"There's worse things than death here, there's loss and there's silence and sadness"

this song made me realize what it means to be so hopeless that you come back around to hoping for something

"I WILL NOT BE TOLD WHERE TO STAND! I WILL NOT BE TOLD WHAT TO SAY!"

It’s 2021. I know a total of zero things about Megaman and being told this album is about Megaman was a total kick in the gut. I was so enthralled by the story and and seeing it’s Megaman isn’t bad at all, it’s just bonkers and now I sound like an absolute madman trying to get people to listen to it. “Yes it’s about Megaman- no, no I don’t know anything about Megaman either you don’t have to- where are you going?”

Breaking Out - Keep Quiet - Light Up the Night is a _perfect triad_

''You gonna have to do better than Fear!'' Epic

This band and these albums are so goddamn amazing, but I have the hardest time explaining them to people without sounding like a crazy person. "IT'S A MEGAMAN ROCK OPERA! BUT NOT LAME!? JUST SHUT UP AND LISTEN."

It just hit me that you can kind of hear the same tune as The Hounds in this, just with different instruments. Considering that The Hounds is about how Wily used fear and lies to take over a city that's already going to hell, and this may well be the beginning of the end for his rule (a very long end, and possibly one for the city as a whole, but and end nonetheless), that's fucking brilliant.

This song is so visual, you can see Joe and the Robot driving neck to neck, before finally standing off, you can see Joe try to fight this machine, see him ready to go down fighting, and him defeating it with the help of light.

Between Protoman, Megaman, and Joe, only Joe was a true hero. Joe was only human, but he was free. Even when no one would stand with him, even when no one would fight with him, Joe refused to submit. Such a man has only two options: Absolute victory, or death. Proto and Mega had neither.

Okay, okay. It didn't happen over night, but the protomen are now my favorite band. And by a mile. Had to give it a few listens, but I can't stop loving these guys. amazing. Act 3 please.

i think this is probably the best song on this album.

the songs from act 2 are basically from every 80's movie ever PERIOD. Not to say they are Generic, Which they are most certainly not, it's just that they borrow bits and pieces of inspiration from all over the place.

Impressive. Way to reproduce that 80's sound and feel on this track. Bravo!

With the new Megaman game coming out, I really hope people remember about The Protomen and give them another listen.

Amazing how they can take something like the plot of Megaman and turn into into a rock opera that makes you feel more emotions and paints a picture better than movies you’ll see in theatres.

Personally, it was something of the inverse for me. I saw Protoman as a manifestation of Light's ego, desire for peace and rage at Wily. As such, I figured Protoman was the young Light. Then when he dies, Megaman is built in a fit of sorrow, fear and self-sacrifice, the same sacrifice world Joe was raised in. If Joe was Protoman, I wouldn't particularly fit with 'The Stand (Man or Machine)', because that song really emphasizes how Protoman doesn't believe in humanity, while Mega/Joe still does.

Gods almighty. I haven't heard a singer so good in YEARS. YEARS!

It's uncanny, this album contains some of the only songs that I will drop everything just to sing along/move to the music. I can't wait for Act III

I imagine that Protoman has more than a bit of Joe in him, to be completely fair. I read somewhere that the Sniper Joes were named so by Dr. Wily after (spoiler) the real Joe died, just so Wily could laugh at Dr. Light's mortified face. And then Dr. Light took that Joe's designs and built Protoman with them, which is confirmed in Protomen canon (though it's the inverse in Megaman canon). So, in a way, Protoman can be interpreted as Joe.

I will get tired of 80's synth tom rolls. I have no idea why, but there's something so amazing about them.

I wasn't aware these guys existed until I watched VGHS. I've been hooked since then.

If you don't buy both acts of The Protomen, you have no right to call your music collection complete.

Wow. In most videos, you get people bitching that they don't want to hear intellectuals analyze songs and their philosophic meaning. Your comment is refreshing, thank you. With regard to the Protomen, they are heroic and talented, and the heroism is not the same altruistic propaganda we are told to admire. Their heroism is about real courage, conviction, individualism, and sincere pride.

"I WILL NOT BE TOLD WHAT TO SAY!!!!" Chills everytime.

yeah i always kind of figured that under his helmet protoman looks like joe. mega just looks like young light

Saw them in concert last night at PAX. Third time seeing them this year. They absolutely murder, every single time. It's unreal.

at the end of the song the robot sings back the chorus of the song to Joe, most look at this thinking that the robot is just mocking Joe, but what if it agrees? what if it has something worse than death to fear from Wiley?

Scary, but this song takes on new life when we take into account how it applies to cities and events like the Hong Kong Protests.

What truly makes this track so powerful thematically is the classic mega man guitar riff that pervades the entire run time

Honestly surprised no one has made an 8-bit rendition of this yet. >.> It would sound SOOO amazing.

This is why I always keep on coming back to listen to this song.

2020 and I am not quiet!!

I've seen your face in the shadows I've seen your face in the places I wasn't meant to be I've heard them whisper about you I've heard the men in the bars And I've seen the women lock their doors at night Lock your doors tonight They say your eyes are on fire They say you'd kill a man for walking the wrong side of the line Wrong side of the line But men, they say a lot of foolish things And in the end the only words I can find to believe in are mine They say: This city, she's been dead for years now For years now So death is not something that scares me That scares me There's worse things than death here They told me (Keep quiet) I will not be told where to stand! I will not be told what to say! Not by man or machine! Not by you, not by anyone tonight! You're gonna have to do better than fear! You're gonna have to step out of the shadows and fight! And when they see your face again They will know what it means to have fear dragged out into the light Drag it out! They say: This city, she's been dead for years now For years now So death is not something, not something that scares me That scares me So come on! Come on! Step into the light! This city, she's been dead for years now For years now So death is not something that scares me That scares me There's worse things Than death here There's loss and there's silence and sadness So come on Come on! Just open your mouths and revive it Ooh, aaah Ooh, aaah Ooh, aaah Just open your mouths and revive it!

This song has never been more relevant than it is now

I love how smooth the transitions some of their songs have.

OMG!!!!!! This music made my day!!! I thank my government for not playing this music in the public radios. Because otherwise people would frankly jump out of their cars and dance! =DDDDD Thanks for creating this piece of art! Cheers from Sweden and keep up the good work!

Congrats Protomen, this song is awesome for one. Secondly, y'all made it on Rock Band 4, props.

don't know how I stumbled on these guys or what they're from, but they sound fantastic

I wish this song didn’t feel so relevant to the times we are living in.

We will grow beards in a day! Man would cower at the sight.

It's intereesting what shows up on the youtube feeds if you type "keep quiet"

First time I listened to this with headphones... Dear god, the chills!

my favourite Protomen song

what the hell is this ? why i 've just discoverd this .thanks youtube suggestions

i love it ! ♥

Love that chorus!

I just found out about Protomen (this is the first track I hear from them), and this is amazing. It has this weird feeling I can't describe, it feels familiar and new at the same time. Too bad they're not touring in Europe, I read the live performance were really worth it. I wish their CDs were available in my country, not just some used import overpriced copies :/

LincolnLogsv2 They waited so long for this day, someone to take peach fuzz away. No son would ever have to say "My father's beard was really lame".

omg love the 80s vibe. great song man !

so 80s - so lovely - so great! :)

playing that opening riff on guitar is so goddamn satisfying ... :D

Y'know some of the lyrics really reflect where I am in life at the moment. I'm trying to get a fly out of my room. Edit as of a week later: Can confirm it stepped out of the shadows to fight, though I had to light up the night to get it to leave. Then another came for vengeance.

For years now. For years now.

God I fucking love this song

Nostalgia and VGHS

Hell yeah! A lot of freddiew works have molded my taste of music, in the best way possible.

If you check out the songs lyrics in lyricswikia, you'll find the... stage directions? which aren't sung and are quite relevant in many cases. In the case of LightingUpTheNight's videos, you have a link in every description already, so you don't even have to look it up.

Not as such. In the Megaman games, Sniper Joe was the name of a mass-production version of Protoman. Here, it's the reverse - Protoman's design was inspired by Joe's helmet, and in turn by the robot he took it from, which itself seems to be based on the Sniper Joe robot from the games (one red eye).

I'm gonna call it here that the house Joe used to live in is where Megaman has been living since Act I (and it's the lab/home from the Megaman games)

This is the best song in the album, in my opinion.

This + Hobo With A Shotgun = such epic win.

The Protomen are a group that has made a series of songs as a spinoff storyline involving Dr. Light and Dr. Wily. All within a rock-opera of sorts. Acts 1 and 2 are done, Act 3 is coming soon-ish.

Video game high school❤

This sounds like it just came out of an 80's movie.

THEY SAY (This city) THIS CITY (She's been dead) SHE'S BEEN DEAD FOR YEARS NOW (For years now) FOR YEARS NOW (For years now) SO DEATH IS (So death is) NOT SOMETHING (Not something) NOT SOMETHING THAT SCARES ME (That scares me) THAT SCARES ME (That scares me) THERE'S WORSE THINGS (There's worse things) THAN DEATH HERE (Than death here) THEY TOLD ME (Keep quiet)

I find it way easier to work/study listening to the Protomen. Hell, I'm doing it right now. Power through the code.

This song rocks. The ultimate cry of independence.

Anyone else notice that if the woman on the album cover stood up straight she'd be like 7 feet tall?

This song is f@#king amazing!

I spoke a little bit too soon - the digital version is available, but the physical version (that I personnaly prefer when it comes to things I like, and is strongly recommended "for the complete experience") can't be found on Amazon (non-US version). I'll see if the official website shop ships to europe for a good price.

Does anyone know the video of an animated Thom Yorke and bear doing a dance off to this song? There's also one that the same guy where they dance to Light Up The Night. I've been searching for so long and now I'm resorting to begging in the comment section, please help me.

Whoa whoa whoa. Wait. If the robot was saying the words Joe spoke at the end of the song, it can mean two things: one, it was mocking him for thinking those things, or an even more frightening thing: it was evolving, becoming like Joe, thinking like him, recognizing him as a worthy foe, and incorporating his likeness into itself: it had become a "Sniper Joe."

This group reminded me of the tunes from Kenny Loggins. Similar kinda groove to their songs

Algobump!

Very relevant.

seriously you dont have to be big to be a bad ass. a little heart and a little bravery go a long way. joe is the fuckin man!!!

goo ga da doo ga da doo!!!! Love it!

You should check the full album, even more if you are into megaman, the story is fucking great.

Pencil drumming is what gets me.

@steakwithsalt I actually think the Joe character and the Light character sound different. I don't want to start this whole big thing, but i believe the singer does a good job of showing the difference between two characters. either way, I love this band and can't wait for the next cd.

So 80s bruh

The only use of talkbox better than California Love

@PNhooligan I came when I heard this part. Then read along the lyrics. Then came again harder.

Another possibility could be that the robot is mocking Joe in his attempt to resist Wily's reign.

@TheDominicmacabre That's right, I forgot about that! Awesome moment. Anyway I actually agree with you that Joe and Light sound different, but a friend of mine still didn't even realize Joe existed.

Anyone know who the little guy on top of the giant Wily screen is meant to be? My current guess is the assassin but I'm not too sure.

in the end of the song with the robot saying shes been dead for years now, i wonder if it is still a little hung up over emily, or does it realize that the city is dead

I love how people just are listening to this only because of Video Game High School, Actually it saddens me, because they are just now hearing it. AND SHUT UP ABOUT VGHS ALREADY.

People like to complain that the humans at the end of Act I wouldn't have stood a chance against Wily's robots, or that attacking them would be silly. They oughta take lessons from Joe.

It's still a fucking pain sifting through here for some actual comments instead of fucking drones.

Mmm... dat intro!

@steakwithsalt And, light was the one to cut the machine's throat, an take the cranium casing to be a helmet for joe. Just saying. He kinda did take vengance.

*_JUST OPEN YOUR MOUTHS AND REVIVE IT!!!!_*

Joe is a badass and Lights only friend.

I'm feeling like a twelfth level pastry-master. Anyone else?

They ignorantly dismissed it because of what they thought it sounded like, rather than considering it for what it is. It's also out of context on its own, as it's part of a much larger rock opera.

Whose shadow is that on top of the building to the right?

Theme of London.

I came here from VGHS episode four