“I’ve never seen it shine, so bright before.. I stumble blind into the light of it all.” Kleiner reciting those lyrics is so haunting.. It’s like a callback to witnessing the crystal surging in power, mere seconds before humanity got its one way train ticket to the depths of hell..
I just wanna go ahead and thank you Ray for introducing me to Strata. They're one of my favorite bands now after I watched this video 10 years ago, and they've lasted through the years of my cynical music taste.
Hey Ray, I don't know if you're active much anymore, but this this video introduced me to Strata and they've become one of my favorite bands ever. Thank you for making this, It's incredibly well done for it's time and quite memorable to me.
even though its been over 4 years i still find my self listening to this....ray i hope you keep it up for machinima because you have don your fans damn proud!
Look at this video.. don't you think this relates to the actual hl2 lore, you notice that it relates to actual HL2 lore? As you can see it starts with a metro cop playing the drums to make some beats buts that's not all, Barney Coulhon appears in the video quite the man, to be involved since he was there since the beginning of the Half Life story. While Barney sings we can take a closer look at what he is saying, at the start he says "The room filled up with water and the roar of the crowd died" what we can try to infer from this information is that Barney gave us is that Earth has fallen and the population of it has died down into small numbers going further into the lyrics he says that he is the "I'm the ghost in the corner" referring that he wasn't much a significant of a character in Gordon Freeman's story which is you, the player compared to the other main cast such as Alyx, Eli and Issac Kleiner. While Barney Coulhoun sings we can Issac Kleiner flying by down "Water hazard" around at 0:39 in the video, while he was flying down on the rocket he sang "I've never seen it shine so bright before, I stumbled blind into the light, the light of it all. You've never seen it shine so hard before. You'd crumble underneath the weight, the weight of it all" This refers to the start of the resonance cascade which happened down in Black mesa where Eli, Issac, and Barney had worked at. The start of the cascade was a devastating one where all machinery in Black mesa had crumbled down and what most people could see down in the Black Mesa facility were bright explosions which Issac Kleiner has most likely seen. It then cuts back to barney singing in another verse which we will call "Verse 2" at the start of the verse he starts by saying "The walls of this city are all cold metal and stone but we're nothing permanent we're just soft skin and bones. I'm just the pins and the needles attacking your toes, I'm just a message saved On your phone a long time ago, Where I'm singing how." This could refer to where the combine had located the majority of mankind locked from the wasteland locking mankind into tight metal walls with patrolling Civil protection that ruthlessly beat the citizens that refuse to follow orders. it then goes over to the chorus again which I had gone through already, but we will go over some more as you can see at exactly 2:20 we can see a metrocop playing the guitar, perhaps it could be Barney's imagination, you would think that he would've gone crazy underneath Black mesa or maybe its Barney himself who is playing the guitar but we will never know much about this metro cop other than he is either Barney's imagination or himself. Then the outro begins "Oh.. I'm always with you, I never left you alone (oh..)" At 2:28 It then cuts back to the metrocop and Issac Kleiner playing the guitar, as you could feel tension then.. Issac Kleiner had suicide bombed the center of City 17, could this song be Barney Coulhon mourning his friend's death Issac Kleiner?
There are those times in life where you feel like a moment is truly epic.. the moment that nuclear explosion goes off and he hits that high note, the screens shaking, and your listening through headphones that make it sound so awesome.. its a moment where you just think.. Epic... This is, even for a virtual video game, A moment we were born to see. This is how you know a moment is epic. and that moment is.
Lyrics for anyone wondering. The room fills up with water and the roar of the crowd died down, they didn't hold their breath, they just waited to drown. Now I'm just the ghost in the corner that nobody knows. I'm just the chill in the air that comes and cuts you to the bone. I've never seen it shine so bright here before. I stumble blind into the light of it all. The walls of this city are all cold metal and stone, but we're nothing permanent we're just soft skin and bones. I'm just the pins and needles attacking your toes. I'm just a mesage you saved in your phone a long, long time ago where I'm singing how I've never seen it shine so bright before. I stumbled blind into the light, the light of it all. You've never seen it shine, so hard before- You'd crumble underneath the weight, the weight of it all. I'm always with you. I never left you alone. Jeez, that's such a perfect song choice for HL... Props man.
I watched this video months ago. I finally remember the name of the great maker of 'Taste the Cake'. Your works are amazing, your skill in SDK, outstanding, and everything else above standards. Good work on this one.
God I remember when I first heard this song like... fucking like 11 years ago. I downloaed the song and kept it for years. But I realized I hadn't given any love to the person who showed it to me in the first place. So thank you so much! Liked, subbed, and faved!
@ 0:41 - when he looks in the sky... Such a great relation to the song. You really got feelings and skills to illustrate. Cool picture metaphors. I hope you'll invest a lil time in your own models and rigs. Would love to hand you one of my own tracks some day. Inspiring! Good luck!
@RayKoefoed I love this video (and your others). For some reason it took me a lot of searches to find it again. Even though I knew the band name and song. Could benefit greatly from these tags: "night falls weight of it half-life 2". Just a friendly suggestion.
I tried to subscripe (this is just so awesome, words just can't explain how awesome!), and youtube gave me "you have already subscriped RayKoefoed." Man I can't wait for more of your work to come out :)
@RayKoefoed dude ur awesome im so glad ur on machinima i love the songs taste the cake, reign of the disruptors, and a while ago i listened to sum of a body almost every day ur an awesome song writer
![Barney Calhoun - Flight of Kleiner [AI Cover]](/img/n.gif)
If he got 3rd, what do the 1st and 2nd place entries look like. With no hint of sarcasm, you are an artist. It's beautiful.
yea this was amazing
yeah lol
@@PanchoCuestaagreed
oldest comment here
“I’ve never seen it shine, so bright before.. I stumble blind into the light of it all.”
Kleiner reciting those lyrics is so haunting.. It’s like a callback to witnessing the crystal surging in power, mere seconds before humanity got its one way train ticket to the depths of hell..
Almost ten years and this video is still awesome.
2021 and still watching it
almost 15 years and this video is still awesome.
almost 8 years and this comment is still awesome
ur profile picture shows how old this is:D
Agreed
"Excuse me gordon freeman i appear to be flying a rocket"
Truly an interesting time to be on the internet, back when it was just fun and nothing else
Irony culture ruined it
@@mrscruffles801Normies ruined it
this is a relic of the late 2000s
i'm so glad that a video of my favorite game introduced me to my absolute favorite band
I just wanna go ahead and thank you Ray for introducing me to Strata. They're one of my favorite bands now after I watched this video 10 years ago, and they've lasted through the years of my cynical music taste.
Almost twenty years and this video is still actual art and I will unironically have it played my funeral 🙏
It’s been thirteen, nearly fourteen years and this is still good
@@WeldonGrainElevators you are a man child
Hey Ray, I don't know if you're active much anymore, but this this video introduced me to Strata and they've become one of my favorite bands ever. Thank you for making this, It's incredibly well done for it's time and quite memorable to me.
even though its been over 4 years i still find my self listening to this....ray i hope you keep it up for machinima because you have don your fans damn proud!
4 years ago is a long time isn t it?
@@pumpkinspice5848 hey scroll down to the bottom, theres a dude from 15 years ago you can comment on xxoo
@@pumpkinspice5848 It is, but he fucking came back and left another comment 9 years later, gonna wait another 7 years to see if he replies
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15 years this video is older than me, yet the lip sync holds up amazingly today
Look at this video.. don't you think this relates to the actual hl2 lore, you notice that it relates to actual HL2 lore? As you can see it starts with a metro cop playing the drums to make some beats buts that's not all, Barney Coulhon appears in the video quite the man, to be involved since he was there since the beginning of the Half Life story. While Barney sings we can take a closer look at what he is saying, at the start he says "The room filled up with water and the roar of the crowd died" what we can try to infer from this information is that Barney gave us is that Earth has fallen and the population of it has died down into small numbers going further into the lyrics he says that he is the "I'm the ghost in the corner" referring that he wasn't much a significant of a character in Gordon Freeman's story which is you, the player compared to the other main cast such as Alyx, Eli and Issac Kleiner. While Barney Coulhoun sings we can Issac Kleiner flying by down "Water hazard" around at 0:39 in the video, while he was flying down on the rocket he sang "I've never seen it shine so bright before, I stumbled blind into the light, the light of it all. You've never seen it shine so hard before. You'd crumble underneath the weight, the weight of it all" This refers to the start of the resonance cascade which happened down in Black mesa where Eli, Issac, and Barney had worked at. The start of the cascade was a devastating one where all machinery in Black mesa had crumbled down and what most people could see down in the Black Mesa facility were
bright explosions which Issac Kleiner has most likely seen. It then cuts back to barney singing in another verse which we will call "Verse 2" at the start of the verse he starts by saying "The walls of this city are all cold metal and stone but we're nothing permanent we're just soft skin and bones. I'm just the pins and the needles attacking your toes, I'm just a message saved On your phone a long time ago, Where I'm singing how." This could refer to where the combine had located the majority of mankind locked from the wasteland
locking mankind into tight metal walls with patrolling Civil protection that ruthlessly beat the citizens that refuse to follow orders.
it then goes over to the chorus again which I had gone through already, but we will go over some more
as you can see at exactly 2:20 we can see a metrocop playing the guitar, perhaps it could be Barney's imagination, you would think that he would've gone crazy underneath Black mesa or maybe its Barney himself who is playing the guitar but we will never know much about this metro cop other than he is either Barney's imagination or himself.
Then the outro begins "Oh.. I'm always with you, I never left you alone (oh..)"
At 2:28
It then cuts back to the metrocop and Issac Kleiner playing the guitar, as you could feel tension then.. Issac Kleiner had suicide bombed the center of City 17, could this song be Barney Coulhon mourning his friend's death Issac Kleiner?
Goddamn!
peak fiction
this is very much stuck in my head forever
There are those times in life where you feel like a moment is truly epic.. the moment that nuclear explosion goes off and he hits that high note, the screens shaking, and your listening through headphones that make it sound so awesome.. its a moment where you just think.. Epic... This is, even for a virtual video game, A moment we were born to see. This is how you know a moment is epic. and that moment is.
omg
So true
Lyrics for anyone wondering.
The room fills up with water and the roar of the crowd died down, they didn't hold their
breath, they just waited to drown.
Now I'm just the ghost in the corner that nobody knows. I'm just the chill in the air that
comes and cuts you to the bone.
I've never seen it shine so bright here before.
I stumble blind into the light of it all.
The walls of this city are all cold metal and stone, but we're nothing permanent we're just
soft skin and bones.
I'm just the pins and needles attacking your toes.
I'm just a mesage you saved in your phone a long, long time ago where I'm singing how I've
never seen it shine so bright before.
I stumbled blind into the light, the light of it all.
You've never seen it shine, so hard before-
You'd crumble underneath the weight, the weight of it all.
I'm always with you.
I never left you alone.
Jeez, that's such a perfect song choice for HL... Props man.
This sums up half life
This man truely has no creative limit
This is anti-irony-poisoning panacea for my soul.
Love the metrocop ragdolls playing the instruments, it looks freaking hilarious.
this will blow up
Yo wasap
get out of here, mr clickbait
holy shit noclick is actually real
The sun is leaking
Its nice to watch this once in awhile, just to remember Half Life 2. I need to replay it, and Valve needs to come out with Episode 3.
Ray, I've become addicted to pretty much every piece of music you've used in Machinima. You have a knack for good music.
As the years pass. This is still awesome
its been 15 years,its still very good.
The animations are perfectly done, and Kleiner flying on that rocket really made my day. How long did it take to make it?
sup
@@fibershot For FOURTEEN YEARS I'VE LAID DORMANT... oh sup.
@@darksaiyan2006 You are still here, that's amazing
@@warcrimeconnoisseur5238 It's amazing that you're here too.
@@darksaiyan2006 checking if you're still alive
It’s crazy how I wasn’t a fan of HL back then, but I remembered seeing this somewhere in my childhood years ago. 😭😭😭
It's endless nostalgie that makes me ... Thank you so much, Ray!
Happy 15 birthday to this classic
This video is the most insane video of all time
This video walked so the entire Source animation community could run.
I think this is Strata's best song
absolutely
Metrocops playing, Barney singing like a girl, Kleiner riding a missle?
Seems legit.
DIS BUSSIN GREAT JOB MAN ACCTUALLY
I watched this video months ago. I finally remember the name of the great maker of 'Taste the Cake'. Your works are amazing, your skill in SDK, outstanding, and everything else above standards. Good work on this one.
15 years later still awsome
Incredible
Thanks ray for reading the comments, your all videos are awesome, everyone can see the effort u put into your videos. Keep up the good work.
Kleiner looks so happy riding the rocket. Great job 👍
still remember after all this years
Barney sure does have a high singing voice o_o
Anyways, 4531243/5! This is epic!
Man, videos from old Tube hit different
Still one of my favorite videos after all these years.
I remember the day this song came out.....amazing still....glad you scored third, Ray.
this goes so hard
Barney seems to be a good singer
Still one of the best gaming-sagas of all times
this video came into existence the day my little sister was born what a strange coincidence
Still come back here occasionally
Makes me glad to see people commenting still enjoying this gem
this video changed my life
Why is this in my recommendations after 15 years?
this is really good, one of the best iv seen, great job
Fantastic video & song. it mixes silliness & awesome in just the right way to create true epicness. Great idea and execution, congrats.
great vid, you kept the animation, and song in tune, and still acheiving to keep your definate touch in the vid.
Who's from 2019?
i watch this video everyday i love u ray koefoed i love barney's singing voice he sounds like my queen adele
metrocops goin ham on that guitar
Again... As beautiful as ever Ray! I love it!
Half Life and Halo both have deep stories, with great backgrounds. They can't be compared.
Yeah they can, Half-Life won't ever have a third game, and Halo has about 7 already!
@@archive94 A 3rd game how? The Combine is stopped, they no longer have a foothold on earth.
@@menggokil2004 Hey, it's a comparison.
maaaaan nostalgia. Memory is a hell of a thing ! I'm french, this is pure nostalgia right here
strata is such a good band
God I remember when I first heard this song like... fucking like 11 years ago. I downloaed the song and kept it for years. But I realized I hadn't given any love to the person who showed it to me in the first place. So thank you so much! Liked, subbed, and faved!
I love that we are all still here, loving this :)
This is art at its finest
F
Now i'm just a ghost in the corner
@@nafijgamer1057Hey
my favorite music video
That's what they call a rocket scientist
15 years, damn
Another one of your music vdeos and like always another one that's one of the best songs I've ever heard.
Its been 15 years… still good
Absolutely fire 🔥🔥🔥
Someone needs to make an SFM remake.
Damn I finally found this video
@ 0:41 - when he looks in the sky... Such a great relation to the song. You really got feelings and skills to illustrate. Cool picture metaphors. I hope you'll invest a lil time in your own models and rigs. Would love to hand you one of my own tracks some day.
Inspiring! Good luck!
13 years...
Man, this videos is bigger than me. I'm just 2008 and this is 2007..
peak cinema
Omg!! Amazing!!! Te amo Barney!! Excellent work!!! Hey,IC4, ya tienes competencia!!! je je je je
Wow, that was pretty interesting. :D I liked it. I saw this in the compilation video and wanted to try and find it. ^_^
In 11 days this will be 15 years old
oh god
@@JustaVocaloidEnjoyer it is now 15 years old
This is the video ever!!!!!!!!
These sfm's actually look damn good for being almost 15 years old
Pretty sure it's all Gmod
@@LovablePWNER and Source sdk.
@@Gmodfan750 true
This is anything BUT source film maker
you have got me obsessed with this song great video
This is ace, great job.
Awesome animation :P.
Guys, should I really stick to gettin an xp?
If this didn't come first, the judge was bribed.
Dude! That vid was top rate! Good job!
“HEY FREEMAN, WANNA SEE ME SPEEDRUN?”
@RayKoefoed I love this video (and your others). For some reason it took me a lot of searches to find it again. Even though I knew the band name and song. Could benefit greatly from these tags: "night falls weight of it half-life 2". Just a friendly suggestion.
Truly a masterpiece
2019 and still underrated amongst the other garbage on YT
I tried to subscripe (this is just so awesome, words just can't explain how awesome!), and youtube gave me "you have already subscriped RayKoefoed." Man I can't wait for more of your work to come out :)
aaaaaahh i can smeel the unique video maker here
THAT WAS FRICKEN AWESOME! :D
dude this is fuking awsome
best ive seen in the music category
well done
this is music is really relaxant
@RayKoefoed
dude ur awesome im so glad ur on machinima
i love the songs taste the cake, reign of the disruptors, and a while ago i listened to sum of a body almost every day ur an awesome song writer
Watch this become a mainstream modern meme now
Those bits with the tight areas to have kleiner fly through must have been a pain as well.
You had me at Barney singing in falseto.
Incredibly cool!
Oh god I lol'd and I love it at the same time.