Score: 10

"Coolio...Yo"

submission: Dev - Misery (Special Edition)

date: May 21, 2008

What a great addition! Wow. I'm glad to see such an improvement. I really couldn't find anything I didn't like about it, just as I didn't find anything wrong in the original. All I can do is just sit back and listen while my imagination flows.
You tip-toed around destruction with the wild piano playing (It ALMOST didn't fit), but I'm glad you didn't take it too far. The simple things are often the best.

I think you got a really good thing going with this. I love it. Although you didn't take my suggestion about layering the beginning piano melody of the first version with the part where the drums first kicked in? Or did you just not like it? Either way, I still love this track. Thank you for creating such a thing. I noticed that you added a subtle Arabian melody in it, too. Are you trying to tell me something? lol

-Flecko-

Score: 6

"Close"

submission: Dev - Night And Light

date: May 7, 2008

I'm not gonna even pretend that I know anything about composing a song, but as a listener, I can tell you what I thought.

I thought the first half, maybe even first 3/4ths of this piece was kinda random. A little too random for the listener to pick out a consistent tune and be interested. Maybe some of the notes were kind of vague and needed to be emphasized more? I dunno. It wasn't until the last part when I was finally able to find a consistent tune.

But the last part was good, good use of layering, it stopped a little too abruptly, but it was well laid out. (Maybe I'm just a sucker for the piano/violin combo) But if I were someone looking for something I needed to use, I wouldn't of listened past the first minute.

-Flecko-