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Liam Liam The Lemming
(Liam The Lemming)

Good song. The beginning was great. The melodies really took me with 'em... Everything was perfect, until the drums, snare especially, started explosingly in pattern 22. Altough the lead guitar was good, the too loud drums really bothered me, and hurted my ears. Well, peace was again with me, starting on pattern 38. But a big part of the song got spoiled by those too loud drums. Only REALLY bad thing in this song was the ending, a classic fadeout. Something spectacilous would have been cool to the end. Well, anyway, a good song, which definitely has more good things than bad.

Wow, everything about the song is uplifting and pleasant. This song's style reminds me of the pioneering Liam. Great guitar accompanied with a soft flute-like instrument... solid bass line, simplistic percussion, good mixing. Progression is the best feature of this song... it keeps building up and getting better and better. The bridge into the fusion rock was an unexpected surprise, tho the dist guitar sounded a bit low quality that or the bass (sample 14) seemed a bit overpowering. Back to the original tune, with an even better flute lead! The conclusion of the song is using the typical "ring" effect where the end is the same as the beginning, but the slow fade-out proves to make the song that much more reflective. Not much i can say to improve on this track other than there was some space to better the sample quality. Terrific music, i'd love to see more. =)

Appropriate title. This is one of those happy, uplifting, friends-forever songs. There are some real strengths, here. The choice of instruments was interesting, but I'm not sure they were all appropriate. The song has more than one theme in it (which is a raretiy in songs this year, grrr...) And you make excellent use of the messy samples you chose... (Your samples need some serious cleaning up.) I especially like the trills and pitch slides on the flute. The rhythm is nice and complex--no copouts, here (well, the generic 2-and-4 beat rimshots could have been spruced up)... Another major gripe: the fadeout at the end. I guess it's appropriate for the style, but it's professional suicide in Music Contest. :) Don't fade a song out. So I guess the major point of contention is the samples: the lead at the beginning of the song needs to be re-chosen, the guitar needs some equalization, the rhythm -must- be 44kHz (I have no idea why you sacrificed the samplerate for 16-bit, very unwise! And why the 16-bit BASEDRUM?), and with some post-processing, this could be a very professional, very Narada-ish song. Well.. You should really have picked something other than that overdriven guitar for the second theme, but I'll overlook that choice on grounds of it being a style I don't like. Nice work, overall. I usually -hate- these "happy" songs, but there are some redeeming qualities to this one.

Good sounding, watch out for the "polyphonic" flute, it's not in the real world! Got technique overall in the first part of the song. Nice riffs and chord voicings. The power section (2nd part) could've use more diffinition, digital distortion is never good and pleasant to the ear, it kinda spoil the fun, but it's quite nice still.

ARGH! CHEESE OVERLOAD! :) Yikes. This track is so stuffed of cheese, you could open up your own Cheese shop after listening to it ;) On the Cheese scale I'd rate this as... hmm 8 out of 10 cheese :) Pretty good track though, I especially like the later part after the cheesy guitar solo is finished. My only complaint is the flute section in the beginning of the track, it pans way too much around IMO. Before I played the tune I checked out the samples, and I very quickly had a pretty good idea of what I'd expect of the tune, and ya know, I was quite right about that ;) Final comment: A good example of how to do a super cheese track :)