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Song of the Week - WEEK 177 Voting/WEEK 178 Nominating
Song of the Week. 175 Weeks and counting.
Week 177 Voting is closed. Week 178 Nominating is restricted. Results: 1). [21] Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger 2). [18] The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger 3). [14] www.dbsoundworks.com - The Teaching Robot 4). [12/8.5] Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) 5). [12/8] Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 6). [9] Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation 7). [5/5] AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off 8). [5/3.5] Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - The Album - Snorkeling Cactus Weasels Tracks: Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: dbsoundworks dot com - The Teaching Robot Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - The Album - Snorkeling Cactus Weasels Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger (use the download link) Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) Notes: Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger was originally an OGG file. It is available in the extras folder for those who demand original encoding quality. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone. Week 178 Nominating: The Nominations Queue can be found here. The rules for nominating can be found here |
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Nomination #22
Composer: Shinji Orito Album: Sense Off ~A Sacred Story in the Wind~ Original Soundtrack & Perfect Drama Track Title: Cosmic Run Track Number: 2-18 Year: 2001 Catalog Number: LACA-9005~6 Additional Information: Wow this is my first Shinji Orito SotW nom. O__O Cosmically running to the FTP of stars and disco balls. |
Nomination:
Game Title: SSX Blur Artist: Junkie XL Track Number: 6 Track Title: A51 Year: 2007 Source: N/A: Music From SSX Blur - VGMdb Uploaded to the FTP. |
Curious Nomination
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(3 points) The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger: Fun and breezy, it delicately interwines pristine synths with enjoyable mid-tempo guitar licks. The second half change in tempo is a nice twist as well.
(2 points) dbsoundworks dot com - The Teaching Robot: An OCRemixer, right? Danny acquits itself himself nicely here with a track that's equal parts nimble electronic synths and driving bass. It's both groovin' and fun. (1 point) Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation: It's deeper than you expect, but it's heavier rhythms that give it an actioney feel. I do miss these SNES sounds. As for the rest: Final Take Off is fine, but it gets no points for me simply for being a permutation of the After Burner theme. dreamenddischarger starts promisingly, but nine minutes later it's simply too much. BGM No_19 isn't bad, but this combination of violin and heartland piano isn't exactly my thing. Snowfield Story never develops into anything substantial. And Snorkeling Cactus Weasels has a cool name, but a mediocre sound. |
Really nice week. It's hard to distribute points. @_@
(2 points) dbsoundworks dot com - The Teaching Robot (1 point) Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - The Album - Snorkeling Cactus Weasels (1 point) AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off (1 point) Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation (1 point) Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) Game Title: Lunar Knights (Game Rip) Artists: Boktai DS Unit (Hiroe Noguchi, Masashi Watanabe, Masanori Akita, Akihiro Honda, Shuichi Kobori, Nobuko Toda, Yuichi Tsuchiya, Yasuhiro Ichihashi, Tsutomu Watanabe, Tomoharu Nakano, Rie Yamatani, Yutaka Shimoyama, Rie Nakano, Hideyuki Suzuki, Kazuki Muraoka) Track Title: Dumas Year: 2007 Source: Game Credits for Lunar Knights |
AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off has a fun sound from the get-go, and develops from the soaring to the cheesy, all while remaining pretty damn entertaining. Very solid stuff, although perhaps its weakness (melody) will lead to its undoing regarding points.
dbsoundworks dot com - The Teaching Robot has a slick futuristic sound, but this is unflatteringly contrasted by a sterile sound and a lack of real compositional creativity. Could've done much more, for sure. Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation has that kind of sound that I'm not really fond of: driving, aimless synths and drums. Can't really commend this one for having a great melody either; it's just kinda there. Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - The Album - Snorkeling Cactus Weasels is OK with some nice crunchin' riffs, but is overwhelmingly stagnant throughout. There aren't any hooks to catch my attention nor any moments of flair to bring me back for more. A decent listen, but I don't think it's one that I'll be willingly revisiting. Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 is an absolutely gorgeously crisp combination of guitar, violin/fiddle and piano. The hoedown tone is infectious, and the melodic sensibilities of the track are something to behold. Love the moments where all three instruments play in unison, like the final 10 seconds. <3 What. This is so unfair, I was going to nominate this in a couple of weeks! I certainly wouldn't be surprised or disheartened if The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger took the gold this week. The whole album has a jubilant, adventurous and fresh sound, a sound which is epitomised to a tee in this track. Damn Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger is good. Fantastic variation on both an electronic and instrumental level (violin-->harpsichord was great), and the atmosphere and vibe is just as entrancing as it is vivid. Awesome piece of music. Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) is slick, smooth, and easy to digest. There aren't any standout elements, but as a whole I like this track. Simplistic downtempo chillout sort of stuff that doesn't get too overwhelmed with trying to sound too 'ambient' or too 'intricate'. *thumbs up* even the POINT didn't want to trivialise such a fine week 2 points: Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 1 point: Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger 1 point: The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger 1 point: AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off 1 point: Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) 6th: Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - The Album - Snorkeling Cactus Weasels 7th: dbsoundworks dot com - The Teaching Robot 8th: Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation Exceptionally strong week, save a couple of tracks. This week was arguably the most difficult time I've ever had distributing points. Love my nom and my would-be-nom, but there are a couple of fantastic discoveries too. Ended up being lame and giving my nom more points than the rest, but that really doesn't do this week justice. |
3 points - Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger
What a fantastic trance track. There are enough different segments to keep it entertaining for so long. Best served in the car while speeding down the highway. Excellent pick, Bigblah! 2 points - Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation My nom. I'm mostly fond of the first 30 seconds of this track, but it has enough variety in melody to fill out the rest of the track. I like the instrument samples here. 1 point - dbsoundworks dot com - The Teaching Robot Great track. Wish it had a little more length or variation, but it's still cool. Good work, Danny B! Honor Mention - AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off |
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3 points: Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger
2 points: Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation 1 point: Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) dreamenddischarger definitely provides some great driving music. Well, at least while having it blaring through my user tracks radio and cruising around Los Santos in GTA: San Andreas. I think I'm going to make it a habit of listening to each SotW like so. Final Fight 3's soundtrack is underrated, and this week's pick is pretty solid. Ideally, I would have preferred For Metro City, of course. |
(3 points) Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - The Album - Snorkeling Cactus Weasels
(2 points) The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger (1 point) Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 |
Quick votes:
(2 points) Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) (2 points) Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch (Game Rip) - dreamenddischarger (2points) dB soundworks - The Teaching Robot Honourable mentions to Final Fight 3. Had my top picks not been so good, I'd have given Final Fight a point. |
I found the majority of this week's nominations to be very average.
3 Points: The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger 2 Points: Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 1 Point: dbsoundworks dot com - The Teaching Robot Nomination Album: Microcosm (Sega CD Redbook Audio) Artist: Rick Wakeman Title: Egoniaga Number: 3 |
<<3 points>> The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger
<<1 point>> dB soundworks - The Teaching Robot <<1 point>> Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger <<1 point>> Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 |
3 points: Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger
2 points: Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 1 point: dB soundworks - The Teaching Robot Wow, the Umineko song is awesome. |
2 points: Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6)
1 point: AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off 1 point: Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation 1 point: The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger 1 point: Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger The whole middle of the Umineko track (1:14-3:19) seemed kind of extraneous. I'd have given it consideration for more points if that were cut out. Explosive Situation did get consideration for more points, though, man that bass <3333 |
No time for detailed comments this week:
The Teaching Robot - 3 pts. Guitar Slinger - 2 pts. BGM No. 19 - 1 pt. |
The order of tracks is mixed up again, this always gives me some little problems assigning points.
1 Points - AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off: it's allright I guess 1 Points - Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19: another horse/stable track, I tend to find them amusing nowadays 1 Points - The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger: huh? it's like two tracks, but it does have good moments 2 Point - Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger: contains some of the best parts this week 1 Points - Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6): steady atmosphere, that managed to cue some attention without being distractive |
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3 points: Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6)
2 points: Explosive Situation 1 point: Snorkleling Cactus Wheels Just missed: dreamenddischarger, BGM No. 19, The Teaching Robot, Guitar Slinger Those trumpets in this new version of Final Takeoff... who's bright idea was that? Also Explosive Situation's synth soloing was some of the most awkward soloing I've ever heard, though I am able to overlook that due to the pretty sweet groove. Aside from that, absolutely no complaints. Good week. |
2 points ~ Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch (Game Rip) - dreamenddischarger
1 point ~ dB soundworks - The Teaching Robot 1 point ~ AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off 2 Points ~ The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger |
Voting is closed and nominations are restricted!
1). [21] Umineko no Naku Koro ni episode4 - Alliance of the golden witch - dreamenddischarger 2). [18] The Wanderer - Guitar Slinger 3). [14] www.dbsoundworks.com - The Teaching Robot 4). [12/8.5] Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip) - Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6) 5). [12/8] Seven-Bridge (Game Rip) - BGM No_19 6). [9] Final Fight 3 (Game Rip) - Explosive Situation 7). [5/5] AFTER BURNER 20th Anniversary Box - Final Take Off 8). [5/3.5] Need for Speed III: Hot Pursuit - The Album - Snorkeling Cactus Weasels |
Nice result. In hindsight, I could have probably nominated a much stronger Seven-Bridge track. But I doubt it would have taken the gold; some fantastic competition, and a very deserving gold placing.
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I neglected to ask this earlier, since I've heard other tracks from the game: What is Seven-Bridge? What system is it on?
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