"I want to marry Herbert since he has a power once reserved for God." has always struck me as such a funny lyric, even in a song full of them. 'Why do you want to marry your sweetheart?' 'He's really nice to me and has a stable career, you?' 'He has a power once reserved for God.'
Just came by to say I’m going to be using the phrase “putting the romance back in necromancy” from now on. It’s awesome. I haven’t figured out the best context to use it in but I’m sure I’ll come up with something...
@@jackhudson8439 Ah, literal plagiarism. Much worse than figurative plagiarism. Also, you don't seem to understand parody- which IS covered under the fair use clause.
Henry Armitage: (spoken) Good heavens, are these human cadavers? Herbert West: (spoken) Indeed they are. Henry Armitage: (spoken) What on earth do you intend to do with them? Herbert West: To life, to life, I'll bring them. I'll bring all these dead men to life. Prudence Armitage: He's found a way for surviving them-- Herbert West: Really reviving them. Prudence Armitage: He can do it. To life, to life, he brings them. Herbert West: I really do bring them to life. I have a genius with chemicals-- Prudence Armitage: Also polemicals. Herbert West: Yes, it's true, there's been strife. Henry Armitage: This is really the most shocking thing I've ever heard and I have heard a few. Prudence Armitage: Oh, it's really not so shocking. If you were a dead man, you might like it too. Herbert West: To life, to life, I'll bring them with one small injection like this! Prudence Armitage: Think of it, Papa, we'll never die, live for forever-- Henry Armitage: My! Herbert West: 'Cause I bring them to life! Henry Armitage: (spoken) Well, I must say, this is amazing. Herbert West: (spoken) I began experimenting on small animals of various kinds and perfected a solution which reanimates dead tissue. Prudence Armitage: (spoken) See, Papa? Henry Armitage: (spoken) Yes. Herbert West: (spoken) When I was sure my solution worked, I began to test it on human subjects. Prudence Armitage: (spoken) Here, Papa. Henry Armitage: (spoken) Hmm, that is fascinating. Herbert West: (spoken) And in the end I was even able to convince Dr. Halsey that my methods were sound. Prudence Armitage: (spoken) And here he is. Dr. Halsey: To life, to life, he brought me. Herbert West: Ha. I brought Dr. Halsey to life. Of course I first had to kill the man with some ingenious plan. Prudence Armitage: He just shot him-- Herbert West: Okay! It's true I shot him. I shot him but brought him to life. He has no reason to want to live. I do: she's yours to give, Prudence here, as my wife. Prudence Armitage: Oh Papa dear, I want to marry Herbert since he has a power once reserved for God. Henry Armitage: I never could say "no" to you, my darling, even though young West should face a firing squad. Prudence & Herbert: To life, to life, we'll bring it! Prudence Armitage: A marriage-- Herbert West: For better-- Henry Armitage: Or worse. Prudence & Herbert: And if that life has no quality, still there's the quantity. We will bring it to life! Dr. Halsey: Die die die (repeated for thirty seconds). Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Death is sweet to [unintelligible] fhtagn. Dance and know that even death can wither and die. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Death will surely come to fhtagn. Dance and know that even death can wither and die. Even life eternal is not time enough to see all the folly and despair of all humanity.(moaning) (screaming)
Yeah, it is an oddly uplifting outlook on a reference to the Necronomicon. "That is which not dead can eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die."
@@kalinystazvoruna8702 I have my doubts on that. The possibility of multiple vast universes interacting and producing energy and matter from their contact like one of the creation ideas connected to M theory is more palatable.
@@Sukharno2121 OUR universe will probably die, but I think you are correct in thinking that M theory postulates multiple universes. Those may not only not die with ours, but may, possibly, be in the process of being created right now as well. Who know?
“Oh Alfred dear, I want to be a Vileblood, just because I found this wedding ring of yore.” “I never could say no to you, Good Hunter, even though their Queen should be a mound of gore.”
As I recall this isn't the only way in the HPL-verse to bring someone back to life, but it's by far the easiest, since the other ways involve magic and tentacles and spooky outfits.
Kinda shows how in Ctulhu Mythos humans have the potential to rival other species and entities, instead of simply being the ones "whos sanity is blasted and then who usually dies"
Paper Phoenix Well, if you mean this musical, Shoggoth on the Roof, then yes. But all of Lovecraft’s works are in the public domain with no copyright so as long as it had an original score it’d be perfectly legal.
Mattie Sheldon it’s perfectly legal I have no doubt about that. But it’s still not something you could ever have on West End. In addition, and I know that this is a matter of opinion, but it almost discards the brilliance of its predecessor.
heh. I think Herbert West is one of my favourite Lovecraft characters, I mean, the guy is a genius! He invented a way to reanimate dead flesh, and if he can get to the corpse before brain death, I think he can be rather successful! But it's after the brain dies that he runs into trouble, understandably...
I was listening to this while watching an old episode of Seinfeld. John O'Hurley showed up on TV and then the father in the song was singing. Now the father is voiced by John O'Hurley in my head. I'm fine with this considering how similar they sound at some parts.
I'm reading "Herber West - Reanimator" at the moment. The story's idea is just ingenious and so is the story itself! I want to buy the soundtrack for this this Cthulhu Musical!
11 years late and I'm sure you know, but for anyone the capricious algorithm sends here Shoggoth on the Roof is an album you can buy at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's site.
I also own the Innsmouth sea shanty compilation and one of the Christmas song parody compilation the HPL Historical Society put out. The booklet that comes with the "deluxe edition" of the sea shanty comp is a pure delight!
@BeatlesRoxx13579 This song is from a Lovecraftian parody of Fiddler On The Roof, called "A Shoggoth On The Roof". It's available on an audio CD, however I'm not sure whether it was ever performed on stage (though if you ask me, it should be!).
I didn't say it was a bad picture (I think it is a very nice picture), I just stated that this particular song by HPLHS has nothing to do with Cthulhu, therefore the image of everyones favourite great old one is a little off. Lovecraft wrote many short stories, not just the ones about Cthulhu, and this song is based on "Herbert West - Reanimator".
Hu (or some other despairing syllable) wgah'nagl ftagn! Death is sweet to some, ftagn! Dance, and know that even death can wither and die! (Repeat, intersposed with 'Ia' by way of punctuation...) Even life eternal is not time enough to see All the folly and despair of poor humanity... Wgah'nagl ftagn! Death is sweet to some, ftagn! Dance, and know that even death can wither and die!
The song's name is..well "To Life". Actually that's the name of the original Fiddler on the Roof song as well, except there the context is..well, a bit different.
like Digitaaliklosetti said this is based (fairly loosely) on Herbert West Reanimator, and Lovecraft had admitted Reanimator was a parody/rip-off of Frankenstein, He personally was not satisfied with the story and claims to have only written it because the pulp magazine it was published in paid him like 5 buck per chapter (5 dollars of course being alot back in 1922)
@Tanksareforcowards Well, unless you know that it's short from the verse in Lovecraft's novels: "It's not dead which eternal may lie, through strange eons even death may die." It refers to the resurrection of forces that used to rule the planet and want it back, preferrably without the humans, except maybe for light snack.
@kranay If you looked on the HPLHS website, you can find the script along with the cd for sale which I believe will have the lyrics within. Hope this helps. (;,;)
It literally can't be, because it's a play on Fiddler on the Roof, and while satire and fair use go a bit of a ways, this is literally the same musical score for Fiddler song for song, changing the lyrics doesn't give them permission to satire it. They need permission from the original creator (Which they don't have) Why HPLS listed it as the play that will never be performed.
Check HPLHS (H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society) if you want to buy these songs on cd ;)
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@@justaguy0082 13 years later and he pinned it...
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"I want to marry Herbert since he has a power once reserved for God." has always struck me as such a funny lyric, even in a song full of them. 'Why do you want to marry your sweetheart?' 'He's really nice to me and has a stable career, you?' 'He has a power once reserved for God.'
I am unfamiliar with this tale. LoL.
You're so have a point, but which is the better reason?
Oddly enough that is pretty common in polygamist cults.
Herbert West: Putting the "Romance", back into the "Necromancer" :P
Top tier jokes.
@@Godzillafan-tv1ks That surprise you have when a 12 year old comment on YT gets a reply :p
Also, holy wow it's been 12 years x.x
@@Neakal That surprise you have when your comment gets a response within three minutes of posting it 🤣
But seriously. Good humor man.
@@Godzillafan-tv1ks Hah yeah can imagine :p All good dude. I'm glad the joke landed ^^
Just came by to say I’m going to be using the phrase “putting the romance back in necromancy” from now on. It’s awesome. I haven’t figured out the best context to use it in but I’m sure I’ll come up with something...
Only the best musical numbers open with the phrase "Good heavens, are these HUMAN cadavers?"
(laughing) Yes, quite! LOLOLOL!
And only really good ones have a zombie chorus.
Everyone here knows this straight plagiarism of Fiddler on the Roof’s To Life right?
@@jackhudson8439 Ah, literal plagiarism. Much worse than figurative plagiarism. Also, you don't seem to understand parody- which IS covered under the fair use clause.
Caleb Wheeler it’s not that I don’t understand it. I just don’t like it compared to the original. My bad for spoiling your pride part lmfao
Henry Armitage: (spoken) Good heavens, are these human cadavers?
Herbert West: (spoken) Indeed they are.
Henry Armitage: (spoken) What on earth do you intend to do with them?
Herbert West: To life, to life, I'll bring them. I'll bring all these dead men to life.
Prudence Armitage: He's found a way for surviving them--
Herbert West: Really reviving them.
Prudence Armitage: He can do it. To life, to life, he brings them.
Herbert West: I really do bring them to life. I have a genius with chemicals--
Prudence Armitage: Also polemicals.
Herbert West: Yes, it's true, there's been strife.
Henry Armitage: This is really the most shocking thing I've ever heard and I have heard a few.
Prudence Armitage: Oh, it's really not so shocking. If you were a dead man, you might like it too.
Herbert West: To life, to life, I'll bring them with one small injection like this!
Prudence Armitage: Think of it, Papa, we'll never die, live for forever--
Henry Armitage: My!
Herbert West: 'Cause I bring them to life!
Henry Armitage: (spoken) Well, I must say, this is amazing.
Herbert West: (spoken) I began experimenting on small animals of various kinds and perfected a solution which reanimates dead tissue.
Prudence Armitage: (spoken) See, Papa?
Henry Armitage: (spoken) Yes.
Herbert West: (spoken) When I was sure my solution worked, I began to test it on human subjects.
Prudence Armitage: (spoken) Here, Papa.
Henry Armitage: (spoken) Hmm, that is fascinating.
Herbert West: (spoken) And in the end I was even able to convince Dr. Halsey that my methods were sound.
Prudence Armitage: (spoken) And here he is.
Dr. Halsey: To life, to life, he brought me.
Herbert West: Ha. I brought Dr. Halsey to life. Of course I first had to kill the man with some ingenious plan.
Prudence Armitage: He just shot him--
Herbert West: Okay! It's true I shot him. I shot him but brought him to life. He has no reason to want to live. I do: she's yours to give, Prudence here, as my wife.
Prudence Armitage: Oh Papa dear, I want to marry Herbert since he has a power once reserved for God.
Henry Armitage: I never could say "no" to you, my darling, even though young West should face a firing squad.
Prudence & Herbert: To life, to life, we'll bring it!
Prudence Armitage: A marriage--
Herbert West: For better--
Henry Armitage: Or worse.
Prudence & Herbert: And if that life has no quality, still there's the quantity. We will bring it to life!
Dr. Halsey: Die die die (repeated for thirty seconds). Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Death is sweet to [unintelligible] fhtagn. Dance and know that even death can wither and die. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Death will surely come to fhtagn. Dance and know that even death can wither and die. Even life eternal is not time enough to see all the folly and despair of all humanity.(moaning) (screaming)
Thanks for providing the lyrics and that part at the end is actually:
"...is sweet to *some* fhtagn."
Mexico
Спасибо, Thanks!
isver those are some of the lyrics off ‘tentacles’ found here th-cam.com/video/MjsIp-gbKXg/w-d-xo.html
"Oh its really not so shocking. If you were a dead man you might like it too" ROFLOL
Dr Halsey doesn't seem to agree with him on that.
"Even life eternal is not time enough to see, all the folly and despair of poor humanity" I love this line so much
"even death can whither and die" is an oddly optimistic and uplifting lyric
Death: -440000000000-2020
Yeah, it is an oddly uplifting outlook on a reference to the Necronomicon.
"That is which not dead can eternal lie,
and in strange aeons even death may die."
Well, consider that in trillions and trillions of years, the Universe itself will die from heat death, then this may even be an accurate assessment.
@@kalinystazvoruna8702 I have my doubts on that. The possibility of multiple vast universes interacting and producing energy and matter from their contact like one of the creation ideas connected to M theory is more palatable.
@@Sukharno2121 OUR universe will probably die, but I think you are correct in thinking that M theory postulates multiple universes. Those may not only not die with ours, but may, possibly, be in the process of being created right now as well. Who know?
If your proposal doesn't involve : resurrection, shooting people, the folly and despair of all humanity, and fhtagn, you are doing it wrong.
True
Shooting _on_ people?
Woops, broken english. Fixed it. I hope i have improved since then;)
I'm taking notes.
It certainly involves the first! Potentially the second as well!
So this is basically the whole plot of Bloodborne summarized in 3 minutes and 36 seconds.
no lmao
Except I'm pretty sure the story of "The Reanimator" came first.
“Oh Alfred dear, I want to be a Vileblood, just because I found this wedding ring of yore.”
“I never could say no to you, Good Hunter, even though their Queen should be a mound of gore.”
I’d say their song “tentacles” mayyybe works a bit better, though Bloodborne is just sort of an adaptation of like all of lovecraft works.
"I never could say no to you, my darling, even thought young West should face a firing squad..."
The H.P Lovecraft historical society has the best songs.
As I recall this isn't the only way in the HPL-verse to bring someone back to life, but it's by far the easiest, since the other ways involve magic and tentacles and spooky outfits.
To life!
Kinda shows how in Ctulhu Mythos humans have the potential to rival other species and entities, instead of simply being the ones "whos sanity is blasted and then who usually dies"
@@pocak7826 the cultists! The cultists!
Yeah but if you use this method a headless corpse comes and murders you
"Also Polemicals"
A few lines later:
"Okay! It's true! I shot him!"
The die, die, die, die..... chorus is a masterful touch
"We'll bring everything to life!!! But first we gotta kill them."
This is really the most shocking thing I've ever heard and I have heard a few.
-Henry Armitage
This makes me wish for a Lovecraft West End musical
It’s plagiarism lmao
Paper Phoenix Well, if you mean this musical, Shoggoth on the Roof, then yes. But all of Lovecraft’s works are in the public domain with no copyright so as long as it had an original score it’d be perfectly legal.
Mattie Sheldon it’s perfectly legal I have no doubt about that. But it’s still not something you could ever have on West End. In addition, and I know that this is a matter of opinion, but it almost discards the brilliance of its predecessor.
Mattie Sheldon also frankly. I know it’s a parody. But it’s kind of disappointingly identical. Both the melody and bass part
@@jackhudson8439 Ah, but in a play the music is oft backstage to the lyrics and wordplay. Shakespeare was not a musician!
heh. I think Herbert West is one of my favourite Lovecraft characters, I mean, the guy is a genius! He invented a way to reanimate dead flesh, and if he can get to the corpse before brain death, I think he can be rather successful! But it's after the brain dies that he runs into trouble, understandably...
"Not fresh enough!"
Lovecraftian Musical is my favorite genre now
these songs should be in a Tim Burton movie,they Rock!!!!!!Respect to HPLHS and to the uploaders
Prudence's father's voice is so lovely...
i love that this sounds like a pub song or sea shanty. it's genuinely amazing.
this is fucking brilliant.
i have a feeling it will drive the audience insane before the third act
All the best musicals do
Well, in the final act someone reads a passage fro the necronomicon to summon Cthulhu
Amazing work. The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society really hit a home run with this one.
Now that I think about it a power once reserved for God would be very attractive to some women. Not all but enough to enjoy the extra attention.
I like this one because Doctor West's theory that dead tissue can be restored to life is actually plausible thanks to modern science!
Oh. Wow. *uneasy laughter* oh boy...
@@user-ew9lc9gm4k yeah, that's what those fools at the university said!
True brilliance here, as is the entire parody musical. Major kudos to the HPLHS
I feel like this is what Michael Jackson's Thriller was supposed to be about.
I was listening to this while watching an old episode of Seinfeld.
John O'Hurley showed up on TV and then the father in the song was singing.
Now the father is voiced by John O'Hurley in my head.
I'm fine with this considering how similar they sound at some parts.
This play needs to be made into a movie
I'm reading "Herber West - Reanimator" at the moment.
The story's idea is just ingenious and so is the story itself!
I want to buy the soundtrack for this this Cthulhu Musical!
How else did you think they updated "The King in Yellow" to modern times? Maniacal grin with smiling eyes and stuck out tongue
@@LordNumbnutsthe1st Eh? Also, your description fits ahegao and i fail to see the connection with The King in Yellow.
11 years late and I'm sure you know, but for anyone the capricious algorithm sends here Shoggoth on the Roof is an album you can buy at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's site.
@@arvidstein9581 I have bought it and the libretto and love listening to my favorite songs from it (among them "To Life!" ;).
I also own the Innsmouth sea shanty compilation and one of the Christmas song parody compilation the HPL Historical Society put out. The booklet that comes with the "deluxe edition" of the sea shanty comp is a pure delight!
@BeatlesRoxx13579 This song is from a Lovecraftian parody of Fiddler On The Roof, called "A Shoggoth On The Roof". It's available on an audio CD, however I'm not sure whether it was ever performed on stage (though if you ask me, it should be!).
The only appropriate response is "No, it's my lunch."
Now there is a musical to accompany "The King in Yellow".
Hawke Sinclair Do we technically know it's not a musical?
@@ThePuppyTurtle There's at least one song.
I always pictured "Tentacles" to be a show opener, honestly. maybe a Act II opener would be good for this one...
It is.
"Tradition" opens The Fiddler on the Roof.
I demand a H.P Lovecraft musical. Now.
Oh my god, why have I not heard of this awesome thing of epic before?!
If you have heard the song enough times like I have, you don't have to see the lyrics, you know them by heart!
I didn't say it was a bad picture (I think it is a very nice picture), I just stated that this particular song by HPLHS has nothing to do with Cthulhu, therefore the image of everyones favourite great old one is a little off. Lovecraft wrote many short stories, not just the ones about Cthulhu, and this song is based on "Herbert West - Reanimator".
Yes, the song's name is "To Life". As for who made it - I'm quoting here - "He Who (for legal reasons) Must Not Be Named"
Words cannot express how much I love this! Thank you for bringing such a piece... To life!
My pleasure. It would be such a waste if people wouldn't find these gems. They have more in their store page 🙂
It is a very good picture of Cthulhu and having the same picture throughout the show gives a sence of unity.
A Shoggoth on the Roof, a play done by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society.
Hu (or some other despairing syllable) wgah'nagl ftagn! Death is sweet to some, ftagn!
Dance, and know that even death can wither and die!
(Repeat, intersposed with 'Ia' by way of punctuation...)
Even life eternal is not time enough to see
All the folly and despair of poor humanity...
Wgah'nagl ftagn! Death is sweet to some, ftagn!
Dance, and know that even death can wither and die!
"Animate" it, you say. Har har.
I prefer this version to the Fiddler On the Roof Version
I'm gonna sing this tomorrow when I have to dissect a mouse :)
Did you do it?
@@justaguy0082 Maybe the mouse dissected him?
The original song is titled "To Life" as well.
Thank you, good man.
The song's name is..well "To Life". Actually that's the name of the original Fiddler on the Roof song as well, except there the context is..well, a bit different.
I love this song
And only the top ones has a ZOMBIE CHOURUS!
Or alternatively, Nyarlathotep. That guy loves his darkness :)
The beginning lyrics are iffy, but damn I love that ending.
That was a banger ngl
Very wittily!
לְחַיִים !
Herbert West : TO LIFE! TO LIFE! I'LL BRING THEM!
Mother Miranda and Oswald Spencer have entered the chat.
@Djdunn1000: I think the missing passage is "even life eternal is not time enough to see".
Am I the only one who automatly sings along? xD
that would be greate...
Does anyone have the lyrics to this great song? I've been looking for them a bit but never found them.
If you folks like this you might also like "Slay ride". Also about Herbert West.
Anything you can drive insane I can drive insane better.
...That joke was so bad I actually laughed! XD
It already excists. It happened just this year at the hpl film festival
Does anyone know where I can find an intrementle version of this or fiddler on the roof one?
If I were a deep one?
Probably on TH-cam I assume
Why do I picture them doing this with jazz hands up?
Hawke Sinclair I imagine haatur and cthulu tap dancing
The ol razzle dazzle
Who sings as Herbert? I'm very attracted to that voice. o.o
yeah, in fact, me and one of my friends use him as INSPIRATION when we discuss science and such =D
Haha, this is great
Yup, I might like it too... XD
@blithium I've found out by now and actually own the script for Shoggoth on the Roof, the documentary about it and of course the soundtrack itself!
*dances*
I can't seem to find "The Nightmare?" anymore. Any one know where I can find it?
like Digitaaliklosetti said this is based (fairly loosely) on Herbert West Reanimator, and Lovecraft had admitted Reanimator was a parody/rip-off of Frankenstein, He personally was not satisfied with the story and claims to have only written it because the pulp magazine it was published in paid him like 5 buck per chapter (5 dollars of course being alot back in 1922)
@Tanksareforcowards Well, unless you know that it's short from the verse in Lovecraft's novels: "It's not dead which eternal may lie, through strange eons even death may die." It refers to the resurrection of forces that used to rule the planet and want it back, preferrably without the humans, except maybe for light snack.
Is it wrong that I'm basically picturing this version of West as Dr. Doofenschmritz?
Is this song a parody? Where is it parody from?
I need more of this!
The plot of this is very different from the actual story.
@McNoat It's called A Shoggoth on the Roof.
les paroles svp, pour les chanter !
@aabeeceed Is this from a musical/movie? I would love to watch it.
@kranay If you looked on the HPLHS website, you can find the script along with the cd for sale which I believe will have the lyrics within. Hope this helps. (;,;)
@kranay If you looked on the HPLHS website, you can find the script for sale which I believe will have the lyrics within. Hope this helps. (;,;)
HOLY SHIT!
What are the words of the last 40 seconds of the song?
@Slithera It was only ever successfully performed twice. Every other time was canceled by sudden circumstances.
Herbert West sounds like the riddler.
ah acualy its set in the same world it just surrounds another concept and character
Anyone know where I can find the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's "The Nightmare"
From the rock opera "Dreams in the witch house"? th-cam.com/video/J4_QraUWpFg/w-d-xo.html There ya go.
omg my last name is hulsey
It sounds like it's already in the works.
It literally can't be, because it's a play on Fiddler on the Roof, and while satire and fair use go a bit of a ways, this is literally the same musical score for Fiddler song for song, changing the lyrics doesn't give them permission to satire it. They need permission from the original creator (Which they don't have)
Why HPLS listed it as the play that will never be performed.
Know that even death can wither and die
if only I had a spare $40 around
Lovecraft anthology musical?
quelle est la chanson originelle?
quelles sont les paroles sur celle ci ?
merci
the original song is also called "To Life" from Fiddler on the Roof. The lyrics for this are in one of the top comments.
oomf winrar
Still think "the hanged Kings tragedy" is better, even if it doesn't have singing.
What are the lyrics at around 3:00?
Which song from FOTR is this parody?