Song of the Fortnight - FORTNIGHT 248/FORTNIGHT 249 Nominating
 

Song of the Fortnight. 112.5 Fortnights and counting.
Fortnight 248 Voting is finally closed for the love of God.
Fortnight 249 Nominating is open for that far future time when voting actually miraculously closes maybe.

Results:
1). [15] Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle
2). [12] Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms
3). [10] Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved
4). [9] Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme
5). [7] Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - "TEMPEST"
6). [6] Umihara Kawase Soundtrack - "Sea - Open Sea" Stage BGM
7). [4] Science Papa OST - Science Papa Title Track
8). [3] Super Scope 6 (Game Rip) - Intercept

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - "TEMPEST"
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Science Papa OST - Science Papa Title Track
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Super Scope 6 (Game Rip) - Intercept
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Umihara Kawase Soundtrack - "Sea - Open Sea" Stage BGM

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:

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Fortnight 249 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

The whole BSC thing has made it hard to find time for SOTW (or SOTF or SOTM or whatever) lately. But I've got some kind of a nomination for today!

Album: Monster Hunter Hunting Music Collection ~ 3rd Anniversary Commemorative Best Track ~
Composer/Arranger: I believe this one is all Masato Kouda
Track Title: ※※※
(the title is actually written as an image of three cat paws, so who knows how this is supposed to be written out.)
Track number: 28 (disc 1)
Source: CPCA-10181~2 | Monster Hunter Hunting Music Collection ~ 3rd Anniversary... - VGMdb
Additional info: The song is some mixture of Devil May Cry music with Monster Hunter. It's better if I don't say any more than that for now.

Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - "TEMPEST" Generally I'm all for orchestral this and symphony that, but this sounds like the hyper-melodramatic score to a bad 1950's actioneer.

Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle Excellent synthy piece, if a little on the long side. I'd be interested in hearing a complete rip if one exists.

Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme It gets the job of sounding spacey done. but the song's half over before the really nifty stuff starts to kick in.

Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms A lot like Tempest, high on old-fashioned sepia-tone movie melodrama but not much else.

Science Papa OST - Science Papa Title Track el Mobo, who has blessed us with such gems as Fury of the Furries and Pac in Time, has a bandcamp page. this jaunty little synth gem is just one of the many treasures within.

Super Scope 6 (Game Rip) - Intercept Definitely has the old-school SNES sound we all know and love. If anything, this sounds like an outtake from Link to the Past.

Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved A promising start, but it eventually disintegrates into a mess of SFX and loops. I don't know what the Gods see in this excess.

Umihara Kawase Soundtrack - "Sea - Open Sea" Stage BGM Fun and fluffy pretty much sums it up.

The Point Spread
Science Papa - 3 pts.
FrogattoTitle - 2 pts.
Sea Open Sea - 1 pt.

Nomination #68

Composer: Alberto Jose Gonzalez
Game: Baby Felix - Halloween
Track Title: Outer Space
Track Number: 8
Year: 2001
Catalog Number: N/A
Additional Information: Hidden gems are always the shiniest.

Meowing, spooking and zooming to the FTP.

NOM
Composer: Disasterpeace
Game: 360º Sharks
Track Title: The Plummet
Track Number: 1
Year: March 2011
Catalog Number: N/A
Additional Information: The Bandcamp parade continues unabated

This time in STFU (I find it catchier than SotF for obvious reasons):

(3 points) Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved: I'm a crack whore for this kind of techno. It's really the only scenario when super-sized track lengths don't bother me.

(2 points) Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme: Ah, yes, Vladimir, he makes rhythm as well he drinks vodka. This was an enjoyable track with just enough action-movie bombast to carry it through.

(1 point) Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle: A little long but on the whole reasonably enjoyable. I am definitely hearing some snippets of Chrono Trigger's Guardia Castle in there.

=== Kaleb.G ===
* Album: Knights in the Nightmare Perfect Audio Collection
* Artist: Shigeki Hayashi
* Disc #: 2
* Track #: 23
* Track Title: Battle in the Royal Mausoleum
* Catalogue Number: VGCD-0147
* Year: 2008
* Additional Info: a.k.a. "Battle in the Royal Crypt"
* Source: #gamemp3s, VGMdb

2 points - Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme
2 points - Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved
1 point - Super Scope 6 (Game Rip) - Intercept
1 point - Umihara Kawase Soundtrack - "Sea - Open Sea" Stage BGM

Ryan Reilly = RainMan ?

If so, holy crap.

EDIT: now that I listen to it more, there are some noticeable fluctuations in overall volume happening throughout the Frogatto track; a mild annoyance.

2 points: Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - "TEMPEST"
2 points: Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms
1 point: Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle
1 point: Umihara Kawase Soundtrack - "Sea - Open Sea" Stage BGM

My favorite part of TEMPEST is at 1:28 when the Resident Evil Big Band muscles in for a fifteen second performance. Great week for orch music if you have any taste; Enraged Phantoms is also beastly.

I can't fault Frogatto's soundtrack compositionally, but it never really clicked with me for reasons I can't articulate. I wanted to like it a lot more than I actually ended up doing. The title theme was easily my favorite piece, and I considered nominating it myself (don't remember why I didn't), so I approve of this pick. When I started the game, I hung around the opening area to hear it in its entirety. Which took forever because it's so damn long. Man I forgot how long this is.

This week is pretty boss.

Yeah, same guy.

2 Points - Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle
1 Point -- Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme
1 Point -- Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms
2 Points - Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved

2 points: Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms
2 points: Umihara Kawase Soundtrack - "Sea - Open Sea" Stage BGM
1 point: Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - "TEMPEST"
1 point: Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved

I really enjoyed the dark orchestral pieces this week. "Enraged Phantoms" in particular was lovely; wonderfully mystical. Makes sense to see that Jonne Valtonen is the composer. I reckon I'm finally gonna check these Merregnon things out.

And despite not doing anything and not receiving points, "Intercept" is a surreal kind of atmospheric awesome.

5:00 of the Touhou track is the best thing this week btw. <3 Djinova, nice nom.

Quick votes:

(2 points) Frogatto and Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle

(2 points) Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme

(2 points) Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 'Excess' - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved

Edit:
Just had to try out Frogatto after listening to the title track. Pretty cool game!

My votes:

3 points - Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle
2 points - Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme
1 point - Science Papa OST - Science Papa Title Track

Also, I didn't know Ryan was a member here. Cool!

2 points: Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - "TEMPEST"
2 points: Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms
2 points: Super Scope 6 (Game Rip) - Intercept
Just missed: The Gensokyo the Gods Loved

Very enjoyable week whatever! Everything was good enough, although not enough for points. Even the cool-sounding tracks (The Gensokyo the Gods Loved, FrogattoTitle), but their length was a detriment, and volume fluctuations in the former, as mentioned before, does not help. I am still surprised by Valtonen. And I can't help but think of a Chuck Jones' Tom and Jerry show whenever I listen to "TEMPEST".

2 points: 'TEMPEST'
2 points: Enraged Phantoms
2 points: FrogattoTitle
not enough points aaaaaaaahhhhhhh: Science Papa Title Track
Also missed: The Gensokyo the Gods Loved, everything else really

wtf this Bio Hazard track is ridiculous. I seriously would've held off nominating Enraged Phantoms had I known it was up against this. I know nothing about Resident Evil or it's music, but between TEMPEST and that other symphonic track some weeks back I'm about to go on a sabbatical here.

aside from some late cymbal crashes and some weird volume fluctuations, FrogattoTitle is awesome, mad props to RainMan. Gotta check out the rest of the soundtrack.

Crazy week.

Tomorrow will be a fortnight. If you'd like this voting period to be just a fortnight, we could use two more nominations! Also some votes, if you can spare 'em

(Although if I were to close voting now, Valtonen would place, so if you're going to vote then DON'T RUIN THIS)

Next week should be a battle (remember those?), so nomination can still be open.

I'm just fine with closing as it is and having Valtonen place. :D

Oh yeah! 'TIS TRULY A RARE EVENT, HAPPENING ONCE EVERY SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS

Valtonening is closed, but we'll keep nominations open because, as Draconis so helpfully pointed out, next time is a battle!

1). [15] Frogatto & Friends (Game Rip) - FrogattoTitle
2). [12] Merregnon Soundtrack Volume 2 - Enraged Phantoms
3). [10] Touhou Gensou Shiten 4 "Excess" - The Gensokyo the Gods Loved
4). [9] Homeplanet The Complete Game Soundtrack - Homeplanet Theme
5). [7] Bio Hazard Symphony Op. 91 Crime and Punishment - "TEMPEST"
6). [6] Umihara Kawase Soundtrack - "Sea - Open Sea" Stage BGM
7). [4] Science Papa OST - Science Papa Title Track
8). [3] Super Scope 6 (Game Rip) - Intercept

I'm happy Frogatto won. Always nice to give recognition to the composers of the small indie freeware games.