"painfully awesome" is a good way to put it. still, i imagine there's plenty of songs that have ~25 sec verses that could be layered on top on each other. either way, rickrolling a track always has it's perks
Holy Sh!t. I am loathe to say it, but that was great!
ottawasteph
· 4 months ago
Kurt would've had a good laugh. Dave probably already has. Krist still has a chip on his shoulder, so he'd be the only one not to see that it's just a bit fun.
Marcello
· 4 months ago
Agreed. Kurt had a sense of humor that a lot of people missed out on. If I recall correctly, Kurt loved Weird Al Yankovic's parody of "Teen Spirit", so I don't see why he wouldn't like this one as well.
keif
· 4 months ago
I'm with you. Except I wonder what Courtney Love is contemplating about this.
Peter P
· 4 months ago
That's sacrilege!
Jennifer Glasgow
· 4 months ago
This must be what multiple personalities feel like. The 80s bubble gum child and dormant 90s teen angst within me are trying to come out at the same time. Must...go...wash...ears out, or take a xanax or something.
Jonathan
· 4 months ago
Now we just need Cobain singing on Astley's music
Nii A.
· 4 months ago
Am I the only one who is bothered by how off key (musically) this is?
Devon Grandy
· 4 months ago
Nope, the chords really don't line up. Do people really not hear the dissonance?
Digital Jedi
· 4 months ago
Is that really the point? It's funny.
bantha pudu
· 4 months ago
was nirvana ever really on-key? i think that was part of the point.
LVR
· 4 months ago
Completetly! Rick needs to be taken down a fifth of thereabouts. It would sooo improve it.
shamable
· 4 months ago
Smells Like Teen Booty was a lot better, and even that wasn't perfect.
Never Gonna Give Up Teen Spirit merely has meme value. The video is better than the mashup itself, imho.
Also, Mashable is the single slowest-loading website I regularly go on.
DangerousLilly
· 4 months ago
Its....baffling and disturbing and funny all rolled into one. And oddly reminiscent of mashing up the Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd's The Wall.
dyegov
· 4 months ago
xDDD Never thought I'd say this of that rickroll song, but this is amazing! xD
Brandon_Sheley
· 4 months ago
excellent mashup!
Stephanie
· 4 months ago
My head just exploded.
Sasha H. Muradali
· 4 months ago
okay...wow.
ChasUnderwoodIII
· 4 months ago
I am happy to say that I hate it. There are some amazing mash-up artists like DJ Mei-Lwun and GoHomeProductions but this one is not very good. I write about luxury goods at http://StuffRichPeopleLove.com so I may not be a music expert but I do have an iPod. It is a humor blog so maybe I should find this mash-up funnier than I do!
keif
· 4 months ago
See, I think that's part of the point (regardless if intended). Not all art is made to be loved. Is it done well? Yes. It's clever. Is it something I'm going to put on an iPod, share with everyone and say "this is the best mash-up I've heard"? Hell no. It's clever, it's fun, and it's not pretty.
kim sherrell
· 4 months ago
Extraordinary!
Sean Ward
· 4 months ago
Holy crap, this is so good. And I guarantee you, Mister Cobain would have been the first to Tweet this!!!
Dave
· 4 months ago
Would that have been before or after he put down the needle?.. or just before he blew his brains out and left his beautiful Daughter alone in the world with that crack-whore Courtney? He was (and still is) an over rated douche bag and a freakin' coward.
Cam
· 4 months ago
Fuck you, Kurt was murdered... long live him.
:: Kim Sherrell ::::
· 4 months ago
Extraordinary!
juliya
· 4 months ago
no..just no.
Jose
· 4 months ago
Kurt was cremated, stupid ignorant title doesn't make any sense
lola
· 4 months ago
dude, relax.
ERIN
· 4 months ago
this is sick, wrong, and questions everything i believe in....BUT THAT DANCE DURING THE SOLO WAS GROUNDBREAKING!
Belinda
· 4 months ago
I'm not sure I'd listen to it again, but that was definitely something amazing.
NENE
· 4 months ago
WTF? Nirvana is Nirvana.
skratte
· 4 months ago
SMELLS LIKE RICK ASTLEY.
LogicLover
· 4 months ago
very clever
Anna Murphy
· 4 months ago
According to the two 18 year olds: meh
Shelley
· 4 months ago
He converged an 80's song with a Nirvana song and the 80's song sucked in the 80's...Yucky!!!!
bere howard
· 4 months ago
HAHAHA
Loretta
· 4 months ago
I don't whether to watch or to run away in fear! The living members of Nirvana may still seek him out for revenge..... after they're done laughing ridiculously at how silly this is.
Loretta
· 4 months ago
I don't whether to watch or to run away in fear! The living members of Nirvana may still seek him out for revenge..... after they're done laughing ridiculously at how silly this is.
I don't even know what to think... I watch and know it's wrong, but I just can't look away. So yes, it's like porn.
Dave
· 4 months ago
Wow, imagine that... Rick Astley actually managed to make that waste of human flesh 'Kurt Cobain' relevant again!
Christie lim
· 4 months ago
OHmahGod!!! They raped the song!!!
nirvan5a
· 4 months ago
this is shite!!!!!
tristanjacquel
· 4 months ago
What a finding. Just great.
Eric Taylor
· 4 months ago
Keeping in mind I may be more than a little sleep deprived, it still makes me want to run my wrists down the tracks to say this. That was one of the best things I saw today, I have to say that Morgoth really matched it all up well.
In the end you really have to look at it as a hypothetical scenario of "what would've happened if Rick Astley brought grunge back to life instead?" in order to really enjoy it.
Eric Taylor
· 4 months ago
somehow it wound up posting me twice
Jack
· 4 months ago
that's so wrong. so so very wrong. Maybe its time to start purging certain media forever.
Cheap Weasel
· 4 months ago
Kurt might surprise you.. Remember when Tori Amos covered "Smells Like Teen Spirit", he dug it and that and that was a pretty drastic departure... MTV: What did you think of the Tori Amos cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"? Cobain: Flattering. MTV: Is it true that you and Courtney Love used to wake up and dance around to it? Cobain: Yeah. We used to put it on every morning and have breakfast and dance around. We'd turn it up really loud and do interpretive dancing to it. It's good breakfast music.
I must give a thumbs-up to the creator of this for their skills on combining the video/audio. I am however a little sad to see that anyone would combine these two artist. Kurt would kick your ass for sure and I am wondering if I need to step in since he is unable!
Craig
· 4 months ago
I'd actually pay money to see Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic back up Rick Astley. BTW this was posted on hipstr. Pretty awesome. :-)
Craig
· 4 months ago
I'd actually pay money to see Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic back up Rick Astley. BTW this was posted on hipstr. Pretty awesome. :-)
Art Rogue
· 4 months ago
Kurt Cobain couldn't kick anyone's ass. He was a frail junkie.
I'm not saying he was not an excellent musician. Just making a point.
Erica Lee
· 4 months ago
oh sweet Jesus that is bad!
MediaCollective
· 4 months ago
Ok want to take that a step weird-er? digg the similarity of Rick Astley & Clay Adkins huh what could be a tri-fecta http://yfrog.com/7hpepj
ben
· 4 months ago
this is hilarious but an actual mash up would have been better instead of just putting the vocals from one song over the music for another. there should have been some actual editing done because some of it just doesn't fit and is very dissonant, especially the pre-chorus. it sounds awful. but it still is funny how it all lines up like that, and those are two very unlikely and funny songs to put together. as far as the chorus goes, it's not the worst thing i've ever heard.
Macmadgram
· 4 months ago
What a way to ruin SLTS. I hate it!
graham
· 4 months ago
you people do not understand music the chords are perfect everything matches up but not in your retarded pop sense listen to progressive stuff and you will understand
anon
· 4 months ago
the songs are in two different keys. you would need someone to sing the rick astley song while listening to an instrumental track of smells like teen spirit
Joe
· 4 months ago
This is Hilarious! I am a huge Nirvana Fan but I still thinks this is funny. I can't believe how well it matches up. Kurt has to be rolling in his grave.
Bingo Is My Thingo-O
· 4 months ago
Heresy! And, like most heresy, it's great.
JimD
· 3 months ago
FTW!
WHUT?
· 3 months ago
I never liked Smells Like Teen Spirit, and this shows why...
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DJ Morgoth uploaded this track 8 months ago http://fairtilizer.com/track/15581
Never Gonna Give Up Teen Spirit merely has meme value. The video is better than the mashup itself, imho.
Also, Mashable is the single slowest-loading website I regularly go on.
http://appuseful.com
I watch and know it's wrong, but I just can't look away.
So yes, it's like porn.
In the end you really have to look at it as a hypothetical scenario of "what would've happened if Rick Astley brought grunge back to life instead?" in order to really enjoy it.
MTV: What did you think of the Tori Amos cover of "Smells Like Teen Spirit"?
Cobain: Flattering.
MTV: Is it true that you and Courtney Love used to wake up and dance around to it?
Cobain: Yeah. We used to put it on every morning and have breakfast and dance around. We'd turn it up really loud and do interpretive dancing to it. It's good breakfast music.
My head just exploded too.
I'm not saying he was not an excellent musician. Just making a point.
could be a tri-fecta http://yfrog.com/7hpepj
the chords are perfect
everything matches up but not in your retarded pop sense
listen to progressive stuff and you will understand