Neophyte-Ronin's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Cabaret]

+0.35 (Score Change after Voting)

Another incident of content description interfering with the beauty of a music track.

This could definitely go in a strip scene, or a high-end party with restricted membership. It's got a laid-back jazzy, sexy vibration to it. This song is contrary to most of the other songs in the portal that might intertwine with sexual themes, because it has maturity. The rest are rather sophomoric.

It's a simple, heavily echoed track that loops perfectly. If it didn't, I might have skipped past it. This, along with many other tracks, deserve a closer look by everybody.

S3C responds:

Thanks once again, I like your scenic ideas that tie along with the track :)

And I certainly appreciate your several reviews today, it was very kind of you to not only stop by and listen, but write up your thoughts as well. Also, I recognize your name, have we communicated on NG before by chance?

[BALLZ Test.]

Victory/Stage Clear Music, or Event Battle?

This is one of those perfect-looping tracks that leave a lot for the imagination. It takes the daily grind and chucks it a good, hard bird, too.

[Time Dies (v2)]

Personal Favorites

When I finally get that damned BBQBBM game set up, this is the end theme music. Enough said.

[The Little Pelican]

You Win

Guaranteed, nobody else can top this in the competition. Hell, if you don't do it, someone else will come along and make a small cartoon out of this.

[FFVIII - The Oath]

3.29 / 5.00 (+ 0.28)

3.29 / 5.00 (+ 0.28)

It was looking a little depressed before. Someone zeroed it a few times.

It's a favorite of mine and it is covered well, although it is from Final Fantasy VIII (eight), not VII (seven). I think you can change the entry's information on the NG page at least, to prevent confusion.

Darkmoor responds:

done =)

[Tiesto Killed The Techno Star]

BASSLINE!

The last guy is right on the bass. If you wanted to equate your work with the horrible alchemy of GoreBastard and Techno (HEE, HEE!), then pump up the bass and remove the quarter that's taped on the bass snare. That's a classic Lars, but it removes the whole point of having a bass drum. (Translation: improve the bass on the drums as well).

I BET YOU'D LIKE TO CARRY MORE BOMBS.

SolusLunes responds:

You say all this like I knew what I was doing.

HAHAHAHAHAHA

HAHA

HA

I don't fucking know what I'm doing :p

[Solus- Lucia]

My Friend of Misery

Ever-so slightly, the intro reminded me immediately of Jason Newsted's work in Metallica--the Black Album--specifically, track 11: My Friend of Misery. The piano's tune briefly enveloped me in the notion that I just heard the beginning of that song. Hence, much of my impression on what character the song conjures up in my mind is pretty solid:

Imagine a girl whose identity had been utterly stripped away through a combination of memory suppression and the virulent truth how everybody lies. For her, forgetting the reasons and methods that explain her emotional control, sharpened mind, and killer instincts (not to mention what she can do with such gifts) allows her to conduct herself in the present without waking up every morning with a stomachache. Unfortunately, as the days go by, waking up with a stomachache is what happens anyway, and with each tryst from dusk to dawn--like a sleepwalker with a bible in one hand and magnum revolver in the other--her introspection becomes progressively horrid. If you looked at it through the eyes of DABDA, this song is at the stage of depression, going straight back to number one--denial--because her life is totally unacceptable for her. Just wait and watch when her name finally catches up with her....

Her name wouldn't be Lucia, however. I have it written that she never had a name in the first place, because names hold powers and deeper meanings beyond regular comprehension and mundane reality. Hence, never having a name grants the girl some level of immunity from the trappings of any name, and in that regard, the world itself. A lady with no name has no world bound to her. Hence, this world cannot bind her. If this is true, then the girl's mother certainly had foresight... perhaps the same place where that killer instinct came from.

Yeah, I didn't zero-bomb the song, either. I've been siphoning copies of your work onto my system--don't breathe easy, I might still purge a few entries out to save space--and for the most part I am suitably impressed. You've evolved over the past few years, that's for sure.

As for this song, it is evocative of those scenes of introspection or severe deep conversation between two close souls. It might use some remastering to soften some of the instruments, and it is a bit sparse and minimal, but the latter is the point. The former complaint may be addressed at your leisure. No rush. ;D

Deep and a bit grim, but soothing overall. Nice work... keep it up.

SolusLunes responds:

Deep and grim, yes.

This song could do with a touch up, that is true... However, my current touch-up focus is now on She.

You may actually find that song to be more fitting of the image you came up with- there's deliberately no name.

[Wrong Answer Part 2]

YOU WIN YOU WIN YOU WIN

Gorgeous. Got both versions. You're definitely on the good road towards music satire ala Yankovic, so why not kick it up a notch this year?

Beegeezee responds:

Kick it up a notch ay? You got it! I'm pulling out all the stops!

[(SKIT) The Trio Of Doom Ep. 1]

Didn't Catch On

And I'm pissed off--this is fucking hilarious. I throw this out every now and then, like I do with DEATHS UPON DEATHS UPON DEATHS, whenever I need a cheap laugh and shit. One day when I'm inspired enough, I'll give this a whirl....