Song of the Week - WEEK 268 Voting/WEEK 269 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 250 Weeks and counting.
Week 268 Voting is still mine.
Week 269 Nominating is forever.

Results:
1). [11] inMomentum - Zoned In
2). [10/6.5] Death Crimson History - Mercenary
3). [10/6] Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King <Stage4>
4). [9] Kaze no Klonoa: door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING
5). [6] BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco
6-t). [5/3] Awesomenauts - Wormhole Surfing
6-t). [5/3] Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST
7). [5] Big Brain Academy (Game Rip) - Title

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Awesomenauts - Wormhole Surfing
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Big Brain Academy (Game Rip) - Title
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Death Crimson History - Mercenary
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: inMomentum - Zoned In
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Kaze no Klonoa - door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4)

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

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No, it stays that way forever because seven is a lucky number and there's usually at least one song each week that we should all refuse to acknowledge.

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(3 points) inMomentum - Zoned In: The chopped up voices at the beginning are reminiscent of a bLiNd track, and really got me into the track. It throws enough elements to the wall and most of them stick.

(2 points) Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4): I'm a relative sucker for cold synths, and this track has enough good atmosphere to spare.

(1 point) Kaze no Klonoa - door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING: Solid PSX-era tunes. Stage theme? Boss theme?

Just missed: Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST; ear worm that is BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco

2 points: Death Crimson History - Mercenary
2 points: Kaze no Klonoa - door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING
1 point: BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco
1 point: Big Brain Academy (Game Rip) - Title
would've gotten a point if not for how hard I'm laughing at ECO-G: The Black Shell Beast King <Stage4>

Final boss, last phase! One of my favorites from the game, although by this point I've probably said that every piece from Klonoa 1 is one of my favorites from the game. Gotta love that Hiroshi Okubo bassline.

I know some people who are rather dismissive of the modern Nintendo sound team, mostly on account of all the cutesy crap they have to churn out for all these dang Wii and DS casual games. These people are completely wrong, as Nintendo has amassed probably the most creative and talented set of composers they've ever had, save maybe for the period starting when Soyo Oka joined Nintendo and ending when she left. Fucking Touch Generations music ALL DAY EVERY DAY man the Big Brain Academy title theme is so delightfully bizarre, how is this appropriate for anything.

Laughing forever at ECO-G quoting Kool & the Gang's "Celebration," Nee I know this is entirely the reason you nominated it don't even try to pretend otherwise

wesomenauts - Wormhole Surfing This track has a (predictably, I suppose) awesome sound, but it really needs a stronger melody. The one that it's got is almost inaudible over that awesome bass line.

EST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco I'm not sure what those girls were shouting "echo dream" about. Certainly not the pretty bleh music around them, 50% watered-down J-Pop and 50% repetitive 80's style bass.

ig Brain Academy (Game Rip) - Title This soung sounds like it was produced on carefully tuned babies.

eath Crimson History - Mercenary Interesting mix of jungle sounds and stadium sounds here. Individuals moments are pretty neat but there are a bunch of times when all the momentum goes out of the music. Neat but flawed.

mage Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST It fulfils the letter of the "generic action track" but doesn't bring much new to the table.

nMomentum - Zoned In The voices are the big draw here, first chopped up and later unmodified. But there's also plenty of room for some really great electronica.

aze no Klonoa - door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING Before you die, you see hear it. People's hyperbolic praise for Klonoa is sometimes notwithstanding, to the uninitiated it's a solid but not spectacular soundscape that's trying to go in too many directions at once.

ushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4) Cool is right, in both temperature and the kind of sunglasses this kind of jazz fusion evokes. This sort of thing isn't really my cup of tea, but I can recognize it as well-done regardless.

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Zoned Out - 3 pts.
Butthole Surfing - 2 pts.
Mercenaries 3: Let's Blow Up 5 Square Mile of Iran - 1 pt.

omination
lbum: Waker
rtist: Disasterpeace
rack #: 3
rack Title: The Earth's Restoration
ear: 2009
dditional Info: Everyone loves virt, right?
ource: Vgmdb

2 points - BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco
2 points - Kaze no Klonoa - door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING
1 point - Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST
1 point - Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4)

2 points: Title
2 points: The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4)
1 point: THE RING
1 point: Mercenary
just missed: Zoned In, FOREST
awoguwh4otnfj: ECO-G

Really good week. Especially liked Mercenary and how it switched rapidly between making sense and making less sense. Oh prog.

2 points: BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco
2 points: Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST
1 point: Death Crimson History - Mercenary
1 point: Kaze no Klonoa - door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING


Nomination:

• Album: Doom (ZX Spectrum Game Rip)
• Artist: Joe (Ruslan Yermoliv)
• Track Title: DOO-O-O-O-OOOM!!!(tune by JOE)
• Year: 1996
• Additional Info: Only tune from an unreleased game.
• Source: Doom - World of Spectrum, Joe (?????? ???????) - ????? : ?????? ??? ZX Spectrum : AY, Beeper, Digital : zxtunes.com, Doom — SpeccyWiki

Hey guys it's a nom

Album: INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track
Composer: Ryu Umemoto
Track Title: Detective
Track number: disc 2, number 1
Source: CVST-0022 | INSTANT BRAIN Perfect Sound Track - VGMdb
Additional info: Would've liked to nom this for Umemoto week

2 points - Kaze no Klonoa - door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING
2 points - Death Crimson History - Mercenary
2 points - Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST

this was hard to distribute the points for until I remembered that you could give them all the same number of points, somehow I DIDNT REMEMBER that that was a possibility.

2 points: inMomentum - Zoned In
2 points: Awesomenauts - Wormhole Surfing
1 point: Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4)
1 point: BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco (what is this <3)

Nomination #87

Composer: Kazuo Sawa
Album: Nekketsu Kouha Kunio Kun Music Collection
Track Title: Vs Riddle, Team Theme
Track Number: 1-29
Year: 2007
Catalog Number: GNCA-7122

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So I'd like to close voting and such in CHz's stead, but we only have 5 noms which is even too small a number for a stunted half-week.

Nom it up, people!

Hey, how's it going? Let me help you out here:

Album/Game Title: Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection
Artist(s): Shota Kageyama
Disc Number: 3 of 4
Track Number: 41 of 52
Track Title: High Link
Catalog Number: ZMCP-5919
Year: 2010
Source(s): ZMCP-5919 | Nintendo DS Pokémon Black · White Super Music Collection - VGMdb

Uploaded to FTP.

Nomination

Album/Game Title: FM Sound Module Maniax
Artist(s): Yuzo Koshiro
Disc Number: 1 of 1
Track Number: 14
Track Title: 4operators
Catalog Number: FMCD-1006
Year: 2006
Source(s): FMCD-1006 | FM Sound Module Maniax - VGMdb

Whoops, here are my votes.

(2 points) Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4)

(2 points) inMomentum - Zoned In

(1 point) Big Brain Academy (Game Rip) - Title

(1 point) Awesomenauts - Wormhole Surfing

And a new nom:

* Album Title: Dragon Valor (Game Rip)
* Artist: Nobuhiro Ouchi, Ayako Yamaguchi
* Track Title: Border Fortress
* Source: Dragon Valor (1999) PlayStation credits - MobyGames
* File Location: Nominations folder
* Disc Number: NA
* Track Number: 16
* Catalogue Number: NA
* Year: 1999

<<3 Points>> Death Crimson History - Mercenary
<<2 Points>> Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King (Stage4)
<<1 Point>> inMomentum - Zoned In


Here we go. Let's dig up my old list of nominations that never were.

• Album: Sega Rally 2 Re-Arrange Album another entries
• Track Title: Soul On Desert
• Track Number: 03
• Composer: Jun Senoue
• Arranger: Yoshihiro Ike
• Year: 1999
• Additional info: That's all, enjoy it!

We got the votes, we got the noms, let's close this biatch. By the power temporarily vested in me by CHz:

1). [11] inMomentum - Zoned In
2). [10/6.5] Death Crimson History - Mercenary
3). [10/6] Mushihimesama Double Arrange Album - The Black Shell Beast King <Stage4>
4). [9] Kaze no Klonoa: door to phantomile Original Soundtrack - THE RING
5). [6] BEST HIT YCO - ECO-G feat. mioco
6-t). [5/3] Awesomenauts - Wormhole Surfing
6-t). [5/3] Image Fight -G.S.M. IREM 1- - FOREST
7). [5] Big Brain Academy (Game Rip) - Title