Retrobution
By Nick Smalley
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Released 10/16/2011.
Duration: 2:22.
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Lyrics:
Your mother
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NSF by Nick Smalley (original composer)
- Retrobution - Nick Smalley.nsf (22.7 kB)
Artist commentary:
Robert J! Lake, Nick Smalley, Luke Benjamins, and Erik Scheele: (album audio commentary)
GFD: Guys! Guys, Retrobution!
Nick: Yes!
Jit: Oh, man, the other great one!
Nick: It's the good one.
RJ!: Fucking hell that melody, Jesus Christ.
GFD: I helped TSN on this one, this time. A little bit of instrumentation, mostly the ending.
Nick: Mostly the ending.
RJ!: Nick Smalley on a Game Boy.
Nick: That's me.
[imitating song]
Jit: I can't even do cool stuff like this one anymore.
Nick: I was heading up— Jit: Did you make this in Famitracker?
Nick: Yeah, I made this in Famitracker.
Jit: Sweeeet.
RJ!: It's soooo pretty.
Nick: Really?
RJ!: You're pretty.
Nick: Oh, thanks. That's flattering.
[laughter] Jit: You're all pretty people.
GFD: Ah... except, except me. Jit: Pretty ponies and people.
Nick: I like how it slows down, it's my favorite part. Just this break.
Jit: Yeah, I've never been really dramatic like that with my stuff. I don't know, maybe I should try that out sometime.
GFD: My favorite part is the ending. 'Cause I made it. RJ!: My favorite part is the whooole fuckiiing sooong.
Jit: My favorite part is the arpeggios at the beginning...
GFD: Arpeggios! [imitating song]
GFD: You just have to say arpeggios a lot. Jit: Yeah...
RJ!: Arpeggios, arpeggi— d-yeah, I can't do that.
[imitating song] RJ!: That works, that works. That's cheating, though.
Nick: I know.
GFD: Here it comes. Oh wait, this is near the end. The climax of the song.
RJ!: Kick drum.
GFD: It's all bass heavy.
Nick: I like that.
RJ!: Me too.
Nick: Heavy percussion is the best part.
GFD: It was, it is DPCM percussion isn't it?
Nick: Yeah. GFD: Yeeaahh. That's good stuff.
RJ!: I wonder how AgentParsec will feel about this Elf Shanty artwork.
GFD: From here on, is where I help make the ending. Nick: I like the ending.
GFD: It used to be such a cop-out ending.
Nick: Yeah, it was. [laughter]
Jit: What, was it a fade out or something?
GFD: It used to, it would just do another slowdown and just sorta ended, but now it's this.
RJ!: Yeah, but now it's awesome.
["your mother" vocal plays]
[collective laughter] Jit: Ahaha, what?(Continued in Game Over)