I love you.
For this song. Just pure, dark and moody nostalgia. I really appreciate the bright piano notes, and then the melancholy tone of the rest of the song .. starts to fragment when the glitching drums come in. But that just adds to the rest of it.
It tells a story. Your story, my story. Who knows.
Marry me. At once.
On my way.
It Hurts to Fall Asleep.
When do seconds become sheep,
And sheep take me to that place
The ticking clock can't get me?
No fences here, just a face.
Yeah, I see you. A real slick face.
And those hands! Twisted, always
Turning but never to embrace me,
Just to drag me on. "Time always tells!"
They say, but tells what?
How worthless I am, how I can't
Get anything right, how I can't
Make this stick, how I can't
Be myself, or how I can't
Exhale, or how I can't
Cry, or how I can't
-- how I can't
Fall asleep.
Silence makes you more profound.
It should be commended -- so much
Expression in that one sound.
Gears turning in my head, and yours!
Tick. Tock. Just to drag me on.
Mindless clicking, I'll lay here 'till
I realize what?
How worthless I am? Yes, it hurts
To think I'll always fail, it hurts
When I'm alone, and it hurts
Even with friends, it hurts
As I breathe in, it hurts
To smile,and it hurts
-- Oh, how it hurts
To fall asleep.
Oh my gracious
Easily one of my favorite songs on newgrounds. Ever.
This song has everything. It's harsh, melodic, smooth, abrasive .. it has great build, and I love all the changes it has.
WORD.
Wish I had time to write a longer, more detailed, more OMGy review.
Sick!
Love the Speed Racer line!
There's great build and it has lots of smooth elements, but I would LOVE to hear a bigger kick after " .. they don't destroy him first .. "
Like, I mean, WOW. That line could be the climax of the song, and there is no real climax. That's all I'd go back and change.
Yeah the speed racer quote fit in perfectly. Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks for the review.
~{425}~
IM IN UR COLLECTION STALKIN UR SONGZ
Ahem. Control yourself, Sato. -_-
If this is the underwater track you were talking about on mine (do you like how I deduced that by the title?) then I approve heavily. The piano does a lot to carry it with those chords, and then the daintier work up top. I feel like the synth is a bit too strong when it comes in .. maybe give it some more texture .. but the overall effect is nice.
The beat is nicely muted .. I like it in the background. Gives it a neat little pulse. Yep. The synth is a bit too strong for my ears, but it actually gives the feel of a tide rushing in and out, in and out. So. Whatever.
Feels like it shouldn't be four minutes without a climax, without a place its aiming for, so - ah. There it is. Drumbreak at about 3:16. This is why I should wait to write reviews AFTER the song is done.
Well, this review is way more obnoxiously long than my other ones. You will excuse me. Although, over 3k characters does seem like a tempting limit ..
.. but I will control myself, as we have discussed before.
Sheesh, I'm a freak. :D
-Sato-
Um. Uh.
Maybe I'm just obnoxiously happy-go-lucky, but it doesn't sound too terribly depressed to me. Weary, maybe. There's a sort of energy in your right-hand work on the piano, but it's almost like it could just break down at any moment. Oooooor I'm just reading into it way too much.
At any rate, I *really* like this, and I might capture it and violate it with my own style of pads and beats, if that's okay with you. Like, horribly violate it. It will never be the same.
I do like your piano work, consistently over the songs of yours that I've heard. Most certainly.
It's a pretty solid length, actually. I wouldn't toy with that. The fade-out .. hmm. I have mixed feelings for it. Whatevs. Get back to me on that collab.
Hola otra vez
Cuando encontre su cancion, me parece que debe ser mas fuerte. En el primero parte, esta un poco mal oir.
Ha. JK.
But legit. It's a bit hard to hear in the beginning, and when when we finally do get going in what I feel could be a GORGEOUS melody, it starts to wind down. I know you said you just wanted to get it out of your head, and believe me I know that feeling, but make sure you go back and revisit this sometime.
Or maybe you have, and I'm about to look like a fool when you come back and slap me in the face with a link.
lol.
You have nice beats. They are fuzzy and I want to rub them. Is that weird?
Yumm ..
I like the energy in the piano, definitely. The song has a good feel to it, sounds like it's building to something really big in the end.
You could add a bit more harmony to your strings, maybe put down a beat behind it. The piano is strong in itself, and it does carry the piece - but I wish I could hear more.
Ends abruptly - but I actually like it that way!
Rated 5, definitely.
-Sato-
Oh, also ..
.. I'm going to stalk your newgrounds collection, because of the nice review you made of my song. kthnx.
Anyways - the kick came at :34ish and I was like LOL!
Not like LOL as in IMLAUGHING@U but LOL as in THIS IS AWESOME. There's great build and smooth melody - didn't expect the vox, but they're a nice touch. I would have liked to se them worked into what happens for the rest of the song. Either make a bigger deal of the vocals - or bring them back more often. They seem like something you'd build to, not something you'd put in the beginning and seem to forget about.
I love when someone stalks my NG collection <3
Glad you liked how I made the build up. I was going to make the intro a little longer, but I ran out of time for the competition. The vocals were really just a test. Hard to believe I used a laptop mic for those. I considered adding them for the second verse but I got lazy :P I -might- redo this whole song and turn it into vocal trance. MIGHT. Depends on how I feel I guess.
I REFUSE TO FOLLOW YOUR SILLY LONG RESPONSE TREND. Or, y'know, I can't really come up with a longer response, but thanks for the review :D
Your collection's got a new stalker ;)
Ha - really is a ride!
Has a nice build to it, from start to finish. Sort of a 'buckle up, bitch, and hang on to something' feel especially when the kick comes at about, like, the half minute mark.
It felt a bit repetitive, but the shift at 1:45 saved it for me. The whole thing feels like it could be about two minutes, or a half more maybe - a little stretched in bits, but the sound are all there and sound mad awesome. :D
-Sato-
I am a journeyman-level writer, filmmaker, and rogue wizard currently adjusting to her newfound status as a not-quite-starving artist.
Age 32
San Francisco CA
Joined on 8/6/07
<LE>18th of December