Song of the Week - WEEK 173 Voting/WEEK 174 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 173 Voting is closed.
Week 174 Nominating is restricted.

Results
1). [17] ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo! (arranged by Raito)
2). [15] Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
3). [13] Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
4). [11/7.5] Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu
5). [11/6] Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
6). [10] www.richardjacques.com - Starship Troopers Suite
7). [7] Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards
8). [6] Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: www.richardjacques.com - Starship Troopers Suite


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Week 173 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Just wanted to quote this to make sure everyone sees it:
Also, some nominations would be pretty keen right about now. I'll start!

• Album: DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip)
• Artist: Thomas Egeskov Petersen, Kim Christensen
• Track #: 1
• Track Title: Track 1
• Year: 1989
• Source: Lemon - Commodore 64, C64 Games, Reviews & Music!

Posting right now to say I'd love a chiptune contest, especially since I wasn't around for the first one.

Nomination #20

Composer: ACE
Album: Emil Chronicle Online Original Soundtrack Vol.2 ~Door of Neogenesis~
Track Title: The thing (hiding in darkness)
Track Number: 13
Year: 2007
Catalog Number: AVCD-23308~9
Additional Information: This is way different to the two Emil Chronicle tracks that have been in the BSC, trust me.

Uploaded to the FTP (hiding in internet).

Nomination:

Composer: Danny Baranowsky
Game: Fathom - FATHOM
Track Title: Water Music
Year: 2009

Additional Information: This is a Flash game, with no published soundtrack. This is an mp3 given to me by the composer himself (he's said it's fine to hand out). It doesn't appear on the website, but I believe that's because they'd consider it an indirect sort of spoiler. (You'd have to play the game to understand.) You can play the game for a few minutes to verify that this song is in there.

Source: You can download it from my webspace.

This week looks like it's gonna be a tough competition. Plenty of strong names and titles.

In the meantime, here's a nomination. I don't have a ton of info on it, but I do have the track and will upload it.

Game: Pop N Music 10 AC & CS Pop N Music 8
Composer: Mr T/Tomoyuki Uchida
Title: Goonies "R" Good Enough
Track Number: 1-28
Additional Notes A fun remix of the original chiptune, which in itself was adapted from the original song.

Oh man Crash, I love that song.

And just for reference, Mr. T is an alias of Tomoyuki Uchida.

And here's a nom.

Artist: Tsukasa Tawada
Album: Moon Crystal (NES Game Rip)
Song Title: Evil Forest (Stage 1)
Track Number: 4
Year: 1992
Source: The NSFE page at Slick Productions

Here are my votes for the week. Really like the old school tunes this time.

(3 points) Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4

(2 points) Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu

(1 point) ToBi DIVINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo! (arranged by Raito)

Special mentions for "Starship Troopers". Would have loved to give it a point had I not been so captivated by "Jetpac" and "Main Menu".

New nomination coming up...

Next nom!

Artist: Hitoshi Sakimoto
Album: Fantasy Earth gamerip
Song Title: Vinel Island
Track Number: 21
Source: MEGAUPLOAD - The leading online storage and file delivery service

3 Points: ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!
2 Points: Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
1 Point: Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards

Major props to ikkei and Klondike; I had those Fantasy Earth and Danny Baranowsky titles in my nom queue. I have to say that I'm not sure about Crash's nom, though; much as I like Cyndi Lauper, the fact that it's an adaptation of a movie song makes me uneasy. Maybe I'm the only one. Anyhoo:

Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu Not as fast-paced as the "accele" would suggest, it's nevertheless a solid bit of SNESin'.

Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire This has all the Gothic chops I'd expect for bloodsucker music, and if it's not the strongest such music ever it at least acquits itself admirably.

Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards Well at least no one can accuse this of being the same old Motoi. Sadly, it's pretty dull in spite of using some interesting instruments--probably another song that works better in the game than as a standalone listen.

Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron Not at all what I expected; not very fond of the vox (no, I don't want to play a game) but the 80's style electronics are excellent. Kind of long though; could easily be cut in half without sacrificing any content.

Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4 Hard to believe that this is the only other VGM credit of Steve Burke, who wrote Kameo. It's a nice punchy bit of synth that, while not spectacular, is nevertheless pretty fun.

Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A) The third synthy track in a row is also the weakest--there are some neat rhythmic tricks but otherwise it's a wasteland.

ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo! This takes the sound of Immortal and does it one better by presenting an excellent melody. Quite good, and the likely winner this week.

www. richardjacques. com - Starship Troopers Suite While this does contain the standard drum beats you'd expect from a wargame track, it's also got a strongly triumphant feel and a few sections of contemplative sci-fi beauty reminiscent of Basil Poledouris.

The Point Spread
Starship Troopers Suite - 3 pts.
PitytheFoo - 1 pt.
Alternate Theme 4 - 1 pt.
Battle Squad - 1 pt.

2 points - Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
2 points - Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
1 point - Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards
1 point - Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4

(3 points) Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
(2 points) Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
(1 point) ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!

Nomination:

Album: Best of the Best, Volume I
Artist: Atlas Plug (Tom Salta)
Track #: 4
Track Title: Around the World
Year: 2007
Source: N/A: Best of the Best, Volume I - VGMdb

Here's my new nomination.

* Album Title: Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Hideo Kojima Red Disc
* Artist: Yoshiyuki Ito & Hikaru Nanase
* Track Title: Night Fall
* Source: Game Music Revolution
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: 1 (of 1)
* Track Number: 12
* Catalogue Number: KICA-7929
* Year: 1998

Nice week.

(1 point) Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu
(1 point) Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards
(1 point) Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
(1 point) Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
(1 point) ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!
(1 point) Richard Jacques | Composer - Starship Troopers Suite

3 points: Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu
2 points: Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
1 point: Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards

This was a pretty good week; I wanted to give points to a lot more tracks than I actually did, especially the stage 1 theme from Bike Banditz the PoFoo! arrangement.

Dark Matter is tight as hell, is the rest of the album this good?

2 points: Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire
2 points: ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!
2 points: Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)

2 points: Dark Matter (Boss A)
1 point: Starship Troopers Suite
1 point: Main Menu
1 point: House of Cards
1 point: PoFoo! (Arranged by Raito)

Those 4 1-pointers are really good, if all for wildly varied reasons. I couldn't find a single reason, logical or otherwise, for me to give Dark Matter 3 points at the expense of any of those.

If you're a fan of the beat arranging, then I'd highly recommend the album, particularly for the first game's soundtrack. There's a number cheesy hard rock melodies thrown into the mix, as well. Personally, I'm a huge fan of the entire album and I actually had trouble singling out a track to represent it in SotW. I might nominate something from the second game very soon, even.

2 points: Atelier Elie ~Alchemist of Sarlburg 2~ Original Game Soundtrack - Sad Vampire
1 point: ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!
1 point: Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
1 point: Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
1 point: Richard Jacques | Composer - Starship Troopers Suite

Decent week. I was really impressed with the 4 tracks I gave points to (nom exclusive).

Oh and about that. I'll stop nominating Atelier stuff now guys, I promise. :eagletear:

Edit: What is this Richard Jacques propaganda

There's a lot to love about this week, I'm not even going to give my nom any points. Always a fan of Shock Troopers music though.

2 points: Shock Troopers 2nd Squad - Dark Matter (Boss A)
2 points: ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!
1 point: Accele Brid (Game Rip) - Main Menu
1 point: Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4


Next nomination:

• Album: Agony (Game Rip)
• Artist: Tim Wright, Franck Sauer
• Track Title: Intro
• Year: 1992
• Additional Info: Nominating the track that was released with the game, not the original version.
• Source: Agony (game) - ExoticA

GFF is automatically parsing his website in the track title. Either that or CHz is a huge Jacques fan and is painstakingly editing each entry to link to the site so that all may prostrate themselves before his altar.

2 points: Main Menu
2 points: Sad Vampire
1 point: Battle Squadron
1 point: Jetpac Alternate Theme 4

3 Points: Jetpac Refuelled - Jetpac Alternate Theme 4
1 Point: Baten Kaitos ~Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean~ Original Soundtrack - House of Cards
1 Point: Immortal 2 - Battle Squadron
1 Point: ToBi D+VINE Complete Sound track - PoFoo!

Nomination:
Album: Perfect Dark (Game Rip)
Artist: Grant Kirkhope
Title: Training
Year: 2000
Source: VGMdb (Took info from there, however i don't have the OST, that's why i nominate it as a game rip)