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The Rick Astley / Nirvana Mash-Up: A Not Very Good Attempt To Make Kurt Cobain Rickroll Over In His Grave

Jul 20, 2009, 9:30am

Despite attempts to quash the Internet trend of Rickrolling-which included Twitter whacking of Rick Astley -the phenomena of playing "Never Gonna Give You Up" at odd moments is still making enough people on the internet snicker for the meme to persist. Keeping that in mind, here is "Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit Up," a blend of Astley's 1987 track with the song that broke a little Washington band called Nirvana only a few years later. After the jump, hear why this mash-up was basically concocted for the purposes of making its creator, DJ Morgoth, have his 15 seconds [...]

Artists: Destiny's Child, DJ Morgoth, Nirvana, Rick Astley

Tags: Nirvana, listening station, destiny's child, Rick Astley, DJ Morgoth

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