Music: Rick Astley Cover AC/DC’s ‘Highway to Hell’

[Jumptheshark]

this is just wrong on so many levels

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[Smelling Salt]

The Internet has now given us everything it has to offer.

I can safely say that now I have seen everything.

 

[The Shadow]

this is just wrong on so many levels

why is it?

looks like an audience and band having a bit of fun to me

 

[BonMorrison]

Love it.

 

[ADifferentTim]

Sorry, Rick, you obviously ain't the late Bon Scott. Your voice is too smooth to do this cover.

 

[Burnoutboi]

Why is he playing behind a partition?

 

[Xelebes]

Why is he playing behind a partition?

Drums are placed behind a sound barrier to either clean up the miced sound by reducing leakage or resonance from the amps placed nearby or it is to make the drums less overbearing. I will go with the former.

 

[aleshemsky83]

Rick Astley, definitely one of the great ones.

 

[JA]

Rick Astley, definitely one of the great ones.

Before he became an internet sensation, his music was a guilty pleasure of the 80s.

I have an early print of his debut release, which is a fun dance pop album with strong, catchy melodies in line with the other work of the production company Stock Aitken Waterman (Dead or Alive, Bananarama, etc).



Rick doesn't have the right voice for "Highway To Hell" in its original arrangement. He doesn't have the grit. It's more of a Fred Turner kind of song, while Rick is closer vocally to a Randy Bachman type if one uses BTO as an example. Rick is a better vocalist than Randy, with all due respect; a better comparison is probably Michael McDonald. Neither McDonald nor Astley have the voices for a song like "Highway To Hell" even though they're both very talented.

This is what happens when Randy sings a Fred song.



It's also an issue of Rick singing an octave lower than the original recording, which makes his voice seem boring.

 

[Osprey]

Drums are placed behind a sound barrier to either clean up the miced sound by reducing leakage or resonance from the amps placed nearby or it is to make the drums less overbearing. I will go with the former.

It's either that or to protect him from tomatoes raining in from the audience. I will go with the latter.

 

[JA]

It's either that or to protect him from tomatoes raining in from the audience. I will go with the latter.

Fortunately, Rick is performing at a Rick Astley concert where people have seated themselves to see Rick Astley.

 

[Osprey]

Fortunately, Rick is performing at a Rick Astley concert where people have seated themselves to see Rick Astley.

That's fortunate for Rick Astley. It's not so fortunate for the people who paid to see Rick Astley.

 

[Natey]

Well it's better than the original

Rick Astley is the man.

 

[Spring in Fialta]

The late Bill Hicks on Rick Astley: '' Rick Astley? Have you seen this banal incubus at work? Boy, if this guy isn’t heralding Satan’s imminent approach to Earth, huh. “Don’t ever wanna make you cry, never wanna make you sigh … never gonna break your heart” … oh, I wouldn’t worry about that without a dick, buddy. You got a corn nut! You got a clit! You’re not even a guy! You’re an AIDS germ that got off a slide! They’re puttin’ music to AIDS germs, they’re puttin’ a drum machine behind them in a metronome beat and Ted Turner’s colorizing ‘em, God damn it!

 

[KrisLetAngry]

this is just wrong on so many levels

I do.

 

[aleshemsky83]

Bill hicks is a great one but he got a little full of himself once he hit the big time and his material suffered

 

[whatsbruin]

I'll see your Rick Astley and raise you Celine Dion

 

[Xelebes]

Celine Dion? Try Nelly Furtado.

 

[Bryanbryoil]

Ummm yeah, not sure what's worse JTS, you posting this crap or me being foolish enough to listen to the start of it

 

[Jumptheshark]

Ummm yeah, not sure what's worse JTS, you posting this crap or me being foolish enough to listen to the start of it

this is what happens when part of your job is to inspect and review all my posts

 

[Bryanbryoil]

this is what happens when part of your job is to inspect and review all my posts

Yeah, definitely one of the downfalls of the job

 

[Rabid Ranger]

It's either that or to protect him from tomatoes raining in from the audience. I will go with the latter.

Road House 2?

 

[Osprey]

Road House 2?

If Astley were to go blind, that could work.

 

[Archangel]

that just hurts