My favorite bit that didn't make it into this recording is during a live playing of this song after dealing with the Corpo, Leslie says "Ah you're a type O negative? Wonderful!" in the best tone of voice.

@CaptainUnreal

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that part cracked me up in that version. I prefer the more clean audio here, but the energy of playing live cannot be compared for this kind of songs

@H9092-2

2 жыл бұрын

@@CaptainUnreal I can see the evil grin

@Mutos4

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/l2itmpJrj7LaXc4.html

@H9092-2

Жыл бұрын

@@Mutos4 That's the one

@Mutos4

Жыл бұрын

The moment the crowd laughs and she drops that line in response ^⁠_⁠^ :⁠-⁠D

800 saved out of 1000 casualties, with beds for 94, is insanely good, by the way.

@nightstar1528

11 ай бұрын

And the fact they ran out of resources and were undertrained makes it a dang miracle they kept that many alive out of the 1000

@masterofdesaster8

8 ай бұрын

The narrator was kept away from patients since '82 because they were so good, they didn't leave any patients for other doctors...

@jj_the_ent

8 ай бұрын

YEA I WAS DOIN THE MATH AND GOODNESS THATS A HIGH SUCCESS RATE-

@bendriscoll6631

7 ай бұрын

And 200 dead would easily be the worst industrial disaster in U.S history.

@steveystovey

4 ай бұрын

@@bendriscoll6631I think there are a few that were more deadly, like the Texas City Disaster, but overall yes if this was real it’d have been one of the deadliest industrial disasters in US history.

What I love about this is that the buerocrat being bloodlettet is not some random act. The song explicitly says that they wanted costs to be low so one can imagine the minimal training of the workers.

@captain_rex5274

Жыл бұрын

Could you explain?

@centurion7993

11 ай бұрын

@@captain_rex5274low costs means that they likely skimped on training, thus the irony of him being bled dry, just as the workers he bled dry in the factory

"We did triage in the parking lot, ranked minor, major, grave A sad-eyed fireman gave the stroke to those we couldn't save" goddamn

@quickquestion-sg4gw

4 ай бұрын

I don't know many medical terms, what does it mean by "gave the stroke"?

@rawrthedinosawr9659

4 ай бұрын

@@quickquestion-sg4gw i assume some kind of euthanasia

@TheElegantPelican

4 ай бұрын

@@quickquestion-sg4gw The stroke of an axe, which means he used his axe to mercy kill the ones they couldent save

"He gave them blood transfusions tell he hadn't anymore" god damn, cooperate bloodsucker or not, what a hellish way to go

@Ultrawup

3 жыл бұрын

An ironic end for a bloodsucker, huh?

@recording_closet9100

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ultrawup yeah

@yehhuwiguhi2884

2 жыл бұрын

fact nobody would ever ask for: being blootlet is actually physically not that bad. a solid chunk of the population find it pleasurable once the initial pain is over/mitigated.

@mrtortoise3766

2 жыл бұрын

@@yehhuwiguhi2884 well yeah it probably makes you rather lightheaded and almost high after the pain

@MasterCookies

2 жыл бұрын

actually, thats pretty good way to go, you just fall asleep.

This was the first Leslie Fish song I ever heard - if it wasn't for this, I'd never have gotten into filk! It's weird to think about XD

@richellmcknight446

3 жыл бұрын

The first one I heard her sing was The Leslac Version- I wasn't sure if it was a man or woman, but the song was great and I was fascinated by the genre- and I found the whole new world of Filk!Leslie is amazing, I've learned a lot about music from learning hers! I wish I could meet her, and play with her, I bet she's a hoot!🤩💗

@michaelbujaki2462

2 жыл бұрын

Flight 93 was my first.

When I play Frostpunk and all my people start getting sick because I forgot to turn on the heater, and suddenly all my medical facilities are full, I think of this song.

@mkb7001

11 ай бұрын

Now I wonder what Leslie Fish would sing on top of "The City Must Survive".

I think everyone hopes that if they get put in a situation like this, that they'll have the courage to do the right thing even if it breaks the law.

@SuspectXX

3 жыл бұрын

The law is subjective, what's right is not.

@mrtortoise3766

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuspectXX it’s not supposed to be subjective fortunately it tends to work out for people who have done something good while breaking the law

@MasterCookies

2 жыл бұрын

@@SuspectXX Its kinda other way around.

@sapphicvibes2796

2 жыл бұрын

​@@MasterCookies you know in you heart what is right and good you do not know in your heart what is lawful. do what you've always been told and follow your heart

@gryphonbotha1880

Жыл бұрын

@@MasterCookies Law is a mound of malleability hiding in an unbendable trenchcoat. There's a reason why lawyers, the experts of the law, are able to get the seemingly-clear rules to mean just about anything.

What powerful and emotion-heavy lyrics, a morbidly fascinating narrative indeed

"...And can you keep your hip? Your backbone or your heart? We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart." Always loved that line.

@Nicarambas

Жыл бұрын

Shouldn't that first line read "And can you keep your head?"? Makes a bit more sense in a crisis situation, I think.

@kyrrekausrud5960

Жыл бұрын

Keep your head. Yours is funnier, but I'm pretty sure she says "head". It also makes more sense in context.

I cry everytime i listen to this. Leslie paints such a vivid picture in the song i can't help but cry.

Allegedly inspired by the Bhopal disaster. Although the bit about finding a use for the corporate bloodsucker is wishful thinking...

@18Hongo

3 жыл бұрын

I just learned some of the details of the Bhopal disaster last week (I knew of it, but didn't know much), and the song immediately reminded me of it. Other wishful thinking in this song would include: 1. The hospital hearing the explosion (at Bhopal, the police weren't alerted until 45 minutes after the leak started, and the hospital wasn't notified until over an hour later. Even then, the factory wouldn't tell them what substance had leaked, and since the facility produced and processed numerous toxic substances, the hospital staff were running blind until they finally got the name of the poison). 2. The efficiency of the response: again, this wasn't the fault of the emergency services; the factory didn't give adequate information on the substance itself, how much had leaked, or when the leak had started, so planning and conducting an appropriate response was impossible. 3. The type of disaster; a factory explosion, even in a facility that employed most of the town, would probably be fairly confined. In Bhopal, hundreds of thousands of people were affected, and although less than 3000 died in the first two days following the leak, a large percentage suffered long-term effects. There's been some very weird cancers in the city since then, which I'm sure Union Carbide would say has nothing to do with that time they accidentally dusted the city with a lethal poison. But yeah, after Union Carbide's response, and the revelations that one of their factories in the US had already been found to be at risk of poisoning the local area (the report on that factory wasn't sent to the Bhopal facility), being forcibly exsanguinated seems like a fairly reasonable punishment.

@tomasg851

2 жыл бұрын

Have to admit it also reminds me of the Halifax explosion as well.

@d.b.624

2 жыл бұрын

@@tomasg851 There was no attempt to cover up Halifax, though.

@tomasg851

2 жыл бұрын

@@d.b.624 no but there was a hilarious amount of blame pinning over who was at fault,tho both are beyond fucked up tragedies,I've read a few books on bophol and man it was terrifying

@snelson134

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, I wouldn't count on that.... I really wouldn't.

pov: you are the chief medical officer on a nanotrasen space station

@glyphee

2 жыл бұрын

This played on a round where I was one. Luckily the casualties weren't nearly as high.

Just a little general hospital, in a little factory town. The board put me in charge for mainly keeping prices down. I hadn't touched a patient since 1982, But the day of the explosion I remembered what to do. At eleven in the morning, we all heard the factory blow. The blast took out the windows, and the shrapnel fell like snow. We could get no help from out of town for half a day or more. We had near a thousand casualties and beds for ninety-four. Chorus: And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. It was worse than combat medicine; supplies were draining fast. Bandages ran out and antiseptics wouldn't last. I took all the able-bodied I could catch inside the door And made them help the doctors to go scrounge supplies and more. I invented laws to tell them saying in such emergency Forget your usual job and boss, your orders come from me. I sent the cops to commandeer anything in reach: Food or disinfectant cloth or alcohol or bleach. The janitor ran cleanup squad, the cook maintained supplies, The garbageman removed the ones who died before our eyes. The clerks burned all our papers to boil water on the fire For sterilizing instruments, as the body count went higher. A local healthfood herbalist brought everything he had. The painkillers were useful, and the poultices weren't bad. A smack and cocaine pusher handed us his whole supply. The quality was lousy, but a few more didn't die. We did triage in the parking lot, ranked minor, major, grave. A sad-eyed fireman gave the stroke to those we couldn't save. Then sometime in the chaos, a director wandered in To tell us we were breaking rules, what trouble we'd be in. But if we'd swear the factory was not the fire's cause, And the harm was accidental, he'd forget the broken laws. The staff sneaked up and grabbed him, and tied him to a door. He gave them blood transfusions 'till he hadn't any more. (musical interlude) When that day was over, and we'd saved all that we could, We saw that law and politics would hang us where we stood. We'd saved eight hundred lives but shattered all authority. I told them, "People, save yourselves, put all the blame on me." I took my books and instruments, and a few supplies beside, Packed my car and ran away to open countryside. So now I live an outlaw, condemned by righteous men, But for all the lives I saved that day ... I'd do it all again. And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? You'll all find out the answers on the day it falls apart

leslie fish is a treasure

This is a heck of an origin story for a Cyberpunk Ripperdoc, just saying.

@alpham777

9 ай бұрын

This is the DLC I need.

standard ss13 rounds hold captain down and draining him of blood to keep others alive

People always assume that Anarchism is "chaos". No. THIS is anarchism.

@MasterCookies

2 жыл бұрын

This is not anarchism, she was in charge.

@Owlpunk

2 жыл бұрын

@@MasterCookies yeah, fair enough.

@Crazael

2 жыл бұрын

@@MasterCookies How in charge she was isn't clear, but she was absolutely an administrator. And she absolutely overstepped her authority. She even says so.

@sabotabby3372

2 жыл бұрын

@@MasterCookies anarchists respect expertise moreso than authority like, you'd be hard pressed even within the most radical anarchist circles to find someone who *wouldn't* defer to the doctors experience in a mass casualty incident

@TH3W0LF100

Жыл бұрын

@@sabotabby3372 The word for that is "Meritocracy". When you elect the most capable person for a position. True anarchy can't be achieved in a group because it would be self defeating. A hierarchy will be established willingly or not.

That poor firefighter had to mercy kill those who couldn’t be saved , undoubtedly he used either a Axe or pry bar that man ( if real ) would need serious therapy but saved life’s by taking those who couldn’t be saved

hell yes

I was Head of Security on a Space Station 13 server and I ended up working for the Chief Medical officer doing triage because there was: Mold+giant spiders, another mold+giant mosquitoes, Pirates, and meteors smashing the space station, and an EMP blob eating the gravity generator. As a Synth, I could not help my men fight the EMP blob, so I ended up in the bloody nightmare that was Medical that round, helping out where I could. And there was no response from Central Command, and no Emergency Response Team. So yes! very relatable song.

@dafeekielelliott2442

Жыл бұрын

SS13 moment

@pilot778spartan3

Жыл бұрын

SS13 moment

My one question is how the executive gave blood without a heart?

Warlady.

is this song based on a real disaster?

@SongsfromtheStars

Жыл бұрын

No

@scp2539

3 ай бұрын

@@SongsfromtheStars ty for answering. sorry it took so long to reply, I didn't get a notice for it.

What's this song about?

@thesenate5291

7 ай бұрын

The song is from the perspective of a Factory Town's Hospital director having to perform disaster relief without official approval from the corporate executives that owned the town. They had to break many rules, and use supply from dubious sources to treat 1000 injured people, and because of the choice to break as many rules needed to save lives (Including killing the factory director through bloodletting for transfusions), the doctor chose to become the scapegoat for much of the issues caused and flee

*Never time or money to do things right to begin with, but plenty of money to pay people in suits to stand around looking somber as they do the legal 'avoid responsibility and accountability' butt cover dance*

It's such a shame she's a conspiracy theorist nutcase now, or so I've heard

@MistyShadowsXX_Valdemar

3 жыл бұрын

I think Leslie is actually a catbreeder (not the crazy type either) dunno where heard this though.

@Ultrawup

3 жыл бұрын

Last time I saw someone say that, I saw a comment seemingly from her herself saying "I have no idea where y'all got that" So... idk if she is or isn't, but let's mostly just not assume that she is based on nothing.

@scout360pyroz

3 жыл бұрын

she was always an anarchist of a bit of an off kilter type. probably had or has ties to the (relatively) massive left wing terrorist weatherman group we had bombing stuff back in the day. doesnt change the worth of her music.

@trekintosh

2 жыл бұрын

@@scout360pyroz this whole “probably has ties to” shit is completely baseless libel.

@scout360pyroz

2 жыл бұрын

@@trekintosh why? plenty of respectable people have had ties to it and the movement.