"He should've been doing this more often, then he would still have a job" 💀

@sethevenstar6395

Ай бұрын

Course but social justice warriors are the real criminals plus copyright is a broken system that does more harm then good Best phrase " Imitation is the greatest form of flattery"

Wow Yamamoto must've been a big Disturbed fan

@shonenderpb4760

Ай бұрын

Everyone working in dragon ball is. The Funimation films used to have Disturbed in their licensed movie soundtracks for like every DBZ movie. They eventually became available as soundtracks for japan

6:46 that's my submission! Thank you 😊👍🏿 Also RIP Akira Toriyama. You will be missed 😔🙏🏿

Metal is very big in Japan. So much so that the record companies usually keep 1 or 2 tracks as “exclusives” for this country.

Here are a few examples Yamamoto may or may not have "borrowed" from different sources: DBZ Harukanaru Densetsu: Snake Way - The prodigy: Girls. DBZ Harukanaru Densetsu: HFIL - The prodigy: Get up get off. Budokai 3: dueling character select - Diana Ross: Upside Down. Budokai 3: flight in the dark side - Marilyn Manson: antichrist superstar. Budokai 3: embrace the blue sky(past 12 seconds) - Abba: Honey honey. DBZ Budokai 2: Fortitude indomitable spirit - Tokyo Ska Paradise: One eyed cobra.

Yamamoto had such good taste in music.

These Dragonball episodes are always oddly familiar gold, and this one is no exception. Also like that you paid respect to Akira Toriyama's passing at the start.

The worst part of Weird Atmosphere is that it got Raging Blast 2 to have a more common version with a completely different soundtrack, which even took out Head Cha La!

How is this channel so criminally under-subbed? Either way, keep up the good work. 👌👌

@uncannyx

3 ай бұрын

Much appreciated!

I made that submission in 3:20. Piccolo is a mixture of Bond meets Satisfaction. Thanks a lot! In fairness, it wasn't until the PS1 era when Yamamoto got cocky and started doing questionable deeds behind his booses' backs.

07:01 In my opinion, Yamamoto may have also "borrowed" from Diana Ross - Upside down

never did i ever think that a wrestler's theme was sampled. and the fact that this is a big Japanese wrestler in terms of popularity and big over in the west due to his great muta gimmick. that blows my mind that this wasn't caught

That Vegeta theme at the end reminded me of Guile’s theme right away.

Hey when you do Dragon Ball Themes Part 4 1. Rivals/Burn it to the Ground 2. The Strong Enemy/Guarded 3. One Hit to Victory/T3 4. A Disastrous Spectacle/My Name is Robert Neville 5. The Formable Warrior, The Saiyan/Goro Vs. Art 6. A Battle of Rivalry/Juke-Joint-Jezebel (Metropolis Mix) 7. Battle Dance Music/Deeper Underground 8. The Ebb And The Flow/War From Avatar 9. Ominous Silence/The Garden 10. Soldier's Sorrow/A Million Light Years Away

just wanted to mention it because most videos like this one don't find out because it's a little more obscure but Infinite World's The Fight that Can't be Won is just a bit too blatant in the "cues" it takes from Knuckle, Clench Fist from the Gun x Sword soundtrack by Kotaro Nakagawa

Love these it’s nice to know where all the budokai tracks originated from the spirit bomb theme from budokai 1 sounds like child’s anthem from the band toto

More DB please! I love these.

The dbzb3 character select theme I knew I going crazy lol 😅

I can't get enough of these Dragon Ball episodes.

Everytime a budokai song pops up i feel a piece of my childhood dying. Yamamoto how could you man....

Yammato was a criminal composer lol if u could even call him one lol

5:11 Yeah he really should have.

Love that Tekken song at the beginning

The exploration theme sounds vaguely like We Were Angels, Z's second ending theme, except that the song came 4 years prior to Manmade God. Weird…

MK movie using Self-Bias Resister by Fear Factory is funny because that is literally the opening of T2 where Sarah's nightmare with the Nukes begins. Full circle with Terminator appearing in MK11.

My cousin had the SNES Butouden games when i was a kid (we couldn't understand the japanese text and didn't even knew what was a Super Saiyan at the time 😅) so Yamamoto's songs have a special place in my memories.

Compare “like a burning wind” to Slash’s Snakepit “the alien” there extremely similar

For the next video, Eien No Yakusoku from Ultimate Battle 22 is Borderline by Madonna but with piano instead of lyrics.

Don’t know if anyone has ever brought this one up but before Xenoverse 1 officially came out, they put out some public beta tests and the Title Screen’s music was completely different. It was an almost bar for bar plagiarism of No Leaf Clover by Metallica.

@SafeIsJustAShadow409

3 ай бұрын

that one was mentioned in the previous video of this series.

That dragon ball z super butouden Vegeta's theme sounds kinda like DJ BoBo's somebody dance with me speeded up.

@Morgil27

3 ай бұрын

I thought it sounded like Street Fighter II

Yamamoto absolutely took it too far when consoles got cd like quality. All the previous machines you still had to recreate and compose due to limitations, and it was kinda fun to id something from another source.

@wingedhussar1453

Ай бұрын

He was like dang I need a nice cool jazz track let me listen to some classics and just rip it off lol

4:36 I'm starting to think this guy used his job as a composer solely as an excuse to do covers of songs he liked and managed to get away with it for years... Kind of JoJo being Araki "secretly" showing everyone his playlist and getting people into some good songs. At least Kenji Yamamoto has good taste in music at the end of the day. 4:59 Ah, so this time it's credited and legal.

The intro music to segas hang on. I knew it sounded "oddly familiar" lol it's as close to that last one as the gremlins outro theme

鳥山先生、安らかに眠れ

DBZ Burst Limit's "Final Decisive Battle" sounds oddly familiar to Dynasty Warriors 3's "The Men of Intelligence".

From one dragon to another, it seems

11:40 Isn't the Guile Theme!?!?!

I have one for you on Dragon Ball Raging Blast 2 track gallant sounds like Chapter Four by Avenged Sevenfold.

Dragon ball z infinite world has a couple the main one I know is the song for the capsule skill shop

Yamamoto is the plagiaristic gift that keeps on giving.

@greatestutuberhd

3 ай бұрын

Well he sure stopped giving now that no one will hire him

I wonder if "The Man Called C" from Budokai & Budokai 3 oddly sounds like anything?

More DBZ eps please

I'm surprised you bring up that street fighter 3rd strike flyer i shared ?

Vegeta's theme reminded me of a higher pitched version of Guile's theme from Street Fighter 2 kzread.info/dash/bejne/fHurmqaQk9enpNY.html

Yamamoto could've had a very successful career as a cover artist, but he chose to present the songs as his own and steal the credit from the original artists.

Oh yes... The Plagiarist with good taste in music returns.

Idk if you've done much Xenoverse yet, but it's full of post-Yamamoto examples. There's one that's especially used during GT stuff that's so blatantly The Beautiful People ("Hell and Earth Connected", because they just couldn't be obvious enough without giving it a title that ties back to ripping off a song from the album Antichrist Superstar) it hurts. The Ultra Instinct Goku trailer (just the trailer) for X2 is literally just E1M1/At Doom's Gate. It's _far_ more a ripoff than E1M1 is of any of the songs people say (the fact there's even debate, tho my money is still on Painkiller by Judas Priest, proves this fact). I think you can do an entire video on Xenoverse, and it would be nice to give Kenji a break by showing his successors are just as bad. Plus it is hilarious they did it to Bobby Prince at a level worse than Bobby. Those are the two I remember most clearly, but I remember doing some effort and finding others years ago. The Ultra Instinct Goku trailer is a 5/5, the Beautiful People knockoff is a 3/5, but in the form of "sometimes it's 2/5 sometimes it's 4/5 and it goes back and forth".

@Gamedraco

3 ай бұрын

One especially egregious Xenoverse ripoff comes from Xenoverse 2. The Depths of Despair theme from Xenoverse 2 sounds extremely similar to almost identical to The Imperial March from Star Wars.

@PosthumanHeresy

3 ай бұрын

@@Gamedraco Oh yeah, that's one of the most blatant too. It's annoying, a lot of Xenoverse is just outside my sphere of knowledge with metal but it causes my brain to itch with "I know I know this from elsewhere". They're def still pulling from the same sort of symphonic metal bands as Yamamoto. They also pull from a much wider range of stuff tho. The blatant ripoff of The Beautiful People is Hell and Earth Connected (edited the original comment to name it), the Planet Tuffle theme. It's just so painfully obvious with that name, being for Dragon Ball GT, and doing that with the music. Like, you can't even pretend it's accidental when it's titled "Hell and Earth Connected" ripping off a song off the album Antichrist Superstar. For some reason they made it "Open Field" In Xenoverse 2. The Character Select/Character Creation music is already documented to be Coldplay's "Viva La Vida". We really need a full team of people looking into this, because nobody can be expected to know all music but too many of these make my brain itch with familiarity and I've gotten rusty with my own knowledge. They did have a lot more intelligence and are more prone to dismembering other songs and stitching together pieces from other sources with more original work, however.

6:21 Copyright law would be based if it worked exactly like that

The arena war theme from gta 5 sounds like jump by van halen

7:01 this one is a stretch, sorry. other than using the same chemical beats drum loop - which is from a sample pack, so of course they're going to sound the same - they don't sound alike at all. i seriously don't see how you say "this is an obvious knockoff, 5/5" when compared to Yamamoto's cribbing of, say, Stratovarius or Disturbed's songs, which are practically note-for-note covers.

@uncannyx

3 ай бұрын

I never said "it's an obvious knockoff". You literally put quotes on it like it's word for word.

@sofiaciel7599

3 ай бұрын

@@uncannyx sorry to have put words in your mouth like that! still, i think that one's a bit of a stretch compared to some of the other ones in this video

@sofiaciel7599

3 ай бұрын

@@uncannyx for something less confrontational, i don't think you mentioned it in the previous video that included some non-Budokai songs, but the theme used for Gohan and Kaioshin in Super Butoden 3 is quite close to the theme of "The Red Spectacles," Mamoru Oshii's first live action film; composed by Kenji Kawai. It's played at a faster tempo, but it's there imo. additionally, i remember at the time of Yamamoto getting dismissed from the production staff for DB Kai that someone on nicovideo compared the intro to Trunks' theme in Super Butoden 2 to "Hold Out" by Osamu Suzuki, the theme of a Japanese pro wrestler who was popular at the time DBZ was originally airing, Keiji Mutoh. this one's a bit more of a stretch imo, but it does have a similar build up.

DEFEND KEIJI YAMAMOTO!!!!!!

I dont think the in flmaes comparison was true ripoff .it was compellty difrent riff .ive heard way worse from others

6:09 Once again, he may have plagiarized the HELL out of a lot of bands but man does he have good taste.

Crazy that he was born one year after my father who was born on September 28th, 1954. Looks like Piccolo...couldn't get no satisfaction. "He should've been doing this more often. He would still have a job" killer burn! Oh, what was the rating for the Exploration theme (Planet Namek)/Man Made God by In Flames? I am going to guess that it was either a 4 or 5. I grew up watching The Great Muta when he was in the now defunct WCW. He was also a character in the PSX game WCW VS The World but was called something different with a red face paint.