#Aggrieve Remix

[homestuck-music-tournament]

Aggrieve Remix

Album: Homestuck Vol. 2 Composer: Gabriel Nezovik Leitmotifs: Aggrieve Characters: Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider

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[S] Jade: Open FreshJamz! (Flash Broken)

[raguna-blade]

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT I JUST REALIZED ITS A FUCKING PUN

AAAAAAAAAAAGH YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS HOW DID THIS NOT OCCUR TO ME UNTIL JUST NOW ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

[homestuckreplay]

So an album (!!!) called Homestuck Vol. 1 has just been released! It's got all the original tracks included in the comic so far, as well as a bonus remix of Aggrieve (Violin Redux), which I think is even more of a 'haunting refrain' than the one Rose actually plays.

It's good! I don't have a head for music at all so I can't review this in depth, but it's a very different experience to hear all the music collected and played out of context. Although I have watched some of those animations enough that I see them playing in my mind (Sburban Countdown is so perfect as a 'time's running out' adrenaline kicking in song).

[pesteringchum]

i was listening to the first hs album and was thinking about how the showtime and aggrieve remixes kinda sucked and so i listened to the other tracks “made by” the beta kids on freshjamz and its so cute to me how all of the beta kids are musicians but dave and jade mostly made music together.

also jade was actually pretty good at music production. i liked her solo tracks and remixes a lot more than daves. though, daves remixes of jade’s stuff were also pretty nice — a lot better than his remixes of john and rose’s songs, at least.

I feel like this difference in quality means either that dave just improved a lot since his collabs with rose and john [probs the most likely scenario since rediscover fusion was pretty good], dave put more effort into the music he made with jade, or jade helped dave a lot with improving his skills/gave more constructive input than john and rose [since i dont personally see john or rose being super into making music with dave in the way jade is]

in any case, i think its really sweet how jade and dave had this special connection with each other :]

[homestuckmusicbracket]

Bracket Information

There will be a total of 513 songs in the bracket (with 585 prior to preliminary rounds)! Each round will last one week, and each batch will be staggered by one day, With two days in between rounds. Propaganda is not only allowed, but encouraged! Assuming nothing goes awry, I also have a surprise planned for the winning song >:3c

This SHOULD include every song in Homestuck, excluding Hiveswap music and Beyond Canon, however, because there are an absolutely insane amount of songs in Homestuck, it’s possible I missed one or two. If there are any you think I DID miss, feel free to send me an ask and let me know!

The bracket is seeded randomly, in no particular order.

this brackets was inspired by other brackets like it, such as @character-of-all-time @transfemswagbracket @eyepatchbracket @movingmusiccomp @undertale-ost-bracket @notp-poll-showdown

Preliminary Round

For this round, the results of a draw will conclude in the original version of the song being chosen

All Polls

Showtime (Piano Refrain) vs Showtime (Original Mix) vs Showtime (Imp Strife Mix)

Aggrieve (Violin Refrain) vs Aggrieve vs Aggrieve (Violin Redux) vs Aggrieve Remix | DRAW

Sburban Jungle (Brief Mix) vs Sburban Jungle

Harlequin vs Harlequin (Rock Version) | DRAW

Explore vs Explore Remix | DRAW

Rediscover Fusion vs Rediscover Fusion Remix | DRAW

ohgodwhat vs ohgodwhatremix

Dissension vs Dissension Remix

Three in the Morning vs Three in the Morning (TJ’S I Can Barely Sleep in This Casino Mix) vs 3 in the Morning (Pianokind) vs Three in the Morning (Aftermath)

Blackest Heart vs Blackest Heart (With Honks)

I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew vs I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew (Post-Punk Version) vs I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew (Acapella)

How Do I Live (D8 Night Version) vs How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version)

Pondsquatter vs Pondsquatter (Live Chamber Version)

Candles and Clockwork vs Candles and Clockwork (Alpha Version)

Creata vs Creata (Canon Edit)

Eternity, Served Cold vs Eternity Served Cold (Canon Edit)

Mother vs Mother (Piano)

Vagabounce vs Vagabounce (Remix)

Trollcops vs Trollcops (Radioplay)

Guardian vs Guardian V2

Verdancy (Bassline) vs Kinetic Verdancy

Hoschestra vs Horschestra STRONG Version | DRAW

Walls Covered in Blood vs Walls Covered in Blood DX

Doctor vs Doctor (Remix)

Overture (Canon Edit) vs I - Overture

Sarabande vs II - Sarabande

Serenade vs III - Serenade

Homestuck Anthem vs IV - Anthem

Beatdown (Strider Style) vs Beatdown Round 2 vs Beatdown DX

Lotus vs Lotus (Bloom)

Pyrocumulus (Kickstart) vs Pyrocumulus (Sicknasty)

Even in Death vs Even in Death (T’Morra’s Belly Mix)

Round One

All Polls

Batch One

Ante Matter vs Land of the Salamanders | DRAW

Upward Movement (Dave Owns) vs Crustacean

Hardlyquin vs Phaze and Blood | DRAW

Aggrievance vs Skaian Summoning

Contention vs Medical Emergency | DRAW

The Thirteenth Hour vs Skaian Skuffle

Underworld vs Nannaquin

Chorale for Jaspers vs The Beginning of Something Really Excellent

psych0ruins vs Sarabande

Aggrieve vs Dissension

Homestuck Anthem vs Hardchorale

Enlightenment vs Endless Climbing

Atomyk Ebonpyre vs Skaian Dreams Remix

mIrAcLeS vs Harleboss

Spider’s Claw vs Space Prankster

Verdancy (Bassline) vs The La2t Frontiier

How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version) vs Greenhouse

Beatdown (Strider Style) vs Showtime (Piano Refrain)

Amphibious Subterrain vs Ace of Trump

Dupliblaze COMAGMA vs Nightlife | DRAW

Descend vs Vertical Motion

Dead Shuffle vs Clockwork Contrivance

Lotus Land Story vs Phantasmagoric Waltz

Skaian Skirmish vs Valhalla

Happy Cat Song! vs Candles and Clockwork (Alpha Version)

Revelawesome vs Tall, Dark and Loathesome

Sburban Jungle vs Mutiny

Welcome to the New Extreme vs Three in the Morning

Versus vs Ballad of Awakening

Black vs Snow Pollen

Octoroon Rangoon vs Pony Chorale

White vs Homestuck

Batch Two

Bed of Rose’s / Dreams of Derse vs Harlequin

An Unbreakable Union vs ohgodwhat

Song of Life vs Hauntjam

Joker’s Wild vs Planet Healer

Gardener vs dESPERADO ROCKET CHAIRS,

Hollow Suit vs Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence

Skies of Skaia vs Get Up

Keepers vs Sburban Countdown

Upholding the Law vs Moonshatter

Softly vs Walls Covered in Blood

Light vs Vagabounce

Savior of the Waking World vs Pyrocumulus (Kickstart)

Sunsetter vs Showdown

Crystalanthemums vs Carefree Victory

Sunslammer vs Ectobiology

Clockwork Melody vs Carbon Nadsat / Cuestick Genius | DRAW

Moonshine vs Plague Doctor

Explore vs Chorale for War

Death of the Lusii vs Hearts Flush

Rediscover Fusion vs Livin’ It Up

Liquid Necrocity vs Virgin Orb

The Ballad of Jack Noir vs Crystalmanthequins

Pumpkin Cravings vs Heirfare

Clockwork Sorrow vs Throwdown

Squiddle! vs Unsheath’d

Blue Noir vs Skaian Ride

Ecstasy vs Hauntjelly

Knives and Ivory vs Can Town

Ruins (With Strings) vs Doctor

The Lemonsnout Turnabout vs Skaian Flight

Skaia (Incipisphere Remix) vs Guardian V2

Endless Climb vs Jade’s Lullaby

Batch Three

Stormspirit vs Heir Transparent

Make a Wish vs Karkat’s Theme

Chaotic Strength vs Time On My Side

Eridan’s Theme vs Wacky Antics

Scratch vs Clockwork

Spider8reath vs Trollcops

Trial and Execution vs Frogs

The Deeper You Go vs Rex Duodecim Angelus

Fly vs The Broken Clock

Darling Kanaya vs Horschestra

Rest a While vs Pumpkin Tide

Catchyegrabber (Skipper Plumbthroat’s Song) vs Nautical Nightmare

Squiddissension vs Phrenic Phever | DRAW

The Blind Prophet vs Terezi’s Theme

Savior of the Dreaming Dead vs Apocryphal Antithesis

Science Seahorse vs Beta Version | DRAW

Boy Skylark (Brief) vs The Nic Cage Song

The Sound of Pure Squid Giggles vs Carefree Princess Berryboo

Dreamers and the Dead vs Play the Wind

Gaia Queen vs Knife’s Edge

Warhammer of Zillyhoo vs Vriska’s Theme

Forever vs Mister Bowman Tells You About the Squiddles

At the Price of Oblivion vs Dance of Thorns

No Release vs Variations

Alternia vs Eldritch

Frost vs Ocean Stars

English vs She’s a Sp8der

Jade Dragon vs Rumble at the Rink

Friendship is Paramount vs Heir Conditioning

Omelette Samdwich vs Let’s All Rock the Heist

Sun-Speckled Squiddly Afternoon vs Nepeta’s Theme

Chain of Prospit vs Lazybones

Batch Four

Havoc to be Wrought vs Umbral Ultimatum

Arisen Anew vs Rainbow Valley

Shade vs Blackest Heart (with Honks)

Light vs Crystalanthology

Trollian Standoff vs The Carnival

Awakening vs Rhapsody in Green

Tangled Waltz vs Time Paradox

Squiddle Samba vs Terezi Owns

Atomic Bonsai vs BL1ND JUST1C3: 1NV3ST1G4T1ON

Lies with the Sea vs A Tender Moment

Squiddles the Movie Trailer - The Day the Unicorns Couldn’t Play vs Rain

Let the Squiddles Sleep (End Theme) vs Heat

Plumbthroat Gives Chase vs You Won a Combat

AlterniaBound vs Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!!

Squiddles in Paradise vs FIDUSPAWN, GO!

Wind vs Tribal Ebonpyre

Courser vs Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows | DRAW

Squididdle! vs Tentacles

Elavatorstuck vs I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing

WSW-Beatdown vs Squiddle Parade

Chartreuse Rewind vs MeGaLoVania

Swing of the Clock vs Catapult Capuchin

Baroqueback Bowtier (Scratch’s Lament) vs A Fairy Battle

Midnight Calliope vs Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E)

Squiddle March vs Dawn of Man

Clockwork Reversal vs Humphrey’s Lullaby

Squiddles Campfire vs Friendship Aneurysm

Black Rose / Green Sun vs Earthsea Borealis

Gamebro (Original 1990 Mix) vs Lifdoff

Maplehoof’s Adventure vs Squiddle Happytime Fun Go!

Even in Death vs Frost

Trails vs Temporal Piano

Batch Five

Nightmare vs Battle Brotocol | DRAW

Hussie Hunt vs Pink Cat

Black Hole / Green Sun vs Emerald Terror

Litrichean Rioghail vs Red Disc

Calamity vs Mayor Maynot

Chronicles vs Teal Hunter

What a Daring Dream vs Iron Knight

Teal Seer vs Cyan Beast

Homefree vs Prospit Dreamers

Hallowed Halls vs Questant’s Lament

Creation vs Escape Pod

Tomahawk Head vs Revelations II - DISQUALIFIED

Indigo Heir vs Serenade

Coolkid vs Olive Scribe

Requiem for an Exile vs Bargaining with the Beast

We Walk vs Green Ghost

Judgement Day vs White Host / Green Room

Carapacian Domain vs Gust of Heir

Derse Dreamers vs Endless Expanse

Purple Bard vs March of the Batterwitch

Purple Tyrant vs Years in the Future

Bronze Page vs The Golden Towers

I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew vs Do the Windy Thing

Raggy Looking Dance vs Song of Skaia

The Vast Glub vs Terraform

The Lost Child vs Rust Maid

Gilded Sands vs Genesis

Orchid Horror vs Love You (Feferi’s Theme)

Exodus vs Cobalt Thief

Requiem vs Flare

Arcade Thunder vs Blue Atom

Rapture vs Violet Prince

Batch Six

Fuchsia Witch vs Violet Mariner

Frog Hunt vs Pendulum

The Meek vs The Prelude

Airtime vs Pilot Light

Riches to Ruins Movements I & II vs Iron Infidel

Havoc vs Indigo Archer

Rust Servant vs Eden

The Obsidian Towers vs Temporal Shenanigans

Phantasmic Youngsters vs Infinity Mechanism

Revered Return vs Galactic Cancer | DRAW

Nine Lives One Love vs Bec Noir

Revelations III vs Cascade (Beta)

Sburban Reversal vs Jade Mother

Kingside Castle vs Orange Hat

Galaxy Hearts vs Scourge Sisters

Cobalt Corsair vs Null

Pale Rapture vs ohgodcat

Fuchsia Ruler vs Davesprite

Center of Brilliance vs Jade Sylph

Carefree Action vs Your Universe

Revelations I vs Bronze Rebel

Afraid of the Darko vs Squiddle Song

Darkened Streets vs Cupcake Girl

Core of Darkness vs Aimless Morning Gold | DRAW

Cascade vs Frostbite

Made of Time vs WV: Become Mayor of the Cans

Gold Pilot vs Do You Remem8er Me

Unite Synchronization vs Ruins Rising

Frog Forager vs Drift Into the Sun

Temporary vs Ocean Stars Falling

Skaian Birth vs Gold Mage

Superego vs Olive Rogue

Batch Seven

Speaker (Skaia’s Reflection) vs Lunar Eclipse vs June Sleeps / Skaian Magicant

Aggrievocation vs Feel (Alive)

Of Gods and Witches vs The Lordling

Red Sucker vs Moonsetter

Ascend vs Cairo Overcoat

Respit vs Princess of Helium

FantasyP vs Conclude

Beatup vs Frogs’ Intermezzo

Bridge of Stars vs Mother (Piano)

Portrait vs Eternity Served Cold (Canon Edit)

Dord Waltz vs Reverie

Firefly vs Entrance of the Salamanders

Breeze vs Frustracean | DRAW

Stargaze vs Trepidation

Another Chance vs Pipeorgankind | DRAW

Solar Voyage vs Overture (Canon Edit)

The Vast Croak vs Crystalmethequins

Pumpkin Party in Sea (Redacted)’s Water Apocalypse vs Stride

Breakshot vs Prospitian Folklore

The Temple’s Withered Bloom vs iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE

Constant Confinement vs Elephant Gun

A Taste for Adventure vs Despot

Jane Dargason vs Hate You

Negative Aperture vs Starfall

October vs Another Countdown

Clockstopper vs Creata

Sweet Dreams, Timaeus vs Checkmate

Requited vs Busting Makes Me Feel Good

Our Glorious Speaker vs Carne Vale

Game Over vs Voidlight

Noirscape vs Lilith in Starlight

Train vs Firefly Cloud

Batch Eight

Red Miles vs Skaian Shrapnel

Coursing vs The Lyrist

Bilious vs THIS Pumpkin

Dapper Dueling vs Encore

Pink Shells vs Battle Against an Unfathomable Enemy

Stress vs Minihoof’s Adventure

Power Fantasy vs Consorts’ Intermezzo

Everything is Something to Somebody vs Skaianet

Vodka Mutiny vs Cumulating Dreams

Cancerous Core vs Castle

Pondsquatter vs Moonsweater

Frogsong vs Flying Car | DRAW

Skaian Happy Flight vs Thanks For Playing

A Little Fight Mewsic vs Heir of Grief

Constant Conquest vs Anbroids V2.0

Stoke the Forge vs Freefall

Sunrise vs Unlabeled | DRAW

Breeding Duties vs Expedition

The Scratch vs Before the Beginning and After the End | DRAW

Buy NAK Sell DOOF vs Ugly Betty

Renewed Return vs Green Lolly

ASSAULT vs Lancer | DRAW

You Killed My Father (Prepare to Die) vs Dogfight

Rustless Fall vs Underfoot

Another Jungle vs Whistling Jackhammer | DRAW

Thip of the Tongue vs GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix)

Austin, Atlantis vs Stellarum Salve

The Changing Game vs Negastrife

Oppa Toby Style vs Great LOFAF Expedition of 2009

Skaian Overdrive vs Sound Judgement

Under the Hat vs Three’s a Crowd

Prelude vs Miasmajesty

Round Two

All Polls

Batch One

Ante Matter vs Land of the Salamanders vs Upward Movement (Dave Owns)

Hardlyquin vs Phaze and Blood vs Aggrievance

Contention vs Medical Emergency vs Skaian Skuffle

Underworld vs The Beginning of Something Really Excellent

Sarabande vs Aggrieve

Homestuck Anthem vs Endless Climbing

Atomyk Ebonpyre vs Harleboss

Spider’s Claw vs The La2t Frontiier

How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version) vs Beatdown (Strider Style)

Ace of Trump vs Dupliblaze COMAGMA vs Nightlife

Descend vs Clockwork Contrivance

Lotus Land Story vs Skaian Skirmish

Candles and Clockwork (Alpha Version) vs Revelawesome

Sburban Jungle vs Three in the Morning

Black vs Ballad of Awakening

Octoroon Rangoon vs Homestuck

Batch Two

Bed of Rose’s / Dreams of Derse vs An Unbreakable Union | DRAW

Hauntjam vs Planet Healer

Gardener vs Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence

Skies of Skaia vs Sburban Countdown

Moonshatter vs Walls Covered in Blood

Vagabounce vs Savior of the Waking World

Sunsetter vs Crystalanthemums

Sunslammer vs Clockwork Melody vs Carbon Nadsat / Cuestick Genius

Plague Doctor vs Explore

Death of the Lusii vs Rediscover Fusion

Liquid Negrocity vs Crystalmanthequins

Pumpkin Cravings vs Clockwork Sorrow

Unsheath’d vs Skaian Ride

Ecstasy vs Knives and Ivory

Doctor vs The Lemonsnout Turnabout

Skaia (Incipisphere Remix) vs Endless Climb

Batch Three

Heir Transparent vs Karkat’s Theme

Time On My Side vs Eridan’s Theme

Clockwork vs Spider8reath

Trial and Execution vs Rex Duodecim Angelus

The Broken Clock vs Darling Kanaya

Pumpkin Tide vs Nautical Nightmare

Squiddissension vs Phrenic Phever vs Terezi’s Theme

Savior of the Dreaming Dead vs Science Seahorse vs Beta Version

The Nic Cage Song vs Carefree Princess Berryboo

Dreamers and the Dead vs Knife’s Edge

Vriska’s Theme vs Forever

At the Price of Oblivion vs Variations

Alternia vs Frost

English vs Jade Dragon

Heir Conditioning vs Let’s All Rock the Heist

Nepeta’s Theme vs Chain of Prospit

Batch Four

Umbral Ultimatum vs Arisen Anew

Shade vs Crystalanthology

The Carnival vs Rhapsody in Green

Time Paradox vs Terezi Owns

BL1ND JUST1C3: 1NV3ST1G4T1ON!!! vs Lies With the Sea

Rain vs Heat

Plumbthroat Gives Chase vs Killed By BR8K Spider!!!!!!!!

FIDUSPAWN, GO! vs Wind

Courser vs Requiem of Sunshine and Rainbows vs Tentacles

Elevatorstuck vs WSW-Beatdown

MeGaLoVania vs Swing of the Clock

A Fairy Battle vs Walk-Stab-Walk (R&E)

Dawn of Man vs Clockwork Reversal

Squiddles Campfire vs Black Rose / Green Sun

GameBro (Original 1990 Mix) vs Maplehoof’s Adventure

Even in Death vs Temporal Piano

Batch Five

Nightmare vs Battle Brotocol vs Pink Cat

Black Hole / Green Sun vs Litrichean Rioghail

Mayor Maynot vs Teal Hunter

Iron Knight vs Teal Seer

Prospit Dreamers vs Hallowed Halls

Escape Pod vs Revelations II

Serenade vs Coolkid

Requiem for an Exile vs Green Ghost

Judgement Day vs Carapacian Dominion

Derse Dreamers vs March of the Batterwitch

Purple Tyrant vs The Golden Towers

I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew vs Raggy Looking Dance

Terraform vs The Lost Child

Gilded Sands vs Orchid Horror

Cobalt Thief vs Flare

Blue Atom vs Violet Prince

Batch Six

Violet Mariner vs Pendulum

The Prelude vs Pilot Light

Iron Infidel vs Havoc

Rust Servant vs Temporal Shenanigans

Infinity Mechanism vs Revered Return vs Galactic Cancer

Bec Noir vs Cascade (Beta)

Sburban Reversal vs Orange Hat

Galaxy Hearts vs Cobalt Corsair

Pale Rapture vs Fuchsia Ruler

Jade Sylph vs Your Universe

Bronze Rebel vs Afraid of the Darko

Darkened Streets vs Core of Darkness vs Aimless Morning Gold

Cascade vs Made of Time

Gold Pilot vs Unite Synchronization

Drift into the Sun vs Ocean Stars Falling

Gold Mage vs Olive Rogue

Batch Seven

Lunar Eclipse vs Feel (Alive)

Of Gods and Witches vs Moonsetter

Ascend vs Respit

Conclude vs Beatup

Mother (Piano) vs Eternity, Served Cold (Canon Edit)

Reverie vs Firefly

Breeze vs Frustracean vs Trepidation

Another Chance vs Pipeorgankind vs Overture (Canon Edit)

Crystalmethequins vs Pumpkin Party in Sea (Redacted’s) Water Apocalypse

Breakshot vs iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE

Constant Confinement vs A Taste for Adventure

Hate You vs Starfall

October vs Clockstopper

Sweet Dreams, Timaeus vs Requited

Carne Vale vs Game Over

Lilith in Starlight vs Firefly Cloud

Batch Eight

Skaian Shrapnel vs Coursing

THIS Pumpkin vs Encore

Battle Against an Unfathomable Enemy vs Stress

Power Fantasy vs Skaianet | DRAW

Vodka Mutiny vs Castle

Moonsweater vs Frogsong vs Flying Car

Thanks for Playing vs Heir of Grief

Anbroids V2.0 vs Freefall

Sunrise vs Unlabeled vs Expedition

The Scratch vs Before the Beginning and After the End vs Ugly Betty

Renewed Return vs ASSAULT vs Lancer

You Killed My Father (Prepare to Die) vs Underfoot

Another Jungle vs Whistling Jackhammer vs GameGrl (Original 1993 Mix)

Austin, Atlantis vs Negastrife

Oppa Toby Style vs Skaian Overdrive

Three’s a Crowd vs Miasmajesty

Round Three

All Polls

Batch One

Upward Movement (Dave Owns) vs Aggrievance

Skaian Skuffle vs The Beginning of Something Really Excellent

Aggrieve vs Homestuck Anthem

Atomyk Ebonpyre vs The La2t Frontiier

Beatdown (Strider Style) vs Dupliblaze COMAGMA

Descend vs Skaian Skirmish

Candles and Clockwork (Alpha Version) vs Sburban Jungle

Black vs Homestuck

Batch Two

Bed of Rose’s / Dreams of Derse vs An Unbreakable Union vs Planet Healer

Biophosphoradelecrystalluminescence vs Sburban Countdown

Moonshatter vs Savior of the Waking World

Sunsetter vs Sunslammer

Plague Doctor vs Rediscover Fusion

Crystalmanthequins vs Pumpkin Cravings

Unsheath’d vs Knives and Ivory

Doctor vs Endless Climb

Batch Three

Heir Transparent vs Time On My Side

Spider8reath vs Rex Duodecim Angelus

Darling Kanaya vs Nautical Nightmare

Terezi’s Theme vs Savior of the Dreaming Dead

Carefree Princess Berryboo vs Dreamers and the Dead

Vriska’s Theme vs At the Price of Oblivion

Alternia vs English

Heir Conditioning vs Nepeta’s Theme

Batch Four

Umbral Ultimatum vs Shade

The Carnival vs Terezi Owns

BL1ND JUST1C3: 1NV3ST1G4T1ON!!! vs Heat

Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!! vs Wind

Courser vs Elevatorstuck

MeGaLoVania vs Walk-Stab-Walk

Clockwork Reversal vs Black Rose / Green Sun

GameBro vs Even in Death

Batch Five

Pink Cat vs Black Hole / Green Sun

Mayor Maynot vs Iron Knight

Prospit Dreamers vs Revelations II

Serenade vs Green Ghost

Judgement Day vs Derse Dreamers

Purple Tyrant vs I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew

The Lost Child vs Orchid Horror

Flare vs Blue Atom

Batch Six

Pendulum vs Pilot Light

Iron Infidel vs Temporal Shenanigans

Infinity Mechanism vs Cascade (Beta)

Sburban Reversal vs Galaxy Hearts

Fuchsia Ruler vs Jade Sylph

Bronze Rebel vs Core of Darkness

Cascade vs Gold Pilot

Ocean Stars Falling vs Gold Mage

Batch Seven

Feel (Alive) vs Moonsetter

Ascend vs Beatup

Eternity, Served Cold (Canon Edit) vs Firefly

Breeze vs Overture

Pumpkin Party in Sea (Redacted)’s Water Apocalypse vs iRRRRRRRRECONCILA8LE

A Taste for Adventure vs Hate You

Clockstopper vs Requited

Carne Vale vs Lilith in Starlight

Batch Eight

Coursing vs THIS Pumpkin

Battle Against an Unfathomable Enemy vs Power Fantasy vs Skaianet

Vodka Mutiny vs Moonsweater

Heir of Grief vs Anbroids V2.0

Unlabelled vs Ugly Betty

Lancer vs You Killed My Father (Prepare to Die)

GameGrl vs Austin, Atlantis

Oppa Toby Style vs Three’s a Crowd

Round Four

All Polls

Batch One

Upward Movement (Dave Owns) vs The Beginning of Something Really Excellent

Homestuck Anthem vs Atomyk Ebonpyre

Beatdown (Strider Style) vs Descend

Sburban Jungle vs Black

Bed of Rose’s / Dreams of Derse vs Sburban Countdown

Savior of the Waking World vs Sunslammer

Plague Doctor vs Crystalmanthequins

Knives and Ivory vs Doctor

Batch Two

Time On My Side vs Rex Duodecim Angelus

Darling Kanaya vs Savior of the Dreaming Dead

Dreamers and the Dead vs At the Price of Oblivion

English vs Heir Conditioning

Umbral Ultimatum vs Terezi Owns

BL1ND JUST1C3: 1NV3ST1G4T1ON!!! vs Killed by BR8K Spider!!!!!!!!

Elevatorstuck vs MeGaLoVania

Black Rose / Green Sun vs Even in Death

Batch Three

Black Hole / Green Sun vs Iron Knight

Prospit Dreamers vs Serenade

Derse Dreamers vs I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew

Orchid Horror vs Flare

Pendulum vs Temporal Shenanigans

Cascade (Beta) vs Sburban Reversal

Fuchsia Ruler vs Core of Darkness

Cascade vs Gold Mage

Batch Four

Moonsetter vs Beatup

Eternity, Served Cold (Canon Edit) vs Overture (Canon Edit)

Pumpkin Party in Sea (Redacted)’s Water Apocalypse vs Hate You

Requited vs Carne Vale

Coursing vs Skaianet

Vodka Mutiny vs Heir of Grief

Ugly Betty vs Lancer

Austin, Atlantis vs Oppa Toby Style

Round Five

All Polls

Batch One

Upward Movement (Dave Owns) vs Homestuck Anthem

Descend vs Black

Sburban Countdown vs Savior of the Waking World

Crystalmanthequins vs Doctor

Batch Two

Rex Duodecim Angelus vs Savior of the Dreaming Dead

At the Price of Oblivion vs English

Umbral Ultimatum vs BL1ND JUST1C3: 1NV3ST1G4TION!!!

MeGaLoVania vs Black Rose / Green Sun

Batch Three

Black Hole / Green Sun vs Serenade

I’m a Member of the Midnight Crew vs Flare

Temporal Shenanigans vs Cascade (Beta)

Fuchsia Ruler vs Cascade

Batch Four

Moonsetter vs Eternity Served Cold (Canon Edit)

Pumpkin Party in Sea (Redacted)’s Water Apocalypse vs Carne Vale | DRAW

Coursing vs Heir of Grief

Lancer vs Oppa Toby Style

Round Six

All Polls

Batch One

Upward Movement (Dave Owns) vs Black

Savior of the Waking World vs Doctor

Rex Duodecim Angelus vs At the Price of Oblivion

Umbral Ultimatum vs MeGaLoVania

Batch Two

Black Hole / Green Sun vs Flare

Cascade (Beta) vs Cascade

Moonsetter vs Pumpkin Party in Sea (Redacted)’s Water Apocalypse vs Carne Vale

Heir of Grief vs Oppa Toby Style

Round Seven

All Polls

Black vs Savior of the Waking World

Rex Duodecim Angelus vs MeGaLoVania

Flare vs Cascade

Moonsetter vs Heir of Grief

Round Eight

All Polls

Black vs Rex Duodecim Angelus

Cascade vs Heir of Grief

Round Nine

Black vs Cascade

Winner: Cascade!

Current Bracket

[bronzecats]

Hitting shuffle on all my songs and seeing how many are Homestuck (official or fan) songs, the first 50 songs:

Green is Homestuck.

1. Courser

2. Mary by PhemieC

3. Carbon Nadsat-Cuestick

4. Devil on My Shoulder by Billy Talent

5. Coming Out by Julia Alfrida

6. Deer by The Pack a.d.

7. Potential Verdancy

8. Past and Present by Homestuck Fan Musicians (Beforus)

9. Aggrieve

10. Enfant spécial by Radio Radio

11. Crying (Live) by Björk

12. Scratch

13. The Crow by Dessa

14. Army of Me (Remix) by Björk

15. Crystalline (Current Value Remix) by Björk

16. Call for Me (Calliope) by totalspiffage

17. Heirloom by Björk

18. Hardtack Saloon #2 by The Pack a.d.

19. Virgin Orb by Toby Fox

20. Uptight Downtown by La Roux

21. Ohgodwhat

22. East Beforan Funk by Homestuck Fan Musicians (Beforus)

23. Doesn’t Really Matter by Platinum Blonde

24. Mouth Mantra by Björk

25. Undo by Björk

26. Breeze

27. Blackout by The Pack a.d.

28. The La2t Frontiier by Toby Fox

29. Old Turf Fire by Catherine McKinnon

30. Quinine by Dessa

31. Core of Darkness by Jeremy Iamurri

32. Jólarkötturinn by Björk

33. Regina by The Sugarcubes

34. The Blind Prophet

35. Stigdu Mig by Björk

36. Call the Doctor by Sleater-Kinney

37. I Am Sold by James Blake

38. Darling Kanaya

39. Body Parts by The Pack a.d.

40. Despised by Blood by Mortillery

41. Suspended in Gaffa by Kate Bush

42. Despot

43. Girls/Girls/Boys by Panic! At the Disco

44. The Golden Towers by Jeremy Iamurri

45. II - Sarabande by Clark Powell

46. Build by The Pack a.d.

47. Hope by Björk

48. The Unified Field by IAMX

49. Beatup

50. Showtime (Imp Strife Mix)

Homestuck to non-Homestuck song ratio: 21:29

[bermudianabroad]

March Listening

Guess who watched Sofia Coppola's Priscilla? Maybe diving into Elvis' back catalogue is a weird reaction considering the content matter of the film... but he's not an artist I'd ever paid much attention to, aside from the massive hits that had worked their way into my consciousness. Genuinely, and this isn't news by any stretch, he was something else as an artist. My two cents.

Moving onto Malvina Reynolds who stunned me with her political songs. A ballard mocking the KKK? A song about grass that's actually about the struggle to keep speaking the truth in the face of active adversity? A song about how tired the world makes you? A song about the filth under the sanitary self we present to the world? Old news again, but hey. Better late than never right?

Similarly, I was sleeping on Tori Amos. Like, I KNEW HER. I have spent time listening to her songs and watching her music videos and being aware of her in the world, but I wasn't AWARE of Tori Amos. This was an anthem album 12 year old me should have listened to.

Now.

Beyonce.

Girl. First of all, check me with my finger on the zietgiest and all: I listened to COWBOY CARTER the day after it was released. And wow. Powerhouse anthemns i can't get out of my head (sixteen carriages, alligator tears), a remixed jolene wherein the aggrieved woman is actually just sad for you, jolene. (get your act together, hon).

Good month for listening in short.

13/52

[mousegard]

so i had some thoughts about ai art a while back on twitter, based on my experience with music, and i decided to write a bit more about those thoughts:

i first got into making music in 7th grade or so with a trial version of fl studio (back then, i think, it was still called “fruity loops”), though in hindsight i couldn’t really call what i was initially making “music.” all i was doing was taking midis from vgmusic.com that other people had made, applying fl studio preset synth patches and soundfonts to each channel, and exporting them as mp3s to upload onto the newgrounds audio portal.

back then, fourteen years old and drunk on my own power, i really thought that made me a music producer. i just thought to myself, "wow! technology is so cool! i can make masterpieces (that sounded like utter crap because i had no experience in actually creating music) without putting in any effort, all by myself (by stealing someone else's hard work with zero credit)!"

this practice was colloquially referred to as “midi-ripping” and it was something the actual creators in the newgrounds audio community would get pretty peeved about, partly because it was ripping off the people who had actually put hard work into sequencing and arranging midis of their favorite video game songs, partly because it was disrespectful to people who actually put effort into their own vgm remixes and arrangements and tarnished their work in comparison, and partly because it was flooding the audio portal with unlistenable garbage.

needless to say i felt very hurt by these (entirely true) gripes and felt very aggrieved and persecuted, as fourteen-year-olds are wont to do. but eventually i realized that the actual music artists on newgrounds who had real talent and made their own amazing songs, whether original or vg remixes, had a point and that if i wanted to be a part of the community that would be tolerated, let alone respected, i had to set midi-ripping behind me and start actually learning the craft and making my own stuff. i had a great time on the audio portal then. i had even more fun than before because i was actually participating in the artistic community now! even if i wasn’t really all that good! and i was getting better and better every day!

but i could have gone down a different path. i could have doubled down and refused to grow. and if i’d done that, i’d have ended up like the people today who are doing the same thing with ai art that i was once doing with midis from vgmusic.

because it isn’t about art for them, actually. it’s about instant gratification. midi-ripping excited me because i could create music with almost zero effort, skill, or personal investment. i didn’t know enough about the medium or the craft to discern why my output was bad and soulless, i just wanted to take “the easy route” to creating things. and because i was midi-ripping, i wasn’t actually learning anything about composing music, so i wasn’t actually gaining much skill at all. i was stagnating.

this is somewhat related to a type of person that shows up a lot in creative communities (or rather kramers into them and gets promptly laughed out of them), commonly called the “ideas guy.” they have all these ideas but none of the skills to execute on them, so they look for people or software tools that can do all the work for them for free. they don’t want to write, they just want to “have written.” they don’t want to make a video game, they want to “have made a video game.” these people typically either grow up and realize that there’s no magic button to press that can make your creation for you and they can’t get people to slavishly recreate their grand vision for free, or they go on to become incompetent project managers so they can live out their dream of telling people to do things for them.

and similarly, fourteen-year-old me didn’t want to make music, i wanted to “have made music,” without learning how to actually create something and express myself through it—which requires a lot of practicing and learning and other things that take time and effort. this is the same thing i see with ai art aficionados who cling to the title of “artist.” they want to “have made” art without actually going through the training and soul-searching that it takes to actually express their ideas or the frustration that often comes with trying to bring those ideas to life. that leads to bad art.

if you want to write, you have to learn how to write. you have to keep writing stuff. if you want to make music or mod a video game or any other artistic pursuit, you have to learn how to do those things and you have to practice them. you don’t have to be good at any of these things, you don’t even have to be competent, but you still have to do it. that’s how you learn how to really express yourself and what’s in your heart, and how you learn to refine your creativity and create better and better things.

that’s not to say that the technology, in a vacuum, is entirely useless. at some point in the future, ai could be a useful tool for helping artists augment their works and push their vision even farther. there are a lot of tools like that already for all kinds of artistic expression. going back to music, i can’t play guitar and i don’t have an orchestra at my beck and call, but i have sample libraries that can make reasonable facsimiles of those things, and although they do a lot of work for me, they also demand their own unique skill sets to use effectively, and i’ve put a lot of work into learning how to use them as well as i can even though i'm still nowhere near as good as a professional.

and on the topic of video games, rpg maker helped me make my own video game without knowing how to code, and sure it wasn’t a big video game and it was a bit janky, but it was hard work, i was satisfied with it once i’d finished, and it gave me a lot of insight into what making video games feels like (i.e. frustrating) and taught me to have more appreciation for my favorite video games when i play them.

maybe someday ai can be that sort of tool, but i feel extremely pessimistic about it at this point in time. for a lot of reasons. but especially because its biggest proponents right now tend to sound like people who were like me once and just never grew up.

i know it’s hard. i know it’s embarrassing to start out at something and be bad at it, especially if you’re older. i know that making stuff is frustrating and every creator has wished they could pull what’s in their imagination right out of their head and put it out there without putting in any effort at least once.

but there’s no shortcut that can take you right from the starting line to the finish line. there are things you can do that can help you run faster or farther or make running easier, but you still have to run.

[29pageshomestuckeveryday]

Homestuck, page 830

[S] Jade: Open FreshJamz!

You open the FRESHJAMZ MEDIA PLAYER and add Dave's remix to the playlist.

Songs used in this page: Showtime Remix by Gabe Nezovic, Aggrieve Remix by Gabe Nezovic, Verdancy (Bassline) by Kalibration, Potential Verdancy by Robert J! Lake, Ohgodwhat by Nick Smalley, Ohgodwhat Remix by Michael Guy bowman, Rediscover Fusion by BurnedKirby, Crystalanthemums by Alexander Rosetti, and Explore Remix by Gabe Nezovic

Song commentary for Ohgodwhat:

Nick Smalley:

WELL

It was 2008 and I was a silly little boy and thought ORGMaker was good-ass music program, so I decided to make a song in it. Half an hour later forged this booger of a song. Seriously. It took half an hour to make this. Then I saw that THE HUSS posted something about a Problem Sleuth opening? So I was like damn that’s bananas I’ll show him up! (wow look at this nerd thinking he can actually make music)

I sent it to his email and like a day later he sent one back asking about the music team. FLATTERING, IT WAS. So I was like sure sign me up g homey dog slice foo

And that’s the story of how I got on the music team.

Oh wait. You just wanted Ohgodwhat.

(ps that’s what it was called when i made it too)

Song commentary for Crystalanthemums:

Alexander Rosetti:

I composed this one intending it to be the theme of Jade's land. This is the reason Jit has gone on the record as saying Crystamenthequins was intended to accompany Jade's island being destroyed/her entering her land (I'm pretty sure that's how he described it) was because of this song. It's actually a really simple tune, and I've wanted to expand on it for ages but never got around to it. The entire piece consists of the same simple chord progression, but it's a good, if played out, progression. That and the beautiful harmonies one is guaranteed to find with it is why I think this is one of my more popular songs. It's not as well-composed as I'd like it to be, but it is definitely catchy. And Radiation was responsible for the name, jokingly calling it "crystalanthemums" after I described it sound like a crystalline flower. I decided that was as good a name as any, and I've had the pleasure of infecting its two remixes with such silly-sounding titles.

Link to storyboards for this page: http://readmspa.org/storyboards/00830.swf.html

Author commentary: With the (playable!) FRESHJAMZ playlist, we are provided with the implication that these are all songs produced by the kids collaboratively. Their icons indicate who was involved with the songs. Just another sign earlier in the story that these kids have some musical talent and this is the sort of thing they do with their spare time. This is one of those things that starts getting buried as we move along. For instance, we never quite get to see God Tier Jade picking up the old bass and rocking out. Which is a shame.

[daily-homestuck-song]

Today's Homestuck song is Aggrieve Remix!

By Gabe Nezovic, from Volume 2.

[besthomestucksong]

ROUND 1: VOL 2: PART 3

[thewertsearch]

Got a few asks which served as a reminder that a while ago, I promised you guys some album reviews! Let's do a couple now.

Homestuck's first album features a lot of songs that we're going to see remixed later on. We've already heard quite a few versions of Showtime and Sburban Jungle, and it seems like a lot of the comic's more 'iconic' songs came from here.

This is a very 'video-gamey' album, featuring songs like Harlequin and Showtime (Original Mix) - which makes sense, since Act 1 was when the comic was trying its hardest to be a video game parody.

My overall impression is that if this was any other comic, this would be an excellent soundtrack - but because this is Homestuck, it serves as excellent raw material for the fantastic soundtrack we're going to be getting later on.

Top tracks: Sburban Jungle (Brief Mix), Showtime (Original Mix), Skies of Skaia, Aggrieve and Sburban Countdown, which I previously praised for how well it evoked the mood of its scene.

Vol. 2 is a nice evolution of the musical style we first heard in the previous volume. It's clear the music team were getting the hang of the 'sound' of Homestuck by point, and it shows.

The second half of Harlequin (Rock Version) is great, and I’m sad it didn’t show up in the animation. Upward Movement’s intro is also new, and I didn’t recognize the song at first. It’s very different from the comic version, and feels a lot more experimental.

This album features four Bill Bolin tracks - several of which were referenced later on, by tracks that are still featured in the comic. I wonder if that was controversial?

This album also features several of the tracks from Jade's FreshJamz account, which the kids canonically produced together. They're definitely newbie tracks, but they have a lot of potential. Hopefully they'll return to this endeavor when we're done with all this Sburb nonsense, because this is clearly where their real talent lies.

Top tracks: Upward Movement, Explore, and Jade's sick bassline from Verdancy.

Vol. 3 features more FreshJamz tracks and a few new remixes. I particularly like Harleboss, a boss remix of a track that probably wasn't intended to have a boss remix. It sounds like the theme for a bar fight in a tavern run by clowns.

Dissension is excellent. It sounds awfully mournful for a Guardian battle track, until you take a closer look at Grandpa, and realize why it has the tone it does. We're also treated to a remix of Dissension, which sounds like the track that would play if Jade fought a living Grandpa. That's an AU I'd love to see.

Top tracks: Dissension (Remix), Ohgodwhat (Remix), and Pony Chorale - a track whose final few seconds might just have featured Rose's canonical voice.

That's it for this episode of Tunes with Sally. Next time we'll be reviewing Vol. 4, Vol. 5 and Alternia!

[researchhpurposes]

MUSIC PLAYER!!! Okay so I didn't listen to all the songs fully but this is really neat! I like how there's icons to show who's song is who's/if the song was remixed by someone. That's really neat. I assuming that this playlist is also chronological and I think that it's neat that you can see some progression when it comes to Dave's music, the Showtime and Aggrieve remixes are nice but I feel like Rediscover Fusion, Crystalanthemums and Explore Remix are better than both of them. I might be wrong there but I think that's neat.

[homestuckreplay]

Explore Remix (This Time It's Wobbly)

(page 827-835)

This is a neat segment, opening and closing with pesterlogs we’ve seen before, filling in some gaps and bookending three really important things: Dave’s monologue, Jade’s FreshJamz, and the Midnight Crew. One small thing stands out - ‘He is undoubtedly gallivanting around his house in a state of barely restrained birthday mirth.’ (p.827) is a strange perspective on John, and sounds more like Jade herself. She doesn’t recognize him in the Midnight Crew comic (p.831) either, so she doesn’t know what he looks like and also doesn’t really see below the surface of his personality.

Dave’s monologue. Dave messages Jade at 23:14 Jade time which is 05:14 Dave time which means this guy does NOT have a good sleep schedule. In his living situation it’s not surprising if he struggles to sleep due to always having one eye open for the next trap. Dave clearly leans on his friends a lot, and they have subtly different roles – John is who he messages about an unexpected juice windfall, Rose is the person he pesters ‘like clockwork’ (p.415) because he can be honest with her about his feelings, and when he can’t sleep, he wants to talk to Jade.

Jade also helps Dave with the self-exploration he’s otherwise not comfortable with. He’s clearly joking when he’s creating his kangaroo rat fursona Akwete Purrmusk, but he’s still creating them. Jade has a FurAffinity account (p.834) and she’s gotta get Dave on there too so that he can start making ‘ironic’ furry art so many layers deep that it becomes sincere.

Dave – and more importantly Andrew Hussie – should not be using a homophobic slur on page 829, as it’s not in the context of reclaiming it. However. As a person who does sometimes reclaim that word I found it a pretty funny variant of the act 2 title [cw slurs if you click that].

FreshJamz! Jade’s music player confirms that all four kids compose music. John and Rose wrote their own themes, ‘Showtime’ and ‘Aggrieve’, both of which have been remixed by Dave. Jade composed ‘Explore’, which was featured in ‘WV: Ascend’ (I will stop talking about Jade-WV connections when they stop showing up) and now Dave has remixed this too. Dave and Jade co-wrote the top tier ‘Crystalanthemums’, and it is very cute to imagine the two of them trading this file back and forth and building on each other’s work. Jade is not a gamer, and John, Rose and Dave have spent a lot of time playing games together, so this media player establishes a shared interest between Jade and the rest of the group.

Midnight Crew. I don’t think page 831 breaks the fourth wall, more like it puts two or three additional fourth walls up, and man do they destroy the image quality. This image doesn’t correspond to an exact page or quote in ‘real’ Homestuck, but it’s based on the events of p.163-165. I think it’s VERY relevant that John is referred to as ‘GT’ here, which are the Pesterchum initials he would have had if he followed his friends’ pattern (TT, TG and GG). And this is happening five pages after we’ve seen a bunch of new chumhandles.

We currently know of [GT/EB], TT, TG, GG, CG, AG, TA, TC and CA. Using only G, T, C and A, we are missing seven possible combinations: GC, GA, AT, AC, AA, CC and CT (which is my initials so I could get assigned a chumhandle!) I think four of these could correspond to the Midnight Crew, but that still leaves eight unaccounted for characters. It may be a coincidence, but these four letters correspond to the base pairs of DNA, and ‘biologist’ and ‘geneticist’ both show up in chumhandles. I’m uncertain of what this means right now, but there is a laboratory near Rose’s house decorated with the Skaian spirograph. If that’s where the mausoleum tunnel leads, that might give us more information.

I think the Midnight Crew is objectively a worse comic than Homestuck. It’s on Act 1031 (10/31, Halloween) but the story is still establishing its titular characters and having them hit each other with sticks. No wonder Dave’s fallen off this so fast. But I also think this is going to become important, and these stories are deeply entangled – Midnight Crew is a story within Homestuck but Homestuck is a story within the Midnight Crew and it’s not impossible that the Homestuck we are reading could also be zoomed out to find another Midnight Crew. More concretely, the player submitting commands could be one of these four characters, similarly shiny and carapaced to WV, the commander we’ve seen.

The beta kids are four thirteen year olds, and the Midnight Crew are four suits of thirteen playing cards – so they’re like a counterpart group, the after dark, morally questionable version. Time is complex in this story but it would be fun if any time it hits midnight for a Homestuck character, the story switches over to the Midnight Crew before the sun comes up, as is suggested by the sun/moon clock at the start of page 833 – something like the Flatland MSPA[LINK].

MSPA, where Midnight Crew and Homestuck are hosted, is also the only piece of media all four kids are into – John, Dave and Jade have all looked at Midnight Crew (p.112, 327, 833), while John and Rose both have Problem Sleuth art (p.11, 224). The Problem Sleuth characters also show up briefly in Act 1031, indicating that it was the previous MSPA in this universe as well as ours. So my new theory is that John, Rose, Dave and Jade all met on the MSPA forums prior to or at the start of Problem Sleuth, giving them over a year before the story starts to form close friendships to the extent of exchanging addresses and birthday gifts. Given that the forums are where commands are submitted in our world, it would be a cool addition to the many meta layers.

> Jade: Navigate to MSPA Forums and submit a command for the Midnight Crew.

[homestuckmusicbracket]

v1 - v2 - v3 - v4

[sanctferum]

Homestuck Sound Test (12/20/2020 Edition)

IMPORTANT: If the download links aren’t working, they may have changed since the last person reblogged them, due to the Sound Test needing to be reuploaded for whatever reason. Try clicking on the links while viewing this post on my blog.

That’s right, Homestuck and Hiveswap fans, we’re back and better than ever! Right on the heels of the first trailer for Andrew Hussie’s new visual novel, it’s time for the newest edition of the Homestuck Sound Test! The Homestuck Sound Test, 12/20/2020 Edition!

For those eager to download, I will provide the link here and continue my expository bullshit below.

Download link (total file size: 3.60 GB):

https://mega.nz/file/DFghAAhJ#afOyeGtO6AzJv-ll24y6S7CoJjq2E_u8HgImRJRcvpk

Alternate download link (same contents as other link):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/xwgo92zd33jfnf8/

Download only the new stuff (total file size: 558 MB):

https://mega.nz/file/yVJjAQTA#GyFd3OpknNuY0RnG-tjsNCKrscVZdUn7PUryEZAgLtw

Alternate download link for only the new stuff (same contents as other link):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/dm35c05cydafj1b/

Downloaded file is a .rar, and can be opened by WinRar, 7Zip, and most other file extraction programs. Changelog for the Sound Test since the last release is included in a text file within either download.

Started by Niklink in 2011, and now curated by yours truly, The Homestuck Sound Test is an unofficial collection of several otherwise scattered, and, in some cases, unavailable Homestuck musical tracks, primarily those created by the Homestuck Music Team.

The Sound Test contains:

Disc 1 - Unreleased Homestuck Music (78 tracks): Music that has been used within Homestuck proper but has not been officially released on an album.

Disc 2 -  Removed Homestuck Music (25 Tracks): Music that was officially released on albums but later removed from said albums. Sburban Jungle’s brief mix from Act 1, an Aggrieve remix, and removed tracks from Bill Bolin, SolusLunes, and Seijen. Does not include the ColoUrs and Mayhem A tracks that turned out to be plagiarized from the Frozen Synapse OST. If you want those tracks, go buy the Frozen Synapse OST. Also includes a backwards, amplified audio version of “null” from Volume 8 (not related to Null from Song of Skaia). In case you’re wondering, “null” as originally released and without the sound amplified was just 8 seconds of seeming silence.

Disc 3 -  Unreleased Homestuck Music Team Music (773 tracks): Homestuck-related and/or Homestuck-inspired music made by the Music Team members that have not been used in Homestuck proper and have not officially been released on an album; also includes beta versions of tracks and unfinished WIPs. Includes beta versions, remasters, and remixes of tracks from official Homestuck albums that may not have been made by official Music Team members (read: ColoUrs and Mayhem tracks). Homestuck fan-music by Hiveswap Music Team members (i.e James Roach) is also included

Disc 4 - Unreleased Hiveswap Music (7 Tracks): Essentially the same thing as Disc 1, but for Hiveswap instead of Homestuck.

Disc 5 - Unreleased Hiveswap Music Team Music (22 tracks): Essentially the same thing as Disc 3, but for Hiveswap instead of Homestuck. Hiveswap fan-music by Homestuck Music Team members is also included.

Disc 6 - Unreleased Friendsim and Pesterquest Music (26 tracks): Same thing as Discs 1 and 4 but for Hiveswap Friendsim and Homestuck Pesterquest.

Disc 7 - Unreleased Friendsim and Pesterquest Music Team Music (12 tracks): Same thing as Discs 3 and 5, but for Hiveswap Friendsim and Homestuck Pesterquest.

Unavailable Homestuck Albums (2 albums, 39 tracks total): Albums that were previously officially sold and have not yet been re-uploaded for purchase.

-Squiddles! (23 tracks)

A spin-off album about Squiddles, an in-universe cartoon about adorable sea creatures.

-The Wanderers (16 tracks)

An album about the Exiles of the B2 session.

Unofficial Homestuck Music Team Albums (3 albums, 28 tracks total, 1 folder with MIDI files, 11 files total): Free unofficial Homestuck albums by members of the Music Team.

-A Plumbthroat Christmas (5 tracks)

A jolly tale of Squiddles and Yuletide cheer by Alexander Rosetti. Not actually jolly or cheerful. If you like musicals about sentient cephalopods devouring human corpses, then this album is for you, I guess.

-Seer (13 tracks)

Tracks from a scrapped Rose Lalonde concept album by Thomas Ferkol. Given the circumstances of their origins, I felt it was best to keep them as a single album rather than cram them all into the Sound Test’s Disc 3. While neither “The Seer and the Tribesmen” or the full version of “The Metamorphosis [of Rose Lalonde]” are included, they are available on the Land of Fan and Music albums (Land of Fans and Music 2 and Land of Fans and Music 3 respectively).

-The Baby Is You (10 tracks)

Simultaneously the worst fucking thing Toby Fox has ever made and his magnum opus that even Undertale cannot surpass, even mentioning this legendary trash opera on the now-defunct MSPA forums was grounds for a ban. Warning: Contains male pregnancy (mpreg), heavy implications of underage sex, implications of incest, time travel, a clip of Karkat saying “MMMMMMMMMMM” that was used in the Act 6 Act 6 Act 1 opening flash, vore, the answer to the Ultimate Riddle, and other absolutely awful shit that has no business being in the Sound Test, or indeed, anywhere. Listen at your own risk, if you dare.

-Tomb of the Ancestors (MIDI Files) (11 files)

MIDI files for most of the tracks from Tomb of the Ancestors, by Kalibration. The actual album is available at http://dl.skaia.net/albums.

Dave’s Phat Beat Machine (16 tracks): 16 of the sickest, illest and dopest beats ever to grace Homestuck page 2238.  These certified “Phat Beats” dropped by Dave Strider’s AKAI MPC-1000 SAMPLER do not include easter egg bonus songs on said page. They also don’t include Bill Bolin’s long-removed contributions to the Phat Beat machine, because those are already included on Disc 2.

That’s 1026 tracks total in the Homestuck Sound Test 12/20/2020 Edition, not including MIDIs.

Several tracks on Disc 3 are currently uncredited. If you are the artist of any of them, or know who the artist is, or see a track that is credited incorrectly anywhere on the Sound Test, please send a message to my Tumblr and I will happily fix the mistake.

Enjoy your listening, and don’t forget to reblog this post to spread the word!