[SotW] Song of the Week - WEEK 174 Voting/WEEK 175 Nominating

Song of the Week. 150 Weeks and counting.
Week 174 Voting is closed.
Week 175 Nominating is restricted.

Results:
1). [21] Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island
2). [18] DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
3). [17] Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training
4). [13] Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack (Game Rip) - Racing from Darkness
5). [10] Fathom (Flash Game Rip) - Water Music
6). [8] pop'n music 10 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 8 - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH
7). [6] Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima/Red Disc - NIGHT FALL
8). [3] Square Enix Music Official Bootleg Vol.1 - Ice Field

Tracks:
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack (Game Rip) - Racing from Darkness
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Fathom (Flash Game Rip) - Water Music
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima/Red Disc - NIGHT FALL
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: pop'n music 10 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 8 - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH
Get the Flash Player to play this audio file: Square Enix Music Official Bootleg Vol.1 - Ice Field

Notes:
Since the first round of the BSC has ended, SotW has returned to its usual schedule. NO MORE TWO WEEK VOTING UNLESS TURNOUT IS REALLY CRAPPY.
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Please remember to upload your nominations to the SotW server! Uploaded noms mean a faster, smoother SotW experience for everyone.

Week 175 Nominating:
The Nominations Queue can be found here.
The rules for nominating can be found here.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Time for another nomination already? Other people need to get on the ball and start putting more stuff up.

Artist: Jogeir Liljedahl
Album: The Wanderer
Song: Guitar Slinger
Track Number: 4

Hope this is acceptable.

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Originally Posted by Crash Landon

Time for another nomination already? Other people need to get on the ball and start putting more stuff up.

Yeah, I know, I need to do one again too.

• Album: Zanac X Zanac (Game Rip)
• Artist: Daisuke Nagata
• Track #: 11
• Track Title: Snowfield Story (Neo Area 6)
• Year: 2001
• Additional Info: Can't believe I'm nominating some k.h.d.n.
• Source: Zanac X Zanac Release Information for PlayStation - GameFAQs, GameFAQs: Zanac X Zanac (PS) FAQ/Walkthrough by ZKeene

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

New Nomination:

Album: Cross Edge Original Soundtrack
Artist: Kenji Kaneko
Track #: 4
Disc #: 1 (of 2)
Track Title: The Grand Design
Year: 2008
Additional Info: God, rocking battle themes for the win.
Source: KDSD-10032~3: Cross Edge Original Soundtrack - VGMdb

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

What a week, boys. Inching up on 175 and we keep managing to outdo ourselves.

(3 points) Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island: It screams RPG theme, but you only wish some tracks had this much joy and pep in them. Proof that you can be traditional without being cliched.

(2 points) Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima/Red Disc - NIGHT FALL: A bit of James Bond in this one. It's got the requisite measured piano and other synths to suggest night, and throws on some eletronic window dressing to add an element of espionage. And the choral samples don't even hinder it at all. A delicious piece of action/exploration music.

(1 point) Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack (Game Rip) - Racing from Darkness: The intro's the best part of this chiptune, but the rest is also the stuff that fun action tracks are made of.

As for the rest: Love the sound of Water Music but it lacks development and doesn't really, um, end. Training has always been one of my favorite tracks from PD, and in weaker weeks it would place. Nothing against the C64 sound with DNA Warrior, but it's buried under better competition. Goonies is fun and bouncy but ultimately disposable. And too much screechy chaos going on, especially with the guitar, in Ice Field.

How ya doing, buddy?

2 Points: DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
2 Points: Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island
2 Points: pop'n music 10 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 8 - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH

Avoiding full-on nom bias this week becase Track 1 and Vinel Island were just too good to give diminished points to. It's equality for all.

By the way, Vinel Island is just amazing. Major props to whoever nominated it.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

nom nom nom:

Song: World End Dominator
Game: Umineko No Nako Koro Ni 2
Composer: zts

...that's all I have, as usual. >_> I'll upload it anyway!

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Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack (Game Rip) - Racing from Darkness Really nifty integration of an old-school chiptune into a slightly-better synthed whole. There's literally nothing about this I don't like.

DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1 As I've said before, more often than not the C64 sound just doesn't agree with me. The melody is nice, but what's around it just bugs me.

Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island Excellent, bouncy, almost Copland-esque RPG music. The only real negative is that someone other than me nominated it I recommend checking out the rip, though this is far and away the best song in the game.

Fathom (Flash Game Rip) - Water Music I've gotta say I expected better from a Danny Baranowsky nomination. This is strictly in the bottom drawer of his stuff, without much going on. Compared to "The Teaching Robot" or "Fools Say What," this seems even weaker.

Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima/Red Disc - NIGHT FALL Interesting how the pre-MGS stuff sounds nothing like the Tappy/HGW/Hibino superspy music that's come to dominate the series. The vox are very nice; the rest of the song is forever teetering on the edge of mediocrity.

Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training Some surprisingly decent techno here, rather better than the mess that was Perfect Dark Zero.

pop'n music 10 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 8 - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH The inclusion of bits from the Cyndi Lauper song makes me a little uneasy, but otherwise this is fine chiptunage.

Square Enix Music Official Bootleg Vol.1 - Ice Field Questions of how anything can be an official bootleg aside, this is a really odd song. The guitar, ambient synth, and melodic piano interlude just don't belong in the same piece, and the distortions that crop up are disconcerting.

The Point Spread
Vinel Island - 3 pts.
Racing from Darkness - 2 pts.
Training - 1 pt.

Nom
Album: Synaesthete OST
Artist: William Towns
Track #: 12
Track Title: Credits
Source: https://typo3.digipen.edu/index.php?id=988

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

[2 Points] Boktai 3: short, but clicks with me
[1 Point] DNA Warrior: genetic engineering with focus
[2 Points] Vinel Island: oh wow, Sakimoto, I read it as vinyl island
[1 Point] Mr.T: nostalgia points, I remember the stupid mice that were running around in this game

Jam it back in, in the dark.

3 points: Fathom (Flash Game Rip) - Water Music
2 points: Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training
1 point: pop'n music 10 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 8 - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH
4th: Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack (Game Rip) - Racing from Darkness
5th: Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima/Red Disc - NIGHT FALL
6th: Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island
7th: Square Enix Music Official Bootleg Vol.1 - Ice Field
8th: DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1

An OK week, everything was at the very least tolerable. "Water Music" really impressed me for some reason, though. But unlike everyone else I'm just not feeling "Vinel Island". =/ It might grow on me, who knows.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I know I'm gonna regret this nom, but I can't resist the funky tune.

Album Title: Celebrity of the voice premium compilation album "Voice bowl"
Artists: Ryuichi Yabuki, Nanpei Misawa
Disc Number: 2 (of 2)
Track Number: 4
Track Title: [HELLO Mr.CYBORG] (Stage 2)
Catalog Number: CVST-0999
Year: 2008 (game released in 1998)
Source: CVST-0999: Celebrity of the voice premium compilation album "Voice... - VGMdb

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

2 points: DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
2 points: Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training
1 point: Fathom (Flash Game Rip) - Water Music
1 point: pop'n music 10 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 8 - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH

Nomination:
=== Kaleb.G ===
* Album: Idinaloq (PC Game Rip)
* Artist: Ferdia
* Track Title: Stage 3
* Catalogue Number: N/A
* Year: unknown
* Additional Info: The original version is a MIDI file, but I've converted the track to MP3 using the Unison soundfont (I think). Also check out the track "Last Boss 1"; it's tight.
* Source: Namikaze Project - Idinaloq
* File Location: nom folder

Votes:
(subject to change, but probably not)
3 points - Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack (Game Rip) - Racing from Darkness
1 point - DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
1 point - Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island
1 point - Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima/Red Disc - NIGHT FALL

I was speaking idiomatically.

2 points - Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training
1 point - Boktai 3: Sabata's Counterattack (Game Rip) - Racing from Darkness
1 point - DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
1 point - Fathom (Flash Game Rip) - Water Music
1 point - pop'n music 10 AC ♥ CS pop'n music 8 - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

(3 points) DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
(2 points) Metal Gear >> Solid Snake Music Compilation of Hideo Kojima/Red Disc - NIGHT FALL
(1 point) Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island

FELIPE NO

1 point ~ pop'n music - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH
2 points ~ DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
3 points ~ Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

3 points: Racing from Darkness
1 point: Track 1
1 point: NIGHT FALL
1 point: Vinel Island

Jam it back in, in the dark.

3 points - Fathom - Water Music - I nominated this, so if that makes me ineligible to vote for it, you can divvy out these 3 points, a point each, to Boktai, and my other two songs I gave points to. I like this song a great deal, and sure, it's "atmospheric" more than melodic, but it's not amelodic either. I find it transportive, and I'm curious if others who haven't played Fathom might feel similarly.

2 points - Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training - I love Grant Kirkhope's aesthetic, and this is no exception. I wish I'd gotten the chance to play this game, maybe I'll pick it up on XBLA when I get a 360.

1 point - pop'n music - GOONIES "R" GOOD ENOUGH - I appreciate this song more than I expected; the melody really is very strange, and I feel compelled to listen a few times to get the whole thing. I like being surprised, this is a good song.

Boktai 3 - Racing from Darkness - I love the driving pace here, I didn't realize Boktai 3's soundtrack had this level of energy to it. I'm encouraged to try the rest of the game rip.

DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1 - It's not fair perhaps, but the actual sound quality here is a turnoff, and the melody doesn't stand out enough to me for me to get much out of it.

Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island - Excepting Final Fantasy XII, Sakimoto has had a hard time catching my ear lately. This seems to wander around like something from a movie soundtrack, more than a game soundtrack. Not very interesting to me.

Metal Gear - NIGHT FALL - A song with a couple good ideas, but it's not grabbing me.

Square Enix Official Music Bootleg vol. 1 - Ice Field - I generally like Tsuyoshi Sekito, but I feel similarly to this as I do the Fantasy Earth song by Sakimoto above. Airy and unappealing.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Klondike

3 points - Fathom - Water Music - I nominated this, so if that makes me ineligible to vote for it.

You can vote for your own songs. In fact, there's a considerable pack of SotW veteran tunes that have only ever gotten points from their nominators! That's also why zero points is also rather uncommon too.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

3 points: DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1
2 points: Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training
1 point: Fantasy Earth: Zero (Game Rip) - Vinel Island

I have silly love for the pitch bends in the melody of the DNA Warrior track.

Vinel Island was also the track I liked most from Fantasy Earth, so nice work picking that one.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Nominate a poorly-received song? Why not.

Album: KOEI Game Music Works: Yoko Kanno Collections
Artist: Yoko Kanno
Track #: 8
Track Title: Distant Mountains and Rivers
Year: 1993
Additional Info:
Source: KECH-1045; Original Soundtrack: Nobunaga's Ambition: Record of the Military Commander's State of Affairs - VGMdb

Edit: I'll upload it this afternoon when I get back from work.

Double Edit: Looks like someone beat me to it.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by orion_mk3

You can vote for your own songs. In fact, there's a considerable pack of SotW veteran tunes that have only ever gotten points from their nominators! That's also why zero points is also rather uncommon too.

Indeed! It looks like that'll be the case for my nomination this time as well!

3 points: Ice Field
2 points: Vinel Island
1 point: Training

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

2 points: Vinel Island
2 points: Training
1 point: Track 1
1 point: Racing from Darkness
Just Missed: Ice Field
wtf: Ice Field

The training music from PD? Really?

At least, that's what I first thought when I saw it pop up. I'm overly familiar with the track after spending so much time getting those gold stars in training mode, but only now am I really liking it. Funny how that works out.

Damn Vinel Island is good, totally justifies my searching for the Fantasy Earth Zero rip way back when. I still can't find it. :hint:

Ice Field would've gotten more consideration if it made a lick of sense. Still, it has it's moments. None of which correlate with each other in any way, shape or form, but still.

Additional Spam:
My next nom:

Game: Bloody Wolf (TG16/PC-E rip)
Composers: Shogo Sakai (???), Takafumi Miura, Yuji Suzuki, Yusuke Takahama(!!!)
Track: Staff Roll
Track #: n/a
Catalog #: n/a
Year: 1989
Source: Bloody Wolf for TurboGrafx-16 - MobyGames, Bloody Wolf - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Additional Notes: Woah, didn't know both Sakai and Takahama worked on this game, that's pretty wild. Will upload shortly.

FELIPE NO

Alright, finally a nom from me:

Album: Catan (XBLA rip)
Artist: Holly Tatnall
Track Title: Title Theme
Track #: 01
Year: 2007
Location: Uploaded to the FTP.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

3 Points: Perfect Dark Dual CD Soundtrack - Training
2 Points: Fathom (Flash Game Rip) - Water Music
1 Point: DNA Warrior (C64 Game Rip) - Track 1

Nomination:
Game: Battlefield 2142 (Game Rip)
Artist: Gregor Narholz
Title: Battlefield 2142 Theme
Year: 2006
Sources: IGN, Gregor Narholz - Composer

Jam it back in, in the dark.