From dc873feb1cf1c1a442e17e15766276d9ae1e7443 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florrie Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 16:13:50 -0300 Subject: recompose, refine --- album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead/album.txt | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) (limited to 'album/midnight-crew-drawing-dead') 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mark Hadley: 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". ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mark Hadley: 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Alexander Rosetti: 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: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mark Hadley: 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Andrew Huo: 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 the Extras page 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Hilary Troiano: Someone sent me a PM asking for some commentary about my two MSPA songs, so here it is. (source) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Alexander Rosetti: 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 dave strider’s blog or SBaHJ. (both of which I would link to if tumblr wasn’t bugging out right now and preventing me from doing so) @@ -92,21 +134,33 @@ Commentary: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Mark Hadley: 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -- cgit 1.3.0-6-gf8a5