Song of the Week - WEEK 238 Voting/WEEK 239 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 225 Weeks and counting.
Week 238 Voting is closed.
Week 239 Nominating is closed.

Results:
1). [13/9] Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2
2). [13/7] zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens
3). [12] Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)
4). [8] Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood
5-t). [7/4] a boy and his blob - Shaded Plains
5-t). [7/4] La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History
7-t). [3/2] Oni Soundtrack - Trailer
7-t). [3/2] Ridge Racer Revolution (Red Book Audio) - Attract

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: a boy and his blob - Shaded Plains
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Oni Soundtrack - Trailer
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Ridge Racer Revolution (Red Book Audio) - Attract
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens

Notes:
A looping lower-quality version of Shaded Plains is available in the extras folder for those who demand looping.

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:
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Week 239 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

First to vote once more :(

a boy and his blob - Shaded Plains The new ABAHB has a really charming and melodic soundtrack that even includes some remixes; this little charmer is the pick of the lot for me. The only downside is that it's cut far too short, though I managed to fix that albeit in craptacular quality.

Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood Must...avoid...obvious...joke. As beat 'em up (bemup?) music from a chippier age goes, it's not bad. There just isn't much of a hook to hang onto until she's almost over.

Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2 That's an interesting name for a game right there. The music's interesting too: compulsively jazzy and riddled with some great sax lixx.

Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights) Nifty spacey-sounding chiptune(?) hits all the right buttons for an impressive finish.

La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History Vaguely Asian-sounding SNESish tune has an impressive sound and some nice moments but doesn't really bring it all together.

Oni Soundtrack - Trailer High hopes for this, since O'Donnell/Salvatori and Power of Seven are both awesome, and both together should be double awesome, right? Not really. I can see how this would work with a movie of a ninja from the future, but as a stand-along it just can't cut the mustard.

Ridge Racer Revolution (Red Book Audio) - Attract Mostly too 70's for my taste, and its synth sax is put to shame by the one above.

zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens Apparently zOMG expanded Soule's fanbase to include 13-year-old girls and people interested in becoming 13-year-old girls (remember when Mitsuda was rumored for the assignment?). Joshing aside, it's a good effort, though this is one of the tracks that has Soule most in his quasi-ambient comfort zone.

The Point Spread
Shaded Plains - 3 pts.
Boss Theme 2 - 2 pts.
Old Oddities - 1 pt.
Village Greens - 1 nonbinding honorary spirit pt.

2 points: Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)
2 points: La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History
1 point: Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood
1 point: Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2

Vote early, vote often. :cool:

The nom queue is starved and emaciated to the point that a nomination will probably be a fatal shock to its system. Nevertheless:

Album: Michigan Original Sound Track
Artist: Masafumi Takada
Disc #: 1
Track #: 1
Track Title: Chicago Skyline In The Fog
Catalog Number: SCDC-00378
Year: 2004
Source: VGMdb
Notes: If this does not get last place, I officially give up trying to guess SotW voting patterns forever.

Also, I will be traveling and most likely out of internet contact all next week. If we go for two weeks again (as seems likely :() it's no prob, but if there is a votefrenzy and we wind up running Week 239, I'll most likely be sitting it out (Translation: CHz will have to make his own dang thread).

3 points: The Village Greens
1 point: Boss Battle 2
1 point: Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)
1 point: Trailer
just barely missed: Attract

Fans of Jeremy Soule need to listen to the zOMG! soundtrack if they haven't done so already. Haters of Jeremy Soule also need to check it out. Basically everyone needs to listen to the soundtrack.

I probably wouldn't have enjoyed Boss Battle 2 nearly as much if I didn't know it was a boss theme, man that's awesome.

Despite it's short length, great week.

(wtf Oni had a soundtrack release)

(WTFFFFFFFFF O'DONNELL AND SALVATORI WORKED ON THE SOUNDTRACK)

3 points - Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood
2 points - Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)
1 point - a boy and his blob - Shaded Plains [though I prefer the looped version myself]

Album: NO MORE HEROES ORIGINAL SOUND TRACKS
Composers: Masafumi Takada, Jun Fukuda
Track: Walking on Leaves
Track #: 3-06
Catalog #: MJCD-20108
Year: 2008
Source: MJCD-20108 | NO MORE HEROES ORIGINAL SOUND TRACKS - VGMdb
Additional Info: A stroll through the park

Uploading to FTP shortly.

Looks like the noms need some federal stimulus money.

Or is that joke two years too late?

Anyway, I'll see what I can do about scaring up a nominee.

In the meantime, I found this week kinda mediocre. Songs were enjoyable but not memorable. If I could have given one track six points (as short as it is), I would.

(3 points) a boy and his blob - Shaded Plains
(1 point) La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History
(1 point) Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2
(1 point) Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood

Nomination: Public Enemy - Cold Fusion
 

=== Kaleb.G ===
* Album: Public Enemy (Game Rip)
* Artist: Ed Hargrave
* Track Title: Cold Fusion
* Year: 2002
* Additional Info: This is a Half-Life 1 mod. Sometimes the game is titled "Public-Enemy" and sometimes with the subtitle "The Dark Future" or "A Dark Future". Year is taken from MP3 tags, though I guess the mod was released in 2004. I'll leave it to you how to handle this info.
* Source: Public-Enemy mod for Half-Life - Mod DB
* File Location: nom folder

Quick votes:

(2 points) zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens

(2 points) Oni Soundtrack - Trailer

(2 points) Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)

a boy and his blob nearly got points.

Here's a new nomination:

* Album Title: Dark Reign 2 (PC Redbook Audio)
* Artist: Sound Element (Christian A. Salyer & Eric Klein)
* Track Title: In-Game 7
* Source: http://sites.google.com/site/rimo994/game-rips ; http://www.mobygames.com/game/window...eign-2/credits
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: NA
* Track Number: 8
* Catalogue Number: NA
* Year: 2000

(3 points) Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2
(2 points) Ridge Racer Revolution (Red Book Audio) - Attract
(1 point) zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens

Nomination:

Album: Forza Motorsport 3 (Game Rip)
Artist: Lance Hayes
Track Title: Simulated Physics
Year: 2009

nomination

Album: COMPOSERS
Artist: Takeshi Kuramochi
Track Title: STEAM TRAIN
Track #: 14
Source: LC-1859 | COMPOSERS - VGMdb
Year: 2010
Other info: 2:18 is the best part of the song

A nomination:

Album/Game Title: Einhander
Composer: Kenichiro Fukui
Track Number: 18
Track Title: [AFTERIMAGE] -Stage 6 #3 Versus Monitor-
Catalog Number: SSCX-10015
Year: 1997

A votes

3 points - Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2
2 points - La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History
1 point - Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood

3 points: zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens
2 points: La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History
1 point: Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)

Pretty much this.

Oh yeah, I should probably vote too!

2 points: Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)
2 points: zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens
1 point: Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2
1 point: Ridge Racer Revolution (Red Book Audio) - Attract

I was incredibly hesistant about checking out the soundtrack to zOMG!, because that name is hella awful and really why would a Gaia Online MMORPG have good music? Turns out those were terrible reasons, because it really is one of Soule's best works. The Village Greens is absolutely gorgeous, and anyone not giving it points has no soul. None at all!

The new A Boy and His Blob was a great game, but honestly, not a single tune stuck with me after I was finished playing. I haven't actually listened to the standalone OST release, though. :(

Grand History is definitely the best La-Mulana track I've heard so far. I enjoyed it, but not enough to give it a point in this fairly good week.

Nomination #61

Composer: City Lights Symphony
Album: Tongari Boushi to Mahou no 365 Nichi Original Soundtrack
Track Title: Disco Days
Track Number: 2-10
Year: 2008
Catalog Number: GFCA-135~6
Additional Information: DANCE

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Voting is closed yada yada yada

1). [13/9] Hermie Hopperhead: Scrap Panic (Game Rip) - Boss Theme 2
2). [13/7] zOMG! The Original Soundtrack - The Village Greens
3). [12] Kaleidoscope Original Soundtrack - Old Oddities (Nostalgic Heights)
4). [8] Final Fight 2 (Game Rip) - Carve a Dragon Wood
5-t). [7/4] a boy and his blob - Shaded Plains
5-t). [7/4] La-Mulana (Game Rip) - Grand History
7-t). [3/2] Oni Soundtrack - Trailer
7-t). [3/2] Ridge Racer Revolution (Red Book Audio) - Attract

Ties EVERYWHERE