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Song of the Week - WEEK 101 Voting/WEEK 102 Nominating
Song of the Week. 100 Weeks and counting.
Week 101 Voting is closed. Week 102 Nominating is restricted. Week 101 Voting The rules for voting can be found here. Results 1). [25] Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune 2). [19] Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler 3). [16] Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) 4). [12] FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear 5). [9] The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest 6). [8] Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL 7). [4] "GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight 8). [3] Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2 Tracks (links): FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear "GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2 Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest Notes: If you are a member at more than one of the forums which this event is being held at, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums. Week 102 Nominating The Nominations Queue can be found here. The rules for nominating can be found here. Here is the link to the corresponding thread in the other forum: - Soundtrack Central |
Why is this pending?
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Drakken was having internet problems and couldn't finish uploading the tracks. However, they're all up now, so fire away!
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The tracks are now linked and ready for voting.
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I got time tonight, might as well post comments.
FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear: The beginning of this track was the best part, as the rest dwindled into a monotonous pile of high-tension brass and drums - in other words, the usual militaristic stuff. Not for me. "GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight: I enjoyed this track. It's one of the few occasions wherein the music makes up for the largely unintelligible lyrics. Great tempo, nice layered effects and a strong melody all make it worth hearing again. Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2: This piece suffers from classic "Kenji-Itoitis"; it's inoffensive but thoroughly lacking in substance, nothing sets it apart from a hundred other "happy day" themes. Ito is perhaps the reigning champion at creating the least with the most. Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler: This is really, um, schmaltzy. Though there's really nothing horrible about Bedtime Puzzler, the super-sticky-sweetness is quite difficult to swallow. I usually favor airy, cheerful tracks but this might be just a bit too airy, even for me. The style of pop/R&B here isn't my cup of tea, though I did like some of the synth effects. Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL: I hope this is our last Phantasy Star nomination, at least for quite a while. But the series steps out of SotW on a positive note, with a song that's got a lot of groove and character. Jazz fusion tracks are either really cool or really bad and this lands squarely in the "diggin' it" category. Good nomination. Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune: I didn't think that much of this track during the first listen, but I'm glad I gave it another go. It has a lot more depth than I initially realized, reminiscient of a Russian ballet, almost. It's not something I'd listen to all the time but when I'm feeling introspective, it'd be quite suitable. Not bad. Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix): My nomination, and a guilty pleasure. This song is nothing but fun, fun, fun, with a hell of a lot of style thrown in for good measure. The melody is so strong that it once managed to get itself lodged in my head for four days. And the vocals are in English, so you can sing along! Fun for all ages! The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest : This one retains that "cinematic" feel, but more like it was ripped out of a Tim Burton film, and not a Spielberg one. On the whole, I find the cinematic VGM entries to be a bit lacking, due to a personal opinion that they feel as though they were never meant for the game in the first place. Primordial Forest is better than some, but still feels oddly misplaced. Points! Points! Points! 3 Points: Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) 1 Point: "GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight 1 Point: Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune 1 Point: Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL Mixed week. Some good, some less exciting. Pretty normal, it'd seem. Oh right - New Nomination Album: Tourist Trophy Original Game Soundtrack Track Title: CALIFORNIA WIND Composer: KASAI Track Number: 19 Year: 2006 Catalog Number: FLCG-3120 Source: GMROnline Notes: GMR lists the composer as MAKOTO, but the track is tagged "KASAI". I'm unsure which is correct. |
FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear The pulsing percussion of this track is its great strength, at the beginning especially and in the middle. There's not much melody to speak of, and the middle part of the loop is a tad mushy, but the drums help keep it in the black.
"GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight A heavy dose of quirk and funk, this. The lyrics are completely garbled (it actually sounded like Simmish to me) but it was fun in a cheesy, over-the-top way. Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2 Definitely an Ito piece, as his stylistc trademarks are all over it. It could easily be slotted into any of his other SNES-era projects, with nothing to distinguish it save a nice melodic twist near the loop. I find Ito to be at his best when he goes over the top or quirky, rather than going for peaceful. Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler I like the synthy edge this song displays, although it winds up sounding more like a late-90's end credits song than anything. Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL Very different than the gaggle of PS tracks that preceded it. For this same reason, it struck me as rather bland, though that's as much a function of the genre as anything. Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune Some terrific piano work here, combined with a small supporting ensemble to create some fine, dark music. Not as compelling as I hoped it would be given its potential, but good nonetheless. Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) The voices at the beginning had me fearing for the worst. Luckily, the song turns out to be a spiritual cousin to GURUMIN; I couldn't understand a word of the lyrics, but the instrumentals had energy. The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest Michael Giacchino is often at his best when he's imitating John Williams; in this case, he's adopted Williams' sound for Hook and Home Alone into a nice comic piece. The melody's good and the pizzicato strings are terrific. A fine week, with nothing unlistenable. The Point Spread 3 pts. - Primordial Forest 2 pts. - Skilled Spear 1 pt. - Larmes de la lune |
Skilled Spear: It blows you away the first second you listen to it. It has interesting harmonies. Maybe it's my imagination but I hear some Nakano vibe in it.
Guruguru Tonight: I can believe people like such songs, but I'm not a pop music fan. Goal 2: It immediately reminds me of the "ocean song" in Saga Frontier. Very good participant here. Nomination from me for the win, because of the nostalgia I felt. Bedtime Puzzler: Hey what a surprise, this was not the song I had in mind. The version I have here is the instrumental version. Interesting. The vocal version is of better quality than the instrumental version. Landeel: I don't like the percussion here, it sounds too old and unsophisticated. Overall pretty laid back and ambient, very anime stylish, not my kind of thing. Larmes de la Lune: It started pretty good but the piano after that made me puke a little bit. I like the barok feeling of the song, the use of sequences of modulational phrases. The instrumentation is a bit blurry at times. This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix): I laughed in the beginning, but after a while I realized it's not going to do it. Primordial Forest: I give it an A+ for orchestration, but the song/melody itself is not interesting to me. Skilled Spear: 3 points Goal 2: 2 points Larmes de Lune: 1 point I can't think of any rare albums right now so: Album: Dark Cloud 2 Track Title: Fish Race!! Composer: Tomohito Nishiura Track Number: 1/42 Year: 2002 Catalog Number: SCDC-00243/4 Source: RPGfan Dark Cloud 2 isn't that popular I hope. |
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Last week I forgot to vote in the last moment, so this time I won't wait until Sunday:
1 point ~ Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler 2 points ~ Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune 3 points ~ The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest And now my next nomination: Album: -- Track Title: Childrens suite Composer: Richard Jacques Track Number: -- Year: 2002? Catalog Number: -- Source: Well, it was part of some downloadable material from his official website, it was in a directory apart from film, commercials and video game music. It was just for promoting himself. The problem is that after remodelating his website, now I can't find a source for it. So, this is the actual website: http://www.richardjacques.co.uk/ And this is where I took the mp3 file (now removed, I suppose): http://www.richardjacques.co.uk/downloads.html I will upload the mp3 to the server as soon as I'm finished with the Enemy territory Beta 2, unless you decline it, of course ^^U |
IMDB and Mobygames confirm that Richard Jacques is primarily a VGM composer; all his listed credits are for VGM. While I repeat my wish that people would nominate more actual music found in video games, "Children's Suite" looks fully eligible under the current rules, so upload away :)
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2 points: "GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight
2 points: Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune 1 point: Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL 1 point: Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki - Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) |
I don't know if anyone noticed, but I accidentally broke the SotW Wiki for a day or two. It's fixed now.
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3 points : Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix)
2 points : FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear 1 point : The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest |
Interesting week. For the first time in a long while, some comments! :P
(2 points) Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune Hauntingly beautiful best describes this for me. (2 points) FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear I like the energy of the song. I'm even more surprised it's a Hosoe track (!!!). (1 point) Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler Nice instrumentation and melody. Really like the beat in this song. (1 point) Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki - Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) Tom Jones?!?! Nice song, though. Accompaniment is very neat. The Lost World was very close to getting a point. I'm rather fond of whimsical tracks such as these but I do prefer them to be less orchestral. Heavy orchestration adds a certain amount of seriousness that prevents the song from reaching the level of silliness I like so much. |
(2 points) Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune
(2 points) Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler (1 point) FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear (1 point) Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL Nomination:
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I'm close to requesting that all Suikoden music be deemed ineligible. I realize there are arranged albums out there that people might not have heard, but still, we've seen more than our fair share of Suikoden music here at GFF, and there have been some arranged tracks nominated for SotW in the past.
It just doesn't really fit in with the purpose of SotW, in my mind. But if others think music from arranged albums is still unknown and thus fitting for SotW, then that's fine. Let's get some opinions, though. |
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Incidentally, Drakken, would it kill you to vote while you're commenting on eligibility :D |
This is an actual Suikotune.
Current Suikoden nomination statistics are: Suikoden 1: 1 in-game, 2 arrangements (1 placed) Suikoden 2: 1 in-game Suikoden 3: 2 in-game, 1 arrangement (1 placed) Suikoden 4 & 5: none |
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Eh, I don't feel Suikoden has quite reached the level that, say, Wild Arms has with exposure (2 WA in the top 8 of BSC most likely and around a dozen in the entire contest, from various series composers). It's another case where the composers have changed a lot, so a Suikoden III tune isn't equivalent to a Suikoden 1/2 tune. And I'm not a fan of anything related to III's music, but I love 1/2 and some of 4/5, so that should give you some idea of how different each composer/group was. On that same note, from something I saw earlier...Phantasy Star isn't equivalent to PSO music, despite the name. Totally different styles of music, totally different composers, etc. |
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3 points - Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune
2 points - Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler 1 point - FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear "Larmes de la lune" and to some extent "Bedtime Puzzler" were the only two that particularly caught my ear. Last week had a much more satisfying spread; even the tracks I didn't vote for then were good. |
So are we making this another 2-weeker? It seems like the inertia is pointing that way, anyway.
As for a definitive answer re: Suikotunes, I think that the series can remain eligible until it racks up a few more nominations, and then should be retired. That's what happened with Phantasy Star tracks, and it seemed to work well enough. |
A 2-weeker sounds good. Will allow me to toss in my next nomination. =}
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Two week SoTW! Get those votes and noms in! |
Great! Now for that nomination... I'm picking from an album I just acquired a physical copy of. One that, to my surprise, has not been nominated from so far (unless the nomination archive list is wrong).
Senko no Ronde -Sound Tracks- <Yasuhisa Watanabe -Yack.-> - [03] assemble === Kaleb.G === * Album Title: Senko no Ronde -Sound Tracks- * Artist: Yasuhisa Watanabe -Yack.- * Track Title: assemble * Source: #gamemp3s, GMR, the OST itself * File Location: Nominations folder * Disc Number: 1 (of 1) * Track Number: 03 * Catalogue Number: SRIN-1025 * Year: 2005 |
K, making a nomination. I'll see if I can upload it in the next couple days.
Album: Beatmania IIDX 14 GOLD Original Soundtrack Artist: Nekomata Master (real name is Naoyuki Sato) Album Number: 2 Track Number: 32 Track Title: Reflection Into The EDEN Catalog Number: LC-1554~5 Year: 2007 Sources: http://www.konamistyle.jp/customfact..._st/index.html Additional comments: This OST had too much good stuff on it, there were several other songs I also wanted to nominate. |
Onoz! I was going to nominate Reflection Into Eden but I couldn't find the mp3. That song will win its week ;)
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3 points: Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ~ Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix)
2 points: Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler 1 point: Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune Almost: Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL That Space Channel 5 track...just strangely excellent. The Tom Jones influence helped. With the sound quality was way better (not talking about the encoding). In other news, your mom is a Bedtime Puzzler. |
My next nomination
Album: Welcome To The Karu Land Artist: Kazuko "Karu" Umino Track: WHAT'S INSIDE (BGM 5 - A.D.4580) Track #: 07 Disc #: 1/1 Cat #: PCCB-00196 Year: 1995 Source: http://www.tagtuner.com/music/albums...album-v21f3274 Additional Info: From Gekirindan Arcade machine, also a Stage 5 Theme |
This week didn't appeal to me at all. Three vocals and two film music. Landeel is probably my favourite arrangement from the PSC albums and it was the clear winner. Nothing new worth keeping on my hard drive this week.
3 points - LANDEEL 2 points - Larmes de la lune 1 point - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2 Album: MIDI Power Pro 7 ~ Gradius Artist: Konami Kukeiha Club Track Title: Oceanus (3rd Stage) Track number: 09 Disc number: 1/1 Catalog number: KMCA-5 Year: 1999 Source: http://www.gmronline.com/info.asp?CatNumber=KMCA-5 Will upload shortly. |
I really liked Bedtime Puzzler, particularly the rhythmic singing in its hook and then at around 4:00. Larmes de la lune was a great piece; the music box and piano sections are my favorites. This is My Happiness is a very fun song, though I enjoyed it more for its musical style than the questionable singing. Actually, the more I listen to it, the more endearing the singing gets. :p
I wish I could award Larmes de la lune and This is My Happiness 1 1/2 points each. I like them about the same, but I don't want to drop both of them down to 1 point, because they're on another level than whatever other song I would make the last 1-pointer. Landeel was solid, but bland, as orion said. Primordial Forest was actually pretty cool; I like the pizzicato strings. The percussion in the background was also a nice touch. Goal 2 was a nice little tune as well. All three songs got consideration for points. Skilled Spear did nothing for me. Guruguru Tonight was OK but not good enough for point contention. Bedtime Puzzler - 3 This is My Happiness - 2 Larmes de la lune - 1 |
2 Points - Bedtime Puzzler ° Some part in the middle was excellent
2 Points - Landeel ° Phantasy Star? This? 1993? I'm impressed. 1 Point - This is my Happiness ° haha, Tom Jones 1 Point - Skilled Spear ° "best out of the ordinary genre" |
Voting is closed and nominations are restricted!
1). [25] Snow in Saigon - Larmes de la lune 2). [19] Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan Daijiten Original Soundtrack - Bedtime Puzzler 3). [16] Space Channel 5 Part 2 Uki Uki ? Non Stop Megamix - This is My Happiness (Tom Jones A-Go Go Mix) 4). [12] FolksSoul ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - Skilled Spear 5). [9] The Lost World: Jurassic Park Original Game Soundtrack - Primordial Forest 6). [8] Phantasy Star Collection - Sound Collection II - LANDEEL 7). [4] "GURUMIN" ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK - Guruguru Tonight 8). [3] Koi ha Balance - Battle of Lovers (SPC Rip) - Goal 2 |
Hooray, my first gold! I also noticed Draconis (who started the same week as me) won his first gold with his most recent nomination, so a late congratulations to him too.
PS - sorry Darkcomet :( |
Congratulations to you as well, TheKnightOfNee. That was a really excellent nomination on your part, and one of the most enjoyable this week had to offer.
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Eh, I eked out a Bronze. Not bad for a silly vocal track, given the usual resistance to their ilk. Bronze is about where I was aiming when I nominated it, so MISSION COMPLETE.
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Haha, I didn't realize voting was closed so I went ahead and picked out my songs. And what do you know, the top 3 turned out to be exactly what I picked, in exactly the same order.
I should get a prize or something. |
Wow, the three songs I voted for turned out to be the top 3 (though not in the same order). That's rare.
Congratulations on your first gold nomination, TheKnightOfNee. :) |
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In other news, your mom is a Landeel.
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