50Steaks's audio Reviews on Newgrounds

[QTZ]

Ok I checked your old account because I can relate to losing an old account; happened to me twice over the past... almost 3 years. I found that you once tried to make music but gave up because the “site” you used was garbage. I’m beginning to see the backstory here. If I could give a recommendation, I’d recommend getting some actual software to produce your... audio... I’m sure it would turn out far better than stuff like this. Judging it as a song, it is not very good. Judging it as audio, it’s audio. I could say that any objectively baseless song on newgrounds is good because it’s audio and not music; obviously newgrounds doesn’t say “upload audio” to literally mean any audio file, although that is technically allowed don’t expect it to be well received. These are just my thoughts, don’t take me too seriously( I have no idea about the inner workings of the site or anything

Edit: to your reply I said “...audio...” in response to you saying on my first review ever on your songs that it “wasn’t meant to be music”, this also explains why I said “judging it as audio”. Also I literally said at the end to NOT TAKE ME SERIOUSLY no I wasn’t trying to insult you and no my review on End was not sarcastic I actually can see artistic intent behind that song. In terms of how to improve... I don’t know, how would anyone know? I just randomly found you on the audio portal and didn’t know what to expect going in. Also also, I only left this specific review on this song as more of a general message than review the song, but didn’t want to sound confrontational with a DM.

Silios-Desai responds:

first of all, I didn't lose my old account, I switched because i sure as hell wasn't gonna pay to change the name. I don't remember "giving up", but the site i was using *back then* was terrible. what I'm using now is fucking amazing (to me), although limited. I literally just started making music, and I'm comfortable with what I have. most programs I have used are frustrating and confusing. I can make my music however I want to make it, and just because its shit doesn't mean what I'm using is shit, its that I don't have practice. also, you say "judging it as audio" which means i assume you don't think this is meant to be a song. I tried pretty fucking hard on this one, and you just telling me it isn't good without telling me how to actually improve is kind of insulting. don't expect everyone to be a musical genius.

edit: when reading this over again, i noticed what you said about my music around the middle of the paragraph. "getting some actual software to produce your... audio..." this feels like the goal was to insult me. not even calling it a song, or music. if that was your goal, then go fuck yourself. if you WERENT trying to insult me, then i wanna know why you said it that way.

[Theory of F# Minor]

Probably my 2nd best song on this account. It’s original, catchy, and silly. Really good for restoring the glory of this account after Shepard’s tone and piano abyss kinda tarnished it. I actually quite like this song. (not anymore)

[Piano abyss]

Remember how I said on a review on a song from DustifiedGD that lunar abyss remix was deleted? Well I thought I could resolve the internal conflict within myself about deleting such a popular song by releasing this. It didn’t help. I just took lunar abyss and solar abyss and mashed them up, but only the melodies and made it piano. Not a good recipe for a song.

[Shepard’s tone]

This was a joke song because I stopped taking my own account seriously. Actually what happened was I watched a YouTube video about Shepard’s tone, and so tried to make a beat out of it. Then I gave up and made the lousy ending it has now, since Shepard’s tones aren’t supposed to end. It’s just not a good sign for the future of this account to see this as my most recent post.

Albin3825 responds:

Holy hell I think this might be the worst song I’ve ever released.

[Papers, Please Remix]

Papers please bias aside, I would not rate this song very high. The best moment in the whole song is 1:42, with the relatively complicated baseline. The final drop is lacking some serious mixing. It’s not a good song. But it’s not terrible either. It’s just weird.

[Shostakovich - Waltz 2 Remake]

Pretty much the spiritual successor to At the carnival. Not much to say, it’s unoriginal and bland

[At the Carnival]

This song was used in my now deleted YouTube account. There is a whole separate drama involving that YouTube account and the discord account I used to have, which is a shame because I actually enjoyed discord. I won’t go into detail. This song is an ear worm. It got stuck in my head for months after I released it and the beat I created at 0:28 continues to influence my music. Other than that though, not too much to note.

[Waltz in A Minor]

This is the evolution of my love for 3/4 time. Missouri started it and this continued it. That’s literally the most notable thing about this song I can think of. It didn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, and if I had the option to, I would totally retake this account instead of being forced into a new one, my current one, due to circumstances beyond my control. But it’s a pretty original and decent song
Edit: nah I like my current account more, here in April 2021 I didn’t know how successful I’d be with my current account back then

[Kahoot!]

With this and Missouri began my modern style of music. Simple songs in concept but a lot of artistic thought beneath the surface, similar to my favorite types of books. But yeah this song had hardly any deeper meaning, besides telling the story of winning a Kahoot game.

[The Empty School]

Ok this song, this song.

The last song I ever released until Missouri 1 on my albin3825 account back in July. This is a weird one. Coming off the back of a great song for the time in my career, this is what I make. I wanted to link it to a school shooting but that never happened. In fact, I was actually proud of it for a while because the melodies and harmonies took me so long to make. At the time, I thought that after the success of takeover all my future songs would do just as well. Clearly, that didn’t happen. This got like 17 listens in 3 weeks. As a result, I changed all my descriptions to being depressing, saying I wanted to start again after this account went down the drain, or so I thought at the time. I did eventually start again, but not before I lost the login info and the email connected to this account, meaning I was screwed and couldn’t get it back. So, this song is the lasting remains of a once great empire of dustifiedGD.
But yeah the song itself is ok. Could use a little more instruments variety but it tells a decent story.