johnfn's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[Buired in Dust (2:48)]

Beautiful

All your work shows you've truly mastered the music. This piece is no exception. After hearing your first three I waited for another, but i slowly forgot, then comming back to hear this masterpiece is awesome. This audio really flows very well. There are no jumps between themes and that phasing synth really works wonders. Just...gee, listening to this makes me think that the portal isnt (almost) filled with crap after all. Upload some of your other work if possible, because this is excellent stuff :)

TBF responds:

You're making me blush man. Im so glad that you like my music, thank you for all the positive feedback. I have a few more tunes but none of them are at the point where I feel they are good enough to upload right now. Pretty Soon though I will have another one to upload. Thx Again.

[The Ocean Is seamless]

Excellent as always

Very nice audio you have here. It starts off almost ambient, and when I heard the beginning I almost turned it off, but I perservered and it slowly but surely turns into an excellent techno echoey song. Not only that but after it loops around you can really hear that the beginning fits into the song excellently. I find it amazing that you can master everything you set out to do, from happy songs to sadder variations, even from zippy techno to slower songs like this, and its all good.

Well, great job as always. And dont leave beacuse of school... its fine if you put out a song every 2 weeks, just dont leave. Your pretty much the only reason I come to the audio portal anymore... Well, I dont want to pressure you.

crud responds:

it's great to hear from my hardcore fan, i owe a lot to you. but when i go to school i will be studying abroad in Austria, it will be really difficult to travel, do homework (party) and keep on making music...but you can rest assured in the fact that i absolutely LOVE TO MAKE TECHNO!!! so the submissions will not stop, i will do anything to keep up when i can. besides, i don't leave for a week and a half....still more to come ;)

[Drawing in the sand]

I like that!

At first when I listened to this song I thought it wasnt so good and ignored it, until a bit later when it goes into the main melody. I really like the sadish tone of the bells and the accompinament (sp?) in the background and they really fit together nicely. And then the synths come in reinforcing the bells... its a really nice song indeed, I'm very disappointed it only has a 2.5. Its too bad you can only vote once on a song because I would have voted 5 on your songs so many times... Meh. I'll spare you the long review and end it her-

crud responds:

yeah, i didn't spend too much time on this song, originally i had planned to have some lyrics in there, so that's why it kinda repeats in the beginning. But yeah, the bass starts out weird too, but smooths out and sounds cool.I'm glad you stuck it through and listened to the whole thing! just get all your friends to vote! or at least just listen! have a safe and enjoyable day!

[Skyscrapers]

WOW!!

Maybe its because I dont pay much attention to drum and bass, but this one completely blows me away. That arpeggio synth fits amazingly well with the drums that rock the song so well. I love the drumrolls, and the drums themselves are just awesome. The beginning isnt so great, but if it just started insanely, it wouldnt go right, so i guess its sort of a tradeoff.

Heh, it bugs me that i cant vote more than once or i would vote 5 on this so many times... Really though I've thought that with a lot of your songs, to equal out whatever or whomever is decreasing the score (thinking about it makes me angry, these songs are masterpieces, each in their own right)

Personally I thought the same with CRUD breathes the thick air (except in that case the beginning rocks as well), perhaps I'll go write a review on that one.

Additionally its nice that your really good songs (i.e. just a tickle, thick air) still manage to have a high rating even though they get nuked. HA.

I'm also glad that you release your music so fast, I come back tommorrow and there are 2 new tunes (and somehow they still completely 0wn). I think sometime you should try putting a lot of time into a piece, it would probably rock the portal as these do themselves but with even more work it could be really spectacular. Just a suggestion, personally I think your songs 0wn anyways, but it might be a fun experiment.

Whoa... that was even longer. You'll probably waste half your life reading my reviews :P. I must be long winded.

I eagerly await your next song!

crud responds:

Christ man! you do love to leave some massive reviews!;)yet everything you say has a point. thanks for all the points made. I actually have thought about doing some immensely long and tedious song like how dreamscaper puts out 8 min songs...but i think my ADD wouldn't allow it. However, i definitely will get to a point where i will work endlessly on a song. Just you wait :)

[Dancing in the sunlight]

Excellent except for one thing

... that voice! Sorry, I just dont like it. It sounds like the guy is holding his nose while signing slightly offtone. The rest of the song is amazing (as always) and I appriciate that. Really this song could be an absolutely excellent one, one of your best, except... that voice! Ugh!

No offense there. I really like those arpeggioes (spelling uncertain), it reminds me of bubbles rising to the surface calmly (dont ask)

Dont take it personally or anything. Heh. I liked the way the robot voice goes well in "Coppertop Stride" so maybe you should take a lesson from that ^^

Heh, that review wasnt even as long as my other ones, oh well.

Rock on!

crud responds:

HAHAH, yeah i guess i totally misguessed it with the vocoder on this one. i'm not sure how i missed it, i guess i just got into the sound of it. maybe if i had turned it down or planned it's use a little less. regardless i thank you very much for the very awesome reviews. and by the way, i totally understand the bubble thing, i love arpeggios so much, great for energy.sorry about the vocals, i wonder if it would be worth it to submit it minus the vocals? haha ;)

[I can lick my elbow]

Your a GENUIS!!

Hahahaha. This song made me laugh out loud, and not many songs are that funny. Oh, the agony you must have caused those blues people. Its just great, that beginning that sounds normal and then BLAM and your hit with pretty reckless synths, and then it goes even more insane. And then everything clashes together horribly...

And its a great way to tortue people :-D

crud responds:

yez yez, tis a cruely evil thing i have done here. mwuhahahah!! i think my favorite part is how is goes pretty insane, but then slows down REALLY slow to make you have to endure it longer and then all hell breaks out loose. goodnight st.louis!!

[Striving for a better tomorrow]

Fits the name

...it really does. I dont know how exactly, but it does. Anyways. That minor sounding synth really works wonders for the song. And then when the pluck comes in, it just fits perfectly. In fact, everything fits perfectly. I really like how it builds up at the end and everything comes together excellently.

Oh, n btw. " i don't think i have a chance in the music career though." HAHAHAHAHA... You could probably put these masterpieces up on some site and charge 75 cents for someone to download them and probably make enough money for a living.

Something that really gets me is that some people vote low on songs for no reason at all. How on EARTH can this have a 2.5? It should be way up there... >>.<< I think I'll vote 5 a few times...

Your songs really deserve more recognition... these should really have more like their current downloads times 10. Or maybe times 20. Where did all the people go?

Whoa, that was long. I thought I had outdone myself last time... ha!

crud responds:

wow, that's 4 paragraph review...badass!!! i was thinking i wouldn't get any for this one...

first off i'm glad you liked the choice in title,and it m,ade me smile to see that my wokr with blending was noticed.

second of all, i guess i should still consider a music career as on sidethought, seeing as how i have so many supporters already.

thirdly, i really can't explain why there is so little downloads for highly acclaimed songs. I bet if you asked Paragonx9 and Dreamscaper why they have so many downloads, they probably would have just as good a guess as me.

lastly, i think someone is purposefully voting down my songs, because it seems that ALL the songs seem to go down at once. whatever makes people feel better about themself.

there i beat you for the length of repsonse,;) haha, keep on rockin man!

[God Of Stryph© by Bladen]

Im not sure why it has 4k downloads...

But good job. I mean, it isnt the greatest song I have ever heard, but it does have a nice beat, nice synths and just sorta dancish. So even though its not on my top 5 list (even though I dont have one) good job making 4k people happy with it, thats a huge accomplishment because even people like RageIV and ParagonX9 top at about 2k d/ls. I dont know what it is, but GJ.

Keep making songs, listening to this Seramite song which I like a good amount more.

bladen-stryph responds:

This song is "usually" loved or hated. Nothing in between. I guess I lucked out with the DL's, I have ton's for this one and Seramite(FULL) but all the others have nothing. This was my first song posted so you could say beginners luck lol. Anyway, I appreciate the review. Hope to hear more from you when I put up my new tracks.

[Jump into summer]

Great. Just... great.

You are probably the best unknown audio creater on NG. Your newer songs are really good. I could (and do) listen to this for hours on end without getting bored. The nice blend of piano, synth (I think) shakers, drums... everything just fits together. Look at that, 17 downloads and 5 (now 6) reviews. Most audios I've seen have around 300 d/ls when they have 5 reviews.

I also agree with the last guy, The audio portal needs some major work, its like the guy working on it decided to quit halfway through. People need to review and vote more, and there needs to be like... ah, the whole thing needs to be more like the flash portal.

Wow, thats long. I really said a lot there. I eagerly await your next piece :-)

crud responds:

I am in awe of your words. Thank you so much dude. That just make me wanna make more and more music for you guys.. Yeah, i noticed that i get a lot of reviews but not alot of downloads. And to tell you the truth. i love it. i am so glad that so many of you guys leave reviews!!!! thank you

[Simple Beat]

More... need more.

It looks like you voted 5 on each of your audios, which is bad. You really shouldnt do that. The beats nice, but its only repeated 4 times and then thats all. Add some meleody and some accompianiment, and then you'll have a nice tune.