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A Mash-up of Some Merit

This is the sort of thing I can readily picture Mike Patton doing:

Interesting how well Astley’s voice comes across in the altered musical context - a lot better, in all probability, than Cobain’s would in the mirror situation. This also illustrates very nicely a bit of modal theory: C Ionian is A Aolian. All sorts of cheery tunes can instantly be made to sound doomy by dropping the background chords to the relative minor…