FaeryTaleAdventurer's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Elephantus Ex Machina]

Lovely stuff

Everything's so well engineered.

Has a rhythm to it that's kind of catchy, though the randomness that occurs from time to time really brings the drugged feel home.

Great use of SFX, as well as the stereo-effects (namely the panning).

Freesound, apparently seems to be home to a lot of award winning sounds to set any mood.

-FTA

StefBidz responds:

Yep, freesound is a great place to find sounds you need.
I'm glad you liked it, and that you noticed what I wanted to do with the drums/randomness etc.

Thank you.

[NovNAC Yo Brain On Drugs {696}]

Really nice stuff

There's a lot of stuff here that sounds well put together. The transitions to different things to the pianos arabic-like flair do it all right.

I sense that you had tried hard to give some spontaneity to the song, really helping it be trippy. The voices in a way do seem to be almost like an effect from a drug, though I wouldn't quite say it's there yet, though I do give you some props for the somewhat "broken 4th wall" effect at the end, with your ending monologue.

-FTA

EoD696 responds:

Meh, screw the fourth wall, it's never there for me anyway...my voice is in everything I do, I just dont sing :P I couldn't figure a way of communicating the travesty that the Partnership for a Drug Free America doesn't think alcohol is a drug any other way than to just say it, so that's what I did. *shrug* Thanks for the comments, appreciate it! :D

[B. O. B.]

Strange...

For a brain on drugs, a nice effect seems to be some well focused piano playing. Initially thought it was going to be imaginary lyrics until I heard the voice.

Not sure what it means to be "on blow", but this really is somewhat random and unusual.

-FTA

JPRixdorfer responds:

Thanks for the review! Short answer: unusual? Maybe. Random? No. My thought was that this kind of music best represents the smugness of your average cokehead. And you can bet your hiney you are well focused after a couple of lines :D

[Crack Is Wack]

Needs moar trippay-ness

Please? The last 10 secs or less were rather nice.

-FTA

Atlas responds:

Like I said to SCTE3 I loved the last part and was going to just make something with that but decided to make this instead.

[There is no Carpet]

Somewhat false advertising...

...at least in my head, because for some reason when I saw the title I thought it was a play on Det. John Kimble's (Kindergarten Cop) quotes "Take your toys back to the carpet!" and "There is no bathroom!"

Other than that, this is a nice mix u got here. Smooth and spontaneous!

-FTA

DjHexor responds:

Huh... Never thought about that but you're totally right. John Kimble is boss.
I was thinking of the pun "Does the carpet match the drapes?" when I came up with the name.

Thanks for your review aswell.

[A Trip Into My Own Hell]

Well thought out!

This is certainly the perfect song to wake up to at 6 in the morning (about the time I wrote this review).

It feels very trippy and creepy, especially the begiinning and end.

The slow down at the end gives off some odd impressions, like as if you've actually been killed in your helll, or you're getting a big dose of your own medicine from when you were among the living, and you pass out....perhaps indefinitely.

The rhythm sounds spot on, and really sets the mood of feeling punished and rejected by all that is good.

I somehow feel that even Dante himself (of Dante's Inferno), wouldn't feel comfortable pressing on, if this was heard in the first circle of hell.

Overall, this is an awesome example of a ZOMGWTFBBQHELL industrial song.

-FTA

OrphenFire responds:

Dante would probably shit bricks if this were what he heard in Hell. Although, the song wasn't really about the Judeo-Christian place of torment, but rather a state of being within one's own mind too terrible to imagine. Thanks for the review (:

[SitC 2 | final version]

Real nice, yet subtly redundant

This song must be intended for a scene of sorts, as it has a common theme going on throughout the entire song, as if to suggest all the action revolves around one main thing.

Really like the guitars! They (along with the key) make me think of Power Rangers. Yeah, it's perhaps understood that the longer the song the longer it can take to finalize a song.

Nice work on the guitar solo, a little variation, though not much. The piano helps bring a bit of brightness to the situation. It's kind of neat how aside from the repetitiveness of the overall theme, it still has potential for someone to listen to it in full.

Drums seem to suggest the action parts of the scene, which are here and there, often many "breaks" in the song from it.

All in all, it sounds quite all right.

-FTA

lantaren responds:

thanks! I worked really hard to make sure everything made sense musically to me... I'm not quite sure what I should do with the drum pattern with the cowbell/ride through it... It doesn't feel right for what ever reason.

any way, thanks for this review! I can understand how it can be a bit repetitive most of the way through, but I thought that I should play it safe by not venturing to far out of the main picture... the piano was extremely hard to make for this though, with all the notes playing at once.

I'm kind of depressed now though, since I appear to have been zero bombed at some point.

any way, if you like this, you should check out goukisan's stuff (if you haven't already) as that's where the inspiration for this came from (mainly guitar vs piano and the battle loop)

anyways, thanks for the review FTA.

[*** THE RISE OF SATAN ***]

Popular with "The Unfunny Truth..." YTMNDs

So you're the original composer of this song?

-FTA

kingj4life3 responds:

Yes, yes I am. Why do you ask?

[Légendaires]

Sweet beats! Super chord progressions!

The whole compositon of this sounds like it was heavily influenced by Japanese composers like Nobuyoshi Sano and Shoji Meguro. Perhaps the game may have an anime-like influence to it along the lines of Ghost in the Shell and/or Shin Megami Tensei?

Garoad responds:

I'm very glad you noticed. I pretty much grew up listening to Japanese composers from anime and video game series. Their particular style of composing is almost ingrained in me. My major influences are from Shinji Hosoe, Ayako Saso, Shoji Meguro, and Kenji Kawai.

[=SnowDay=]

Indeed,it is cold!

This is really nice stuff. It has some nice beats and melodies and whatnot. In a way its like a way to warm up to a cold wintry day.

The trance synths (or at least that's what I call them), sounded like they were telling everyone to get up and dance old man winter away.

Best of luck, SK!

-FTA

Daydream-Anatomy responds:

Thanks, glad it had that feeling I was trying to capture:3