Song of the Week - WEEK 164 Voting/WEEK 165 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 164 Voting is closed.
Week 165 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [23] Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
2). [17] Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)
3). [15] Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
4). [12] Bless Arrange Album 'Flavory' - BEST FEELING! -spinash mix-
5). [8] Metal Slug Complete Sound Box - Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-)
6). [7] PRINCESS WALTZ Original Sound Track - Heavy Fog
7). [5] Shooting Love 2007 Soundtrack CD - Eternal Traveler -full version-
8). [3] Trackmania United Forever (Game Rip) - Menus

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Bless Arrange Album 'Flavory' - BEST FEELING! -spinash mix-
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Metal Slug Complete Sound Box - Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: PRINCESS WALTZ Original Sound Track - Heavy Fog
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shooting Love 2007 Soundtrack CD - Eternal Traveler -full version-
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Trackmania United Forever (Game Rip) - Menus

Notes:
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Week 165 Nominating
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Since i did not find myself in the nomination queue i'd like to point anyone who is responsible for all that listing and organizing business to my fairly misplaced nomination post in last week's thread: Link

Nomination question. Would the Ridge Racer series be considered too well known? I hope not :(.

I remembered, but thanks for the reminder. It'll get in, I promise.

We've had one track from 4, two from 6, one from 7, and one from 64, so... yeah, I'd say it's fine.

Ok, in that case:

Nomination:

Artist: Shinji Hosoe
Composer: Ayako Saso
Album: Namco Game Sound Express VOL.11 Ridge Racer
Track Title: Feeling over (UNDERGROUND)
Disc: 1 (of 1)
Track Number: 4
Catalog Number: VICL-15025
Year: 1994
Source: http://vgmdb.net/album/567
Additional Info: We'll see how people like this...I was going to nominate something from one of the newer soundtracks, but I'll hold off on that for a while longer.

I irritate myself because I seem to only participate in SotW when my own nom is up on the chopping block. Anyone else have that issue?

Anyways, pretty good week.

2 points: Sanxion (Hubbard)
2 points: BEST FEELING! ~spinash mix~ (the hell kind of title is this)
2 points: Atmospheric Discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-)


Also, a question about nominating: what's the rule on fanmade games? I want to nominate a song from Barkley, Shut up and Jam Gaiden.

Argh, I did not click that button, gimme a second to fix this...

Artist: Wilco Ibes
Game Title: SEGA SMASH PACK Volume 1 (Dreamcast Game Rip)
Track Title: Main Theme
Year: 2001
Source: Ibes is just creditted under Special Thanks in the game's credits; I'm not sure where the ripped got the composer info.

Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard) Nice, exuberant techno licks. Wish there was more melody and less of that theremin-style stuff though.

Bless Arrange Album 'Flavory' - BEST FEELING! -spinash mix- The aggressive backbeats sort of ruin this one; they don't fit with the rest of the song very well. The stereo effects were a little annoying too, and made the song feel gimmicky.

Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~ It has its moments, but is kind of mushy--too long and too eclectic to really hold together well.

Metal Slug Complete Sound Box - Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-) Very energetic and engaging; I especially liked the stutterstop effect at the beginning and at the loop.

Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5) Nowhere near as bouncy or sickly sweet as you'd expect from something with an exclamation mark in the title. A little flat melodically, but very enjoyable overall.

PRINCESS WALTZ Original Sound Track - Heavy Fog Started out pretty dull, and had some pretty big dry spots, but when things got cooking it wasn't half bad.

Shooting Love 2007 Soundtrack CD - Eternal Traveler -full version- Pretty decent vocal track with nice techno backing and a low-key performance.

Trackmania United Forever (Game Rip) - Menus Starts promisingly, but then doesn't really go anywhere.

The Point Spread
Sanxion - 2 pts.
Atmospheric Discharge - 2 pts.
Iza Iza Main Dish - 2 pts.

Generally we allow any music that was specifically written for a game, which includes amateur games. So, if it's a new piece for the game, and not just a track that was taken from something else, then it's fine.

Sorry to be a bother, but could somebody please upload / direct me to last week's tracks? I didn't even download them in time, seemingly.

Awesome! Then I nominate:

Artist: Chef Boyardee
Game Title: Barkley, Shut up and Jam Gaiden
Track Title: Jonathan Taylor Thomas

...and that's all the info I have. >_> But I do have the actual song, which I'll upload to the FTP momentarily.

So few votes yet, I was hoping I could do more copy-paste voting.

2 points: Sanxion (Hubbard)
2 Points - Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
1 Point - PRINCESS WALTZ Original Sound Track - Heavy Fog
1 Point - Shooting Love 2007 Soundtrack CD - Eternal Traveler -full version-

<<2 Points>> Sanxion
<<2 Points>> Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
<<2 Points>> Trackmania United Forever (Game Rip) - Menus


Notable week, although the point distribution was relatively easy.

3 points - Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
2 points - Bless Arrange Album 'Flavory' - BEST FEELING! -spinash mix-
1 point - Metal Slug Complete Sound Box - Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-)

3 points: Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)
2 points: Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
1 point: PRINCESS WALTZ Original Sound Track - Heavy Fog

I go back and forth between the stage 2 and 5 themes from MMP as my favorite, and Iza Iza Main Dish has been an on-again-off-again nomination of mine for a while, so I'm glad someone nominated it so I don't have to make that decision. I love the melody and some of the writing, and the flaws only add to the charm.

I think I prefer the original Thalamusik, truth be told. Still a great tune, though.

2 points - PRINCESS WALTZ Original Sound Track - Heavy Fog
2 points - Shooting Love 2007 Soundtrack CD - Eternal Traveler -full version-
1 point - Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
1 point - Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~

(3 points) Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
(1 point) Bless Arrange Album 'Flavory' - BEST FEELING! -spinash mix-
(1 point) Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
(1 point) Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)

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Nomination:

Composer: Mark Mothersbaugh, Albert Fox, John Enroth, Silas Hite
Album: Boom Blox Original Music
Track Title: Blocks Up Hoe Down
Track Number: 11
Year: 2008
Source: N/A: Boom Blox Original Music - VGMdb
Additional Info: Woohoo!

Iza Iza Main Dish is definitely one of the less sugary themes on Muchi Muchi Pork. While I prefer Hamu Hamu Pepper to this, this easily comes in second place for me. It's a nice departure from the rest of the soundtrack.

The rest of the songs were hit or miss for me, although there were a few notable ones.

3 points: Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)
2 points: Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
1 point: Metal Slug Complete Sound Box - Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-)

(3 Points) Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
(1 Point) Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
(1 Point) Metal Slug Complete Sound Box - Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-)
(1 Point) Shooting Love 2007 Soundtrack CD - Eternal Traveler -full version-

2 points: Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
2 points: Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~
1 point: Bless Arrange Album 'Flavory' - BEST FEELING! -spinash mix-
1 point: Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)


Nomination:

• Album Title: Symphonic Poem Argos no Senshi Original Soundtrack
• Artist: Moscow International Symphonic Orchestra
• Composer: Takayasu Sodeoka
• Track Title: Geryon Hill
• Source: VJCP-68457: Symphonic Poem Argos no Senshi Original Soundtrack - VGMdb
• Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
• Track Number: 08
• Catalogue Number: VJCP-68457
• Year: 2002

Color me a fan of this week, with nary a weak track in the bunch.

(3 points) Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)
(2 points) Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
(1 point) Metal Slug Complete Sound Box - Atmospheric discharge (Stage 06 -Flyer-)

Lots of unusual stuff this week. I like it.

1 point: PROTMIND ~THEME~
1 point: Menus
1 point: BEST FEELING!
1 point: Heavy Fog
1 point: Eternal Traveler -full version-
1 point: Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)

Aghhhhh, Eternal Traveler. I'm still baffled at it's inclusion in Exzeal, and as a Stage 5 theme no less, considering it's just a vocal version of the stage 4 theme in the previous game Trizeal, which came out almost 3 years earlier! The vocal version isn't even original, it was featured in the [urlhttp://vgmdb.net/album/6910]Trizeal bonus disc[/url] 2 years ago. I don't know. Can't complain about the song itself, though.

I'm liking the drum programming in Best Feeling, along with how the string pads and the keyboard alternate for some ungodly reason.

PROTMIND ~THEME~ is just so ridiculously cool, it would probably get more points if the solo at 3:28 wasn't completely bonkers.


My next nomination:

Composer: Masanao Akahori
Album: Cybernator (SNES rip)
Track: Till the Crack of Doom (Final Stage)
Track #: 11 on SPC set
Catalog #: N/A
Year: 1992 (1993 in NA if that's required)
Source: Game profile: Assault Suits Valken ~ SNESmusic.org
Request: Please PLEASE PLEASE leave the -(Final Stage)- on the title; the little bit of context makes a world of difference in this case.
Additional Notes: There IS a soundtrack release for this, but damned if I could find it. I'll be uploading to the FTP shortly.

I am tired, here's A nom

Song artist: Osamu Kubota
Song Title: Mind the Gap
Album: beatmania IIDX 12 Happy Sky Original Soundtrack
Track number: 19
Disc: 1
source: GFCA-30~31: beatmania IIDX 12 Happy Sky Original Soundtrack - VGMdb
other: I keep falling asleep while typing this out but I will upload if I can staty awake. I am partially nominating for a laugh that won't be as funny when I am actually awake.

3 Points: Bless Arrange Album 'Flavory' - BEST FEELING! -spinash mix-
1 Point: Back in Time - Sanxion (Hubbard)
1 Point: Muchi Muchi Pork! Original Soundtrack - Iza Iza Main Dish! (Stage 5)
1 Point: Galactic Storm ~The Eye's Memory~ - PROTMIND ~THEME~