up
Same here, I just remembered this after years of not hearing it and looked it up
My first week of university my hall of residence (dorm for Americans) had a talent show and a guy with his guitar played this song and got a big ovation. I remember thinking "this guy is really smart and talented to have come up with this"
this video is being used in the edd sheran vs marvin gave lawsuit, this video pretty much says everything you need to know.
Strangely enough, by copying dozens of songs, they ended up creating something more unique than any of them. What a performance.
Ditto! 😁👌
Dude a lot of these songs are still incredible despite using only four chords. Also, these are just choruses, the verses and bridges of these songs use more chords. This is not "more unique" or better than all of these songs. It's a great comedy bit, but don't pretend like it's more than that
@@radonbox6569 CJ the X is right, "4 Chord Progression by Axis of Awesome did more damage to music discussion than anything else." To many people are like, "Wow these songs are all the same!!!" despite the rest of the songs being completely different. It is almost like there are a number of Chords and Keys that are pleasing to the human ear so we use them...
@@kid14346 Couldn't agree more
@@radonbox6569 If you don't mind deranged rants about vaguely related topics CJ the X is amazing in their analysis of things.
That particular quote comes from "Bo Burnham vs Jeffery Bezos" it is a 2 hour stream of consciousness discussing music, music comedy, transhumanism, capitalism, art, products, and Bo Burnham and Jeff Bezo's entire career paths.