Song of the Week - WEEK 259 Voting/WEEK 260 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 250 Weeks and counting.
Week 259 Voting is get your stinking paws off me.
Week 260 Nominating is get your stinking paws off me.

A Word to the Wise Week Planet of the Apes
It's an epic showdown throwdown among musics that Wise wrote for monkeygames!

Results
1). [16] Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy
2). [14] Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued)
3). [12] Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns
4). [10] DK Jamz: The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - Gang-Plank Galleon
5). [8] Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7
6). [6] Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple
7). [4] R.C. Pro-Am (Game Rip) - Title Screen
1). [2] BattleToads (NES Game Rip) - http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/t...toads_gt-n.gif

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: BattleToads (NES Game Rip) - Pause Music
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: DK Jamz - The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - Gang-Plank Galleon
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: R.C. Pro-Am (Game Rip) - Title Screen
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple

Voting Rules:
Voters must distribute 6 points among the 8 nominees, giving points to at least 3 songs, giving no song more than 3 points, and giving no more than one of their choices 3 points. Possible ways of voting include:

Notes:
"Pause Music" is presented in its full glorious and proper length above. Those who are pussies can find a shorter version in the extras folder.

Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone. Server information:

Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

nomination

Artist: DJ Mass MAD Izm*
Album: I AM NOT A DJ
Track Title: Inter1:Yellow/EightySix
Track number: 5
Other album info: LC-1922 | I AM NOT A DJ - VGMdb
Additional notes: This whole album is fantastic and I would love to nominate every song from it. This song is really short and I sure wish it was a lot longer, but in its short time it manages to be ridiculously awesome in all regards.

I pussied out. We should have saved that for Pause Menu Week!

(2 points) Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns: Damn, good choice. This tune was seated deep, deep in my memory, and it really pays off: fun, rolling rhythm, and upbeat without being too sugary sweet.

(2 point) Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy: Not new to me, but still rates well. Not a big "industrial sound effect" sort of guy but here it totally adds to the synth foundation that's laid.

(1 point) R.C. Pro-Am (Game Rip) - Title Screen: Too short but it has action-packed chiptune goodness built into its bite-sized running time.

(1 point) Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple: It'll probably get hammered cause it's way too subtle, but there's a delightful sense of mystery within this minimal track.

2 points - Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued)
2 points - R.C. Pro-Am (Game Rip) - Title Screen
1 point - Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy
1 point - Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7

BattleToads (NES Game Rip) - Pause Music The real trouble for Mr. Wise is that he peaked too early. What is there that he, or indeed the human race, could write that can compare to the perfection in these sixteen notes? It's like looking into the face of a funky God.

Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns This actually sounds a lot racier than you'd expect, with electronics all up in it and only a few scattered banjo notes here and there to remind of its rustic monkey flavor.

DK Jamz - The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - Gang-Plank Galleon Starts as a tinny sea chanty, then morphs into limp action muzak. This monkeytune's been around a long time and it still hasn't lost any of its lack of appeal.

Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy Some cool percussion and mellowness. Can't quite decide if it's brilliant or slightly annoying. Maybe it's both.

Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued) So wait, we can nominate OCR mixes as long as they're made by professional artists? I'm totally nominating Soule's OCR mix to test this to the utmost, followed by mixes by people like virt who have since gone on to actual paying gigs. All that aside, the saxophone is awesome and totally sells me on this, even it is a bit of a rip from "Baker Street."

Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7 This has a real "Battletoads" vibe to it. That's a good thing. It also doesn't involve monkeys, which is a better thing.

R.C. Pro-Am (Game Rip) - Title Screen This sounds like a lighthearted riff on "Wily Stage 1." Which is pretty cool, if pretty short.

Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple This sounds like one of those "rainforest noise" CDs designed to put people to sleep. It worked.

The Point Spread
Pause Music - ? pts. Eternal SotW winner emeritus.
Re-Skewed - 3 pts.
Darkmoon Caverns - 2 pts.
Monster Maxi Pad - 1 pt.

Nomitty Nom Nom
Artist: Jake Kaufman (virt)
Album: Mighty Milky Way / Mighty Flip Champs OST
Track Title: MMW - Title (Extended)
Track number: 11
Additional notes: *MY LUCKY STARRR*

Well, this isn't the first time: http://www.gamingforce.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35347.

This falls into the "you can nominate pretty much anything by a VGM composer as long as it wasn't written for an anime or something like that" category. We've had a number of other unofficial arrangements over the years, and I don't see a reason to treat OCR any differently. (Although being that Mr. Wise arranged his own material, maybe I shouldn't be calling this "unofficial.")

(I could maybe make a notability argument against Soule's mix because it's Terra, but we've pretty much thrown that out the window.)

I wasn't serious about Soule, since that song was annihilated in the BDC. But as you can see by my nomination, I was very serious about virt. As should we all be!

Next nomination:

Album: Guitar Freaks and Drummania Blazing V6
Track Title: Chronos
Composer: TAG
Info: LC-1791~2 | GuitarFreaksV6 & DrumManiaV6 BLAZING!!!! Original... - VGMdb
File: on the server.

2 points: Darkmoon Caverns
2 points: Stage BGM 7
1 point: Gang-Plank Galleon
1 point: Mining Melancholy
Just Missed: Title Screen, Re-Skewed, Ocean Force Point Temple, Pause Music

I listened to all 45 minutes of Pause Music :cool:. (That was surprisingly productive - I revised an outline for a paper I'm working on in that time)

Darkmoon Caverns is the sole reason I gave more time into Diddy Kong Racing over Mario Kart 64 - that and the fact that it's a much better game. The stage itself being a blast to play helped as well. My favorite DKR tune. That part right before the loop is OMGGGGG

If Re-Skewed were the original track (not possible given the nomination rules), I could've safely said that this was the first week where I was familiar with all 8 tracks beforehand. Great arrangement.

Shoutouts to David Wise for being a VGM boss all these years.

also shoutouts to Mining Melancholy for not being on the original soundtrack, wtf

2 points: BattleToads (NES Game Rip) - http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/t...toads_gt-n.gif
2 points: Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns
1 point: Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy
1 point: Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7
cigarless: Re-Skewed

Additional Spam:
Hey guys, vote and nominate please. Sincerely, CHz.

I had to restart PAUSE so many times so I got the sync right between the music and the gif. Payoff was worth it.

3 points: Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued) [so good; dat sax]
2 points: Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple [gorgeous...]
1 point: Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy [so catchy; dat percussion]
</3: Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7

Great week! Wise has such godly talent.

2 points: Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy
2 points: Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7
1 point: DK Jamz - The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - Gang-Plank Galleon
1 point: R.C. Pro-Am (Game Rip) - Title Screen
45 points: BattleToads (NES Game Rip) - Pause Music
Wish I could give it a point because it sounds like this: Ocean Force Point Temple

Yeah, I've listened to the whole 45-minute thing while doing some boring spreadsheets. Didn't help much. Stage BGM 7 is new to me, and it's really smooth and kicks my ass. I own R.C. Pro-Am (such an awesome game), and the title music was probably my first encounter with David Wise back in 1988.

There were a few Wise songs from other games that I would have liked to make the cut, like Solar Jetman, Snake Rattle 'n' Roll, or Ironsword. Can't complain though, great week overall!


Nomination:

• Album: Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure: The Official Soundtrack
• Artist: Gene M. Rozenberg
• Track #: 9
• Track Title: Cave King's Salsa
• Year: 2008
• Source: Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure: The Official... - VGMdb

3 points: Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy
1 point: Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed
1 point: Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns
1 point: Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple

I like Mining Melancholy because it is Melancholic (DO HO HO HO), has a lot of cool metallic sounds used as percussion and tons of DELAY ECHOES.

I like Darkmoon Caverns because it has cool rhodes piano chords and lots of neat effects around it with pretty sounding DELAY ECHOES.

I like "Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple" because it is very "atmospheric" in a cool way. I think that is especially helped by the interesting cool sounding sample choice and DELAY ECHOES.

I like "Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued)" because it has cool synths in it and I think it is very "WHOA I AM GOING TO FALL OVER IT IS HEROIC" and I like that. Awesome saxophone and trumpet soloS ALSO WITH DELAY ECHOES.

David Wise is the king of the DELAY ECHOES.

Quick votes go go go:

(2 points) Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns

(2 points) DK Jamz - The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - Gang-Plank Galleon

(2 points) Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued)

Nomination:

Album: Light Crusader (Game Rip)
Artist: Aki Hata
Track Title: Boss Fight
Year: 1995
Additional notes: This is probably the most stereotypical "Jolteon nomination" ever
Source: Project 2612 which isn't actually very good at creditsinfostuff so Wikipedia which is better at credits (OH NO YOU GET AN F WIKIPEDIA ISNT A REAL SITE IT DOESN'T EXIST) and other places say the same thing too and so sS YES.

2 points: Mining Melancholy
1 point: Gang-Plank Galleon
1 point: Re-Skewed
1 point: Stage BGM 7
1 point: Ocean Force Point Temple
a tip of my hat: Darkmoon Caverns

I had a hard time with this one. To me, Mining Melancholy was the best of the group, but most of the rest of them were also pretty good as well, except... Pause Music was too simplistic, though I will admit is it awesome for a track that plays while a game is paused. Title Screen was good while it lasted, but was too short to seriously compete with the others.

That left the ones listed above. I had to listen to them several times over before deciding which one to place on the chopping block. Stage BGM 7 is pretty good for a chiptune and Ocean Force Point Temple is a well done ambient track. Among Darkmoon Caverns and the two remaining "monkeytunes", Darkmoon Caverns was not as catchy to me as the "monkeytunes" after listening to all of the tracks several times over, though it is very well done for a N64 racing game. Placing it on the chopping block was a difficult decision, though it shall remain in my music collection despite never having played Diddy Kong Racing before.

Speaking of Rareware games, that brings me to my nomination...

Nomination:

Album: Conker's Bad Fur Day Soundtrack
Artist: Robin Beanland, Henry Purcell
Disc #: 1 (of 1)
Track #: 9 of 18
Track Title: Rock Solid
Catalogue Number: RARECBFD01
Year: 2001
Additional Info: This is the first time I've heard of this "Henry Purcell". I thought Conker's Bad Fur Day was all Robin Beanland until I looked up this album's info on VGMdb.

I uploaded this nomination to the FTP server several hours ago.

I don't know if the composer didn't deserve his own week or the selection just wasn't too inspired, but this was one of the worst weeks ever IMO.

1 point ~ Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns
2 points ~ DK Jamz - The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - Gang-Plank Galleon
3 points ~ Donkey Kong Country 2 - Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy

My next :3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::

:3::3::3::3:: Monopoly 2 (SNES Rip)(The Monopoly Game 2?)
:3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3:: Yasutsuna Sasaki
:3::3::3::3::3:: Boardwalk Cup Final
:3::3::3::3::3: :3:: 16 on SPC set
:3::3::3::3::3::3::3: :3:: n/a
:3::3::3::3:: 1995
:3::3::3::3::3::3:: Game profile: Monopoly 2 ~ SNESmusic.org
:3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3: :3::3::3::3:: :3::3::3::3: :3::3::3::3::3::3: :3::3::3::3: :3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3: :3::3: :3::3::3::3: :3::3::3::3::3::3: :3: :3::3::3::3::3::3: :3::3::3::3::3::3: :3::3::3:. :3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3: :3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3:.

:3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3::3: :3::3: :3::3::3: FTP.

Voting is Draconis and Muzza what a shocker and nominations are closed!

1). [16] Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Game Rip) - Mining Melancholy
2). [14] Donkey Kong Country 2 ~Diddy's Kong Quest~ Serious Monkey Business - Re-Skewed (Donkey Kong Rescued)
3). [12] Diddy Kong Racing (Game Rip) - Darkmoon Caverns
4). [10] DK Jamz: The Original Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - Gang-Plank Galleon
5). [8] Monster Max (Game Rip) - Stage BGM 7
6). [6] Star Fox Adventures (Game Rip) - Ocean Force Point Temple
7). [4] R.C. Pro-Am (Game Rip) - Title Screen
1). [2] BattleToads (NES Game Rip) - http://i625.photobucket.com/albums/t...toads_gt-n.gif

What the hell happened to the point totals

What's great is that it's in even and not odd numbers.

Hey, what do you know, back-to-back golds. :D

Official breaking news flash: Draconis owns all theme weeks ever.

Also: you philistines.

^ except JBCS theme weeks :ego:

This Draconis-Muzza duopoly is serious business. We must duel.

Also :tpg: even stevens results.