The Best Cover You Will Hear This Week - Portal's "Still Alive" Performed by a Laser Beam

No this is not a tiny recreation of when Goldfinger attempted to create an amusing death for 007. It is however the coolest cover song you will hear this week and the best mash up of using high technology to create music in unusual ways. Ladies and gentlemen, Jonathan Coulton's "Still Alive", as performed by an Automated Laser Corporation 20 watt fiber laser and a stainless steel plate. Yes, really.

Take it away Laser Steel! (which is a better name if they ever want to play Coachella)



Insert the sound of wild applause, here.

Now, just a suggestion, but perhaps YouTube composer chjade84 will consider the following laser-themed songs for the follow up to "Still Alive" or to include on a future album by his new band.

David Bowie/Ava Cherry And The Astronettes "I Am A Laser"
Marc Bolan and T. Rex "Laser Love" 
Queen "Killer Queen" ("...dynamite with a laser beam...")
Fountains of Wayne "Laser Show"
After the Fire "Laser Love Song"
Simon Curtis "Laser Guns Up"
Genghis Tron "Laser Bitch"
Arctic Monkeys "Love is a Laserquest"
Demon's Claws "Laserbeams"
Jessie J featuring David Guetta "LaserLight"
And of course, Dethklok "Laser Cannon Deth Sentence"

Please make this happen, chjade84. The world needs to hear more from Laser Metal.



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