[HD] The Protomen - Act II - The Hounds
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2010
- I can almost hear the hounds... Don't forget to read the lyrics:
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When the bard rolls a nat 20 on deception to convince someone someone else killed someone
So you’re saying that this song is a bard framing an artificer for murder?
That they killed someone that the bard just got done stabbing and still has a little blood on his shoes, but charisma baby
Now THAT'S a top comment
"What was her name?"
"Doesn't matter."
Savage.
This entire song is savage, tbh.
+Conner Boyd yes
+Conner Boyd U-UNATCO?
"Country mourns Whats-Her-Name."
That's PRINCESS What's-Her-Name to you! :p
you know why i love this shit?
its like "you ain't never had a friend like me" crossed with first degree murder.
Lord Scorch Goddamn.
So it's "I've Got Friends on the Other Side"? Ha ha.
The first 30 seconds are Eric heathery’s version of counting flowers on the wall
This album was released 10 years ago.
I checked.
Act 3 within the next 2 years, so at least the wait is nearly over
@@dudeguy8686 That's awesome. To be clear, this comment isn't a dig at the band, it's a reference to a video about Metal Gear Solid that uses several Protomen songs, including this one.
@@yoshipopthelemur i don't know the vid, but anyone spreading their music has the right idea
I understood that referance
@@yoshipopthelemur Btw I only heard him using light up the night. When did he use this ?
Gotta love it when the villain has the only happy song in two acts.
Breaking Out:
1hundreth like
Light up the Night:
It doesn't hurt that the song is just straight fire either. Like, that horn section is exactly what I'd like to hear if the whole world is after me, y'know? If I absolutely have to be on-the-run and somebody else is painting me out to be the "bad guy", then they damn well better have a kickass song like this to go along with how they're demonizing me. Otherwise, I dunno, I might just win the rebellion/war just to spite them.
All I'm sayin' here is Wily's definitely got his shit together, at least musically. I fucking love this song
The Fall:
Brother!
Rejoice, we are not copies of our father after all.
We can grab fate with our own hands now!"
-Liquid Ocelot
Steak just dropped a new video 🥰
@@sven_bender THANK YOU KIND STRANGER!!!!!!!! IM OFF!
the moment i saw "brother!" I knew. I just came from the video, after all
This is my favorite Disney villain song.
What villan?
EVITA 01 It’s a joke. It sounds like something from a Disney movie, but this is original.
@@janitorsupreme2364 yeah i realize that it's original but i thought maybe i hear it in tron legacy or something and it flew over my head
EVITA 01 It’s fine.
@@evita0118 Dr. Wiley technically.
I love how it could be either:
You forget who turned this city on.
You forget who plugged this city in.
Or
You forget who turned this city on you.
Forget who plugged this city in.
"No he did not use his hands, like a smart man he used a tool BUT JUST THE SAME."
I love how Wily couldn't help but pat himself on the back, even during his framing of Tom.
Bewt
I thought it was "no my man he used a tool"....
Bewt It's actually "No he did not use his hands, I guess my man, he used a tool..."
Nope, "like a smart man" is correct.
homo sapiens, "a smart man"... the tool user... but once we make smart tools, what is left for us? with hands of iron, there's not a task they couldn't do
@@BaronVonHoovy They clearly sing "my man he used a tool" however. Is it that way in the lyrics that come with the album or something?
As someone who has never absorbed any MegaMan content in my entire life, this song is a certified banger.
Yeah I have absolutely no idea what these comments are talking about.
@@deft4184 Dr. Wahwee!
I AM into MegaMan and only now realized this was a MegaMan song.
@@SpecterVonBaren To be fair this is an Else World. "What If Willy did actually take over the city."
"Can you question who to blame?!"
"What was her name?!"
"Doesn't matter."
I lack the words to describe how much I love that exchange. How hollow and cheap Wiley comes across after ramping up sympathy for the victim only to express his utter disinterest in her (after he had her killed for rejecting him, no less!) the moment she doesn't fit his narrative.
Wily invoking the modern news media lol.
What about all the side effects and deaths? Doesn't matter.
Exactly! This song packs so much info every few lines, tbh. In literally two words, Wily lays bare his entire relationship with this situation. He doesn't care about her, he never did (at least, not after she rejected him). She was just a victim that he could drum up sympathy for. Sympathy he could turn to anger, which is what he really wanted. Her name and identity don't really matter, because it could have been ANYONE for this plan to work. All that mattered was that everyone see that "Light" killed someone. The victim isn't who's important here. It's the criminal. That's what everyone should be focusing on. So sayeth WIly.
@@weezact7 "An emotional knee-jerk reaction to stir up the masses and cloud the information? Court of public opinion lets GO!"
"Well you forget who turned this city on - you forget who plugged this city IN"
Loved the savagery in those words
*THEY'LL NOT SWITCH IT OFF AGAIN!*
you turned me on.
@@pseudogenesis You can hear him cracking a bit in composure, it's perfect
One by one they're tuning in.
I love the word play because it could be interpreted as:
"you forget who turned this city on you.
Forget who plugged this city in"
The "Doesn't matter" easily earns this the status as the greatest villain song of all time.
"WHAT WAS HER NAME?!" "Doesn't matter, now listen!"
Tonight the streets are red, the lights are blue and blinding
No sign of the good doctor, but the siren's wail and whining
Tells us he'll be found!
I can almost hear the hounds
What kind of man builds a machine to kill a girl?
No, he did not use his hands; like a smart man, he used a tool-
-But just the same!
Can you question who's to blame?
(What was her name?) Doesn't matter. Now listen-
The "good doctor" has to pay!
When I say he was a monster, when I set fire to his name
It does not matter where you hear it from: whether truth or lies, it gets said all the same!
Whatever's on the table plays!
There is a flame that I've been fanning; there is a fire waiting to catch
There is a hell that has been building from the moment we first met
If there ever was a time, if there ever was a chance
To undo the things I've done and wash these bloodstains from my hands
It has passed and been forgotten
These are the paths that we must take
Cause you and I, Tom, we are men
And we can bend and we can break
If you think that you can run, if you think that you can stand
Well, you forget who turned this city on! You forget who plugged this city in!
They'll not switch it off again!
One by one, they're tuning in!
I can't keep myself from imagining Willy singing and dancing atop a skyscraper while listening to this.
pyrokazama If he is I hope he falls off.
pyrokazama I had a really good image in my mind of the whole scene and now you dun fucked it up
+Snoop Cheesus I imagine him in a room standing,talking to him self and only sometimes to others(wich basically is what is actually happening)
Up there recreating Megaman 2's opening, but with a dance number.
+pyrokazama The image I've got is him on a podium, doing one press conference after another...
I love how you have the shift between the western-style songs and this, something more rock/jazz to show not only the change in events but the differences in opinion between Light and Wily. Brilliant stuff.
And the rapid technological advance of the city as well- The later songs are much more "electric".
It's teethering between rock opera and ska track and I fucking ADORE it so much
"It is human nature to seek culpability in a time of tragedy."
-Gabriel Angelos
it's retribution brother
May imperial justice account in all balance.
@@GrandMarshalGarithos The Emperor protects.
"It does not matter where you hear it from. Whether truth or lies It gets said all the same."
This in my opinion shows the pure genius in Wily's destruction of Light's reputation and name, he plays the politics to perfect levels, knowing that once something is said, regardless if it's true or not, that damage will always be done. Beautiful.
I could never get over the exchange between songs "If you destroy the working parts, what you get is a different machine." A truly sinister and insane prospect. Which is rebutted by Light saying, no "if you destroy the working parts, what you get is a BROKEN machine."
"There is a hell that has been building since we first met!"
I adore this line.
Am I the only one who envisions Dr. Wily strutting down the street, head a-bobbing in a pinstripe zoot suit, gesturing wildly at the press and grinning like a devil? But not classic old Wily we're accustomed to with the silly hair and face, this Wily is young, handsome, and thoroughly stylish in his evilness.
I always pictured him in a prestine labcoat, red silk tie adorning a black suit underneath, hair pushed back out of his face standing at a press junket, podium with a dozen news microphones infront of him, cameras snapping and flashing as he incriminates his old friend, purposely tarnishing everything Light stood for, and smiling to himself, knowing exactly what the masses would do with this "news", using media to control the populace.
@@ilitsa this Willy is actually a Willy bastard then? A proper one?
@@the_protectorof_smols3563 He is indeed!
This dosent actually fly in the face in the Games either really, after all this is supposed to he decades before Act 1 Wich showed there version of Megaman and the like
Its impossible for me to hate Wily because he SWINGS, daddy-oh!
+Gigas0101 He's a regular zoot suiter
So this is how democracy dies...with thunderous Swing.
This was in my music library, i don't remember adding it. No idea the backstory (or anything about MegaMan) but DAMN this song is great. I love the horns *so, so, so* much. I think I will love this album
Don't worry, the conection to the actual megaman games is pretty loose.
Also, don't worry, because even with the loose connection to the overarching story, those horns will always be straight fire anyway.
This song kicks so much ass.
What the fuck this is based on megaman
@@patheticplague9359 Yeah, the person singing in this song (canonically, I don't know the "actor's" name) is Albert Wily - the main villain of the Megaman games.
Also, Megaman himself is actually in the act 1 album. Act 2 is a prequel to that.
If you haven't already, and plan on listening through the albums, each song's official lyrics have notes in them that provide probably 50-70 percent of the plot, so make sure you find those if you're interested.
I'm not sure if a song is allowed to be this fucking good.
That's how fucking good this song is.
The villain songs are always rad.
when you stop the song and you still hear barking
*Oh no*
This is a god damn masterpiece.
Brother!
It's been too long!
LIQUID!
Rejoice!
We're not copies of our father, after all!
Solidus was here.
@@kinggeo8545 yes they are
After listening to this, I really can't help but admire Wily. Yeah, he's evil but also an absolute genius. This man has orchestrated everything, took control of the city by using every tool at his disposal and in the end more or less managed to achieve his dreams and came out victorious. You've gotta respect him for his endless ambition/greed at least. I hope at the end of Act 3 (if it ever comes out) he won't be just easily defeated and things will work out just fine.
I think light will find himself alone in a room with him personally
I mean, we don't see him acquire all the power necessary to have all this control, so we can't really say if he's a genius or not, all we can say is once he got the tools, he used them effectively. How did he get the city businesses and politicians and owners to allow all those screens to be built in their propriety? How did he have the funds to do all that without investors that would have partial control of the broadcasting and usage rights? Any News company would spend the months it took to build making editorials against it, calling it a danger in the exact way it became, and laws would need to be changed for their function, so he'd need to have politicians on his side, which he could do by saying "I'll do propaganda on your side", but then he's beholden to them, until he's gotten enough political capital the law could be changed again if he didn't do things for them.
Maybe he played all the cards right, and yeah was a genius, but we don't know, all we know is that once he got the most overt and loud platform ever, he used for his political gain, meanwhile settimg up the events that would gain him even more, like a private secret police (of one killer robot man I guess x3) and control over literally all means of production (which again would require more political maneuvering than we saw). Sooo basically, once he owned all means, and all media, and enough arms to have one killer robot, and enough of the judicial system to control the result of Light's trial, he used *those* tools well, in order to control more of the judicial system, and eventually by the end of the album, the sole monopoly on legitimate violence.
He did start with a giant headstart in the album, is what I mean, yknow? x3 Light reeeeeeeeally shouldn't have pulled the *super important all powerful with literally no guarantees seriously I'm giving this guy a murderbot* lever XD
He said he wanted to build heroes, and when the "Insurrection forces" attacked that's exactly what the Army of Sniper Joes were seen as.
Given the super bleak outlook that The Protomen are going for, I wouldn't be surprised.
The sign of a true protomen fan, adding that "(if it ever comes out)" to the Act 3 mention :P
So amazing. Villains always get the best songs in musicals.
Personal Favorite line/verse:
"When I say he was a monster,
when I set fire to his name,
It does not matter where you hear it from,
whether truth or lies,
It gets said all the same."
I can just Imagine Wily smiling to the Press while telling them what they were working on.. and Spin Doctoring everything about it so it was all Light's Fault...
Then standing alone when they've gone and Leering out across the city, Knowing he's buring the only person he could ever consider a "Friend" or an Equal.
Same. And it's absolutely true. A lie, even if it gets debunked, doesn't die. It lives on and continues to linger in people's minds.
BROTHER! It's been too long!
LIQUID!
no shit
THE GOOD DOCTOR HAS TOUPEE
I always imagine the hounds as the Fahrenheit 451 hounds.
Even though they'd not exist yet.
Oh well.
Give it some time.
The following is a little bit of my idea of how a full film of this album would look, continued from the last track in this channel:
*[The first notes of "The Hounds" play as we cut to a lower floor of a broadcast tower, slowly panning up to WILY, standing at the window and looking out with his hands behind his back, his feet tapping to the rhythm. He is dressed in a suit and tie. Behind him is a podium in a large room, which is filled with dozens of reporters, their pens tapping against their notepads to the same rhythm. Near WILY is a glass door leading to a studio with a camera and microphone. WILY turns around to face the podium and the reporters.]*
WILY: Tonight the streets are red, the lights are blue and blinding.
No sign of the good doctor, but the siren's wail and whining
Tells us he'll be found!
I can almost hear the hounds...
*[cut to LIGHT somewhere in the city, hiding from pursuit. Cut back to WILY, speaking to the reporters. The reporters yelling "What was her name?" are THE PROTOMEN, in stage attire... then when it cuts back to WILY, they are simple reporters again.]*
What kind of man builds a machine to kill a girl?
No, he did not use his hands; like a smart man, he used a tool.
But just the same!
Can you question who's to blame?
REPORTERS/PROTOMEN: What was her name?
WILY: Doesn't matter. But listen:
The good doctor has to pay!
*[WILY turns away from the podium to look out the window again; this is not for the reporters to hear. We occasionally cut to LIGHT continuing evasion as he runs toward the graveyard before cutting back to WILY.]*
WILY: When I say he was a monster, when I set fire to his name,
It doesn't matter where they hear it from, whether truth or lies,
It gets said all the same!
Whatever's on the table plays!
*[Cut to LIGHT standing quietly at EMILY's grave, an intense look on his face. Cut back to WILY walking into the recording studio, sitting down in front of the camera and staring at the red blinking light as the reporters cram against the soundproof glass door. We occasionally cut between him and LIGHT, seeing the police lights nearby and trying to escape before being cornered, hiding behind a parked car as police aim their weapons and shout at him. Eventually, LIGHT surrenders and is handcuffed as he stares intently at the broadcast tower in the center of the city.]*
WILY: There is a flame that I've been fanning, there is a fire waiting to catch,
There is a hell that has been building from the moment we first met.
If there ever was a time, if there ever was a chance
To undo the things I've done and wash these bloodstains from my hands,
It has passed and been forgotten, these are the paths that we must take,
'Cause you and I, Tom, we are men and we can bend and we can break.
If you think that you can run, if you think that you can stand,
You forget who turned this city on, you forget who plugged this city in!
*[The blinking stops, indicating WILY is live as a giant TV screen on the tower turns on, revealing WILY in front of a giant letter W, a news ticker running at the bottom of the screen with various phrases running by; the phrases include "Famous roboticist Dr. Thomas Light wanted for murder of local woman," "Sources say Light likely ordered invention 'Model 01' to commit the deed", etc. Cut back to WILY in the studio, straightening his tie.]*
They'll not switch it off again!
*[Cut to various people on the streets watching the screen, people in bars and pubs watching WILY on the screens above the bar. Cut to daytime, with LIGHT being carried towards a courthouse in cuffs.]*
One by one they're tuning in!
*[Cut to WILY's show, as he soundlessly rants angrily and more sensational headlines concerning LIGHT run across the ticker. Cut to a family with small children happily sitting in front of the screen, the children watching with fascination as WILY continues ranting. As music fades, cut to a bailiff in a courtroom holding a bible as WILY places his hand on it.]*
BAILIFF: "[spoken]* Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you God?
WILY: *[spoken]* I do.
*[The courtroom is absolutely packed with people. The jury features THE PROTOMEN out of costume in plain clothing; LIGHT is sitting in a suit and tie next to his attorney, watching WILY on the bench as the prosecutor questions him...]*
Isn't this literally pulled directly from the official lyrics page?
How does Emily already have a grave?
This. This is my favorite comment.
Godlike. Absolutely phenomenal.
100th like
I just picture "The Hounds" as group of searchers on old motorcycles. Wily saying "I can almost hear The Hounds" as if he hears the distant roar of their engines arriving on an all-out manhunt for Light. I just think that would be an awesome take on search hounds and I feel like it REALLY fits the world.
1. Listen to this
2. Go watch West World
3. Come back and listen again
FUCK. YEAH.
I've been listening to this song for months now and only todayI realized it was Mega Man fanfiction
Welcome, brother.
Even now there is hope for man.
Is it actually fanfiction or is it about the lore of the game?
@@sirsquatch7199 yes
@@sirsquatch7199 both to an extent
@@sirsquatch7199 It's a what if scenario. If Willy had actually won.
"These are the paths that we must take, 'cause you and I, Tom, we are men, and we can bend and we can break. If you think that you can run, if you think that you can stand, well you forget who turned this city on, your forget who plugged this city in!"
Best line.
_BROTHER!_
What is this blasphemous comment doing here?
Woe, found the comment
"Whatever's on the table plays"
Is such a beautiful way to say "by any means necessary" or "I will use everything and anything I can"
I still to this day would love to see a rock-opera style movie/play done to these songs.
Streets of Fire is the closest you'll come.
I saw these guys live in Oxford for the European tour and Damn! Do they put on a GREAT show!
Best night I have had in years!
Behold, the best Disney Villain Song they never had to courage or talent to make
This song reminds me a lot of Dr. Horrible's Sing Along Blog, what with the "Country Mourns What's-Her-Face" at the end.
I've been driving all night my hands wet on the wheel
there's a voice in my head that drives my heel
'ts my baby calling say I need you here
it's a half past four and i'm shifting gears...
This is seriously my favorite track off of both albums.
This is my favorite song of anything ever
+Snakes You'd also like "The Megas" song: 'Walk Away From Light'
oh believe me, I've heard it.
I am very well versed in this fandom :D
+Snakes What fandom?
The Megaman music fandom, silly!
Snakes So these were songs in megaman? Sorry for my ignorance. I am complete pleb when it comes to video games.
These guys were AWESOME live! Never heard of them but their show crushed
This song is proof positive that in 99.9% of musical narratives, the villain is guaranteed a kick-ass song.
In the 2013 Pax Concert, he did this, with a big W painted on the side of his face, wearing the most mobsterish outfit I've seen.
I seriously can't get over how good this song is.
Steak brought me here...
We need him.
And now I know... We need an Act 3.
They played this at magfest 2020 and that was the most feral I've been at a show
You ever hear a song so good you spend every second in just pure disbelief? Yea
BBBBRRRRRRRRRROTHER
ITS BEEN TOO LONG
LIQUID!
BROTHEEEERRRRR! IT'S BEEN TOO LONG!
Everyone is talking about story hidden in songs, but I'm sitting here and just enjoying the music
A long while ago a family member reccomended this band to me. I listened to a few songs and I thought these guys sucked. Like a month ago a song by them was on discover weekly for my Spotify so I gave it a listen. From then on I started to absolutely love this band.
I cannot wait to see these guys tonight. If what I'm hearing is true, which I have no doubt it is, this will be the best concert I've ever been to.
Old man in duster yells at old man in VERY tight suit, army goes insane, more chaos ensues.
BROTHER
Not quite the same, without the background noise of soldiers suffering emotional breakdowns.
Brother!
"what was her name?" "Doesn't matter. Now Listen."
Wily, you're a complete bastard, but damn if you can't paint a helluva false picture worth singing along to. Goddamn, what a song
_"Video games aren't art."_
Bullshit.
_"Video games can't result in art."_
More bullshit.
"Video games dont count as something you can be passionate about"
huge pile of bullshit
+DontDropSoap Including the E.T game?
Carlos Pittoors bad art is still art
Art does not denote quality even something is poor in quality is art it would just be considered low brow like MGS.
THANK YOU STEAK
BROTHER........It's been too long!!
i love this song, period.
Activate it.
>Pentagon Hexagon Octagon Nanomachinesgon
@Maskofdata Without your awesome fic I should have never found this amazing song, so thanks for both things!
The moral of this song? Always Question your sources. I mean, if Wily was a well-known collaborator of Light's, and a Robot killed Emily, is it not worth to at least consider Wily a suspect? Especially since many crimes are committed by people with grudges with someone related to them, and Wily would know how to employ the robots to do such a thing, and since Light is so obviously in distress about her death, since he never actually resists when he's arrested, do you think that his words in an interrogation are at least worth listening to? Because he is telling the truth, so to the police he's either a phenomenal liar, or he's telling the truth, and a man in that much obvious distress would sort of been noticed surely?
This is one of my absolute favorite songs of all time
I can’t wait to get into this band and get invested in the storytelling
how did it go
When I listen to this song I imagine a young and dapper Wily strutting down the street while police cars zoom by, in a pinstriped zoot suit, bumping his shoulders to the beat and grinning like a madman. It takes a hell of a band to conjure an image that strong.
I just can't get enough of this.
Great audio quality! Thanks!
Saw them last night at Mercy Lounge, in Nashville. Happy Birthday guys. 10 more years...and act III.
this song is soooo amaaaaziiiiiing
This is from hilariously elaborate Megaman fanfiction
I wouldn't have it any other way
My constant, unending inner monologue is the beat of this song.
So good
Headcanon: while Wily is singing this, he is massively hamming it up on camera. Dramatic gestures ensue.
Actually canon though
How could he not be?
"WHAT WAS HER NAME?"
"Doesn't matter."
Wily on that Sigma Male grindset before it was even a thing goddamn
Man I day dream about the one time I got to see them play this live. One hell of a fucking show.
I fucking love this song to death, especially 1:52
AGGGHHH I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
@rpz85 woah, thanks for pointing that out! thats cool!
seems like everything Protomen does ties in somehow to the story
This and Lighting up the Night are my two favorites on the Album
1:14 - 1:17 Best part tbh
This is such a well written song. It packs so much information and emotion into such few words. I feel like every couple of lines are conveying things that would take some people (like myself, probably. I'm very verbose) five or even ten times as many sentences to convey. While all of Act II is great, I think the lyricism of this song stands out among the album.
I enjoy how I can't tell for certain if the title refers to the dogs chasing Light, the media/paparazzi or both.
I love how non-chalantly Wily says that the victim's name doesn't matter while prosecuting Wily for her murder.
This is ten years old and holds up
Everybody: quote about a woman that doesn't matter
Me: Damn Metal Gear Solid 4 WAS a mistake...
damn if you didn't say "me:" I would think that I typed that.
_"Rejoice! We are not copies of our father after all! We are free from the shackles of fate! Snake, brother- we are FREE!"_
The fucking legend
@@wowsuchhandle hey I'm always willing to help the mentally disabled
This song is so fucking good, goddamn.
Can we note that Wily straight up says the victim doesn't matter? Wily, you conniving, sick son of a gun.
As others before me have stated, sent here from ponies.
But HOLY SHIZ THIS IS A GREAT SONG!!!!!! Dang, I think I have something to geek out over again!
Amazing song
A+++ I know I am 6 years to late, but this still resonates.