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:cthulhu:Theme Week Nominations:cthulhu:
NOMINATE SOME SPOOKY STUFF DAMMIT this Halloween theme week is happening even if it's a grudge match between two harpsichord-fart songs.

Results:
1). [12] Breath of Fire V Dragon Quarter Original Soundtrack - Electric Power Buliding (aka TEN PLANTS - chlorella production manager)
2). [10] Songs for the Cure '11: Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu
3). [8] Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie
4). [7/4.5] Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
5). [7/4] The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls
6). [6] Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android
7). [3] Heavy Rain (Game Rip) - Opening Movie
8). [1] Zool 2 (Amiga CD32 Game Rip) - Swan Lake

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Heavy Rain (Game Rip) - Opening Movie
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Songs for the Cure '11 - Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: TEN PLANTS - chlorella production manager
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Zool 2 (Amiga CD32 Game Rip) - Swan Lake

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:
"The City Falls" was originally uploaded as an OGG; it can be found in all its oggy glory in the extras folder for those pedants who insist on original encoding and whatnot.

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Fortnight 253 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

So, important news: voting will be closing roughly at midnight between Sunday the 30th and Monday the 31st. Vote early, vote often!

This is so that we can start a Halloween theme week on the 31st. So nominate for that too. Otherwise, you'll make Muzza cry. And as fun as it is to make Muzza cry, we've been talking about doing something for Halloween for years and it would be cool to actually do it for a change.

I will contribute some organ:

• Album: Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment
• Artist: Mamoru Samuragouchi
• Disc #: 1 (of 2)
• Track #: 1
• Track Title: Demise of Mankind Mass in B Minor
• Catalogue Number: CPCA-1010
• Year: 1998
• Additional Info: This is commonly known as "Misa to the End of Time," which is an astonishingly terrible translation. I'm not guaranteeing this is a linguistic masterpiece, but hopefully it's a little better.
• Source: CPCA-1010 | Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - VGMdb

I will contribute some la la la:

Nomination #72: HALLOWEEN NOM

Composer: Toshimichi Isoe
Album: HBMS-008 | Song of Saya Original Soundtrack - VGMdb
Track Title: Song of Saya I
Track Number: 5
Year: 2004
Catalog Number: HBMS-008
Additional Information: saya...

Sweet nightmares, folks!

Enough with these lovey-dovey Halloween-Town noms. It's time for something genuinely creepy and unnerving and destined for defeat:

Composer: Jason Graves
Album: Dead Space 2 Original Video Game Score
Track Title: Say Hello To My Little Friends
Track Number: 8
Year: 2011
Additional Information: Exploding babies and hive-mind-linked murderkids, oh my.

This is the creepiest song I know:

Composer: Kota Kato
Album: Kamaitachi no Yoru Special Arrange Pack
Track Title: Night of the Kamaitachi
Track Number: 7
Year: 1999
Catalog Number: FSCA-10069
Additional Information: FSCA-10069 | Kamaitachi no Yoru Special Arrange Pack - VGMdb

I hope it's creepy enough to qualify.

edit: Never mind, a song of this album has been nominated before... Changing to something else..
edit2: Or perhaps I'll keep it since the other one has failed.

Bah, we've had albums with dozens of songs nominated. As long as it's not the same song you're fine.

Also, we'd better get some more voting and noms up in here stat if we want to have Spookyweek anywhere near Spookyday this Monday.

Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie Latin acoustic guitar plus Melodrama Violin? Yes please.

Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android Nice synthy sound, but there's no real meat to it.

Heavy Rain (Game Rip) - Opening Movie Heavy Rain has a pretty good score, although it's about as depressing as you'd imagine given the title and bloody origami on the cover. I'd compare this to the most morose parts of Howard Shore's Silence of the Lambs, and while it has some great parts (yay piano) the rampant and intrusive SFX really kill it for me.

Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan Decent synth funk muzak eminently fit for playing with one's balls.

Songs for the Cure '11 - Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu I'm not sure what the songs were attempting to cure, but it does make me hope that people actually buy and contribute toward said cure. Considering that it's for charity I also feel a little squirmy about saying that the music was so-so Moon Language yowling. But them's the breaks.

TEN PLANTS - chlorella production manager I'm still not sure what the deal with this album and its sequel was, but this is a nice bouncy and melodic song regardless--very much in the Duel Saga/Dragon Quarter mold.

The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls I feel kind of bad attacking this as tinny and shallow synth bombast--after all, the game is open source and the composer was working for free. But, sadly, it really shows,

Zool 2 (Amiga CD32 Game Rip) - Swan Lake I was thinking, based on the title, that someone might have accidentally nominated a remix of Tchaikovsky thinking that it was original game music (a la Loom). Not the case! No one could mistake this rather bizarre track for Pyotr Ilyich.

The Point Spread
Cholera Production - 3 pts.
Romancing Olivia - 2 pts.
Schwansee - 1 pt.

2 points: Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android
2 points: Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
2 points: The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls
Just missed: Swan Lake


Spooky Nom:

• Album: Muppet Monster Adventure (Game Rip)
• Artist: Michael Giacchino
• Track #: 4
• Track Title: Hallways of Doom
• Year: 2000
• Source: Muppet Monster Adventure (PSX) - Rimo's Game Rips

Do you guys have enough noms for Halloween week?

Also, songs for the Cure '11 is one of the most unlikely albums to pop up in this contest.

(3 points) TEN PLANTS - chlorella production manager
(1 point) The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls
(1 point) Songs for the Cure '11 - Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu
(1 point) Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie

By my count we have six. Enough for a crippled mutant week but no more.

2 pts. -- Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android
2 pts. -- Songs for the Cure '11 - Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu
2 pts. -- The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls

C-C-C-Comments!

I almost bought this Angelique album once before, though wasn't confident enough that I'd enjoy the material so I didn't go through with the purchase. I remain completely oblivious to everything Angelique (I'm more a Tokimemo guy : proud : ). Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie is nice, and sounds like something I would nominate. It's got plenty of melody, energy and a distinct character which makes it easy to recollect. I wonder if the rest of the arrangements are this good..?

Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android really does remind me of an epic pinball game, so points for that. It's OK, but I was taken by surprise when it ended, a kind of 'that's it?!' expression appeared on my face. Waaay too short to really consider for the points that matter.

Heavy Rain (Game Rip) - Opening Movie appeals to my intrinsic affinity with distant, contemplative piano tracks. Quite beautiful.

:tpg: this rocks. Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan is not sleazy at all, nosir. I like how incredibly 90's it is, and I give the GUITARIN' a vicious nod of approval. Decently fun stuff.

Songs for the Cure '11 - Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu is my favourite song from both Songs for the Cure '11 discs (yet to buy the recently released 3rd disc however), and I recommend you buy them since they contain quality music from some of the best in the industry. I certainly wasn't expecting something like this when I listened to the Esuna disc - it really stands out with its African chants and rhythms; and the strangely fitting bluegrass violin lead. Could have easily been a mess, but Wilbert Roget II manages the disparate components with wonderful mastery. Refreshing!

hahahahaha man I used to like TEN PLANTS - chlorella production manager, but one time someone overheard me listening to it and said 'why are you listening to a news opening theme'. I laughed and have never been able to listen to this track seriously again. sorry nominator, blame the person who ruined it for me (hey it sounds like Electric Power Building The Track That Must Not Be Named in parts, I just realised)

Hmm I was expecting something more synthy than serious here. The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls is an OK piece, but is also pretty safe and run-of-the-mill.

Zool 2 (Amiga CD32 Game Rip) - Swan Lake can be my synth-fix. Catchy and slick, but way too repetitive for my liking.

in this POINT bulletin...

3 points: Songs for the Cure '11 - Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu
2 points: Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie
1 point: Heavy Rain (Game Rip) - Opening Movie
4th: Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
5th: TEN PLANTS - chlorella production manager
6th: Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android
7th: Zool 2 (Amiga CD32 Game Rip) - Swan Lake
8th: The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls

N-N-N-Nice week.

A prop in spirit for whoever changed the thread title

(it also implies you read through my comment(s) <3)

Yes yes let's all make fun of orion's nom please :)

My comments never get made into thread titles...

I did it yesterday and I'm still laughing about it.

Fuck that song forever

Reminder: voting's closing in two days no matter what! Also, as orion successfully counted, we're currently at six Halloween noms. Room for two more!

3 points: Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
2 points: Songs for the Cure '11: Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu
1 point: Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android

3 points: chlorella production manager
1 points: Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
1 point: Android
1 point: Ebenebe Ga Egbu
just missed: Olivie, The City Falls, Swan Lake

This week is BOSS. Ebenebe Ga Egbu makes me want to go out and punch cancer in the throat. Matter of fact, I think I'll do just that.

God if there was one week that needed to be put on hold due to our collective negligence, it's this one.

also best title edit


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Halloween Nom! I had a ton of trouble finding something suitable for this week but here we go:

Album: Great Mahou Daisakusen Original Soundtrack
Composer: Kenichi Koyano
Track: Dark Sky ~ Boss 3 (Last)
Track #: 13
Catalog #: CPCA-1041
Year: 2000
Source: CPCA-1041 | Great Mahou Daisakusen Original Soundtrack - VGMdb
Additional Info: I made a small edit to this track: in the soundtrack, this track loops twice, and during the 3rd playthrough, it cuts off abruptly. I changed it to the more traditional loop + fadeout. If this isn't acceptable, I can easily upload the original.

Uploading to the FTP.

Very quick, impressionistic votes.

(2 points) TEN PLANTS - chlorella production manager
Wait a minute, isn't chlorella a kind of photosynthetic organism? Oh-kayyy.

(2 points) Heavy Rain (Game Rip) - Opening Movie

(1 point) Songs for the Cure '11 - Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu

(1 point) Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie

I thought "chlorella" stood for "6 o'clock news"

We had the same turnout that we did in the previous batch, which lasted for almost a month. Go us!

1). [12] Breath of Fire V Dragon Quarter Original Soundtrack - Electric Power Buliding
2). [10] Songs for the Cure '11: Esuna - Ebenebe Ga Egbu
3). [8] Angelique Music Collection ~Romancia~ - Olivie
4). [7/4.5] Neo Turf Masters (Game Rip) - Fujiyama Oriental Golf Club, Japan
5). [7/4] The Battle for Wesnoth (Game Rip) - The City Falls
6). [6] Epic Pinball (Game Rip) - Android
7). [3] Heavy Rain (Game Rip) - Opening Movie
8). [1] Zool 2 (Amiga CD32 Game Rip) - Swan Lake

So that's seven Halloween noms. I'm going to go ahead and get the next thread out myself to maximize Halloween time, since I don't know when orion's going to be around. Watch him get up at 4 AM just so there will be egg on my face.

EDIT never mind someone nominated from the same game. Fuck me.

You would have had to wait all the way to now o'clock, so good call.

Also: suck it, haters :D