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Who doesn't love repetition?

I thought only punk songs were supposed to have three chords, but I guess not.

Very Entertaining.

I am frequently amused by your output.

Great, but change the drum sounds.

What you've got here is an unlikely chord progression and an interesting, melodic bass line, something rarer than grammatical coherence in the audio portal. My only advice is that the reverb on the drum track kind of makes the song sound like music in a soft-core porno. The beat's perfectly fine; I just think it would be better if you recorded an actual non-synth drum track, or better yet, sampled one.

LucreOnBeats responds:

I know what you mean. Originally, this song was just a barebones drum track that my friend Winston had layed down. He wasn't doing much with it, so I layed most of the music down and he helped arrange it. I had intented to do a remake of this song with a drum break I created in Reason (with drums that sound live, rather than electronic) but used his drums instead because..well, I got lazy. Anyway, thanks for the response.

Way to butt-rock!

Tell me, is it difficult to play the piano with wrists that limp?

Well you have some nice contrapuntal vocal harmonies to distract me from the weak main melody and depressingly conventional lyrics. Whenever you sing "lay" your charming midwestern accent transforms it into "lah-i-eh." Very cute.

You said the lyrics are open to interpretation, so I'm gonna take a stab at it. The most predominant them is "here you lay", which has meaning in both sex and death, so I'm going to assume your discussing the torrid love affair between someone and corpse. Due to the gender neutrality of the narrator, I can only infer that both the narrator and the cadaver are men. Man... way to tackle the subject of gay necrophilia. It's very brave of you.

MilkMan-Dan responds:

Hahaha... waits guys... no seriously wait... I got this one... don't worry... I have the perfect comeback for someone of his maturity level... trust me, this one will shut him up for sure.

wait for it...

wait....

"I know you are but what am I?"

HA!... take that. I bet your perplexed now!

But in all seriousness folks... this song is about fucking dead people. I can't lie... he was bang on.

To answer your question btw... it's quite easy for me to play the piano... and in fact the curvature of the wrist really gets the blood going... however your father tells me you play a mean skin flute... so I bow to your mastery.

Have a nice day.
Oh... and write another one of those touching "blues" songs... I could really feel the passion behind it.

Safe, lame, enjoyable on ecstasy.

I really only enjoy dancing to trance music. How ironic that you should be writing pieces for the one group of people on this planet, besides paraplegics, that are least likely to get up and shuffle their feet; but holy hell is that chord progression catchy! Maybe it's because you repeat it eleventy-billion times! Your use of syncopation to break up an otherwise straight rhythmic pattern is duly noted and increases the song's interesting factor tenfold.

Here's a tip: If you don't want your songs to have the feel of an Alitalia in-flight instructional video, refrain from using grand piano synths to play the main melody.

That being said, you succeed remarkably well in realizing the piece's intended purpose.

Brilliant.

Cool noises man. Obviously a little derivative of Zappa, but what sound collage isn't, eh?

Fine Composition Work.

First off, it's too long. At least three minutes of this could have been cut out without it detracting too much from the overall feel of the piece.
You demonstrate a natural sensibility of transitioning between phrases, particularly when you use diminished chords to segue from the slower sections into the faster ones. More challenging chords out of you!
There seems to be a middle section when you're constantly going up and down a minor scale in the left hand. Try to avoid this unless you're doing something interesting rhythmically, otherwise it just sounds like an etude.
There is also a crippling lack of dynamics. Extremes between loud and quiet are a necessity in every piece of music, especially in the pseudo-baroque style you've got going here.

Other than those fairly minor criticisms, you've shown great potential in areas of thematic development, chordal accompaniment and even the holy grail of composing, counterpoint. Good on you sir.

Dude09 responds:

whoa!! i couldnt keep up with this review! are you a music major? this is great!! and thanks for the compliments, especially on counter point, i'm glad i impressed you and a few other people in that area, thanks for the great review :)

Brings back Mega Man memories.

This is the type of electronic music I can tolerate. None of that over-serious epic bullshit to found here. Yeah, I know it's pilfered, but so the fuck what, 3/4 of the musically retarded people on this site use samples anyway. By far, the most intentionally entertaining thing I've heard on the Audio Portal.

m0dul4r responds:

Thanks... I guess....

Hilarious.

Thanks for this submission. Now I don't need Zoloft anymore. I like the little Al Pacino in Scent of A Woman "Hoo-ha" you have at the beginning.

Catchy...

Well it's definitely what everyone before me has just said, but I fail to see what's actually "British" about this whole thing. It sounds more like what would be playing in an UK-themed bar for Japanese businessmen. I suppose it does cull the image of two sexually ambiguous fops prancing about on a spring morning in outer Bristol. So if you're attempt was to emphasize the gayness of Britain I suppose you have succeeded. It's a simple chord progression, but the melodic development is nice, and the minimalistic instrumentation is a welcome change from all the other "epic" crap in the audio portal. If you were actually seeking to get a brit-poppy sound, then you should actually learn to play the guitar. O f course, then you couldn't do those entertaining little upwards glissandos that pretty much mae the song.

Good Show.

Bad ideas.

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