Song of the Week - BATTLE 14 Voting/WEEK 113 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 100 Weeks and counting.
Battle 14 Voting is closed.
Week 113 Nominating is restricted.

Battle 14 Voting
The rules for voting can be found here.

Results:
1). [25] Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) - Diving
2). [21] Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack - Rain of Blossoms
3). [17] Force Majeure (Game Rip) - title
4). [14] Raiden III Perfect Sound Track - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
5). [13] Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) - Credits
6). [10] V' BALL - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
7). [9] Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
8). [5] Alphabet Planet - 1 plus 1 equal 1

Tracks:
Week 105: Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
Week 106: V' BALL <O'BITS (Takashi Furukawa, Yoshimitsu Hamano, Funky Yasuda), Kazunaka Yamane> - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
Week 107: Raiden III Perfect Sound Track <Go Sato> - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
Week 108: Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) <Dean Evans> - Diving
Week 109: Alphabet Planet <Hiroki Kikuta> - 1 plus 1 equal 1
Week 110: Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track <Noriyasu Agematsu (feel)> - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
Week 111: Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) <Capcom> - Credits
Week 112: Force Majeure (Game Rip) <surasshu (Steven Velema)> - title

Notes:
If you are a member at more than one of the forums in which this event is being held, please nominate and vote in only ONE of the forums. You may, however, comment in the threads at any of the other forums.

Week 113 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

(2 points) Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
(2 points) Raiden III Perfect Sound Track <Go Sato> - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
(2 points) Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) <Dean Evans> - Diving

(3 points) Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) <Dean Evans> - Diving
(2 points) Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) <Capcom> - Credits
(1 point) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track <Noriyasu Agematsu (feel)> - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze

(3 points) Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
(1 point) Credits
(1 point) 1 plus 1 equal 1
(1 point) Title


I'd also like to try my hand at nominating something that's a wee bit obscure, so I don't have a lot of info on it. There isn't even an official song title for it!

Artist: Hudson Soft Sound Team (all I could find)
Album/Game Title: Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu (NES Game Rip)
Track Title: BGM 02 (it's the second song in the NSF file)
Link: Jackie Chans Action Kung Fu BGM 02 - Putfile.com

Sorry I couldn't be more any specific, but like I said this is pretty obscure. >_>

2 Points: Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
2 Points: Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack - Rain of Blossoms
1 Point: Raiden III Perfect Sound Track - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
1 Point: V' BALL - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)

Nice to have a battle where I actually feel remotely strongly towards the competitors...

2 pts - title
2 pts - Rain of Blossom
1 pts - Seaside Walker
1 pts - Dawn of Sorrow

3 points: Week 107: Raiden III Perfect Sound Track <Go Sato> - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
1 point: Week 105: Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
1 point: Week 110: Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track <Noriyasu Agematsu (feel)> - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
1 point: Week 111: Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) <Capcom> - Credits

Nom:

Giga Wing 2 (Mars Matrix & Giga Wing 2 Original Soundtrack Box)
Yasushi Kaminishi
Disc 2 - Track 14
Ark - 5:55
Source - GMRonline

All of them are great, wish I had more points...

(2 points) Force Majeure (Game Rip) <surasshu (Steven Velema)> - title
(1 point) Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
(1 point) V' BALL <O'BITS (Takashi Furukawa, Yoshimitsu Hamano, Funky Yasuda), Kazunaka Yamane> - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
(1 point) Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) <Dean Evans> - Diving
(1 point) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track <Noriyasu Agematsu (feel)> - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze

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Here's my next nomination:

Artist: Kiyomi Kataoka, Chiaki Iizuka, Reiko Uehara, Fumiko Suzuki
Original Composer: Kazunaka Yamane
Album: Double Dragon (Neo Geo CD Redbook Audio)
Track Title: Kochinda (Rebecca's Theme)
Year: 1995
Additional Information: This is from the "Street Fighter clone" version of Double Dragon, which is more obscure than the classic incarnation. An OST exists, but the sound is different and the tracks are shorter than from the redbook of this game.

I'll upload it to the nomination FTP.

The worst part about battle weeks is that you always end up giving no points to several good tracks. There isn't anything bad among this group of winners, and I keep changing my mind about which songs I want to give more points.

...

POINTS FOR ALL! (except two)

1 point - Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
1 point - V' BALL <O'BITS (Takashi Furukawa, Yoshimitsu Hamano, Funky Yasuda), Kazunaka Yamane> - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
1 point - Raiden III Perfect Sound Track <Go Sato> - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
1 point - Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) <Dean Evans> - Diving
1 point - Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) <Capcom> - Credits
1 point - Force Majeure (Game Rip) <surasshu (Steven Velema)> - title

A nice batch of winners this time, although I'm giving points to these three which I like best:

3 points: Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) - Diving
2 points: V' BALL - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
1 point: Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack - Rain of Blossoms

3 Points: Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
2 Points: Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) <Capcom> - Credits
1 Point: Force Majeure (Game Rip) <surasshu (Steven Velema)> - title

2 points : Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
1 point : Raiden III Perfect Sound Track <Go Sato> - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
1 point : V' BALL <O'BITS (Takashi Furukawa, Yoshimitsu Hamano, Funky Yasuda), Kazunaka Yamane> - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
1 point : Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track <Noriyasu Agematsu (feel)> - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
1 point : Alphabet Planet <Hiroki Kikuta> - 1 plus 1 equal 1

I feel like I ought to say more, but I've reviewed these tracks once already.

3 pts. - Alphabet Planet
2 pts. - title
1 pt. - Dawn of Sorrow

Nomination:

=== Kaleb.G ===
* Album Title: METAL BLACK -The First-
* Artist: Yasuhisa "Yack." Watanabe
* Track Title: Time
* Source: same sources as last time this album was on SotW
* File Location: nom nom folder
* Disc Number: only 1
* Track Number: 11
* Catalogue Number: ZTTL-0012
* Year: 1997

Jumping back into the fold, now that deployment is over.

Artist: Eisaku Nambu
Album: R-Type Delta Original Soundtrax
Track Title: Stage 4 (Corrosion)
Disc Number: 1
Track Number: Track 9
Catalog Number: PCCB-00359
Year: 1999
Source: VGMdb

Uploaded to nomination FTP.

title (2 Points)
Dawn of sorrow (Level3) (2 Points)
Diving (1 Point)
Rain of Blossoms (1 Point)

1. title - Very nice synth piece. Perhaps a bit too repetitive but still the winner out of the bunch.
2. Diving - Interesting and different.
3. Credits - I like the melodies.

Seaside Walker - Good, but not great.
Rain of Blossoms - I generally like Atelier stuff, but this just seems way too generic. I'm surprised at its reception.
1 plus 1 equal 1 - Seems too standard to me.
Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze - I can tell that this is solid, but it's not the kind of piece that appeals to me.

Not much that I really liked among these winners.

3 points - Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) <Dean Evans> - Diving
Gotta love this Follinesque SNES synth and the drifting melody.

2 points - Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack <Ken Nakagawa> - Rain of Blossoms
Rocking out with an array of instruments, a cool melody, and mood changes.

1 point - Force Majeure (Game Rip) <surasshu (Steven Velema)> - title
Good, evolving melody played by a neat tracker-ish synth.

Gimme a few minutes, if possible; I have it narrowed down

Additional Spam:
3 points: Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) <Dean Evans> - Diving
2 points: Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) <Capcom> - Credits
1 point: V' BALL <O'BITS (Takashi Furukawa, Yoshimitsu Hamano, Funky Yasuda), Kazunaka Yamane> - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
Close: Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track <Noriyasu Agematsu (feel)> - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze

Waterworld's intro didn't do it any favors, but once it picked up, the last 3/4s was smooooooove.

Rockman was a nice surprise.

V'BALL sounds so cheap and crappy to start, but I got won over by the awesome live guitar around the 1:40 mark. The soloing later was a bit too busy. If the rest didn't sound so cheap, it'd have gone higher.

Voting is closed and nominations are restricted!

1). [25] Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) - Diving
2). [21] Atelier Iris GRAND FANTASM Original Soundtrack - Rain of Blossoms
3). [17] Force Majeure (Game Rip) - title
4). [14] Raiden III Perfect Sound Track - Dawn of sorrow (Level3)
5). [13] Rockman Complete Works: Rockman 5: Blues' Trap!? (Game Rip) - Credits
6). [10] V' BALL - SeaSide Walker (L.A. Theme)
7). [9] Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze
8). [5] Alphabet Planet - 1 plus 1 equal 1

Well fuckin' a%#

Defeated by Diving - again. Up until this last minute rush of voters, Rain of Blossoms was on track to win. I was feeling pretty good earlier tonight.

At least I can console myself with the knowledge that four of my winners have come in 2nd during their respective battles. That's no small accomplishment.

So, congrats to whoever nominated Diving. It's a hell of an SNES track.

Oops. I forgot to vote... Great Battle Week here and congrats to "Diving"! I'd have voted like this:

(2 points) Waterworld (SNES Game Rip) - Diving

(2 points) Rockman Complete Works Rockman 5 Blues' Trap!! (Game Rip) - Title Screen
Great track. I think I need to remember to look for the rest of the soundtrack/game rip now.

(1 point) Yami to Boushi to Hon no Tabibito Image Sound Track - Brilliant Marks of Heat Haze

(1 point) Force Majeure (Game Rip) - title

...with Atelier just missing.