A lot of people have been submitting this (including George and Peter) and mentioning it on my previous fun. post for “We Are Young” so I figured I would post it up here.
Have a listen to Simon & Garfunkel‘s “Cecilia” (1970) (written by Paul Simon if you want to get technical) and fun.‘s “Some Nights” (2012).
fun. - "Some Nights" (2012)
Paul Simon - "Cecilia" (1970)
Update: Added “Cecilia” Outro as suggested by chloride ferret below.
Paul Simon - "Cecilia (outro)" (1970)
“we are yong”??LOL
Ha. Just fixed that 😛
Heres one i might be stretching
Train:calling all angels
I nine:seven days of lonely
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).
Got that one here!
https://www.thatsongsoundslike.com/2009/10/19/iggy-pop-vs-jet/
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.
Glad to be of service!
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!