Bởi Tensei tenseimusic Bandcamp tensei-1 SoundCloud YouTube YouTube ← Dance of Thorns Bài hát trước đó bởi tác giả này → Atomic Bonsai Bài hát tiếp theo bởi tác giả này.
Được phát hành lúc 16/2/2011.
Thời lượng: 3:28.

Nghe tại Bandcamp (trang phát hành của riêng tác giả), Bandcamp (trang phát hành chính thức), YouTube hoặc Spotify.

Tải tại các tệp bản nhạc.
Tải tại các tệp MIDI hoặc/và tệp dự án khác.
Đọc tại chú thích của tác giả.

Bài hát mà Time on My Side có liên hệ đến:

• Beatdown (Strider Style) bởi Curt Blakeslee
• Liquid Negrocity bởi Toby Fox
• Master of Puppets bởi Metallica

Bài hát có liên hệ đến Time on My Side:

trong Official Discography:

• Ascend bởi Tensei

trong Fandom:

• Dance-Stab-Dance bởi Catboss
• Clockwork Physician bởi tiresiasArchivist
• Time Is Not On Your Side bởi Cerulean
• Good Grief bởi 413
• 26x SHOWDOWN COMBO bởi cookiefonster
• Thyme On My Fries bởi SplitSuns
• 7 GRAND END bởi Cryptanark, koba, SplitSuns, Minish, TirantBacon, StarlightCalliope, Wheals, WHATISLOSTINTHEMINES, MoreEpicThanYou747, Isoleucine, ostrichlittledungeon, Noisemaker, Rom M, Cecily Renns, cookiefonster, Pipko Fanfare, Hadron, ft-rj và Interrobang
• Perfect Cascade of the Heart bởi Tensei
• Solicide bởi Caelan Kier
• Temporal Virtuoso bởi Pascal van den Bos
• Delirious Biznasty bởi Pascal van den Bos
• Death by the Time to Gardenlovania (Bassline) bởi Pascal van den Bos
• Cue the Curtains bởi apatheticPianist và Pascal van den Bos
• Bowman's Credit Score: A Rock Opera bởi Noisemaker
• Minuteman bởi Rainy
• Pascal "Don't call me Starkemeister" van den Bos and TimelessHeir's DX collab (gone wrong(gone sexual)) definitive edition bởi Rowyn Berlan và Pascal van den Bos
• Time on My Side 16-Bit Cover bởi Pascal van den Bos
• Ascend x10 Combo bởi Pascal van den Bos
• Voids Edge bởi Rowyn Berlan và Rainy
• Broken Dreams bởi Rowyn Berlan
• Cascade DX bởi Caelan Kier
• Beat Mesa Boogie bởi Tee-vee
• Dumbass Terminal bởi Tee-vee
• Can't Abscond bởi Mabsoot
• Rise Up bởi Mabsoot
• [11/11/11] What do you suppose the name on the envelopes will be? bởi Maukustus

Bài hát có đoạn trích từ Time on My Side:

trong Fandom:

• Games are on my Side bởi Ian White
• Good Grief bởi 413
• Double Dose of Midnight bởi Rainy

Hoạt ảnh có chứa Time on My Side:

thuộc mục Homestuck:

• [S] Prince of Heart: Rise up.

thuộc mục Fan Adventures:

• [S] Strife!!!

In hoặc tải xuống các tệp bản nhạc:

• Piano score bởi Purple1222119 ← Crystalanthemums Tệp bản nhạc trước đó bởi tác giả này → Karkat's Theme Tệp bản nhạc tiếp theo bởi tác giả này

  • Time on My Side - Purple1222119 (piano score).pdf (75 kB)

Tải các tệp MIDI và tệp dự án khác:

• MIDI bởi Purple1222119 → Infinity Mechanism Tệp dự án / MIDI tiếp theo bởi tác giả này

  • Time on My Side - Purple1222119.mid (51.6 kB)

Chú thích của tác giả cho Time on My Side:

Tensei ✑ via early commentary collection

With the Strife album, I deliberately left a lot of the background to the songs very ambiguous. There are no direct, obvious references as to what song corresponds to which character, though there are quite a few indications: each song uses an instrument that is typically associated with one of the kids in a pretty prominent way: whether it's the piano lead in Heir Conditioning, the solo violin in Dance of Thorns, the bass and flute (shakuhachi, actually) in Atomic Bonsai, and of course the sampled beats and scratches in Time on my Side. I suppose the titles count as somewhat vague references to the characters as well.

With that said, I'm still not going to explicitly say "This song is actually a strife theme for Dave" or something like that. If Andrew chooses to interpret it as a good backdrop for a fight between Dirk and Jake, I am totally fine with that. Hell, I can totally see it working (And in fact it DID work, since the flash turned out pretty damn awesome)

I always felt like this song was a bit of the odd man out on the album. While I definitely think Dance of Thorns and Atomic Bonsai were awesome in their own right, they also feel a lot more 'conventional' compared to this song.

In a lot of ways, this song is actually very minimalistic. The droning bassline and guitar chugs stay on the same chord for almost a full minute while the buildup is mostly done through sound effects and overlayed orchestral sounds.

IMO, this results in giving the :53 point, where the chords finally start switching up, a much bigger impact (though the full Beatdown motif coming in probably helps too).

Something similar happens at 2:04 where after 30 seconds of the Black motif remaining on the same chord again, you get another switch, and everything just sounds huuuuuuge.

Appropriately to the title, this song has a lot of weird time-shit going on. Disc scratching in and of itself can actually be treated as a nice metaphor for time manipulation (the comic itself definitely makes grateful use of it), so it's no wonder that it's almost omnipresent here.

By far the neatest thing, in my opinion, is 2:35 though. The effect you hear there is actually the ENTIRE SONG up until that point, played in reverse, and sped up so it fits in a couple of seconds. The idea is literally that it 'scratches' and resets the song, much in the same way as happens to the entire universe in the comic, so it can lay down a wicked wah-guitar solo over the 'scratched' version of the song.

So yes, this song travels back in time in order to make itself awesomer.

Joking aside, this song, like most other ones I make, does also have some sneaky hidden references.

The guitar riff at 3:18, for example, is cribbed pretty much note for note from the Metallica song Master of Puppets (maybe this is a Dirk song after all?). The background strings at :37 have a very similar ascending chromatic pattern the intro to the James Bond theme. The high staccato strings at 1:50 are supposed to be reminiscent of the theme from Psycho, or really every slasher flick ever. (Black is associated with Jack Noir, Jack Noir likes to show people his stabs, etc.)

The original inspiration for this song probably comes from the least likely source imaginable. It's not The Prodigy or Goldeneye 64 music, but actually the original score to the movie Space Jam. You probably don't even know or remember it, but a lot of the songs have a very distinct looped hiphop beat, guitars, and orchestral stabs all over the place, much like a large portion of this song.

Seriously, listen to this (dead link) from about 0:50 onward and you should hear the resemblance.

That aside, obviously stuff from The Prodigy's Fat of the Land album bears some resemblance as well, especially with the cheesy bassline. I know that a few Prodigy songs have been used in the otherwise kinda shitty Charlie's Angels movies whenever shit was about to go down, and that's really the kind of vibe I was going for as well.