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“Fake Tales of San Francisco” is a song by Arctic Monkeys originally released on the band’s first EP Five Minutes with Arctic Monkeys in May 2005. After being featured on the band’s debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not, the song was released as a radio only single in the United States instead of “Leave Before the Lights Come On”, which was released there at the end of October. The song was also released in the Netherlands. The song was popular on US Modern Rock radio in the Fall of 2006 and peaked just below the bottom of the US Modern Rock chart.

The song with its has been one of the band’s signature tracks, with its popularity as the band’s first recorded track. The song derides a fictional South Yorkshire band for taking its inspiration from the USA while never having been there, with lyrics such as “I’d love to tell you all my problem / You’re not from New York City, you’re from Rotherham”, and “He talks of San Francisco, he’s from Hunter’s Bar”. The song’s title, meanwhile, has made it a fan-favorite in the United States.
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  • dx15red

    I've scrobbled Do Me a Favour, A Certain Romance and Crying Lightning more times than this song, but it will always be my favourite AM song.

    Wednesday morning

  • SgtPepper1992

    Love's not only blind but deaf! :)

    Tuesday morning

  • tabashidze

    Arctic monkeys <3

    last week

  • tammysays

    Unf <3

    last week

  • steve__

    @ Thebrownheron - Racist??? LOLOLOLOL what a thick cunt, I seriously hope that was not a serious comment.

    18 days ago

  • dartotheren

    The Arctic Monkeys' style has changed a lot since they made this awesome song. I still love 'em though.

    19 days ago

  • lzcool

    I can't get enough of this song.

    last month

  • greatezalor

    And all along I though it was "Get off the bandwagon, put up the amp on."

    last month

  • Druid66

    I'm a Bay Area brat. (-:

    last month

  • DonPinguin

    you don't get it, right? it's about standing for where you are from and not pretending something else.. if you're from sheffield, don't act like you're from somewhere else because you think it's cooler, you know?

    last month

  • thebrownheron

    Id sooner be a nobody from Rotherham than a cunt who laps up this racist garbage.

    last month

  • milkygirl2430

    simply... i love this song !!! ;)

    last month

  • industriaFAN

    i'm from Tver'(russia) xDDD

    last month

  • thekills1985

    I'm from San Francisco :) :)

    last month

  • tiladark

    IIIIIIII LLLOOOVVVEEE !!!!!!!! Sao Francisco

    last month

  • industriaFAN

    faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakeeeeeeeeeee

    March 2012

  • marycoco84

    ooooo si! San Francisco

    March 2012

  • DJCPUG

    Yet another crackin tune!!!!!!!!!

    March 2012

  • ksmyn

    my favorite super cool band!

    March 2012

  • Monade2010

    yeah.

    March 2012
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