Rick "RickRoll" Astley

[Yorick]

I wrote this in another thread, but I think Rick deserves his own thread, so if anyone would like to discuss the man's music, that'd be great!

Here are some links to hear his songs, because when it comes to "pop" music, he's the best! I am not ashamed to admit I like his 80's stuff:
1. Never Gonna Give You Up
2. Whenever You Need Somebody
3. Take Me To Your Heart
4. Together Forever
5. She Wants To Dance With Me
and others...there's an innocence there, mixed with catchy tunes and a great singer named Rick Astley...then in the 90's he had more fine work with a more "mature" style:
6. Cry For Help (GREAT song. listen to those lyrics!)
7. Hopelessly (Kind of like early 90's Disney movie ballads - lovely)
and others...and in the early 00's he released:
8. Sleeping (which fit in the style of then, yet still good, with a great Rick vocal)
and in the 10's already he has:
9. Lights Out
10. Goodbye But Not The End (which again, both fit the current format for rock/pop and SHOULD be hits, because they're as good as anything else making the charts now (if not better in most cases, I feel)...I, as a rule, am not a fan of the current hits, but if these Rick songs made it on the charts, I would be much happier with the music taste of the world...

Let's recap:
1. Never Gonna Give You Up
2. Whenever You Need Somebody
3. Take Me To Your Heart
4. Together Forever
5. She Wants To Dance With Me
6. Cry For Help
7. Hopelessly
8. Sleeping
9. Lights Out
10. Goodbye But Not The End

 

[Drtooth]

I'm just gonna come out and say it. No one would have been Rick Rolling, or remembering the song ironically if it wasn't performed in that episode of Family Guy. You know, the one where Peter goes back in time and has to fix his relationship with Lois, basically parodying Back to the Future?

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

Ah, I have a personal attachment to Rick Astley and his music.

It all started the day after The Simpsons Movie came out and I saw a post in the IMBD boards about sequel news. It lead to a Rick Roll. I got Rick Roll'd once again over that summer and finally the school year came and with it came Computer Programming. A few days into the year, I decided to Rick Roll the class, especially considering the teacher was barely around. I played the song at full blast and wouldn't you know it, people asked me every day to play it again. Throughout the year, I tried to play other songs like "Together Forever" and "Cry For Help" but all everybody wanted to hear was "Never Gonna Give You Up". It became the theme song for the class, which was pretty much the laziest class I took in high school. We kept making Rick Astley jokes for the rest of high school.

 

[Yorick]

No one would have been Rick Rolling, or remembering the song ironically if it wasn't performed in that episode of Family Guy.

That may be - I'm one of the few who isn't in love with that show But I think Rick deserves the attention, so I'm glad, since he seems glad.

Ah, I have a personal attachment to Rick Astley and his music.

Great story! I know what you mean, sometimes people get used to the one song and we just can't get them into any other song by the same artist - but still, what a success! Great job! Sounds like it was a great class.

 

[Drtooth]

That may be - I'm one of the few who isn't in love with that show But I think Rick deserves the attention, so I'm glad, since he seems glad.

Yep, but the demographic of people who watch that series are the kind of people who would spread that sort of internet jokery around.

What I really liked was seeing, almost 8 months later when the joke stopped being funny the first time, an actual media reference to it on the Thanksgiving parade on the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends parade, performed by him for realz.

I miss the Foster's float.

 

[Yorick]

Yep, but the demographic of people who watch that series are the kind of people who would spread that sort of internet jokery around.

You worded that perfectly, and I agree.

What I really liked was seeing, almost 8 months later when the joke stopped being funny the first time, an actual media reference to it on the Thanksgiving parade on the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends parade, performed by him for realz.

Yes, he rick rolled America in real time! That was the greatest, wasn't it? I even saw his name in the opening credits, and heard the host say, "...there is a special musical surprise" as the Foster's float arrived, but STILL didn't realize...silly me...however, that just made it all the more enjoyable when he came out, and dummy me was like, "NO WAY!" Great moment in TV history, and glad you mentioned it I agree about the Foster's float, too!

Here's a link to the Thanksgiving Rick Roll

 

[mr3urious]

Yep, but the demographic of people who watch that series are the kind of people who would spread that sort of internet jokery around.

What I really liked was seeing, almost 8 months later when the joke stopped being funny the first time, an actual media reference to it on the Thanksgiving parade on the Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends parade, performed by him for realz.

I miss the Foster's float.

I think he lip-synced it.

 

[BobThePizzaBoy]

Great story! I know what you mean, sometimes people get used to the one song and we just can't get them into any other song by the same artist - but still, what a success! Great job! Sounds like it was a great class.

It was a great class. The teacher was always 20 minutes late because he taught a class on the other side of the campus and always had to sprint over to his computer lab. We never did any of the work he assigned us, and he didn't even care he gave us all A's anyway. But he never knew about the Rick Astley thing, the song always went off as soon as he came in. We had a lot of laughs and a lot of anger from that song... and we'd always ask the DJs at the school dance to play it, they never did. But yeah, every year I always seemed to have that one class where we did absolutely nothing that I have tons of memories from. 10th grade it was computer programming, 11th grade it was journalism (perhaps one of the only bright spots in what was a fairly bitter year for me) and 12th grade it was architecture. I wouldn't trade any of the memories those classes brought for anything.





And to think that computer programming teacher ended up writing one of my reference letters for college...

 

[Yorick]

I think he lip-synced it.

You're right - it was the exact sound of the vocals on the 1987 recording. I think DrTooth just meant that Rick himself showed up (which is amazing in itself, since he had to fly over just to do that for us)

It was a great class.

Too bad the DJ's didn't play the song, but thanks for sharing the cool memories again!

 

[Dearth]

That parade clip was cool, thanks for the link.

I myself was RickRoll'd last year, in a very neat way.

I had done a commercial where I played one of two IT guys watching a weather alert on a cubicle monitor. There was nothing actually on it, in fact they had not even shot the weatherman yet. He was filmed later and put in with AfterEffects.

So they had all this footage of us looking at nothing, right?

I got a copy of the finished spot as a DVD from the director/editor, and it had a bonus 'outtakes' reel on it.

There's no dialogue in the outtakes, no flubbed lines... just unused shot after unused shot of me walking in on my coworker while he is unabashedly watching that Rick Astley video!

I need to post that to YouTube.

Dearth