The song (a cover of Jonathan Coulton’s now-infamous “Still Alive”) is well done, too. Don’t turn it off after the first few squeaky seconds. It gets better. I swear.
I’ve got a terrible feeling that we’ll be seeing an insane multitude of Mass Effect posts over the next couple of days, but this was too good not to post. Want to hear an awesome reworked version of Portal’s Still Alive discussing the events of Mass Effect? Of course you do! Oh… you don’t? I’ll just shuffle awkwardly over here then…
Need a reason to learn how to play the electric guitar? YouTube musician FamilyJules7X demonstrates how well mad guitar skills and gaming go together in his triumphant electric cover of Jonathan Coulton’s “Want You Gone”.
We now know how to make a Justin Bieber song sound good: slow it down 800 per cent. But what happens when Portal’s Still Alive, that great video game song from Jonathan Coulton, gets the same treatment? Listen.
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Children’s choirs and soloists have worked their way through the end song of Valve’s great puzzle game Portal, but this is the first rendition of seen of it played on what appears to be a classical guitar.
The latest batch of downloadable songs for Rock Band Unplugged for the PSP includes the stirring love anthem “Still Alive” from Portal, which will be available, free of charge and includes delicious cake.
This gentleman goes after Portal’s “Still Alive” in Rock Band 2 using a rather novel approach: a theremin. How’d he do? Much better than you might expect.
