Dragon Ball Z Budokai Songs That Sound Familiar | Plagiarism or Inspiration??
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- Today we are talking about a popular subject! Dragon Ball Z Budokai 1, 2, and 3 all share one common aspect when it comes to the soundtracks, and that's the fact Kenji Yamamoto was fired because there were multiple instances of suspected plagiarism. If you agree or not isn't the question, the only person who's opinion mattered was Kenji's boss, and he decided it was enough to fire him. This is not something that was taken lightly. But now join us in our Oddly Familiar episode of DBZ Budokai!
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At least he had good taste in music
Better than most people's.
@@kabob0077 it was most people music lol
@@r3dzonewr247 Not for people here in America, most people listen to shitty rap or pop songs about drugs and shit. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to listen to Sabaton's Devil Dogs and Powerwolf's cover of Gods of War Arise for the hundredth time.
@@kabob0077 r/iamverybadass
red blue yeah..
Famous songs: Exists
Kenji Yamamoto: It's real free state
unfunny, overused meme exist:
boring, unoriginal people: it's free likes
@Char Aznable I'm edgy for calling something unfunny? okay
@@bananadog5813 Most underrated version of this meme!
PezConSombrero welp
@@bananadog5813 Gee, it's almost like humor is subjective
Uncanny X: “Now let’s compare that to a song called smoke in the water”
CZcams: “Slow down there buckeroo!”
"Oh my God! 5 seconds of a 20-40 year old song, they're stealing money from the poor starving artist!"
@@DaDewd2112 HA! Cute, you think the artists are still getting paid for recordings of it.
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😂😂😂
For a second I thought my earpods ran out of juice 😂
To sum it up the budokai soundtrack was GREAT because the songs weren't original ....... classy lol
Brilliantly put.
Some were. A Hero's Desperation, as an example.
@@macdaddymario That one is plagiarized as well. It’s Sending All my Love by Linear. Listen to it and you’ll hear the similarities.
Aye but at least the soundtrack is great lol
plagiarism or not THE SHIT WAS FIREEEE and when they took em out the budokai hd remaster it didnt feel the same at all
tru
they should have just made bandai pay the people and use the real music.. in the rereleases.
It doesn't really matter how good it was it was stolen music
@thejamesguy facts, that took so much away from the hd remaster even if it is stolen it played a big role in what made the budokai games so great
@@lokihaze9286 Yeah well you can blame the guy that stole the music
Yamamoto might have stole music, but he had a pretty good taste for songs.
Same
That's the sad part about it lmao
i get why someone would be mad, but maybe they should just try the game.. i got most of my frustrations out everytime i landed that 10+ combo
@@JoninJordan Right...?
Hunting High and Low and Glory of the world are fuckin' amazing songs.
I feel kind of bad that I actively like the the Budokai versions of the tracks. My absolute favourite is “Embrace the Blue Sky,” which rips off Journey’s “Be Good to Yourself.”
Von D that was my favorite too lmao catchy and just so nostalgic
why would you feel bad? Budokai had a awesome soundtrack tf
Von D I love so many of the games tracks. I love the track that plays in the Hyperbolic Time Chamber in Budokai 3
Feel bad cause the tracks sounded better? Lol nah man
This Generation needs to be disciplined and honor what Copyright Infringement and Plagiarism means.
We need to be more strict, bringing this back.
What's most confusing to me, as someone who knows even a bit of composition, is that Kenji has skill. In the tracks that aren't outright stealing of melodies and harmonies and shifting them a few semitones, he has a grasp of music theory in his own compositions that aren't outright stolen. The Smoke on the Water one is definitely not straight theft, but the question is then why he didn't just make his whole soundtrack at that level of INSPIRATION rather than theft?
My guess is, being the composer for so many games and series of DBZ must be exhausting. Even a great OST composer's catalogue has material that is reused often.
@@shadowmover63 guess that's good.
Or maybe he just wanted to... Share how that music sounds with the players...
@@shadowmover63 Meh, even when he was tasked with composing _one_ insert theme for the series, he used not one, not two, but _three_ songs from the *same* album to make it.
He was never a true composer and there’s no equivalency between him just arranging and actual OST composers quoting either themselves or others (while still having their own unique signatures).
@@gespenst1329 As said above, Yamamoto did have the ability to make original compositions.
They're transformative. How could they call it plagiarism? I really don't get it
That’s a damn shame
Budokai had such a fire sound track
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It still does.
I mean when you just rip off hit songs it ain’t hard to sound good
@@bradenbungard9035 True.
Yeah it also had an earth and wind track to boot!
Because he stole them from better artists
The "Game" by Disturbed was played in the DBZ Cooler's revenge movie, So it was definitely an inspiration..
But when did that DBZ movie came out? Was it before or after Bodukai 3?
@@Gamedraco Coolers Revenge came out in 91. The dub with The Game came out in 2002. Budokai 3 came out in 2004.
@@zeroattentiongaming820 That is ridiculous.
The Game was in the english dub done by Funimation, the choice of that song had no correlation with Toei's original soundtrack and yamamoto had no connection with it since their soundtrack was completely different for the Japanese dub.
@@phillip9579 very true but taking inspiration from the song that's in the movie of the anime game your working is considered inspiring.. just like how bleach opening 13 is the same as bleach soul resurrection with a bit of a different tone. that one gets a pass.
Pretty sure Yamamoto was under the impression this was still the 80s, where you could get away with shit like this
Yeah, it was a different time, and when it's 8-bit bleeps and bloops it's a lot harder to catch, these were in CD Quality and were basically instrumental covers lol
@@uncannyx You could say the same thing about the 16-bit era somewhat too. Everything changed once games went 3D in the mid and late 1990's, and especially with the PS2's debut in 2000 which was the first system that could truly handle a CD quality soundtrack.
Agreed. You could definitely get away with it during the 16-bit era. I think you could even get away with it on the N64, but... I think PS1 is where it really went to the next level, once that CD quality came, people had higher expectations and didn't really want bleeps and bloops
To be fair, he did get away with it until whenever Kai was being made.
Somebody in my country did this fairly recently, for major productions too. But i think he was caught because it suddenly stopped.
Used music from VERY POPULAR AAA games and got paid for it. To non-gamers its just a random beat but to the initiated you begin wondering why the FFXIII battle theme is blasting in the middle of a toothpaste ad.
ACCEPT MY CHALLENGE KAKAROT!!!
RIGHT, LET'S DO THIS!
Its been a long time since we fight seriously uh?
-wait is that tenkaichi 3?
i played both too much and i got everything mixed in my mind, except the soundtracks , now that i saw this vid i got sad
Fuck...
When I first heard budokai 2 theme in the background fighting in the "snow stage" I immediately noticed that it was "Hunting High and low" from stratovarius
And ever since I'd thought that it had been a tribute or something to the band but today I Just found out it was plagiarism and it wasn't the only one but actually 10 soundtracks
But I think you guys agree with me when I say that the music from budokai was way better in most of the sountracks than the originals 😆
Yamamoto: I forgot to do my homework, can I copy yours?
Original: Sure, just change it up so no one can tell
Yamamoto: Nah
Lol funny comment
Yamamoto: *copies answers word for word just in different handwriting*
Peckham Arts “Nah” xD
TBH, he did do it with some
😂😂😂
It's funny that Funimation used Disturbed's "The Game" for one of the movies.
Cooler's Revenge
I think the reason Kenji knew of Stratovarios is because they're super popular in japan he probably caught one of their shows
Some of these sound like he was intentionally trying to make lawyer friendly versions of songs but it didn't quite work out.
All but 8 and 3 as 8 and 3 he did not even try to make them sound different at all.
I had no idea that so much of the original soundtrack was ripped off. My favorite was 'Challengers' from Budokai 3. Now i want to listen to the real song it ripped off.
Also you make a great point about the number one slot. Why not at least take from DBZ anime music? Heck even the american Bruce Faulcuner music had some great tracks for the show that could have been reworked for the games.
I think I might have enough for a second DBZ episode, but it will include more than just Budokai songs. I found some songs from other DBZ games!
btw... Nice name. Sailor Mercury was always my fav lol
The Challengers rip off is Stratovarius - High and Low I believe
I was gonna buy the Budokai collection F that bro those songs were the best guess I'll just buy the ps2 ones again
There is a mix on CZcams for High and Low plus Challenger
Lol too bad Bruce plagiarized too
Good video
I wanted to defend him but some songs are just a badly copied homework, impossible to defend him
Also Stratovarious + DBZ = Greatness
This whole debacle was how I was introduced to stratovarius a few years back haha
@@DaRealJGRIF nice!
I just remember that Dragon Ball AF game had some Stratovarius songs. By the way, is where I listened their music for the first time.
Yeah.
Still like the music, and Kenji, but I ain't gonna defend him. Lol
3:04 "If I was a member of Disturbed, I would be disturbed. I would be very disturbed." 😂 These are honestly plain rip-offs. How sad.
I would be very disturbed, and then, I would be contacting my lawyer LMAO
I wonder how the guy thought he could get away with this.
Some people defend these because Yamamoto copied great songs, so his "versions" sound quite nice, but the palgarism is waaaay too evident.
@Felipe M. More like stole
Felipe M. Stop with the excuses....if this was reversed You be cursing out all the real producers if they had copied from ya DBZ smh....this was wrong point blank...unlike the samples and remix’s ur drawing a false equivalence with....gaymer and weaboos lawd
It's completely unacceptable and I honestly have no idea what the fuck he was thinking, but goddamn I can't say I don't thoroughly enjoy his versions over the originals.
This isn't an excuse for him since I'm glad he was punished for it. I just enjoy the tracks
@@richardgray3112
It's intellectual property. Look it up.
@@richardgray3112 fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/introduction/intellectual-property-laws/
Most of this is pretty uncanny but Smoke on the Water is a bit of a stretch.
Agreed. I can hear some basic structural similarities to Smoke on the Water, but I don't know if I can call it plagiarism. Everything else is obvious though.
It was not much of a stretch once I found out the name of the song was Smoke on the Water. I knew its iconic riff long before I knew the name of it.
It reminded me more of Rock You Like a Hurricane
Ikr
That and Iron Man sound like they were blended to avoid sounding too similar
Number 3 is also using the intro to the first song off of Black Sabbath's first album
"...now let's compare that to Deep Purple's song called 'Smoke on the Water'". *mutes*
Fuckin DMCA.
The soundtrack of the budokai and clearly the best of all, it's a pity that you can never have it in the games because of this plagiarism case.
Imagine a fight of Xenoverse with Budokai 1 "Challenger" background, the fighting will be so much more epic.
@Pro Token420 How could it introduce you to the bands they were plagiarized from if no credit was given?
@@salj.5459 because of videos like this
A lot of video game composers did this back in the day for many video games.
However, it is worth noting that they at least had permission to base their work on the material they based their tracks on.
Considering Yamamoto got fired, that is clearly not the case for his works.
It’s not that they had permission. It’s that video games weren’t that mainstream so nobody cared. Now they make millions of dollars so copyright kicks in.
@@YophiGames You're right actually, I looked into it more over time and a lot of composers got away with it, no permissions or anything. One of the most famous examples was with the classic DooM soundtrack, composer Bobby Prince (who also happened to be a lawyer) was sure id was going to get sued for having him compose music based on songs from various metal artists, but they got off clean on that one.
But yeah no way that could be pulled off today.
@@boreasthenortherndragon6217 That's what bugs me about this. He didn't do anything that anybody else wasn't doing before. But because Dragonball Z is a famous franchise that makes money, now all of a sudden, it's a crime. If copyright is only a crime when you make money, it's sort of a double standard you know?
Not defending Budokai of course. As much as I love the renditions, it's still wrong to take credit for these. I think they should have paid the money, credited the artists, and said the music was inspired by them. All of this would have been avoided.
@@boreasthenortherndragon6217let’s not forget mgs 1 theme plagiarism
It's actually becoming quite rare to find awesome channels like this
Smoke on the Water is a stretch but some of them really are ripped off. Especially Stratovarius and Disturbed ones. Also, Black Sabbath is not only Iron Man but the song Black Sabbath was also ripped off.
Reminds Me Of Captain Ginyu
Nah I *totally* hear it. It's really not a stretch; exact same cadence, same tempo, same key. Only differences are that the drum groove is a bit different and some of the notes from the main riff are mixed up a bit, but those are the same notes and everything in a very similar sequence. It's not *as* egreguous as the others, but it's really close enough.
This is getting out of hand...
Now there are two of them...
@@321lainez123 We should have never made this bargain.....
You know; It's almost like he intentionally wanted to get caught. Lmao
He had the egregious braggadocio to steal from absurdly popular songs without flinching for over 20 years.
started cracking up when i see goku flying to september by earth wind and fire
It was a trip down memory lane watching this and listening to all the Budokai songs, plagiarized or not, I grew up with all these songs. Great video!
Damn...most of the the tracks shown here are effectively instrumental covers, but in fairness, #5 and #3 feel like a medley of Deep Purple and Black Sabbath riffs.
I would agree, #5 and #3 seem to have a few different inspirations. The 'Iron Man' one for example, only the last part of the riff is Iron Man
I think #3 and #5 both have remnants of the pieces I named, but I also think there were multiple influences. Like the Iron Man one for example, it's some other guitar riff for almost 75% of the riff, and then out comes Iron Man all of a sudden... If Kenji Yamamoto didn't have so many blatant rip-offs, I think one could argue against it and look passed those 2 .... but considering the fact he has made a career on this, I can't defend it, and I heard the riff in there, even if it was only a portion of it.
For the Iron Man one, I thought a good chunk of that ripped off elements from For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Metallica, and shifted towards Iron Man at the end. I'm baffled as to why he would choose to steal from such highly successful tracks. Yes, they all sound great, and fit nicely within the game, but they're far too noticeable, and can be recognized almost immediately.
Smoke on the water was a big stretch, but everything else is pretty similar...
#3 was definitely a rip off or Iron Man, but also (and very obviously) another Black Sabbath song that is named after the band itself, Black Sabbath. Prove me wrong.
Rip off of Iron Man*
I think you're right. Doesn't really sound like Iron Man to me, except maybe the later part of the clip, but absolutely sounds like Sabbath.
It's funny because the game by disturbed is in the funimation dub of cooler's revenge
Yeah but the legally got the right to use the music
@@zelohendricks51 For the movie, not the game.
@@Gamedraco I said that
And that's, ladies and gentlemen, how I became a Stratovarius fan. To think that they're my second favourite band of all time (Iron Maiden being my absolute fav). Please everybody go and listen to Stratovarius as quickly as possible.
also how i found them! I love Hunting High and Low! way better than the Budokai version too lol
Tha-thats not smoke on the water
Whenever I write songs for various personal projects, I sometimes notice that sometimes, certain melodies/leitmotifs I make sound similar to other existing melodies/leifmotifs. I've decided to refer to this phenomenon as "Subconcious Inspiration".
I'm sure it's probably self-explanatory, but a basic description of it is when you are writing a song and you come up with a melody without realizing that it's similar to a song you may like, have stuck in your head, etc.
A bit of an example of this is this one song I heard in a video. It had a short 23 note melody that I can't describe in words. Later, when I remembered the song, I kinda remembered it wrong, and it ended up sounding like a jazzy version of that song. Boom. I had a melody that later became a reoccurring leitmotif for the soundtrack of something I'm working on.
I've done this at times. Found myself playing something off the top of my head, only to realize it's part of a song I know or built off such.
This is a pretty different case, it was repeated over years and a lot of these songs were hilariously popular
Unintentionally subconsciously copying a melody, theme, or rhythm is one thing. But when you copy all of them together along with similar instrumentation it becomes very hard to say it was unintentional.
what you say reminds me of something that Aphex Twin once said/wrote in an interview, heavily paraphrasing but he stated how he’ll often think up melodies or progressions, and because he’ll come back to such ideas in his head a while later, he often thinks - is this familiar because I’ve heard it somewhere else? Or did I really think that up? Difficult to discern between the two sometimes, especially if it’s just a tune in your mind
If it's too close than changing the key is an easy way to make it sound different enough to not matter.
Me starting out: "C'mon man, I'm sure it was all a heavy coincidence."
Me after hearing Black Sabbath's Iron Man: "Ok yeah, he don' F-ed up." 😆
Especially when it wasn't just iron man, there were like 3 ozzy songs there
Earth Wind and Fire ! Now i'm just baffled ! Shocking !
Lmao.
I'm shook
Ikr
So, they find that he was stealing music, but fired him AFTER the third game? Nice work, Bandai...
And his plagiarism is literally off the charts and egregious. Never seen and heard of anyone copying so many absurdly popular and well known songs so prolifically as this guy in my life.
they actually discovered that while he used some of his plagiarized songs on dbkai. in 2011. this was unprecedented. they had to replaced the songs from all the video games he worked on on the later released and the songs from the blu ray of dbkai. this is ridiculous. but the guy has good taste in music though, lol
Not to mention these songs made it into the first Tenkaichi game as well lol
At least he had good taste in music
Actually i don't think he got fired until raging blast 2
*its not bad he plagiarized it's bad he got caught*
I'm joking
This but unironically. if you don't get caught it's taking inspiration, not plagarizing.
@@coolguyrecords3553 That's like "There can be no witnesses if there's no one left alive to witness".
@@kabob0077 But is it technically wrong? Imo, nah. Morally grey.
As much as i prefer the Yamamoto remixes, it is nice to know their origins.
Some of them are better but is hardly call them remixes the iron man song I got straight away.
I will say though the first one was better than the original
Iron Man was so obvious.
you would be surprised how many people don't hear that one!
@@uncannyx that was the only one I figured on my own
In my opinion that one's kind of a stretch. I can hear it, but the dots have to be connected first.
That’s one of the least egregious one last tbh
If Iron Man was obvious here so every Doom Metal band have plagiarized Black Sabbath. Because that's a typical riff in Doom Metal guys.
The one they did with Smoke on the Water doesn't sound exactly the same initially, but if you listen carefully you'll notice that the timing of the notes was changed a bit, probably in an attempt to hide they stole it.
Good job with the video! This subject sure is fascinating. I was in complete shock when I first discovered the September knockoff; and then for the sake of having fun, I tried to do a mashup of it with the actual vocals from September and, with some speed corrections, it syncs very well since the similarities remain beyond the sample of the video.
It's *scary* how similar they sound. It's like he almost didn't try to conceal it.
Hmm. Well the Smoke on the Water one was off enough that you could say it was simply inspired by. The Iron Man one actually sounds like a mixture of the self-titled song, Black Sabbath, and Iron Man. So I guess its sort of original to combine those (technically). Most of the rest are much closer, but the RHCP one and the one from Cowboy Bebop... kinda indefensible. Overall, this dude was definitely guilty of some plagiarism, but I don't think all of the songs are counts of that offense.
I thought that too! It's not iron man, sounds like Black Sabbath for sure
There's a couple songs i feel are different enough but there are some that are too similar to argue for, this controversy did introduce me to stratovarius so in a way I'm glad people found out
Naw...you can tell what he was going for. "Maybe i should tweek this one so it's not a complete 100% rip like my other ones" lol just 75% this time.
This beats the rampant plagiarism of Doom, and Doom was a major repeat offender too.
And.... Bobby Prince was told what to do on Doom, this DBZ guy just went off and stole it all on his own lol
@@uncannyx And having listened to the Doom and Doom 2 soundtracks, there are a few original pieces and/or different takes on the songs they are based on unlike this DBZ guy which stole practically 100% of all his work.
Bobby Prince had a law degree so he knew where to stop.
@@GiordanDiodato Kinda blows my mind, because his rip-offs are so shameless that a game inspired by Doom went ahead and just named itself after the track that E1M1 was a rip-off of (it's Painkiller by Judas Priest).
I mean at least in Doom the songs fit with the atmosphere
He may have stolen, but the Budokai soundtracks are just amazing, even if they are stolen.
*Please, produce a part 2.*
*Your channel and narraration is awesome*
It’s funny that very song from disturbed ended up in one of the Dragon Ball movies titled Cooler’s Revenge
Wow something I found really funny is the game by disturbed is in the English dub of Coolers Revenge as a licensed song and Yamamoto pretty much used it in BK3 I never noticed that till now.
I laughed sneezed and farted when he compared the eart wind and fire song
That line at 12:50 was so god damn savage LMAO
Uncanny X is surprisingly great with his deadpan remarks
Not only is "September" an incredibly popular song, but it's also the most popular pharmaceutical commercial song. There's absolutely no recovery from this 😆
Oh my gosh, ever since I heard about the plagiarism scandal, I've always wanted to know what Night of Tempest stole from. A real shame because that's my personal favorite track in Budokai 3.
The fact its the most popular song totally slipped my mind. Good job on the video.
I really like your work, man, keep it up.
While checking your videos, I came to think that the most difficult part of your work isn't all the researches and double, triple, checks: it probably is all the pre-excuses you "have to" express in order to not be flamed by others... Peace and again, good work.
PS: you should make a video dedicated to the greatest Sega Genesis' composer (and also a great music copier) Yuzo Koshiro. Just listen to the soundtrack from the first two streets of rage and you'll understand.
I am trying to put together a SOR episode now!
Childhood really ruined knowing that Challengers is such an obvious rip off
Makes me respect DBZ BT 2 soundtrack all the more, cause it's crazy good and it's original(as far as I know).
Yeah their all original thats why in RB2 they removed the original ost for the BT2 ost.
Lost Courage
@@ThomasTheCure I agree and love lost courage and check out the 2nd half of "hold it against me" by britney spears its uncanny I think it came full circle and pop stars ripped off Bt2 xD
Not original, he was just smart enough to have the actual original composers of the songs to help out, making it a "arrangement" instead of a case of plagiarism.
Yes because it's an other composer. Who made also
song for fighter z. I think he will return for tenkaichi 4
I didn't know that. I'm shocked.
Your channel is good man.
Oh my God, he stole Smoke on the Water? How df did that pass...
The Game, Warped, and the Stratovarius rips were especially egregious. Like it's almost as if he just surgically removed the vocals and added a few guitar widdlies and said "Alright, next song!" At least many of the other examples changed up dynamics and/or genre but those? I'm amazed he wasn't shot on sight by an angry record label suit.
"hey can I copy your homework?"
"Sure, but change it up so it looks like you did it"
"Ok"
I always noticed that some of these sounded similar to songs, especially Thrilling Time to Iron Man. As a kid, I didn’t even know what copyright was, so I never thought about it. I hate that dragon ball had this happen because a lot of games got strikes and even the DB Kai series too because of Yamamoto. I enjoy and love the soundtrack music from all of those works. Such a shame that was the truth behind it.
The iron man one brought me here. Even as a kid, I was like “wait a min…”
10, 4 and 1 were my favorite songs from the Budokai series...
I already knew about 10 and 4 being plagiarized, but I didn't know about #1
Damn! Number 1 just makes my mouth dropped! Never thought that song was a part of cowboy bebop an I watch cowboy bebop and I never made that connection. Btw did plagiarize the the I am hope of the universe song Goku has for B1? I’m curious if that one had some type of resemblance song that he took something from? I really like that one.
Do you know the name of that song? If you can give me a name, I'll look it up and try to find out
@@uncannyx czcams.com/video/napZBU0VqRs/video.html here when it used. For the I am Speech. I guess it called "A Hero's Desperation" from this czcams.com/video/uM-nvXErdUs/video.html .
same bro
A bit late to seeing this video, but another case from Budokai 2 was Move Forward Fearlessly, which, once again, takes from the Stratovarius album Infinity, this time from the song Glory Of The World.
Extraordinary and intriguing video !
I love DBZ and its games. This was
a very interesting and good video :)
Also again...
Check out the theme for the planet Titania on the classic SNES Star Fox. To me it sounds oddly familiar to the ET movie theme. If you change the speed just slightly and add a couple beats here and there, the melody seems the same
12:55 BURN!!! Dude I just busted a gut at that one.
That one killed me too. Game based on an anime that stole a track from a different anime.
Gamedraco no it's the fact that he just flat out smacked him in the face with his own plagiarism that had me. "You may not have the rights, but has it stop you so far?" I flat out LOST it at that! XD
@@Kenshiro3rd I did not catch that at first, but now I am busting a gut too.
I know this video is old but I got to say This truly breaks my heart because Budokai 1 and 3 were massive parts of my life growing up, and the music definitely enhanced that experience by 110. I for one or not a big fan of plagiarism or theft, and they're definitely too many songs in here that are blatantly tooken and can't be claimed as "inspired by" . . . it hurts man. RIP these legendary soundtracks. and just like everybody else is saying yes this man had an amazing love for phenomenal music!!
edit: Nooo not the level up music being Everybody dance!!! hell Rockstar even paid for that one for TbogT!
Glad you realize he betrayed you and all the players who enjoyed “his” tracks.
I love the Original Soundtrack better idc if it was copyrighted , Now I know why i like it dude put a bunch of hits together 😭😭 we need a version with the old songs ill pay for that
Whether the songs were plagiarized or not has no bearing on their quality. heck, songs are plagiarized most of the time because they are good. However it is literally illegal for Bandai to reuse the old songs in any way. No matter how much you pay
"Move forwards fearlessly" is also a song from Budokai 1 to got ripped off by Stratovarius and I'm surprised it's not in that too. It's THE best battle song.
that one is in episode 2!
@@uncannyx one and two. The song wasn't in Budokai 3 for the reason above 👍
@@SkIzOjImBooh, i mean we covered that song in our 2nd DBZ episode
Numbers 8, 6, 2, and 1 are so blatant lmao ESPECIALLY 8 my God what was he thinking?
Ayo say what you will, his plagiarism really made Budokai's atmosphere.
Replacing the songs with the Tenkaichi soundtrack in the HD version really showed that...
It was ass.
Smoke On The Water and Night of Tempest are played in a different key but they do share some notes making them similar. Besides that not only is the pattern different, the chords are different. Night of Tempest plays 1st and 5th power chords with the exception of one 5th and base chord while smoke in the water is 1st and 4th. The second finger isn't used in Smoke On The Water. Inspired by Smoke On The Water? Maybe. But honestly a lot of early 70's metal sounded like this. This could just as easily be from a Black Sabbath Led Zeppelin, or Judas Priest song. Hell other Deep Purple songs used this same bluesy type riff in many different keys. Case and point, Fairies Wear Boots from Sabbath or Space Truckin' from Deep Purple.
For Budokai 3, there's a song named "Flight in the Dark Side" which is one of the exploration theme songs in Dragon Universe. That song is a rip off of Marilyn Manson's "Antichrist Superstar".
CZcams with the stupid ass copyrights... THIS IS EDUCATIONAL
In Budokai 3, the song that plays inside Buu (Powerful Man from the Darkness) starts with a guitar riff that sounds very similar to the guitar riff heard in X-Men Legends on the aircraft carrier level. Although, I don’t think I would call it plagiarism as it was one guitar riff and both games probably used the same music making software that had that riff already made up. But probably not. I don’t really know, it was just something I noticed.
Haha guess i wasnt the only one who noticed back when I played it. It seemed so out of place lol
When I was listening to the cowboy bebop sound track couple weeks ago, and that song came on, I was in shock since I remembered years ago that DBZ budokai music got copyrighted lol
7:20 CZcams: Not if I have anything to say about it, and I do
Challenges was the most obvious offender
There's a lot Remixes in CZcams for the song "Challengers" (Theme 4 of Budokai) with High and Low from Statovarius, and sound actally pretty good. The first song of the list was my favorite, and still be my favorite but now i know is stolen from Cowboy Bebop.
That Number 4 was my jam. Sad that no future releases will ever have it again.
This Dragon Ball Z Budokai Episode has left me firmly convinced that Mewtwo from Pokemon is for certain based royally on Frieza from Dragonball Z even more than I already noticed since my comment on the character special. The Dragonball Z Anime ran in Japan from 1989 to 1996 looking at the dates before the main part of the episode. The very first Pokemon games where Mewtwo debuted came out in Japan in 1996, and Mewtwo remains one of the most well known and used Pokemon characters since. I cannot defend this similarity at all now knowing these dates, and how extremely similar both are right down to the color palette.
I agree with you. My friend and i have talked about it a bunch of times.
Don't forget that Dragonball also took a lot from Jackie Chan, Superman, Bruce Lee, journey to the West.
@@oh2446 mostly Bruce lee and journey to the west
@@oh2446 mostly Bruce lee and journey to the west
@@TheAres117 Z took more from Superman than the original DB did.
It sucks that you had to cut Smoke on the Water, this is as fair use as it gets. Great work in the video. Most tracks are downright plagiarism, but there's a couple of them that could arguably be just "inspiration".
Kenji Yamamoto created a large amount of amazingly memorable DBZ compositions for the earlier SNES/Saturn/PlayStation Butouden games, including Ultimate Battle 22 and Final Bout. It's really sad that he couldn't keep it up past 2000 and ended up going this path.
Yeah that's the sad part. He created very good original compositions for the earlier games, he was talented, had a taste and know-how in fusion-jazz/rock. At least you could say even with the plagiarised works he was still a good arranger, eh. But yea, it's just disappointing
Even those earlier games were plagiarism.
One of them even ripped off Kenji Kawai’s The Red Spectacles main theme.
@@gespenst1329 This is disappointing to read. Just heard it. It's Gohan's Butouden 3 theme. That explains why the likes of Vegeta and Z Goku got Butouden 3 remixes as their Ultimate Battle 22/Final Bout tunes, but Gohan got an entirely new track.
Kenji Yamamoto is an example of a CZcamsr who got a Copyright Strike.
Fun Fact: the Song that Ultimatum is plagiarizing, The Game by Disturbed, was actually used in the Dub Soundtrack of Cooler’s Revenge!
#4 and #1 are from Budokai Tenkaichi as well aren't they?
Nah the soundtrack for theirs was different
@@Wil401Gaming those songs are definitely in both Budokai and Budokai Tenkaichi
you're right
I'mma be honest...
Powerful Man From the Darkness was a fire remix.
There's lots of comparison videos of this situation on CZcams, but this takes the cake. You absolutely tore him apart. You mauled him.
I'm so glad someone finally made a video about this topic
I always thought it was odd a Japanese made game had such an American rock themed soundtrack.
If you play enough Dynasty Warriors you'll hear lots of music like this
@@krimsonk-9478 Musou games are certainly heavy on rock.
Many Japanese games have this style of music
@@fightfannerd2078 Exactly.
Coolers revenge has Disturb's music in it.
I have the DVD, it's a beast movie ! Very sick !
Intense Fight Burning Fight Violent fight has Pantera in it iirc
Dbz Budokai 3's 'Move forward fearlessly' is also a rip of Stratovarius' 'Glory of the World'
And in Burst limit 'Hatred at 2 power' is a rip of Bullet for my Valentine's 'Just another Star'
The crazy thing is that most of the music he ripped was either from 1 band or released just a few years before the games.
I found a good one on an old game called Zak McKracken (dev. by Lucasart for PC), once in the airport zone, you can actually hear a slowed down version of Living on a Airplane by John Denver. Even the developpers admitted it several years later
its how most of these songs are actually better versions of the original
I still find it odd that someone can own a series of music notes.
It all comes down to $. Selling something that someone else created and are owed royalties to
There's a difference between playing a series of music notes you know from somewhere else for fun, and using a series of music notes you know from somewhere else for the sake of profit and claiming that it's your work. It's no different from stealing.
Very well made video. Subbed.
Part of both muscle tower and my elastic eye sound fairly similar to Tubular Bells. Primarily the bell sounding part at the beginning. It's not much, but there is a slight resemblance