(Liam) You all, everybody
(Charlie & Liam) You all, everybody
(Liam) Acting like it’s stupid people wearing expensive clothes
(Charlie & Liam) You all, everybody
(Liam) You all, everybody
You all, everybody

There are the simple lyrics to the classic rock anthem, “You all, everybody” by Driveshaft. Check out the Driveshaft Band Website at www.driveshaftband.com. The site has video & audio for download of Driveshaft performing, a page on the Oceanic flight Charlie took, and tributes from fans. It’s an excellent site.

And just for laughs, here’s an audio clip of Charlie singing, “You all, everybody!” to Kate and Jack in episode 1.

Download audio clip: charlie-lost-you-all-everybody.mp3 (1.1MB MP3)

The wars are raging in the Lost fan world about whether the radio broadcast heard by Boone seconds before he fell says, “Hello/no we’re the survivors of Oceanic flight 815!” or “There were no survivors of Oceanic flight 815.”

When I originally watched the episode I thought it was the latter, but I read on the internet that it was the former. So I ripped the audio into Cool Edit and played around with it to attempt to make it understandable. I’m not the only one to do this, but previous versions have been accused of being “doctored”, so here’s a completely undoctored copy with a few frequency boosts to make it more audible. To me, it sounds like, “There were no survivors of Oceanic flight 815″ as the captions stated in the first place.

Here’s the audio: nosurvivors.mp3 (68kb).

Make your own decisions.

Update:
Interestingly, on the Official ABC Lost site in the “Video Gallery” (top left, under the menu) there is a recap for episode 1×19 “Deus Ex Machina” which includes the scene with Boone on the radio. Interestingly, the voice is obviously a completely different recording of the transmission to the one broadcast in the episode. This time it’s unmistakable. The voice says, “No, we’re the survivors of flight 815.”.

Here’s the audio: wearethesurvivors.mp3 (195kb).

Which one was intended for us to hear is unclear, as is whether the closed captioning on the episode, which reportedly said, “There were no survivors of Oceanic flight 815″, is right or wrong.

Possibly…
This could mean that there are another group of survivors on the island. Perhaps people from the tail section of the plane, who have also found a radio, and happened to be using it to broadcast on the exact frequency that the radio in the plane was tuned to at the exact time Boone was in the plane, are elsewhere on the island. It seems unlikely, but it sounds more plausible than some kind of alternate/parallel dimension theory.

Plus it’s good news for Rose. “My husband’s not dead…”

But as ever, we’re kept guessing. Which is it? Any ideas?