@@robmckennie4203 simply put, if the game didn't exist the song wouldn't . : Later in the year Valve invited Coulton to the company’s offices in Kirkland, Washington. "They flew me out there at Kim's urging," Coulton said. "During the visit they sat me down and I did a little play-testing on an unfinished version of ‘Portal’ and just loved it. We sat down with Eric Wolpaw, the writer…Eric said, ‘I always wanted to do a musical number in a game,’ and I said, ‘Oooh, that sounds juicy.’" Back in his New York studio, Coulton wrote "Still Alive." Without spoiling things, the song conveys the closing thoughts of a major character in "Portal," a character whose voice Coulton recognized as the subject of a lot of his non-game work: a "kind of monstrous, passive, aggressive misunderstood personality." www.mtv.com/news/u8nikv/the-story-behind-that-portal-song-its-place-in-video-game-history-and-some-delicious-snacks
+MySerpentine Fun or not, no one there came to hear the mass of nerdy fanboys/girls and drunk idiots. I wouldn't say it's disrespectful, but it sure is annoying. At least learn to singalong quietly...
I was at that show. God, feels like another life time ago. Back then I was just a gamer. Now I make games for a living. Haven't been back to PAX since then, so this brings back some fantastic memories.
I'm so glad I finally played Portal this year. I really regret not playing back when it first came out. I feel like I missed out on something special by not playing it when it was new. Even though 2021 has been a magical year being able to experience these two games for the first time, every time I see a video like this that's dated 2008, that regretful feeling comes over me again. I wonder if this is how Chell felt when she woke up at the beginning of Portal 2 and realized how much time had passed.
The happy audience is the only reason I'm watching a concert version. Concerts are about the experience, if Ijust wanted to hear the song I'd find an album version.
This was a triumph I'm making a note here; "Huge success" It's hard to overstate My satisfaction Aperture Science: We do what we must Because we can For the good of all of us Except the ones who are dead But there's no sense crying Over every mistake You just keep on trying Till you run out of cake And the science gets done And you make a neat gun For the people who are Still alive I'm not even angry I'm being so sincere right now Even though you broke my heart, And killed me And tore me to pieces And threw every piece into a fire As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you Now, these points of data Make a beautiful line And we're out of beta We're releasing on time So I'm GLaD I got burned Think of all the things we learned- For the people who are Still alive Go ahead and leave me I think I'd prefer to stay inside Maybe you'll find someone else To help you? Maybe Black Mesa? That was a joke *Haha - Fat Chance* Anyway this cake is great It's so delicious and moist Look at me: still talking When there's science to do When I look out there, It makes me GLaD I'm not you I've experiments to run There is research to be done On the people who are Still alive And believe me I am Still alive I'm doing science and I'm Still alive I feel fantastic and I'm Still alive While you're dying I'll be Still alive And when you're dead I will be Still alive Still alive
makes me so happy to see this. played portal waaaay back in the day, fell in love with it, loved the song so much it was on repeat on my player for days. now, watching and hearing all these fans singing along to it... its just... so incredible. being a gamer is awesome.
Loved Felicia Day on Supernatural, then I saw her short with Markiplier, and now I just came across her singing one of my favorite songs in a video game. Can she be any more amazing?
You can clearly still hear it. Performers want you to sing along. They love it, being on stage and having a group sing means you are doing your job as a musician and performer extremely well. It means you've gotten the crowd to become excited and wanted to become involved. You've never heard a song you know all the words to and sun along with it? I'm sure you could hear them fine at the show too, it just the record picking up the people closet to them that causes that sound to drown out Felica.
this is such a bar song. It would be awesome to be drunk with a bunch of friends and then all of a sudden sing this awesome song out loud at a bar with everyone sometimes we do that with the GAME OF THRONES theme song
Imagine humming Halo-Theme with a bunch o friends in this bar. You are right, this song is great, and especially for many different voices, always sums up to sth epic.
GLaDOS was admittedly a pretty entertaining fictional AI villain intent on using humans as science experiment test subjects. But... Maybe you were referring to Felicia Day instead? She seems like she might be pretty awesome too...
@spade0014 I think people are talking about the flat, off-note male voice in the left channel. I don't notice it on my crappy speakers at home but hear it loud and clear with headphones. It's hard not to notice and ruins the power of the recording to some extent. The rest of the audience singing is fantastic since you can't distinguish any single voices. Perfect for a song like this, as you said. The one guy just had an unfortunate position relative to the camera.
I think the audience singing along and cheerig adds a lot to the fun of it. Sure: Felicia singing is great, but it gets so much better hearing her singing in a crowd of other nerds. Damn i wish i had been there :D
ohhh god this is what i live for, those moments where the little things: faith , race, colours and creeds, do not matter in the slightest, and we are all joined together in the common intrest or love of one thing... Equals throughout... : ) Those true moments which really make you love life to the full : )
same here. It seems like she was singing very well but there's a huge amount of crappy singing and noise from others. It seems like just her voice and the guitar help and everything else is bad including Jonathan's voice.
Well, see I couldn't even hear her tbh lol my problem is I can't filter out background noise like most people, so I think to me going to a concert, as awesome as it would be, for me it would just sound like a garbled mess.
that's my favourite part of live shows! If I go there, it's cause I want to share in the experience of the music. To just listen to it, I buy the tune...
James Gaston The part that bothers me about it, is I can't for the life of me filter out background noises, so to me the crowd singing along to a song just sounds like a gargled mess...I know its what the crowd likes to do, but its just why I don't go, though I wish I could.
"Would be great if that guy by the mic could sing" "Guy by the mic" "Could sing" > Doesn't know that he's the composer and therefore needs to shut the hell up & leave him alone That was the whole basis for my previous comment
I fucking LOVE Felicia day so fucking much shes so nice and she's a great actress and a great singer and also a huge geek I can't even fathom how much I love her
I'd assume Felicia would already have been at PAX. therefore it would have been easier to ask her to perform, shoe does the song justice, so not overly a bad decision
I am such a huge fan of Felicia Day I could thumb up this cover before it started. With that said, even if Ellen McLain were there, still it wouldn't be the real thing. The actress voice was heavily distorted to obtain GLaDOS voice. The original is the original, but watch?v=pAI6Q_GyFSU is not as good as watch?v=RSsstXfcRWw
This may make me sound mean but I really hate it when people start singing along especially in an audience, like I came here to see the person on stag, not ear how terrible everyone else sounds, if the artist asks you to sing along that is fine but other than that its really rude.
last ear my class when we were takeing a test i started singing still alive under my breath because that makes me focus when another of my friends picked up after this was a triumph and soon the whole class was singing including the teacher.
Oh Valve... this is what happens when you make masterpieces.
This is all JoCo
Why would you give valve credit for this
Well they made the game which made this song famous. They are kind of the reason we're all here singing along to it.
@@robmckennie4203 simply put, if the game didn't exist the song wouldn't .
: Later in the year Valve invited Coulton to the company’s offices in Kirkland, Washington. "They flew me out there at Kim's urging," Coulton said. "During the visit they sat me down and I did a little play-testing on an unfinished version of ‘Portal’ and just loved it. We sat down with Eric Wolpaw, the writer…Eric said, ‘I always wanted to do a musical number in a game,’ and I said, ‘Oooh, that sounds juicy.’"
Back in his New York studio, Coulton wrote "Still Alive." Without spoiling things, the song conveys the closing thoughts of a major character in "Portal," a character whose voice Coulton recognized as the subject of a lot of his non-game work: a "kind of monstrous, passive, aggressive misunderstood personality."
www.mtv.com/news/u8nikv/the-story-behind-that-portal-song-its-place-in-video-game-history-and-some-delicious-snacks
I disagree with those jack asses from 2 years ago. Valve made the game, if the game wasn't good no one would have listened to the credits
When you have an entire audience singing along, you've really made it, yeah?
+Firewarrior321 You must go to some pretty boring shows if people aren't singing along.
It is disrespectful
Not to mention at least a few were most definitely drunk...
SamMut It's called having fun, dear :p
+MySerpentine helps if that audience is 100% huge nerds and I say that with love
+MySerpentine Fun or not, no one there came to hear the mass of nerdy fanboys/girls and drunk idiots. I wouldn't say it's disrespectful, but it sure is annoying. At least learn to singalong quietly...
Hearing a bunch of people singing along like this made me tear up and gave me goosebumps!
Me too buddy, me too.
I was at that show. God, feels like another life time ago. Back then I was just a gamer. Now I make games for a living. Haven't been back to PAX since then, so this brings back some fantastic memories.
how do you feel now, 5 years after making this comment?
@@Lottofatto Bruh.
@@Lottofatto Guess he's not still alive anymore?
Oi mate, Tell us about yourself, what games and stuff.
Yes, I WILL NECRO THIS COMMENT 6 YEARS LATER.
@@SleepySkull1 i'll do the same.
I'm guessing anyone who wants the audience to STFU wasn't there, cause they would have been singing. It was impossible not to. Should have been there!
That one moment when the awesome people of the world unite to sing an amazing song. Pure epicness.
I love how the whole audience is singing along
I'm so glad I finally played Portal this year. I really regret not playing back when it first came out. I feel like I missed out on something special by not playing it when it was new. Even though 2021 has been a magical year being able to experience these two games for the first time, every time I see a video like this that's dated 2008, that regretful feeling comes over me again.
I wonder if this is how Chell felt when she woke up at the beginning of Portal 2 and realized how much time had passed.
I just finished Portal 2. These games are timeless and awesome!
Jonathan Coulton, you are a hero to all geeks.
Oh god I love Felicia Day, I would oh so love to worship her.
The happy audience is the only reason I'm watching a concert version. Concerts are about the experience, if Ijust wanted to hear the song I'd find an album version.
Every time I think I'm not a geek, I come across stuff like that and realize, "who am I kidding?" Thanks for the wake up call Felicia Day
Yep :')
My heart broke when she sang "Go ahead and leave me."
I LOVE YOU FELICIA!
Almost campfire athmosphere, gorgeous!
You know you've done something wonderful when EVERYONE joins in.
Felicia Day: Solid proof that you can simultaneously be utterly nerdy and utterly totally awesome.
2016. Playing Portal again
Update: 2017. Playing it yet again.
2017: Thinking about playing "Portal 2" tonight.
just finished portal awhile ago. amazing game, and holds up 10 years later.
2018 is next year and still no portal 3
Now, I only want Portal3...
I love how they sing along to this
This was a triumph
I'm making a note here; "Huge success"
It's hard to overstate
My satisfaction
Aperture Science:
We do what we must
Because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no sense crying
Over every mistake
You just keep on trying
Till you run out of cake
And the science gets done
And you make a neat gun
For the people who are
Still alive
I'm not even angry
I'm being so sincere right now
Even though you broke my heart,
And killed me
And tore me to pieces
And threw every piece into a fire
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you
Now, these points of data
Make a beautiful line
And we're out of beta
We're releasing on time
So I'm GLaD I got burned
Think of all the things we learned-
For the people who are
Still alive
Go ahead and leave me
I think I'd prefer to stay inside
Maybe you'll find someone else
To help you?
Maybe Black Mesa?
That was a joke *Haha - Fat Chance*
Anyway this cake is great
It's so delicious and moist
Look at me: still talking
When there's science to do
When I look out there,
It makes me GLaD I'm not you
I've experiments to run
There is research to be done
On the people who are
Still alive
And believe me I am
Still alive
I'm doing science and I'm
Still alive
I feel fantastic and I'm
Still alive
While you're dying I'll be
Still alive
And when you're dead I will be
Still alive
Still alive
We thank you for participating in this Enrichment Center Program. Please exit to your left to cake. We are GLaD to have had you.
makes me so happy to see this. played portal waaaay back in the day, fell in love with it, loved the song so much it was on repeat on my player for days. now, watching and hearing all these fans singing along to it... its just... so incredible. being a gamer is awesome.
I found the audience singing made this even more epic.
I can't imagine what it's like to be up on stage and have so many people just start singing along to words that you created.
It must be magical.
Loved Felicia Day on Supernatural, then I saw her short with Markiplier, and now I just came across her singing one of my favorite songs in a video game. Can she be any more amazing?
David S Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog?
Buffy.
the flog
David S shes a geek
Ain't nothing wrong with being black, dude. You sure this ain't a personal problem you're projecting on the rest of us?
You can clearly still hear it. Performers want you to sing along. They love it, being on stage and having a group sing means you are doing your job as a musician and performer extremely well. It means you've gotten the crowd to become excited and wanted to become involved. You've never heard a song you know all the words to and sun along with it? I'm sure you could hear them fine at the show too, it just the record picking up the people closet to them that causes that sound to drown out Felica.
this is such a bar song.
It would be awesome to be drunk with a bunch of friends and then all of a sudden sing this awesome song out loud at a bar with everyone
sometimes we do that with the GAME OF THRONES theme song
Except most Portal players prefer to stay inside...
@@MythopoeicNavid Have you been outside? Its scary its much safer inside.
Imagine humming Halo-Theme with a bunch o friends in this bar.
You are right, this song is great, and especially for many different voices, always sums up to sth epic.
The world needs more of this kind of wholesome.
GLaDOS was admittedly a pretty entertaining fictional AI villain intent on using humans as science experiment test subjects. But... Maybe you were referring to Felicia Day instead?
She seems like she might be pretty awesome too...
@spade0014 I think people are talking about the flat, off-note male voice in the left channel. I don't notice it on my crappy speakers at home but hear it loud and clear with headphones. It's hard not to notice and ruins the power of the recording to some extent. The rest of the audience singing is fantastic since you can't distinguish any single voices. Perfect for a song like this, as you said. The one guy just had an unfortunate position relative to the camera.
Are people actually complaining that the audience is singing?! It's fucking awesome!
I STILL love this.
I think the audience singing along and cheerig adds a lot to the fun of it.
Sure: Felicia singing is great, but it gets so much better hearing her singing in a crowd of other nerds. Damn i wish i had been there :D
Listen to their stellar performance! I can hear ten different keys all at once!
And all the nerds rejoiced. Including me.
And here I am....loving her many years later :)
OKAY WHAT THE HELL THIS IS GREAT
She deserves a nobel prize for being awesome.
The description should read: Jonathan Coulton, the crowd and Felicia day sing Still Alive from Portal at PAX 2008. >.>
This combo is unbeatable, Felicia and Still Alive...
134 Dislikes ? How can you not love this. Except when "red pants guy" blocks it between 0:53 and 0:57
+MrHar2k Maybe they're from Black Mesa. Or, they're the ones who aren't still alive.
This has been in my Favorite playlist since 10 years ago, It's 31 December 2021.... I'm about to cry
Still the perfect ending to a game ever
ohhh god this is what i live for, those moments where the little things: faith , race, colours and creeds, do not matter in the slightest, and we are all joined together in the common intrest or love of one thing...
Equals throughout... : )
Those true moments which really make you love life to the full : )
The entire crowd joining in just puts a huge smile on my face
best performance of the song i've seen so far
142 Black Mesa scientists came through
Hey man, I love Portal alongside Half-Life, both are great Valve games >:|
i jest, i jest
I saw him as an opener in a concert...It was amazing!
you just keep on trying till you run out of cake
Because everybody knows the lyrics, and love the song!
I HAD NO IDEA FELICIA COULD SING! SUPERNATURAL AND PORTAL UNITING! I'M HAVING A FANGIRL FREAKOUT RIGHT NOW!
You must not have seen Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog or her music video Do You Wanna Date My Avatar?
Because the only other role Felicia's ever played was the Supernatural thing...
Ryoki F "Will you lend a helpi-" (heart melts)
music and maths double major in uni. ok, it's for violin, but it stands to reason that she'd have some degree of vocal training too
Amazing. Wish I was there. Next year maybe!
"She's the creator of The Guild..." *and the growd goes wild*
Jonathan had to feel like the king of the world at that moment.
My God!!!!!! My WIN detector just exploded!!!!
This video should be renamed: Jonathan Coulton, Felicia Day, and 800 other people Still Alive at PAX 2008
Ahh, the time before gamergate. Great anthem.
The audience rely made it all the better
this is why I dont think I'd ever go to a live show...people singing along would piss me off...maybe that's just me though.
same here. It seems like she was singing very well but there's a huge amount of crappy singing and noise from others. It seems like just her voice and the guitar help and everything else is bad including Jonathan's voice.
Well, see I couldn't even hear her tbh lol my problem is I can't filter out background noise like most people, so I think to me going to a concert, as awesome as it would be, for me it would just sound like a garbled mess.
that's my favourite part of live shows! If I go there, it's cause I want to share in the experience of the music. To just listen to it, I buy the tune...
I played in bands for a long time and the best part was IF the crowd knew the words and sung along.
James Gaston The part that bothers me about it, is I can't for the life of me filter out background noises, so to me the crowd singing along to a song just sounds like a gargled mess...I know its what the crowd likes to do, but its just why I don't go, though I wish I could.
A million thumbs ups for you sir.
she is so cute at 1:55
+INICTALE Our glorious queen is always cute.
Nah, not really :-|
I liked it more than I thought I would. I liked it a lot!
After that last episode of Supernatural, these lyrics kind of hurt. Poor Charlie.
MadMusic26
Ouch. nope nope nope nope. That's not an okay topic to bring up
I think its kind of awesome that so many of the crowd actually know the words properly.
135 are not immune to neurotoxin.
Gave me crazy shivvers down my spine, this truely is nerdtastic, i love it!
I wonder how many of these commenters are still alive
To everyone’s dismay, I am
I remember that the audio quality on my old PC with CRT monitor was way better back then. lol
Good old days.
"The thing is, is I am the one getting paid to sing, regardless of who sings the song. :D "
xD
I really like this performance! Everyone in the video is having fun together!
Every one is singing along XD
Ever since I learned this song on guitar I have played it nonstop.
"Would be great if that guy by the mic could sing"
"Guy by the mic"
"Could sing"
> Doesn't know that he's the composer and therefore needs to shut the hell up & leave him alone
That was the whole basis for my previous comment
one of the greatest crowds i've ever heard
This is a good version. Too bad the video picks up the voices of all the guys in the audience who can't sing at all.
I fucking LOVE Felicia day so fucking much shes so nice and she's a great actress and a great singer and also a huge geek I can't even fathom how much I love her
I LOVE Felicia Day but why her? Could they not get Ellen Mclain?
Because it's easier to get a Geek Goddess than the official thing?
Still I would've preferred ellen
I'd assume Felicia would already have been at PAX. therefore it would have been easier to ask her to perform, shoe does the song justice, so not overly a bad decision
I am such a huge fan of Felicia Day I could thumb up this cover before it started. With that said, even if Ellen McLain were there, still it wouldn't be the real thing. The actress voice was heavily distorted to obtain GLaDOS voice. The original is the original, but watch?v=pAI6Q_GyFSU is not as good as watch?v=RSsstXfcRWw
I would be willing to bet that this was spontaneous since Felicia Day is always at cons, not to mention that she was not nearly as well known in 2008.
woow,goosebump moment, the entire audience knows this song, wow
Why the fuck are people complaining about people singing along AT A FUCKING SHOW/CONCERT?
I'm still playing portal and the fan made games🙂 felicia in supernatural is amazing 👏😍
just realized. this is a breakup song.
This is the story of GLADOS.
Ik if you sang this without anyone knowing what portal is they so would think its a breakup song
The might have to spend some time working out what the "aperture science" bit is a metaphor for
This is all sorts of awesome.
This may make me sound mean but I really hate it when people start singing along especially in an audience, like I came here to see the person on stag, not ear how terrible everyone else sounds, if the artist asks you to sing along that is fine but other than that its really rude.
+Bryan Griffin It's being taped from the crowd, I doubt they were as loud as they sound
+MySerpentine yeah, but if I'm someone in the crowd that means they were veyr loud.
+Bryan Griffin The crowd seems to be having lots of fun, though!
+MySerpentine Yeah some of the crowd, but theres also a good portion of it that probably wants to be able to hear her sing
Agreed Bryan!
everything about this video makes me happy.
The tone deaf guy near the camera nearly poops this one.
2008, that’s a trip back
While watching this, I was like "SHUT UP EVERYONE LET ME LISTEN TO FELICIA DAY SING."
She's amazing.
That is the best description ever!
Gotta love how the whole room is singing along.
It was beautiful seeing everyone singing :,(
nice interpretation, thank you
wonderful moment
This was an epic concert. Audio was better there of course. Won't forget that PAX evah.
This makes me smile. Oscar to author of this song.
I got chills. Awesome song. ;D
Wonderful.
I still wasn't even a year old when they did this
Absolutely beautiful! *sniff*
last ear my class when we were takeing a test i started singing still alive under my breath because that makes me focus when another of my friends picked up after this was a triumph and soon the whole class was singing including the teacher.
This is really high quality for a homemade live video. Well done.
TWO OF MY FAVORITE HUMANS. AHHHHHH.