MOD.IronTear (IRONTEAR.MOD)

Posted by lunatik96 on Thu 13th Jul 2023, rated 9 / 10.

this version is way better than the one I got on a CD 30 years ago
The instruments sound better

Posted by TMA Placeholder Account on Thu 16th Sep 1999, rated 6 / 10.

This song sounds like the conglomeration of a number of musical ideas that just happened to fit together. Some of them work, some of them don't... But the stylings and melodies of the song just scream out "Amateur." A single background runs through the entire length of the piece. There's not a single segue in the whole of it, parts just halt and a new theme opens up. Add this to an ending theme that desperately needs to be capped off better, and you have a song that could be something, but just doesn't quite measure up. The technical aspect in this mod was very inconsistent. Prework on the samples was woefully inadequate, as a number of them were out of tune with the rest, and once the piece was set in motion, absolutely nothing was done aside from setting channel pans once. It would have benefited greatly from a pause here and there, or perhaps some tempo variance, but the author just chugged his way through until the finish. This isn't the bottom of the barrel, but it just doesn't earn its way onto any playlists for any extended time.