Dream Theater just got RickRolled!

Using the Producer Edition disc with the limited edition boxed-set version of Dream Theater’s new album, I’ve created a mashup mix of Dream Theater’s ‘Wither and Rick Astley’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’.  It had to happen eventually.  Have a listen with the Flash player below.

Update: How about it going the other way?  Wither’s vocals over Never Gonna Give You Up’s music?  Here it is!

Update #2: MP3 links on the My Music page.

Dream Theater just got RickRolled!

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26 Comments

  1. Peter

    That’s brilliant man! Really good work – love the duet part!

    Posted July 24, 2009 at 5:39 pm | Permalink
  2. Daniel Convers

    MP3?

    Posted July 24, 2009 at 5:56 pm | Permalink
  3. Nick

    This is AMAZING! I’m not a fan of DT or Rick Astley, but this got stuck in my head on the first listen! Great work man

    Posted July 24, 2009 at 8:33 pm | Permalink
  4. Chris

    I always knew it: LaBrie should’ve been a pop singer.

    Astley on ‘Wither’ is very awesome – great job!

    Posted July 25, 2009 at 3:48 am | Permalink
  5. Thefunkygibbons

    Pure genius

    Well done

    Posted July 25, 2009 at 8:37 am | Permalink
  6. Jarv

    Genius :)

    Posted July 25, 2009 at 9:43 am | Permalink
  7. fod

    Pure pan-fried delight napped with a deeply rich awesumsauce. You rock my world. I suspect once the DT boys get to here this you’ll be captain famous!

    Posted July 25, 2009 at 1:22 pm | Permalink
  8. Dave

    awesome, they are actually very entertaining!! how do I get to copy this and put them in my IPOD?

    Posted July 25, 2009 at 6:09 pm | Permalink
  9. citz

    Very awesome, sir. Excellent mashup. I bow to your skills.

    Posted July 25, 2009 at 9:00 pm | Permalink
  10. Ross

    Fantastic work, Neil! Any chance of mp3s…?

    Posted July 27, 2009 at 2:43 pm | Permalink
  11. mtb

    I don’t really like DT, and I don’t really like Rick Astley, but I DO like this.

    Posted July 27, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink
  12. Daniel Contogiannis

    This is absolutely brilliant. Great work.

    Posted July 27, 2009 at 7:19 pm | Permalink
  13. Hoedi

    This is just awesome! This is kinda masterpiece, very very funny! :-)

    Posted July 28, 2009 at 4:47 pm | Permalink
  14. vivace

    WOW–BRILLIANT!! HAHAHHAHAHA

    Hilarious–and even more so that I actually like BOTH versions more than either originals!!!

    all i want now is a way to play both your creations at exactly the same time. Might be interesting…

    Posted July 29, 2009 at 7:24 pm | Permalink
  15. UbaChuva

    How did you come up with that combo?
    Gotta hand it to you that’s pretty good.
    Pretty, pretty, good.

    Posted July 31, 2009 at 12:50 am | Permalink
  16. Schmolli

    man, your dream theater/astley mashups are ace!! any chance of sending me the tracks in higher bitrate?

    cheers from austria,
    schmolli

    Posted August 1, 2009 at 10:26 pm | Permalink
  17. nicholas

    oh…..my…..god! this is halarious! i thank you for the laugh. personally, the instrumental part of Withered is awesome, but the lyrics are a joke. love th song sans the voice.

    thanks again for the chuckle

    Posted August 1, 2009 at 11:44 pm | Permalink
  18. EV

    As a DT fan, I was killing myself laughing!! Quite possibly the best male rock duet since Bowie and Queen doing “Under Pressure”!! Glad to see Astley getting some work once again!!

    Posted August 11, 2009 at 2:00 am | Permalink
  19. Troy

    You took 2 crappy songs and made 1 brilliant one! (the one with Rick Astley’s vox). I wish you took a little more care of the mix, I’m sure you could have made things sound a bit better. I can’t stop listening to nevergonnawither! Please re-remix with better sound!

    Posted August 22, 2009 at 11:28 pm | Permalink
  20. Rob

    These are both totally awesome, man. I don’t know which one I like more, but I’m going to keep listening to them over and over until I decide.

    Posted September 5, 2009 at 2:34 am | Permalink
  21. energythief

    AMAZING. This is wonderful. I hope you become famous.

    Posted September 19, 2009 at 5:37 pm | Permalink
  22. Hobbes

    rarely is music beautiful enough to seriously drop my jaw. this did it. not a dream theater fan, and not a rick astley fan, but WOW!
    been rockin this song for about a half hour now back to back.
    listening to it while thinking of my cat… brings a warmness..

    Posted October 22, 2009 at 7:09 am | Permalink
  23. Antti

    Labrie’s vocals on Never Gonna Give You Up music reminds me somehow of U2 :D Excellent job on both :D

    Posted November 10, 2009 at 3:17 pm | Permalink
  24. fran

    dude! this is amazing!!!

    i still dont know how did u do to get rick astley’s voice track!

    if its there a program able to rip off vocals i would be so happy xD

    can you email me an answer if u can please?

    thanks dude!

    i hope to see more work :P

    Posted November 27, 2009 at 7:33 pm | Permalink
  25. admin

    I used an acapella version of the song that I found on…eh…some website somewhere. I googled ‘Rick Astley acapella’ or something along those lines. :P

    Acapella versions of pop/dance tunes are quite commonplace, as they get used for doing remixes and whatnot.

    Posted November 27, 2009 at 7:49 pm | Permalink
  26. heehee

    This is soooo much better than both original songs! Awesome! :D

    Posted January 4, 2010 at 12:19 pm | Permalink

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