Song of the Week - WEEK 271 Voting/WEEK 272 Nominating
 

Song of the Week. 250 Weeks and counting.
Week 271 Voting is only six noms this week.
Week 272 Nominating is cuz y'all are non-nomming pussies.

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: It's Really Pretty Simple After All - It's Complicated
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Ratchet and Clank Future - Tools of Destruction (Game Rip) - Imperial Fight Festival [Planet Mukow]
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Roll Away (Game Rip) - Hiro
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Sir Benfro's Brilliant Soundtrack - Benfro Theme
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Squids Wild West Original Game Soundtrack - Squids Wild West
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Undercurrent - Ominous Change

Voting Rules:
Voters must distribute 6 points among the 8 6 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. No giving one point to each song either. Possible ways of voting include:

Notes:
Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone. Server information:

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

oh that's right this thing still exists

Nomination #89

Composer: Lifeformed
Album: Fastfall - Dustforce OST
Track Title: 9-bit Expedition
Track Number: 2
Year: 2012
Catalog Number: N/A

Interrupting my household dusting routine to upload this to the FTP.

3 Points: Ratchet and Clank Future - Tools of Destruction (Game Rip) - Imperial Fight Festival [Planet Mukow]
2 Points: Undercurrent - Ominous Change
1 Point: Roll Away (Game Rip) - Hiro

3 points ~ Squids Wild West Original Game Soundtrack - Squids Wild West
2 points ~ Undercurrent - Ominous Change
1 point ~ Sir Benfro's Brilliant Soundtrack - Benfro Theme

Quick votes!

(3 points) It's Really Pretty Simple After All - It's Complicated

(2 points) Squids Wild West Original Game Soundtrack - Squids Wild West

(1 point) Ratchet and Clank Future - Tools of Destruction (Game Rip) - Imperial Fight Festival [Planet Mukow]

New nom!

* Album Title: The Sword of Xuan Yuan Side Story: The Clouds Faraway - Lan Yin's Chapter (Game Rip)
* Artist: ShinRay Woo, Zhihao Zeng (also spelled Wu Xinrui, Zeng Zhihao)
* Track Title: Music004 Clip13
* Source: Xuan-Yuan Sword - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ; Xuanyuan Jian Waizhuan: Yun zhi Yao for Windows (2010) - MobyGames
* File Location: Nomination folder
* Disc Number: N/A
* Track Number: N/A
* Catalogue Number: N/A
* Year: 2010
* Note: This is a track from the game's DLC (yes, Chinese games are not immune to the DLC syndrome), hence the longer than usual album title... Also, I edited the track to loop. And in case anyone was wondering, yes, it's another battle theme. Sadly, it was sadly used in only one battle. :(

Nomination (finally I DO THIS) :

Album: KOKUGA Original Soundtrack
Artist: Manabu Namiki
Track Title: ?? (Theme 4)
Track Number: 14
Year: 2012
Source: GVSD-2001 | KOKUGA Original Soundtrack - VGMdb

Album: Pushmo/Pullblox (Gamerip)
Composers: Shoh Murakami, Masanobu Matsunaga
Track: Nintendo Mural
Track #: 11 from rip
Catalog #: n/a
Year: 2011
Source: Pushmo Ending & Credits (Youtube)
Additional Info: The credits lists Shoh Murakami as the "Sound Director" and Masanobu Matsunaga as "Sound Support". These are the only credits that pertain to sound, no credit for music composer or music anything is given. I've only found 1 other credit for Shoh Murakami - he worked on Sound Effects for Dragon Quest Wars alongside Matsunaga, but the latter has worked on a number of previous Intelligent Systems games, some that specifically list him under Composition of some sort (the earlier Warioware games etc.).

The rip is a line-in one I did - sound effects can be disabled making it possible. Sorry, data extraction purists. Uploading to the FTP.

Nomination:

* Album Title: Sam and Max The Devil's Playhouse (Game Rip)
* Artist: Jared Emmerson Johnson
* Track Title: Let it go
* Source: Youtube
* File Location: Nomination folder

3 points: Ominous Change
2 points: Imperial Fight Festival [Planet Mukow]
1 point: Squids Wild West
Just Missed: It's Complicated, Benfro Theme, Hiro

6 noms ;_______;. Will SOTW ever see week 300?

Excellent week otherwise. What on earth is Undercurrent and how do I not know about it?

Crap, I forgot I hadn't voted yet. Votes coming soon.

Edit: Just a quick vote this week. Maybe this is heresy, but time to rejigger the SotW format? I think it's something worth discussing, if people want to have the conversation.

(3 points) It's Really Pretty Simple After All - It's Complicated
(2 points) Sir Benfro's Brilliant Soundtrack - Benfro Theme
(1 points) Roll Away (Game Rip) - Hiro

Great week!

3 pts. - Squids Wild West - LOVE this, so much so that I'm giving it more points than my nom. Reminds me of Rockface Rumble from DKC3 (GBA version). Definitely have to check out the rest of the soundtrack now.
2 pts. - Benfro Theme - Nice and cheery title track from a little iOS game called Sir Benfro's Brilliant Balloon. It was composed by Tom Colvin of Sudeki fame. Pretty good soundtrack; it's full of acoustic guitar and other real instruments, which is nice to hear in vgm. The last track makes me think of Bastion. Here's a Spotify link, in case anyone wants to check it out.
1 pt. - Ominous Change - Mmm, jazzzzzz. Love the feel it has. Is this a Totaka original album? *heads to VGMDB*

It's Complicated and Imperial Fight Festival were decent; Hiro I thought was just kind of there.

EDIT: Oh my gosh, this Squids soundtrack is brilliant. Just purchased on Bandcamp.

2 points: Roll Away (Game Rip) - Hiro
2 points: Undercurrent - Ominous Change
2 points: Sir Benfro's Brilliant Soundtrack - Benfro Theme

The vocals in "It's Complicated" ruin things a bit for me, even though I don't mind Troupe's vocals in some of his other tracks. Also the Roll Away/Kula World game rip has a very special place in my heart. The instrumentation in the Benfro track is so very agreeable. Also

2 points: Kula World (Game Rip) - Hiro
2 points: Ratchet and Clank Future - Tools of Destruction (Game Rip) - Imperial Fight Festival [Planet Mukow]
2 points: Undercurrent - Ominous Change


Nomination:

• Album: Trio The Punch - Never Forget Me... (Game Rip)
• Artist: Gamadelic
• Track Title: Theme of Kamakura
• Year: 1989
• Source: Trio The Punch - Never Forget Me... Release Information for Arcade Games - GameFAQs, www.jap-sai.com - Data East

3 points: Undercurrent - Ominous Change
1 point: It's Really Pretty Simple After All - It's Complicated
1 point: Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Game Rip) - Imperial Fight Festival [Planet Mukow]
1 point: Sir Benfro's Brilliant Soundtrack - Benfro Theme

All right, so Undercurrent. Kazumi Totaka, it turns out, is one of a very few Nintendo composers who seem to do things besides compose music for Nintendo games. For pretty much his entire career at Nintendo he's been involved with original music on the side. Seems like he was the busiest during the early '90s, when he was part of Nobukazu Takemura's band Spiritual Vibes. Check out their song "idyllic," which he co-wrote and slammed the massive vibe solo at the end of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoe155l9N4Y.

Undercurrent is an original record he put out during the same time period on Takemura's label Lollop Records. The only place I was able to find this tune was on an unofficial MySpace page so I REALLY REALLY REALLY HOPE IT'S THE SONG IT CLAIMS TO BE. I added all this junk to VGMdb a few months ago; check out all the blue albums in his profile if you're interested: http://vgmdb.net/artist/690. There are a bunch of Spiritual Vibes tunes on YouTube too.

His current band is A Slice of Life, they're pretty chill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cI7zwjdpHaI.

Good set, I struggled with points.

Throwing up a nom:

Album: Cardinal Quest Original Soundtrack
Artist: Whitaker Blackall
Track Title: Forebade
Track #: 05
Year: 2011
Source: VGMDB
Comments: Not necessarily my favorite, but it's fun and has some nice variety to it.

boop a doop doop closed

1). [16] Undercurrent - Ominous Change
2). [11/6.5] Sir Benfro's Brilliant Soundtrack - Benfro Theme
3). [11/6] Squids Wild West Original Game Soundtrack - Squids Wild West
4). [9] Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction (Game Rip) - Imperial Fight Festival [Planet Mukow]
5). [7] It's Really Pretty Simple After All - It's Complicated
6). [6] Roll Away (Game Rip) - Hiro

This is the first Kazumi Totaka song to place ever. Hooray!, but also what's wrong with you all

Also I just realized now while making this post that this was, again, almost a western week... except for me :cool:

Nice to see my three favorite songs from this week all place.

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Quick votes. "9-bit Expedition" was surprisingly nice.

(3 points) The Sword of Xuan Yuan Side Story - The Clouds Faraway - Lan Yin's Chapter (Game Rip) - Music004 Clip13

(2 points) Fastfall - Dustforce OST - 9-bit Expedition

(1 point) KOKUGA Original Soundtrack - Ego (Theme 4)

ahaha I've never seen this before. Elorin, you posted in last week's thread! ^_^"

Elorin, I copied your votes into the thread you meant to post them in, but I'm going to leave a copy of your post here too because it's funny.

OOOOOPS. I guess that's what happens when I'm trying to rush out votes before getting out of the house for work. ^^;