18 Replies to “fun. vs. Paul Simon”

1. Travis July 27, 2012 at 4:05 am

   “we are yong”??LOL

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   1. Keith Post authorJuly 27, 2012 at 2:43 pm

      Ha. Just fixed that 😛

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2. Travis July 27, 2012 at 4:07 pm

   Heres one i might be stretching

   Train:calling all angels

   I nine:seven days of lonely

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3. chuck August 2, 2012 at 6:46 pm

   wow. this may be the biggest ripoff i’ve heard since Jet’s ‘Are You Gonna Be My Girl’ (which was ripped from Iggy Pop, obv not Paul Simon).

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   1. Keith Post authorAugust 2, 2012 at 6:52 pm

      Got that one here!
      https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2009/10/19/iggy-pop-vs-jet/

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4. feanor70115 August 15, 2012 at 1:21 am

   Thanks for IDing this. I don’t listen to the radio so hadn’t heard the fun. song until they played it on Stephen Colbert last night, and since then had been wondering what thing in the back of my head they’d ripped it off from.

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   1. Keith Post authorAugust 15, 2012 at 2:59 pm

      Glad to be of service!

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5. Chris Keating September 14, 2012 at 1:51 pm

   That’s about as blatant as it gets…

   Although these are close:

   Original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLHz6UQ562Q
   “inspired by”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MStoUfrsCig

   Sync ’em up so the lyrics in the Queen track are coming over the Australian Crawl riff!

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6. chloride ferret September 26, 2012 at 12:21 pm

   This song is a huge ripoff, but what’s up with the audio sample? You didn’t even select the “Oh” part of “Cecilia.” That’s the part that’s nearly note for note AND lyric for lyric!

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   1. Keith Post authorSeptember 26, 2012 at 2:16 pm

      Thanks for the suggestion. I added this part above.

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7. Johnny September 30, 2012 at 10:46 pm

   I think that fun. had an absolutely killer hook (the chorus of course) for “We Are Young”, one of the best in years, and I couldn’t detect anything from that bar the structure and when it went into the slow bits reminding me of “American Pie”.

   However “Some Nights” was instantly familiar. I couldn’t figure out what for a while but the opening intro/chorus to me was like Glass Tiger’s “My Town” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu8JFZw3L6A And indeed the first comment mentions it, glad I wasn’t the only one who spotted it. 😀

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   1. Keith Post authorOctober 1, 2012 at 3:23 pm

      Thanks Johnny! This is a great find.

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8. Jerry November 22, 2012 at 9:52 pm

   I know another one !!

   Fun: some nights

   and

   k’naan: wavin’ flag

   😀

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   1. Jerry November 25, 2012 at 2:12 pm

      And another

      Fun: Some nights

      and

      Walk of the earth: Red hands
      

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9. Haasey December 27, 2012 at 12:55 pm

   Hey guys, got an update for you r.e. Fun and Simon and Garfunkel.

   I present to you the following link.

   http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/173701/Fun.-Some%20Nights_Simon%20%26%20Garfunkel-Cecilia/.

   Oh, and for good measure I posted somewhere how I thought Fun yanked a lyric from Nena – 99 Red Balloons.

   Another link for you guys.

   http://www.whosampled.com/sample/view/167284/Fun.-Some%20Nights_Nena-99%20Red%20Balloons/.

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   1. Keith Post authorDecember 27, 2012 at 3:04 pm

      Thanks Haasey. Hm, weird. That site is about samples and I really don’t think that this is even a sample. I think they’re trying to just get some traffic.

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      1. Haasey January 1, 2013 at 5:28 am

         Maybe.

         Here’s another site that shares the same identification observation as this one.

         http://soundsjustlike.com/fun-some-nights-sounds-like-simon-garfunkel-cecilia/.

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         1. Keith Post authorJanuary 1, 2013 at 5:32 pm

            This guy pretty much took all of the content I spent a lot of time on and made his own site out of it.

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