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Clint Mansell Much?

You ever seen Requiem for a Dream? Shitty movie, famous soundtrack. It sounds fairly close to what you've done here. If you can get a guy with a facile political message to rap over this, you'll sell a million copies.

DJ-Delinquent responds:

i've never seen Requiem for a Dream.

and theres plenty of guys with a political message but im not sure they have the flow to fit it

Immortal Technique and Dead Prez comes to mind when it comes to politacl rappers

but in this beat ive broken about every law in terms of a rap beat

its only 2 verses and yet 5 minutes long

but if some one plans to rap with out a chourus or hook

[Some one like Nimbus The General, another rapper here on newgrounds]

then it can work.

If you know your hip hop music

perfecting a flow for this beat can incopasitate you

becouse i left no room to breathe in it

so it will require an Exellent amount of talent for somthing as difficult as this

if i was a begginer MC

i would never choose this beat

[Great Beats + Wack rapper = Disaster]

I belive this song alone proves that Rappers have more talent than singers

singers can just Blow a song right over it with no problem

but a rapper must hit every single syllabol to match the flow of this

i doubt any one in the entire hip hop industry can do it

[Maybe Big L, But he is dead]

AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!

This is worse than that Across the Universe movie. Tell me, what exactly did you think you were adding to an already subpar Beatles song by incorporating nasal Fallout Boy vocals and goddamn screamo? This is worse than Brokencyde. At least they have the courtesy to write their own crappy material.

Also, John Lennon hated this song because he thought it was slight, pointless McCartney bullshit, which it was.

Here are some tips to give your cover version a sembleance of adequacy:
-You have a good thing going with the vocal harmonies. Try and make them more apparent in the production.
-Get your drummer to take some speed because he's kind of sloppy, but I guess that's what you're going for when you're the punkest sonofabitch in the room.
-This stuff appeals readily to the lowest common denominator, so you should use all the money you'll receive from kids with stupid hair to invest in a wind guard.
-Take off that checkered fedora. You look like a moron.

giftedbuttwisted responds:

Ahh finally the review I've been waiting for XD

Technically accomplished, but...

Well, you do what you do very well and I can certainly appreciate your effort, but none of your stuff sounds like punk music to me. What are your influences? The only thing I can remotely relate this to is NOFX.

When I think of punk, it's usually louder, sloppier, and faster with lyrics or general musical content intended to express dissatisfaction with the status quo.

The Damned
The Clash
Sex Pistols
The Ramones
Bad Brains
Circle Jerks
X
The Germs
Fear
Black Flag
Dead Kennedys
Richard Hell and the Voidoids

Of course, they're all from the 70's and 80's. Maybe I should just get with the times.

Evil-Dog responds:

I stopped worrying about the definitions of music genre a long time ago, I do what I do and that's it, if you can't see the punk rock in songs like Sweet Agony, Asshole, Merry Fuckmas, The weight of time, etc then you are a bit too stuck in the 70s :) My inspirations are more like Bad religion, Nofx, pennywise, bigwig, etc...you know...90s punk rock...what you could call skate punk I guess.
I admit this song is not "punk rock" that much though.
As I make music for games and movies, I don't include lyrics so maybe you'll never feel the punk rock in my music. As for what "punk rock" actually is, In my opinion it's much broader than your definition. Your definition is a subset of a grander mentality that I think defines the punk rock way of life in this modern age. But I'm sure we can stand on common grounds there and just enjoy the music we enjoy. Thanks for the review dude.

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.

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....

Best of its ilk.

Who do you think you are using a tritone? Deviating from diatonic structure is almost completely unheard of in the Audio Portal. The drums are kind of boring as it's basically just dum-pssh-dum-pssh for the whole song, but I suppose they're not your primary focus. You show a decent knowledge of instrumentation. I find the guitar synth irritating, but that's personal preference. The intro melody is very cute and it actually develops with some string counterpoint. The middle section is conventional in its overwrought histrionics, but I suppose that's what's expected of you.

I find it's too fruity to be an RPG fight theme, but just fruity enough to be a Sonic The Hedgehog level. Well done.

NemesisTheory responds:

Your english is far too government-ey for me too understand. XD

I'm sure you're trying to help me somehow but words like Tritone and diatonic completely go over my head.

As for the drums... have you listened to many videogame tracks? The drums never really variate all that often, as during the battle the last thing you'll be worrying about is how varied the drum sequencing is. Pretty much the only thing that will stay intact is the feel :P

I didn't get that last part either, nor what was supposedly expected of me. XD
But hey, I'm glad you thought it was well done! :)

Thanks for the review, even though I didn't get all of it. :P

Same thing over and over again...

It pisses me off that I've painted myself into the predictable little corner of Western music by assuming that a song needs different sections with different chord progressions to be interesting, but what you've done here is create an adequately interesting track, by using the same melody for five minutes. It's like Jazz, but without the tolerable instrumentation. As for the synth shredding, your just going up and down on a pentatonic scale. Didn't you think someone would catch on? Of course, Joe Satriani's been doing it for thirty years and no one's noticed yet, so good on you.

For what you lack in creative insight, you more than make up for in robotic precision.

gregaaron89 responds:

True, it may be repetitive, but for this genre it's fine. It's just a matter of tastes. As for the "synth shredding", so what if it's just a pentatonic? The pentatonic is one of the most widely used scales, and personally it's my favorite. It's my way of putting a little bit of rock/jazz into my song. And it's a lot more complicated than you think. It's just the fact that it's so fast you can't really hear it. It's 8 measures long and then it loops after that, and in those 8 measures there are 128 notes, and the pattern never repeats during the 8 measure loop. I very carefully placed each note on the piano roll, and I did that by ear. I did not just "go up and down the scale" I actually kept in mind the interval between all of the notes, careful not to cause dissonance. I know a hell of a lot more about music theory than I think you think I do. Here's a screenshot, take out the spaces, if any. http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/6247 /synthshreddingnu7.jpg

That's fine that you didn't really like it, but I am actually offended that you bashed my creativity. I think what you do not like is the genre in general, so you can't really judge me that harshly. Please do not make personal remarks in your reviews.

Pleasant enough...

I thought ambient music always connoted some Brian Eno musique concrete sort of crap, but here you are doing this pseudo-epic shit, totally blowing that stereotype out of the water. There is nothing terribly interesting about the piece as it's pretty much a standard minor key melody over a minor key chord progression. Play in the Lydian mode. I bet that would blow the little hardwired, autofellatistic minds of the thirteen-year-olds who commonly review audio submissions. When the counterpoint comes in, it's... the exact same descending melody, and the plodding, unbearable whole notes of an artificial choir.

That being said, the sound effects are pretty cool.

Draqo responds:

Yay for constructive criticism. :D Yes, I do love making hybrids and taking the other path instead of people just making a few ominous noises and background effects in ambient songs. And I'm glad that someone observes that.

Thanks for the review! :D

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