Tangerine's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Pennsylvania]

Oh, Mozart 8-bit remix. I really like this. I like how you played around with the melody a little here (or it's just normally like that. I'm not too familiar with the piece). Anyway nice remix.

50Steaks responds:

Repetition really drives down the quality of the song, despite the fact that I did actually change the melody. I didn’t change it deliberately, I just thought I remembered it correctly and didn’t, which is humorous to me now.

[Indiana]

This song has a nice melody. I just feel that the introduction is a little longer than it should be. I feel like your main problem back here was variation in your songs. Not exploring a little more and experimenting. I know that you've worked past this and it's pointless for me to say this; however, I'm going to say it anyway. Regardless of the repetition, I think it's a pretty solid song.

50Steaks responds:

It is quite repetitive, but at the time I really liked this song. I later updated it and fixed the ear piercing second half, and it stands as a testament of my older tracks, definitely one of my better old tracks.

[Maine]

Haha, I love this piece. I had no idea you even remixed this one. I always love reading your edits. I'm not sure why, I just find them so funny. I feel like you could have had a little more variation. Maybe remix it a little bit and change the melody slightly or use some parts from his other works.

50Steaks responds:

Ok this might be a contender for my worst song ever published. I have been making remixes of songs since 2018 so you’d think I have some experience in that field, but according to this song, I really haven’t improved since then all that much.

[Alaska]

I'm very sorry for all the notifications you're going to get from this. Very nice song! I really love how atmospheric and peaceful this sounds. I'm not too sure what Alaska is like but this makes me want to go there. I assume it's snowy since it's west of Canada. I feel like this perfectly gives the feeling of peace and happiness. Another hidden gem of yours.

50Steaks responds:

Unlike Rhode Island, this was my first ever attempt at ambient and set the stage for future ambient tracks. For my first attempt ever, it isn’t bad, but it does lack replayability (a term normally used for games but I am using it here instead).

[Rhode Island]

This is a hidden gem! What a way to start the year. I really like how this song feels. I feel like it sums up the year pretty well. I really like the melody and the general grooviness of the song. This is an absolute hidden gem and nobody will convince me otherwise.

50Steaks responds:

This song was just way too ambitious. I never liked it because I thought it just sounded… too cringy. Like it was trying to be something I was (and probably still am) incapable of doing. Looks like it’s popular with the public though so we’re keeping it as is, no updates.

[Florida]

Florida

50Steaks responds:

Florida

[New Jersey]

Alright, so I see that New York was the first song I reviewed of yours. If I want to say that I've reviewed all of your songs then I better start at the top and work my way down. Quite a far way to go. I probably won't go too in-depth because I can tell you've improved and worked through almost all the errors in these songs. Anyway, let's do this!

I listened to a couple of DnB songs and listened out for what what what all had in similar. I could tell that most of them had a simple rhythmed full chord harmony to them. The ones that I listened to sounded gritty yet clean in a musical sense. Your song is quite different though. I think it would likely be a different genre (I could be mistaken because I only listened to a sample of DnB music). I feel like it might have given the primary melody more impact if it was used a little less. Perhaps some other melodies and a separate section of the music. It does feel a little repetitive.

Also, happy -very late- half birthday!

50Steaks responds:

I forgot already that I made a news post with my half birthday, but thanks for the notion.
I was never truly happy with this song. I felt like it was missing something, and I never tried this genre again because it was really weird to work on. The percussion doesn’t play a large role in this track despite being DnB, which is probably why you said it could be another genre. Also the bass really needs to be more aggressive than it is.

[Missouri (3)]

I can't believe I never reviewed this! I had thought I reviewed all of your songs. Well anyway, I'm here now, so let's do this! For your first published song, this is actually pretty good; however, it does have its flaws. I feel like this song suffered a little because it felt a little like it was a bunch of different things fighting to be the primary melody. It just overall felt very messy and unorganized. Most things didn't feel like they played into each other and that it was a competition. I might be a little too harsh because I'm grading this to your today's standards and this was made a year and two months ago. To give credit where credit is due, the transition at 1:59 was a great transition. It felt smooth and effortless and overall worked really well. Overall, this is not a bad song in any way. I actually quite enjoy listening to it, but I feel that it can really easily be outshined by your later work and overall be forgotten.

50Steaks responds:

I’m glad to see someone acknowledge this song, because in the end, it was kind of important. It taught me transitions, as you mentioned, and it taught me sidechain. Unfortunately those two things alone do not make up for the fact that this song is otherwise terrible, with basically no structure to speak of and it’s practically two songs in one. I hope you having reviewed this and Arkansas puts the release of Iowa into perspective.

[South Carolina]

This is such a happy and cute song! If you were going for a happy feeling for the state, you certainly conveyed it. I agree that your recent songs did seem like they took a lot of effort and would probably drain your energy quite a bit. I think it's very important to sometimes make smaller songs for the fun of it sometimes. I feel that everything in this song plays into each other really nicely. The melody sounds happy and rewarding, and the percussion is upbeat and gleeful.
41 out of 50 states! You've really been working hard at this! You're honestly really close to your goal and I wonder what you will do after you've reached it. I've been thinking about what you'll do as a grand finale to your 50 states adventure and I thought it would be cool if you do a giant mashup of all 50 states into one song. It might be one of the biggest projects you've worked on for Newgrounds but I think it would be really cool!

Anyway, I love the song. Keep up the great work!

50Steaks responds:

Yeah I’ve thought about making just a giant mashup, but then I thought it would be simply too long to try and combine everything into one song, that sounds like an hour long song; I purposefully stray away from something that long simply due to time. Another option is to just combine all of my personal favorite of my songs, including SoundCloud releases, into one big medley. Keep in mind it also has to fit the final state, whatever that’ll be.

[New Mexico]

I really like this! I love it when you take old songs and remix them with a sort of modern feeling to them. I agree with what Battermilk said, the change from a more acoustic feeling to a more electronic version was a really cool feature of the song. I feel like you executed the feeling of the song very well. I do have to say, there are some points in the song (usually the parts with the main melody) where the harmony gets a little too discordant; however, there is one point ( 2:25) where I think the discordance works really well with the elevation of the music. I really love the simplistic style of ending you decided to go for with this song. I feel like going into silence with echos really works well after this giant climactic section of the song. I do have to say, this song does fit the state (I'm assuming it's like Mexico) much better than the previous version of it. I think remixing a song from a Spanish composer was a really good idea. I really like the song and I think you did a really good job on this.

I'd also like to add that I apologize for not being as active on Newgrounds as I usually am. I've been really busy and haven't had as much time as I would have wanted. For the past month, the only real-time I've had was late at night when I was tired. Things are starting to clear up and I'm going to continue being active on Newgrounds.

50Steaks responds:

Well I just awoke to 15 notifications, all of which were reviews from you. I find this ironic since I feel like I already put too much value on your reviews specifically (they tend to be more fleshed out than anyone else’s, and I think I have taken most of your feedback into consideration). Yeah this time, the dissonant harmony was done intentionally to elevate feelings of tension until the final moment, with the key change right at the end. I’m very happy to hear that this song fits its Mexican roots, and I have begun to vary my outros in my more recent music, rather than just yet another fade out.