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[Sweet Wish]

Makes me feel all weird!

What a WEIRD song! And as usual with me, weird is not a bad thing.

I'm actually quite a big fan of synths. When used right, it sounds absolutely aweseome and awe-inspiring, sorta. Your use of them is just what I like to hear.

The best part about the song is the simple melody. It goes throughout the whole song, not being repetitive, but being simple and soon enough, stuck in my head.

Of course, melody doesn't make the song. Your use of drum samples to keep the rhythm going was great. The music in the background, be it the bass or the ambient sounds that went with the melody, really worked out, and created an all-around unique atmosphere. In many other cases, such simple background sound could end up with the song being shallow and feeling really plain, but your use of varied sounds was just what I like to hear.

Unlike supersteph, I don't really feel this is too repetitive. If I had plaid Drug the Mouse, sure, I can understand that it might eventually become repetitive, as the melody doesn't really change, but when it's not on a loop and I just listen to it three or four times, it sounds just about right.

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Radidsh responds:

Huh? I thought I had responded to this review. How strange!

I am really glad you enjoyed the song. Yush X3 Always makes me happy to hear. When one can listen to the song more than once like that, it lets me know that I at least did something right, haha. XDD

Thanks a ton! Tusen takk for den hyggelige og konstruktive tilbakemeldingen, fortsett slik! =D

[A Ticking Time Bomb]

Absolutely interesting.

I gotta say, I rarely hear percussion used like this, at least on Newgrounds. Using nothing but percussion is a bold move, because it would either end up a huge failure or as something absolutely fantastic. This was closer to the second.

Not once did the song feel repetitive. It starts off really easy, and sounds a little bare, but quickly picks up. The fast-paced melody starts after a few seconds, driving the entire song forward, giving it all a fast-paced sort of feel, that, as Supersteph said, feels filled with tension and suspense.

Seeing as this isn't a full, finished work, I guess I'll have to take into account. The ending is a bit abrupt, coming out of nowhere, which isn't necessarily negative, but I was left wanting something more, as the song never reached it's peak. That climax you're speaking of? Add it.

I'd like to know what program you're using to make this, because the sound is pretty awesome, and the samples for both the bells, the xylophone and the... I can never remeber the name (language barrier), the drums used in the background. Now I'd love to see someone try their hands at this. Would be really impressive if someone could actually nail this composition.

A truly impressive composition, considering the limited amount of instruments you used. I'd love to see this set to a bunch of different isntruments, but I'm not sure that would work out at all.

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Cimba responds:

I use Finale 2010

[-RG- In a Teardrop]

Oh, I love that song!

I was certain I was listening to Mansell, but seeing that you didn't copy it, then I just have to say that I'm in awe. In our day and age, everything sounds like something, and the kind of music you went for here would eventually end up sounding like something. The fact that it sounds like Lux Aeterna (Requiem) is not a bad thing at all.

I didn't know what to expect when I saw it requested. The title sounds more like something Britney could make, and I didn't expect this at all. It might be because I've head this song (and so may remixes) set to epic battle scenes, with slow motion camera and bare-fisted fighting.

It doesn't sound like an orchestra, mainly because it sounds a little thin, like there are few people playing it. If you could simply add more to it, more bass or in general, more sound, that would make it even more epic.

Great track.

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Raven-Guard responds:

Ha, thanks!

"I was certain I was listening to Mansell, but seeing that you didn't copy it, then I just have to say that I'm in awe. In our day and age, everything sounds like something, and the kind of music you went for here would eventually end up sounding like something. The fact that it sounds like Lux Aeterna (Requiem) is not a bad thing at all."

Heh, at least :P. I asked Darklight17 why he made it sound so much like Lux Aeterna, but he just said he heard it so many times in YouTube videos that he found it impossible to make his melody not sound at least slightly like Lux Aeterna's.

"I didn't know what to expect when I saw it requested. The title sounds more like something Britney could make, and I didn't expect this at all. It might be because I've head this song (and so may remixes) set to epic battle scenes, with slow motion camera and bare-fisted fighting."

Yeah, you're not the first to say it reminds you of an epic battle. Not exactly what we were going for, but I suppose it works xP. The name might not fit well with the song at first, but I think that after hearing the song in full listen, I find that the name fits more, since as I said to Fro, this song represents all the emotions (sadness, anger, revenge, hatred, etc...) all brewed into one teardrop. Weird concept, I know...

"It doesn't sound like an orchestra, mainly because it sounds a little thin, like there are few people playing it. If you could simply add more to it, more bass or in general, more sound, that would make it even more epic."

According to Erik, this has 15-note chords in it :P. But yes, we didn't incorporate as much of the orchestra as we could have, and didn't cover the bass part of the spectrum as much either. Thanks for the suggestion, and obviously thanks for the great review!
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Supersteph54

[Fire Spider]

Awesome use of quotes

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: Awesome use of quotes
Review: Moar quotes.

This was awesome. I liked the quote in the intro, that you could hear later on in the song as well. It fit in well, and it made the song less repetitive.

Great beat, great music, great melody, and great use of the voice for vocals. A tad repetitive, but the vocals fix it. Nice use of instruments as well, I liked the choices you made.

I know I said I loved the vocals, but that doesn't mean it should be the same quote all the time. You should find more and use them throughout the song as well.

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Bracksta responds:

ya, good advice i should have mixed it up a lil with different quotes in the middle, instead of repeating the beggining, thanks for the review!

[{BPS} A Big Repair]

Oh snap

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Score: 10 / 10
Summary: Oh snap
Review: BRAIN GOES AXPLOD.

I really want to end this review with that one line, but I have to write something constructive for it to follow the rules. Bah.

This was awesome. I loved the glitching, the rough sound, and the way it never became repetitive. Some generic sounds in the rhythm section, but god damn, this was fricken AWESOME!

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BudGPStudios responds:

Thanks, I tried to avoid that bland generic industrial they have these days...

[-)S(- Progress]

Heh, cheesy

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Score: 9 / 10
Summary: Heh, cheesy
Review: That said, it doesn't necessarily have to be a bad song.

First off, I didn't really like the instrument you used for a melody. I'm not sure what else would fit, but to me it sounded too synthetic.

This would fit straight into an 80s or 70s (not really sure when this music was popular) soap opera, with two people on a date. Yeahyeah. I like to visualize things when listening to songs.

Anyways, I'm not sure what to say. The thing that pulled it off was the instrument playing the melody. But even that grows on me after a while. Relaxing, mellow, excellent stuff, but it lacks that little something.

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Will responds:

Hmm, I didn't notice the horn being too fake until now - thanks for pointing that out!

[Oasis Split Up Song #1]

Repetitive

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Score: 8 / 10
Summary: Repetitive
Review: Not a bad track, but the fact that it feels really repetitive really pulls the score down.

True, the song does change a lot, but it steel feels really repetitive. Maybe because of the drums, which seem to never change, that I can hear, and the song is so long that it's really easy to hear that it's repetitive. You can easily cut a lot of this song.

I liked the guitar, that was pretty well-done. The sound was still pretty boring, but it sounded experimental, relaxing, sort of ambient.

Not a good outro, and an okay, but short, intro. Fading out is baaaad.

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Sawdust responds:

Alright, I'll probably remove the fade then, and give the outro a very abrasive revision.

[Hardcore, thats right]

THIS IS CRAZILY CATCHY

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Score: 10 / 10
Summary: THIS IS CRAZILY CATCHY
Review: No shit.

But really, it's awesome. I loved it. I hate reviewing awesome stuff, because it's so hard, because it's hard to write bad about awesome stuff. Here goes!

Uhm...
So....
That's right!
I'm going with Fro, love the voice. Could also add what he said, some voices saying "Hardcoarh" or sumthing like that. So...

Great sound. Entertaining, not repetitive, maaaybe a little generic samples, generic sounds, but I guess that's a part of the genre.

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DeejayDeeZ responds:

Hahah, thanks alot for your great review!

Well, since two persons says it fits with a male saying "hardcore" I may check how it sounds to it.

Yeah, some generic sounds and samples, but its pretty hard to do anything about it, especially in this genre.
Thanks again for your review :)

-Deejay DeeZ
Norway : D