By Robert J! Lake spellmynamewithabang Bandcamp YouTube YouTube spellbang Twitter ← Audio Commentary Featuring David Ellis, Robert J! Lake, Yishan Mai, Marcy Nabors and Corbin Pangilinan Previous track by this artist → Hivebent Anthem Next track by this artist.
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Released 12/15/2013.
Duration: 4:04.

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Also released as:

• (20164/13/2016; about 2 years, 4 months later) JOHN DO THE WINDY THING ("CLASSIC") (Stuckhome Syndrome Part One V1: Years In the Past)

Tracks that reference JOHN DO THE WINDY THING:

From Fandom:

• Unite Synchronization (Revised Edition) by ft-rj
• JOHN DO THE SNOWY THING by WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES

Tracks that sample JOHN DO THE WINDY THING:

From Fandom:

• JOHN DO THE WINDY THING (REDUX) by Robert J! Lake
• Unite Synchronization (Revised Edition) by ft-rj

Lyrics:

John, do the windy thing,
John, do the windy thing,
John, do the windy thing,
Do the windy thing...

Artist commentary:

Robert J! Lake: (composer, booklet commentary)

i was drunk

Brad Griffin: (booklet editor)

John, do the windy thing,
John, do the windy thing,
John, do the windy thing,
Do the windy thing...

end of disk 1

Robert J! Lake: (Tumblr)

cintiq's broken, no new gifs for a while i guess

meantime:

would you buy a song like this

would it contribute to the value of a homestuck volume

you should tell radiation/andrew, if so

be honest

#the best thing i've ever made #secret homestuck music #bonus round #john do the windy thing #best song ever #homestuck songs #snog #things that have been around since volume 6

Niklink: (wiki editor)

A little bit of fandom history: Dave's Phat Beat Machine, the actual real thing instead of the static image they replaced it with after Flash died, has four secret buttons with extra music you find after selecting the four corner buttons on the machine. Somewhat unusually, the flash does indeed pull music directly from external sites which have stopped working over the years. By looking into the flash itself you can see the intended music for each button. From left to right:

• http://www.mspaintadventures.com/storyfiles/hs2/00253/mspa_harlequin.mp3

  Harlequin. This one still works, as it links back to MSPA. Reused from the Act 2 walkaround, actually.

• http://www.turner.com/planet/mp3/cp_close.mp3

  The Captain Planet closing credits. Visiting this link now redirects you to a redesigned Warner page instead.

• http://fozzy42.com/SoundClips/Themes/Movies/Ghostbusters.mp3

  Ghostbusters theme song from some random-ass page that no longer exists.

• http://pasko.webs.com/foreign/Aerosmith_-_I_Dont_Wanna_Miss_A_Thing.mp3
  

  Same deal as above, but for I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing (as an Armageddon reference)... This link actually works! But.. it's playing a different song??

  Well, it turns out that from early 2019 all the way through the death of Flash at the end of 2020, fans managed to purchase this domain name and sneakily changed the song that plays to this very song! The link is still active, although of course it's pretty difficult to actually get Flash to run on your computer these days.