Carmen Miranda's Ghost 05 - Some Kind of Hero [HQ]

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    Lyrics.
    Will you do me a favor, piano man, please?
    I want you to write me a song
    They call me the Hero of Antelope’s Run
    And I’ve got to show them they’re wrong
    You see, it all started a week ago
    In the bar down on corridor three
    There was nobody there but the regular bums:
    Two losers, the barman, and me
    Slopping up booze in the north corner booth
    Was the old man they called Captain Jed
    ‘Cause he owned a tramp freighter, the old Antelope
    A ship that, like him, was half dead
    Now Molly, they say, was a crack pilot once
    A gal with a brilliant career
    But then she started doping on Regulus One
    And finally washed out down here
    And me, well, I wanted the Navy, bad
    But it seems that they didn’t want me
    So I stopped chasing stars, started sweeping up bars
    For bed, board, and all my drinks free
    It was quiet that night, with the docks closed down
    There was nothing due in for a week
    Not a ship was in port but the old Antelope
    When the red alert started to shriek:
    The whole station shook like a hurt living thing
    Then the lights dimmed and faded away
    Then the gravity went, and the air pumps cut out
    And the bartender started to pray
    “Ah, stow that bilge, head for the Antelope now!”
    Jed’s voice cut the dark like a knife
    “The station reactor’s gone critical load
    So run to the docks for your life!”
    When we got to the docks, we found waiting out there
    Every soul that had been left alive
    They begged with their eyes for poor old Captain Jack
    To tell them all how to survive
    “Break out the suits,” said the captain to them
    “For it’s dark and it’s airless and cold
    But I swear I can get you all out of here safe
    Packed into the Antelope’s hold.”
    “Molly,” he asked, “Can you navigate?”
    “Aye,” she said. “Who do we have for a crew?”
    “The Antelope needs only three hands,” he said
    “And I think our young friend here will do.”
    The confident look that he flashed at me then
    Made my heart turn over with pride
    I never once thought about backing away
    I think I would rather have died
    Two hundred alive in the Antelope’s hold
    And the Captain, and Molly, and me
    We slammed the locks just as the station blew wide
    Jed hit the main jets to get free
    Now, that kind of G-force is rough on the heart
    Too much for his ticker to take
    So when we came around and we saw how he lay
    We knew Captain Jed wouldn’t wake
    So I took the comm, and the engineer board
    And Molly took helm and the nav
    With the manual spread out all over the deck
    And her mind for what they didn’t have
    She worked at that comp like a crazy machine
    While her hands shook like grass in the breeze
    But her skills were still sharp, and she jumped us three times
    Never minding the shakes and DTs
    Three jumps made clean, only one more was left
    When the ship’s alarm started to blast -
    Her old worn-out seals had come loose in the stress
    We were losing our heat and air fast
    On the bridge, there was only one vacuum suit left
    Well, they say Lady Luck is stone blind
    “Heads or tails,” was the question I started to ask
    When I felt myself hit from behind
    When I came to again, I was sealed in the suit
    She was belted down tight in her chair
    With her hands on the console, a smile on her lips
    And the ice on her face and her hair
    “Here’s the instructions to get us all home,”
    I saw she had left on the screen
    “If any old shipmates should ask after Moll,
    Just tell them she finally died clean.”
    I made the last jump just like she told me to
    And I brought the ship in like she’s said
    They call me a hero now, for what I did
    But they don’t mention Molly or Jed
    So write me that song now, piano man, please
    And sing it out often and loud
    So they all know the story of one kind of hero
    The kind that makes everyone proud
    For some kinds of hero are lunkheads like me
    Who only do things that they’re told
    And some kinds of hero are out for the glory
    They’re heroes on purpose, and cold
    Some become heroes for bravery, sure
    And some just because all is lost
    But a few are the heroes like Molly and Jed
    Who give without counting the cost

КОМЕНТАРІ • 218

  • @RobotsEverywhereVideos
    @RobotsEverywhereVideos 2 роки тому +833

    TFW you realize Jed knew he probably wouldn't survive the acceleration and said that his ship needed 3 hands just to made sure that there were two people on the bridge.

    • @pyramear5414
      @pyramear5414 2 роки тому +94

      Holy shit, you're right.

    • @FacetiousE
      @FacetiousE 2 роки тому +84

      He also realized that withdrawal would kill Molly even if nothing else did.

    • @gabrielstrong2186
      @gabrielstrong2186 2 роки тому +58

      I though it was interesting that he said the Antelope only needed three hands but there were four duty stations

    • @basicallyarobloxian4533
      @basicallyarobloxian4533 2 роки тому +97

      @@gabrielstrong2186 He was trying to get out of there as fast as he could. He doesn't need an engineer. He DOES need a navigator and pilot. That's why he asked Molly if she could navigate.

    • @GateCaptain
      @GateCaptain Рік тому +56

      @@gabrielstrong2186 Assuming Molly was a part of his crew and seeing as no one else was mentioned, that means that they likely came to the station with a crew of two and didn't need anyone else to operate the ship normally. So yeah, they seemed to know that at least one of them would die and someone else would have to take their place.

  • @JustARoamer
    @JustARoamer 3 місяці тому +50

    I just noticed something. "I never once thought about backing away; i think i would rather have died." He doesn't realize. That makes him just the same as them. He may not be a leader; but hes the same kind of hero as them. Cheers!

    • @Greybeardfit
      @Greybeardfit 2 місяці тому +4

      Hearing this song over 30 years later and I just realized the same thing. :)

    • @JustARoamer
      @JustARoamer 2 місяці тому +1

      @@Greybeardfit it's fun how a song older Than me can bring people together

  • @RobotsEverywhereVideos
    @RobotsEverywhereVideos 2 роки тому +241

    I have known a Molly. She could take an old computer and make it sing and on batteries she could run a control system on half the milliiamps I could. I tried my best to help her pull up, we all did. But she crashed.
    Feed all meth dealers to the space kraken.

  • @Marcus001
    @Marcus001 2 роки тому +485

    "Tell them Molly died clean"
    damn... hits hard

    • @basicallyarobloxian4533
      @basicallyarobloxian4533 2 роки тому +27

      Really makes you wonder what terrible thing she did to make herself redeem her like that. Cause doping on Regulus One doesn't sound like it cuts it.

    • @RobotsEverywhereVideos
      @RobotsEverywhereVideos Рік тому +46

      @@basicallyarobloxian4533 heh, people who end up on meth do horrible things to their friends and family just to get the next fix. the horrible part is that they genuinely don't want to, but their brain is shorting out.

    • @voran6711
      @voran6711 Рік тому +36

      @@basicallyarobloxian4533 Could have just failed at life and bombed her career. Doesn't have to be anything immoral.

    • @voran6711
      @voran6711 Рік тому

      @@speurtighearnamacterik8230 Drink your own piss. Stop lashing out at strangers.

    • @metallkopf988
      @metallkopf988 Рік тому +4

      😭

  • @gourdlord3064
    @gourdlord3064 3 роки тому +450

    Survivor's guilt in excellent song form.

    • @Ultrawup
      @Ultrawup 3 роки тому +23

      It really is... It's so good...

    • @barragethree5047
      @barragethree5047 3 роки тому +30

      Oh I bid farewell to the port and the land...

    • @recording_closet9100
      @recording_closet9100 3 роки тому +20

      @@barragethree5047 as I paddle away from brave England's white sands...

    • @andrewseymour6371
      @andrewseymour6371 2 роки тому +11

      To search for my long ago forgotten friends

    • @gustavokaski
      @gustavokaski 2 роки тому +10

      To search for the place I hear all sailors end

  • @ThatOneGuy-wv1sh
    @ThatOneGuy-wv1sh Рік тому +111

    They mention the pov from "the hero of antelopes run" but i like that you only get the actual names of Molly, jed, and the Antelope, but not the real name of the hero.

    • @tmikesecrist3
      @tmikesecrist3 3 місяці тому +1

      Who was the hero?

    • @mrtwister428
      @mrtwister428 3 місяці тому +10

      The narrator of the song is the person everyone in the song celebrates as the hero, as they are the one who survived.​@@tmikesecrist3

  • @LaBarata12
    @LaBarata12 Рік тому +107

    It’s very likely Captain Jed would have made it if he hadn’t taken the time to save the rest- He would have left minutes earlier and wouldn’t have had to accelerate nearly as hard if he’d abandoned the rest

    • @rowanwagstaff-weston718
      @rowanwagstaff-weston718 10 місяців тому +42

      That's a really good point I hadn't thought about before... Cap'n Jed's death never really felt like a sacrifice to me, it was just the acceleration they needed to clear the station. If Jed had consciously decided to stay docked until the last possible moment to save as many as possible though... 😢😢

    • @LaBarata12
      @LaBarata12 10 місяців тому +34

      Some heroes give without counting the cost

  • @DustedVeins
    @DustedVeins 3 роки тому +544

    "Real heroes give without counting the cost" is a phrase that has guided me in my adult life.

    • @ash-6344
      @ash-6344 2 роки тому +14

      o7

    • @bryan314
      @bryan314 9 місяців тому +4

      Yes, but successful capitalists must count every ha-penny and invent a value for every action.

    • @npickle54
      @npickle54 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@bryan314cool

  • @cameronstrathdee1772
    @cameronstrathdee1772 3 роки тому +259

    This one goes out to all my homies back on the station. Hail Cargonia!

  • @pendragonchen
    @pendragonchen 3 роки тому +341

    It's this song specifically that never fails to make me tear up.

    • @ash-6344
      @ash-6344 2 роки тому +9

      same, for some this song just resonates with me personally. I dont understand why, but i tear up every time i hear it. and I've heard it some 400 some times.

    • @ericweatherby9628
      @ericweatherby9628 Рік тому +3

      Same here. So far it doesn't seem to matter how many times I hear it. The waterworks come every time.

    • @leeflorence3838
      @leeflorence3838 8 місяців тому +1

      Makes me outright weep every time. I don't even care who sees.

    • @phillipmele8533
      @phillipmele8533 4 місяці тому +1

      This one, Guardians, and Sam Jones bring out the waterworks. Beautiful songs.

    • @Greybeardfit
      @Greybeardfit 2 місяці тому +1

      This comment called me out so hard. 😢

  • @swishfish8858
    @swishfish8858 Рік тому +57

    I've been listening to this song for years, and it wasn't until recently that I realized Molly was already dead when the narrator came to... I always figured she was _almost_ dead, and was giving her last words... realizing that he was the only living thing on the bridge the whole time, and he was reading her last words instead of hearing them... much more chilling, no pun intended.

    • @leeflorence3838
      @leeflorence3838 8 місяців тому +6

      Listening to her last words, finally being able to take pride in herself after so long without, it hits like a planet killer every time. How these people can write something like this, its got so much feel and soul, it just leaves me shattered yet feeling privileged to have been able to experience it. Heroes indeed.

    • @dusanradin5868
      @dusanradin5868 7 місяців тому

      To freeze for?

  • @CT22222
    @CT22222 3 місяці тому +5

    I forget if I saw it in this comment section/the one on the non-HQ video, or if my mind just formed it, but I like the idea that the narrator accomplished some genuinely incredible thing after Molly died to get the ship into port, like navigate through a crazy debris field or something, but because of his survivor’s guilt he totally disregards that in favor of the stories of Molly and Jed, and the pianoman respects his wishes.

  • @Henkboom1612
    @Henkboom1612 3 роки тому +363

    It's amazing, the kinds of stories these songs tell. Better writing than most sci-fi pieces of media, all condensed in 8 minutes or less of pure awesomeness. Shame they aren't known more.

    • @loadeddice4696
      @loadeddice4696 3 роки тому +61

      "The whole station shook like a hurt living thing" is genuinely great writing. It immediately puts you in the moment.

    • @barragethree5047
      @barragethree5047 3 роки тому +3

      Well, help spread the word!
      discord.gg/6DKGrWmpHH

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  3 роки тому +23

      The main filk server is here: discord.gg/S7yVxa4NEQ

    • @Snailman1999
      @Snailman1999 Рік тому +4

      @@SongsfromtheStars going to have to check that out after work

    • @thishandlestaken
      @thishandlestaken 5 місяців тому +1

      This story is good enough to be a full length movie.

  • @SilverKappa
    @SilverKappa 2 роки тому +222

    Holy shit. How does filk hit harder than any mainstream song?

    • @douglasgrant2190
      @douglasgrant2190 2 роки тому +28

      Filk doesn't need to be anything other than honest.

    • @kazako749
      @kazako749 2 роки тому +30

      it's the nature of mainstream songs to not hit hard, for that would alienate audiences

    • @mason7067
      @mason7067 Рік тому +19

      Because it's not about heroes past, or heroes that will never be.
      It's a story that gives us a rare look at the heroes of the future.

    • @calvingreene90
      @calvingreene90 Рік тому +12

      Because it doesn't have to get by book keepers and bureaucrats to get to the audience. The same reason Bohemian Rhapsody, Another Brick In The Wall, and Rush's Tom Sawyer wouldn't be released today.

    • @Jokoko2828
      @Jokoko2828 Рік тому +3

      Because this is actually pretty niche? A generic pop song might be incapable of evoking actual emotion but it also has a far easier time spreading as it won't step on any toes.

  • @reddir
    @reddir 3 роки тому +88

    Still brought to tears by Molly’s smile :)

    • @loadeddice4696
      @loadeddice4696 2 роки тому +1

      If you have to die, die like a hero

    • @jjjzz029
      @jjjzz029 2 роки тому +13

      She did it, clean like she was dreaming

    • @connormclernon26
      @connormclernon26 7 місяців тому +2

      She finally died clean

  • @plantlord3266
    @plantlord3266 2 роки тому +89

    I have been a filker for decades and had the pleasure of having dinner and sharing Leslie Fish's moonshine at many conventions over the years. I too wish filk would get more mainstream-such great voices and stories pertaining to books/movies as well as real events such as the powerful song by Julie Eckler called the Ballad of Apollo 13 based on the song Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald..amazing song indeed.

  • @jjjzz029
    @jjjzz029 2 роки тому +122

    LYRICS:
    Will you do me a favor, pianoman, please?
    I want you to write me a song
    They call me the Hero of Antelope’s Run
    And I’ve got to show them they’re wrong
    You see, it all started a week ago
    In the bar down on corridor three
    There was nobody there but the regular bums:
    Two losers, the barman, and me
    Slopping up booze in the north corner booth
    Was the old man they called Captain Jed
    ‘Cause he owned a tramp freighter, the old Antelope
    A ship that, like him, was half dead
    Now Molly, they say, was a crack pilot once
    A gal with a brilliant career
    But then she started doping on Regulus One
    And finally washed out down here
    And me, well, I wanted the Navy, bad
    But it seems that they didn’t want me
    So I stopped chasing stars, started sweeping up bars
    For bed, board, and all my drinks free
    It was quiet that night, with the docks closed down
    There was nothing due in for a week
    Not a ship was in port but the old Antelope
    When the red alert started to shriek:
    The whole station shook like a hurt living thing
    Then the lights dimmed and faded away
    Then the gravity went, and the air pumps cut out
    And the bartender started to pray
    “Ah, stow that bilge, head for the Antelope now!”
    Jed’s voice cut the dark like a knife
    “The station reactor’s gone critical load
    So run to the docks for your life!”
    When we got to the docks, we found waiting out there
    Every soul that had been left alive
    They begged with their eyes for poor old Captain Jed
    To tell them all how to survive
    “Break out the suits,” said the captain to them
    “For it’s dark and it’s airless and cold
    But I swear I can get you all out of here safe
    Packed in to the Antelope’s hold.”
    “Molly,” he asked, “Can you navigate?”
    “Aye,” she said. “Who do we have for a crew?”
    “The Antelope needs only three hands,” he said
    “And I think our young friend here will do.”
    The confident look that he flashed at me then
    Made my heart turn over with pride
    I never once thought about backing away
    I think I would rather have died
    Two hundred alive in the Antelope’s hold
    And the Captain, and Molly, and me
    We slammed the locks just as the station blew wide
    Jed hit the main jets to get free
    Now, that kind of G-force is rough on the heart
    Too much for his ticker to take
    So when we came around and we saw how he lay
    We knew Captain Jed wouldn’t wake
    So I took the comm, and the engineer board
    And Molly took helm and the nav
    With the manual spread out all over the deck
    And her mind for what they didn’t have
    She worked at that comp like a crazy machine
    While her hands shook like grass in the breeze
    But her skills were still sharp, and she jumped us three times
    Never minding the shakes and DTs
    Three jumps made clean, only one more was left
    When the ship’s alarm started to blast -
    Her old worn-out seals had come loose in the stress
    We were losing our heat and air fast
    On the bridge, there was only one vacuum suit left
    Well, they say Lady Luck is stone blind
    “Heads or tails,” was the question I started to ask
    When I felt myself hit from behind
    When I came to again, I was sealed in the suit
    She was belted down tight in her chair
    With her hands on the console, a smile on her lips
    And the ice on her face and her hair
    “Here’s the instructions to get us all home,”
    I saw she had left on the screen
    “If any old shipmates should ask after Mol
    Just tell them she finally died clean.”
    I made the last jump just like she told me to
    And I brought the ship in like she’s said
    They call me a hero now, for what I did
    But they don’t mention Molly or Jed
    So write me that song now, pianoman, please
    And sing it out often and loud
    So they all know the story of one kind of hero
    The kind that makes everyone proud
    For some kinds of hero are lunkheads like me
    Who only do things that they’re told
    And some kinds of hero are out for the glory
    They’re heroes on purpose, and bold
    Some become heroes for bravery, sure
    And some just because all is lost
    But a few are true heroes, like Molly and Jed
    Who give without counting the cost

  • @loadeddice4696
    @loadeddice4696 3 роки тому +138

    There seems to be some...condensation collecting on my visor

    • @abnerdoon4902
      @abnerdoon4902 3 роки тому +12

      Damn you Oberstein, and here I thought you didn't have emotions.

    • @shermanwilliams9248
      @shermanwilliams9248 3 роки тому +10

      Get back inside! Someone else will go!

    • @barragethree5047
      @barragethree5047 3 роки тому +8

      @@shermanwilliams9248 rip Sam and Kate...

    • @terranampire6077
      @terranampire6077 2 роки тому +7

      @@shermanwilliams9248 But then I heard the aftlock work two levels down below

  • @hugoporras3162
    @hugoporras3162 3 роки тому +81

    i always imagine an animation about this song would be very cool

    • @noahhunziker2034
      @noahhunziker2034 2 роки тому +7

      yes. someone make this please

    • @sehfisch2350
      @sehfisch2350 Рік тому +8

      the whole album deserves a good animated music video

    • @JamieM20001996
      @JamieM20001996 7 місяців тому +3

      Give it 2 years and AI will have you covered 😉

  • @oligb1469
    @oligb1469 Рік тому +22

    I only clicked on this because I liked "he just flies the bomber" expecting a great song, but instead I got a great story and tear in my eye, t'was beautiful!

  • @shalirwood
    @shalirwood 2 роки тому +27

    It's only now that I realize that the version of this song that I have, saved on my computer from three computers back when my godfather copied his music library over to my pc for me, somehow Isn't Quite The Same as the recordings I'm finding elsewhere.
    The most noticeably difference is the section of Molly's death- in the recording I have, the pacing slows down, and the tune mellows out a bit. That implies to me that there was more than one recording run of this song, which I think is really neat!

    • @komentator9829
      @komentator9829 2 роки тому

      Can you possibly share your recording somewher? Got me realy interested in that version of yours :)

    • @shalirwood
      @shalirwood 2 роки тому +3

      @@komentator9829 I'll have to see if I can figure out how to manage that, but absolutely. I'm starting to think it might have been a recording of a live performance, honestly!

    • @SpaceSanctum
      @SpaceSanctum Рік тому

      please share op

    • @SpaceSanctum
      @SpaceSanctum Рік тому +2

      nevermind, you posted it on your channel 12 years ago and forgot I guess

  • @Shiggityshiggtyschwa
    @Shiggityshiggtyschwa 3 місяці тому +4

    'The Antelope' is also the name of a doomed Canadian privateers ship in a folk song by Stan Rogers.

  • @ArthurMasterofLance
    @ArthurMasterofLance 2 роки тому +36

    I could see an entire movie being made about this song.

  • @DIEGhostfish
    @DIEGhostfish 2 роки тому +40

    I don't think this song hs ever failed to make me cry.

  • @youarenotmadenough655
    @youarenotmadenough655 3 роки тому +76

    It just doesn't feel the same without the distortion

    • @Sudo_Nimh
      @Sudo_Nimh 3 роки тому +4

      The fidelity on this audio is the best I've heard, but I think you're right

    • @godemperorphatty7185
      @godemperorphatty7185 2 роки тому +8

      the other upload I have heard made it feel like a relic from history that was dug up a thousand years later, even though I know it's just a tape from the 80's.

    • @eggisfun4217
      @eggisfun4217 Рік тому +1

      i think this version is better without it

    • @RobotsEverywhereVideos
      @RobotsEverywhereVideos 5 місяців тому

      glad we have both

  • @floriangallus7760
    @floriangallus7760 3 роки тому +168

    Thank you for these uploads. I often found comfort and peace im these songs, since I discovered them on youtube a few years ago. I made it a ritual at some point to listen to Dawsons Christian before going into an exam. Now I'm before my final Exam of medschool and I can listen to these hq versions. This really means a lot to me.

  • @future3805
    @future3805 4 роки тому +98

    god this song is so goddam blursed with hq sound.

    • @abnerdoon4902
      @abnerdoon4902 3 роки тому +36

      I was all too used to the low quality uploads.

    • @bobbytonson5890
      @bobbytonson5890 3 роки тому +13

      After listening to it for a while, I like this version more but still like the low quality. They both have different vibes.

    • @future3805
      @future3805 3 роки тому +2

      @@bobbytonson5890 i agree

  • @xxdarnogxx
    @xxdarnogxx 2 роки тому +75

    This song came outta nowhere and hit me right in the tear ducts. Thank you, that was beautiful.

  • @Jo-ys3qx
    @Jo-ys3qx 3 роки тому +78

    This song's story is infinitely better than the entirety of the star wars sequel trilogy, holy shit. I was more emotionally attached to the characters after 3 minutes than I was to any of the main characters of those movies after a whole 3 movie saga, and the song hadn't even gotten to the first death

    • @ggggg77273
      @ggggg77273 2 роки тому +15

      I would argue it's a better story than all of star wars

    • @DIEGhostfish
      @DIEGhostfish 2 роки тому +7

      @@ggggg77273 More emotional perhaps yeah.

    • @12halo3
      @12halo3 2 роки тому +14

      When a story lacks a message and a good punch the buildup of attachment can fade with a bad ending.

  • @YukonWilleh
    @YukonWilleh Рік тому +14

    haven't made it through this song once without crying...

  • @Phyrenia
    @Phyrenia 2 роки тому +20

    This song goes right for your heart... I almost cried at the end...

    • @metallkopf988
      @metallkopf988 11 місяців тому +1

      I cry everytime I listen to it. This is the type of heroism few people ever live to see, let alone perform.

  • @recording_closet9100
    @recording_closet9100 3 роки тому +82

    Some of the songs in this album are better with distortion, Dawson's Christian for example, others sound much better as high quality tapes, Some Kind Of Hero is in my opinion one of the songs that's better off without the distortion

  • @abnerdoon4902
    @abnerdoon4902 3 роки тому +30

    Listened to the low quality uploads as a kid. I'm glad I can listen to them in high quality as an adult.

  • @Riftblade113
    @Riftblade113 Рік тому +15

    I thank Tex of The Black Pants Legion for introducing me to filk on one of his podcasts, this stuff is great

  • @deus313
    @deus313 3 роки тому +50

    It's impressive just how much better quality this is. Great job.

  • @Matthiasflint
    @Matthiasflint 7 місяців тому +6

    Okay, this needs to be an episode of Love, Death, and Robots.

  • @caffeinefueledraccoon5687
    @caffeinefueledraccoon5687 3 роки тому +25

    Uffff... Right in the feels...

  • @masterofdesaster8
    @masterofdesaster8 6 місяців тому +5

    Just a crazy thought, don't know if someone had it before: What if Jed is the same captain as in "Sam Jones"?

  • @peterwall8191
    @peterwall8191 2 роки тому +18

    God ! You got me crying like a baby! I must be getting sentimental in my old age! Tough old cantankerous bastard, that i'm called,crying for something that never happened!

    • @DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree
      @DopaminedotSeek3rcolonthree 2 роки тому +3

      You got your heart on display, ya old coot, and it's quite beautiful, if these young eyes can say anything about it!

  • @normiesalvador1854
    @normiesalvador1854 Рік тому +6

    Came here after listening to a story retelling this song. Story made me sad. Song made me cry.

  • @atarifanboy1977
    @atarifanboy1977 4 місяці тому +1

    I keep coming back to this one. Such an amazing story put into song. Id love to find the book and read the short stories on it.

    • @edisongexha5881
      @edisongexha5881 4 місяці тому +2

      Yeah same love this always come back to listen this after a few moths

    • @dalidelancey5868
      @dalidelancey5868 Місяць тому

      There's no book or story outside this song

    • @atarifanboy1977
      @atarifanboy1977 Місяць тому

      @@dalidelancey5868 yes there is.
      There is a compilation of short stories that solely exist due to the album.
      It's also called Carmen Miranda Ghost.

  • @Sam-xj2jv
    @Sam-xj2jv 3 роки тому +19

    I've never heard this song without the warping and aging, thanks for the upload!

  • @Penniwhistle
    @Penniwhistle 5 місяців тому +4

    Just realised that between this and Barrett's Privateers we have two songs about piece of shit ships called The Antelope

  • @testaccount4191
    @testaccount4191 4 роки тому +66

    wow, i thought this would be some kind of repost of the ones from weyrdmusicman. But no they are actually considerably better quality. I am guessing you got the studio reel to reel master or something? you can even hear the slight echo from the singer as the room must not be sound proofed properly.

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  4 роки тому +52

      This is a digitalization done by rocketman0739, I'm pretty sure he has an original tape,
      just far better preserved then the one weyrdmusicman has.

    • @xRaalx
      @xRaalx 3 роки тому +15

      @@SongsfromtheStars I think my parents still have these cassetes..i grew up with this!

    • @bharroth
      @bharroth 3 роки тому +14

      @@xRaalx Rocketman0739 and Songs from the Stars are looking for good copies of these tapes to digitize, if we can get more songs out there.

  • @starscreamthenightwing1087
    @starscreamthenightwing1087 2 роки тому +9

    I've never heard the hq version of this song, it's awesome!

  • @squncho
    @squncho 4 місяці тому +1

    Makes me cry every time I hear this one. It's a good one for sure, and a proper send off for all the Mollies out there.

  • @Goldenlionx4
    @Goldenlionx4 5 місяців тому +4

    So i have a mental image of that Jed is missing half of one of his fingers and when he says that the antelope needs 3 to crew her he is holding up 2 good fingers and his half finger knowing before he even got on the ship that he a wasn't gonna make it

  • @jazzk4072
    @jazzk4072 Рік тому +3

    Brought tears to my eyes. 😢

  • @jacksons9546
    @jacksons9546 3 роки тому +83

    This is wild... I never thought I’d get anything better than weyrdmusicman.
    Thank you for posting this man. Gotta go clean some condensation off my visor now
    Also, any chance you’ll be posting Bill Sutton’s work? The ones on weyrdmusicman are pretty degraded in a few tracks. I’ve never heard it any other way so I don’t mind but still.

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  3 роки тому +19

      I would love to, but, unfortunately, I don't have past due, I do, however, have another one of his albums I intend to post soon, there is also a rerelease of most of the songs from past due, you can buy it here; billbrendasutton.bandcamp.com/album/passing-through

    • @jacksons9546
      @jacksons9546 3 роки тому +13

      @@SongsfromtheStars wow, did not expect that so quickly. Absolutely didn’t expect a 2020 remaster of the album, good news for once.
      Pretty crazy to hear stray dog man without the audio glitches. Wish the background singer lady was in the remaster but still 11/10.
      Keeping notifications on, looking forward to whatever else to you post, Sutton or otherwise :)

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  3 роки тому +4

      @@jacksons9546 Past Due is now uploaded!

  • @Catskinner01
    @Catskinner01 3 роки тому +9

    Thank you. I bought all the tapes back in the 90's, and wore them out. Thank you again, so very very much.

  • @gigacool30
    @gigacool30 Рік тому +6

    This song feel like a whole Dr Who episode, it's incredible

  • @mycoolhandgiveit
    @mycoolhandgiveit 3 роки тому +28

    Are you taking/needing money? I am so happy you uploaded high quality recordings!

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  3 роки тому +20

      None of these videos are monetized, so no.

    • @loadeddice4696
      @loadeddice4696 3 роки тому +8

      @@SongsfromtheStars Now that's real punk rock

  • @GnarledStaff
    @GnarledStaff 4 місяці тому +3

    This is based on a short story, right?
    I need to find that. That scene where Molly hits him in the back of the head… thats drama gold. I dont know if its written anywhere but I can just picture her knocking him out and saying something about the strong surviving or people having to put themselves first.
    She starts suiting up and drops something because she’s shaking from withdrawals.
    She goes to pick it up and sees the kid’s face.
    Just seeing this kid laying there. Fresh faced and innocent. Memories of previous crewmates flash before her. Some of them dead, others moved on. She remembers deaths she blames herself for, lovers lost and the beginning of her drug addiction.
    She looks at her shaking hands.
    A decision.
    She quickly strips the part of the suit she was already wearing, wraps up the kid and begins work on the next jump.
    Its getting cold, and she’s starting to struggle. Finds something tie herself down with and gets back to the math.
    Cant breath. Its cold. Starting to lose her vision. But she finally finishes the math. Checks it twice. Its the last thing she sees.

  • @jazzk4072
    @jazzk4072 Рік тому +2

    I love songs that tell a story like this. 🥰

  • @xenoturegaming198
    @xenoturegaming198 2 роки тому +9

    "The gravity went then the air pumps cut out and the bartender started to pray. Ah stow that bilge head for the antalope now! Jed's voice cut the dark like a knife, the station's reactor's gone critical low, so run for the docks for yoyr life!"
    Kinda hard to run when the gravity cuts out. Also it makes me wonder, is gravity more important than air? Or is air more important? Because as the song says the gravity cuts out first before the air pumps.

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  2 роки тому +14

      I assume “run” is just a way of saying “go quickly.”
      As for the order in which the systems fail, it could be that 1) air is more important, 2) artificial gravity requires more power, or 3) it's just a song.

    • @xenoturegaming198
      @xenoturegaming198 2 роки тому +6

      @@SongsfromtheStars I've listened to this song over and over, actually the entire playlist. It's to the point I'm starting to question things I overlooked many times. But it does make me think that the ventilation systems would be designed in a way that in case of emergency the air flow would help propel people towards the nearest exit.
      Sorry if I'm overthinking everything I just really like these songs.

    • @mister_bomb7777
      @mister_bomb7777 Рік тому +4

      I am going to assume that the artifical gravity generator was somwhere near the reactor. The reactor (which I assume was a fusion one) has reached dangerous fusion rates and started producing a strong EMP, causing the gravity generator to short out and shut down.

    • @michalsoukup1021
      @michalsoukup1021 Рік тому +3

      Because loosing gravity is immediate issue whereas depending on how crowded the station was air could still be breathable for hours.

    • @oz_jones
      @oz_jones Рік тому +2

      Air is definitely more important than gravity. Doing things in zero g is harder but not impossible. Doing things with zero air without vac suits is impossible.

  • @krisfricke5538
    @krisfricke5538 2 роки тому +18

    I wonder if the ship name of Antelope is a reference to Barrett's Privateers?

    • @wagahagwa6978
      @wagahagwa6978 2 роки тому +6

      stans character is also a young sole survivor of a traumatic experience, ig so

  • @kvasir7537
    @kvasir7537 Рік тому +3

    All hail to the BPL!

  • @Naevera
    @Naevera 21 день тому +2

    Jokes aside damn what a song. I feel the gut punches every time I hear it. God bless Molly and Ted (Jed?), and our would-be naval cadet for their service.

  • @jazzk4072
    @jazzk4072 4 місяці тому +1

    Damn! Teared up again. Every time.

  • @mortanes2
    @mortanes2 3 роки тому +5

    Thank you

  • @CircleWedge
    @CircleWedge 9 місяців тому +1

    I came here from TCC56's story on FimFiction with the same name, "Some Kind of Hero." The story made me tear up. Now I know what song it was based off of.

  • @do0myk
    @do0myk 8 місяців тому +3

    cover art is by Kelly Freas if anyone interested

  • @casiedragmire4686
    @casiedragmire4686 9 місяців тому

    I will never get the feeling back of hearing this song for the first time

  • @JohnDoe-qq6ri
    @JohnDoe-qq6ri 2 місяці тому +2

    This song is basically "Survivor's Guilt: the Musical".

  • @riverelliott1616
    @riverelliott1616 3 роки тому +11

    These song and Sam Jones hit hard and I don't know why maybe because I'm a roleplayers and can put myself in these shoes easy. But now I want to make character based on molly and another on Sam

  • @casiedragmire4686
    @casiedragmire4686 2 місяці тому

    I LOST THIS SONG FOR SIX MONTHS AND FOUND IT AGAIN TODAY

  • @oz_jones
    @oz_jones 9 днів тому

    This is a Traveler character if I ever saw one.
    Rest easy Molly and Jed.

  • @luismakeup08
    @luismakeup08 2 місяці тому

    Damn that made me cry

  • @larshansson45
    @larshansson45 Рік тому +4

    why cant i find this on spotify?????? this is amazing, i love this song!

    • @elig9401
      @elig9401 Рік тому +3

      Unfortunately, the lyricist has repeatedly declined the requests we (and others) have made for recording her music.
      So it tends to be at the bottom of the priority list for anyone I know.

  • @LoveKilling
    @LoveKilling 11 місяців тому +3

    How to make it to the last fading beam on a planet.

  • @ababab678
    @ababab678 2 роки тому +4

    Oh no! It cuts out the last note's hang time!

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  2 роки тому +4

      That's a shame. I can't fix it in the video, but you can find the non-truncated file at the archive.org link in the description.

  • @lamorte42
    @lamorte42 7 місяців тому

    I'm not crying you're crying!

  • @AngryTheGnome
    @AngryTheGnome 15 днів тому

    Molly and Jeb we salute you o7

  • @LoveKilling
    @LoveKilling 11 місяців тому +3

    Was like this actually. It was dropping down on us like war thunders.

  • @scout360pyroz
    @scout360pyroz 3 роки тому +6

    This sounds weirdly muted. I actually prefer the older scratchy stuff. Whatever was done to this cut out part of their voice and it grates.

    • @ProjectileWaterfowl
      @ProjectileWaterfowl 2 роки тому +3

      Nothing was done to it but the same that was done to the warped tapes. I think the warping just sort of stretched out the sound and changed the pitch, giving it something that it didn't have before.

    • @scout360pyroz
      @scout360pyroz 2 роки тому +1

      @@ProjectileWaterfowl there is an entire layer of sound to the voice and music that has been cut out.
      Its like someone used a static cleaner autofunction in audacity or some other audio editor. Those things DO reduce the quality and cut out part of the audio.

  • @TheRose-mz2su
    @TheRose-mz2su 3 роки тому +8

    Why did music like this stop?

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  3 роки тому +10

      It didn't, the filk community is still around. discord.gg/S7yVxa4NEQ

  • @JackHeart-pb5zz
    @JackHeart-pb5zz 6 місяців тому

    Im about to start screaming

  • @HM2SGT
    @HM2SGT 10 місяців тому

    I'm not sure, but there is an episode of Farscape that bears a resemblance to this tune...

  • @IdiotandOpinion
    @IdiotandOpinion 2 роки тому +5

    Where can I buy this??

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  2 роки тому +3

      unfortunately you can't, that's why we're putting them up for free

    • @IdiotandOpinion
      @IdiotandOpinion 2 роки тому +1

      @@SongsfromtheStars is there anywhere I can get an mp4 file to put on my phone?

    • @SongsfromtheStars
      @SongsfromtheStars  2 роки тому +1

      @@IdiotandOpinion MP3 download link in the description

  • @TheAlison1456
    @TheAlison1456 Рік тому +2

    Jesus.

  • @Naevera
    @Naevera 21 день тому

    I don't know about you guys but I could use a hit or five of Reg 1 after a story like that

  • @rrockt3830
    @rrockt3830 2 роки тому +8

    I refuse to believe the person providing the lyrics is the survivor.
    No, this is retelling.

    • @janehrahan5116
      @janehrahan5116 2 роки тому +7

      Well of course. This is the song the piano man wrote. He heard her tale and seeing her as the hero she was wrote this :)

    • @mycoolhandgiveit
      @mycoolhandgiveit 2 роки тому +3

      it's the piano man

    • @ShangZilla
      @ShangZilla 5 місяців тому +1

      @@mycoolhandgiveit So Billy Joel.

    • @mycoolhandgiveit
      @mycoolhandgiveit 5 місяців тому

      @@ShangZilla His Traveller character maybe, if one were want to be meta

  • @JackHeart-pb5zz
    @JackHeart-pb5zz 6 місяців тому

    Ima scream

  • @evanostrem3758
    @evanostrem3758 Рік тому +1

    Anyone have sheets for this?

    • @MythicalDark
      @MythicalDark Рік тому +2

      You can find sheets and a demo here: m.ua-cam.com/video/HqQs_eyohdY/v-deo.html

  • @thodan467
    @thodan467 Рік тому +1

    John Maynard

  • @LazySeabear
    @LazySeabear 2 роки тому

    I think this song sound better on the old worn recording.
    The bad sound gives it more feeling, now when cleaned up it sound a bit dull imho.

  • @anonymouswizzard5680
    @anonymouswizzard5680 Рік тому

    This version lacks the soul in the vocals... The pacing is wrong, It's too fast and lacking necessary pauses.

    • @centurion7993
      @centurion7993 11 місяців тому +5

      This is a better preserved digitization of the old tapes, you probably heard a more worn out tape that has the sound extend and pause as a result of use.

    • @anonymouswizzard5680
      @anonymouswizzard5680 11 місяців тому

      @@centurion7993 This is literally a different performance altogether. Possibly even with different singer too. Songs literally don't match lengths even.

    • @Daughters_Of_Chaos
      @Daughters_Of_Chaos 4 місяці тому +1

      @@anonymouswizzard5680it is in fact the same singer and performance