From 4380a3f14899f5e2ef06de057414fd538657dca9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "(quasar) nebula" Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2023 10:29:16 -0300 Subject: inline-alize "(original track art)" commentary annotation --- album/alternia.yaml | 51 ++++++++++------------------ album/alterniabound.yaml | 84 ++++++++++++++++------------------------------ album/beyond-canon.yaml | 3 +- album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml | 3 +- 4 files changed, 47 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-) (limited to 'album') diff --git a/album/alternia.yaml b/album/alternia.yaml index be84d54d..6b840abd 100644 --- a/album/alternia.yaml +++ b/album/alternia.yaml @@ -96,8 +96,7 @@ Commentary: |- Oh yeah, Cindy (Betelgeuse) says this track reminds her of an undersea carnival, and that the ending is when all of the underwater elephants are climbing up on top of each other, about to topple down. And that's why it's the best part. I think that's the best way to describe this song. Just don't try any other way. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Showdown @@ -133,8 +132,7 @@ Commentary: |- no wait let me count these out ???????? ok that's better. now I am the biggest jerk. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: mIrAcLeS @@ -165,8 +163,7 @@ Commentary: |- So now when people ask you "how does this piece even work, man," you know the answer. It's right up there. MIRACLES. PS - Andrew wanted to put a ton of honking on this track to the point that the actual music was undiscernable. He actually linked me to some free sound websites and told me to register. I guess in that way, this track is off-character for Gamzee. If he wants the honking he's going to have to do it himself and make it a bonus track; I think I'm more content with this track than any of the other oens and I don't think it needs to be ruined by anything except my own voice saying "MIRACLES..." - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: The Lemonsnout Turnabout @@ -193,8 +190,7 @@ Commentary: |- JUSTICE IS BLIND, YOU FOOL!! (Lemonsnout screams as he is thrown out the window.) THE END - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Phaze and Blood @@ -219,8 +215,7 @@ Commentary: |- I had a lot of trouble making this piece because the synthesizer I use to emulate the instruments that sound like they come from a Sega Genesis can only have a couple instances of itself open at once before Fruity Loops basically buckles at the knees and runs out of processing power. I ultimately had to render each part individually and stitch them together in Audacity. My inspiration for this track (and I think superior to it even as a theme for Karkat's medium, at least for the first few notes) is "Burn in the Dark" from Brandish 3. Fantastic track from an awesome-terrible video game with a wicked soundtrack. BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN BABY BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: psych0ruins @@ -248,8 +243,7 @@ Commentary: |- This track reminds me of Illusion of Gaia and La-Mulana kind of. Two games with a lot of ruins and a bunch of ghosts, dead people, and mysteries. The part at the end in particular reminds me a lot of La-Mulana, because that game is prone to very full synth solos with a lot of bending pitch affairs. Today just found out AA was dead all along... this theme seems a lot more haunting now. Fitting. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Walls Covered in Blood @@ -276,8 +270,7 @@ Commentary: |- I really wanted to make a samba with those terrible, lo-fi instruments. So I did. and now I am perfectly content to meow as I please. But some people might not like my choice to sacrifice sound quality for nostalgic novelty - that's why I made the [[Walls Covered in Blood DX|DX version]]. (Just for little whiners like you.) Hopefully this piece is successfully cute. As cute as the fabled mountain of cute? I don't think so. I can only hope. If it is, please tell me. I will be so proud. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS, @@ -301,8 +294,7 @@ Commentary: |- bE, desperado rocket chair joust duh. FLY FLY FIGHT THEM OFF TAVROS (Actually, I could see the jousting donation page using this song... Andrew, how much money does it cost for me to request an [S] donation page...?) - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Death of the Lusii @@ -328,8 +320,7 @@ Commentary: |- THE SUN WON'T COME OUT TO PLAY. MY SQUIDDLE DOLL HAS A STOMACHE-ACHE. Et cetera. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Virgin Orb @@ -352,8 +343,7 @@ Commentary: |- ( ) ... and die. (I imagine that GA would be on the other moon than Tavros actually, but... now that I think about it, wouldn't it be fitting if the two "teams" were split up according which moon they were on? So maybe it's not too far-fetched that I'm thinking this.) - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: The La2t Frontiier @@ -390,8 +380,7 @@ Commentary: |- BECAUSE WE WON'T. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Skaian Summoning @@ -412,8 +401,7 @@ Commentary: |- (The Day the World Died) but is there anything i can do to change your mind? - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Section: Bonus tracks @@ -484,8 +472,7 @@ Commentary: |- I'd love to have had this as a normal track, but this track gives me the feeling that AG is only the kind of character that you play as while the world is ending, not during the regular game. I'm also sure she has a different track if you fight her as a boss. Why don't you think about what that would sound like instead, little boy? bluh bluh mwuh mwuh - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Staring @@ -507,8 +494,7 @@ Commentary: |- Also this song is very similar (which I didn't realize until after I finished) to the second track to the Tamashii no Mon OST, which is one of the greatest OSTs to a hilarious and pretty damn cool gem for that crappy old system they call the PC98. (Brandish 3!!! Although I wasn't that keen on Lotus Land Story to be honest. That extra stage was abhorrent.) Those chainsaws are from my favorite game, of course. But who didn't expect that? This track is kind of hilarious in retrospect, after seeing what Equius has become. He really needs a nice manly abusive wifebeaterly wrestling theme with a lot of highfalutin' harpsichord sensibilities, you know what I mean? I do. Watch out. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Keepers @@ -534,8 +520,7 @@ Commentary: |- Plus I just wanted to make a song like this after hearing some nice movie soundtracks and thinking of Chrono Cross. So I did. I always feel like I'm ripping SOMETHING off when I make songs like these. Trust me when I say it's never conscious. I'm pretty sure you can find every measure individually in other songs somewhere. Oh well. I guess it's how I put them together that counts, right? I asked Andrew and he said Caligula invented horse hugs. So there. (I also told my mom that. She believed me.) - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Theme @@ -562,8 +547,7 @@ Commentary: |- Not the theme to Hivebent. I made this before we had seen the trolls and how brutal they are. So it's overwhelmingly bittersweet and heartfelt. Entirely inappropriate. Sorry. That's the end. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Walls Covered in Blood DX @@ -581,6 +565,5 @@ Art Tags: Referenced Tracks: - Walls Covered in Blood Commentary: |- - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) diff --git a/album/alterniabound.yaml b/album/alterniabound.yaml index 7dea2f4f..3f915028 100644 --- a/album/alterniabound.yaml +++ b/album/alterniabound.yaml @@ -84,8 +84,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: So why start with this track? Tensei's album was last, so starting with another solid track by him starts us off with a good impression and holds the listener up from where they were. It's almost like an unofficial continuation of his album's narrative this way... sorta like musical fanfiction, I guess. That, and the whole song kinda reminds me of an anime opening where Aradia undergoes a 3 minute transformation into a maid costume. Please imagine this. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Karkat's Theme @@ -134,8 +133,7 @@ Commentary: |- - It subtly implies that tuba is Karkat's instrument of choice, which we all know is entirely true - WHO THE FUCK LET THE ELEPHANTS IN HERE ARRRGH FUCKING GAMZEE I hope you like it too. And if you don't, I hope it pisses you off as much as it annoys Karkat to have this song play wherever he goes. That's all I can hope for. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Trollcops @@ -174,8 +172,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: Don't tell anyone, but this is actually a remix of one of Jit's old fansongs called [[track:under-the-hat-lofam]], which was a battle theme for Dad. So if your heart still pines for him... his soul and pipe are contained deep within this track. So damn catchy and sleuthy. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: 'BL1ND JUST1C3 : 1NV3ST1G4T1ON !!' @@ -221,8 +218,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: People kept asking me for a Phoenix Wright remix of Lemonsnout Turnabout, so Malcolm creating this was essentially a miracle, especially considering he hadn't been around since [[Squiddidle!]]. Thank you Malcolm. That kiss at the end? That's me kissing you. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Terezi's Theme @@ -261,8 +257,7 @@ Commentary: |- Terezi's theme evolved when Andrew asked me to create a looping version of Lemonsnout Turnabout. Lemonsnout is a very narrative song. It didn't feel right to repeat a single part of it indefinitely, so I instead took several motifs from it and re-implemented them into a new track. It has a similar chord progression, and in ways of instrumentation it has the harpsichord as the main instrument, oboe, deep piano, triangle, and the "tick tock tick tock" woodblocks that are the eternal harbringer of her countdown judgment. After I first completed the song, I noticed that the track was kind of short. That's when I came up with the idea for the second part of the piece - a reprise of "Theme" from the Alternia album. This shows that Terezi has another side to her beyond her devious Alternian judgment: She truly cares about her friends, so much that she has a certain level of tender emotion that almost puts Karkat to shame. I'm not sure if the bifurcation of the piece worked really well as a faux videogame track, but I think it fits her personality. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Dreamers and The Dead @@ -290,8 +285,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: Thomas is continually on point with his orchestral stuff. He actually made a bunch of awesome troll-related tracks that are on his tindeck: (dead link) Go check out the track "Cuddlefish" - he actually uses a minor version of the melody from that at 2:50. Dude is a talent. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Vriska's Theme @@ -325,8 +319,7 @@ Commentary: |- Like Terezi's theme, the piece's second part contains another reprise of "Theme" in the piano - but to contrast the other Scourge sister, Vriska's version of "Theme" is hopeless and dark. Where Terezi showed hope and emotion, Vriska only shows fear, anger, and loathing due to the repression of her own emotions, her upbringing, and her rotten attitude. In the flash, the high and low of the theme repeat indefinitely... on the album, the piece ends, but on an unresolved chord. Who knows what's up next for her? ... oh, and if you're looking for the full verison of Spider's Claw, wait until Volume 8, ok???????? - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: She's a Sp8der @@ -352,8 +345,7 @@ Commentary: |- When writing this song, I kinda envisioned a big ship to ship battle between Vriska and Eridan, with a bumbling Karkat acting as comic relief at the very end. It's actually quite remarkable how well the song translates to a Mindfang/Dualscar theme song, even though it wasn't really intended as such when I wrote it. Toby Fox: I love this track. The end is some serious Skipper Plumbthroat shit. Cue Karkat the Angry Crab pinches him on the nose. Tee hee. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: FIDUSPAWN, GO! @@ -391,8 +383,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: This track was awesome to work on. David's songs are always really darn fun, and while fiddling around with it I was barely cognizant of the irony that I was arranging someone else's remix of my own track. Hope you all enjoy the little touches I did with the drums and the weird guitar-ish NES synth. This is probably the music that's playing in game when Terezi and Karkat are playing on the cover. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Darling Kanaya @@ -425,8 +416,7 @@ Commentary: |- I didn't call it "Kanaya's Theme" because I didn't think that it was stylish enough for her. I originally wrote it as the theme just for walking around her house, but I think it turned out to fit her really well as a character despite my own doubts. Like Terezi's theme, "Darling Kanaya" isn't a remix of her Alternia track ([[Virgin Orb]]), but it contains some similar stuff. There are heavily vibrato'd strings... wavering, luscious 7th chords... melodic piano... lots of arpeggios... and a general uplifting feeling of satisfying, calm emotion. She is one of the very few characters in Hivebent that I would categorize as "sane" by human standards, and thus actually one of my favorite trolls. And despite the semi-low quality of the instrumentation, this is one of my favorite tracks by myself. It's all kind of ghostly and heartfelt, like a sad look out the window with a romance novel in your lap, and then a knowing, welcoming smile. I think that makes sense considering she's an undead vampire now! Or not. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows @@ -454,8 +444,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: I like the idea of having two diametrically opposed Kanaya tracks one right after the other. Saves me the trouble of pointlessly bifurcating Kanaya's song like the other ones. What is a troll? - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Eridan's Theme @@ -503,8 +492,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: Lyrics by [[artist:david-ko]]. The only thing I'd like to note is the middle section remixing Alex Rosetti's Catchyegrabber. I mean, I'm not the voice of Eridan... and it's a bit of a parallel... but... you know all those people you saw in the flash animation? They were ONLY in the opening sequence. They left after the theme song ecause they realized Plumbthroat was about as bright as a lump of seaweed. He doesn't have any friends. Even the Squiddles refuse to love him. He is one damn lonely man. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Nautical Nightmare @@ -527,8 +515,7 @@ Commentary: |- Originally Nautical Nightmare was an orchestral piece for Rose's Denizen.* I wasn't completely satisfied with the end result so it was ultimately scrapped, but the melody and chords kept dancing in my head. MANY months later I discovered the Ultimate Megadrive soundfont by The_Eighth_Bit and I decided to remake it as a boss theme for Eridan. Basically everything about the song changed - the only thing that remains is the main melody and chords. It's not a really overwhelming track because Eridan is a bit of a joke, but I'm pretty happy with it. The bassline and solo section are some of the sassiest I've ever written, the melody is still really catchy, and the action is persistent. Just listen to that thing a couple times and I'll be damned if it doesn't get stuck in your head. *I have since done something better called [[Earthsea Borealis]]. Maybe you will hear it someday. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Nepeta's Theme @@ -558,8 +545,7 @@ Commentary: |- The original Walls was actually pretty divisive - either people loved it or they thought the Mario Paint instruments were too much to bear. Here we get the best of both worlds - the catchy theme without the weird instrumentation! (And if you liked the original better... well... great! Because it still exists.) I decided to hit on some of the more Latin aspects of her theme without a self-imposed limitation on what instruments I could choose. So I threw in some vibraslaps, some bongos, and a steel drum. To extend it for the album, I just decided to add EarthBound instruments and beatbox to the second part of the original song. Always a failproof plan! :33 - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Horschestra STRONG Version @@ -590,8 +576,7 @@ Commentary: |- Seriously though, despite its goofiness, this is one great track. Alex Rosetti is easily one of the best composers on the team, and despite being often limited by his electronic instrumentation palette (he usually composes for real musicians to play), he's pulled this track off and several others fantastically. Did I mention we're in love? Also, the SNES funeral section interspersed with a small amount of Walls Covered in Blood at the end is just brilliant. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Blackest Heart (With Honks) @@ -626,8 +611,7 @@ Commentary: |- Andrew asked me to add some 'brooding honks' to it... and some amazingly hilarious justaposition occurred that somehow made the piece even more frightening to all those that played it at 6am in the morning. Now people love it. Step one to improvement - add clowns! Yep, that's my voice, by the way. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Midnight Calliope @@ -650,8 +634,7 @@ Commentary: |- On a side note, I think I enjoy writing creepy music even more than any other kind of music. Toby Fox: Soundtrack-wise... I think this was one of the greatest moments of Homestuck. This track makes my hair stand on end. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Chaotic Strength @@ -685,8 +668,7 @@ Commentary: |- Thomas composed this right after the flash between Gamzee and Equius... if you can, just imagine the beginning of the song playing as Gamzee stares into Equius's face... and then the "YEAHHHHHH!!!!" just as Equius breaks the string around his neck with a manly flex. Awesome fighting ensues. That didn't happen though. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Trollian Standoff @@ -712,8 +694,7 @@ Commentary: |- Stylistically I basically just tried to make it soun as spaghetti western-ish as possible, but I combined it with a bunch of horror movie style ambient sounds (and honks, obviously). Toby Fox: An awesome track that sets up really well... for the next one. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Rex Duodecim Angelus @@ -781,8 +762,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: I'm incredibly flattered to have such an awesome track feature so many pieces of music by myself... another miracle from the guy who brought you Showtime, folks. Definitely the peak of intensity on the album. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!! @@ -803,8 +783,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: (God-Vriska's Finest Hour) What's wrong, baby? Can't you even play guitar? - Lexxy: - (original track art) + Lexxy: (original track art) --- Track: Alternia @@ -845,8 +824,7 @@ Commentary: |- Toby Fox: Beatfox, it is a great honor. FCG: AND
FCG: I DUNNO
FCG: THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY, I'M GETTING A LUMP IN MY SQUAWK BLISTER. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Section: Bonus tracks @@ -900,8 +878,7 @@ Commentary: |- I used Mega Man X2 samples (by daveeeey) for this track. If Nepeta had a level in a Mega Man X game, this is probably something like what it would sound like... it's just a little bit like Neon Tiger, but maybe just in the chords. They both have the same claw weapons. Neon Tiger probably pounces because he likes Mega Man X. Time to update my shipping wall!!! I really think the toms in the opening do a good job of setting a "jungle" feel to the track. Same with the roaring cymbals and the jumpy bassline. The orchestra hits have a bunch of cool effects on them, too - vibrato, echo, pan, pitch shift... all within the limitations of something a SNES could do! Although I probably went over the instrument limitations for the system, especially if sound effects are involved... Oh! The name of the level was contributed by my friend Samantha. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Science Seahorse @@ -924,8 +901,7 @@ Commentary: |- Eridan is DEFINITELY the boss of this level. Shame that Fef doesn't get a really Feffy track to herself on this album. Poor Fef. BUT if you ARE looking for that and don't mind skipping over somewhere else, go back to the Squiddles Album and check out [[Carefree Princess Berryboo]] by Alex Rosetti. I think it fits her perfectly, especially as far as AlterniaBound walkabout themes go... enjoy it, it's cute! I sadly don't remember who suggested the name "Science Seahorse"... someone cool. You're cool, person! Smile. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: A Fairy Battle @@ -948,8 +924,7 @@ Commentary: |- This piece is made in PXTONE, so it might sound a bit like one of Buzinkai's tracks. I wanted to make a battle theme for Kanaya. I think it does fit her in a really weird way... although it doesn't really line up with the motifs presented in, say, [[Darling Kanaya]] and [[Virgin Orb]]. I can totally imagine her revving up that chainsaw and taking down some imps to this, though. Especially with the delicate synthesized bell so prominent, it does sound kinda delicate... So really, it's your choice what this song is supposed to be. Enjoy your freedom. Oh, and also enjoy that really loud bass. Pump that shit in your cars. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: The Blind Prophet @@ -1016,8 +991,7 @@ Commentary: |- let the games begin.......... Toby Fox: this song is the best song to air guitar and also sing along to and play shitty trumpet to - Hanni Brosh: - (original track art) + Hanni Brosh: (original track art) --- Track: AlterniaBound @@ -1054,8 +1028,7 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Toby Fox: When you win a battle on Alternia, this song plays. No one knows who's singing. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Rest A While @@ -1074,6 +1047,5 @@ Referenced Tracks: Commentary: |- Toby Fox: And with that.... good night. - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) diff --git a/album/beyond-canon.yaml b/album/beyond-canon.yaml index a78551e5..9866944c 100644 --- a/album/beyond-canon.yaml +++ b/album/beyond-canon.yaml @@ -103,8 +103,7 @@ Art Tags: - Jade - Green Sun Commentary: |- - CrepesAhoy: - (original track art) + CrepesAhoy: (original track art) Rachel Z Initially, I was split between making Dirk or Alt. Calliope the focus of this drawing. Eventually, I decided that Jade possessed by Alt. Calliope was the best fit, because the upbeat mood of the song fits Jade's personality, and the name was also very fitting for both characters since their aspect is space. I interpreted the "Cosmic Carousel" as the black hole turning endlessly in space while Alt. Calliope acts as the conductor as she watches over the various timelines. After my first sketch, I had Jade wield Calliope's wand, and I also gave her a happier expression to fit the overall mood of the song. diff --git a/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml b/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml index 3cdab186..4b31cd37 100644 --- a/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml +++ b/album/homestuck-vol-4.yaml @@ -205,8 +205,7 @@ Commentary: |- Alice Hu: Big thank you to Michael Guy Bowman for featuring my art on this new official upload of Sburban Jungle! If you pay attention to the video, you'll notice it moves!! - Homestuck: - (original track art) + Homestuck: (original track art) --- Track: Three in the Morning (RJ's I Can Barely Sleep In This Casino Remix) -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5