Just came by to say I’m going to be using the phrase “putting the romance back in necromancy” from now on. It’s awesome. I haven’t figured out the best context to use it in but I’m sure I’ll come up with something...
"I want to marry Herbert since he has a power once reserved for God." has always struck me as such a funny lyric, even in a song full of them. 'Why do you want to marry your sweetheart?' 'He's really nice to me and has a stable career, you?' 'He has a power once reserved for God.'
@@jackhudson8439 Ah, literal plagiarism. Much worse than figurative plagiarism. Also, you don't seem to understand parody- which IS covered under the fair use clause.
Yeah, it is an oddly uplifting outlook on a reference to the Necronomicon. "That is which not dead can eternal lie, and in strange aeons even death may die."
@@kalinystazvoruna8702 I have my doubts on that. The possibility of multiple vast universes interacting and producing energy and matter from their contact like one of the creation ideas connected to M theory is more palatable.
@@Sukharno2121 OUR universe will probably die, but I think you are correct in thinking that M theory postulates multiple universes. Those may not only not die with ours, but may, possibly, be in the process of being created right now as well. Who know?
Henry Armitage: (spoken) Good heavens, are these human cadavers? Herbert West: (spoken) Indeed they are. Henry Armitage: (spoken) What on earth do you intend to do with them? Herbert West: To life, to life, I'll bring them. I'll bring all these dead men to life. Prudence Armitage: He's found a way for surviving them-- Herbert West: Really reviving them. Prudence Armitage: He can do it. To life, to life, he brings them. Herbert West: I really do bring them to life. I have a genius with chemicals-- Prudence Armitage: Also polemicals. Herbert West: Yes, it's true, there's been strife. Henry Armitage: This is really the most shocking thing I've ever heard and I have heard a few. Prudence Armitage: Oh, it's really not so shocking. If you were a dead man, you might like it too. Herbert West: To life, to life, I'll bring them with one small injection like this! Prudence Armitage: Think of it, Papa, we'll never die, live for forever-- Henry Armitage: My! Herbert West: 'Cause I bring them to life! Henry Armitage: (spoken) Well, I must say, this is amazing. Herbert West: (spoken) I began experimenting on small animals of various kinds and perfected a solution which reanimates dead tissue. Prudence Armitage: (spoken) See, Papa? Henry Armitage: (spoken) Yes. Herbert West: (spoken) When I was sure my solution worked, I began to test it on human subjects. Prudence Armitage: (spoken) Here, Papa. Henry Armitage: (spoken) Hmm, that is fascinating. Herbert West: (spoken) And in the end I was even able to convince Dr. Halsey that my methods were sound. Prudence Armitage: (spoken) And here he is. Dr. Halsey: To life, to life, he brought me. Herbert West: Ha. I brought Dr. Halsey to life. Of course I first had to kill the man with some ingenious plan. Prudence Armitage: He just shot him-- Herbert West: Okay! It's true I shot him. I shot him but brought him to life. He has no reason to want to live. I do: she's yours to give, Prudence here, as my wife. Prudence Armitage: Oh Papa dear, I want to marry Herbert since he has a power once reserved for God. Henry Armitage: I never could say "no" to you, my darling, even though young West should face a firing squad. Prudence & Herbert: To life, to life, we'll bring it! Prudence Armitage: A marriage-- Herbert West: For better-- Henry Armitage: Or worse. Prudence & Herbert: And if that life has no quality, still there's the quantity. We will bring it to life! Dr. Halsey: Die die die (repeated for thirty seconds). Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Death is sweet to [unintelligible] fhtagn. Dance and know that even death can wither and die. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. Death will surely come to fhtagn. Dance and know that even death can wither and die. Even life eternal is not time enough to see all the folly and despair of all humanity.(moaning) (screaming)
“Oh Alfred dear, I want to be a Vileblood, just because I found this wedding ring of yore.” “I never could say no to you, Good Hunter, even though their Queen should be a mound of gore.”
heh. I think Herbert West is one of my favourite Lovecraft characters, I mean, the guy is a genius! He invented a way to reanimate dead flesh, and if he can get to the corpse before brain death, I think he can be rather successful! But it's after the brain dies that he runs into trouble, understandably...
Paper Phoenix Well, if you mean this musical, Shoggoth on the Roof, then yes. But all of Lovecraft’s works are in the public domain with no copyright so as long as it had an original score it’d be perfectly legal.
Mattie Sheldon it’s perfectly legal I have no doubt about that. But it’s still not something you could ever have on West End. In addition, and I know that this is a matter of opinion, but it almost discards the brilliance of its predecessor.
As I recall this isn't the only way in the HPL-verse to bring someone back to life, but it's by far the easiest, since the other ways involve magic and tentacles and spooky outfits.
Kinda shows how in Ctulhu Mythos humans have the potential to rival other species and entities, instead of simply being the ones "whos sanity is blasted and then who usually dies"
I'm reading "Herber West - Reanimator" at the moment. The story's idea is just ingenious and so is the story itself! I want to buy the soundtrack for this this Cthulhu Musical!
11 years late and I'm sure you know, but for anyone the capricious algorithm sends here Shoggoth on the Roof is an album you can buy at the HP Lovecraft Historical Society's site.
I also own the Innsmouth sea shanty compilation and one of the Christmas song parody compilation the HPL Historical Society put out. The booklet that comes with the "deluxe edition" of the sea shanty comp is a pure delight!
I was listening to this while watching an old episode of Seinfeld. John O'Hurley showed up on TV and then the father in the song was singing. Now the father is voiced by John O'Hurley in my head. I'm fine with this considering how similar they sound at some parts.
I didn't say it was a bad picture (I think it is a very nice picture), I just stated that this particular song by HPLHS has nothing to do with Cthulhu, therefore the image of everyones favourite great old one is a little off. Lovecraft wrote many short stories, not just the ones about Cthulhu, and this song is based on "Herbert West - Reanimator".
@BeatlesRoxx13579 This song is from a Lovecraftian parody of Fiddler On The Roof, called "A Shoggoth On The Roof". It's available on an audio CD, however I'm not sure whether it was ever performed on stage (though if you ask me, it should be!).
Hu (or some other despairing syllable) wgah'nagl ftagn! Death is sweet to some, ftagn! Dance, and know that even death can wither and die! (Repeat, intersposed with 'Ia' by way of punctuation...) Even life eternal is not time enough to see All the folly and despair of poor humanity... Wgah'nagl ftagn! Death is sweet to some, ftagn! Dance, and know that even death can wither and die!
The song's name is..well "To Life". Actually that's the name of the original Fiddler on the Roof song as well, except there the context is..well, a bit different.
like Digitaaliklosetti said this is based (fairly loosely) on Herbert West Reanimator, and Lovecraft had admitted Reanimator was a parody/rip-off of Frankenstein, He personally was not satisfied with the story and claims to have only written it because the pulp magazine it was published in paid him like 5 buck per chapter (5 dollars of course being alot back in 1922)
@Tanksareforcowards Well, unless you know that it's short from the verse in Lovecraft's novels: "It's not dead which eternal may lie, through strange eons even death may die." It refers to the resurrection of forces that used to rule the planet and want it back, preferrably without the humans, except maybe for light snack.
It literally can't be, because it's a play on Fiddler on the Roof, and while satire and fair use go a bit of a ways, this is literally the same musical score for Fiddler song for song, changing the lyrics doesn't give them permission to satire it. They need permission from the original creator (Which they don't have) Why HPLS listed it as the play that will never be performed.
@kranay If you looked on the HPLHS website, you can find the script along with the cd for sale which I believe will have the lyrics within. Hope this helps. (;,;)
She's pretty explicit about marrying for personal gain rather than love, isn't she? I'm surprised she's so open about her motive of marrying into immortality when her prospective husband is right there, but I suppose it's not so out of place in the time's ethics.
