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theres more replies tearing apart my comment than helping, great community guys, really supportive

Back to the band called 'Crying', I checked out their twitter. One thing I found kind of perplexing was whoever runs it was ranting about all the album reviewers referring to them as 'emo', presumably due to their name. Assuming that emo is bad because it now means 'immature', whining about album reviews on twitter is a pretty emo thing to do. Aren't Jimmy Eat World considered to be one of the pioneering 'emo' bands? They're a great freaking band, there's nothing wrong with them being 'emo'.

Though, at the end of the day, the band referred to as 'Crying' is kind of emo.

As a biased chip musician you're missing the point Wimmer.  His sound design may not be the most groundbreaking thing to ever chiptune, but it's a great showcase to someone who doesn't listen to chip music to show that the Gameboy can sound fucking gnarly (remember the audience!).  The timbre IS awesome, especially to someone who hasn't heard of it before.

Also, your comment is analogous to saying "this Diplo record is lame, you should check out Thelonious Monk"

Sorry for the double post but this is kinda referring to my Tera Melos post before:

I actually count things kinda weird. I don't count by the measure, I count by the beat. So everything to me is 1/4 I guess, and then when a smaller/larger subdivision occurs I then use that to count upwards.

So a pattern of 3/4, 5/8, and then 4/4 to me would just be:

one, one, one, 1-2-3-4-5, one, one, one, one

So basically I only use numbers other than "1" when it's not a traditional quarter beat. For me it simplifies what you're thinking about because even counting is still an active mathematical process that takes mental ability. This makes it really easier for me to write and play the super complicated stuff because you're no longer adding up numbers to the bar but taking the "buffer size" down to a single beat and working from there. That's how the Tera Melos guys do it sometimes and it's how they're able to seamlessly add/remove a beat into certain parts. They're not focused on the groove of the measure but instead each individual beat.

Of course, you'll likely never write anything dance-able with this thought process. But this is math rock I'm talking about here, you don't dance - you spaz