"Prime!" "One shall stand, one shall fall." "Why throw away your life so recklessly?" "That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron." "No! I'll crush you with my bare hands!"
Saw Transformers in the theater. I had no idea what would happen, and was an uncontrollable sobbing mess for half of the movie. Not only with Optimus, but Wheeljack, Prowl, Ratchet, and my favorite, Ironhide. I still get a little choked up hearing this song. Banger of a cover.
Yeah I was one of those kids who cried when optimus died too. I'm kinda bummed they didn't do more seasons considering the popularity. But it only goes to figure after toei sold to the Koreans and then parents whined about optimus. It wasn't even an American cartoon anyway. Its a dubbed anime. Toei makes dragonball and one piece.
@Daniel Cafarelli technically yes for 3 episodes at the end of the show. But the original storyline had optimus staying dead. But there was massive fan and parent backlash when optimus died. Of course this also varies whether your referring to American transformers or Japanese transformers. It was altered and dubbed for America. Its technically an anime by toei, sourced out to Korea.
@Daniel Cafarelli not really. While the toys were enjoyable and in general cheap for kids. They broke easily. And once Hasbro got licensing to the cartoon. They divided all the season into videos, that were kinda expensive for the time. Vhs. And worse they forced you to but parts of seasons. Nickel and diming us to death. It wasn't an issue with storage. The tapes were literally a few eps. Usually 4. A vhs could hold almost 2 hours then. And then when they branched the toys out and lost part of the rights. You saw other companies making better, more durable versions. And they did all they could to chase that off in America. Lost world wide. Hasbro was tough on gi Joe toys also. Theres no angels in this story. Just adults wanting to remember their youth fondly.
@Daniel Cafarelli Hasbro didnt have rights to the cartoon at that point. 1985 i believe. I think toei had handed off the project as well. This was around the time they would be doing fist of the north star. Im not sure you'd consider it Canon even. Not that the series followed the comics anyway. It seemed awful flimsy. Optimus is retrieved out of space. With a robot infection. Almost destroys all transformers, and is saved at the end by the matrix. And worse hot rod just says I'm out cya lol. It felt extremely rushed and just inserted. Id imagine they had an actual ending. Probably similar to the til all are one ending. I love optimus prime, but a good story teller shouldn't let the fans dictate the product. Also it had such a short run. Really just 84 to like early 87, maybe late 86. While the Japanese version had many spinoffs. Headmaster, masterforce, robots in disguise, and star saber just took the optimus cool factor and made it even more cool. And then they merged which was epic. It wasn't until way later we got these Americanized spinoffs. Like beast wars, etc. They were good, dont get me wrong. Even the Netflix stuffs not bad. But you never really get that same nostalgia. I mean literally get off the bus and catch the end of gi Joe and watch transformers. On WGN. Then they made that Generation 2 crap lol. On fox I believe early mornings. Literally just gen 1 with inserts.
@Daniel Cafarelli while the truth isn't so pretty. As kids we enjoyed the plot, got some life lessons, and it made a few voice actors huge stars. Like Chris latta, starscream cobra commander. And of course optimus and Megatron but they both were big already. Doing Scooby-Doo and hundred acre forest. Yeah optimus prime did tigger awhile.
Ya know what would be neat to see a video of this song with scenes from every Transformers series ever made from the G1 series to Beast Wars to Beast Machines to R.I.D. to Armada to Energon to Cybertron to Animated to Prime and all the current Transformers series BECAUSE THEY GOT THE TOUCH.
I just now found this video today and I cannot watch it enough. A cover of a song is supposed to pay tribute to the original artist. Rarely does a cover not only do that but also take it to the next level. WELL FRICKING DONE!!!
Words can’t exactly express how much I am loving this. Sh-t eating grin from ear to ear! Musicianship is outstanding too, and ya boy has a set of pipes!
I hope the next transformers movies remake invite you guys to perform this song as "Cassette Autobots" during the battle scene. Thank you for keeping it a true update cover, dudes.
Saw you last night at the Miramar, told my friend "they remind me of the sort of group that'd been on the ost for the 1984 transformers animated film". Low and behold! Great music!
Believe it or not, I made that armor this last winter from a single sheet of leather. Apparently you can buy a half a cow and have it shipped to you in the mail!
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS, STAN BUSH JUST RETWEETED THE VIDEO
twitter.com/Stan_Bush/status/1271631435628191749
THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER
Apparently got the touch! It just popped up on Drinkin' Bros: Nerds page as well . We are tuning in!
Well done guys! You've been killing it lately!
BOSS!!!!!!!
@@biglee13m haha that was me. I don't know why I'm here 8 months later. You know how the UA-cam algorithms work. Lol
…I love how it took 4 months from my comment about how cool it would be if he saw this video to notice this comment
"Prime!"
"One shall stand, one shall fall."
"Why throw away your life so recklessly?"
"That's a question you should ask yourself, Megatron."
"No! I'll crush you with my bare hands!"
“I’ve got to help Prime!”
@@Jeff_Pryce "No! That´s Prime´s fight!"
“I’ll rip out your optics!”
“I would have waited an eternity for this! *It’s Over, Prime!*”
(Heavy breathing…then…) *”NEVER!”*
Grant me mercy optimus prime I beg of you.
This makes a hardcore Optimus Prime fan smile bigger than you can imagine
I second this.
"Megatron must be stopped, no matter the cost"
PRIME!
@@myspot8579 One shall stand, one shall fall
@@onedaxster Why throw away your life so recklessly?
@P_O’Donnell That’s a question you should ask your self Megatron
No you don't Megatron. Ah shit :(
im not crying...my eyes are sweating
Saw Transformers in the theater. I had no idea what would happen, and was an uncontrollable sobbing mess for half of the movie. Not only with Optimus, but Wheeljack, Prowl, Ratchet, and my favorite, Ironhide. I still get a little choked up hearing this song. Banger of a cover.
Yeah I was one of those kids who cried when optimus died too. I'm kinda bummed they didn't do more seasons considering the popularity. But it only goes to figure after toei sold to the Koreans and then parents whined about optimus. It wasn't even an American cartoon anyway. Its a dubbed anime. Toei makes dragonball and one piece.
@Daniel Cafarelli technically yes for 3 episodes at the end of the show. But the original storyline had optimus staying dead. But there was massive fan and parent backlash when optimus died. Of course this also varies whether your referring to American transformers or Japanese transformers. It was altered and dubbed for America. Its technically an anime by toei, sourced out to Korea.
@Daniel Cafarelli not really. While the toys were enjoyable and in general cheap for kids. They broke easily. And once Hasbro got licensing to the cartoon. They divided all the season into videos, that were kinda expensive for the time. Vhs. And worse they forced you to but parts of seasons. Nickel and diming us to death. It wasn't an issue with storage. The tapes were literally a few eps. Usually 4. A vhs could hold almost 2 hours then. And then when they branched the toys out and lost part of the rights. You saw other companies making better, more durable versions. And they did all they could to chase that off in America. Lost world wide. Hasbro was tough on gi Joe toys also. Theres no angels in this story. Just adults wanting to remember their youth fondly.
@Daniel Cafarelli Hasbro didnt have rights to the cartoon at that point. 1985 i believe. I think toei had handed off the project as well. This was around the time they would be doing fist of the north star. Im not sure you'd consider it Canon even. Not that the series followed the comics anyway. It seemed awful flimsy. Optimus is retrieved out of space. With a robot infection. Almost destroys all transformers, and is saved at the end by the matrix. And worse hot rod just says I'm out cya lol. It felt extremely rushed and just inserted. Id imagine they had an actual ending. Probably similar to the til all are one ending. I love optimus prime, but a good story teller shouldn't let the fans dictate the product. Also it had such a short run. Really just 84 to like early 87, maybe late 86. While the Japanese version had many spinoffs. Headmaster, masterforce, robots in disguise, and star saber just took the optimus cool factor and made it even more cool. And then they merged which was epic. It wasn't until way later we got these Americanized spinoffs. Like beast wars, etc. They were good, dont get me wrong. Even the Netflix stuffs not bad. But you never really get that same nostalgia. I mean literally get off the bus and catch the end of gi Joe and watch transformers. On WGN. Then they made that Generation 2 crap lol. On fox I believe early mornings. Literally just gen 1 with inserts.
@Daniel Cafarelli while the truth isn't so pretty. As kids we enjoyed the plot, got some life lessons, and it made a few voice actors huge stars. Like Chris latta, starscream cobra commander. And of course optimus and Megatron but they both were big already. Doing Scooby-Doo and hundred acre forest. Yeah optimus prime did tigger awhile.
Soooooo good! I think we need more Stan Bush covers!
Agreed! (Fight to Survive next?? ;-D)
@@LordsoftheTrident i DARE you to cover more Stan Bush songs... Yeah, try "dare"
@@LordsoftheTrident
How about 'heart vs heart' soundtrack from the movie 'Wraith'
This is legit one of the best covers of this song I've ever heard.
Check out their Shine on me cover, you'll laugh like crazy at the video editing but its a treat for the ears and really fun.
This is the most 80's thing I've seen since David Hasselhoff did the Lone Survivor music video for Kung Fury.
Fang needs to do a rendition of True Survivor... I don't know if we could handle that much awesome though.
@@notnotpj I don't know if we can do more 80's than The Hoff, however Kung Fury 2 is currently in the works...
1986: “Arise, Rodimus Prime.”
2024: “ARISE!…Optimus Prime.”
While watching this video, I accidentally touched my cat. He's now a giant green tiger wearing armor and a saddle.
I'm sending you my cat food bill.
🙀🙀🙀
Where did you touch him?!
... wait.. the feline didn't suddenly reveal itself to in fact be a sentient robotic lifeform masquerading as an organic feline?!
David Stanisz maybe
Ya know what would be neat to see a video of this song with scenes from every Transformers series ever made from the G1 series to Beast Wars to Beast Machines to R.I.D. to Armada to Energon to Cybertron to Animated to Prime and all the current Transformers series
BECAUSE THEY GOT THE TOUCH.
I just now found this video today and I cannot watch it enough. A cover of a song is supposed to pay tribute to the original artist. Rarely does a cover not only do that but also take it to the next level. WELL FRICKING DONE!!!
Oh.
Em.
Gee.
BLOWN AWAY. ❤
Autobots - transform and roll out!
I had an absolute BLAST working on this with you guys!!!
Same here! This mix is AMAZING
Did you mix this? It sounds incredible... fantastic work!
I did! As well as the drum programming. Thank you so much!
It's 2022, and I cannot stop listening to this.
Truly well done.
As a Transformers fan, and a Minnesotan… this unfathomably warms my heart!!! Probably my all time favorite cover of this song! 💙🚗🤖
This came out just in time for me getting back into Transformers! Love you guys!
😍
I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS 😆
Excellent work, Soundwave!
Why am I only seeing this 2 months after I could have? UA-cam has failed me.
I love this so much!
For the first time in my life I feel like - I'VE got the Touch - I'VE got the Power!
"Megatron most be stopped, no matter the coust" 0:00
1:02 "Prime!" "One shall stand... One shall fall"
"Why throw away your life so recklessly"?
@@onedaxster That's a question you should ask yourself Megatron
Okay, now do Dare
🤔🤔🤔 Might have to put that one on the list....
Do I dare to make a pun?
FANG DOES IT AGAIN THE WHOLE BAND DOES IT AGAIN!!!
I woke up to this today..... So far it's the best day of the year.
정말 멋진 커버에요! 제 트랜스포머 최애곡을 커버해주셔서 감사합니다 ㅠㅠ
천만에요!
The number of views is very telling. Amazing rendition and awesome theme song! Go 80's!
Well, I think I have a new favorite version. Thank you, John Hoban from Duluth, MN.
E.X.E.L.L.E.N.T! ! !
Not sure if the grin will ever vanish from my face again...
😀😀😀
@@LordsoftheTrident Just to let you know, it's still on...
Nice quasar lights, by the way. 😀
3:31 "I'll rip out your optics!"
Sweet cover!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Til All Are One!
You started playing and I was a kid again, thanks for that.
*after watching*- Well.....time to subscribe
One shall stand one shall fall
I feel like I needed this injection of positivitiy :D
This song never fails to give me goosebumps when I hear it. This is an incredible cover! Thanks for taking me back to 1986!
What a voice! Cheers lads - flashbacks to being 8yrs old 🫡👍
this is literally my new favorite thing on the internet
That was a fantastic job. I’ve seen this like 30 times and I smile every time! Love this!
The original version gave me goosebumps and this version did too. Phenomenal
Amazing performance our favorite song. It inspires us)
Nice job guys, you guys absolutely nailed it! Yes, John is very happy! He has been talking about getting you guys to do this forever. Amazing!
ever feel like you were late to a major party? feel that way now.....how did I miss this? glad I came tho
This is glorious. Now light our darkest hour.
You need to take these tapes to the record company!!
You’re not getting them till you pay!
Holy shit. I've been imagining someone doing this nearly my whole life...
I wish Optimus Prime could light our darkest hour and eradicate the Corona virus as easily as he eradicated the spore plague in 1987.
3 years late but this made me smile so much
I hope this tune finds its way to your spotify. Thank You for creating this. New old music to cure my depression. And i mean it
Holy crap!😳that was freaking awesome!👌😎👍amazing cover! That was so freaking cool I had to listen to it a few more times!!
I know I commented on this before but it deserves more views
Stan bush would definitely be proud of this if he saw it
Words can’t exactly express how much I am loving this. Sh-t eating grin from ear to ear! Musicianship is outstanding too, and ya boy has a set of pipes!
I better see this on Spotify soon guys
AmaZING! Wow…blown away…
This really needs to be on spotify, it's so good
Powerful sound design!!! I like it! Like vocal lines! like your voice!
FREAKIN AWESOME!
This just completely blew my mind :)
Yall did good.
Awwwwwwww yeah
Awesome work guys!! That soundtrack got me so hyped back in the day and definitely still rocks.
Thanks! We love the song too, which made it a blast to cover :-D
Just wanted to drop by and say hi. This song still rocks.
Oh man 😮❗ you guys seriously rock lol 💯😎
Very operatic. Good to see Stan going to bat for you
One shall stand. One shall fall.
A nice cover of my favorite song ever. Transformers forever.
That was great! I haven't heard that song in a long tims!
OMG MY GEEKY NERDY HEART EXPLODED
You guys are incredible! This song kicks ass!
Best Cover forever.
Now we need 'Dare' for more 80s hype!
The cover was good, But nothing beats the original, Stan Bush is the GOAT.
I hope the next transformers movies remake invite you guys to perform this song as "Cassette Autobots" during the battle scene.
Thank you for keeping it a true update cover, dudes.
SO freaking good. YEAH!
Unicron: Listen to me! You cannot… destroy… my… destiny! Head: BOOM
Damn guys, y'all out here giving me full blown shivers! That was fucking excellent.
This is absolutely incredible, love the passion 🔥🔥🔥🔥
You understood the assignment!
A+++++++++++++++++++
Holy F!!!
Awesome Awesome Awesome Cover!!!
Absolutely wrecked it. Nicely done!
Damn, that takes me way back!
Stan Bush spreading the love, awesome
This is brilliant. Just brilliant
Saw you last night at the Miramar, told my friend "they remind me of the sort of group that'd been on the ost for the 1984 transformers animated film". Low and behold!
Great music!
This actually brought a massive smile to my face.
one shall rise, one shall fall👊
This is a surprisingly difficult song to sing and you nailed it. Well done.
Such awesomeness! Great work all! 🤘
Great cover :D
omg this is great
This is AMAZING! Much love from the UK!
Freaking love this music!!!
I love this so much! So proud of you guys for this! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Outstanding ... well done.
You can tip hundreds and you will never see someone dress up in cosplay like that LOL
Very quality video
Believe it or not, I made that armor this last winter from a single sheet of leather. Apparently you can buy a half a cow and have it shipped to you in the mail!
Excellent I loved it.
‘Till one, all are!
So f***ing awesome.