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[Everyone Cries]

Yoseph

I really like the melody itself. It's fun and retro.

It contrasts really interestingly with the rain and the crying to make a novel feeling

That being said...
You need a sad song, so you put a track with rain and crying behind it?
Haha, cmon. ;)

Seriously though, it makes a really cool effect and I enjoyed the listen, so nice work.

jackbliss responds:

I thought the rain and the kid crying would intensify the sadness a bit more and give it a small story I could maybe make into a Flash movie or something later on. Anywayz overall I'm very glad a very prolific Flash movie maker and musician like yourself actually liked it. Thanks for the review :-)

[.:~| V3: Maeror MAC8 July |~:.]

Cool

Good choice of instruments and explanation.
I was thinking the same thing when I made mine for the contest.

Who wants another classical piano song, right?
You're competing with Chopin and Mozart.
Hehe.

But yeah. Nice song, I like the historic feeling. I would like a hook, as it's kinda just plodding along wherever it wants. But progressive songs are cool too.
This song would do well in one of those war videogames (Civilization and the like).

Draqo responds:

I'm running out of stuff to say for responses to reviews.

Thanks for the review? :D

[MAC8 - Memories [Final]]

Awesome

The simplicity of the first minute is amazingly lonely and sad.
To be honest I would have preferred that the whole song and don't like what comes after.

Also I would prefer just the filtered background voice. The foreground voice seems too... low quality and dispassionate and a bit overpowering.

The lyrics are ok. They don't grab me but at least they don't sound cheesy (which most do, tbh).

Anyway that's a lot of criticism, but I really do think the beginning is fantastic (!), and I would like to hear another version taking into account what I said. :)

SuperMusic responds:

Hmmm, the original version I had was only the filtered backround voice but as you can see (from past reviews) no one liked it or could understand it.

But now... Bad Man Inc. and you say you like the voice... i'm so confused! Can't please everyone I guess >_>... i'm still debating whether or not to change it back.

[Syntrus_-_ Smoothie : (]

I like it!

It sounds cheesy until :15 when that raspy synth comes in.
That really gives the song a nice texture.
Feels like my ears are drinking a refreshing soda hehe.

There are a lot of complicated melodies going on, and they all work together very well.

Syntrus responds:

I just healed your ears by ten hp.

[Cayur - Achaia]

I dig it.

The intro has such a movie-like quality.
Reminds me of children on some magical adventure, haha.

This song in general doesn't make me sad, it just takes me back to childhood and imagination-land for some reason (the high pitched xylophone-like theme throughout probably has something to do with it).
But what someone gets from the song is totally subjective, so who knows.

Good job!

sculpted-cold responds:

Ah man, I thought I responded to all the reviews.

I would like to be a composer for movies, but it will never happen. I can see why you wouldn't get sadness out of the first half of this, but the second half is pretty depressing to me. What gets me is I didn't even place in the damn contest!

Thanks for the review!

[MAC 2008 - Monster]

Pretty good!

It sounds a bit derivative of "Clubbed to Death" from The Matrix (maybe unconciously), which is ok but it's such a widely used and known song.

Still, I think you did a good job on this.

Scribbler responds:

Someone else mentioned the same thing and now I can see the similarities, though I still think my track is a bit different. Thanks for the kind words.

[charred mountains]

That's awesome!

Great bassline!
You have a lot of really nice music that I wasn't aware of.

Ch3ck3rB0ard responds:

thanks man that really means alot coming from you! i love your music its osm
and punkish xD i am broke right now so i can not afford new software to make better synth for some of my songs i made the bass sound that way adding fuzz and tone depth on my amp. thanks!

[No Gods, No Masters (Guff)]

Pretty good

Do you guys like Strung Out?

You sound just like them.

finrazel responds:

wow.. thanx... thats aweshome... yeah strung out it stellar fosho

[»§« Coming Home]

Beautiful

Man I love Diablo, and in the context of that game this song is truly epic.
I like how the lyrics stay pretty ambiguous. It would've ruined it if you'd gotten to specific about the game.
"I've made it this far and I'm coming home" was a great way to approach the story, and really puts me in the mindset of a lone barbarian in the darkest pits of Hell. Haha.

Nice work.

MaestroRage responds:

Heehee, thank you! I'm a big fan of Diablo myself, so I REALLY wanted to do justice to it in this piece of music. Believe it or not, I've never necessarily played the game, but my sister and older cousins used to play it religiously and I would always watch them. It was hard to keep away from. I always wound up pulling chairs beside them and watching them at work for hours (I was always too scared to play it myself! XD). Anyway, thank you for your kind words, and thank you for listening!
With love,
LadyArsenic <3

[usefull video game music]

hey

Thanks for the review!
I really like the first melody in this song.
I don't know if you've heard him, but it reminds me of Philip Glass, the coolest mofo this side of movie scores.

DJ-Bert responds:

oh yea.... good point. and thanks for the review. YOU ROCK MAN!!