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The rock one has some great arrangements (like the title medly), but the techno one was just horribly generic.

This is almost like the original. It's just the bassline and percussion that's different. The slayer synth sounds terribly muffled and there's too much high end. NO. I almost overrode this piece, but you did change the bassline. You've got to bring much more in terms of arrangement to the table if you want to get a piece passed.

Percussion is really lacking in any kind of power or energy at all, which becomes more and more apparent as the song progresses. As for the arrangement, it's quite conservative. You go through the source tune twice with very little in the way of embellishment. The piano line is a direct translation of the harp line from the original. You have to do a lot more than just play the song on your guitar, hell you could have thrown in a solo of the chords at least. NO

Yeah, without a doubt, this is hella groovy. Very creative, catchy, and interpretive. Nice work. YES

Great atmosphere until the brass comes in. Percussion is definitely not doing it for me. It's the same two beat pattern over and over again. Piano sequencing is also really mechanical. Maybe it's supposed to sound like that; toy factory and all that, but still. Actually everything sounds really mechanical in this. I dunno man, I like the arrangement, but it's just the execution that's not doing it for me. Using the Prelude was a nice touch. The fadeout ending sounds like a cop-out more than anything else. This could be better after a resub; dunno if you'll feel like resubbing after Christmas though. NO, resub

No, my friend. The End is Nigh.

As a man who spends far too much money on DC Comics every month, I can say I'm quite excited.

Well he did win the costume contest at VGLive DC.

I think it's hilarious when people who don't make music get vehemently indignant when it comes to stuff like this.

Omg Yes! Win Win Win

If anyone DOES want to take my old remix and update it with better sounds an expanded arrangement, let me know. I'm totally open to that.

All I want for Christmas is you.

Marriage is a sham. Don't come crawling back to us when it ends. (congratulations)

It only takes 3 NOs to get rejected.

Death Metal is definitely not my cup of tea, and I imagine that of the Viking persuasion isn't either. Nevertheless, I shall endeavor to render fair judgement unto you. Let's get one thing out of the way, right off the bat. I think the lyrics sound goofy. Not the screaming scratchy stuff. That actually sounds cool. But when you do that fake sounding deep voiced stuff, like "A cloud of Weeping Lilly pollen is unleashed," it just sounds silly. Maybe that's how viking death metal is supposd to sound? Not sure. Oh, I absolutely love when you say "rrrrrrragnarok!!" Awesome. I think though, that the voices are sitting in a weird place in the mix; it sounds like you recorded them in an empty coffee house or something. I don't know, something about the reverb makes it sound like it's on a stage in a small room. Anyway, as for the actual arrangement of the source music, I think you did a good job. The guitars rock out pretty hard, and the percussion keeps the energy strong without getting old. Nice. Perhaps other Js will have production qualms, so I'm going to reserve my final vote until then, but for now, call me borderline YES. I've been letting this ruminate a while and I've decided to change my vote to NO, resub; I'm just not completely satisfied with how those vocals sit in the soundscape. Vocals like these shouldn't sound so cramped and small. Oh, and I just want to add something as an aside here: when a piece of music is described as being a miniature world, that is what people perceive through the music on its own. When you truly create a piece of music that transports the listener someplace else, you don't need to write out a back story for it for people to read; you don't have to explain the music. Let the music speak for itself. Just my 2 cents.

I don't think that the continuous rhythm is a problem; it serves as an anchor to everything else going on and the way it's played evolves and shifts throughout the piece, from delicate to bombastic to delicate again. I love the sound to this; it's very dark and intimate. YES

The world needs more Kirby mixes. This is my firm, unwavering belief. Such a simple source tune, but you've managed to really trick it out. I love at 1:34 where it gets a little busier. Very chill. Slowdown works surprisingly well considering it comes out of nowhere. Nicely done. I like it. It makes me want to drink coffee in null gravity. YES

Yeah I gotta agree with Andy. A damn shame I actually have to NO this. More source please; it's not like the parts of the song didn't use are bad anyway; I'm sure you could find a way to incorporate more material. NO, resub

Well, he didn't CHANGE the tags, he stripped them. If anything, he oversimplified...

... Okay so instead of apologizing, you just changed the filename so that it doesn't have my name in the tags anymore? You know what? I was ready to let it slide but now you're really trying to steal my work. Not cool at all dude.

It's tweek posting under an Alt Account. Unfortunately Tweek is not nearly as notable a mixer as me (wow that sounds really conceited even though it's not meant to be), and the ID3 tags don't give anything away, so it's definitely not as LOL.

Well the gameplay is 2D to preserve the "strategic" Street Fighter feel, according to Ono. As for vets being turned off because of a roster change, I say eff 'em. They not only had SF2 but the Alpha series as well for all their favorite characters, not to mention HD Remix is on the way. I just feel like this is a step backwards. THREE finally got us past the tired old Shadaloo storyline and gave us a villain with one of the best lines ever ("The mark of dignity shall scar thy DNA." Seriously, you can't top that.). I'm sure people missed their Blanka and Sagat, but clearing out the roster made room for a lot of fun fighters like Ibuki, Dudley, Makoto, Yun, Yang, etc. Hell, people have a hard time enough moving away from playing Shotos! I just feel like any new characters in IV are just going to be peripheral to the "main cast." I dunno, call me crazy, but I've always been a fan of the Street Fighter "storyline" (hell I've got Udon's Street Fighter Ultimate Edition comic sitting on my shelf), and I was really looking forward to seeing what crazy new heroes and villain Capcom would come up with. :\

zyko hit the nail on the head. Theory is about giving you a vocabulary and about giving you a framework with which to approach music. In the end though, composing has a lot to do with what 'sounds right.' I'm a huge proponent of people learning basic theory. My advice to anyone trying to interpret and arrange music is always this: learn basic chords, intervals, and keys. Knowing these things will facilitate translating what you hear into what you write. With enough practice, composing and arranging in this manner becomes second nature. To Cree, the original poster: your mode of thinking is right on. Learning major and minor scales and keys will help you out. I was a trumpet player too, and I took a basic theory course in high school where I learned all the ins-and-outs of keys, scales, intervals, chords, and rhythm, and meter. Not only will it help you compose and arrange, but it'll help your playing. The piano in and of itself is an excellent way to learn basic theory (although I never went that route), because all of the relationships between notes on a piano are visible. You can instantly see what is meant by a whole step and a half step; you can count out the intervals for a major chord. You can count out the notes and go through the circle of fourths and the circle of fifths and see why they're circles (omg spoilers). Bottom line is, like most other folks have been telling you, you can't go wrong with familiarizing yourself with the basic principles of our western major/minor system.

Well, new game play mechanics are to be expected; it's Street Fighter IV, and they should be doing new things. If they pull out parries, fine by me, parries pretty much define SF3. My primary sticking point is the roster rehash, which at this point is pretty unforgivable.

I read a bunch of stuff about how they're trying to make this the Second Coming of Street Fighter II, and that they're going to try to get as many SFII characters into the game as possible. If there's any truth to these rumors, I'm just gonna skip this. I want to play Street Fighter 4, not Street Fighter 2.5 in 3D. I'm really annoyed that we're gonna be stuck with pretty much the same roster that we've been stuck with for years. Part of the reason I liked SF3 so much was because it had almost an entirely new roster, and they weren't clones of the old ones; sure there were similarities and shared move-sets, but they were still different enough to feel fresh. I'm sick of M.Bison's grin, I'm sick of Guile's hair, and I'm sick of Yoga Flame. I'll pass.