By John Walker on October 4th, 2007 at 8:15 pm.
Valve have just announced that The Orange Box is to have one more disc inside. A single, written by the excellent geek-turned-geek-singer, Jonathan Coulton, and members of the Valve writing staff, is to accompany the five games already bulging its cardboardy edges. (Presumably those ordering through Steam will be given a download).
Maddeningly (for both you and me), I know what the song is, and I will be murdered if I say. And I also know that I thought only yesterday, “Valve really ought to release that song as a single.” So clearly my thoughts control Valve’s actions. Know this: it’s incredibly good.
I’m just off to think about Valve giving me a well-paid job on their writing staff now.
04/10/2007 at 20:21 Dan says:
Do you reckon we can make it number one?
04/10/2007 at 20:37 John Walker says:
With single sales in both the UK and America, I think it should pretty much qualify on pre-orders alone.
Someone should point that out to Valve.
04/10/2007 at 22:03 Marco M. says:
Better than the Team Fortress 2 theme that I’m obsessively listening over and over and using to wake up in the morning since around a week?
04/10/2007 at 22:09 Kast says:
I’ve been listening to the HL2 soundtrack a lot lately. And even more than that, Absconditus by Zhaytee for MINERVA. And I’ve just noticed he’s released five more tunes for the latest release – I’ll have to download them when I’m next on my desktop. Anyway, check ‘em out here:
http://zhaymusic.com/music/mp3/zhaytee-absconditus.mp3
04/10/2007 at 22:15 Pentadact says:
Way better. I’m a fan of Coulton’s zombie memo Re: Your Brains, but this song tops it. Had it stuck in my head for a week after. John, did you notice the… other version of it? Early on?
04/10/2007 at 22:26 John Walker says:
Shhhhhhhhhh Tom! Shhhhhhhhhhhh!
04/10/2007 at 23:54 Miles says:
I wasn’t going to buy the orange box UNTIL NOW
05/10/2007 at 01:16 James Lyon says:
It better not be a cover of REM’s Orange Crush, with the ‘Crush’ replaced with ‘Box’
“Team Fortress 2, Team Fortress 2. / I’ve got my Steam, I’ve got my Orange Box.
Portal too, Portal too. / I’ve got my Steam, I’ve got my Orange Box.”
05/10/2007 at 07:22 Freelancepolice says:
I want the TF2 theme :(
05/10/2007 at 09:40 solios says:
Follow me, don’t follow me… I’ve got a Mac, I want the Orange Box….
05/10/2007 at 11:17 James Lyon says:
I think I’ve confused Jonathan Coulton with Weird Al Yankovic.
05/10/2007 at 12:00 Marco M. says:
Freelancepolice: you can find the TF2 theme in mp3 format in the following folder:
\Steam\steamapps\[yourSteamIdHere]\team fortress 2\tf\sound\ui
05/10/2007 at 12:14 Gulag says:
It’s the song the engineer was strumming in his vid, isn’t it?
05/10/2007 at 16:24 Mike says:
Wow! Having heard the song, I am so excited that we’re getting this on a nice shiny CD.
I’m going to be listening to it all the way through launch day on my headphones and cackling because my officemates won’t have… ahem… experienced it.
05/10/2007 at 18:21 MaW says:
Do we still get it if we’ve bought the Orange Box on Steam?
05/10/2007 at 22:38 Masked Dave says:
Yes.
However, does the song not count as a spoiler for Episode 2? Should I not listen to it until after playing? (I really hate spoilers.)
06/10/2007 at 01:35 John Walker says:
You should definitely not listen to it before playing the Orange Box.
08/10/2007 at 19:16 Liz says:
Oh. Such an excellent song! I like to listen to it on repeat.
Beat the games first. Then listen to it.
18/05/2009 at 19:29 Smurfy says:
Bump because I live in a bin!