Comments on: On The Blue (With Apologies to John Coulton, Valve, Et Al)

On The Blue (With Apologies to John Coulton, Valve, Et Al)

cortex — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:09:24 -0800

A parody of the Portal end-theme, as written by robocop is bleeding earlier this afternoon. Confused? See this post for background on the original song.

I've taken a few small liberties with the bleeding lawbot's original lyrics to make it scan a bit better out loud, but it's all cosmetic tweaks. And the vocals are, of course, nothing to Ellen McLain's. If I'd been taking the time to really do it Right, I'd have used a vocoder to really roboticize my vocals. As it is, I just tried to sing it fairly straight, then compressed the hell out of it, threw on some funky chorus plugin, and EQed it a bit for kicks. Inspired, in part, by how freakin' awesome the original is; in part by how awesome Valve's output in general lately has been; and in part by new user Soup's eyebrow-raising but innocent enthusiasm in posting about the above the last few days. Hi, Soup!

By: brownpau

brownpau — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:17:10 -0800

So this is the song played when you get to the end of Metafilter and defeat mathowie, right?

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:29:27 -0800

I beat the internet. The end boss is hard.

By: cortex

cortex — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:34:25 -0800

The url betrays the fact that I originally, bizarrely, brought up John Coulter. Westward ho?

By: Soup

Soup — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 18:35:41 -0800

John Lennon meets GLaDOS. And a perfect end to a perfect day . . . and, er, week.

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:07:38 -0800

For my next trick, I shall make jessamyn dance! Dance, I say! A-ho-ho-ho!

Sorry, the internets are getting to me. This is awesome! Your changes are pretty on target. As someone who is tonedeaf, trying to sing along to Still Alive while writing MeFi lyrics was an exercise in torture for the Missus and our rabbits.

By: Effigy2000

Effigy2000 — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:07:49 -0800

Nice. And a testament to the new contacts activity feature, since I rarely come to Music and would never have seen this without it (and without having added cortex to my user contacts some time ago). Thanks cortex!

By: gemmy

gemmy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:13:21 -0800

Weee! This makes me smile so wide that my face hurts. Thanks so much to both of you, it's even better than I imagined!

By: grabbingsand

grabbingsand — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:45:26 -0800

This is brilliant, Cortex. Thank you.

By: cashman

cashman — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:01:33 -0800

Ha! Nice work. "And when you're banned I'll still be...on the blue".

By: eurasian

eurasian — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:08:14 -0800

Complete rox.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 00:36:25 -0800

I think you out-sanguine her.

By: cowbellemoo

cowbellemoo — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 07:22:24 -0800

This is a big bucket of win.

By: Argyle

Argyle — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:19:10 -0800

Great job Robocop is Bleeding and Cortex! I'm on vacation without broadband and have been waiting for a chance to d/l it. I finally haxxored the neighbor's wifi and got a listen. Superb.

By: hjo3

hjo3 — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:57:03 -0800

I was tremendously amused by this. Thanks.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:13:36 -0800

Superb!

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 17:39:27 -0800

omg wtf hax

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:06:45 -0800

By: Rock Steady

Rock Steady — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:45:15 -0800

Cortex, you deserve some cake.

gg