Not bad. It reminds me of the James Bond theme song, which you've also covered.
Not bad. It reminds me of the James Bond theme song, which you've also covered.
Join the Cookie Monster in his epic quest to locate at least one clean bathroom throughout all of Grand Central Station.
(I.E. NEEDS LYRICS!)
It's cool to know you will take time out to work with decent drum samples. The back catalog--which would make for an incredible instrumental metal album if reworked today--really needs some good drum samples.
Thanks man! I do plan to rework some old tunes at some point.
They still do this after all these years. The mixing has only improved, as well!
Haha, yeah man!
Remastered version of something cool from your library? WHY DIDN'T ANYBODY REVIEW THIS?
Better than the original--actually coherent and the doom-synth is still there.
Not sure why no one reviews my stuff. I really, really appreciate any feedback, but I think my music may be an acquired taste. At other times, I really don't give a shit. It's my expression and I share it freely.
Did you know that the soundtrack to the latest Doom game sounds similar to this? Hell, I would put these tracks (all of them--EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM) onto a .pk3 which allows a Source Port to play these tracks in place of the MIDI's featured in the game. There'd be a Final Doom version, a Memento Mori version, a Brutal Doom version....
And it's just a WIP, which might explain why I can't download the fucking thing. (Or you horded this track for an album, which I wouldn't be surprised by.)
Do you know what this riff reminds me of, in a way?
The Goonies II.
My favorite game.
The parts where you're searching a room for something to help you survive and to rescue your friends from this far-expanded labyrinth of horrors that just appear in puffs of smoke right before your eyes. Are you tripping on cave gas? Is the bipolar side of Sean Astin (who played Mikey in the movie) churning out an excess of hallucinations? Why are crows and ghosts haunting him while the worst fears (snakes, spiders, BATS...) manifesting like that? And why must he rescue a girl from the sea whom he has never met before? And why is this setup so difficult for some people to accomplish (especially in one sitting)?
But anyway, there's also a hidden side to the psyche unveiled from the trippiness of this piece. I think I can also attribute it to beholding (or rescuing) Annie the Mermaid, who professes her love for Mikey once he does so. It may be primordial, like Joseph Campbell's theory about "The Hero's Journey" as the oldest narrative, whereupon the protagonist surpasses the aforementioned Threshold Guardians, delivers a great boon (for the Goonies' cases, freedom from their tormentors, the Fratelli clan and their hideout), and even meets a goddess (Annie).
Still, it's an incomplete-sounding song, which only adds to the memory because you're still in a room and you haven't gone anywhere, struck, anything, taken anything... just you and whatever tools or implements you salvaged along the way. Just a feeling of emptiness and anxiety from the track which, I believe, makes it an excellent soundtrack piece, like practically all your works from the early days.
So kudos to you--The track is pretty damn good for reminding me of my childhood in a good way. The Goonies II, regardless of faults, was good enough to change my life--rather, it solidified the foundation of what I think is a fair and good personal philosophy. Also, nobody else was humble enough to play it since it is often perceived as a cash-grab compared to the franchise, which lives on today in stupid Truffle-Shuffle t-shirts sold at Target or something.
Or that YTMND of Captain Picard in a white tux mowing Chunk down (God, does he ever get any respect?).
But Mikey will win, in time I suppose, and return the Goonies to freedom and the Fratellis to jail. Will he continue searching the ruins and caverns of our world for buried treasure? Given they put the movie's true sequel (where filaments of the first cast play parents of a new group of young explorers) in development hell, we may never know.
God, where have you been after all these years?
(Probably fuckin' lurking, but I ain't gonna complain).
LOL! Nice to see you're still trolling around these parts! Actually, I've spent all these years getting my life together. Now I'm semi-stable, married, my own house, two cars, and a doge! I'm now getting back to the jams. It's gonna be back to the usual antics for sure, but hopefully I'll be able to class the place up a bit with better skill and more thought provoking lyrics. It's been a long musical journey for me and it's only going to get better.
(p.s) I was kinda hoping you'd show up! HAHA!
You should make a series of these. Music soundtracks are dime-a-dozen 'round here, while this could demonstrate your willingness to create something that would really grip the audience. It's excellent, by the way. Already I imagine a nightmarish dream sequence that ends with someone awaking in the park. Sort of an "In Medias Res" movie introduction.
Thank you for your feedback!
I enjoy doing those, but since there's no proper place to upload them on newgrounds, I'm afraid it would be a bit misleading. They should add a sound design option ; so far it's only song or loop !
I'll consider uploading more of them in the future if people like them, thanks!
All day Wednesday (today), I kept thinking it was Thursday. I got straightened out, of course, after realizing I blank out Tuesdays by thinking it's a Wednesday. (The Voice was on--that was the next good thing from that day, other than a positivity meeting and maybe playing some Blades of Avernum scenarios). Anyway, this reminded me that Tuesday happened some time this week and I was blissful in my forgetting that fact. In other words, thanks for the fucking reminder.
Good though!
At least you were reminded with some earhole raping. :) Thanks brother, appreciate it muchly.
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