recompose, refine

1 files changed, 72 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt
index 71f51fc3..0069bbb4 100644
--- a/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt
+++ b/album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt
@@ -10,38 +10,59 @@ URLs:
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 Track: Three in the Morning
 Artist: Clark Powell
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/three-in-the-morning-3
+Duration: 2:49
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/three-in-the-morning-3
+- https://youtu.be/zSg6talwzbU?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Blue Noir
 Artist: David Ko
 References: Vagabounce
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/blue-noir-2
+Duration: 0:55
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/blue-noir-2
+- https://youtu.be/YvMyo3opDOY?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Dead Shuffle
 Artist: Mark Hadley
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/dead-shuffle-2
+Duration: 2:17
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/dead-shuffle-2
+- https://youtu.be/jTIQhTdy4ZU?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Mark Hadley:</i>
     The first MC-related thing I wrote, and retroactively became the MC theme song. This was actually a remake of a midi I made years ago intended for part of an RPG a friend was making, until the RPG was cancelled. It's mostly the same, except that I went back and made it more jazzy (added saxophone and a swing rhythm). The original title of it was "Seriousness".
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 Track: Hearts Flush
 Artist: Mark Hadley
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hearts-flush-2
+Duration: 2:12
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hearts-flush-2
+- https://youtu.be/nb7PoT9w6Tc?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Mark Hadley:</i>
     My favorite of the MC ones I wrote. I've always wanted to write a bass solo, and this gave me the opportunity. There's not much else to add, other than I had a blast writing it.
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 Track: Knives and Ivory
 Artist: Kevin Regamey
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/knives-and-ivory-2
+Duration: 1:10
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/knives-and-ivory-2
+- https://youtu.be/D1C7y1u2K5M?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Liquid Negrocity
 Artist: Toby Fox
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/liquid-negrocity-2
+Duration: 2:10
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/liquid-negrocity-2
+- https://youtu.be/r8sBtl3WYZo?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Hollow Suit
 Artist: Alexander Rosetti
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hollow-suit-2
+Duration: 2:24
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hollow-suit-2
+- https://youtu.be/k7El193pVkM?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Alexander Rosetti:</i>
     Hollow Suit was my other song on that album and it was a little more popular than Moonshine, though I can’t say either even came close to being hits. Like Moonshine it still has a soft spot in my heart. It’s not as compositionally impressive in my opinion, but it was the first in a long line of quirky tracks I have made for Homestuck. The vibraphone and electric organ were incredibly fun to use, and the whole thing ended up having an Elfman/Kirkhope vibe to it. Now, I don’t have synesthesia, but for some reason whenever I think about this song, I think “green”. Just some useless trivia for you.
@@ -49,40 +70,61 @@ Commentary:
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 Track: Ante Matter
 Artist: Mark Hadley
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ante-matter-2
+Duration: 2:33
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ante-matter-2
+- https://youtu.be/2uYFtCSxoPk?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Mark Hadley:</i>
     It's hard to find things to say about this one. I wanted to make a slower song, compared to the other ones I did for Drawing Dead. I'm still technically new at writing jazz, so it was nice getting to practice it a bit more. Overall though, I think I liked the title best on this one; I enjoy a good pun.
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 Track: The Ballad of Jack Noir
 Artist: Toby Fox
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-ballad-of-jack-noir-2
+Duration: 1:48
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/the-ballad-of-jack-noir-2
+- https://youtu.be/EAlt8IgOgPQ?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Lunar Eclipse
 Artist: Michael Guy Bowman, Fenris
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-eclipse-2
+Duration: 2:59
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/lunar-eclipse-2
+- https://youtu.be/06SVUSwu8Xk?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Hauntjam
 Artist: Andrew Huo, Michael Guy Bowman
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hauntjam-2
+Duration: 2:16
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hauntjam-2
+- https://youtu.be/K9s0vr15Gvw?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Andrew Huo:</i>
     Hauntjam and Hauntjelly are interesting things. They were actually made based on a short fruity loop that The Big Man Andrew did, called haunt.wav or haunt.mp3 or something like that. A jam on his theme, logically, would therefore be called "hauntjam," with the opportunity for naming puns including "hauntjelly." His theme appears mostly unchanged as the bassline for the first part of the pieces. At this point in terms of instrumentation, we were still mostly striving for faithfulness to the canon Midnight Crew "band," as can be seen in <a href="http://www.mspaintadventures.com/extras/ps000018.html">the Extras page</a> wherein the MC fill 'em with midnight (bottom), so Hauntjam employs trombone, string bass, piano, clarinet, and sax (I forget which because I've lost the file and am not a band person, but I think it was alto). From there on, it was fairly straightforward to write a haunting refrain and then solos for each instrument. I will admit I got a little writerblock'd for the second part, which was sort of a brief modulation to the dominant, so it sounds a little strange. But it still has its own little charm, with the almost annoying trill put in for a spooky ghost-like effect. In Hauntjam, Bowman did some good stuff with bringing out moving parts in the first refrain. In Hauntjelly, Xerxes emphasizes the spookiness by changing instruments for more electric organ.
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 Track: Carbon Nadsat / Cuestick Genius
 Artist: Robert J! Lake
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carbon-nadsat-cuestick-genius-2
+Duration: 2:56
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/carbon-nadsat-cuestick-genius-2
+- https://youtu.be/g5jyNbOePJ8?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Ace of Trump
 Artist: Hilary Troiano
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ace-of-trump-2
+Duration: 6:29
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/ace-of-trump-2
+- https://youtu.be/Leb48RHyrWs?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Hilary Troiano:</i>
     Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so <a href="misc/hilary-troiano-commentary.mp3">here it is</a>. (<a href="https://jaydeis.tumblr.com/post/19609363685/someone-sent-me-a-pm-asking-for-some-commentary">source</a>)
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 Track: Moonshine
 Artist: Alexander Rosetti
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/moonshine-2
+Duration: 2:39
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/moonshine-2
+- https://youtu.be/W5p7sEFMYHE?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Alexander Rosetti:</i>
     Fake bands, man. I so wish we had done more with this concept. Since the very beginning of Homestuck, Andrew had this idea that the kids would have fake bands they were into, and we would make MySpace band pages with a few of their songs on them as a fun supplement to the comic, in the same spirit as <a href="https://dstrider.blogspot.com/">dave strider’s blog</a> or <a href="https://www.homestuck.com/sweet-bro-and-hella-jeff">SBaHJ</a>. <s>(both of which I would link to if tumblr wasn’t bugging out right now and preventing me from doing so)</s>
@@ -92,21 +134,33 @@ Commentary:
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 Track: Tall, Dark and Loathsome
 Artist: Clark Powell
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/tall-dark-and-loathsome-2
+Duration: 1:33
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/tall-dark-and-loathsome-2
+- https://youtu.be/DxsUKjGirKc?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Joker's Wild
 Artist: Mark Hadley
+Duration: 2:16
 References: Harlequin
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/jokers-wild-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/jokers-wild-2
+- https://youtu.be/MDaWJUfxFCM?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
 Commentary:
     <i>Mark Hadley:</i>
     When we were writing music for Drawing Dead, I just HAD to make a jazz remix of Harlequin. The song pretty much wrote itself after that. I think if I was going to change anything about it though, I'd have tried to get a live saxophone; the synth sounds a bit off. But then, any of the songs off of Drawing Dead would probably sound amazing by a live band.
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 Track: Livin' It Up
 Artist: Gabe Nezovic
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/livin-it-up-2
+Duration: 2:00
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/livin-it-up-2
+- https://youtu.be/HPad4cPmEVI?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072
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 Track: Hauntjelly
 Artist: Andrew Huo, Ian Taylor
+Duration: 2:02
 References: Hauntjam
-URLs: https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hauntjelly-2
+URLs:
+- https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/hauntjelly-2
+- https://youtu.be/MccD13jZSTU?list=PL83FE65DF950D7072