Tags for this video have been changed from '8bit, Rick, Astley, Roll, music, old, computer, MIDI, technology, no, lyrics' to '8bit, Rick Astley, Roll, music, old, computer, MIDI, technology, no, lyrics' - edited by lucky760

Fixed and thanks.

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cool! The feedback i get is 50% positive, and 50% rick astley.

>> ^looris:
O M G
look at the link at 0:46!!!


http://bit.ly/PjEXY4
It's a Youtube video of Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up - You've been RickRolled

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.

>> ^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.

>> ^JAPR:
The vocals from Astley aren't on the same root note as the guitar line, so it sounds like shit to me. I don't like it.


Amen, sir.

>> ^LordOderus:
Awesome. This is actually the second mash up I've seen on the sift that is surprisingly awesome.
The other is Closer (NIN) and Come together (Beatles) and is located here:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Beatles-vs-Nine-Inch-Nails-Come-C
loser-Together


Dude EVERY SONG EVER MADE can be mashed together with Closer, it's like bacon.

http://www.videosift.com/video/NiN-vs-50-cent-Closer-in-tha-Club

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>> ^Payback:
I don't think there's a person on this planet who can say, with certainty, that these aren't the lyrics Cobain is singing.


Actually, I've never had much of a problem understanding the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit. A few bits here and there were tough to make out, but the single for Lithium helpfully came with a sheet listing the fully lyrics to the whole Nevermind album - should have been included with the album originally I suppose, but I don't think they expected anyone to care (ie, they had no idea it would blow up like it did).

"Tourette's" on the other hand is completely unintelligible. That could very well be a cover of Mr Astley's masterpiece.

Thanks for all the votes btw - I never expected this to hit the top 15. People's tastes here continuously surprise me.

That was scary. I almost hated to upvote it. Now I feel dirty.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
This will either make you laugh, or give you nightmares. Either way, I thought you should know.