@@cupcakeispie I didn't hear it was extended but rather not as "somber" in the unreleased test build, supposedly featured in the unfound alternate ending
Finding this song hit me hard. I'd been up for 36 hours, and had to stay up another 4 before sleeping so a friend recommended Portal so I didn't accidentally sleep. This was during my lowest year where I was extremely mentally unwell, had stopped taking my medication and hadn't shared with anyone how bad it was getting. This is all to say I was extremely raw coming across this song. I remember completely stopping to listen to it, and just silently crying. I don't think I'll ever resonate with a piece of music as much as I did in that moment. Anyway, just a special memory I have.
The deeper you look into the HL/Portal universe, the more lovecraftian and hopeless it looks. Chell wins only to be dragged back in. Every attempt to stop the Black Mesa incident was all for not, as Nihilanth had ripped a gap that let the combine into Earth.
Lovecraftian is wrong word unless there is a LOT of lore I don't know about. Lovecraftian implies a focus on the unknown, and more specifically the incomprehensible.
@@ltloxa1159 Unknown and incomprehensible is probably a good description of the Combine. Maybe not the franchise as a whole, but definitely the Combine itself.
Radio version just sounds better, the poor audio quality makes it sound more somber, the boom of the piano pounds your heart and makes it ache. This version will always be better no matter what.
*If you close your eyes while listening to this, you will see a rusty metal room has cans, toaster computers, other garbages, paintings on walls, and a radio. You came here with the knowledge of getting out the test chamber. You hear a passionate music between loud machine noises...*
@@AmerikaKraut I think because it's related to Rattmann, whose story is really touching, sad... I almost cried while reading "Lab Rat" ending... A man so opressed, schizofrenic, whose only friend was a cube. Hiding for weeks, months, maybe years in claustrophobic chambers, eating cammed bean soup. The radio playing it is found in one of his many abandoned hideouts... Just playing there faintly... With this beautiful piano, sad voice... It's just there... Left alone... As op said... Beaten down
this fucking song man. melancholic, mesmerizing, somehow magnetic, all while giving off an air of futility... but the part that has stuck with me the most is my emotional reaction. listening to it felt vivid yet surreal. like a song i had already heard somewhere in the back of my head, echoing up from the depths of my soul. all elements of this song (also including the in-game art, the way you find it already playing long before you arrive and rattmann’s backstory because the song is about him) come together to make an atmosphere that is nothing short of profound. i thought it reflective of life’s beautiful, frightening impermanence
Do I have 0 emotion or something. Am I even human? Idk why on every video like this I see everyone being really emotional and Im just sitting there like
*the band is the national, once you listen to their music, your brain and yoyr mentality is no longer the same... i recommended listening to these songs: brilliant man apartment story the geese of beverly roads youve done it again virgina american mary perfect song cold girl fever *
When I found this song it wasn’t even from Portal, I heard it and I could never find what it was called, I went years searching and wondering. Eventually I bought Portal 1 and 2 and when I heard this song… gosh, it was a moment to not be forgotten.
this is just one of the most nostalgic heart filling songs from portal and it really reminds me of the chamber it came from and it just sounds great the radio effect just booms the piano makes my heart ache
'the radio effect just booms the piano makes my heart ache' Alex918: 'Radio version just sounds better, -- the boom of the piano pounds your heart and makes it ache.' definitely not rewritten lol
@@Inexpressable it’s not I don’t care what you say tbh I wrote that randomly a while ago and I was speaking facts and so was he I can’t imagine being so pressed over a comment that sounds similar to someone else’s over a portal song 😂
I'm a bit late on this, but it's located at Test Chamber 03 in Chapter 2, The Cold Boot. Test Chamber 3 is a room with a raised platform that rises out of the ground when you enter. Follow the right wall and you should see a gap. Head down that gap and turn left, the radio is there.
@@UnstoppablePhoenix To add to this: It's the same chamber you can see in the loading screen when you load the game from a save file where you were in Chapter 2.
I find it really somber to think about a potentially abandoned radio station, broadcasting to the remnants of humanity. Seeing as Portal takes place in the same world as Half-Life, I can't help but think about the few families or groups of people, trying to get by in a broken world tormented and ravaged by the Combine. It's very grim. But a yet somehow a faint glimmer of hope remains. Hope for things to get better even if it seems completely impossible.
I wonder why GLaDOS (who surely must control all the transmissions in the facility) chose to play this for Chell? Even before Wheatley, was the part of her that is Caroline trying to reach out?
If you try to desern what GLaDOS has and hasn't got controll over you run into massive plotholes. Most of them because of Portal 2 doing som retconing. Anyway for most of Portal 2 it seems like GLaDOS only controlls the self-building testing chambers and whatever functions stop the facility from exploding. The signal could be comming from anywhere else. As for how much controll Caroline would have had it is Probably extremly minor. It isn't a Caroline-machine with a built in testing addiction, it was more likely first ment to run the place, with the hope being that Cave could uppload himself to oversee it. After his death Caroline was upploaded against her will, whitch apparently might have stuck in the machine making it murderous. (We know she likes revange) Then cores where added to controll her behavior but instead (atleast this is how I headcannon it) just drowned out Caroline preventing her from calming down.
You Are Not Crazy,There Are 2 Voices From Matt Berninger, (The National Singer) Its A Little Glitch,On ITunes Version Is Corrected,In The .Flac Version Still That Double Voice
I think I only found this once. I don't remember what chamber it's in anymore, but I'm pretty sure PotaDOS/GLaDOS is with you at the time. (I forgot how to find the Rattman Dens, despite playing Portal 2 a lot.) I wanted to find it on my last playthrough, which I finished literally just before typing this, but I was so distracted by trying to get the Smash TV achievement that I forgot.
This hits harder when it plays from the radio. It's a somber memorial to a friend you never met when you find it.
Are you referring to doug rattman?
Even worse when you realize that the extended versions are gone forever.
agreed
@@josephkarlis9862 wait what?
@@cupcakeispie I didn't hear it was extended but rather not as "somber" in the unreleased test build, supposedly featured in the unfound alternate ending
Finding this song hit me hard. I'd been up for 36 hours, and had to stay up another 4 before sleeping so a friend recommended Portal so I didn't accidentally sleep. This was during my lowest year where I was extremely mentally unwell, had stopped taking my medication and hadn't shared with anyone how bad it was getting.
This is all to say I was extremely raw coming across this song. I remember completely stopping to listen to it, and just silently crying. I don't think I'll ever resonate with a piece of music as much as I did in that moment.
Anyway, just a special memory I have.
I hope you’re doing better, friend! ❤️
Hope you feeling well my dear friend
🙏
Hope yer doin better lad.
Hope thingsare going well for you. Have a safe travel through it all. Sorry if i bothered you in any way.
one decade later, i never had the same experience and feeling when i heard this the first time in this game.
The deeper you look into the HL/Portal universe, the more lovecraftian and hopeless it looks. Chell wins only to be dragged back in. Every attempt to stop the Black Mesa incident was all for not, as Nihilanth had ripped a gap that let the combine into Earth.
And it's even more scary with Epistle 3.
I believe Chell got killed by a antlion or a overwatch combine
the nihilanth did that??
Lovecraftian is wrong word unless there is a LOT of lore I don't know about.
Lovecraftian implies a focus on the unknown, and more specifically the incomprehensible.
@@ltloxa1159 Unknown and incomprehensible is probably a good description of the Combine. Maybe not the franchise as a whole, but definitely the Combine itself.
Radio version just sounds better, the poor audio quality makes it sound more somber, the boom of the piano pounds your heart and makes it ache. This version will always be better no matter what.
true
agreed
It almost makes the lyrics sound like they have more emotion the way the radio effects them
@@TravisaInc I like how you came back 2 years just to say agreed after saying true lol
@Anouar1347 they had probably returned to this video a few years later and forgot their initial reply to OC and replied again.
*If you close your eyes while listening to this, you will see a rusty metal room has cans, toaster computers, other garbages, paintings on walls, and a radio. You came here with the knowledge of getting out the test chamber. You hear a passionate music between loud machine noises...*
agreed
Undertale ahh description
I like this version better because it sounds so...beaten down....
Hard to describe.....
Justin Batchelor this music have eho
why this make me cry?
@@AmerikaKraut I think because it's related to Rattmann, whose story is really touching, sad... I almost cried while reading "Lab Rat" ending... A man so opressed, schizofrenic, whose only friend was a cube. Hiding for weeks, months, maybe years in claustrophobic chambers, eating cammed bean soup. The radio playing it is found in one of his many abandoned hideouts... Just playing there faintly... With this beautiful piano, sad voice... It's just there... Left alone... As op said... Beaten down
@@pinkraven4402 Thank you my friend
@@AmerikaKraut I hope you're fine by the way bro! ❤️ Remember that Rattmann didn't give up at the end! 🥰
Thank you valve for making my childhood....before you went silent
When I heard this song in my dream this morning, I thought he said Parrot Isle instead of Vilify.
The song you play when the 2010s are over
We will never come back our memories will be always there, out of our reach. We are forever exiled from the past.
Antonius625 Yeah....
That hit me hard wtf
@@paprika059 it hit me as hard as when tommy was exiled from L'Manberg
@@TravisaInc my liver fucking failed because of how cringy this was. I bet you werent even alive when portal 1 came out
this fucking song man.
melancholic, mesmerizing, somehow magnetic, all while giving off an air of futility... but the part that has stuck with me the most is my emotional reaction. listening to it felt vivid yet surreal. like a song i had already heard somewhere in the back of my head, echoing up from the depths of my soul.
all elements of this song (also including the in-game art, the way you find it already playing long before you arrive and rattmann’s backstory because the song is about him) come together to make an atmosphere that is nothing short of profound. i thought it reflective of life’s beautiful, frightening impermanence
The cake is a cry
R.I.P
this made me laugh thank you
LOL
Its-a-me, Mario! The caik-is-a-cry!
When I close my eyes it takes me to the exact room... listening TO this will never get old
agreed
This sounds better than the original. Don't ask why. It just does.
Why
@@zombies1x idk its probably because this is the version that you hear in portal 2 and its a really good and nostalgic song
@SCP FSD, I posted that comment as in for a joke, cause he said, “Don’t ask *Why*”
@SCP FSD But nice taste in music 🤙
Why
It's okay bro if you cry... we all need to cry a little to still live on.
agreed
Do I have 0 emotion or something. Am I even human? Idk why on every video like this I see everyone being really emotional and Im just sitting there like
@@Zebrage not everyone feels the same about stuff. It doesn't mean you're inhuman, you probably just process stuff differently.
@@springshowers4754 👍🏻
For some version, I distinctly remember a female accompanying voice on, “Vilify… don’t even try.”
I think there's a backing vocalist, probably easier heard on the studio version
this one brings me right back in that fkin room. original version just sounds dope
**playing Minecraft**
friend:i need to sleep see you later
me:ok bye
*last seen:5 years ago*
dude bro my steam friends list is a cemetery they have litereally dieded
*the band is the national, once you listen to their music, your brain and yoyr mentality is no longer the same... i recommended listening to these songs:
brilliant man
apartment story
the geese of beverly roads
youve done it again virgina
american mary
perfect song
cold girl fever
*
Does anyone get a wall-E feeling
Me
Yep
Yes
Now that you mention it.
Yeah
i can picture hearing this song, in a war torn town, you and your small crew occupy the now ruins of the town you once called home
agreed
Half life 2 😔👌
When I found this song it wasn’t even from Portal, I heard it and I could never find what it was called, I went years searching and wondering.
Eventually I bought Portal 1 and 2 and when I heard this song… gosh, it was a moment to not be forgotten.
I've been feeling really isolated this last couple of years. Lately this song has been on my mind a lot. I think I need help.
Hey man you are not alone. So many people in the world feel the same. I hope you take great care and never lose hope.
@@ElephantsDoingCrack agreed
The first time I heard this song made me cry...
What a cool thing to happen upon, I played Portal 2 the day it came out so I couldn't be spoiled, it was so exciting!
This makes me feel more feels than the original
this is just one of the most nostalgic heart filling songs from portal and it really reminds me of the chamber it came from and it just sounds great the radio effect just booms the piano makes my heart ache
you definitely didnt just rewrite the top comment
@@Inexpressable quite litterly didn’t
'the radio effect just booms the piano makes my heart ache'
Alex918: 'Radio version just sounds better, -- the boom of the piano pounds your heart and makes it ache.'
definitely not rewritten lol
@@Inexpressable it’s not I don’t care what you say tbh I wrote that randomly a while ago and I was speaking facts and so was he I can’t imagine being so pressed over a comment that sounds similar to someone else’s over a portal song 😂
@@Hidden_gamingwr pointing something out = being 'pressed' about it 😂
This is the song I played when I lost my favorite friends in my neighborhood. I still miss them a lot but we all grew up and moved on...
does it feel like a trial
Hahaha it feels like you
so this is what they mean by "real music"
agreed
welp gotta listen to this version now...
This song was one of my few Companions in portal
This song makes remember my childhood and im listening to this since i lost my friend i had for a long time im also mentally sad right now
Kinda sad jack didnt find this but not too bothered
Thanks I was looking for this everywhere, but I couldn't find it, thank you!!! ^_^
This hits harder even after 2 years as many people have made SFM's on this song including Once upon a time in 2Fort, ngl I love this song
agreed
I was playing Portal 2 again, then I found this song in a radio and I shocked...
Jesus, I did the walkthrough multiple times and never knew this track was actually IN the game
How could one find it?
I'm a bit late on this, but it's located at Test Chamber 03 in Chapter 2, The Cold Boot. Test Chamber 3 is a room with a raised platform that rises out of the ground when you enter. Follow the right wall and you should see a gap. Head down that gap and turn left, the radio is there.
@@UnstoppablePhoenix To add to this: It's the same chamber you can see in the loading screen when you load the game from a save file where you were in Chapter 2.
I found it and just took the radio with me lol
now that we have the answer for one; how does two find it?
@@timtipton4538 somehow modify the game so that you can do single player maps in co-op mode
Heard this in game then searched it up its a good song
I added this as custom music to a mod for a game that I'm making
edit 9/19/23: it fell through but im doing other things now
I find it really somber to think about a potentially abandoned radio station, broadcasting to the remnants of humanity.
Seeing as Portal takes place in the same world as Half-Life, I can't help but think about the few families or groups of people, trying to get by in a broken world tormented and ravaged by the Combine. It's very grim. But a yet somehow a faint glimmer of hope remains. Hope for things to get better even if it seems completely impossible.
I remember hearing this on the radio where 2 lasers and one cube is!
I wonder why GLaDOS (who surely must control all the transmissions in the facility) chose to play this for Chell? Even before Wheatley, was the part of her that is Caroline trying to reach out?
If you try to desern what GLaDOS has and hasn't got controll over you run into massive plotholes. Most of them because of Portal 2 doing som retconing.
Anyway for most of Portal 2 it seems like GLaDOS only controlls the self-building testing chambers and whatever functions stop the facility from exploding. The signal could be comming from anywhere else.
As for how much controll Caroline would have had it is Probably extremly minor. It isn't a Caroline-machine with a built in testing addiction, it was more likely first ment to run the place, with the hope being that Cave could uppload himself to oversee it. After his death Caroline was upploaded against her will, whitch apparently might have stuck in the machine making it murderous. (We know she likes revange)
Then cores where added to controll her behavior but instead (atleast this is how I headcannon it) just drowned out Caroline preventing her from calming down.
Am I crazy or does Chell sing too in this version?
from 2:08
but not always
no I am not crazy I AM NOT CRAZY
I CAN HEAR HER
NotASpyReally when does she sing ?
You Are Not Crazy,There Are 2 Voices From Matt Berninger, (The National Singer) Its A Little Glitch,On ITunes Version Is Corrected,In The .Flac Version Still That Double Voice
NotASpyReally You're crazy. Chell does not speak.
Ral Diaz thank you :o but the second voice sounds like female that's why I thought it was Chell
3 is one of the turrets.
I Just can't stop smiling... why? I don't know...
agreed
For me, portal 1 and 2 are the best games valve ever made and ever existed, for me its better than half Life.
As 90% of the comments allready said. This just work so much better like this.
and all of the end after that
The second dislike was Wheatley.
R.I.P Doug Rattmann
Actually people said he died but you can hear him talking in one of the dens so maybe he survived
@@TheRandomRager Actually it's his ghost/phantom
Listened to this with headphones. Would not and will recommend
Really static. Good job
I like This one
I think Exile Vilify is sung and is about Doug Rattman.
It was so wonderful and precious that moment because you're listening to this masterpiece around the poor installations of Aperture Science ❤.
Me meeting a friend at a birthday party and not seeing them for three years now
Its only me, or is this a different version from the original "The National" release
Этой публикации 12 лет.... У меня слёзы
It sounds better on radio
You can barely hear most of the instruments
@@dan74695 eh still sounds good
@@Zebrage Yeah, but it sounds better when you can hear every instrument.
I am being honest. I listen to this song while chatting in Discord, because it sounds nice for some reason.
If this song isn’t in the Portal movie I will riot
chell sings at 3:46 0-0
2 years later and this is still funny lmao
I heard a female voice when the song says "vilify"
A recording of sad music history 🎹🎻😢📻
do 0.25 speed for sadder music
Cool
I think I only found this once. I don't remember what chamber it's in anymore, but I'm pretty sure PotaDOS/GLaDOS is with you at the time. (I forgot how to find the Rattman Dens, despite playing Portal 2 a lot.) I wanted to find it on my last playthrough, which I finished literally just before typing this, but I was so distracted by trying to get the Smash TV achievement that I forgot.
nope, it’s in chapter 2, test chamber 3
It’s super simple to find
@@bloodscar246 Oh, yeah.
I can see pictures
Can you hear sounds too? Because I can. And they are great around here.
When you thought it was 4am so you shut both doors, and you double check after a while only to realize your at 13% and it is 2am:
agreed
@@TravisaInc Ye
the 1 dislike was GLADoS
The one disslike on this comment is for capitalising GLaDOS wrong.
She made several alternate accounts just to dislike this video
It's Brandon umm aka "Gaster" I love the portal song great jod 😀👍
One of the only songs that sounds worse with headphones lol
God save the queen-
sus
Yeah, pretty sure he vented.
Hes a werido who cant explain why he likes this. Trust me bud its not for you. Agreed?