Wasn't the first time they did something like this!



Other classics in the lip-sync piss-take genre:

Pop Will Eat Itself - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qL99XhSDKI

Nirvana - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtehDIWrX5U

Public Image Ltd - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdYevkJf--M

Iron Maiden - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS7W-OiPwjo

The Smiths - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PV4eiDi12w

LOL! HAHAHA! Check it out!

http://www.videosift.com/video/Come-As-You-Are-by-Nirvana-sung-by-Elvis-3-47

One of my favourite Nirvana songs.

Though I'm no stranger to rock and roll, I was unable to recognize all the riffs, so I copy/pasted the below list from the Brodie Cumming web site for reference:

1 Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2 Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
3 Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns & Roses
4 Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
5 Layla - Eric Clapton
6 Black Magic Woman - Santana
7 No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
8 Beat It - Michael Jackson
9 Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
10 Dr. Feelgood - Motely Crue
11 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
12 Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
13 Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
14 Enter Sandman - Metallica
15 Mister Sandman - Chet Atkins
16 One Step Closer - Linkin Park
17 Back In Black - AC/DC
18 Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
19 Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
20 Crazy On You - Heart
21 Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
22 Bulls On Parade - Rage Against the Machine
23 Unchained - Van Halen
24 Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood
25 Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
26 Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
27 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
28 Cult Of Personality - Living Colour
29 Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
30 Sunshine of your Love - Cream
31 Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen
32 Hells Bells - AC/DC
33 Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
34 Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
35 Aqualung - Jethro Tull
36 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
37 Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
38 (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
39 Cemetary Gates - Pantera
40 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen
41 Walk This Way - Aerosmith
42 Tonight 'm Gonna Rock You (Tonight) - Spinal Tap
43 Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles
44 Come As You Are - Nirvana
45 Zero - Smashing Pumpkins
46 Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison
47 Round n Round - Ratt
48 It's Not Love - Dokken
49 Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
50 Norwegian Wood - Beatles
51 Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
52 Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
53 Train Kept A-Rolling - The Yardbirds
54 Blackbird - Beatles
55 Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
56 All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
57 Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
58 Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
59 Breaking The Law - Judas Priest
60 King of the Hill Theme - Brian David Blush/Roger Meade Clyne
61 All Right Now - Free
62 Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
63 When I Come Around - Green Day
64 Trilogy Suite Op.5 - Yngwie Malmsteen
65 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
66 Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
67 Day Tripper - Beatles
68 Panama - Van Halen
69 Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
70 More Than A Feeling - Boston
71 Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
72 Bark At The Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
73 Hair Of The Dog - Nazareth
74 No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
75 Just A Girl - No Doubt
76 Iron Man - Black Sabbath
77 Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
78 Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughn
79 Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
80 Machine Head - Bush
81 Black Or White - Michael Jackson
82 Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
83 Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
84 Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
85 10 Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
86 Wild Thing - The Troggs
87 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
88 Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
89 I Love Rock N ' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
90 Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
91 La Bamba - Los Lobos
92 China Grove - Doobie Brothers
93 You Really Got Me - Van Halen
94 Wipe Out - The Surfaris
95 House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
96 Dust In The Wind - Kansas
97 Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
98 Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival
99 Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
100 Eruption - Van Halen

thanks for the promote!!

In reply to this comment by Zifnab:
*promote

Here's something for you Elvis. I found this. You may have seen it before.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Come-As-You-Are-by-Nirvana-sung-by-Elvis-3-47

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Beavis And Butthead, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana' to 'Beavis And Butthead, Smells Like Teen Spirit, Nirvana, mike judge, 90s' - edited by Issykitty

>> ^rottenseed:
I thought this was too simple. Should remixed a little more of the daft punk song maybe played with some effects and synths...


I agree that the songs could have been mashed together even more, but the main thing that makes this work so well for me is that everything is in key, in tune, and timed really well. There are a few parts with an original flair that turned out totally badass, but yeah, it could have been done better.

i have a problem with this counterpoint babymech.
i hope you are not devaluing the lessons history can teach us.

and the first time society is "truly" progressive....
how about taking a long look at abolitionist history, the new republican party, the labor movement of the late 19th/early 20th century, rise of anarchism in america, the history of the naacp, populism movement, the womens christian temperance union, birth control, the great migration, womens suffrage, the new deal, womens refusal to leave their factory jobs after ww2, all the way up to civil rights, womens equal rights movement, and now were working on gay rights.

our history is wholly progressive. always. just because old foggies accomplished it before we were around and now it seems outdated, that doesnt mean it wasnt progressive. in fact, looking at the list above i see most of these events could have happened in one persons lifetime. how much social change has occured in my lifetime? instead of nirvana we have nickleback, mtv quit showing videos and now airs reality shows, cartoon network..... please someone add something redeeming to this list... oh wait... the end of the cold war, but noone my age had anything to do with it...

i do agree that a society relies on young minds for new innovation, but i think my generation would be better innovators if a well rounded education was easier to come by than pop culture trivia and material consumption.

True, but it isn't as bad as it seems. Listen...

This version of SMTS is a fan re-made version that has its tuning adjusted for Rick Astley's song. The default Nirvana tuning is to tune a half step down I believe, and this one is tuned higher.

Listen to 1:14 - 1:40. During the "I...... just wanna tell you how I'm feeling" the "I" part is off key to the riff, but the rest of it fits pretty well. Imagine that "I" being lower pitched and to the riff and you'll see what I mean.

This tuning is likely the closest thing to lining up with this song possible.

Hmm.. Certainly works better than the anti-harmony of that other sift. I still feel as though it's lacking the more significant (and better) bits of the Daft song. Merely putting the "lyrical instruments" from one song into another doesn't automatically make that second song better. I just feel it was an unfair balance of the two pieces. Better than the weirdly-sounding sift, though, certainly.

Despite how often as you are apparently disappointed with other people's recommendations, I feel I must counter-share:

http://www.videosift.com/video/R-Kelly-vs-Broken-Social-Scene-I-m-a-Flirt-7-4-Shoreline

I feel as though both halves of this mashup contribute to each other in some meaningful way.

In reply to this comment by JAPR:
Just sifted a Nirvana mashup that actually works:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nirvana-vs-Daft-Punk-Smells-Stronger

You might like this one.

In reply to this comment by ForgedReality:
Not a fan of Nirvana, so this is a vast improvement. The tonality is a little off in places, but then Nirvana was never known for harmony. It is interesting to see how well they fit together, though.

Just sifted a Nirvana mashup that actually works:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Nirvana-vs-Daft-Punk-Smells-Stronger

You might like this one.

In reply to this comment by ForgedReality:
Not a fan of Nirvana, so this is a vast improvement. The tonality is a little off in places, but then Nirvana was never known for harmony. It is interesting to see how well they fit together, though.

Here, an example of DOING IT RIGHT:

http://www.videosift.com/video/Nirvana-vs-Daft-Punk-Smells-Stronger

Notice how the songs actually sound pleasing together. What a unique concept!

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Teen Spirit is in F minor and Rick Roll is in Db Major, which are related keys, so they actually do share the same set of scale notes. There are a few spots with the harmony and melody clash quite a bit. Fun stuff. Here is another Teen Spirit mashup: http://www.videosift.com/video/Best-Mashup-Ever-Smells-Like-Bootylicio
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Asphyxium913, I'm guessing this is a Karaoke recording of Teen Spirit, and a pretty decent recreation at that.


You generally can't just throw a major melody onto a chord progression in the relative minor, as shown by how this video's sound turned out. It isn't just that the root isn't the same as the chord progressions, but you also get a lot of clashing notes since the vocal melody was written assuming an entirely different chord progression.

...I just don't like it, lol.

Nirvana makes everything glow. Nine thumbs up!