I'm fine with people not liking it, but you said more than that. My point, and the reason I brought this whole thing up, is that even though you might not have directly insulted them, your comments were uncalled for and totally unnecessary with respect to conveying your honest opinion about the tracks. What sort of reaction were you expecting after writing something like that? I'm not saying Liontamer's flaming was justified, but it was certainly understandable.

And I'll leave it at that, so we can get back to the reviews. Sorry about the derail.

It's almost sad when I say I completely expected the wide range of opinions over these two tracks. Here's the deal: hip-hop, more than any other genre of music - except maybe country - has the largest share of irrational haters willing to express their sentiments, unsolicited. It's almost as certain as death and taxes. So Liontamer and other folks may need to be excused if what they see looks like the several thousand other ignorant opinions offered during any "rap" discussion. By the same token, people offering those bad opinions - and believe when I say they're all really appreciated - ought to be prepared to give a level of explanation somewhat higher than the drive-by nature of "songs are ruined" and "ya, it sucks." You don't have to be constructive; just make some kind of sense. That was the point of my "devil's advocate" post here: "just what was ruined, exactly?" I'm a big boy, I can take it.

As far as Dee Jay, from my site: "I actually don't like reggaeton much - like latin freestyle during the 80's, only about 5% of the tracks among this pile of garbage are quite decent in my opinion. Anyway, as in 'Unknown from M.C.,' this is all quite toungue-in-cheek: lyrical content headquarters this ain't."

Just like real reggaeton.

Listen dude, if an artist doesnt want his creations critizised, he keeps his art to himself and his mum.

Welcome to the internet.

This is not Creative Commons, and negative feedback is not taboo here. If you're quailing and afraid of people saying mean things about yours or someone else's work, you may as well go hold these discussions on OCR's own boards where you can coddle one another and delete any posts that even hint of negativity.

That said, my impressions of the remix project as a whole: as expected, hit and miss, much like what you find on OCR in general.

The blind hatred of rap/hip hop is pretty irrational (even though the bulk of those genres ARE total crap), and I thought it worked for Blanka's theme quite well. Deejay's theme transitioned surprisingly well too, even though I don't really care for rap at all. Wasn't quite as appropriate for Vega, though. T. Hawk's theme was really nicely done. The idea of writing an entire remix around the high score jingle is hilarious, in a good way.

The low points: Chun-Li's theme felt more like the artists were trying to compose around the original song, like it was an obstacle. Minus points to the same artists for ruining all the nice chords in Cammy's theme, too. Guile and Zangief's theme are both just awful; calling it "trance" is not a free ticket to be lazy with a synthesizer.

Akuma's theme was okay, but God help me, the usage of percussion there made me think it sounded like the soundtrack to hardcore porn.

And one overarching critique, that applies to the good tracks as well as the bad. With a compilation title like "Blood on the Asphalt", you'd expect that all the tracks would be songs you could cue up in place of the original soundtrack and beat someone's ass with. This is why people are rightly fingering Fei Long's theme as the standout track in this collection. Most of the tracks are too darn slow.

Being negative is different from being mean. You can give criticism without being rude. All I was saying is that if you say mean things about people, don't be surprised if people say mean things back.

Reminds me of the SF3:3rd Strike soundtrack. Decent, if not slightly kooky in the lyrics department. :P

I myself was a little dubious about the lead in Guile...it was like SF2:Kindergarten Edition or something.

Actually, somebody did just that and I must say, it works quite well. (Torrent)