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i love it!

this is great! the guitar work is sweet-sounding, then attacks the ears brutally :) i love the lyrics "yesterday contaminates tomorrow" and your voice is like sultry and also big and loud. great stuff, man. a gem for your archives :p

ShanZE responds:

Thanks man, I'm really glad you like it! I tried new things on this one, added strings and organs but in the end it still became this big noisy mess and I kinda like the way it turned out "wrong" :D

Always a pleasure to hear your opinion man, let's keep trying our best to make music good again!

it shows, but that's not bad

yeah that bridge section is pretty cool, with a little doodle on the one string, and then how it returns for the closing bars... nicely done. the chords and transitions in between the riffs didn't really work for me, but i can imagine with the full band behind the guitar that might work out much better (solo guitars, "ooh yeahs," etc). i feel like each line of vocals was really too drawn out too long, and it made it all drag a little - but the lyrics are fascinating as hell, so yeah. 6.5 and 4'd

Bunk420 responds:

Thanks for your review man. This tune really needs a lot of work. It also sounds amazing on an electric. That bridge with the right distortion and reverb sounds amazing.

downloaded!

i like it.
party atmosphere music, straight rock.
keep it up!

sounds like a british action show theme song...

...but i like it
the tempo is good, the tune itself sounds like it should be fast, but then the guitars sound kinda silly up in the higher registers. maybe i'm just a fan of low guitars...
it cuts off at the end!

ConnieB responds:

i know what yo umean w/ the tempo, but the reason it cuts off is cuz the drums you hear are on my guitar effects pad, and its a bitch to hit the button w/o stopping the guitar sound..so i had to cut it like that...it sounded really shitty before i did haha
thx for the comment

rockin' it: definitely a nirvana influence there

this is pure grunge, a great callback to the 90s garage grunge sound, which has just as much to do with the equipment used as with the loud recording style and sound... cool stuff. i like the clean guitar part during the verses (there's a little high note in there on the 'lead' guitar that really does it for me), it switches up the perception of grunge needing constant barre chords to really rock. the vocals during the heavy pre-chorus are especially reminiscent of cobain, but you can actually use use vibrato in your voice, which is something cobain never could pull off, so kudos for that!
the sound quality needs work, but duh. there are a couple of times where the drums seem to kind of trip through the fills and rolls, but other than that, the performance and arrangement is solid. since you said this is your simplest song, i'd love to hear some of your more complex songs.
rock on!

Diavaul1 responds:

Wow, thanks, that means a lot from you.

Our more complicated songs are more punkish, but you should check them out anyway.

soft spot for stuff like this

i love the usage of the lead guitar here, even though it probably should have gone off the bass and done it's own thing sooner rather than right near the end... sound was good and grungy - lo-fi excellence!
the simplicity of the tune was complimented by its shortness, and it was good that there were only very few moments where the beat didn't quite keep up the pace. if you're gonna have a short song, it better be a) moody as hell, or b) a beat that won't quit. this was a little of both, and it rocks for that.
favorited.

simpli responds:

thanks a lot.well describe.it's good to hear what you said.or to read what you wrote should I say.

wow. holy cow, wow.

yeah, this fucking rocks!
the sound is amazing, and the drums sound very in utero-inspired, albeit repetitive. nice soloing near the end there, and excellent grunge-style ending. i liked the electronic elements, the fx on the guitar during the verses. sounds like a preset on an fx amp though, but the fact that you knew enough to shut off that effect during the choruses just made them rock more. great job!

no, no, no... THIS is sex!

totally. your use of the ghost chords really makes the sadness of this song perfect. the spears reference so near the beginning works, like even at first you, the writer, don't even know how deep the feeling goes. by the time you sing "i am the cancer," i believe you! :) i love the effects on the vocals, but i'm a big fan of that in general. your voice is so sultry at times, and then so punky and grungy girly or something in other places... it really is sexy!

Sour-Cherry responds:

I don't know if sex is the right kind of word for this song but oh heck why not
Thanks for the ten!
Peace Sour-Cherry

definitely cool

its moody and dark, and yeah perfect for an apoclyptic game menu. like gears or something. i really like this! its like silent hill a little, which is some of my fav music. glad you kept the gavel, even if it is part of this whole other story of how the song came to be. nuts about warner, corprate's clamping down...
the tension of all that comes out in the music. it works really well.
if you remix this at all, i would suggest some reverb on the other drum elements, in addition to the gavel.
and a little more variety with the piano doings would really round out the whole sound. not just that same little five note sample.

NikolaosTheDark responds:

Wow. That's the quickest response I've ever gotten. Thanks for the criticism. I really appreciate it.

uh so yeah

i'll weigh in on this one. yeah you stated early on in the review responses that you got these samples from mixcraft, so you're not lying in the reviews. but, legally speaking, this is not original music. true, the samples you re-sampled for this song are not technically copyrighted music. mixcraft (and most other prpgrams) bundle samples like these with its software for you to PRACTICE with, so you can get the hang of the ins and outs of the program. but slapping those together (even though you change the tempo, key, fx, etc.) and calling it "your new song" is not what they intended.
some advice: find some royalty-free sample sounds and use them. they aren't tunes or guitar parts but individual sounds for use in that keyboard program. example: i use fruityloops for my drums, but i use royalty-free drums sound samples of individual drums sounds (cymbal, snare, etc.), and use them to compose the beats. if i used the sample beats that come with fruityloops then i would be guilty just the same way. "hey, that beat's from flp," would be the reviews. in short... practice with samples like this. submit original work.

Ross Allaire is an author, composer, screenwriter, EMT, and security officer who lives, works, and plays in the Philadelphia area.

Ross Allaire @Gunshy

Age 43, Male

EMT-Writer-Composer

Egg House, NJ

Joined on 9/6/04

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